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Salon Media, one of the trailblazing pioneers of digital publishing that has struggled in recent years, is on the brink of selling a controlling stake to activist investor Spear Point Capital, sources tell Media Ink. Spear Point would then use its control of Salon to make a run at Jim Cramer’s TheStreet.com, one person familiar…
Spear Point is going to officially assume control of the Salon Media board Friday and Silicon Valley billionaire John Warnock, a co-founder of Adobe, is expected to step down as chairman, The Post has learned. The deal is expected to be announced Friday, according to a source familiar with the proceedings. Warnock and another member…
Jared Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, is currently registered to vote in New Jersey and New York. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and one of his closest White House advisers, is registered to vote in both New Jersey and New York, while White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is on…
In what is probably the best non-fake news you’ll read today: NYC has opened a COOKIE DOUGH CAFÉ. Taylor Miller / BuzzFeed It’s called Dō — and it opened this week in Greenwich Village. 2. The shop serves up raw, ready-to-eat dough that’s safe to eat on its own — because the dough is made with pasteurized eggs…
Smoke billows from stacks as a Chinese woman wears as mask while walking in a neighborhood next to a coal-fired power plant in Shanxi, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) With little warning or explanation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently canceled a major climate change conference that had been scheduled for next month in…
America Chavez is the queer Latina superhero the world sorely needs in Donald Trump’s anti-LGBTQ, border-loving nation. And now we have a sneak peek of what she’ll look like when she’s debuted as one of newest female-led titles: The image, of a “Formation”-inspired brown woman dressed in patriotic red, white and blue but with a grimace on…
A majority of Donald Trump voters think that their president should be allowed to have a private email server. Yes, we’re serious. View this image › Twitter ID: 10407293 A poll conducted by Public Policy Polling among people who voted for Trump found that most of them think that if he wants a private email…
We’re less than a week into Donald Trump’s presidency, but members of the resistance are already hard at work contacting elected representatives and the president himself to express concerns over Trump’s damaging actions, including executive orders affecting the environment, targeting immigrants and refugees (and the cities that protect them), women, and more. But, while you…
GTM DataLayer Umbel End Umbel [if lte IE 9]>< ![endif][if gte IE 10]>< ![endif] Google Tag Manager Container During his inauguration address on Friday, Donald Trump released an image that had nothing to do with crowd size or marchers: his official White House portrait. The picture, which features prominently in the White House website’s biography of Trump, depicts…
Your Post Has Been Launched! Fabulous! Don’t forget to share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook. 1. BuzzFeed News was recently given access to a chatroom called The Great Liberation of France, which is hosted on a Slack-like messaging platform called Discord. View this image › Discord ID: 10333712 2. The head of this…