Month: June 2021

UPDATE, 4:52 PM: After almost three years, Marvin Peart’s multi-million dollar lawsuit over the acquisition of The Weinstein Company’s assets now has a trial date. Originally looking for $110 million, the Mob Wives executive producer looks set to face off with Lantern Capitol Partners on December 1 in Los Angeles Superior Court, according to a
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Darnella Davidson, director of the San Pedro High School Golden Pirate Regiment, is retiring after 38 years of teaching this year. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer) Darnella Davidson, director of the San Pedro High School Golden Pirate Regiment, is retiring after 38 years of teaching this year. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer) Darnella
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Boris Johnson has rejected claims of “moral failure” by the G7 in providing more COVID vaccines for poorer nations – as he dismissed suggestions a Brexit row had overshadowed the world leaders’ Cornwall summit. At the end of three days of talks at the seaside resort of Carbis Bay, the heads of the world’s leading
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When White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre first stood before the media in the White House briefing room last month, the moment made history: She was the first African-American woman to do so in 30 years and the first LGBTQ woman to do so, period. While the briefing itself played out as many
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Jessica Chastain portrays Tammy Faye Bakker in the first trailer for The Eyes of Tammy Faye, an upcoming film that follows “the extraordinary rise, fall, and redemption” of the legendary evangelist. The biopic charts how Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield) rose from a bible school married couple to building the world’s largest religious
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Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday took the wraps off a new cyberespionage group that has been behind a series of targeted attacks against diplomatic entities and telecommunication companies in Africa and the Middle East since at least 2017. Dubbed “BackdoorDiplomacy,” the campaign involves targeting weak points in internet-exposed devices such as web servers to perform a
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Rising country artist Frank Ray is putting his Hispanic heritage at the forefront in his first single since signing a major-label deal with BBR Music Group. “Streetlights” offers bilingual lyrics over a Latin-influenced melody. Ray co-wrote “Streetlights” — which is premiering exclusively via The Boot and available to hear below — with Bobby Hamrick and Frank Rogers,
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