A nursing union leader is calling on the prime minister to intervene on the evening of the biggest NHS walkout in history. Royal College of Nursing’s director for England, Patricia Marquis, has told Sky News that so far there has been no “direct contact” with Rishi Sunak despite four previous strike days. “It’s a cry
Google looks set to unveil how it plans to rival the wildly successful ChatGPT AI, possibly within days. The technology giant has scheduled a 40-minute event for Wednesday 8 February, when it will reveal how it is “reimagining how people search for, explore and interact with information”. “Join us to learn how we’re opening up
A US military operation to shoot down a Chinese “spy balloon” that had been hovering in American airspace came at a tense time for the two superpowers, whose relationship has been on rocky ground for years. But how did the US successfully down it with a single missile – and what intelligence are they now
China has threatened “further actions” in response to America’s “serious overreaction” in the downing of a suspected spy balloon. The white aircraft was shot out of the sky off the South Carolina coast on Saturday after days of intrigue, while diplomatic relations soured further between Washington and Beijing. US President Joe Biden ordered the object
LA-based rising star ROSSY has announced the initial phase of her first-ever debut headline tour “HEAVENS DOOR” alongside dance music tastemakers Brownies & Lemonade, ahead of the release of her highly anticipated debut EP, Heavens Door, slated for release on HARD Recs. The tour comes hot off the heels of the success of her December
Play video content TMZ.com Sheila E. says Shania Twain doesn’t need to dwell on what could have been — taking Prince up on an offer to collab on a breakup album years ago — because Shania was right to say no. We got Sheila at LAX and our photog asked her about Shania’s recent revelation
A powerful picture book about the transatlantic slave trade, Kwame Alexander and Dare Coulter’s An American Story opens with a question: “How do you tell a story that starts in Africa and ends in horror?” It might seem an impossible topic to teach children, and yet, as the book’s title suggests, it’s an essential part
In this article AMD AMZN META AAPL GOOGL .IXIC INTC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tech stocks on display at the Nasdaq. Peter Kramer | CNBC The Nasdaq just wrapped up its fifth straight week of gains, jumping 3.3% over the last five days. It’s the longest weekly winning streak for the tech-laden index
Former prime minister Liz Truss has said she was never given a “realistic chance” to implement her radical tax-cutting agenda and blamed what she called a “powerful economic establishment” for removing her from Downing Street. In her first detailed comments since she was ousted from Number 10, Ms Truss said she had not appreciated the
Netflix has said that updated measures to crack down on password sharing were posted by mistake. Following widespread disappointment on social media, with many threatening to cancel their memberships, the streaming giant claimed some new account rules being trialled in other countries had accidentally been added to its help pages elsewhere. While subscribers have been
For beach-walking South Carolinians, it would have been quite the Saturday afternoon spectacle. Two US fighter jets soaring above them, armed with air-to-air missiles. Then a launch. From an altitude of 58,000ft, one of the two jets fired a single ‘Sidewinder’ short range missile. It was 2.39pm eastern US time. Eyewitnesses on the ground in
The US has shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon that had been flying over its airspace. Television footage showed a small explosion, followed by the balloon descending toward the water off the Carolina coast. The balloon was shot down with a missile fired by an F-22 fighter aircraft, about six nautical miles off the
Unwound performing at the Showbox in Seattle, Washington in February 2023, photo by Steve Boyle News Watch Unwound’s First Official Reunion Show The influential post-hardcore band kicked off their reunion tour last night in Seattle By Nina Corcoran February 4, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter After a 20-year-long hiatus, Unwound played the first official show
Derek Blanks In ELLE.com’s monthly series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. This month we spoke to Claire Sulmers, the founder of Fashion Bomb Daily, a go-to source for celebrity style and fashion intel. What started as Sulmers’ online diary
SATURDAY AM: Universal’s Knock at the Cabin won Friday with $5.4M (including previews) and as of this morning it’s bound to win the weekend at $14.5M. Paramount’s 80 for Brady, with matinee-priced tickets in several theaters, did $4.7M yesterday (plus previews), for what’s looking like a $13M start. Some things to cheer about here: 47%
Sixty-seven years after the savage murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi, his cousin still seeks some kind of justice. Haunted by the 1955 hate crime that ignited the civil rights movement, Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr. brings everything and everyone back to life in A Few Days Full of Trouble: Revelations on the Journey to Justice