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Uber's Travis Kalanick resigned as CEO on Tuesday, following a personal tragedy and a string of scandalous allegations at his company.

Kalanick had hired the law firm of former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the allegations. In the report released last week, Holder's team proposed 47 recommendations, including the establishment of a board oversight committee, rewriting Uber's cultural values, reducing alcohol use at work events and prohibiting intimate relationships between employees and their bosses.

On Wednesday Holder attended Gateway '17, a small business conference in Detroit presented by Alibaba (: ). He told CNBC in an interview at the event that he's very hopeful for Uber's future and the company's prospects for enacting some real change.

When asked if he thought all his recommendations would be put into place, Holder said absolutely. He said the board was very serious during its seven-hour meeting last week.

CNBC's Anita Balakrishnan contributed to this report

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Peter Navarro, the former trade adviser and assistant to former President Donald Trump, told Newsmax host Eric Bolling on Tuesday that he could be in prison within less than 60 days after being sentenced to 4 months in jail for contempt of Congress.

During an appearance on Bollings showThe Balance, Navarro said:

If folks like me, the highest advisers to the president, cant provide the president with confidential information without worry of having it leaked over to a partisan legislature, he wont get the best information, and he has to be protected too. So, I have said from the outset on this show that I fully expect this case to go to the Supreme Court. We appealed it within minutes of the prison sentence.

Navarro continued, But I could be in prison within less than 60 days. Thats what the government, the Biden regime, the Merrick Garland Department of Justice wants. Well see what the judge has to say about it, but I think its important to point out that Im the first senior White House aide ever charged with this crime in the history of our republic.

After Bolling interrupted, Didnt Eric Holder get charged with it as well? Navarro replied, Eric Holder was not a senior adviser to the president subject to the kind of executive privilege I am.

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Democratic officials in New Jersey wasted little time Friday in calling for Sen. Bob Menendez to resign following his indictment earlier in the day on allegations that he and his wife had accepted bribes from three New Jersey businessmen.

The powerful head of the SenateForeign Relations Committee, Menendez announced Friday that he would temporarily step down from that post after the indictment revealed that prosecutors alleged he had received cash, gold bars, payments toward a home mortgage, a luxury vehicle and other bribes in exchange for his influence in Washington.

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But he also issued a statement Friday evening making clear that he would not resign from the Senate.

It is not lost on me how quickly some are rushing to judge a Latino and push him out of his seat. I am not going anywhere, Menendez said in the statement.

While Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer praised Menendezs decision to temporarily step down from the Foreign Relations Committee as his case was decided in court, other Democrats pushed the New Jersey senator to step down immediately.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder said in a social media post that it was in the interest of the nation for Menendez to resign.

Prominent New Jersey Democrats agreed with Holder. Heres a roundup.

The allegations in the indictment against Senator Menendez and four other defendants are deeply disturbing, Murphy said in a statement Friday, HuffPost reported. These are serious charges that implicate national security and the integrity of our criminal justice system. Under our legal system, Senator Menendez and the other defendants have not been found guilty and will have the ability to present evidence disputing these charges, and we must respect the process. However, the alleged facts are so serious that they compromise the ability of Senator Menendez to effectively represent the people of our state. Therefore, I am calling for his immediate resignation.

In a statement posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Sherrill added her voice to those calling for Menendez to resign.

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I dont have confidence that the Senator has the ability to properly focus on our state and its people while addressing such a significant legal matter, Kim said in a statement, Insider reported. He should step down.

I do not believe that Senator Menendez can continue to carry out the important duties of his office for our state, Pascrell said in a statement, Axios reported.

In a statement, Jones said Menendez should resign to make sure that our party is able to keep its focus on the critical upcoming state legislative elections in November, Politico reported.

The allegations laid out in todays indictment are alarming, and they raise serious questions about the Senators ability to continue to serve, Scutari said in a statement reported by ABC News. I strongly believe that all Americans deserve the presumption of innocence and the ability to fully defend themselves. Due to the severity of the charges brought against him today, I believe Senator Menendez must resign from office to pursue his defense and allow our state and our nation to move forward.

One of Menendezs staunch defenders in 2015, when Menendez was indicted on separate bribery allegations, Booker remained silent Friday about the latest charges to be filed against his fellow New Jersey senator.

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Next week, the March on Washington Film Festival is marking 60 years since the historic D.C. march where Martin Luther King famously delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech.

