English sole fish and other marine life have been collected in the vicinity of the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant to determine whether the 17 million gallons of raw sewage discharged in July — and the subsequent release of partially treated wastewater in the months after — will have any long-term impacts on the ocean environment.
A US navy engineer who is alleged to have hidden a memory card loaded with classified files in a peanut butter sandwich before leaving it at a “dead drop” location, has been charged with selling secrets about nuclear submarines. Jonathan Toebbe is alleged with trying to pass information about the design of American nuclear-powered submarines
A minister has denied that the business secretary lied when he said there were talks ongoing in government about help for manufacturers and energy firms. Appearing on Sky News, Home Office minister Damian Hinds was asked if Kwasi Kwarteng had lied when he made the claim about his team being in discussions with the Treasury,
On Saturday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 28 new deaths from Covid-19, along with 1,195 new positive cases. The number of deaths and confirmed cases reported today may reflect delays in weekend reporting. But today’s numbers brings the County to a total of 26,308 deaths and 1,469,790 positive cases. At time
Although organizations commonly go to great lengths to address security vulnerabilities that may exist within their IT infrastructure, an organization’s helpdesk might pose a bigger threat due to social engineering attacks. Social engineering is “the art of manipulating people so they give up confidential information,” according to Webroot. There are many different types of social
What a sight to behold. George Strait headlined week 2 of Austin City Limits Festival at Zilker Park this past Friday night, and as always, he did not disappoint. At 69 years young, the King hasn’t lost a step. And among his barrage of hit songs, George treated fans to a cover of the Waylon
Jake Owen shelves all his day-to-day worries in favor of a carefree good time in “Drunk on a Boat,” a new song that arrived on Friday (Oct. 8). The singer dropped his new track after a sparse social media tease earlier in the week, in which he shared an image of a wild pig standing
This article contains major Lamb spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review here. Who is Ada’s father? It’s the question asked in the very first shot of Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb, as an unseen person (or animal) treks through a frigid Christmas Eve snow, looking for comfort. I doubt I was the only viewer to be suspicious about
Brooklyn born actor Mitchell Whitfield was in his 20s when he took on the role of the best friend Stan Rothenstein — who was one of the two youts behind bars after they were wrongly accused of murder while on their way to college on the west coast — in the 1992 court comedy “My
Huawei Nova series smartphones are set to officially launch globally on October 21, the Chinese company has announced via its official Romanian website. The company had announced a launch event in Vienna, Austria, and at the time, what was being launched was not known. Now, at least the Nova series has been confirmed for the
Bekkah Doyle, right, of the Black Flag Cancer Derby Divas competes in The Relay For Life demolition derby in support of cancer awareness at Irwindale Speedway on Saturday, October 9, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer) The Black Flag Cancer Derby Divas compete in The Relay For Life demolition derby in support of
A three-year-old boy who went missing for four days after chasing a family dog has been found alive in a wooded area. Christopher Ramirez, from Texas, was found on Saturday following a tip-off and was being taken to a hospital for evaluation, Grimes County Sheriff Don Sowell said. He said the boy appeared to be
As energy companies fold and businesses cry out for government help over rising gas prices, there is an altogether different row going on inside Whitehall. In an unprecedented public slap down today, Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, was accused of lying on TV, before the same Treasury source revealed the meetings he said he was
The dish that gives this play its title was, we’re told more than once, a specialty of the late patriarch whose death has occasioned a very rocky family reunion, a get-together where the only consensus seems to be that grandpa’s traditional culinary contribution was beloved more for sentimentality than flavor. And so we’re handed an
Interactive livestreaming platform Twitch acknowledged a “breach” after an anonymous poster on the 4chan messaging board leaked its source code, an unreleased Steam competitor from Amazon Game Studios, details of creator payouts, proprietary software development kits, and other internal tools. The Amazon-owned service said it’s “working with urgency to understand the extent of this,” adding
“Maybe people should stay and fight and take back the schools, which belong to us. They’re ours.” So said Tucker Carlson to millions of viewers on Tuesday night. It was the latest installment of the Fox News host’s months-long crusade against school mask mandates, one that has included multiple calls for concerned Americans to take
A £50m cash injection will enable Liberty Steel to restart production in Rotherham, saving hundreds of jobs. The investment is part of a wider restructuring of Liberty’s owner, GFG Alliance, also involving Liberty Primary Metals Australia. GFG was forced to seek new funding when its key lender, Greensill Capital, collapsed. Image: The Liberty Steel plant
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H to the Damn to the D. I’ve had Hannah Dasher’s major-label debut EP, The Half Record, on repeat for awhile now. And we’ve posted a few articles about Hannah lately, and as I look through the comments I always see people who are discovering her for the first time, usually something along the lines
Elijah Ocean is a relatively new Nashville resident, and his new “Born Blue” music video captures some of his final days in Los Angeles, Calif. The clip was one of his final acts before making the cross-country move. To make his “Born Blue” video — which is premiering exclusively on The Boot — Ocean and