UPDATED with President Biden’s response: President Joe Biden knocked the Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold voting restrictions in Arizona today in a scathing statement citing “severe damage to two of the most important provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 – a law that took years of struggle and strife to secure.” “I am
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Nissan is to announce details of a new battery ‘gigafactory’ that will enable its Sunderland car plant to massively increase production of electric vehicles. The Japanese manufacturer is expected to claim the battery plant, built in partnership with Chinese manufacturer Envision, will create 2,000 jobs. The government is thought to have provided some financial support
The film and TV industry’s return-to-work protocols have been extended until “a new agreement is reached,” labor and management said tonight as the protocols were about to expire. The protocols were established last September in an agreement between the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers and the DGA, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, the Teamsters and the
Gap is to close all of its stores in the UK and Ireland, the American fashion retailer has announced. The decision comes after a review of its operations across Europe and will see the company go online-only in the markets affected. The stores will shut in a phased manner from the end of August through
EXCLUSIVE: “Silence is f*cking golden,” Ari Gold once said on Entourage. Piven, who portrayed the foul-mouthed agent on the HBO series, has now changed his tune and is launching his own podcast. The actor has teamed up with Kast Media, the company behind The Sarah Silverman Podcast and Welcome to the OC, Bitches, for How
The UK economy suffered a slightly worse start to the year than first thought as households squirrelled away cash during latest lockdowns, revised figures show. Gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 1.6% – compared to an initial estimate of 1.5% – as renewed stay-at-home measures held back business activity and spending, according to the Office
Delia Fiallo, the beloved Cuban writer known as the “mother of the Latin American soap opera,” died on Tuesday, a source close to the scribe tells CNN. She was 96. While Fiallo’s passing was reported earlier in the day by The Televisa network, the cause of her death was not made clear. Born on July
Senior overseas business executives will no longer need to quarantine when arriving in England if their trip is likely to be of “significant economic benefit to the UK”. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said that, subject to business leaders meeting strict criteria, they could “temporarily” leave mandatory COVID-19 isolation for work
HBO and HBO Max chief programmer Casey Bloys has a key message to get across: the storied pay network and the year-old streamer are both on full throttle creatively with ample funding despite all the noise around corporate mergers. “I do think some of those larger business stories have obscured the programming success,” Bloys said
Government must back its commitment to electric vehicles with financial support for new battery gigafactories and manufacturers considering where to build the next generation of cars and vans, Vauxhall’s parent company has told Sky News. Stellantis, which owns the Peugeot and Fiat brands as well as Vauxhall, is currently in talks with ministers over whether
Christina Aguilera has come forward to voice her support for Britney Spears, amid her fellow pop stars’ battle in court to bring her conservatorship to an end. “These past few days I’ve been thinking about Britney and everything she is going through,” Aguilera wrote on Monday, in a multi-part Twitter thread. “It is unacceptable that any
Industries from haulage to hospitality are facing a “perfect storm” of issues creating staff shortages as the economy reopens, the president of the CBI is warning. Lord Bilimoria said the departure of overseas workers during the pandemic, who have not since returned, was among the factors causing headaches for employers. He also said there was
In a first for YouTube, the digital video giant is putting its name on a new 6,000-seat music venue opening at Hollywood Park, the sports and entertainment area in Inglewood, CA just east of LAX. The multi-year agreement follows a similar playbook in Los Angeles and other cities. In downtown L.A., the Staples Center has
Japanese car giant Nissan could announce plans for a battery gigafactory in the UK as soon as this week, Sky News understands. City editor Mark Kleinman said the carmaker’s electric vehicle strategy, tipped to include production of its Qashqai and Juke models at Sunderland, was also expected to confirm the construction of a battery gigafactory.
The BET Awards 2021 air on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET/PT across BET, BET Her, Logo, MTV, MTV2, TV Land and VH1. Taraji P. Henson is hosting the event live from the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles after the ceremony went virtual in 2020. The annual awards celebrate the year in Black music, TV, film, sports and social
A frenzy of capital-raisings by UK-based financial technology companies will continue this week when a prominent London-listed fund manager takes a £75m stake in Smart, the retirement savings platform. Sky News has learnt that Chrysalis Investments, which has backed companies including buy-now-pay-later lender Klarna, Starling Bank, the digital lender, and the cross-border payments app Wise,
Bruce Springsteen woke Broadway from a 15-month sleep Saturday, returning to live performance to deliver an emotional, updated rendition of his 2017 smash Springsteen on Broadway to an audience so wildly enthusiastic the star himself cautioned against “cheering every dumb f*cking thing” he said lest the show last all night. As it was, the re-opening
Portugal, Gibraltar and Israel are among the countries and territories people will be able to visit without quarantining on their return to the UK, the government has said. As England goes into the next phase of the roadmap out of lockdown on 17 May, a traffic light system that categorises countries based on their COVID-19
On Saturday, both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure reintroduced single rider lines for some of their most popular rides, according to a report from The Orange County Register. The single rider option is said to be available for select attractions at Disneyland, including Space Mountain, Indiana Jones Adventure, Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, Star Tours and
A portrait of Prince Philip will feature on a new special edition £5 coin to commemorate the royal’s life. The Duke of Edinburgh had approved the design before his death, the Treasury said, and the coin is now being launched to mark Armed Forces Day on Saturday. It bears the inscription: “HRH The Prince Philip,