A senior state official has become the first openly transgender person to be confirmed by the US Senate. Rachel Levine, the former Pennsylvania Health Secretary, has been approved as the Biden administration’s assistant secretary of health. The vote on Wednesday went 52-48 in her favour, as two Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan
Boris Johnson is facing a Tory rebellion on lockdown rules in the Commons, 24 hours after telling drinkers they may need a COVID vaccine or negative test to go to the pub. MPs are due to vote on extending emergency COVID legislation for six months until 25 September and current lockdown rules into July, but
Cineworld Group today reported its first-ever annual operating loss with the figure dropping over $2.98B in 2020 as compared to 2019. The previous year had seen profits of $724.7M while the period ended December 31, 2020 was at a negative $2,257.7M. The results were severely impacted by the Covid pandemic which forced the group to
More than a week after Microsoft released a one-click mitigation tool to mitigate cyberattacks targeting on-premises Exchange servers, the company disclosed that patches have been applied to 92% of all internet-facing servers affected by the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities. The development, a 43% improvement from the previous week, caps off a whirlwind of espionage and malware campaigns
Singer-songwriter Katie Jo‘s debut album, Pawn Shop Queen, chronicles some of the most traumatic experiences of her young life. Its title track, however, offers a bit of optimism: a reminder that our worst moments don’t define us, but make us stronger. Jo describes “Pawn Shop Queen” — which is premiering exclusively on The Boot — as “an
Realme GT Neo design has been teased by the company ahead of its March 31 launch. The phone is part of the ‘GT’ series that started with the Realme GT from earlier this month. The Realme GT Neo was teased at the Realme GT launch event earlier this month and now the company has finally
If for some inexplicable reason you need further proof that Dolly Parton is an absolute national treasure who must be protected at all costs, I have it for you right here. I was casually scrolling through the internet, minding my own business, when I came across the most amazing video of Dolly I think I’ve
The cast of American Horror Story Season 10, titled “Double Feature”, is getting a little bit bigger. On Tuesday, series creator Ryan Murphy shared on social media that supermodel Kaia Gerber has been cast. Murphy’s post gave no indication of Gerber’s role in his post in which he simply stated “Very excited to announce that
Exclusive Tiffany Haddish has ZERO art experience but that’s entirely the point of partnering up with an org that’ll auction off her painting … with proceeds going to a great cause. The comedian’s hooking up with Painting with the Stars … which raises money to help gain awareness and support for nonprofits that provide underprivileged
Justice League: Justice Is Gray, the black-and-white version of the Snyder Cut, is now streaming on HBO Max as of 12 AM PST / 3 AM EST on March 25. The previously announced colorless cut of Zack Snyder’s Justice League is the definitive version of filmmaker Zack Snyder‘s four-hour and R-rated director’s cut released March
It’s not a news week in the book world without some headline about censorship. Whether it’s about a book deal getting dropped after the author was racist on Twitter or a trans kids’ book getting banned from storytime, there’s always someone claiming cancel culture, censorship, or first amendment violations. So who’s right? What counts as
New York is on the precipice of legalizing cannabis for recreational use. Governor Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers have reached an agreement on a plan to tax cannabis products and license dispensaries, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The agreement, the details of which are currently being finalized, clears the way for a vote that could come
It was shortly after Eddie Huang got out of an Italian jail cell and was in the doghouse with his third TV show that he thought: “Maybe it’s time to make that coming-of-age sports movie I’ve been thinking about.” To hear the 39-year-old raconteur, Renaissance man, and director of the basketball drama Boogie tell it
Earth. Fire. Air. Water. The Legend of Korra, the sequel series to the acclaimed Avatar: The Last Airbender, is getting the SteelBook® treatment! This means all four seasons are available with awe-inspiring artwork by Caleb Thomas. And Den of Geek is hosting a giveaway to celebrate! On each season (book) cover, is a stunning work
There are at least three key messages that come from the store closures detailed by the John Lewis Partnership today. The first underlines the extent to which a hurricane is blowing through physical retail as sales shift online. The partnership, which also owns the Waitrose grocery chain, said today it now expects between 60-70% of
Los Angeles firefighters beat back the flames late Tuesday at a two-story Shadow Hills home well-involved in fire that threatened to spread to the surrounding brush. A total of 61 firefighters attacked the blaze from the ground and the air on the 8600 block of La Tuna Canyon Road, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman
AstraZeneca has defended its use of coronavirus vaccine data after US authorities suggested some results from a large American-led trial may have been based on “outdated information”. The Anglo-Swedish company said the study showed the jab was 79% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 illness and 100% effective against severe disease and hospitalisation. The trial of
For a prime minister who likes to give little away when he appears before the Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson dropped a number of news bombs. The biggest bombshell was that pub landlords may be given the power to bar anyone without a COVID jab in future, in a massive blow to the nations under-40s who
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg laid out his most specific set of remedies yet for how the government should modify Section 230, a decades-old rule that gives Internet platforms like his sweeping legal immunity from all posted content. In prepared testimony ahead of an appearance on Capitol Hill Thursday, Zuckerberg suggested removing the blanket immunity
Charley Crockett‘s newest album is a tribute to his friend and fellow musician, James “Slim” Hand, but his new music video for its song “Midnight Run” turns the story into his own. Crockett admits that “Midnight Run” — a cut from Hand’s 2009 Rounder Records release Shadow on the Ground — remains a bit of a