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A7 NATION/WORLD East Oregonian CBS denies former CEO Les Moonves $120M severance NEW YORK (AP) — CBS announced Monday that former CEO Les Moonves will not receive his $120 million severance package after the board of directors concluded he violated com- pany policy and was unco- operative with an investiga- tion into sexual misconduct allegations. The decision, which came after a five-month out- side investigation, capped the downfall of one of tele- vision’s most influential fig- ures, the biggest entertain- ment powerbroker to see his career derailed amid the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct. A lawyer for Moonves said the board’s conclusion “are without merit” but did not say whether the former CEO would challenge it in arbitration. “This is an important reminder that harassment happens everywhere, and that in this moment, even someone who has been per- ceived as untouchable will be held accountable,” said Fatima Goss Graves, a co-founder of the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, which provides legal assistance to victims of assault, harass- ment or abuse. “I hope other corporations are learning that lesson.” them into law. But in recent years the shutdown scenario has become so routine that it raises the question: Have shutdowns as a negotiating tool lost their punch? Monday brought few signs of progress. A partial shutdown that could occur at midnight Friday risks dis- rupting government opera- tions and leaving hundreds of thousands of federal employ- ees furloughed or working without pay over the holiday season. Costs would be likely in the billions of dollars. Exiting a Senate Repub- lican leadership meeting late Monday, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota said, “It looks like it probably is going to have to build for a few days here before there’s a solution.” Russia social media influence efforts ongoing, report says WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s sweeping political disinformation campaign on U.S. social media was more far-reaching than originally thought, with troll farms working to discourage black voters and “blur the lines between reality and fiction” to help elect Donald Trump in 2016, according to reports GOP waits on Trump as clock ticks toward partial shutdown WASHINGTON (AP) — The fight over President Don- ald Trump’s $5 billion wall funds deepened Monday, threatening a partial govern- ment shutdown in a standoff that has become increasingly common in Washington. It wasn’t always like this, with Congress and the White House at a crisis over gov- ernment funding. The House and Senate used to pass annual appropriation bills, and the president signed released Monday by the Sen- ate intelligence committee. And the campaign didn’t end with Trump’s ascent to the White House. Troll farms are still working to stoke racial and political passions in America at a time of high political discord. The two studies are the most comprehensive picture yet of the Russian interfer- ence campaigns on Ameri- can social media. They add to the portrait investigators have been building since 2017 on Russia’s influence — though Trump has equiv- ocated on whether the inter- ference actually happened. Facebook, Google and Twitter declined to comment on the specifics of the reports. The reports were com- piled by the cybersecurity firm New Knowledge and by the Computational Pro- paganda Research Project, a study by researchers at the University of Oxford and Graphika, a social media analysis firm. Google plans $1 billion expansion in New York (AP) — Silicon Valley is becoming Silicon Nation. Google announced Mon- day it will spend more than $1 billion to build a new office complex in New York City that will allow the inter- net search giant to double the number of people it employs there. It is the tech industry’s lat- est major expansion beyond the Seattle-San Francisco Bay corridor. It follows recent steps by Amazon and Apple to set up large opera- tions well outside their home turf. Tech companies are “coming to the realization that the Bay Area, which has traditionally been the major center of tech activity in the U.S., is getting expensive and crowded,” said Andrew Bar- tels, principal analyst at For- rester Research. HEALTH NOTIFICATION! Are You Hard of Hearing? A major name brand hearing aid provider wishes to field test a remarkable new digital hearing instrument in the area. This offer is free of charge and you are under no obligation. 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