Johnny Torres is often the first person at the scene of a shooting in Los Angeles County’s First District. A crisis and gang intervention worker, Torres isn’t there to investigate a crime, but to support the needs of victims and their family members. Sometimes that support looks likes covering hospital expenses. Other times it’s helping
Misleading information about vaccines and COVID-19 on online platforms like Facebook is killing people, Joe Biden has said. Speaking to reporters as he left the White House on Friday afternoon, the US president was asked if he had a message to platforms like the social media giant regarding the misleading or incorrect information that frequently
Asked on Thursday as he announced an indoor mask order if the county might consider re-implementing other health restrictions — such as capacity limits and physical distancing — L.A. Public Health Officer Muntu Davis said, “Everything is on the table if things continue to get worse.” On Friday, things got worse. The county’s average daily
Advanced Persistent Threats groups were once considered a problem that concerns Fortune 100 companies only. However, the threat landscape of the recent years tells otherwise—in fact, every organization, regardless of vertical and size is at risk, whether as a direct target, supply chain or collateral damage. The vast majority of security decision-makers acknowledge they need
Thanks to recent advances in DNA technology, there are more routes than ever to catching a violent criminal. In 2020, the FBI released results of a study that showed the M-Vac, a wet vacuum machine, was more effective than standard swabs at collecting DNA from surfaces like wood or the lining of a car’s trunk.
Kolby Cooper showing us something different. We’re all very familiar with the heartbreak, screw her songs that have put Kolby on the map, but his latest release is a complete flip from that trend. As discussed on the Whiskey Riff Podcast, Kolby is a happily married man with two young children, so the inspiration for
The gang’s all here. Not just LeBron James and a cadre of actors and athletes ranging from Don Cheadle and Steven Yeun and Sarah Silverman and Lil Rel Howery (with a little voice acting action by way of Rosario Dawson) to Nneka Ogwumike and Damian Lillard and Chiney Ogwumike and Kyrie Irving — though that,
Dustin Lynch has just released two new tracks that will get fans looking for a dance floor and someone to dance with. As his current single with MacKenzie Porter, “Thinking ‘Bout You,” continues to rise, the genuinely country “Not Every Cowboy” and “Pasadena” show off a tender side with effortless vocals and romantic stories. In “Not
Tara Strong reacts to fan theories that animated clock mascot Miss Minutes has a hand or two, or sixteen, in the timeline trouble watched over by the Time Variance Authority. Spoilers for Loki Episode 6, “For All Time. Always.” The first season finale of Loki reveals the fan-favorite anthropomorphic clock with a Southern twang isn’t
The following contains Loki spoilers. Marvel’s Loki may have only been six episodes, but it was a wild ride from start to finish, reinventing a fan favorite character, wrestling with complex existential questions of free will and fate, and telling one of the franchise’s weirdest love stories to date. Plus, you know, it also managed
Now that all six episodes of Loki have debuted on Disney+, the streamer has added the Tom Hiddleston-starring show to its official timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Surprisingly enough, Loki isn’t added to the watching order after WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as the shows were released, nor is it sandwiched
Samsung Galaxy M21 2021 Edition launch date in India is set for July 21, Amazon has revealed. The online marketplace has also created a dedicated microsite that shows an upgraded primary camera on the new smartphone over the last year’s Galaxy M21. The microsite also details other Samsung Galaxy M21 2021 Edition specifications. These include
Pubs chains including Wetherspoons have said they will do away with mask requirements for customers from next week – but will still require staff to wear face coverings in some cases. Pub giants including Greene King, Mitchell and Butler, and Wetherspoons, who run nearly 6,000 sites between them, have promised that from Monday punters will
Fifth grade was and remains one of the most memorable school years of my life. I was in one of those experimental classrooms, wherein both the students needing additional help to succeed, including aides, and the “gifted” were together. The dynamics were unconventional, with all-class projects paired with projects given specifically to “gifted” kids to
When they found each other over 18 years ago, Baba Richard and Sri Namaste Moore’s parallel lives were so apparent that “another amazing coincidence” became their mantra. Both were child geniuses, ordained to religious ministries as teenagers, both were strange, passionate about esoterica, and driven to know the unknown. Now they are The Infinite Couple,
People arriving in England from France will still have to quarantine for 10 days on their return – even if they have received both doses of the coronavirus vaccine, the government has announced. From Monday, those who have had two COVID vaccine doses will no longer have to isolate after travelling back from countries on
Days after the 2015 Aliso Canyon gas leak started, Porter Ranch resident Becky Leveque noticed mysterious oily spots over her car and house as her panicking neighbors were fleeing their homes. In the following days and weeks, residents complained of respiratory problems, headaches, nosebleeds and vomiting. Leveque said nobody explained what the community was breathing
Firefighters are battling to control a wild inferno which is spreading up to four miles a day and has left 2,000 people homeless in Oregon. The so-called Bootleg Fire is ripping through southeast Oregon and is said to be the largest of dozens of wildfires burning across the US. The blaze has now torched an
The besieged Hollywood Foreign Press Association has responded to new calls for deeper reforms by putting “several more key pieces in place,” its board said today. The HFPA updated its Code of Conduct and hired a diversity consultant in May after taking flak from many sides for weeks over the lack of diversity in its
Two of the zero-day Windows flaws patched by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday update earlier this week were weaponized by an Israel-based company called Candiru in a series of “precision attacks” to hack more than 100 journalists, academics, activists, and political dissidents globally. The spyware vendor was also formally identified as the commercial