The board of Deliveroo is facing demands from the company’s new shareholders to cancel an £18m payout to the investment banks which this week launched one of the City’s most turbulent flotations on record. Sky News can reveal that a number of furious investors want the company to decide “at the earliest opportunity” that it
Month: April 2021
As another million people in Los Angeles County on Thursday, April 1, were able to get in line for often scarce coronavirus vaccine appointments, public health officials urged residents to be patient and avoid gathering and follow pandemic safety rules as they wait to be inoculated. Residents age 50 and older are now eligible for
Images of George Floyd being treated in the back of an ambulance, after a police officer knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes, have been shown to a jury. The distressing pictures were viewed by jurors during the trial of Derek Chauvin who is accused of murdering the unarmed 46-year-old black man in
More than 70 MPs – including more than 40 Conservatives – have sent a warning shot to Boris Johnson by forming a major cross-party campaign against the use of vaccine passports within the UK. The prime minister has said there will “definitely” be a role for vaccine passports for Britons heading abroad, with it reported
When one thinks of underserved communities in Los Angeles, one does not think of Malibu. But, according to L.A. County Department of Public Health numbers, the beachside enclave’s Covid-19 vaccination rate ranks right between those of Montebello and Pico Rivera. What’s more, Malibu’s 31.4% vaccination rate is nowhere near those in areas of comparable affluence,
A 22-year-old man from the U.S. state of Kansas has been indicted on charges that he unauthorizedly accessed a public water facility’s computer system, jeopardizing the residents’ safety and health in the local community. Wyatt A. Travnichek, 22, of Ellsworth County, Kansas, has been charged with one count of tampering with a public water system
Rosanne Cash‘s new song “The Killing Fields” grapples with a dark part of southern United States history: lynchings. The singer-songwriter wrote the song, she shares, during the summer of 2020. “A few years of my own personal reckoning with painful issues of race, racism, privilege, reconciliation and individual responsibility led up to the moment in
Over the past few generations, OnePlus’ non-Pro smartphones have often been neglected in favour of the Pro models. The feature disparity between the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro is still the best example to date. Things did improve slightly with the 8 series, but higher prices have also meant that the non-Pro models don’t offer
If you’re looking for two of the most unique, unapologetic, “do it their own damn way,” straight-up talented artists in mainstream country music… look no further than Kip Moore and Ashley McBryde. Kip has his badass combination of country and heartland rock, reminiscent of singers like John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen… only with a ton
Fox’s Animation Domination block has become a mainstay in the TV world, bringing fan-favorite animated comedies to the small screen week after week. On Thursday, it was confirmed that one recent fixture of that block, Bless the Harts, will soon be no more. On Thursday, Fox confirmed that the animated series has been cancelled after
Sharon Stone claims her manager back in the day told her she wasn’t sexy enough to get hired in Hollywood, then 6 weeks later … she was cast to play one of the sexiest characters ever. The actress says before she landed her famous role in “Basic Instinct,” she was pretty shy and introverted. Stone
DC fans got some bad news today, with The New Gods and The Trench both being cancelled (or, in the parlance of the studio, set aside to be reapproached later). A little bit of good news buried in the report, though, suggests that the long-rumored Supergirl solo movie is still in development, presumably allowing for
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Things are moving rather quickly for the national movement to legalize cannabis. The New Mexico state legislature voted to do so on Wednesday night, and once Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signs the legislation as expected, the state will become the 16th in the nation to legalize cannabis for recreational use. New Mexico is the second
After years of talk amongst fans, Jensen Ackles will finally be (the voice of) Batman in the upcoming Batman: The Long Halloween: Part One. “At long last, a collective dream has come true and Jensen Ackles is playing Batman. Yes, after literal years of jokes and connections to Bruce Wayne on screen and off, Ackles
Liberty Steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta has promised thousands of UK workers facing uncertainty after the collapse of lender Greensill that he will not close any of its plants. In an interview with Sky News, Mr Gupta gave a bullish assessment of prospects for the business – while admitting the collapse was a “shock to the
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will resume enforcement Thursday of all parking violations in unincorporated areas of the county. After a period of relaxed enforcement due to the coronavirus pandemic, the department’s Parking Enforcement Detail will once again issue tickets for street-sweeping violations, expired registration and other violations, and will also
“To everybody else they look at it and see a case. And I don’t see a case, I see my brother.” Philonise Floyd grew up sharing a bed with his older brother George. They did their homework together. They depended on each other. He’s now had to watch the harrowing final moments of his brother’s
The prime minister’s most senior black adviser is to step down from the government. Samuel Kasumu will leave his role as special adviser for civil society and communities in May. It comes a day after a government-backed review of racial disparities in Britain was published. The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities’ 2458-page report was
Satellite broadcaster Dish said it’s removed the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) and NBC Regional Sports Networks from its Dish TV and Sling TV platform last night, affecting access in 10 states and Washington, D.C. It’s the opening day for Major League Baseball. Specifically, Englewood-Colo.-based Dish is not longer carrying MASN — coverage home of the