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A Private Phone. Secret Recordings. Inside One CEO's Relationship With a TV Anchor.   

Recently unsealed depositions add insights into the close ties between television anchor Stephanie Ruhle and Under Armour founder Kevin Plank.

Under Armour founder Kevin Plank gave television anchor Stephanie Ruhle a private phone with a special email address to communicate with him, sent her confidential financial information about the sportswear maker and enlisted her help to refute concerns about slumping sales, according to newly released court documents. 

Plank and Ruhle were questioned by lawyers earlier this year in connection with a shareholder lawsuit, and portions of their depositions and some of their emails were recently unsealed in court. The documents...

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Teachers, Police Officers, Healthcare Workers: Here Are The Public Sector Jobs Still Struggling To Fill Roles   

Many public sector workers in the United States have exited their jobs since the pandemic due to low pay, stress, burnout and time commitment, among other strains, according to data from research groups, leaving record-high shortages among teachers, healthcare workers and police officers.

The public sectors has not rebounded from the pandemic, with shortages still present in teaching, ... [+] healthcare and policing. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

TEACHERS: Researchers from Kansas State University estimated that there are currently 55,289.2 teacher vacancies across the U.S., with the South being the most impacted, with an estimated 19,869 vacancies, according to teacher vacancy data from 30 states for the 2022-23 academic year, nine states and Washington, D.C., for the 2021-2022 school year and three states for years prior to 2021 Last October, in a report examining the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on aspects of education, including staffing, the National Center for Education Statistics reported that 18% of public schools had at least one teacher vacancy, and 57% of the public schools located in highly impoverished neighborhoods had at least one teacher vacancy. Among the top reasons teachers cited for wanting to leave their job were stress, disappointment, salary and excessive working hours, a survey of teachers published earlier this year by research organization RANDO found.

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Meta says it has disrupted a massive disinformation campaign linked to Chinese law enforcement   

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta on Tuesday said it had disrupted a disinformation campaign linked to Chinese law enforcement that the social media company described as the "largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world."

The company took down more than 7,700 accounts and 930 pages on Facebook. The influence network generated positive posts about China, with a particular focus on positive commentary about China's Xinjiang province, where the government's treatment of the Uyghur minority group has prompted international sanctions.

The network also attempted to spread negative commentary about the U.S. and disinformation in multiple languages about the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, Meta said. The network was or is present on nearly every popular social media platform, including Medium; Reddit; Tumblr; YouTube; and X, formerly known as Twitter, according to the company.

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