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A demonstration on Sunset Boulevard started off an awards show filled with nods to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict The 2024 Academy Awards got to a late start on Sunday, after hundreds of protestors shut down a section of Sunset Boulevard— starting off an awards show filled with nods to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. Pro-Palestinian protestors reportedly blocked Sunset Boulevard with Palestinian flags and signs, some including some that said “No awards for genocide” and “Lives have…

Oscars 2024 live updates: Best Actress nominee Emma Stone arrives at the Oscars.Oscars 2024 live updates: Jamie Lee Curtis, Rita Moreno, Simu Liu and other stars gathered on Sunday to celebrate the best performances in film at the annual Academy Awards, a ceremony expected to turn into a toast to blockbuster atomic bomb drama Oppenheimer. Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel was set to return for the fourth time to emcee the film industry's highest honors from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The live broadcast on ABC starts at 4…

“His smile is the best,” gushes a caption on a Dec. 26 video of a young man with the physique of a lightweight boxer, a square jaw, and close-cropped dark hair. As he stands on Hollywood Boulevard, the man looks like virtually any other aspiring model or actor trying to eke out a living in Los Angeles; the only distinction is his crisply starched white shirt, tie, and vest, which makes him look like a cast member from the Book of Mormon. The man in the video, identified only as Sebastian, is a member of the Church…

The city of New York is nearing a settlement to pay $13.7 million as part of a class action lawsuit brought forth by nearly 1,400 people involved in the George Floyd protests. The settlement, filed Wednesday in a Manhattan federal court and pending a judge’s approval, would pay roughly $9,950 apiece to 1,380 protestors who “were arrested and/or subjected to force by NYPD officers” and had their First Amendment rights suppressed in late May and early June 2020. In total, the NYPD made over 2,000…

If you thought Fox News would take a new direction in prime time following the ouster of conservative provocateur Tucker Carlson, the choice for fill-in host in the hour next week suggests otherwise.Kayleigh McEnany, who served 10 months as press secretary in the Trump administration, is getting a weeklong tryout in the high profile 8 p.m. Eastern hour starting Monday. The network is searching for a replacement for Carlson, who was fired April 24 amid revelations that he made racist comments, promoted a conspiracy about…

Police charged twenty-three additional people with domestic terrorism felonies in Atlanta, Georgia this week, after arresting dozens in alleged association with ongoing protests against the construction of a planned police training facility. The reasoning for these new, hefty charges: dirty shoes, according to a report published Wednesday night from the Intercept.In the arrest warrants, referenced by defense attorney Eli Bennet during a Tuesday hearing, police cited the mud present on some of the defendants’ footwear as…

Austin Ramzy / Wall Street Journal: After China lifted its COVID-19 rules, leading to surging cases, social media censors relax some rules, allowing criticism of protestors but not the government — Protesters, public-health experts targeted for country's sudden about-face as infections explode, but leader Xi Jinping remains unscathed Austin Ramzy / Wall Street Journal: After China lifted its COVID-19 rules, leading to surging cases, social media censors relax some rules, allowing criticism of…

By Scott Wiener, a California state senator who represents San Francisco and northern San Mateo County.A mere day after Elon Musk reactivated Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account, she tweeted that I’m a “communist groomer,” presumably because I’m a gay Jewish Democratic elected official from San Francisco. In the past when Greene has gone after me with homophobic or transphobic tropes, I’ve received increased abuse on social media, but this was an escalation beyond what I’m used to. And that escalation, which…

Apple has reportedly altered the way AirDrop works in China in an attempt to limit the spread of posters opposing Xi Jinping and the Chinese government. The change will also be rolled out to international iPhones in the coming year, Apple says.The change will limit the amount of time an iPhone can receive files from anyone over AirDrop to just 10 minutes. Previously, there was no time limit.Time outBloomberg reports that the iOS 16.1.1 update added the tweak to Chinese iPhones this week. Once the ten-minute time limit…

Police officers stand around climate protection demonstrator Aimée van Baalen (22) on Wexstraße. She belongs to the group "Last Generation". After a long break, activists have now blocked numerous streets in the city today.Paul Zinken | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesPolice have arrested two climate activists who threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a museum in Germany to protest fossil fuel production, a stunt which caused no damage to the art.The protestors on Sunday targeted Monet's "Les Meules" at the…