The year is 1967. Gil-Scott Heron is on the hi-fi, the Vietnam war rages on TV screens, and New Jersey is burning. A Black cab driver is beaten by two white cops in Newark, which sparks protests, violence, looting and, eventually, the deaths of 26 people; the four-day uprising will forever be known as the
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LOS ANGELES — Councilman Mitch O’Farrell was elected the City Council’s president pro tempore Tuesday, replacing Councilman Joe Buscaino, who is running for mayor. “I appreciate the vote of confidence — it’s a great honor,” O’Farrell said. He spoke about the work the City Council has done in the last year and a half of
America’s top military commander has said the credibility of the US has been damaged as a result of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. The admission, from General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was one of a number of significant revelations in a lengthy session with the Senate Armed Services Committee on
Sir Keir Starmer has repeatedly refused to say if he is moving Labour away from the left to the centre of British politics, but insisted: “You can’t lose four elections and not change”. On the eve of his first in-person Labour conference speech as party leader, Sir Keir said he was focussed on turning Labour
Opportunistic threat actors have been found actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Atlassian Confluence deployments across Windows and Linux to deploy web shells that result in the execution of crypto miners on compromised systems. Tracked as CVE-2021-26084 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability concerns an OGNL (Object-Graph Navigation Language) injection flaw that could
LeBron James had been pretty tight-lipped about his vaccination status prior to this week, but during the Los Angeles Lakers’ media day on Tuesday, the four-time MVP confirmed that he has indeed been vaccinated against Covid-19. As for the league’s anti-vaxxers? It’s up to them, he says. “I know I was very skeptical about it
Watching the queues outside petrol stations these past days, one cannot help but be reminded of another moment some years ago when people queued in their thousands in Britain’s high streets to withdraw a crucial resource: the bank run on Northern Rock in 2007. Indeed, there are at least three ways in which this episode
UPDATED with comment from Ozy Media board: Ozy Media COO and co-founder Samir Rao will take a leave of absence as the company hires a law firm for an internal probe of its businesses activities following a bizarre episode where Rao impersonated a YouTube executive on a fundraising call. It said it will review Ozy’s
George Strait is The King of country music. With an incredible 30 studio albums under his belt and 60 number one hits, it’s not hard to imagine how and why he earned that nickname. And, on this date in 1993, he released his 14th studio album Easy Come, Easy Go. It produced four singles for George,
Singer-songwriter Waylon Payne has shared a new song, “7:28,” ahead of the release of his upcoming project, The Lost Act. It’s a tribute to his mother, the late country singer Sammi Smith. Smith’s death in February of 2005 was one of the most difficult times of Payne’s life, he shares. The song takes its title from the time
Back to the Future Part II is a strange movie. As a sequel that director Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter Bob Gale never intended to make, the ambitious follow-up to one of the greatest sci-fi comedies of all time was put into production simultaneously with Part III, which may have ultimately hurt the middle chapter since
Here’s a scary-good deal … Freddy Krueger’s famed razor glove and Michael Myers’ mask can be yours, if you’re willing to go all out for a costume. The folks over at Prop Store are about to hold an auction for some of the most iconic horror movie props ever made — more than 1,000 pieces
Flipkart Big Billion Days 2021 sale is set to begin on October 3 and will be live till October 10. The eight-day event will be the year’s biggest sale by the Walmart-owned e-commerce website. Many brands including Blaupunkt, Infinix, and Thomson have announced big discounts on their smart TV lineups that will be live during the
Jay-Z and Kid Cudi tease a new collaborative track in the trailer for The Harder They Fall, which is also co-produced by Jay-Z alongside James Lassiter. The Western arrives in select theaters on October 22nd and will be available on Netflix beginning November 3rd. The movie, directed by Jeymes Samuel who co-wrote the script with
Before he was an internet sensation for appearing in The Haunting of Bly Manor and Midnight Mass, Rahul Kohli was already one of our favorite actors, having appeared as Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti in iZombie, a loose adaptation of the DC/Vertigo comic from writer Chris Roberson and artist Mike Allred. That comic book role wasn’t going to
Fiction featuring characters working vehemently to bring about positive change has more deep seated impact than just inducing momentary reading pleasure. The takeaways it leaves for its readers have the potential of being the harbingers of social justice and truly delivering the world out of its misery. When our planet is going through so many
A union of 24,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and other workers who say they’re understaffed and facing a revamped pay system that would fuel more shortages announced their bargaining team will vote next month to authorize a strike if needed. The Southern California nurses, pharmacists, rehab therapists, social workers, physician assistants, speech therapists, midwives and optometrists
R Kelly’s trial was the culmination of decades of accusations, pointing to a predator hiding in plain sight. Rumours and allegations about the now disgraced R&B singer date back to almost the beginning of his career – and yet, he rose to become a chart-topper, a Grammy winner, an artist who filled arenas and collaborated
Sir Keir Starmer is being warned that his party’s Brighton conference is “falling apart” following the dramatic resignation of a shadow minister. The Labour leader has been rocked by Andy McDonald’s decision to quit as shadow secretary of state for employment rights and protections midway through the party’s gathering on the South Coast. Mr McDonald’s