Veteran cook Frank Santos and a coworker who were laid off from Terranea Resort’s hotel last year are returning to work in the wake of complaints filed against the resort with California’s labor commissioner, but Santos says he’s lost his seniority and is taking a $2-an-hour pay cut. In filings last month, Santos, fellow cook
President Joe Biden has told US citizens stuck in Afghanistan and allies who worked alongside American forces “we will get you home”, but admitted he cannot promise what the “final outcome” of the troop withdrawal will be. In a news conference at the White House, he admitted images of people desperately trying to flee the
Boris Johnson says he “absolutely” has confidence in Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab – and insisted the government is working “virtually round the clock” to help evacuate people from Afghanistan. Speaking after a meeting of the government’s emergency COBRA committee on Friday afternoon, Mr Johnson dismissed criticism of Mr Raab’s summer holiday as Afghanistan’s capital Kabul
Signature Theatre, one of New York’s premiere Off Broadway venues, has postponed its fall production of Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Baker’s Infinite Life due to “ongoing health and safety concerns.” The production – the last of three plays in Baker’s residency with the company – was to have opened Oct. 5, but Signature announced the
Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack recorded to date. The attack, launched via a Mirai botnet, is said to have targeted an unnamed customer in the financial industry last month. “Within seconds, the botnet bombarded the Cloudflare edge
When you’re executed in Oklahoma, the process begins 35 days before your death, according to inmate Richard Glossip. First, they take your belongings, then they transfer you to a block of four cells called Death Watch. If you’re the only one on the block, they put you in the first cell, where you’ll stay for
Songwriter and country music legend Tom T. Hall has reportedly passed away today. He was 85. One of the best to ever play the game, Tom was responsible for writing hit songs like “Harper Valley PTA,” “I Like Beer,” ‘That’s How I Got To Memphis,” “Little Bitty,” and more. The Olive Hill, Kentucky, native had
“One Mississippi” may be Kane Brown‘s new radio single, but it was a particularly life-changing song for his co-writer, Levon Gray. The Alabama native tagged Brown in an Instagram Story and wound up signed to Brown’s Verse 2 Music. It wasn’t quite that easy, of course — Brown was impressed with what he heard on the
It’s the beginning of the end for The Walking Dead, but there’s a half-season still to shoot before the zombie drama wraps with its series finale in 2022. Filming on the eleventh and final season, premiering August 22 on AMC, has been underway since February in Senoia, Georgia, weeks before The Walking Dead returned with
Although it’s common for any show to shift its characters into new arcs from year to year, The Witcher season 2 is about to completely alter the lives portrayed on screen for a couple of its most important characters. Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich spoke to reporters along with Anya Chalotra and Freya Allan, who play
Channing Tatum and Zoe Kravitz look like they’re about to take their rumored relationship to the next level … because they’re packing up and shipping out of New York … together. The duo, who were first seen in public together this week after tons of dating rumors, grabbed their bags Friday and hopped in a
Pre-production on Rob Zombie‘s big screen reboot of The Munsters continues and another update from the set has arrived in the form of construction on the family’s iconic home. Zombie took to social media to reveal the progress made on 1313 Mockingbird Lane for the new film, showing off the skeleton of the house that’s
Infinix Smart 5A is the latest addition to the Smart series, and is the successor to the infinix Smart 5. The Smart 5A is a budget Android smartphone that is aimed at the entry-level market. Infinix has also partnered with Reliance Jio to offer benefits with the Smart 5A, effectively reducing the cost of the
The $40bn takeover of UK chip designer Arm Holdings by US tech giant Nvidia faces an in-depth probe after regulators found the deal could weaken rivals and stifle innovation. Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it could ultimately mean more expensive or lower quality products in cutting edge technologies. These include fields such as
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is an organization found in Scotland in 1927, and it’s considered the “global voice of the library and information profession.” Each year, they announce a The Public Library of the Year at their annual conference, recognizing a new library that “best combines open, functional architecture with
CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports from the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, where hundreds of people wait for flights to evacuate the country after the Taliban’s takeover. #CNN #News
President Joe Biden speaks about US military evacuations of American citizens, Special Immigrant Visa applicants and vulnerable Afghans as chaos continues around the Kabul airport. #CNN #News
As The Simonetta Lein Show premieres its 3rd season finale, the show welcomes American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur, Ceelo Green. You all know the Grammy award-winning artist for the hit tracks “Fool for You”, and of course one of the most famous songs of contemporary music, “Fuck You.” Ceelo has worked with industry
An Afghan interpreter who became a US citizen after years of working with the US military in Afghanistan talks to CNN’s Brianna Keilar about the struggle to get his family out of Kabul. #BriannaKeilar #CNN #NewDay
Sonny Chiba, the Japanese martial artist and actor best known to American audiences for his role in Kill Bill, has died at the age of 82. Star of films like 1974’s The Street Fighter and 1976’s Karate Warriors, Chiba died from pneumonia caused by Covid-19, his agent confirmed to Variety. The actor had been hospitalized