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Standup comedian Tim Renkow’s blacker-than-black comedy Jerk is upping its game for its third series. The sitcom, about a man called Tim who has cerebral palsy and is a self-described terrible person, deserves a bigger audience. It has been…

By Clare Duffy | CNN Elon Musk publicly scoffed at a Twitter employee’s uncertainty about whether he had been laid off in a recent round of cuts and spoke dismissively of the employee’s disability in a series of tweets Monday night. It’s…

Magdalena Cruz grew up knowing she owed her very life to a horrid crime. She was born in 1986 to… Magdalena Cruz grew up knowing she owed…

Elon Musk speaking at Tesla Investor Day. Courtesy: TeslaElon Musk on Tuesday backed down from his attacks on a disabled Twitter employee who was laid off by the company and apologized for what he called a "misunderstanding."On Tuesday, the…

If you’re not told you are fired, are you really fired? At Twitter, probably.Haraldur Thorleifsson, who until recently was employed at Twitter, logged in to his computer last Sunday to do some work – only to find himself locked out, along…

Elon Musk derided a disabled former Twitter employee after the worker said on the social media site that he wasn't sure if he still had a job.The spat began when Haraldur Thorleifsson, who has muscular dystrophy and relies on a…

Patrick Chapman, 27, prepares for customers Thursday, March 2, 2023, at The Golden Scoop, an Overland Park, Kan., ice cream and coffee shop that employs workers with developmental disabilities, paying them more than minimum…

Disabled people are being deprived of the chance to live independently because profiteering firms are cynically inflating the prices of medical aids, campaigners claim.Many crucial disability devices, such as walking aids, specialist beds…

Interventional Cooperative Agreement Program funds major Vocational Resource Facilitation Demonstration project supported by federal agencies and private partnersEAST HANOVER, N.J., Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kessler Foundation has…

Vietnam hero gets Medal of Honor…