Virgin Money, one of Britain’s biggest retail banks, is to close its charitable giving arm in a cost-cutting move that risks a backlash from fundraisers across the country. Sky News has learnt that the company plans to announce next week that it has decided to close Virgin Money Giving, 12 years after it was set
James Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, died last Thursday, August 19 in Bethesda, MD. Loewen was a highly respected sociologist and racial justice activist, as well as the author of several textbooks that challenge the white, Eurocentric history taught in most schools. He attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he studied
Arts and crafts retailer Michaels is looking to fill 400 seasonal positions in Southern California as the company prepares for the 2021 holiday season. The local hiring is part of a bigger push to bring on 20,000 seasonal workers throughout the U.S. and Canada to work at its stores and distribution centers. The company will
An extra 12,000 COVID-related deaths have been added to the New York State total, following the departure of ex-governor Andrew Cuomo. Mr Cuomo stood down on Monday over claims of sexual harassment by 11 women – allegations which he denies. He was succeeded on Tuesday by former lieutenant governor Kathy Hochul – the first woman
A charity has raised its concerns about the looming end of the £20-a-week uplift to Universal Credit, describing it as the “biggest overnight cut in benefits since the Second World War”. According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 413 out of a total of 632 parliamentary constituencies in England, Wales and Scotland will see more than
Universal did drop something fresh during its presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Wednesday: the first look at Michael Bay’s action movie Ambulance. In the pic, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Eiza Gonzalez, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Garret Dillahunt, two robbers steal an ambulance after their heist goes awry. Mateen plays a working-class guy with a
A financially motivated threat actor notorious for setting its sights on retail, hospitality, and entertainment industries has been observed deploying a completely new backdoor on infected systems, indicating the operators are continuously retooling their malware arsenal to avoid detection and stay under the radar. The previously undocumented malware has been dubbed “Sardonic” by Romanian cybersecurity
Ron Jeremy has been indicted on over 30 sexual assault charges involving 21 victims, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón announced Wednesday, August 25th. The indictments were returned by a grand jury last Thursday, August 19th, but the indictment wasn’t unsealed until Wednesday. Jeremy also appeared in court on August 25th, where he pleaded not
Full speed ahead. We’re all waiting patiently (or rather impatiently) for new the Cody Jinks, or rather, Caned By Nod metal album coming out soon. It also makes a difference when Jinks’ buddy Ward Davis claimed the album was some of his best work to date. Or “fucking masterpiece” was how he put it. And
Mickey Guyton released a soaring new sample of her upcoming debut album, Remember Her Name, on Friday (Aug. 20). The song, “All American,” recounts country themes, from “a Friday night football game” to “the dust on a backroad,” and the ways they unify people across state lines. “I wrote “All American” with my dream team of incredible female writers,” Guyton
December will mark one year since the second season of Star Wars: The Mandalorian came to and an end, but a new episode of Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian, “Making of the Season 2 Finale,” was released this week, and revealed some interesting behind-the-scenes facts about the series. Fans got to see some new behind-the-scenes footage
While the new Death Stranding Directors’ Cut trailer was supposed to showcase the game’s new items, modes, and missions, the thing that people can’t seem to stop talking about at the moment is that bizarre “whale” creature whose brief appearance has people dreaming of the next Hideo Kojima game. To make sure that we’re all
Letitia Wright was injured during an overnight shoot for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” and while it’s not super serious … it’s serious enough that she’s been taken to a hospital. Wright got hurt in an incident with a stunt rig while filming a scene in Boston, and a spokesperson for Marvel told Deadline she was
When Dylan Penn was 18, she moved to New York City and began interning in the art department of the Lipman ad agency. “I spent two-and-a-half months sourcing photos of roses that would go next to Natalie Portman’s face for Miss Dior perfume,” she recalls with a laugh. “And I realized, ‘I don’t give a
The hype is continuing to build for Jurassic World: Dominion, the long-awaited blockbuster that will culminate the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World film series. While teaser footage for the project has begun to screen in theaters, a lot of it has yet to be released to the public — and apparently, that will also be
Realme GT Master Edition is set to go on sale in India today (August 26). The Realme phone was launched alongside the Realme GT flagship last week. It comes with a 120Hz Super AMOLED display and triple rear cameras. Other key highlights of Realme GT Master Edition include a Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G SoC, up to
UK car production fell to its lowest July level in 65 years last month thanks to the global chip shortage and the “pingdemic”, industry figures show. Just 53,438 vehicles rolled off production lines in Britain, down by 37.6% on last year, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). It represented the worst
I read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation as a sci-fi obsessed teenager, but I didn’t think I was interested in watching the show adaptation … until I saw the recently released trailer. And now, we need to talk. Go ahead and watch it, I’ll wait! The Foundation Trailer [embedded content][embedded content] Can we just take a moment
You might thank Pam Morey for the fact that people in tower lookouts were the first to spot 20 or so wildfires in the San Bernardino National Forest last year — fires you never heard about because they were extinguished before significant damage could occur. Then you can add in the blazes identified by fellow volunteer
A flight from New Orleans to Seattle was evacuated after a passenger’s mobile phone caught fire inside the cabin. Fortunately the phone did not catch fire while the plane was in the air and all 129 passengers and six crew members were safely transported to the terminal, with no serious injuries although two people received