Los Angeles County public health officials reported 964 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,464,793 as of Tuesday, Oct. 5. The total number of cases represents 14.6% of Los Angeles County’s population. Officials reported 35 more deaths linked to the coronavirus, for a total of 26,195 deaths since tracking
Month: October 2021
Facebook’s products “harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy”, a whistleblower has claimed. Frances Haugen – who used to work as a product manager at the tech giant – has given damning evidence to US politicians in the Senate, days after leaking internal documents to the Wall Street Journal. She warned: “Left alone, Facebook
Boris Johnson will close his party’s conference in a rousing finale in which he will accuse his Tory predecessors of “drift and dither” and lacking the guts to tackle big problems. Bringing the conference to a barnstorming climax with his speech to the adoring Tory faithful on Wednesday, he will a promise a “long overdue”
UPDATED with CTG response: Playwright Jeremy O. Harris said Tuesday that he intends to pull his Tony-nominated Slave Play from the upcoming lineup at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles due to the theater company’s dearth of scheduled productions by female playwrights – a scarcity acknowledged by the management of Center Theatre Group, which
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday revealed details of a previously undocumented UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bootkit that has been put to use by threat actors to backdoor Windows systems as early as 2012 by modifying a legitimate Windows Boot Manager binary to achieve persistence, once again demonstrating how technology meant to secure the environment prior
Jussie Smollett, who faces felony disorderly conduct charges over what prosecutors allege was staging an attack in 2019 while in Chicago, is headed to trial, as Chicago’s WTTW reports. On Tuesday, Cook County Judge James Linn said jury selection for the case will begin on November 29th. Smollett has pleaded not guilty. The charges stem
Wholesale gas prices have hit record highs and oil has reached a new three-year peak – further fuelling worries about higher prices for consumers and businesses ahead. The British day-ahead contract for natural gas hit 277p per therm, 32% higher than Monday and surpassing the 275p per therm level seen during the “Beast from the
If you’ve been itching to see more of the white-haired dragonriders of House Targaryen, your wait is over. The first glimpses of the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon were revealed during an HBO European launch event. The new series comes after a poorly received conclusion to the eight season of Game of
Wendy Stuart and Steven Bloomer-Teague will be hosting TriVersity Talk this Thursday at 7 PM ET with featured guest Kevin Lish. TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk! the goal is to laugh and learn. TriVersity Talk! Is
“P.S. If this is Austin, I still love you.” It was Blake Shelton’s first single, and it’s still one of his biggest hits. It’s hard to believe that the song is 20 years old – and how much has changed since it first came out. I mean, have you ever stopped to think how different
The Wild Feathers‘ “Out on the Road” — a brand-new song premiering exclusively via The Boot — is a shuffling, blues-tinged look at tour life. It’s ironic, then, that band member Taylor Burns penned the “all autobiographical” song while holed up at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I think it was me missing those times, and getting a chance to
As The Simonetta Lein Show premiers its 4th season premiere, the show welcomes critically acclaimed and multi-academy award nominee, American actor, Eric Roberts! Eric has starred in countless films, a trend quite consistent with his sister, Julia, and, daughter, Emma. As with many artists, Eric’s proudest accomplishments transcend that of his professional and creative career, being his
The arrival of House of the Dragon’s long-awaited debut trailer reveals a version of Westeros in which royal House Targaryen reigns supreme with the strength of swords and the fire of dragons. Yet, while the defining symbol of said supremacy, the Iron Throne, makes an appearance, it looks dramatically different from the one coveted by
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel want to say bye, bye, bye to a significant piece of their L.A. life — the couple’s trying to offload their pad there … and for quite a bundle, no less. JT & JB have just listed their Hollywood Hills villa for a whopping $35 million — which has served
Android 12 is codenamed ‘Snow Cone’, a Google executive revealed on Twitter. The trend of giving dessert names to new Android versions isn’t new as Google used titles such as Ice Cream Sandwich, Marshmallow, and Nougat in the past. However, that custom was changed with the release of Android 10 in 2019 as the company
Party Thor is back for the season finale of What If…? this week. Marvel posted some clips on Twitter and IGN has an even better look at the hero ahead of a massive episode. Fans had been guessing for a while that Thor’s variant would pop up for the giant battle with Ultron. “What If
“What’s twitching in the corner?” Cary Joji Fukunaga is slumped on a couch in a London editing facility, sipping a smoothie, stock-still except for one Birkenstock-clad foot perched, and almost imperceptibly shaking, on his knee. The 42-year-old director is running part of the opening sequence of No Time to Die, the 25th James Bond movie
Officials said no more oil is leaking into the waters off Huntington Beach, but weather and ocean flows will be key as they try to contain the spill that has already spread down as far as Dana Point. Officials with Amplify Energy, which operates the offshore oil rig believed to be the source of the
After nearly four months without a winner, a single ticket sold in California has won the Powerball jackpot worth $699.8m (£514m), officials have said. The winning numbers were drawn on Monday and the winner, from Morro Bay, matched all five numbers and the Powerball. This was the first grand prize winner since 5 June after
Boris Johnson has said he cannot guarantee that targets to improve rape prosecution and conviction rates set out in the government’s Rape Review will be met. Plans set out in the report, which was commissioned in 2019 and published in June of this year, said the volume of rape cases going to court should return
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