The newest Los Angeles City Fire Department firefighters marched in straight lines as command staff and family looked on. The 54 recruits completed the training academy and graduated Friday, Nov. 19, at Valley Recruit Training Academy 81 in Panorama City. It took 20-weeks of rigorous training to earn the coveted badge and the honor of
A teenager has been found not guilty of the murders of two men and the attempted murder of a third at a demonstration in Wisconsin. Kyle Rittenhouse, 18, had pleaded self-defence after the widely publicised incident in Kenosha during protests sparked by the shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake, by a white police officer
An ex-Conservative MP who was jailed for sexual assault has revealed he is unemployed and currently making a Universal Credit claim as he was hauled before a court over unpaid costs. Charlie Elphicke, the former Dover MP, was released from prison in September after serving half his two-year jail sentence for three sexual assaults on
Nigerian-American Tomi Champion-Adeyemi, author of the best-selling young adult fantasy novel Children of Blood and Bone, has signed with CAA. The novel was published by Macmillan. Children of Blood and Bone marked Adeyemi’s first novel and is the first in the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy. The novel debuted at #1 on the New York Times best-seller list and
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered as many as 11 malicious Python packages that have been cumulatively downloaded more than 41,000 times from the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository, and could be exploited to steal Discord access tokens, passwords, and even stage dependency confusion attacks. The Python packages have since been removed from the repository following responsible
On Friday, after more than three days of deliberation, a jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty in the homicides of two people and wounding of a third who he shot with an AR-15 during a night of protests against police brutality last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Earlier in the trial, Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge
Ryanair has confirmed plans to abandon its London listing, in a move that will be seen as a post-Brexit snub to the UK’s financial centre. The no-frills carrier had said at the start of the month that it was considering the idea due to a fall in trading volumes of its shares on the London
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Wade Bowen released his much anticipated EP today and it’s as great as we could have wanted. The whole project has a down home feel with the focus heavily on the lyrics and meaning behind the songs. Not that we would expect anything different from Wade, but man is it nice to hear some good
Samsung Galaxy S21 FE has appeared in live images on Twitter, showing off a familiar design and a plastic build on the company’s much-rumoured smartphone that is expected to launch early next year. The images have surfaced nearly a week after specifications and marketing images for the Galaxy S21 FE leaked online. The device, which
This Hellbound article contains MAJOR spoilers. You can read our spoiler-free review here. Heading into Hellbound, I can almost guarantee you could not guess how the Netflix series would end its six-part first season. So many beatings, one precious newborn baby, and one time jump later, the Korean drama races towards its unpredictable, snowy conclusion
Mark Richards, the lead defense attorney for Kyle Rittenhouse, talked to the media following the not guilty verdict, and explained his trial strategy and why he decided to have Rittenhouse take the stand. #KyleRittenhouse #CNN #News
Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who killed two people and shot another during unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was acquitted of first-degree intentional homicide and four other felony charges. #LauraCoates #CNN #Rittenhouse
In his 2014 memoir Black and White: The Way I See It, Richard Williams — father of tennis legends Venus and Serena and a noted celebri-dad in his own right — tells the story of the lynching of his childhood best friend, a boy his age named Lil Man. This was in Shreveport, Louisiana, in
Disney+ and Marvel Studios have released a new clip from the upcoming Hawkeye series, in which Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) and Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) visit Kate’s family…and it’s basically as awkward as you might expect it to be when a young woman takes a middle-aged celebrity home. In this case, there’s the extra wrinkle that
Another stellar October has put the Port of Los Angeles on track for its second consecutive record-breaking calendar year – and has it on pace to combine with its neighbor, the Port of Long Beach, for 20 million twenty-foot equivalent units moved in 2021. The Port of Los Angeles on Thursday, Nov. 18, reported more
Julius Jones’ death sentence has been commuted by Oklahoma’s governor just hours before his execution. Jones, who was convicted of killing Paul Howell, a businessman in the affluent Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond, in 1999, was scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 4pm on Thursday at the State Penitentiary in McAlester. The 41-year-old has
The government was not “fully prepared” for the “wide-ranging impacts” of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report, which found that Brexit both helped and hindered preparations for future crises. There was a lack of detailed plans for shielding, job support schemes and school disruption, the National Audit Office found. According to the watchdog,
Wrapping a months-long process, Endeavor Group Holding has sealed a deal to sell most of its successful production unit to South Korean media giant CJ ENM. CJ is investing $775 million for 80% of Endeavor Content’s scripted business, according to the official announcement, with the equity valuation reaching $970 million. Endeavor will retain 20% of
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has disclosed that an unidentified threat actor has been exploiting a previously unknown weakness in the FatPipe MPVPN networking devices at least since May 2021 to obtain an initial foothold and maintain persistent access into vulnerable networks, making it the latest company to join the likes of Cisco,