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Colman Domingo will see you in Oz. The Oscar-nominated actor has been tapped to voice the Cowardly Lion in βWicked: For Good.β The announcement was made Monday in a short clip shared by both the movieβs and Domingoβs Instagram accounts, which show the Emmy winner hiding behind an adorable lion plush before the reveal. In…
The UK is ready to spend “well over” Β£100m on a possible deployment of British forces to Ukraine if Donald Trump secures a peace deal with Russia, the defence secretary has said. John Healey also said Vladimir Putin views Britain as his “number one enemy” because of the country’s support for Ukraine. The defence secretary’s…
Staff at the Bank of England are on alert for potential job cuts in Threadneedle Street after the governor, Andrew Bailey, warned of tough decisions about the institution’s future cost base. Sky News has learnt that Mr Bailey informed Bank of England employees in a memo last week that it was taking a detailed look…
There are many stresses that come with being an LGBTQ+ youth: fear, isolation, bullying, feeling as if the world hates you, loved ones pressuring you to change. Those realities come into sharper view in the first release of findings from an ongoing study by the Trevor Project to track the mental health of about 1,700…
This story is part of Imageβs October Abundance issue, reveling in indulgence, maximalism and the deliciously impractical. On a Wednesday evening in August, Celeste Perkins walked into El Atacor #1 in Cypress Park holding a towering three-tiered cake, frosted in American buttercream and airbrushed in oversaturated hues of red, green and blue. Thick, excessive piping…
The armed forces will receive new powers to shoot down drones that threaten military bases in the UK, the defence secretary will reveal. John Healey will use a speech on Monday evening to warn of the growing threat posed by unmanned aerial vehicles following an incursion into Polish airspace of 19 Russian drones in September…
An Amazon Web Services outage is causing major disruptions around the world. The service provides remote computing services to many apps, websites, governments, universities and companies. On Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Amazon Alexa, Amazon Prime, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many others….
Lakers center Jaxson Hayes avoided major injury on his right wrist after a hard fall in Fridayβs preseason finale as X-rays taken after the game came back negative and an MRI scan revealed what Hayes on Sunday called βa light sprain.β The 7-footer missed the second half of Fridayβs exhibition game with a right wrist…
In the opening moments of a new film called βDiamond Diplomacy,β Shohei Ohtani holds the ball and Mike Trout holds a bat. These are the dramatic final moments of the 2023 World Baseball Classic. The film puts those moments on pause to share the long and complex relationship between the United States and Japan through…
The government is announcing the creation of new V Levels qualifications for students age 16-19 in what is being billed as a major overhaul of the education system. The Department for Education says the aim is to give young people “new vocational qualifications tied to rigorous and real-worldβ―job standards”. Vocational education has been “an afterthought…
