The government has announced plans to remove benefits and step up monitoring of welfare recipients in an effort to bring more people into work. Job seekers will have benefits such as free prescriptions and legal aid removed if they’re judged not to be looking for work under the chancellor’s Back to Work Plan which aims
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Jeremy Hunt has said there is “no guarantee” deportation flights to Rwanda will take off next year – in an apparent climbdown on the government’s position. On Wednesday Rishi Sunak said three times the flights would take off by spring, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling that the asylum scheme is unlawful. Follow live: James Cleverly
EXCLUSIVE: Futureverse, an artificial intelligence and metaverse technology and content company, has signed with Creative Artists Agency. CAA and Futureverse will work collaboratively to create new opportunities for talent and IP, spanning web3, the metaverse, virtual games, worlds and experiences, AI, and beyond. Futureverse has amassed a cultural footprint with global IP and entertainment properties, including
The 2023 Los Angeles Auto Show runs Nov. 17-26, including Thanksgiving Day, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. In the file photo, many classics and new cars on display at the Galpin Lincoln exhibit during media day at the 2022 LA Auto Show, Thursday, Nov 17, 2022. (Photo by Gene Blevins/Contributing Photographer) Here is a
A mother in Virginia has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after her six-year-old son shot his school teacher with a gun. Deja Nicole Taylor, 26, pleaded guilty in June to possessing a firearm while using cannabis and making a false statement while purchasing a pistol. Taylor also pleaded guilty to a charge of
Nov 16, 2023NewsroomVulnerability / Email Security A zero-day flaw in the Zimbra Collaboration email software was exploited by four different groups in real-world attacks to pilfer email data, user credentials, and authentication tokens. “Most of this activity occurred after the initial fix became public on GitHub,” Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said in a report
A funny thing happened on the way to the Colosseum. That unbelievably epic three-minute Pepsi commercial you surely remember from the early 2000’s where Britney, Pink, and Beyoncé at their full-on fiercest joined forces to commandeer the ancient Roman amphitheater with a diva-liciously badass riff on Queen’s “We Will Rock You”… yeah, you don’t actually
Covering Chris Stapleton is a TALL order. And let’s be honest, it’s something not many can do. Even some professionals, we’re talking artists with their own record deals and hit songs, won’t even attempt it, let alone pull it off. However, Cody Johnson is one of the few that can. In a virtual concert performance
Dolly Parton is arguably the most beloved living American. How many people are alive today because Dolly told them to get the Covid vaccine back in early 2021? Of course, she’a a paragon of country music, but her reach goes far beyond Nashville, from the disco pop of her working-woman masterpiece “9 to 5” to
The Qi2 (pronounced ‘Chi Two’) charging standard was announced earlier this year by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC). It succeeds the Qi wireless charging standard, is similar to Apple’s MagSafe technology, which debuted with the iPhone 12 and makes use of a comparable coil for wireless charging and magnet systems. The WPC claimed that the
Hotel Chocolat has agreed to a £534m takeover offer from Mars, the maker of goods from Snickers bars to Pedigree dog food. The UK specialist chocolatier retailer said the offer represented a 170% premium to its London share price of 139p and the deal would allow its brand to expand internationally This breaking news story
The son of a librarian, Chris M. Arnone’s love of books was as inevitable as gravity. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. His novel, The Hermes Protocol, was published by Castle Bridge Media in 2023 and the next book in that series is due out in
A wave of Labour frontbenchers have resigned in order to back an SNP motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Afzal Khan, Yasmin Qureshi, Paula Barker and Naz Shah are among the shadow junior ministers that have defied party orders to abstain from the vote. The MPs say Sir Keir Starmer’s calls for humanitarian pauses
UPDATE: Capitol Police said that six officers were treated for injuries, “ranging from minor cuts to being pepper sprayed to being punched.” In a statement, police said that one person was arrested for assault on an officer. “We appreciate our officers who kept these illegal & violent protesters back & protected everyone in the area,”
Temple Beth Hillel hosts the annual North Hollywood Interfaith Food Pantry Service of Thanks and Giving on Nov. 15 in Valley Village. (Google Street View) Here is a sampling of upcoming faith gatherings in the San Fernando Valley. Nov. 11 Sherman Oaks Lutheran Church: The Rev. Titus Utecht delivers the message at the “Real Presence”
Direct lines of communication between American and Chinese military forces are to be reopened for the first time in more than a year, Joe Biden has announced. Speaking after a meeting with China’s premier Xi Jinping in California, the US president said the restoration of military-to-military communications would help to prevent accidents which could spiral
Nov 15, 2023NewsroomRansomware / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a new technique that exploits a critical security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to achieve arbitrary code execution in memory. Tracked as CVE-2023-46604 (CVSS score: 10.0), the vulnerability is a remote code execution bug that could permit a threat actor to run arbitrary shell commands. It was
Elon Musk, who has steered X (formerly Twitter) into a tsunami of antisemitic discourse since taking over the site in 2022, has now endorsed a post attacking Jewish communities and accusing them of promoting “dialectical hatred against whites.” On Wednesday, X user @CWBOCA, whose bio states “Jewish Conservative from S. Florida,” shared a PSA from
There’s no up and coming band hotter than the Red Clay Strays right now. A relatively unknown band just several months ago, the trending five piece country rock outfit out of Mobile, Alabama has been blowing up lately. The Spotify streams are coming in at a rapid rate, and their social media following has seen