Republican Senator Calls for Breakup of ‘Dangerous’ Facebook: ‘End It’

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerUPDATED, 10:42 AM: The sale of Major League Baseball’s New York Mets closed today, and its new owner, hedge fund mogul Steve Cohen, issued a statement calling it “a significant milestone in the history of this storied franchise.”Steve Cohen’s statement following today’s closing of the #Mets sale.

As former Vice President Joe Biden took wins in two crucial swing states -- Michigan and Wisconsin -- Hollywood stars started to rejoice on Wednesday with the calls putting Biden closer to the presidency.  However, despite the recent calls for the Biden-Harris ticket, concern among some celebrities still looms over the U.S. Senate, which at the time of publication has both Republicans and Democrats at 48 seats. A total of 51 seats are needed in order to gain the Senate majority.

Sarah McBride made history Tuesday, becoming the first transgender state senator in the United States by besting a Republican opponent Steve Washington. Per The New York Times, the first to report the news, it was a landslide, too, with McBride taking 73 percent of the votes to Washington's 27 percent.

John James, a businessman and veteran, is vying to unseat Democratic Sen. Gary Peters on Tuesday to represent Michigan in the U.S.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticJeremy Stevens, a three-time Emmy Award winner – including two as a writer and executive producer on Everybody Loves Raymond – died of renal failure on October 27 at his home in Northridge, California, surrounded by his family. He was 83,A Brooklyn native, Stevens earned a degree in theater at Brooklyn College before studying at New York’s HB Studio under Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterPresident Trump kept up the attacks on NBC’s Kristen Welker on Monday, calling her a “dyed-in-the-wool, radical left Democrat.”Welker is set to moderate the final presidential debate on Thursday from Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. Over the weekend, the New York Post reported that Welker’s parents had donated to Democrats.

Rostam Batmanglij returned to Los Angeles from a trip to New York, where he’d been playing on the Jimmy Fallon show as part of HAIM‘s backing band. Before getting on the plane, he recalls to NME, he sent a tweet: “have a feeling tomorrow may be the last normal day of the year.”Seven months later, the producer, songwriter, solo artist and former Vampire Weekend member’s tweet has proven more prophetic than he thought.

President Donald Trump criticized the moderator for the upcoming presidential debate, NBC News correspondent Kristen Welker, on Saturday over Twitter. Less than a week before the debate, scheduled for Oct.

Ellise Shafer editorSacha Baron Cohen has disclosed several important plot points within the upcoming “Borat” sequel, aptly titled “Borat Subsequent Movie Film: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.”In a new interview with the New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, Cohen revealed that the iconic Borat character uses the flower beds in front of the Trump hotel as a bathroom and keeps his daughter in a cage, among other unbelievable

I intend to move forward with an @FCC rulemaking to clarify the meaning of #Section230.Read my full statement below. pic.twitter.com/LhUz5XMdSC— Ajit Pai (@AjitPaiFCC) October 15, 2020Pai’s decision comes a day after Twitter blocked users from sharing a “potentially harmful” New York Post report on Hunter Biden, son of Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

A new poll from the New York Times and Siena College Research Institute shows Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., leading his Democratic Senate challenger Jaime Harrison by six points less than three weeks before Election Day.  The survey was conducted between Oct.

Ted Johnson The chairman of the FCC issued a statement on Thursday saying that he plans to move forward with efforts to clarify Section 230, the provision of a 1996 law that gives immunity to internet companies like Facebook and Twitter over the way that they moderate content.Chairman Ajit Pai issued a statement as President Donald Trump and his allies have blasted Twitter and Facebook for steps they have taken to restrict the sharing of a New York Post story on Hunter Biden.

Facebook and Twitter showed Wednesday that they "want to rig an election," Senate Judiciary Committee member Josh Hawley, R-Mo., told "The Ingraham Angle" after the social media giants censored or blocked dissemination of a bombshell New York Post report on Hunter Biden. "It's basically Big Tech versus democracy," Hawley told host Laura Ingraham.

President Trump told a crowd in Iowa Wednesday that alleged emails from Hunter Biden were a "smoking gun" showing that former Vice President Joe Biden "blatantly" lied about his involvement with his son's business dealings in Ukraine. "We've just learned through explosive documents published by a very fine newspaper, the New York Post, that Joe Biden has been blatantly lying about his involvement in his son's corrupt business dealings.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFacebook and Twitter put measures in place Wednesday to limit distribution of a New York Post story based on emails — which the paper claimed were supplied by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani — purportedly revealing evidence of influence-peddling by Joe Biden’s son Hunter.According to the Post’s story, Hunter Biden in 2015 introduced his father, then VP in the Obama administration, to a top exec at Ukrainian energy company Burisma after Hunter joined the company’s

Ted Johnson Twitter and Facebook are restricting the reach of a New York Post story about Joe Biden’s son Hunter, concluding that the claims in the story need to be fact-checked or come from sources with suspicious origins.The story was billed as an expose that was splashed on the front page of the Post on Wednesday, alleging that Biden’s son leveraged his father’s position as vice president to boost his business with a Ukrainian gas company.

Megan Thee Stallion is calling for the protection of Black women in an op-ed published Tuesday as rapper Tory Lanez had his first court hearing on felony charges for allegedly shooting her. “I was recently the victim of an act of violence by a man,” the female rapper wrote in The New York Times, without naming Lanez.The op-ed was published shortly before a judge released him on bail and ordered him to stay away from her.

LOS ANGELES -- An op-ed by Megan Thee Stallion on the need to protect Black women was published Tuesday as rapper Tory Lanez had his first court hearing on felony charges alleging he shot her.“I was recently the victim of an act of violence by a man,” she wrote in the New York Times, without naming Lanez.