Brianna Smith is a freelance writer and editor in Southwest Michigan. A graduate of Grand Valley State University, Brianna has a passion for politics, social issues, education, science, and more. When she’s not writing, she enjoys the simple life with her husband, daughter, and son.
Yet another lawsuit has been filed against Fox News, this time for gender discrimination. The lawsuit was filed by Jessica Golloher, a Fox Radio correspondent, who alleges that she was “fired from her job in recent weeks after reaching out to the company to complain about gender discrimination.” For those who don’t know, Fox News has been the subject of countless lawsuits alleging that women and minorities regularly face or have faced discrimination while working for the network.
Parents have enough to worry about when it comes to the health of their children. The very last thing they should have to fret about is whether the vaccinations their children receive at their regular checkups are effective and safe. Unfortunately for parents who trusted Dr. Michael Bleiman, a pediatrician in New Jersey, this became their reality when it was discovered during an inspection that some of the vaccines being given to children weren’t being stored properly at the doctor’s practice.
The hits just keep coming for Fox News. As if racial discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuits weren’t enough, the network now faces allegations of gender and disability discrimination. Earlier this week, Diana Falzone, a reporter at the network, accused the conservative news station of “discriminating against her on the basis of her gender and her fight against a chronic disease.” She filed a lawsuit on Monday in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, claiming that “she had been barred from further appearances after writing an op-ed column for Fox News disclosing that she had endometriosis and was likely to be infertile.”
A settlement agreement has been reached between Hickory’s public housing agency and the five tenants that accused a former administrator of “trading rent money for sexual favors.” According to court records, the settlement comes almost two years after reports of detailed allegations of “sexual harassment and misspending at the Hickory Public Housing Authority” began pouring in.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued their final report on the deadly outbreak “traced to soft, raw milk cheese from Vulto Creamery of Walton, NY,” officially ending the outbreak. In total, eight people were confirmed with the outbreak strain of Listeria monocytogenes, and all of them required hospitalization.
After nearly two months of bantering back and forth, fiery conservative Tomi Lahren has finally settled her “wrongful termination lawsuit against her former employer Glenn Beck and his online network The Blaze.” The settlement was announced on Monday, and puts to rest Lahren’s allegations that “she was fired from The Blaze for expressing pro-abortion rights opinions during a March episode of the daytime television show The View.”
With all the news surrounding Fox News and the many allegations of discrimination against the network, some seem to be forgetting that CNN is also waist deep in discrimination allegations as well. In fact, according to the New York Business Journal, “CNN faces a class action lawsuit alleging racial discrimination by about 175 former and current employees,” similar to allegations filed against Fox News and The New York Times.
Baby and child carriers are popular among parents, so it’s unfortunate that a popular brand is recalling thousands of child carriers. Recently, Osprey Child Safety Products and Osprey Packs of Cortez, Colo. decided to recall nearly 88,000 of their Poco child carriers currently being sold in the U.S. and Canada. What happened to prompt the recall? Well, apparently the carriers have been deemed unsafe because “a child seated in the carrier can slip through the leg openings, posing a fall hazard to children.”
A tragedy occurred at the federally funded Jessie Trice Community Health Center when baby Earl Reese-Thornton was born with a severe brain injury after Dr. Atogho failed to offer and perform a C-section and “continued the administration of the contraindicated delivery drug Pitocin.” Fortunately, the law firm, Mallard & Sharp, P.A., that represented the heartbroken parents, won a “$33.8 million verdict on behalf of a brain damaged baby,” and the Court found that “Dr. Atogho’s failure to offer and perform a C-section was gross negligence and caused the brain injury that resulted in baby Earl Reese-Thornton requiring 24-hour care for the remainder of his life.”
Recall Alert! The frozen chicken in your freezer might contain plastic. That’s why Foster Farms has issued a massive recall of nearly “131,880 pounds of frozen, ready-to-eat breaded chicken patty products” because they might “be contaminated with foreign materials, specifically plastic,” according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.
