In Other News: Court rules city doesn’t have to pay family for destroying home during manhunt; Florida principal who wouldn’t call Holocaust ‘factual’ event is fired

Published 11:47 am Thursday, October 31, 2019

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Mark Zuckerberg vs. Jack Dorsey is the most interesting battle in Silicon Valley

It’s hard to think of a better way for Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to poke Mark Zuckerberg in the eye than announcing a rebuttal to his controversial stance on political advertising just minutes ahead of Facebook’s earnings call. On Wednesday, Dorsey announced that Twitter would no longer allow political advertising globally. That includes campaign ads from political candidates and issues-based ads on topics like climate change or abortion. The move came just weeks after Facebook said it would not block false political advertising, arguing that it would violate its mission to promote free speech, even paid free speech. — CNBC

Florida principal who wouldn’t call Holocaust ‘factual’ event is fired

The Florida high school principal who caused an uproar after he told a parent that some people don’t believe the Holocaust happened and refused to acknowledge that it was a “factual, historical event” has been fired. The Palm Beach County School Board voted Wednesday to terminate William Latson’s employment at Spanish River Community High School in Boca Raton effective Nov. 21. Superintendent Donald Fennoy recommended Latson’s firing, not specifically in response to the email comments he made to the parent but because “while the email was receiving global news coverage, Mr. Latson failed to respond to communication from his supervisors and failed to assist the district in addressing the serious disruption caused by the aforementioned email and news coverage,” the Miami Herald reported. — NBC News

NASA has found the ‘Jack-o’-lantern Nebula’

Charlie Brown would certainly be proud of this “great pumpkin.” NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has found a massive nebula in deep space that “looks like a celestial jack-o’-lantern.” The study’s researchers have given it the nickname “Jack-o’-lantern Nebula,” apropos for Halloween. It’s likely that a star, known as an O-type star, approximately 15 to 20 times heavier than our Sun, is “responsible for sculpting this cosmic pumpkin,” NASA JPL said in a statement on its website. — Fox News

Court rules city doesn’t have to pay family for destroying home during manhunt

A panel of federal appeals court judges has ruled that a Colorado city does not have to reimburse a man after it destroyed his suburban Denver home during a police raid after a suspect holed up inside the house. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit unanimously ruled that the city of Greenwood Village, Colorado, is not required to pay back homeowners for damages inflicted to their property during law enforcement actions. Leo Lech, the home’s owner, says he is considering taking the case to the Supreme Court. — The Hill