Fueled by a surge in e-commerce spending and the approaching holiday season, Walmart is looking to hire workers for its Walmart and Sam’s Club distribution centers in Southern California. The local hires are part of the mega retailer’s push to bring on 20,000 people nationwide as order fillers, freight handlers, lift drivers, technicians and managers
Police in New York City have released footage showing officers trying to rescue a family, including a two-year-old, who was killed in floodwaters caused by Storm Ida. Officers waded through black, chest-deep waters on Wednesday as they tried to get into a basement flat in the borough of Queens, where the family became trapped. The
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to grant military medals to those British troops involved in the evacuation of Afghanistan last month. Speaking in the House of Commons, Sir Keir told Boris Johnson to accept his party’s proposal to honour the “remarkable” work of those who served in Operation Pitting. Following Afghanistan’s
Rickie Lee Reynolds, founding member and guitarist for Southern rock group Black Oak Arkansas, died on Sunday morning. He was 72 years old. His passing was both confirmed by current Black Oak Arkansas member Sammy Seauphine and Reynolds’ daughter Amber Lee. The Southern rock band achieved commercial success in the ’70s with three gold-certified albums,
End-to-end encrypted email service provider ProtonMail has drawn criticism after it ceded to a legal request and shared the IP address of anti-gentrification activists with law enforcement authorities, leading to their arrests in France. The Switzerland-based company said it received a “legally binding order from the Swiss Federal Department of Justice” related to a collective
On September 9th and 10th, 2001, George Carlin was performing a standup set about enjoying mass tragedies. It wouldn’t be released until 2016 as his final, posthumous, comedy album, but it had a prescient title he’d come up with before the show: I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die. This is just one
Country music has had a longstanding relationship with the working class. The voice of the common man, over the years country music has given us blue collar anthems like Merle Haggard’s “Workin’ Man Blues,” Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” Johnny Paycheck’s “Take This Job & Shove It,” Alabama’s “Forty Hour Week,” and a ton more.
Marvel Zombies are coming to Marvel’s What If…? episode five. Marvel Studios confirmed as much by revealing two posters for the new episode. One shows zombie Captain America. The other reveals the zombified Hawkeye. Tweeting out the posters, the official What If…? account teased, “Assemble the undead. Zombies awaken in the fifth episode of Marvel
The following contains Legends of Tomorrow spoilers Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Episode 15 Legends of Tomorrow season 6 has certainly been a mixed bag. The overarching framework of displaced aliens spread through time never really clicked in the same way that many of the series’ other ridiculous setups did. (I mean, c’mon, they made
Takeshi Kitano, the famed Japanese actor/director, was attacked with a pickax by a man who was angry Kitano wouldn’t help him break into showbiz. Kitano was leaving the TBS studio in Tokyo Saturday night when the attacker used the pickax to smash his car windows and demanded Kitano get out of the vehicle. Fortunately, the
There has been a trend of studios delaying the release dates for their big movies lately, making it feel once again like March 2020. It should come as no surprise to hear that Sony has moved the release date of Venom: Let There Be Carnage again, but it may shock you to learn that the
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 is reportedly getting its first security update since launch. As of now, the South Korean smartphone maker is said to be rolling out the update to Galaxy Z Flip 3 users in Ireland, with it set to reach other markets soon. Two of Samsung’s older foldable handsets — the Samsung
A leading business lobby group has warned the government that the crisis resulting from the shortage of workers in key jobs could take up to two years to resolve, damaging the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The CBI said the impact was widespread – beyond the well-publicised 100,000 shortfall in HGV drivers which has
The ‘Many Saints of Newark’ actor talks about his top-secret audition, working with David Chase, and bringing a Black gangster into the ‘Sopranos’ world September 4, 2021 The Sixties have been good to Leslie Odom Jr. Earlier this year, the Hamilton alum was nominated for two Oscars for his work in the 1964-set One Night
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On a sunny, hot Sunday afternoon, Sept. 5, hundreds streamed down Avenida Del Mar through the hub of San Clemente’s downtown toward the city’s Marine Monument at Park Semper Fi. The crowd chanted, “USA! USA!” and carried American and Marine Corps flags in tribute to the 13 service members who on Aug. 26 were killed
Four people have been shot dead, including a baby being cradled in its mother’s arms, after attacks at two separate houses in Florida which sparked a gun battle with police. The unnamed suspect, who surrendered after being injured during the shootout, was so aggressive he attempted to grab an officer’s gun while being treated in hospital,
Boris Johnson is set to face a significant amount of opposition from MPs over his handling of the Afghanistan crisis, possible plans to hike national insurance, and cutting the Universal Credit uplift when parliament resumes today. In a statement set to be delivered to the Commons later, the prime minister will praise the “courage and
Disneyland released its 2021 holiday schedule last week as the dog days of summer roll into into magic of the holiday season. Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park will kick off their holiday season on November 12th and extend into the new year through January 9th. This will mark the first return of the holiday
Cisco has patched a critical security vulnerability impacting its Enterprise Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure Software (NFVIS) that could be exploited by an attacker to take control of an affected system. Tracked as CVE-2021-34746, the weakness has been rated 9.8 out of a maximum of 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and could allow