LOS ANGELES — Amid a historic drought in California, water conservation rebates were increased by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power today, offering residential customers $500 rebates for high-efficiency clothes-washer purchases and $250 for water-efficient toilet purchases. The rebates were previously $400 for high-efficiency washers, which use up to 55% less water than
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Anoosheh Ashoori has revealed Boris Johnson did not respond to any appeals from his family while he was detained, but since his release the prime minister has asked to meet with him.   The 67-year-old British-Iranian was held for five years in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. He was brought back to the UK last week,
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The IDA has announced the hiring of two senior staff members and a consultant, in what the embattled organization calls “a major step forward.” Arts administrator and film festival programmer Keisha Knight has been appointed director of IDA Funds and Enterprise Program, a critical role that involves interfacing with grant-making entities that fund IDA initiatives.
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A 23-year-old Russian national has been indicted in the U.S. and added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Cyber Most Wanted List for his alleged role as the administrator of Marketplace A, a cyber crime forum that sold stolen login credentials, personal information, and credit card data. Igor Dekhtyarchuk, who first appeared in hacker
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If you ain’t familiar yet, let me introduce you to the next Appalachian country music great, Logan Halstead. The 18-year-old singer from Boone County, West Virginia writes lyrics that are lightyears beyond his age, and you can’t help but compare his sound to other Appalachian greats like Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson, Charles Wesley Godwin, and
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Every week, The Boot highlights recent favorites from country, Americana, folk and everything in between. In every list, you’ll find picks from our contributing team that we think you’ll love. Keep reading to check out the latest installment of The Boot’s Weekly Picks. Sam Outlaw “Lonely Man” Jonah Tolchin “Black Hole” Jonah Tolchin wrote “Black Hole” while regularly
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Hollywood movies are more ethnically diverse than ever according to a new report from UCLA, which found that women and people of color “have made enormous gains” over the past decade in their share of leading roles in top-performing films. UCLA’s “Hollywood Diversity Report 2022,” released Thursday, found that the percentage of leading roles played
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Authentication services provider Okta on Wednesday named Sitel as the third-party linked to a security incident experienced by the company in late January that allowed the LAPSUS$ extortion gang to remotely take over an internal account belonging to a customer support engineer. The company added that 366 corporate customers, or about 2.5% of its customer
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