Dockworkers at the nation’s largest commercial seaport complex continue battling the coronavirus, even as numbers wane across Los Angeles County — with about 41% of all positive tests at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach occurring in the first six weeks of the new year. There were 590 cases suspected coronavirus cases at
NASA’s mission to search for signs of ancient life on Mars has sent back its first images from the surface of the Red Planet after a successful landing. The historic moment was the culmination of a seven-month journey in space and a considerably shorter trip through the Martian atmosphere. Claps and cheers erupted from the
At least 10,000 children in care were placed in potentially unsafe accommodation including caravans, tents and barges, a Sky News investigation has found. Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that local councils used unregulated accommodation to house vulnerable children – even though these settings were not subject to inspection or regulation by Ofsted. Between January 2019 and December
Vlad Tenev, founder of retail stock trading app Robinhood, told a House Committee on Thursday that “the financial system should be open to everyone,” including frenzied buyers of GameStop and AMC Entertainment whipped up by a Reddit chatroom. He apologized profusely that a funding rule had forced the app to subsequently block share purchases –
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday indicted three suspected North Korean hackers for allegedly conspiring to steal and extort over $1.3 billion in cash and cryptocurrencies from financial institutions and businesses. The three defendants — Jon Chang Hyok, Kim Il, and Park Jin Hyok — are said to be members of the Reconnaissance
SHAREit app has been found to have vulnerabilities that can be exploited to leak sensitive data and execute arbitrary code. A cyber-security software company has discovered “several vulnerabilities” in SHAREit and states that these are most likely unintended flaws in the app. The company says it has informed Google of these vulnerabilities. In India, SHAREit
The chief executive of Robinhood has dismissed suggestions the zero-commission trading platform tried to stop its own users profiting at the expense of hedge funds during the GameStop saga. Vladimir Tenev was among prominent figures involved in the share trading frenzy last month to give evidence to a House of Representatives’ committee investigating any wrongdoing
Welp, it’s gonna be a no from Dolly. Last month, Tennessee State Rep John Mark Windle introduced a bill to bring a statue of Dolly Parton to the the state Capitol Building in downtown Nashville. The idea was originally proposed by Republican state Rep. Jeremy Faison in December of 2019, however now, a bill on
De La Soul is here to rock the house with Teen Titans GO! in the latest episode. The Hip-Hop titans team up with the teenage heroes to get their music back. Weirdly enough, the band had their beats plucked by an alien and the Teen Titans are the only ones who can help them. Now,
Having exited the Marvel Cinematic Universe in style with 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, Robert Downey Jr. has since transitioned to posting handsome photos of himself online to the amusement of his follows. Earlier this year RDJ made headlines with his “new look,” a photo that marked his first new profile image in a while and which…well
Supernova, written and directed by Harry Macqueen, is a moving film about two men, Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci), who’ve been together for 20 years. They are a compatibly tempered pair whose differences only feel like points of affiliation. Sam is American; Tusker is English. Both are artists: Sam a pianist, Tusker a
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Sen. Ted Cruz and his family flew to Cancun, Mexico, he confirmed in a statement to CNN, as a winter disaster in his home state left millions without power or water. Cruz, a Texas Republican, said in the statement he flew down for a night because his daughters “asked to take a trip with friends.”
Texas is currently facing an unprecedented blackout crisis, leaving nearly three million people without electricity during the state’s biggest ice storm in years. Boil water notices have been issued to residents of Houston and Austin, warning them to heat their water due to possible contamination from broken pipes, low water pressure, and offline treatment plants.
So you just used your Mind Stone-saturated witch powers to expand the hexagonal barrier further around your false reality entrapping a New Jersey town. We’ve all been there. Or at least that’s what Wanda Maximoff thinks in the latest clip from WandaVision episode 7. In advance of WandaVision episode 7, premiering tomorrow on Disney+, Marvel
SUN VALLEY — A fire damaged multiple vehicles Wednesday in an outdoor area at a recycling yard in Sun Valley, and a firefighter suffered a minor injury while battling the flames. Firefighters sent to the 11200 block of Vinedale Street at 12:34 p.m. extinguished the fire in 23 minutes, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported.
The US winter storm has killed 32 people and left 3.4 million struggling to stay warm without power. The latest storm front is expected to move from parts of Texas, Arkansas and the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Northeast on Thursday. “There’s really no letup to some of the misery people are feeling across that
Sir Keir Starmer has set out his vision for a post-coronavirus Britain, declaring: “We can’t return to business as usual.” The Labour leader said the COVID-19 crisis had exposed the UK’s “fragilities” and must prompt a bout of national soul-searching, declaring now was a “moment to think again about the country we want to be”.
TikTok and the UFC have set a multi-year partnership to deliver live, weekly programming to the social media outlet. It is not the first partnership between TikTok and a sports entity, but the social media outlet said it is the first time it is working jointly with a sports entity “to create a position/resource dedicated
One of the first malware samples tailored to run natively on Apple’s M1 chips has been discovered, suggesting a new development that indicates that bad actors have begun adapting malicious software to target the company’s latest generation of Macs powered by its own processors. While the transition to Apple silicon has necessitated developers to build