The American Library Association (ALA) announced the winners of the 2021 Youth Media Awards, including the Newbery Medal, Caldecott Medal, Printz Award, and Coretta Scott King Awards, via a virtual broadcast this morning. Here is a full listing of the winners and honorees. The most mentioned authors on the list are Christina Soontornvat, who is
How does Scott Disick, Kourtney Kardashian’s occasionally flirty, single ex and the father of her three children, feel about Kardashian being truly taken off the market by Travis Barker? E! got an extensive update from a source about Disick’s thoughts on the situation just hours after news broke on multiple outlets that yes, Kardashian and
serpentwithfeet has announced his album DEACON with a video for the single “Fellowship.” The track was co-written and co-produced with Sampha and Lil Silva; check out the Kordae Jatafa Henry–directed clip for “Fellowship” below. DEACON, the follow-up to serpentwithfeet’s 2018 debut LP soil, is due out March 26 via Secretly Canadian. “I originally approached this
A veteran rocket from billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX aerospace company launched 143 spacecraft into space on Sunday, a new record for the most spaceships deployed on a single mission, according to the company. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 10am EST (8:30pm IST) from the Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space
Still from Michelob Ultra’s 2021 Super Bowl commercial. Michelob Ultra This year’s Super Bowl will be an extravaganza of first-time Super Bowl advertisers. Super Bowl mainstays like Pepsi, Coke and Budweiser aren’t buying ad time on this year’s game (Pepsi is still sponsoring the halftime show.) Instead, they’re being replaced by companies that had a
Almost four in five of those aged over 80 have received a first dose of a COVID vaccine, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said. Speaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Hancock said the government was “on track” to meet its deadline of offering a first dose of a coronavirus jab to 15 million
ASOS has said it is in pole position to snap up the most valuable brands, including TopShop, within Sir Philip Green’s collapsed Arcadia empire. The online fashion retailer issued a short statement to the City on Monday morning to announce it was in “exclusive” talks with administrators after Sky News revealed details on Saturday. The
Conditions in the city of Manaus, deep in the Amazon rainforest where the Brazilian variant of COVID-19 is believed to have originated, are now so bad that people are suffocating in hospital beds without oxygen. It’s being described as like a “medieval plague” and the fear is that it’s going to continue to spread. With
EXCLUSIVE: Solstice Studios is temporarily taking their Mark Wahlberg drama Joe Bell off the calendar in plans for a theatrical release later this year. The decision, I hear, comes due to the continued depressed state of the domestic box office during the pandemic; this despite this morning’s great news that No. 1 movie chain AMC is
Former US president Donald Trump’s lawyer is facing a $1.3bn (£952m) lawsuit over election fraud claims. Rudy Giuliani has been accused of defaming a Denver-based voting machine company in a “big lie” campaign about widespread fraud in the presidential election, court documents showed. The company, Dominion Voting Systems Inc, filed an earlier lawsuit against Trump
It gets more complicated when we get to the Magneto / Malcolm X comparisons, because from a rigid context of good vs. evil that comic books play into, that would mean that people are saying Malcolm X’s philosophy was more inherently bad or diametrically opposed to MLK’s, and that is not completely true. Yes, Malcolm
Doctor Richard Dang (R), Assistant professor USC School of Pharmacy, administers a Covid-19 vaccine to Ashley Van Dyke as mass-vaccination of healthcare workers takes place at Dodger Stadium on January 15, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Irfan Khan | AFP | Getty Images People who get vaccinated against Covid-19 at Dodger Stadium leave with inoculation
The prime minister and education secretary are coming under increasing pressure to reopen schools. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson is expected to confirm this week that there will be no return to the classroom after the February half-term break and Health Secretary Matt Hancock has already refused to guarantee that schools would reopen before Easter. Rob
Fashion retailer Boohoo has paid £55m to acquire the brand of collapsed rival Debenhams – with the intention of relaunching it online. The cut-price deal for the brand name and intellectual property is expected to result in the closure of Debenhams’ remaining stores, according to a report in the Financial Times which was later confirmed
Hostile states and criminals are displaying a “huge amount of innovation” when using information as a weapon to cause harm, a senior British security official has said. Paul Chichester, director of operations at the National Cyber Security Centre, a part of GCHQ, was referring to the act of hacking private files and leaking them online
The starting gun for Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial is fired today with the Article Of Impeachment sent to the US Senate. Republicans and Democrats have agreed on the start date for the trial – 8 February – but not much else, it seems. The ground rules for the trial are still being discussed. Democrats