A tight-knit Asian community’s Lunar New Year ended in tragedy Saturday when a mass shooter armed with a 9mm semiautomatic assault weapon stalked into a Southern California dance studio, opened fire, and callously claimed the lives of 11 people celebrating the holiday. Among the dead were beloved aunt My Nhan, 65, Lilan Li, 63, Xiujuan
Fraser Returns The Prince Charles Cinema in London screened the actor’s original “Mummy” films on 35mm Brendan Fraser paused his Oscar press rounds for The Whale, and stopped by a screening of “The Mummy” and “The Mummy Returns” in London, shocking fans. The event took place at the Prince Charles Cinema, screening Fraser’s first two
In the wake of the increase in book bans and challenges in school libraries, school librarians are buying fewer books. As a Washington Post article explains, many school librarians are facing new restrictions that make it difficult to get in new books, requiring a lengthy parental approval process (Texas), the principal’s okay (Pennsylvania), review from
A helicopter flew over Alhambra’s Granada Elementary School Saturday evening, warning nearby residents to stay inside. Three miles south, in Monterey Park, at least 11 people lost their lives that night in the deadliest mass event since the Uvalde, Texas school shooting last year. Just two blocks away from the Star Dance School tragedy, sits
CCTV has been released showing a member of the public disarming a gunman in California – just minutes after he fatally shot 11 people at a nearby Chinese New Year celebration. Brandon Tsay, 26, has been hailed as a hero for disarming Huu Can Tran at the Lai Ballroom in Alhambra. In the footage, Mr
Rishi Sunak has ordered an investigation into Nadhim Zahawi as he resisted calls to sack the Tory party chairman over his multimillion-pound tax dispute. The prime minister asked new ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus on Monday to assess whether the cabinet minister breached the ministerial code with the HMRC settlement he made while he was
It was the end of an era yesterday at Walt Disney World as the Florida theme park shut down its popular Splash Mountain attraction to star work on its replacement, Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. The Orlando-area revamp will open in late 2024, though an official date has not been set. At Walt Disney World yesterday, throngs of fans gathered before
Jan 23, 2023The Hacker NewsSaaS Security / SSPM Solution The move to SaaS and other cloud tools has put an emphasis on Identity & Access Management (IAM). After all, user identity is one of the only barriers standing between sensitive corporate data and any unauthorized access. The tools used to define IAM make up its
Gearing up to drop that new album. Earlier this month, Luke Combs announced that he would be releasing a brand new 18-song album on March 24. And he confirmed that it would be 18 brand new songs, not a deluxe album to follow the trend of his last two releases like some were suspecting. Luke
A “WaterWorld” performer at Universal Studios Hollywood is hospitalized after taking a 30-foot drop into a tank, and not coming back up for air … TMZ has learned. Authorities tell TMZ … the incident happened during a Monday show at the theme park. We’re told the performer went into the water — as planned in
Samsung has released a Galaxy Store app update to fix vulnerabilities that could potentially allow malicious sources to install apps without a user’s permission. Two vulnerabilities were reportedly detected on the Galaxy Store by a research team. These vulnerabilities have only been affecting handsets running Android 12 or lower. Android 13 users are not affected
Twitter is being sued by the Crown Estate amid allegations of unpaid rent at its London headquarters. The Crown Estate, which manages a property portfolio belonging to the monarchy, filed a case at the High Court last week. Twitter’s office is based near Piccadilly Circus in central London – but reports have suggested that the
Wendy Stuart and Guest Co-Host Simone Kraus Present TriVersity Talk Wednesday 7 PM ET with Featured Guest Ashley Craig. TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is to laugh and learn. TriVersity Talk! Is part of
Rocky Kramer will be hosting “Lights, Camera, Action!” on this week’s episode of Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays on Twitch. Tune into Twitch on Tuesday, January 24th, at 7 PM PT for this amazing show. Rocky Kramer is a guitar virtuoso, often being compared to the greatest guitar players in the world. Rocky has
Listen, plain M&Ms are, objectively, among the worst candies on the market. They are dry. They are tasteless. With their candy coating removed, they look like something that came out of your third grade classroom rabbit’s ass. And yet, somehow, improbably, the candy you dreaded seeing in your bag on Halloween has become a major
Nick Hakim seems to inherently understand the value of silence, of sparseness. The child of a Peruvian father and Chilean mother, Hakim was born in Washington D.C. and now resides in a quiet pocket of the Ridgewood neighborhood in Queens, New York, along the Brooklyn border. When we catch up over Zoom recently, he’s calm and
The 2023 PEN American Literary Award Longlists have been announced! This year’s awards will confer $350,000 to more than 100 writers and translators in eleven different categories that include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, science writing, literature in translation, and more. The winners will be announced at the Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2nd at The Town
A view from the San Fernando Valley: A large tree-trimming crew on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023, begins cleaning up the remnants of a massive tree that toppled and crushed cars at a shopping center in Woodland Hills. The tree fell on the 23300 block of Mulholland Drive on Saturday. (Photo by Gene Blevins/Contributing Photographer) Community
It is immediately obvious that Monterey Park is unlike anywhere else in California. The small city of around 61,000 people is eight miles east of downtown Los Angeles but could be a different country, with its Chinese supermarkets, dumpling restaurants and shop signs written in Chinese alongside English. More than 65% of the people who
An investigation will be launched into the appointment of the BBC chairman following reports he helped Boris Johnson secure a loan. William Shawcross, the Commissioner for Public Appointments, said he would review the competition which led to Richard Sharp’s appointment while Mr Johnson was prime minister. He made the announcement in response to a request