Lubin’ Toobin, Stolen Pandemic Cash, Amazon Remote … and More

Months after he was fired from The New Yorker for masturbating during a work Zoom call, Jeffrey Toobin returned Thursday afternoon to CNN to face tough questions over the scandal that derailed his journalistic career. Toobin took a leave of absence last falls as CNN’s chief legal analyst after the debacle, and his appearance on CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota’s midday broadcast marked the first time he’s addressed the scandal on-air.

Scores of workers at a Houston hospital system have been suspended and face being fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccination, a controversial company mandate that has drawn protests and an outcry from those facing termination.Boom said that 27 of the 178 suspended workers have received one dose of vaccine and that he is hopeful they will get the second dose. All are suspended for two weeks and are set to be fired if they fail to be fully vaccinated.

Criminals may have stolen as much as half of the unemployment benefits the U.S. has been pumping out over the past year, some experts say. America has lost more than $400 billion to fraudulent claims. As much as 50% of all unemployment monies might have been stolen.

After the hellscape that was 2020, elements of Sweet Tooth hit uncomfortably close to home, with survivors of a pandemic wearing face masks, maintaining social distance and scrutinizing neighbors for telltale signs of the virus. Luckily, however, Netflix's new post-apocalyptic fantasy isn't really about a global epidemic, or even the decline of civilization (although they certainly set the stage). Instead, it's about hope, wonder, the intertwining threads of fate, and an inquisitive boy with deer antlers named Gus.

A Pennsylvania man was charged Tuesday with creating fake online identities for ex-President Donald Trump’s brother and youngest son to dupe hundreds of people nationwide into donating thousands of dollars to what prosecutors described as a phony political organization. Central to the scheme was Hall’s impersonation of members of Trump’s family, prosecutors said. They said he created social media accounts bearing the names and photographs of Trump’s brother and son to convince over 100,000 online followers that he was close to Trump’s family.

Corporate and tech employees worldwide will be allowed to work remotely for two days per week, the company said in a memo sent on Thursday. The office workers will also be allowed to clock-in from another location within their home countries for up to four weeks each year. The update follows an earlier announcement that Amazon would return to “an office-centric culture” by the fall.