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🔵 CNN Mass Layoffs
Citizen Frank
January 23, 2025
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5. Identified: Afghan Migrant Killer Had History of Violent Attacks and Was Ordered to Leave Germany
CNN boss Mark Thompson reportedly plans to announce mass layoffs Thursday – just days after he warned top on-air talent including Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper that they ought to avoid “pre-judging” President Donald Trump.
The ratings-challenged cable news pioneer will lay off hundreds of employees as it refocuses the business around a global digital audience, CNBC reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The job cuts come as CNN, owned by Warner Bros Discovery, looks to rearrange its linear TV lineup and build out digital subscription products, CNBC said, adding that it will help CNN lower production costs and consolidate teams.
President Trump made the case Wednesday that the nation’s problems are “all solvable,” touting the “very unified” Republican caucus in Congress.
“They’re all solvable problems … with time, effort, money — unfortunately — but they’re all solvable,” Trump asserted during an interview on Fox News.
“We can get our country back,” he argued. “But if we didn’t win this race, I really believe our country would have been lost forever.”
More than 50,000 people were under evacuation orders or warnings Wednesday as a huge and fast-moving wildfire swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles, but fire officials said a rapid ground and air assault was giving them the upper hand.
The Hughes Fire broke out in the late morning and within six hours charred about 15 square miles (39 square kilometers) of trees and brush near Lake Castaic, a popular recreation area about 40 miles (64 kilometers) from the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires that are burning for a third week. Though the region was under a red flag warning, winds were not as fast as they had been when those fires broke out, allowing for firefighting aircraft to dump tens of thousands of gallons of fire retardant.
“The situation that we’re in today is very different from the situation we were in 16 days ago,” Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said Wednesday evening.
Disturbing ramblings that school shooter Solomon Henderson reportedly posted online in the moments before he opened fire at Antioch High School offer a terrifying look into his mind.
The supposed 47-page manifesto included a layout of the Tennessee school, along with photos of the weapons he wanted to use and his thoughts about why he wanted to commit a shooting.
His final writings came on November 18 – the same day the Metro Nashville Police Department received a call indicating there was a school shooting at Antioch High School, which they later determined was a hoax, according to News Channel 5.
5. Identified: Afghan Migrant Killer Had History of Violent Attacks and Was Ordered to Leave Germany
An Afghan migrant who is living in an asylum center was arrested on Wednesday for stabbing to death a two-year-old child and 41-year-old man on a playground. Two others were injured in the knife attack.
28-year-old, Enamullah O, had a history of violent attacks, and was in Germany despite having an order to leave the country.
Local police said there was no evidence of the man’s radical views so far.
President Trump said Wednesday that he will soon release classified documents related to the assassinations of President Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
“I’m going to release them immediately. We’re going to see the information. We are looking at it right now,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
He did not specify which documents he would release.
Every Senate Democrat voted Wednesday afternoon against invoking cloture on legislation requiring that babies who survive botched abortions receive medical care.
The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, introduced by Republican Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, requires that health care practitioners provide the “same degree of professional skill, care and diligence” for a child surviving a botched abortion as they would for a child during routine childbirth. With the Senate voting 52-47, the anti-infanticide legislation failed to overcome the 60-vote filibuster threshold.
“Yesterday my [Democratic] colleagues spent an hour on the floor saying that that child [who survives a botched abortion] should die,” Lankford said on the Senate floor Wednesday. “I disagree.”
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) told Tucker Carlson that former President Joe Biden’s “politicized” Department of Justice “targeted” him for daring to criticize the administration’s immigration policies.
During the interview, released Tuesday evening, Adams told Carlson that he made 100 trips to Washington, D.C., to express his concerns about the “onslaught” of immigrants arriving in New York City and the administration’s “failed border policy.”
In September, Adams was indicted for allegedly accepting $10 million in illegal foreign donations and bribes, including from the Turkish government. Adams has repeatedly denied the charges.
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