The Port of Los Angeles had its best-ever July, officials announced on Wednesday, Aug. 17, outpacing the same month last year, which was the previous record, by 5%. Dockworkers and terminal operators moved 935,345 twenty-foot equivalent units, the industry’s measuring standard, in July, good enough for yet another record-breaking month — a regular occurrence since
Donald Trump’s social media app Truth Social has surged in popularity following the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate. The app rose 66 places in the Apple App store from number 76 to 15 on 9 August, the day after agents searched his home. They were looking for boxes of classified information taken there after
Former SNP MP Margaret Ferrier, who now sits as an independent after having the whip removed, has pleaded guilty to breaching COVID rules after being told to self-isolate early on in the pandemic. Ferrier admitted she broke the rules by travelling on a train between Scotland and London after failing to self-isolate in September 2020,
China’s Bona Film Group, producer of such hits as The Battle At Lake Changjin, made its debut on the Shenzhen stock exchange on Thursday, with shares closing the day at RMB 7.24 ($1.07). This was a 44% increase from the initial public offering price of RMB 5.03 ($0.74) per share and put the market capitalization
The malware loader known as Bumblebee is being increasingly co-opted by threat actors associated with BazarLoader, TrickBot, and IcedID in their campaigns to breach target networks for post-exploitation activities. “Bumblebee operators conduct intensive reconnaissance activities and redirect the output of executed commands to files for exfiltration,” Cybereason researchers Meroujan Antonyan and Alon Laufer said in
Kelsey Waldon’s highly anticipated record, No Regular Dog, hit streaming platforms this past weekend, and it is a force to be reckoned with. If you haven’t gotten the chance to give it a listen yet, stop what you’re doing, don’t even finish reading this article, and go listen to it. The 11-track album features something
Clayton Anderson is ready to get personal. The country singer-songwriter is set to release his third studio album Made in the USA on Sept. 16, marking what he notes as his most reflective and meaningful release to date. “Every song on this album has a special meaning to me,” Anderson says. “It’s my most vulnerable body
Jamie Foxx‘s 2016 project about two basketball fanatics has been sitting on a shelf for years … and the actor thinks cancel culture is why it hasn’t seen the light of day. Jamie stars alongside Jeremy Piven in “All-Star Weekend” — a flick about two superfans who snag tickets to the NBA event out in
iQoo Neo 7 is reportedly inching towards its launch in China as key specifications of the handset have surfaced online. The purported iQoo Neo 7 series smartphone is said to be powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ SoC. The iQoo Neo 7 could sport a 120Hz refresh rate display and is expected to feature a
A union boss has warned rail strikes will continue until a settlement is reached as the latest walkout by workers caused widespread disruption for train passengers. Speaking to Sky News, RMT chief Mick Lynch said his members were “completely committed to the cause” and would “keep going” in their long-running dispute over pay, jobs and
In yet another day filled with self-owns, Dr. Mehmet Oz put his self-absorption and ignorance on display on Twitter Wednesday evening as he attempted to explain away yesterday’s report that the so-called “two houses” he claimed to own were, in fact, 10 residential properties scattered across the eastern seaboard and Turkey. Oz’s opponent in the
Late one night in 2007, I borrowed my flatmate’s laptop to watch an episode of Friends. Because it was 2007, I was planning to watch it on DVD. I popped open the disk drive, and there, already in the computer, was a DVD of this American show my friends had been telling me I’d like
Don’t Let This Flop is released Wednesdays on all audio streaming platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Stitcher and more. Ever since Gamergate, there’s been a rapidly growing audience of disaffected young men rejected by society, desperately seeking for answers from the latest shaven, muscle-bound podcast guru. More often than not, this guru gives them a convenient scapegoat for their problems, telling
Vaccines helped neutralize the global threat of polio, a dreaded scourge that can cause paralysis and death, but that life-saving drug may have led unintentionally to the virus’ reappearance this year in the U.S. and other countries. A form of the vaccine taken by mouth that uses a weakened live version of the poliovirus is believed
Republican Liz Cheney has said she is “thinking about” running for president in 2024 after losing her seat in Congress to a Trump-backed candidate from her own party. The 56-year-old, who is the daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, also said holding on to her Wyoming seat would have meant she had to “perpetuate
The government has been allowed to keep parts of internal documents about Rwanda secret as part of a High Court challenge against plans to deport asylum seekers there. A handful of charities and several asylum seekers are challenging the Home Office over proposals to provide one-way tickets to the east African country for those who
EXCLUSIVE: Robert Alexander and his company Hardware Studio have signed with CAA for representation. Alexander is an Emmy Award-winning director and producer who works in documentary and narrative, and leads a number of production teams at the executive level. He is the CEO of Hardware Studio, a full-service company that produces documentary, narrative, and premium
In a sign that malicious actors continue to find ways to work around Google Play Store security protections, researchers have spotted a previously undocumented Android dropper trojan that’s currently in development. “This new malware tries to abuse devices using a novel technique, not seen before in Android malware, to spread the extremely dangerous Xenomorph banking
Texas’ finest… Koe Wetzel stops by the podcast for the third time to talk about all the new music he has coming soon, his version of the wild strip club story with Parker McCollum, playing a couple shows with Snoop Dogg, potentially collaborating with Post Malone one day, getting arrested in New Braunfels, Texas, over
Accomplished singer-songwriter Anthony D’Amato yearns for a love that will turn the tides in his aching new story-song ”Ships in the Night,” which is premiering exclusively today (Aug. 17) at The Boot. “‘Ships in the Night’ is a song about longing and desire,” D’Amato tells The Boot. “I imagined a narrator so filled with loneliness that his nightly tears flood