Month: May 2022

Donald Trump has described the most recent US school shooting as a “savage and barbaric atrocity” but has criticised those who have called for stricter gun laws. The former US president was a guest speaker at the convention in Houston of the National Rifle Association, a gun rights group. The convention was taking place just
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After a string of performers pulled out of this weekend’s planned NRA “Grand Ol’ Night of Freedom” concert in Houston, the musical event apparently has been canceled. The concert was to have taken place during the organization’s annual conference. “American Pie” singer Don McLean, Larry Gatlin, Larry Stewart, Lee Greenwood, T. Graham Brown and Danielle
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Jon Pardi brought the heat to the Whiskey Riff Raff podcast last week, riffing on everything from pop country, staying true to yourself, to even where he takes his dumps. And just before he identified Koe Wetzel as the Artist-Most-Likely-to-See-Boobs-On-Stage, Pardi reminded me that summer’s almost here and I am way behind on my Dadbod
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After waging the hospital’s first strike in 40 years, more than 2,000 healthcare workers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and hospital management have ratified a new three-year labor agreement that includes higher wages and increased safety protocols. The agreement was announced late Friday, May 27. The employees — including clinical partners, transporters, foodservice technicians, environmental services
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It was the “wrong decision” not to storm the classroom where a gunman was holed up killing primary school children, a Texas official admitted. The extraordinary admission came on Friday at a highly-charged press conference in Uvalde, Texas, where parents have been demanding answers about why 19 students and two teachers lost their lives in
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EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed up-and-coming pools filmmaker Sam Hayes for representation. Hayes soon will wrap post-production on his debut feature, Pools — a coming-of-age story about pool-hopping that he wrote, directed and produced, starring Odessa A’zion, Mason Gooding, Michael Vlamis, Ariel Winter, Tyler Alvarez, Francesca Noel and Suzanne Cryer. The film shot last summer in Chicago
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Details have emerged about a recently patched critical remote code execution vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine used in Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. The issue relates to a case of use-after-free in the instruction optimization component, successful exploitation of which could “allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of
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