Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is an “unjust, unconstitutional witch-hunt”, politically motivated and “divorced from fact”, the hearing has been told. The former president’s lawyer, Michael van der Veen, opened day four of the Senate trial with a blistering attack, claiming the proceedings did nothing to unify a divided America. Mr Trump is charged with “incitement
Over-65s will begin receiving letters inviting them to get COVID vaccines from early next week as part of the next phase of the UK’s vaccination programme, Sky News understands. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has previously set a deadline of Monday 15 February for offering a first dose of a vaccine to 15 million people in
Los Angeles County will again reserve the majority of its available Covid-19 vaccinations again next week to provide second doses for those ready to receive them, with county-operated large-scale sites exclusively administering second doses, health officials said Friday. “Next week the majority of appointments at our vaccination sites will continue to be for second doses,”
Ten people belonging to a criminal network have been arrested in connection with a series of SIM-swapping attacks that resulted in the theft of more than $100 million by hijacking the mobile phone accounts of high-profile individuals in the U.S. The Europol-coordinated year-long investigation was jointly conducted by law enforcement authorities from the U.K., U.S.,
Leher, the social media app that launched in 2018, has started gaining attention among Indian users. It has been considered as an Indian alternative to audio-only chat app Clubhouse that recently gained popularity in the tech industry globally — thanks to its usage by eminent personalities including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Facebook co-founder Mark
The worst GDP since the invention of GDP. By now we’re mostly all familiar with the scale of the economic contraction this country has faced over the past year. We have lived the lockdowns, the furloughs, the closures. Even so, the scale of the fall in economic output still takes the breath away. Image: Bank
2 friends, 1 giant fish, and the photo that changed their world. “Jonah” by Kibwe Tavares Subscribe to the DUST Newsletter: https://bit.ly/signal_newsletter #DUST #scifi #shortfilm Featuring “Get Out” star Daniel Kaluuya. Check out “Robots of Brixton” by Kibwe Tavares here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feTmIdmp0L4 About DUST: DUST presents thought-provoking science fiction content, exploring the future of humanity through
Kameron Marlowe follows in the musical footsteps of fellow North Carolina native Luke Combs with his debut single, “Sober as a Drunk.” The song’s traditional country leanings, clever wordplay and barrel-chested baritone vocals all hearken back to Combs’ early hits — but Marlowe is rapidly proving his determination to leave his mark on country music, on his
Chris Stapleton has got himself a funny one. Back in the 2019… on the Grammy red carpet, Extra host Renee Bargh was fawning over Chris Stapleton’s music, particularly his love songs. And who could blame her? The man is a certified wordsmith. So when she asked his wife Morgane about how amazing it is to
Jeopardy! champion Brayden Smith has died at the age of 24. The five-time winner loved the program from birth and had recently appeared on the show. Jeopardy! heard the news from Debbie Smith on social media. Thousands of fans are flooding into that post on Twitter to offer their condolences. It seems as though the
Play video content @bam__margera / Instagram Bam Margera acknowledged he needs help to treat his manic bipolar disorder … one day after going on a “Jackass 4” boycott rant and opening up about suicidal tendencies. The ‘Jackass’ star said he’s visiting a bipolar specialist on Friday … one day after, in his words, going “bat
One of the many (many!) complaints about the theatrical cut of Justice League from die-hard DC fans was the more jokey tone of the film, which took the characters that previously occupied the grim Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and put them in a movie that felt much more like a Marvel Studios production.
In December 1968, almost exactly a year before the murder of Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton by the FBI, Paramount Pictures released what remains one of the most curious artifacts in the history of Hollywood — hardly a hotbed for radical views of black politics. It is a film titled Uptight. Its subject: a black
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Trump impeachment defense lawyer David Schoen used video of Democratic lawmakers to argue that former President Donald Trump did not incite the insurrection at the US Capitol. #TrumpImpeachment #CNN #News
When Gil Carrillo joined the homicide division at the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department in the early Eighties, his future partner Frank Salerno was already something of a celebrity. He had recently collared the so-called Hillside Strangler, a.k.a. cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr., a serial killer duo who terrorized the L.A. area in the
Can a series be considered part of the Hannibal Lecter franchise if Hannibal Lecter never appears? Picking up in 1993, shortly after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, CBS’s new drama Clarice follows the continued trials and tribulations of Lecter’s most famous foil, originally brought to iconic, Oscar winning life by Jodie Foster
A CHP motorcycle officer and at least three others were injured in a collision on the 10 freeway in Los Angeles on Thursday morning, causing major traffic delays, authorities said. Authorities described the patients’ injuries as non-life-threatening. All were expected to survive. The CHP officer responded to the crash just before 10 a.m. between a
A nine-year-old black girl pepper sprayed by police begged “please don’t do this to me” and “it’s burning my eyes” as she waited handcuffed in the back seat of a police car for 16 minutes, according to new police bodycam footage. Officials in Rochester, New York, suspended the officers involved following the 29 January incident
A senior Conservative MP has warned the government against “backsliding” on the reopening of all schools in England on 8 March and suggested some younger children should return to classrooms this month. Robert Halfon, the chair of the House of Commons education committee, told Sky News of his concerns of an “epidemic of educational poverty”