Megyn Kelly Apologizes for Defending Blackface on Today: 'I Realize Now That Such Behavior Is Indeed Wrong'

Megyn Kelly is reevaluating her stance on blackface. Just hours after stating on-air that it isn’t “racist” for white people to darken their skin with makeup on Halloween as long as they’re portraying an actual person or character, the host of Megyn Kelly Today on Tuesday released an internal email to her staff, apologizing for her […]

You can’t win: Ex-top astronaut apologizes to Twitter for citing Churchill, sparks more fuss

Quoting Winston Churchill seems harmless enough, but a former NASA astronaut found out the hard way that it’s impossible to please everyone on Twitter, after apologizing for citing the revered British leader. Scott Kelly, who has made multiple trips into space, issued an apology on Sunday after being hounded by furious netizens about a tweet […]

Facebook apologizes to right-wing group PragerU after being accused of censoring its videos

PragerU/Youtube Facebook apologized to a right-wing non-profit group after it blocked some of its videos, making them invisible to its followers. Facebook said the removal of the videos was a mistake, and they have been restored. PragerU seems unconvinced, claiming the removal was an act of deliberate censorship. Facebook has apologized to American conservative non-profit […]

Samantha Bee Apologizes for C-Word Controversy, Fires Back at Critics

Samantha Bee opened Wednesday’s Full Frontal by addressing the elephant in the room. Bee apologized again for referring to First Daughter Ivanka Trump as a “feckless c—t” last week: “I crossed the line, I regret it, and I do apologize for that.” While she reminded us that “it is a word that I have used on the show many […]

Starbucks CEO apologizes to the 2 black men arrested in a Philadelphia store, says he wants to meet with them ‘face-to-face’

Twitter/@missydepino Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson apologized on Saturday night to the two black men arrested in a Philadelphia store. Videos of the arrest, which went viral, were “very hard to watch,” Johnson said. He said the company’s practices and training led to the “reprehensible outcome” and that the incident “should never have escalated as it […]

Starbucks apologizes after viral video shows cops in a Philadelphia store arresting 2 black men who witnesses say ‘didn’t do anything’

Twitter/@missydepino Starbucks faced intense backlash on Saturday after a viral video showed police arresting two black men in a Philadelphia store, while bystanders argued the men “didn’t do anything.” Starbucks apologized on Saturday and said the company plans to review its policies. The commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department said the officers “did absolutely nothing wrong,” and […]

Flight safety office in UK apologizes for Russian plane search in Heathrow – Moscow

The flight safety center in the UK operating under the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has apologized for the search of a Russian Aeroflot plane by UK officials in March, the Russian transport minister said. After elaborating on the case, which triggered outrage in Moscow, the center “even apologized,” Russian Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov told […]

Sask. apologizes after 1 Humboldt player believed alive is dead, other pronounced dead is alive

Saskatchewan’s Justice Ministry has issued an apology after two players on the bus that crashed while taking the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team to a playoff game were misidentified — one who was pronounced to be dead is alive, and the other said to have been alive is dead. Xavier Labelle, in fact, survived the crash. […]