French actor Gérard Depardieu has been charged with rape and sexual assault, the Agence France-Presse reports (via France 24 and Le Monde). The indictment against Depardieu, 72, was reportedly filed in December, although it wasn’t until Tuesday, February 23rd, that a source in the French justice system confirmed the charges. Depardieu is accused of raping
If you love political mysteries, you’re in for a treat this October when a novel hits shelves written from an interesting new perspective: that of former Secretary of State and presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton is teaming up with award-winning Canadian mystery writer Louise Penny to co-write State of Terror, which tells the story
CNN’s Whitney Wild recaps some of the major revelations from the Senate hearing on the January 6 riot at the US Capitol. #CapitolRiots #CNN #WhitneyWild
Golf legend Tiger Woods was hospitalized after a serious one-car rollover accident in Los Angeles County that required the “jaws of life,” according to the LA County Sheriff’s Department. The sheriff’s department said Woods was the only occupant of the car. He was taken to a hospital for his injuries, the sheriff’s office said. The
Starting in the early 2000s, sports pundits began predicting that, any moment now, Kim Ng would become the first female general manager in Major League Baseball. They floated the idea in 2005, when she interviewed for the job with the Los Angeles Dodgers. It came up again in 2009, when she was considered for the role with the San
If you eagerly wait for the next episode of WandaVision to arrive, motor through it and then jump into the nearest chat filled with other obsessives to pick apart the entire thing and argue over the latest possible theories, you’re not alone: Spider-Man is right there with you. Well, the actor who currently slings his
Mark Rubin, Holocaust survivor, builder of Riverside office towers, townhouses and shopping centers in Riverside, and advocate for a UC Riverside medical school, has died. He was 84. Rubin, a Beverly Hills resident, never lived in Riverside or the surrounding area, but considered it to be a prime location for future Southern California growth, said
The former US Capitol Police chief says he only found out this week that his officers were warned just hours before the 6 January riots that extremists could commit “war” in Washington that day. Steven Sund was giving evidence to Congress in the first public hearing over the last month’s siege that saw dozens of
Scotland’s route out of lockdown will come in stages, with the country’s stay-at-home order set to end on 5 April, followed weeks later by a return to a system of levels. Unveiling the plan, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that at present there is “limited scope” to ease restrictions. She said the Scottish government
Susan Fox will lead The Walt Disney’s Co.’s government relations efforts in Washington, D.C. Fox, who has been with the company for 20 years, succeeds Richard Bates, who died in December. She’ll be senior vice president of government relations and report to Alan Braverman, senior executive vice president, general counsel and secretary at the company.
A new attack framework aims to infer keystrokes typed by a target user at the opposite end of a video conference call by simply leveraging the video feed to correlate observable body movements to the text being typed. The research was undertaken by Mohd Sabra, and Murtuza Jadliwala from the University of Texas at San
OnePlus Nord has started receiving OxygenOS 10.5.11 that brings the January 2021 Android security patch. The new software update for OnePlus Nord comes almost two months after the release of the last Android security update that was rolled out in late December. OnePlus has, however, not provided any new features or notable changes through the
Rates of pay growth are running at their highest level since 2008, according to official figures which also show the first rise in payrolled employment since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported average weekly earnings up by 4.7% on an annual basis during the three months to December.
Kalie Shorr‘s latest release, “Amy” — a vindictive, hard-rocking missive aimed at an old friend who became an ex’s new love interest — officially arrived on Friday (Feb. 19), after an acoustic snippet of the song went viral on TikTok. Among the 2 million people who saw Shorr’s “Amy” video was Butch Walker, a legendary singer-songwriter and
Buckle up folks, Lana Del Rey has officially announced she’s gonna dip her toes in country music. The six-time Grammy nominee is known for her tear-jerking, melancholy pop music, and is gearing up to release her seventh studio album, Chemtrails Over The Country Club, on March 19th. But on top of that, she has also
WandaVision star Teyonah Parris (aka Monica Rambeau) is addressing Marvel fans’ question about that mysterious aerospace engineer. For weeks WandaVision teased Monica’s rendevous with a scientist that could help her break back into Wanda Maximoff’s Hex bubble reality; but when the moment finally came in episode 7 it was underwhelming, to put it lightly. The
After numerous false starts, the Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle is finally going to make his way to the screen again, in a new movie directed by Angel Manuel Soto. The character made his live-action debut on Smallville, in an episode that centered around Booster Gold. Those two characters are frequently found together, and most of
Marielle Heller had tried everything. She was nearly a year into her campaign to adapt The Diary of a Teenage Girl, cartoonist Phoebe Gloeckner’s semi-autobiographical graphic novel, into a play, and she was no closer to her goal. At the time, around 2007, Heller had zero writing or directing credits to her name. But she
Back in 2009, a creator named ONE began a webcomic about an overpowered superhero facing an existential crisis. Who could have predicted that in the years to follow, that webcomic would be remade into a popular manga called One Punch Man? Twenty-three volumes and counting! This version — written by ONE and illustrated by the
Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of infamous drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán “El Chapo” Loera, was arrested Monday in Virginia on charges stemming from her alleged involvement in international drug trafficking. El Chapo Trial: What’s Up With His Wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro? The 31-year-old Coronel, a dual U.S.-Mexican citizen and former beauty queen, was apprehended at