A half-century ago, despite growing pressure from civil rights leaders and high-profile Black baseball players, no major league team had hired a Black manager. The issue got a national airing at that year’s All-Star Game when newly crowned home run king Henry Aaron called out his own team, the Atlanta Braves, who had just bypassed him for a managerial vacancy. Aaron was still an active player, but player-managers were not yet extinct, with several active players earning managerial jobs before the end of the 1970s. And Aaron wasn’t pleased with how Atlanta addressed its opening. “The situation could’ve been handled more tastefully,” Aaron told reporters at the 1974 game in Pittsburgh. “I think I deserved to be asked.”
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Analysis by Andrew Van Dam: Amid all the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth about the incredible shrinking American news industry, we stumbled on a seemingly hopeful sign when charting arts-related jobs for our columns on authors and musicians. America has about as many reporters and editors as it did three decades ago, according to our analysis of millions of responses to the Census Bureau’s decennial census and the American Community Survey. Through everything — the rise of the internet, the rise of social media, the fall of Huey Lewis and the News, the novel coronavirus — journalism jobs stayed more or less flat.
Analysis | Wait, does America really still employ a ton of news reporters?
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Exclusive: OpenAI whistleblowers have filed a complaint with the SEC alleging the artificial intelligence company illegally prohibited its employees from warning regulators about the grave risks its technology may pose to humanity, calling for an investigation. The whistleblowers said OpenAI issued its employees overly restrictive employment, severance and nondisclosure agreements that could have led to penalties against workers who raised concerns about OpenAI to federal regulators, according to a seven-page letter sent to the SEC commissioner and obtained by The Post.
OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say
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If the 2024 #Republican Party platform sounds as though it was dictated by Donald Trump, that’s because a lot of it was. The 16-page document, released ahead of this week’s 2024 Republican National Convention, contains numerous passages that paraphrase or lift directly from things Trump has said in speeches or in Truth Social posts since he launched his bid for a second term. Some sections quote #Trump verbatim, using key phrases from his rallies, while others heavily echo his signature grievances, conspiracy theories and bluster. Notably, a section of 20 promises that the platform makes to Americans is written in all-caps, in his distinctive voice.
Trump remade the GOP in his image — and its platform in his words
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Authorities continued to search for any clue as to why a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man opened fire at a rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, wounding the former president and leaving one rallygoer dead and two others critically injured. Authorities said the gunman’s father legally purchased the weapon, which was identified and traced using records from a gun dealership that is no longer operating — suggesting that it was not a recent purchase.
Rifle used by Trump rally shooter bought 11 years ago, person familiar says
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The Lancet has now published, estimating conservatively, that deaths [in Gaza total] around 8 percent of the entire population. "The fact that President Biden is boasting about the support he’s providing Israel, I think, is just awful and demeaning and disgusting," Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud said. "We were promised a president who wanted to bring decency and empathy to the White House, and we’ve seen anything but over the last nine months.
Analysis | Why Dearborn’s mayor, a critic of Biden on Gaza, wants him to drop out
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Donald Trump has chosen Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio as his running mate, selecting a rising star in the party and a formerly outspoken Trump critic who in recent years has closely aligned himself with the former president. If elected in November, Vance, 39, would be one of the youngest vice presidents in history. He has been one of Trump’s most vocal champions, showing his support outside the New York City courthouse during Trump’s criminal trial earlier this year, as well as boosting him in frequent appearances on cable TV. Trump’s choice for a running mate was among the most closely watched decisions of his campaign and has taken on new significance in the wake of what law enforcement has called an attempted assassination against Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday in Butler, Pa. Vance has echoed Trump’s false claims about widespread fraud in the 2020 election and, like Trump, has stopped short of saying he would definitely accept the results of the 2024 election, saying he would do so if it is “free and fair.” https://wapo.st/3WmgSV5
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For more than a half-century, since the #assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Secret Service has routinely surveyed and secured all structures near major national political events to prevent gunfire from reaching a president or anyone else under the agency’s protection. But somehow on Saturday, a man wielding a semiautomatic rifle was able to access a roof just 140 yards from the stage where former president Donald #Trump was speaking. Now under scrutiny for its worst security breach since the 1981 attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, the Secret Service is facing pressure to determine whether it failed to devote enough resources to the protection of a former president turned presumptive presidential nominee.
Secret Service under pressure for shooter who got clear shot at Trump
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“This is rich: Netflix, which played a pioneering role in luring Americans out of malls and onto our couches, is opening themed stores at, yes, the mall,” Marc Fisher writes in Opinions. Can Netflix House — which will sell show- and movie-related merch and meals, offering customers a chance to dance like characters on “Bridgerton” and walk over a glass bridge as on “Squid Game” (presumably with fewer deaths) — bring back the glory days of the mall? https://wapo.st/3VZXJqG
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