Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, speaks during an Operation Warp Speed vaccine summit at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images The governors of Texas and Mississippi both announced Tuesday that they are lifting statewide mask mandates and allowing businesses to reopen at full
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Furlough will be extended until the end of September, the chancellor will announce, as he unveils more support for workers and the self-employed. Ahead of the budget, Rishi Sunak has revealed that millions of workers will continue to have 80% of their wages paid until the end of September. More than 600,000 additional people, including
It’s the sort of chance that comes along just once in a blue Moon: a Japanese billionaire is throwing open a private lunar expedition to eight people from around the world. Yusaku Maezawa, an online fashion tycoon, was announced in 2018 as the first man to book a spot aboard the lunar spaceship being developed
The Lyft logo is shown on the screen at the Nasdaq offices in Times Square on March 29, 2019 in New York. Don Emmert | AFP | Getty Images Lyft is seeing a recovery in ridesharing sooner than it had expected. In a filing with the SEC Tuesday, the company said that improving trends will
Love Island star Molly-Mae Hague has been given a warning over social media promotions, after an £8,000 online giveaway was found to have broken official rules. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the influencer’s prize draw, which she held to mark reaching 1 million YouTube subscribers, was not administered fairly. Hague, who appeared on Love
Stephen Colbert kicked off Tuesday night’s episode of The Late Show with a dose of optimism. “Normal life is somewhere out there waiting for us,” the late night host said during his opening monologue. The source of Colbert’s coronavirus-era excitement? More promising news about Covid-19 vaccines. During his segment Colbert explained that Merck will team
UPDATED: Starz CEO Jeff Hirsch said “mid-budget films play better on our service than anything else,” as per the exclusive first-window output deal for Lionsgate and Summit films announced this morning. “Movies are important to our service. Big box office movies drive a lot of acquisitions and conversions,” he said on a Q&A at a
Iggy Pop has joined legendary Hammond B-3 organist Dr. Lonnie Smith for a cover of Donovan’s 1966 hit “Sunshine Superman.” The track will appear on Smith’s forthcoming album Breathe. Listen to their take on the song below. Breathe arrives March 26 via Blue Note. It is the companion album to Smith’s 2018 LP All in
The Ripped Bodice has come out with their fifth annual State of Racial Diversity in Romance Report and, spoiler alert, the overwhelming whiteness in romance publishing that they identified in 2016 has not been solved. The Racial Diversity Report looks at the largest romance publishers and tracks the percentage of the titles published that year that
Cuoco played the late actor’s TV daughter in ‘8 Simple Rules’ and opens up about her final moments with her TV dad.
Check out the new Preacher Season 3 Episode 8 Sneak Peek starring Betty Buckley! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Learn more about this show on Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/preacher/s03?cmp=RTTV_YouTube_Desc US Air Date: August 12, 2018 Starring: Dominic Cooper, Joseph Gilgun, Ruth Negga Network: AMC Synopsis: Annville, Angelville and the Grail
The benefits of running go far beyond weight loss, running long-term can help reduce heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and your chances of a stroke. Not only is running free, but it can also be very enjoyable and will allow you to see areas you usually wouldn’t. We reached out to the experts for their
Disney has done it again. On Monday, reviews for the studio’s latest animated feature “Raya and the Last Dragon” began to trickle in, signaling that the House of Mouse has yet another hit on its hands. So far, the film, which is due to hit theaters and Disney+ premiere access on Friday, holds a 96%
The chancellor will promise to utilise his “fiscal firepower” to protect the jobs and livelihoods of Britons when he delivers his budget on Wednesday. Rishi Sunak will tell the Commons that he will do “whatever it takes” to help business and people through the “moment of crisis” caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a lunchtime
The Microsoft Mesh service provides a way for developers to add collaborative features such as video calling and hologram sharing to augmented-reality applications. Microsoft Microsoft on Tuesday announced Mesh, a service to build apps for people to collaborate in augmented reality. Augmented reality (AR) shows computer-generated images superimposed over the real world, and nearly all
The Isle Of Wight Festival has announced it will go ahead this year, but is moving from June to September following the government’s roadmap out of lockdown announcement. It was originally due to run from 17 to 20 June, just ahead of the date of 21 June given by Boris Johnson as the earliest possible
EXCLUSIVE: Rising Paradigm TV lit agent Ellie Klein is joining TFC Management, the company launched last summer by senior TV lit agents Ben Jacobson and David Stone which represents creators, showrunners, filmmakers and producers. Klein is the first manager hire by Jacobson and Stone. Klein’s departure from Paradigm was amicable, with many of her clients
EXCLUSIVE: Nzingha Stewart, who most recently directed the Netflix film Tall Girl, has been tapped to co-write and direct Badass Biker Chicks of Marrakesh, a film that is being developed by Wayfarer Studios and Ethos Entertainment. Wayfarer Studios optioned the script and will finance the project. Co-written by Lindsay Cohen, the pic is set in
Reggae legend Bunny Wailer has died, The Associated Press reports. Wailer was the last surviving member of the iconic reggae band the Wailers, which he co-founded with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh in 1963. Jamaica Observer reported that the reggae luminary suffered a stroke in 2020 and had been in and out of the hospital since
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