The chancellor is putting the finishing touches to his budget, after the Commons speaker again hit out at policies being trailed ahead of Rishi Sunak’s address to MPs on Wednesday. Sir Lindsay Hoyle accused the government of displaying “discourteous” behaviour” towards MPs by announcing many key elements of the chancellor‘s budget ahead of time. Extra
EXCLUSIVE: Grandview has hired former Gotham Group and Anonymous Content manager Tara Timinsky. Timinsky joins from Gotham. Among the writer and journalist clients coming with her are author, producer and trans advocate Geena Rocero, Brian Broome, who was most recently named a finalist for the Kirkus Nonfiction Prize for his memoir Punch Me Up To
A global fraud campaign has been found leveraging 151 malicious Android apps with 10.5 million downloads to rope users into premium subscription services without their consent and knowledge. The premium SMS scam campaign — dubbed “UltimaSMS” — is believed to commenced in May 2021 and involved apps that cover a wide range of categories, including
A lawyer for Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman argued that the drug kingpin deserves a new trial, primarily based on a report of alleged jury misconduct. Guzman’s lawyer, Marc Fernich, made his argument before a three-panel judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Monday, October 25th. The appeal had been in the works essentially since
Heathrow’s chief executive says the airport is “on the cusp of a recovery” as it posts its first full quarter of passenger growth since 2019. Britain’s busiest airport benefitted from strong pent-up demand for travel as pandemic-related restrictions continue to ease around the world. Passenger numbers in the third financial quarter recovered to 28% and
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At least five former staffers from Donald Trump’s administration have voluntarily spoken with the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and John King discuss. #CNN #News
Riley Green is back at it again. He stuck another absolute unit of a buck with his bow and arrow down in Louisiana. This time of year, if Green’s not picking guitar strings, he’s pulling back a bowstring and letting arrows fly at big bucks like this. For the second time in two weeks, he has
Pistol Annies have returned to the scene in the holiday spirit with their newest album Hell of a Holiday, which includes the playful song “Come on Christmas Time.” The song begins with “Lone Star Annie” Miranda Lambert delivering a flirty first verse: “I’ve got a crush on Santa / I wanna ride his sleigh / He’s got
Photoshop and Illustrator are getting greater interoperability and tons of new features to enhance your creativity, Adobe announced. It announced the updates to Photoshop and Illustrator at its Max 2021 virtual conference on Tuesday. Alongside Photoshop and Illustrator, Adobe updated Fresco with a Motion feature. Lightroom has also added premium preset packs, while After Effects
Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead universe is expanding, and not in all the ways you expect. The first movie, which involved time loops, robots, aliens, and even copulating zombies, unsurprisingly left viewers with lots of questions, but don’t expect this universe’s sophomore outing to deliver any of the answers you’re looking for. Instead, Army
Iman Shumpert not only wowed the judges on “Dancing With The Stars” on Monday, he also impressed his good friend LeBron James … who went crazy after his ex-teammate got a perfect score!! Shump and partner Daniella Karagach had an incredible routine based on the Jordan Peele flick “Us” for the ‘DWTS’ horror-themed show …
Crew members on the set of “Rust” reportedly used guns with live ammunition and engaged in a pastime called “plinking” hours before Halyna Hutchins was killed while Alec Baldwin was rehearsing a shooting scene, founder and CEO of The Wrap, Sharon Waxman, told CNN’s Don Lemon Monday night, citing information from an individual with knowledge
CNN’s Elle Reeve revisits Charlottesville, Virginia five years after the “Unite the Right” rally. The civil trial against the rally’s organizers has begun jury selection and will decide whether the organizers had predetermined the event would turn violent. #CNN #News
Aquaman: King of Atlantis has been quite the interesting ride. The animated trilogy started off strong and immediately made waves with its new take on Aquaman (that’s being produced with the help of the current live-action director behind the Aquaman films, James Wan). It put Arthur Curry in the center of a new kind of universe
The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will soon hit ocean carriers with potentially hefty fees for cargo containers that remain too long at terminals, marking yet another major effort to solve a supply chain backlog that has seen freighters spend days at sea waiting to dock, empty containers blocking streets in nearby Wilmington
Prince Andrew must be questioned under oath by Virginia Giuffre’s lawyers in her civil sexual assault case by mid-July next year, a US judge has ruled. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan set the deadline of 14 July 2022 to complete depositions in a scheduling order agreed to by lawyers for Andrew and Ms Giuffre
Millions of nurses, teachers and members of the armed forces will receive a pay rise next April as Rishi Sunak unfreezes public sector pay in the budget. In his second pay giveaway in 24 hours, after announcing a rise in the national living wage, the chancellor confirmed he is ending a one-year COVID freeze imposed
UPDATED: Less than a week after his team’s games were pulled from Tencent-run streaming platforms in China over his criticism of the country’s treatment of Tibetans, Boston Celtics Center Enes Kanter upped the ante, calling out the country and Nike over treatment of ethnic minority Uigher workers in factories there. “Dear @Nike,” tweeted Kanter today,
The average cost of a data breach, according to the latest research by IBM, now stands at USD 4.24 million, the highest reported. The leading cause? Compromised credentials, often caused by human error. Although these findings continue to show an upward trend in the wrong direction, the challenge itself is not new. What is new