On Tuesday night, authorities reported that a mass shooter had gone on a rampage in the Atlanta area, targeting three massage parlors and spas in the process. The shooter, Robert Long, killed eight people, including six Asian women. The news was met with an outpouring of grief on social media Tuesday, with many placing the
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier is almost here! And you know what that means: it’s time to start thinking about the next project in the Marvel Cinematic Universe canon. Hey, Marvel has no one to blame but themselves for its audience always looking forward to the next thing. You play with post-credit scenes, sometimes
The US central bank has raised expectations of a faster recovery from the coronavirus crisis, signalling it will allow the economy to run hot to drive a recovery in employment. The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate pegged to near zero following its latest policy meeting. But the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) guided,
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to explore enacting a rent freeze on residential units with expired or soon-to-expire affordability covenants like the one at Hillside Villa Apartments, which the city is hoping to purchase to prevent significant rent increases. “The city is at risk of losing thousands of affordability
A man accused of killing eight people at three spas in Atlanta has told police he had a sex addiction and was trying to eliminate the temptation he thought the businesses posed, say authorities. Robert Aaron Long, 21, was arrested and charged after seven women, six of whom were of Asian descent, and one man
The health secretary has played down criticism from Dominic Cummings, who described the Department of Health and Social Care as a “smoking ruin” in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Matt Hancock said the UK’s rollout of COVID-19 jabs was a “huge team effort” by the health department, the vaccine taskforce and the NHS
Korean media group Next Entertainment World has partnered with L.A.’s Library Pictures International, signing a three-year co-financing slate for the production of Korean-language films. A “global local-language content financier focused on industry-leading storytelling,” Library is looking, with NEW, to capitalize on opportunities in the world’s fifth-largest film market, cultivating a diverse set of projects with
Email security firm Mimecast on Tuesday revealed that the state-sponsored SolarWinds hackers who broke into its internal network also downloaded source code out of a limited number of repositories. “The threat actor did access a subset of email addresses and other contact information and hashed and salted credentials,” the company said in a write-up detailing
Amythyst Kiah‘s new “Black Myself” music video finds a bit of universality in her experiences. The singer-songwriter’s new clip shows how the feelings and experiences about which she sings are those of other people of color, too. Directed by Kwaku Otchere and choreographed by Aysha Upchurch, Kiah’s “Black Myself” music video features dancer Des Polk, who masterfully
Samsung Galaxy A52, Galaxy A52 5G, and Galaxy A72 were unveiled on Wednesday. All three phones come with an IP67-certified dust- and water-resistant design. The Galaxy A52 models and Galaxy A72 also feature quad rear cameras as well as a hole-punch display design. Samsung claims that its new Galaxy A-series phones deliver up to two
The stylin’, profilin’, limousine ridin’, jet flyin’, kiss-stealin’, wagon wheelin’ and dealin’ son of a gun, the nature boy himself, Mr. Ric Flair is a… Country music fan? Or at least a Darius Rucker fan. The world-famous wrestler was serenaded by Rucker’s hit cover of “Wagon Wheel” at his own home this morning, and it
The first reactions for Zack Snyder’s Justice League are here — and most are raving about the fabled director’s cut. Even though reactions weren’t supposed to be unleashed until Monday morning, HBO Max gave those who’ve seen the cut permission to talk about it on social; and talk they are. Critics from around the world
Demi Lovato says she was sexually assaulted as a teenager and is opening up about it for the first time, publicly … because it’s taken her this long to process the trauma. The singer made the shocking revelation in her new documentary, ‘Dancing with the Devil’ … which premiered Tuesday night at SXSW. In the
On this episode of ComicBook Nation, we have SPOILER-FREE Reviews of Zack Snyder’s Justice League and Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier – PLUS, we talk to Star Wars: The High Republic Comic Writer Cavan Scott about the future of the franchise! Watch in the video above! There are several additional ways you can
If you knew Rick Singer prior to 2019, chances are good that you worked for a prestigious university or were a very, very wealthy parent. The tall man with the gray Frankenstein’s-monster haircut ran a consulting and college-counseling business called “The Key”; having been an actual high school basketball coach in Sacramento, California, he still
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In his first interview with Time Magazine since coming out as transgender last December, actor Elliot Page opened up about his childhood, his gender identity, and the political climate surrounding LGBTQ rights. Page, who stars in Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy and most famously received an Oscar nomination for Juno, came out as trans in a statement he shared on his
Warning: contains major spoilers for Line of Duty series 5 For almost a decade, Ted Hastings’ AC-12 has been a thorn in the side of Line of Duty’s organised crime group. In series one, the OCG blackmailed DCI Tony Gates with his lover’s corpse so he’d stymie investigations into their money laundering and drug dealing operation,
New rules to end ‘rewards for failure’ in boardrooms are to be unveiled by ministers this week with the release of a long-awaited white paper on audit and corporate governance reform. Sky News has learnt that the consultation document, which will be published on Thursday, will propose a further review that could make it mandatory
For the first time in recent memory, my birthday fell on the day of the time change. As my dad put it in a FaceTime call the day before: “This means you’re going to lose an hour of your birthday. You’ll only have 23 hours.” Hello, officer? I’d like to report the theft of one