Washington Post ordered to rehire columnist fired after Charlie Kirk posts

WASHINGTON: The Washington Post was ordered on Monday (Aug 24) to reinstate columnist Karen Attiah, who was fired over social media posts she wrote in the aftermath of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk's assassination.Kirk was shot dead in September on a Utah college campus, sparking a wave of grief among conservatives and threats of a clampdown on the "radical left" from President Donald Trump.Attiah wrote on social media afterward that she would not display sadness for Kirk's killing and shared the activist's past racist comments about Black women.She was later fired, with the Post accusing her of "gross misconduct" and of violating its social media policies, according to the paper's own reporting. An arbitrator ordered the Post on Monday to rehire Attiah and compensate her with back pa