A fundraiser aimed at keeping Mickey Rourke housed has hit the brakes temporarily after the Oscar-nominated actor rejected more than $100,000 from fans and supporters earlier this week. On Thursday, the GoFundMe page had a βdonations pausedβ tag on it while Kimberly Hines, Rourkeβs manager of nine years, addressed the situation in an update. βThank…
π Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app π Former Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt joins Beth, Harriet, and Ruth on this week’s Electoral Dysfunction. As Denmark finds itself at the centre of a growing international crisis over Greenland, she tells us that the country feels “bullied”. Ms Thorning-Schmidt describes how…
A day after a woman in Minneapolis was killed by an immigration federal agent, clergy leaders and advocates gathered on the steps of the downtown Los Angeles federal immigration building to honor her and denounce the killing. Holding printed photos of Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot in the head by a federal immigration agent,…
Calabasas pulled off a huge win in high school basketball on Tuesday night, handing Thousand Oaks its first defeat after 16 victories in a Marmonte League opener. The Coyotes (13-5) have quietly turned around their season after a 2-4 start, winning 11 of their last 12 games. One of the major contributors has been 6-foot-3…
A fibre broadband network provider backed by an arm of Aviva, the FTSE-100 insurer, is in merger talks with a rival amid growing financial pressure on the heavily indebted industry. Sky News has learnt that Truespeed, which has received Β£175m of funding from Aviva Investors, is in discussions about a tie-up with Freedom Fibre. Negotiations…
In between such pistol-packing antiheroes as Bonnie Parker and Luigi Mangione, financially-squeezed Americans rooted for Tony Kiritsis, a working stiff who took his mortgage lender hostage in 1977 Indianapolis, claiming that the loan company cheated him out of his land. βDead Manβs Wire,β the title of Gus Van Santβs wonky true crime caper, comes from…
A package for pubs which could help with business rates is coming in the next few days, Sky News understands. It comes after House of Commons leader Sir Alan Campbell addressed backbench concerns over the hospitality sector, which is facing the end of COVID-era support and a hike in business rates following Rachel Reeves’ November…
Who knew that by βAmerica First,β President Trump meant all of the Americas? In puzzling over that question at least, Iβve got company in Marjorie Taylor Greene, the now-former congresswoman from Georgia and onetime Trump devotee who remains stalwart in his America First movement. Greene tweeted on Saturday, just ahead of Trumpβs triumphal news conference…
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL WEDNESDAYβS RESULTS BOYSCITY SECTIONChatsworth 57, Marquez 37Fairfax 77, Carson 40Foshay 76, Northridge Academy 72Franklin 64, SOCES 41Granada Hills Kennedy 70, Castaic 59LA Jordan 53, Granada Hills 46LA University 60, Wilmington Banning 43Narbonne 65, Dorsey 48North Hollywood 66, King/Drew 63Rise Kohyang 51, Valor Academy 48San Pedro 67, LA Hamilton 37South Gate 48, Orthopaedic…
The board of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has urged its shareholders to reject an amended hostile bid by Paramount Skydance while maintaining its unanimous support for a rival offer by Netflix. A letter to investors said the updated $108.4bn all-cash offer from Paramount, for the whole business, involved an “extraordinary amount of debt financing” that…