Corporation for Public Broadcasting shuts down after Congress strips funding

Where are the private donations to make up for the loss of government funding? 

Maybe not enough people liked the service anyway!

The Del Monte deaths: shocking claims of violence at pineapple plantation in Kenya

This is a nice example of defamation of a large, international company by so called investigative journalists! It appears to be junk journalism?

And of course this story was published jointly with the leftist The Guardian!

Or is this an attempt to extort a large and well known food company?

Kenya has been a fairly stable and peaceful country for decades. However, there a e.g. regional violent ethnic conflicts.

"... The shocking scale of the accusations has been captured by the law firm Leigh Day in a letter to Del Monte detailing 146 alleged incidents involving 134 locals over a decade. It includes claims of five deaths – all since 2019 – as well as reports of dozens of serious injuries and beatings that have left people unconscious. It also includes five allegations of rape. ..."

The Del Monte deaths: shocking claims of violence at pineapple plantation — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (en-GB)

US regulators complete inspection of US-listed Chinese firms’ audit records, reducing delisting risks of 170 companies

Interesting news! Is China making concessions when it comes to business?

"US regulator the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) said on Thursday that it was able to inspect the audit firms servicing mainland Chinese companies listed in the United States, removing the risk of delisting hanging over about 170 such firms.

This is the first time in China’s history that it has allowed audit records to be taken outside the mainland for inspection.

The PCAOB said in a report that mainland Chinese authorities did not prevent its inspectors from carrying out a thorough inspection of audit firms’ working papers in Hong Kong from September to November.

The inspection was carried out under an agreement signed between China’s ministry of finance, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) and the PCAOB in late August. ...
A breakthrough was made in April, when the CSRC scrapped a requirement that only Chinese regulators can conduct on-site audits of Chinese companies listed overseas and allowed auditors to take audit records outside the Chinese mainland for inspection in a historic first."

US regulators complete inspection of US-listed Chinese firms’ audit records, reducing delisting risks | South China Morning Post