Los Angeles County public health officials reported 5,316 new cases of the coronavirus since Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases to 3,153,690 as of Thursday, July 7. Officials reported 13 more deaths linked to the coronavirus since Wednesday for a total of 32,397 deaths since tracking began. There were 69 more hospitalizations reported Thursday,
Ghislaine Maxwell has officially appealed against her conviction and sentence in the United States for sex trafficking. The 60-year-old was found guilty of luring young girls to massage rooms for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein to molest between 1994 and 2004. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison at the federal court in the Southern
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and his deputy Angela Rayner have been cleared of breaking lockdown rules on a visit to Durham last year, following a police investigation. Both had vowed to step down if they were found to have breached regulations during a trip to the city in April 2021, ahead of the Hartlepool
The U.S. economy added a robust 372,000 jobs in June, as unemployment remained at 3.6%, signaling resilience amid concerns of a recession. The largest gains were in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality and health care. Jobs in information industries increased by 25,000, including 9,000 in publishing. Even with the strong jobs numbers, there
LockBit ransomware attacks are constantly evolving by making use of a wide range of techniques to infect targets while also taking steps to disable endpoint security solutions. “The affiliates that use LockBit’s services conduct their attacks according to their preference and use different tools and techniques to achieve their goal,” Cybereason security analysts Loïc Castel
Where can I get this injected directly into my veins? We’re going way back into the vault today, to the year 2014, when Shooter Jennings teamed up with Whiskey Myers for a face-melting cover of Shooter’s dad, Waylon Jennings’, hit song “Never Could Toe The Mark.” The title track to his 1984 album, it was actually
There’s lots of hot shot guitarists out there, but few bring a deep sense of joy to the table with them. That’s not meant to be a pun, but Joy Clark is literally an artist to watch — not only are her songs a soothing balm to a worried heart, watching Clark onstage is medicine in
Armie Hammer seems to have himself a little side gig in the Cayman Islands — or at least he’s spending a bunch of time at a resort and even giving tours … according to a witness. This photo shows the actor in a light blue polo and blue pants, looking very much like a staffer
Chinese smartphone maker Vivo has asked an Indian court to quash a decision by the country’s financial crime agency to freeze its bank accounts, saying the move was “bad in law” and would harm business operations. In a filing to the Delhi High Court in the capital, Vivo India said it would not be able
Britain’s competition regulator has launched an in-depth study to examine concerns about soaring fuel prices. The Competition and Markets Authority will look at the differences between petrol and diesel prices in rural and urban areas, as well as the growing gap between the price of crude oil when it enters refineries and the wholesale price
Elizabeth Holmes’ ex-boyfriend and Theranos’ former COO Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was convicted of fraud on Thursday for his actions related to the blood-testing company. Balwani, who had initially pleaded not guilty to the charges, was accused of defrauding investors and patients by misrepresenting Theranos’ blood-testing product that they claimed could detect diseases with just a
‘Yu-Gi-Oh!’ creator Kazuki Takahashi was found dead off the coast of Nago in Okinawa on Wednesday after what appears to have been a snorkeling trip. The 60-year-old manga artist was wearing a T-shirt and snorkeling gear, including an underwater mask, snorkel, and fins. Takahashi is best known for his series Yu-Gi-Oh!, which started as a
Upcoming improvements at LAX and the Long Beach Airport — which will receive multimillion-dollar grants from the Bipartisan Infrastructure law — will help upgrade both facilities, create local jobs and solidify America as a leader in modern infrastructure, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Thursday, July 7. Buttigieg, President Joe Biden’s secretary overseeing the U.S.
Derek Chauvin has been given a 21-year jail sentence for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. Chauvin will serve the federal sentence at the same time he serves his 22-and-a-half year sentence on state charges of murder and manslaughter. The former police officer pinned George Floyd to the pavement outside a Minneapolis corner shop for more
Boris Johnson’s resignation has effectively fired the starting gun on the Conservative Party leadership race to replace him. It comes as questions remain over whether his desperate attempts to cling on as prime minister mean he should not be allowed to remain in office while his successor is picked. Tom Tugendhat became the first Conservative
Arizona this week enacted the Arizona Motion Picture Production Program, an annual film and TV tax incentive that will offer qualified productions up to $75 million a year in 2023, $100,000 in 2024, and $125,000 in 2025 and thereafter. House Bill 2156, which will run through 2043, passed the state’s legislature last month. Gov. Doug
Researchers have disclosed a new large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign targeting the NPM JavaScript package repository. The malicious activity, attributed to a software supply chain threat actor dubbed CuteBoi, involves an array of 1,283 rogue modules that were published in an automated fashion from over 1,000 different user accounts. “This was done using automation which includes
It still hasn’t hit me that the Turnpike Troubadours are back together. We’re talking about arguably the greatest country music band to ever walk this planet, behind the songwriting masterminds of frontman Evan Felker. There was a point in time where I truly believed I would never see the day, and here we are in
Austin Burke “Nowhere to Go” Austin Burke is kicking back and taking it easy on his brand-new song, “Nowhere to Go.” As he admits in the all-too-relatable first verse, “I’m getting real tired of bustin’ my ass / This 9-5 life gets me nowhere fast / All the hustling and bustling just trying to make some
This article contains Thor: Love and Thunder spoilers. Even more than his previous outing with Thor: Ragnarok, Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder takes the titular Space Viking beyond the previously established boundaries of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. From wandering across the stars with the Guardians of the Galaxy to coming face to face with