Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in The Last Mercenary. Netflix A handful of decent films head to Netflix this week. Your Wednesday pick is a new original out of Poland titled Bartkowiak. The crime-actioner follows a disgraced MMA fighter who takes over the family nightclub after his brother dies in a […]
Daily Archives: July 31, 2021
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Fiona Howarth, CEO of Octopus Electric Vehicles has warned car firms “aren’t supplying enough” cheap electric cars to drivers with more needed to be done to address the issues. Ms Howarth said firms needed more urgency” to make the switch to electric vehicles. They said experts had already seen upfront […]
Worthington, 25, scored a whopping 97.50 in the women’s BMX freestyle final. The BMX rider landed a 360 degree backflip early in her second round – the first time it’s ever been landed in the women’s competition. This is the first BMX Park event to be held at an Olympic […]
A surging number of immigrant families crossing the border in recent weeks has led to overcrowding in border patrol stations, and many of those families will now be transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, according to two senior Department of Homeland Security officials. From there, the families will either […]
By the end of the U.S. head count last year, the Census Bureau had no data for almost a fifth of the nation’s occupied college dorms, nursing homes and prisons, requiring the statistical agency to make eleventh-hour calls to facilities in an effort to collect information or use a last-resort […]
Charlotte Worthington added to Britain’s BMX success in Tokyo with a surprise gold medal in the women’s freestyle park. The Manchester-born 25-year-old fell after a hard landing early in her first run in the park discipline – two 60-second attempts along an obstacle course of ramps and walls, with the […]
When McDreamy becomes your worst nightmare. Ellen Pompeo recently revealed that her husband of 14 years, Chris Ivery, wasn’t always a fan of Patrick Dempsey‘s character (Derek Shepherd or McDreamy) on Grey’s Anatomy. During an interview on the Ladies First with Laura Brown podcast, the ABC star candidly discussed her husband’s initial reaction to her steamy […]
The ongoing lawsuit against Activision Blizzard has made public some truly terrible and horrendous behavior that occurred across multiple studios and offices. Many women were allegedly sexually harassed, assaulted, and psychologically traumatized while the folks in power at the companies involved seemingly did little to stop or limit this behavior. […]
Nicole Michelle Johnson, 33, of Baltimore, was arrested on Thursday and charged with two counts each of first-degree felony child abuse, first-degree felony child abuse resulting in death; misdemeanor neglect of a minor; misdemeanor failure to report the death of a child; and the unauthorized burial of a body as […]
The recommendation that vaccinated people in some parts of the country dust off their masks was based largely on one troublesome finding, according to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New research showed that vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant carry tremendous amounts […]
Two huge red rocks with ‘complex organic matter’ have been discovered in the asteroid belt that shouldn’t be there 203 Pompeja is about 70 miles in diameter, while 269 Justitia is 35 miles across Both of the asteroids were discovered by astronomers back in the 19th century Experts have now […]
A U.S. Olympic fencer who is under investigation for sexual misconduct claims to have confronted two of his teammates after they stood on the Olympic stage wearing pink face masks in what appeared to be a protest of his presence at the Games. Alen Hadzic, 29, an alternate on the […]
HEALTH NOTES: Having wisdom teeth removed could super-boost your taste buds, study finds By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:01 BST, 31 July 2021 | Updated: 22:15 BST, 31 July 2021 Having wisdom teeth removed could super-boost your tastebuds. Scientists at Penn University in the US performed blind taste tests […]
BP will struggle to emulate Shell’s big dividend increase because it is spending so much on green projects and slashing its debt, analysts say By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 31 July 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 31 July 2021 BP will struggle to emulate Shell’s […]
American superstar Caeleb Dressel takes gold in the 50m freestyle as the fastest man in the world in water storms to victory by half a second but Team GB’s Ben Proud misses out on a medal with a fifth-place finish By Paul Newberry, Ap Sports Writer Published: 02:46 BST, 1 […]
If the seemingly inexorable rise of inflation in the UK and elsewhere in the world is making you wonder where you can invest your money and keep up with rising prices, then gold is worth considering – at least for a portion of your cash. Traditionally, gold has been used […]
Of those 10 positive cases who were fully vaccinated, none of them were hospitalised. All were either completely without symptoms or have mild symptoms. Of the locally acquired cases in this analysis who were hospitalised, one was in the 90s, had had one vaccine dose, one in their 80s unvaccinated, […]
Prolific Native American actor Saginaw Grant of “The Lone Ranger” fame died on Wednesday from natural causes. He was 85. His publicist Lani Carmichael told the Associated Press that he passed away at a private care facility in Hollywood, California. “His motto in life was always respect one another and […]
American Caeleb Dressel has won his fourth swimming gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics with a victory in the 50-meter freestyle. Dressel cruised to a relatively easy victory in the frenetic dash from one end of the pool to the other, touching in an Olympic record of 21.07 seconds. France’s […]
Kris Jenner has ‘drilled’ into her girls that ‘family is number one’, a source tells HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY, noting that’s why Kim Kardashian made a public show of support for ex Kanye in Atlanta. Kris Jenner, 65, puts family above everything — and she’s instilled those same values in her daughter […]