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AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Alex Cooper dodges Dave Portnoy's memoir claim that she planned fake harassment allegations to exit Barstool

Alex Cooper publicly disputed Dave Portnoy's memoir allegation that she and her former co-host planned to fabricate sexual harassment claims to escape their Barstool Sports contract, but refused to offer her own account. Cooper, the host of the massively successful "Call Her Daddy" podcast and founder of the Unwell Network, sat for a CNBC interview […] The post Alex Cooper dodges Dave Portnoy's memoir claim that she planned fake harassment allegations to exit Barstool appeared first on American Almanac .

Alex Cooper publicly disputed Dave Portnoy's memoir allegation that she and her former co-host planned to fabricate sexual harassment claims to escape their Barstool Sports contract, but refused to offer her own account. Cooper, the host of the massively successful "Call Her Daddy" podcast and founder of the Unwell Network, sat for a CNBC interview this week in which the interviewer pressed her directly on the most explosive passage from Portnoy's book, "Cancel Me If You Can." Her response amounted to a flat denial, a compliment, and a pivot: she said she hadn't read the memoir and had no interest in relitigating the past. The exchange matters because Portnoy's allegation, that Cooper and former co-host Sofia Franklyn devised a scheme to…Open

YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - Pentagon Reporter Priya Sridhar on service members aboard the USS Lincoln

MS NOW Pentagon Reporter Priya Sridhar on servicemembers aboard the USS Lincoln during their record-breaking deployment tied to Pres. Trump’s Iran war. Sridhar spoke to the wife of a sailor who went overboard and was in water for about an hour before he was rescued. Pres. Trump shrugged off reports about conditions aboard the carrier saying the deployment was “not nearly long enough.”

YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - EXPIRED CONTACT LENSES: Wife of sailor who jumped off USS Lincoln says he worried about vision

In her exclusive interview with the wife of a sailor who jumped off the USS Abraham Lincoln last week, Priya Sridhar learned that the sailor’s prescription contact lenses had expired and that he was having trouble seeing as he worked on helicopters on the flight deck. “Every single time he would make a mistake, they would yell at him, and he would get into a lot of trouble,” his wife told Priya. “He would explain to them that he can’t see because his prescription was expired, but they still allowed him to work.”