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The March on Washington Film Festival is marking 60 years since the historic D.C. march where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously delivered his I Have A Dream speech.

The festival returns to the District on Sunday, Sept. 24 to Oct. 1.

It all started around a decade ago in a church across from the Capitol.

We screened 4 Little Girls, Spike Lees documentary, and we were overwhelmed with joy at the audience turnout, founder Robert Raben told WTOP. We literally had to turn people away because of the hunger and the thirst to learn about our history.

But today, we have capacity crowds at most events. People all over the world are seeing the films.

While the festival turns another year older, the mission remains the same as its always been.

The mission is about telling the untold and the mistold stories of the Civil Rights Movement, executive director Joanne Irby told WTOP. The thing thats interesting about the festival is that we use the arts to engage people in those stories, so its certainly film, but its also the visual arts, its performing arts, so we engage a wide range of audiences into stories that we think we knew, as well as stories that no one knew in terms of the movement.

The festival unofficially kicks off Sunday, Sept. 24, with a sneak peek at Jon-Sesrie Goffs After Sherman, which examines South Carolinas Gullah Geechee community shown prior in Julie Dashs Daughters of the Dust (1991).

Direct descendants of West African enslaved people here in the states have an island community in South Carolina, Irby said. Theyre challenged now with gentrification issues, systemic racism issues, climate change. Immediately after the screening were having what were calling an afternoon soiree where there will be a DJ, dancing, conversations about the Gullah community, and there will be a signature cocktail for the festival.

After taking a day off on Monday, the official opening night is Tuesday, Sept. 26, with a kickoff screening of Silver Dollar Road directed by Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) in partnership with Amazon Prime Video.

This is certainly a film about gentrification that will be happening in partnership with the Motion Picture Association, Irby said. At the same time, we have another event happening at the Jewish Community Center. Were screening the first produced film from the March on Washington Film Festival Studios. Its called One Struggle, and it really does a nice deep dive into the complexities of the Black community and Jewish community.

Wednesday, Sept. 27, brings the awards gala at Union Market to present the John Lewis Lifetime Legacy Award.

This year, the recipient of the award will be Sen. Raphael Warnock [of Georgia], Raben said. Well also have a presentation of an award to Rev. [Al] Sharpton for his years of leadership, but this is the traditional time that people come together for an elegant and inspiring evening held at Union Market to honor the triumphs and the history of the Civil Rights Movement with the people who are currently doing that work.

Thursday, Sept. 28, brings Dinner and a Movie Under the Stars with an outdoor presentation at Union Market with a screening of the documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything directed by Lisa Corts.

It really does a great exploration of the roots of rock n roll in this country and looks at some of the challenges that [Little Richard] faced both as a Black man but also a queer man performing in the 1950s, so its really fascinating, Irby said. We will have another March on Washington Film Festival signature cocktail as well, so people are welcome to come out, bring your lawn chairs, bring your family and hang out outside for the screening.

Friday, Sept. 29, returns to Union Market as artist and activist Michelle Browder will receive the Vivian Malone Courage Award presented by former Attorney General Eric Holder and Dr. Sharon Malone, Vivians sister.

[Vivian] is the young woman who integrated the University of Alabama, Raben said. Many people have strong memories of [Gov.] George Wallace standing in the schoolhouse door; the woman he is blocking is Vivian. This year, the recipient is artist Michelle Browder from Montgomery, Alabama, who has drawn attention to a tragic experience of enslaved women who were operated upon involuntarily so that America could invent gynecology.

Closing night is Saturday, Sept. 30, with Pulpits, Protests and Power at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

It is an examination of the role of the Black church in the Civil Rights Movement, Irby said. It will be discussions, it will be performances, including gospel legend Yolanda Adams, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts Choir, so it will really be the crescendo night of the festival.

It all wraps with a bonus day on Sunday, Oct. 1, with Space Race also directed by Lisa Corts at the Eaton Hotel.

Its about the journey and challenges of Black astronauts and scientists as they crossed that final frontier through NASA, Irby said. Its a really interesting look at the path they walked and the challenges they experienced.

WTOP fittingly conducted the interview amid the symbolic construction crews currently renovating the Lincoln Memorial where Dr. King famously delivered his I Have a Dream speech during the iconic march in 1963.

For us to be here on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where we just acknowledged the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is really significant for us, Irby said. Theres construction going on, theres noise, its busy, but its a great analogy because theres construction, theres work to be done in our country.

