Last week in the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, defense attorney Jeff Pagliuca made a show of remembering to respect an alleged victim’s request for anonymity. He had just begun discussing the first accuser, known only by the pseudonym “Jane” while cross-examining Jeffrey Epstein’s former estate staff member Juan Alessi. Judge Alison Nathan broke in
Mark your calendars: the classic and much-beloved children’s television show Reading Rainbow is coming back in early 2022. After more than 15 years off the air, the show will return to airwaves as Reading Rainbow Live, and it will feature a diverse and rotating range of comedic troupe performers as hosts. The return was prompted
Kat Hasty is really out here “burnin’ it down” with her music… No pun intended. Alright that’s a bad joke, but seriously, it really is incredible to see what Hasty can do with just an acoustic guitar and a voice of gold. Her latest song “Bleed For You” shared a sense of relatability to all
Asda has joined Tesco, its biggest rival, in facing the prospect of strike action ahead of the key Christmas trading season. The GMB union said it was launching a consultative ballot – due to close on 20 December – over the supermarket chain’s decision not to give distribution staff a “meaningful” pay offer. It added
Activision Blizzard is currently under investigation following accusations of harassment, discrimination, and fostering a hostile work environment. You can read more about the investigation here. Hearthstone‘s Fractured in Alterac Valley expansion has just been released, and it’s already clear that the game’s new cards are going to shake up the CCG’s competitive meta. While some
We see a lot of premium flagship smartphones arrive in India soon after they go on sale in international markets, which only goes to show that India is an important market for most smartphone brands. However, there are some manufacturers that have held back on some models in 2021 despite everyone expecting them to launch. These are devices
Play video content BBC Australian actress Rebel Wilson hit a personal goal, dropping over 77 pounds … but she admits her own team wasn’t happy about it. The “Pitch Perfect” star told “BBC Breakfast” she decided to lose weight for her health, but she got pushback from her own management … They questioned, “‘Why would
Thought AI, an adaptive artificial intelligence systems development company, has contributed 1 million of its THT cryptocurrency coins to the recently launched Howard Bloom Institute, an international think tank led by Howard Bloom, the man dubbed by Britain’s Channel 4 TV as the “next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein,
You guys remember Mikey Saber, right? The adult-film actor, blessed by God and genetics, star of The Fast and the Fury-Ass? 2000 movies, 13 AVN nominations, six awards (including Best Oral, which Mikey will tell you he more than earned, because, like, he was doing all the work)? Got 800 — almost 900 — subscribers
Charitable “Better to Give than Receive” event, to be held at the Topanga Mall beginning noon on December 11 Christy’s Foundation will host its Annual Christmas Giveaway in Support of Children in need. Christy’s Foundation will be giving out hundreds of Toys to children. With the theme, “Better to Give than Receive,” this year’s Christmas
CNN’s Sara Murray reports on how a growing number of Trump acolytes who promoted his election lie are running for key election posts across the country and why experts are warning why that could be bad for US democracy. #CNN #SaraMurray #DonLemonTonight
The life of actor and activist Sidney Poitier will be told in a Broadway-targeted play to be written by Charles Randolph-Wright and directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, producers announced today. According to producers, Sidney will dramatizes Poitier’s life from his upbringing on Cat Island in the Bahamas to his rise to become America’s most revered actor and
A new report out Tuesday, Dec. 7, suggests that most Los Angeles families want school leaders to reimagine public education and to not simply return to the old ways of doing things post-pandemic. The report, which lays out the results of a survey conducted this fall as the majority of students and families were readjusting
The US will stage a diplomatic boycott against the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics to protest against human rights abuses in China. Earlier this month, President Joe Biden said the move was something the administration was “considering” but it has now been confirmed by the White House press secretary. Speaking to reporters, Jen Psaki said: “US
Boris Johnson has dismissed claims that the government prioritised animals over people during the Afghanistan evacuation as “complete nonsense”. The prime minister said Operation Pitting, which saw 15,000 Afghans taken out of the country amid the Taliban takeover, was “one of the outstanding military achievements of the last 50 years or more”. Mr Johnson’s comments
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows will no longer cooperate with the House select committee investigating January 6 insurrection, according to a letter from his attorney to the panel, which was obtained by CNN on Tuesday. “We agreed to provide thousands of pages of responsive documents and Mr. Meadows was willing to appear
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in a third-party driver software developed by Eltima that have been “unwittingly inherited” by cloud desktop solutions like Amazon Workspaces, Accops, and NoMachine and could provide attackers a path to perform an array of malicious activities. “These vulnerabilities allow attackers to escalate privileges enabling them to disable security products,
Want to be Snoop Dogg’s neighbor in the metaverse? It could cost you about $450,000. That’s how much one NFT collector spent on Friday, Dec. 3rd, to own a plot of virtual land in the Snoopverse — an interactive world the rapper is developing in The Sandbox, an Ethereum-based platform for creating and monetizing online
I have a troubled relationship with the classics, and from what I see around me, it’s a category of books that readers tend to either love or hate. I can’t say that I deeply dislike the classics, or that I have a lot of strong opinions about them, but from my experience with the classics
New York City Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio defends his move to require all private sector employers in New York City to implement a Covid-19 vaccine mandate by December 27, which would mean everyone who works in the city will now be subject to a vaccine mandate. #CNN #News #NewDay