The defense has rested in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial. Maxwell’s lawyers called nine witnesses over two days, and on Friday afternoon, Maxwell spoke to Judge Alison Nathan to answer a question that has been plaguing observers since the trial was announced: “Your honor, the government has not proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt, so
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It has been a busy weekend for all things anime, and it seems My Hero Academia has taken over the scene with its latest round of updates. If you did not know, Jump Festa 2022 went forward in Japan a few days back, and the annual event put out some huge anime news. My Hero Academia hit
Each year since 1953, the Hugo Awards have recognized the best works of fantasy and science fiction released the year before. Winners of the 2021 awards were announced at a ceremony that took place during DisCon III, the 79th World Science Fiction Convention, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC, and online. The awards
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria gives his take on why the President’s popularity is low despite the achievements of his first year in office. #CNN #News
You can tell this one means a lot. Lauren Alaina had an emotional moment on stage at the Grand Ole Opry last night as her hero, Trisha Yearwood, officially invited Lauren to become the Opry’s newest member. After surprising Lauren with her dad being in the audience, Trisha had an even bigger surprise up her
Sky is “surprised and happy” at Sky Glass sales ahead of Christmas, the company product chief has told Sky News, but he stressed it was easier to understand the product more as an entertainment platform than a telly. When the hardware was launched in October it was hailed as Sky’s solution to clutter, both physically
This article contains Spider-Man: No Way Home and Into the Spider-Verse spoilers. What was once just a meme has become a fact of pop culture life. Two men who would be Spidey, as originally drawn for the 1967 cartoon series, stare at each other in a back alley. Each points incredulously at the other, as
WhatsApp has a feature called View Once in place for both Android and iOS devices to let you send photos and videos that stay on the recipient’s phone for a single view, and disappear after. It helps you share content which you don’t want to remain available in your chat forever. The photos and videos
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) reacts to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announcing he will vote no on President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan. #CNN #News
It’s been a bad year for the movie business — what else is new? But the art itself is good. Amid yet more proclamations (this time, with good evidence from the box office) that movies are dead or dying, the quality and variety of what’s out there is a fact worth celebrating. And lists like
Matt Reeves really said “come as you are” to Robert Pattinson for his new Batman movie — and he meant it in every sense of the word … because Kurt Cobain is on his brain. The ‘Batman’ director spilled the beans this week in a new Empire interview about the inspiration behind his version of
Vice President Kamala Harris forcefully defended President Joe Biden when recently asked by Charlamagne tha God whether he or Sen. Joe Manchin is the president of the United States, as Biden’s agenda remains stalled in part because of the West Virginia Democrat. #CNN #News
CNN’s offices are going “back to 2020” Covid protocols amid the winter surge, per chief media correspondent Brian Stelter. “Like other major media companies, CNN is making changes due to the new Covid surge,” Stelter wrote tonight on Twitter. “CNN offices are closing “to all employees who do not have to be in the office
Shepherd Church location in Porter Ranch has a Christmas Eve service on Dec. 23, and also three services on Dec. 24. The church’s locations in Woodland Hills and Agua Dulce have services on Dec. 24. Photo, on Monday, August 17, 2020. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Here is a sampling of religion
An 18-year-old woman and a 13-year-old boy managed to escape a burning building in New York by climbing out a window and scaling down a pipe, video footage has shown. The fire broke out on the fourth floor of an apartment block, located in Avenue D, in the East Village area of Manhattan, at around
Boris Johnson’s Brexit minister has resigned from the cabinet and will depart in the new year. Lord Frost quit in a letter to the prime minister last week, but won’t officially leave until January. Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates reports that Lord Frost goes “on good terms”, but he is unhappy with the
The issues with Log4j continued to stack up as the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) on Friday rolled out yet another patch — version 2.17.0 — for the widely used logging library that could be exploited by malicious actors to stage a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. Tracked as CVE-2021-45105 (CVSS score: 7.5), the new vulnerability affects all
On the same day that New York state announced its highest single-day case total of the coronavirus pandemic, the Mayor’s office and the organizers behind the annual Times Square New Year’s Eve extravaganza confirmed that the Times Square ball drop will go ahead as planned on Dec. 31. The event, which draws one million in-person
Spider-Man: No Way Home has finally hit theaters, and looks to be breaking box office records left and right. As it turns out, however, there’s the potential for the film to crossover with Hawkeye should the stars align just right. Spoilers up ahead for both Spider-Man and Hawkeye so if you’re not caught up, proceed
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