When Elon Musk declared on 4 April that he had become the biggest single shareholder in Twitter there was much head scratching as to why the Tesla chief executive had taken his 9.2% stake. Some commentators assumed he was just having a bit of fun. A few days earlier, he had run a Twitter poll,
Perhaps you’ve heard the news: The big-screen sex scene is dead. Finished. Kaput. Or, if it’s not completely shuffling off this mortal coil, you could say that it’s on life support and being prepped for last rites. This death certificate has been issued before, of course, but given that recent think pieces have performed critical
Two conflicting narratives have emerged following the April 3 stabbing death of Christian “Toby” Obumseli in the luxury Miami apartment he shared with his girlfriend, OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney. While Clenney’s lawyer said she was a “victim of domestic violence” and acted in self-defense, Obumseli’s family and friends have publicly denied this. Some friends of
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Grande Experiences’ “Street Art Alive,” an interactive art installation, opens April 22 at Lume Los Angeles. (Photo by Ryan Lautenbacher/Grande Experiences) Here is a sampling of things to do in-person and online in the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles area, April 14-21. EVENTS Spring Egg Hunt at Victory Vineland Recreation Center: Arts and crafts,
Police in the US have released footage of an incident where a black man was fatally shot in the back of the head by a police officer. Patrick Lyoya, 26, was stopped earlier this month for driving with a licence plate that did not match the vehicle, when he tried to run from the unidentified
The Royal Navy will take over responsibility for tackling people crossing the English Channel from today, Boris Johnson has said as he announced plans plans to fly some migrants to Rwanda. Speaking at an airport in Kent, the prime minister said: “We must ensure that the only route to asylum in the UK is asafe
The Interactive Advertising Bureau has released the full schedule for next month’s NewFronts as the showcases return to in-person mode for the first time since 2019. Amazon, Meta, Roku and NBCUniversal are among major presenters returning to the NewFronts. (See full schedule below.) The series of presentations will be held in person in New York
A U.S. court has sentenced former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith to five years and three months in prison and pay a $100,000 fine for conspiring with North Korea to help use cryptocurrencies to circumvent sanctions imposed on the country. “There is no question North Korea poses a national security threat to our nation, and the
Happy 90th Birthday to the Queen, Loretta Lynn. From Butcher Holler, Kentucky, to the Country Music Hall of Fame, she’s had an incredible decades-long career paving the way for countless other female artists coming behind her. She penned classic hits like, “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)”, “Coal Miner’s Daughter” “Don’t Come Home
Play video content Gilbert Gottfried was hard at work just a few weeks before his death — and we’ve got video of one of his final on-screen appearances … where he looks as spirited as ever. The President of HollywoodOffices, Brad Folb, tells TMZ … his company hired GG March 16 for a Cameo-styled ad
Moto G 5G (2022) alleged renders have been leaked. These new set of images show a similar design as the ones leaked last month. The handset is tipped to get a triple rear camera setup and a hole-punch display with a centrally aligned cutout for the selfie camera. It will come with a 6.6-inch flat
Billionaire Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $41.39bn, a regulatory filing showed. The Tesla CEO’s offer price of $54.20 per share represents a 38% premium to the closing price of Twitter’s stock on 1 April, the last trading day before his investment of over 9% in the company was publicly announced. It comes
Superfly actor and rapper Kaalan Walker once “manipulated” a 16-year-old girl into filming an impromptu sex tape at his apartment building while her mother, who thought her daughter was posing for headshots, waited outside, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday in closing arguments at Walker’s serial rape trial in Los Angeles. Walker was 22 years old
Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count of forcible touching after three different women accused the Oscar-winning actor of groping them at Manhattan venues in 2018 and 2019, Associated Press reports. The guilty plea came after he was arrested after turning himself in June 2019. The protracted criminal case was held up
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Los Angeles County public health officials reported 973 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 2,848,030 as of Wednesday, April 13. Officials reported 11 more deaths linked to the coronavirus, for a total of 31,830 deaths since tracking began. There 14 fewer hospitalizations reported since Tuesday, bringing the total count
A man arrested and charged with a terrorism offence after an attack on the New York subway called police himself and told them to come and get him, officials say. Ten people were shot and wounded, and a dozen others were treated for smoke inhalation and other injuries on Tuesday, when a gunman set off
The government plans to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing in an attempt to tackle small boat crossings in the Channel. Boris Johnson is set to argue action is needed to combat the “vile people smugglers” turning the ocean into a “watery graveyard” in a speech on Thursday. After the prime minister’s speech, Home
A new stage musical co-written by Barry Manilow opens tonight in New York, but the decades-in-the-making project will have to go on without Manilow there to support it: He has Covid. “I am heartbroken to say that I have just tested positive for Covid-19 and won’t be able to attend tonight’s opening night performance of