Sajid Javid has announced he will not stand in the next general election, saying being an MP had been “the privilege of [his] life”. The former chancellor, who has held a number of senior roles in government alongside his Bromsgrove seat, is the most high-profile Tory MP to decide to step down at the next
As a winter of strike action looms, and a growing list of unions threaten to grind the county to a halt, the PM is under pressure. Rishi Sunak is attempting a more constructive, less combative, approach with the unions. A government source said the meetings involving Mick Lynch and the transport secretary and rail minister
Alan Heim has been re-elected president of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700. Heim, who ran unopposed, has been president of the guild since January 2014. He won an Academy Award for editing All That Jazz and was Oscar-nominated for Network. All of the guild’s other incumbent officers were also re-elected, including Vice
Another 4,744 Covid infections were reported today by Los Angeles County. That’s up from 4,353 yesterday, continuing a surge in daily cases that could soon lead to a renewed requirement for people to wear masks in all indoor public spaces. The county has been logging steady increases in daily infections and hospitalizations since the beginning
Twitter has released a tweetstorm of its internal discussions about its efforts to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story Friday night via journalist Matt Taibbi. Most shocking revelation in the news, being delivered in a series of separate tweets, is that former CEO Jack Dorsey was not aware of the decisions to hold back. Instead,
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisory warning of multiple vulnerabilities in Mitsubishi Electric GX Works3 engineering software. “Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow unauthorized users to gain access to the MELSEC iQ-R/F/L series CPU modules and the MELSEC iQ-R series OPC UA server
Platform certificates used by Android smartphone vendors like Samsung, LG, and MediaTek have been found to be abused to sign malicious apps. The findings were first discovered and reported by Google reverse engineer Łukasz Siewierski on Thursday. “A platform certificate is the application signing certificate used to sign the ‘android’ application on the system image,”
Search giant Google on Friday released an out-of-band security update to fix a new actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-4262, concerns a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine. Clement Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been credited with reporting the issue on
Brian Johnson, better known as the organ-devouring masculinity influencer “Liver King,” has admitted to steroid use in a somber video shared on his YouTube and Instagram accounts. “I fully own that I fucked up,” he said in the six-minute confession. “I am as sorry as a man can be.” [embedded content] The pained statement comes
The human brain is thought to start forming memories around the age of two and a half. Anything that happened before? We’ll have to take someone else’s word for it. Such is the premise for what surely ranks among the strangest TikTok trends of 2022: people trying to convince each other that a puppet dancing
Billy Strings does it again. I am so here for finding videos of Strings once again paying homage to a bluegrass great before him. On deck for today, we have Strings from 2021, performing a tune from the stellar Stanley Brothers at the State Theater in Portland, Maine. The short and sweet two-verse song flows
Putting them on blast… In the era of streaming, with physical album sales near all-time lows and services like Spotify and Apple Music paying artists only a fraction of a cent per stream of their song, artists are relying on touring more than ever to make most of their money. And it’s even harder for
There are NEVER enough murder ballots. Love, heartbreak, jealousy, and someone ending up in a grave are the recipe for the perfect murder ballad, and I will never get tired of listening to them. It’s really country music storytelling at its finest. A tune that perfectly encompasses all of this is The Steel Woods’ “Della
Cody Johnson has released his first-ever live album, Cody Johnson & the Rockin’ CJB Live, and it includes a powerful concert-recorded track of his smash hit, “‘Til You Can’t.” While the studio version of “‘Til You Can’t” packs a chest-thumping punch, the live version takes it to a whole new level. Complete with Johnson’s introduction
Kentucky native Brit Taylor recruited Texas country outfit Mike & the Moonpies for her new Christmas single “Lonely on Christmas.” The tune is an old-fashioned, honky tonk lament about the pain of not having anyone around during the holidays. In the music video, the Moonpies’ Mike Harmeier joins Taylor through her television from a bar.
The Milk Carton Kids are set to release their first new album in four years this spring and are giving eager listeners a preview of what’s to come with their new single “When You’re Gone.” Released today (Dec. 2), the bluegrass-leaning track is a somber number about yearning for a lost love. The narrator laments that
Play video content TMZ.com Comedian and actor Affion Crockett thinks Will Smith has another Oscar contender on his hands for his work in “Emancipation” … and says it would be unfair if the “mistake” of slapping Chris Rock leads to award season snubs. We got Affion Thursday at LAX, where he told us about getting
Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds‘ longtime family home in Central California has a brand new owner … we’ve learned it just sold. Real estate sources tell TMZ … Debbie and Carrie’s ranch in Creston — which is about 3 hours north of L.A. in San Luis Obispo County — sold Thursday for the asking price
When Chris Smith — a documentarian who had tackled everything from Method acting run amuck to a music festival falling apart — was asked what subjects he might be interested in pursuing in terms of a new project, he didn’t mention a “what.” Instead, he gave his producers a “who”: Robert Downey Jr. The American
🇺🇸 1 – 3 🇳🇱 Despite out-chancing the Dutch in Round of 16 game, USMNT’s time in Qatar comes to a 3-1 end The United States Men’s National Team’s time in Qatar has come to an end as they were downed by the Netherlands squad 3-1 Saturday at the FIFA World Cup. The USMNT’s fate