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Wokeness was envisioned as a new reboot of the coalition of the oppressed.

Those purportedly victimized by traditional America would find intersectional solidarity in their victimhood owing to the supposed sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and other alleged American sins, past and present.

The so-called white male heterosexual victimizing class was collectively to be held responsible for their sinful triad of white rage, supremacy, and privilege.

Class considerations became pass. The Duchess of Sussex, and the billionaires Oprah Winfrey and LeBron James, shared grievances against all whites, whether they hailed from Marthas Vineyard or impoverished East Palestine, Ohio.

A bicoastal elite would draft the woke agenda and the oppressed would follow as ordered.

That top-down blueprint would embrace massive multibillion-dollar reparations to blacks.

In lockstep, all victims would rally around a Green New Deal that mandated high energy costs to discourage consumption of fossil fuels.

The new transgender canon mandated three sexes. Sex is socially rather than biologically determined. And there is a large, oppressed, and transgender population, which presents the next great civil rights struggle for America.

Historical wokeism lodged a list of grievances against the supposedly flawed American past. Indicting the dead required statues to be toppled. Names had to be changed. Histories were to be rewritten. Even the foundational date of America was to be reconsidered and altered.

Yet, the rainbow fabric of woke is now fraying and for a variety of reasons.

For one thing, woke took off after the perfect storm of the COVID-19 pandemic, the devastating lockdowns, the 120 days of violent rioting and looting following the death of George Floyd, and years of endemic Trump Derangement Syndrome. Most of those catalysts are waning. Temporarily unhinged Americans are slowly reviving. Millions of the comatose are waking up to normality and dont recognize their own country.

Two, woke is retrogressive, reactionary, and anti-civilizational. Decriminalizing the legal code, defunding the police, failing to apply norms to the homeless population, and destroying meritocracy have all hollowed out our major cities.

San Francisco was a far cleaner, safer, and kinder city 20, 40, or 80 years ago than it is today.

A woke FBI, Pentagon, or airline industry becomes a matter of life and death.

Three, in modern America, class is now a far more accurate metric of oppression than race or gender.

It is one thing to restrict fossil fuel development if you are in the upper one percent income bracket, quite another if you commute 50 miles a day in a used car. If there are to be reparations, why include Eric Holder or Al Sharpton, but not indigent Hispanics, Asians, and poor whites?

The multimillionaire, and prep-school and Ivy-League educated former President Barack Obama may castigate the unwoke Senator Tim Scott, R-S.C., for his absence of victimhood. But from which of his three enclaves does Obama do so the Kalorama mansion, the Marthas Vineyard estate, or the restricted-access beachfront retreat in Hawaii?

Four, religions also trump race. Hispanic-American Catholics and Middle-Eastern-American Muslims have more in common with so-called white Christians than they do with an atheist, or agnostic woke elite who pushes the lie that the anti-religion Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are a mere charity group.

Muslim-American communities in Michigan do not want children seeing drag queen shows or the pride flag flying with equal status to the American flag. The Catholic Hispanic community of Los Angeles has little tolerance for lurid anti-Christian motifs that preview a Los Angeles Dodgers game.

Five, wokeism is cannibalistic. Even the children of woke architects with perfect SAT scores and 4.0 grade point averages are being rejected on the basis of their race at their coveted Ivy League schools.

Neither the mansions of Beverly Hills nor estates of Presidio Heights qualify as sanctuaries from violent criminals, who are now exempted by the anointed from legal consequences.

The wokest of Hollywood celebs will soon lose movie roles and be disqualified for film awards on the basis of their race.

Even the most left-wing of movie directors do not want to be ordered by Soviet-style commissars to hire their crews, actors, and writers on the basis of race.

Six, wokeism is a dangerous diversion of American resources.

The United States may have sponsored gender studies programs, flown pride flags, and bragged of George Floyd murals in Kabul. But meanwhile its military suffered the most humiliating defeat in a half-century, as it skedaddled from Afghanistan, leaving behind billions of dollars in deadly arms for terrorists.

Our elite work to ban plentiful natural gas, subsidize transgender activism abroad, and lecture on sexual identities in the military. Chinas elite builds dozens of coal and nuclear plants, and doubles the size of its navy, while preparing to absorb Taiwan.

Americans are rejecting wokeism because they finally are realizing that if they do not, they will not have a civilization left.

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(Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. He is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, from Basic Books. You can reach him by e-mailing authorvdh@gmail.com.)

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