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The 2023 Grammy nominations left Summer Walker fans scratching their heads.Immediately after the nods were announced, the singer’s supporters took to social media to express outrage over her snub. Walker’s 2021 sophomore album Still Over It failed to secure a single nomination, despite its critical and commercial success. The 20-track album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, landed on multiple year-end lists, and received a nom for Top R&B Album at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards.Walker took to Instagram on…

Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images / Columbia Pictures Halloween might be over, but vampires are still firmly in the news thanks to a bizarre speech from Republican candidate Herschel Walker which Mark Hamill has suitably roasted. Walker is currently a candidate in the 2022 senate elections for Georgia, with the former NFL player currently set for a run-off between him and Democrat Raphael Warnock for the senate. Neither breached 50 percent of the vote, so the heat is still very much on to find out the winner.…

ATLANTA —  The Southern battleground state of Georgia is headed, once again, for a bitterly contested Senate runoff election as results show Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock narrowly leading his Republican challenger, Herschel Walker, according to state election officials. Neither candidate is on track to secure 50% of the overall vote in the election that included Libertarian Chase Oliver.Warnock and Walker are now set to face off in a Dec. 6 runoff, less than two years after Warnock became the first Black senator from…

The world’s fastest robotic shoe is here and will add electric power to your walking The robotic shoe named Moonwalker, created by US Pittsburgh-based robotic company Shift Robotics has eight polyurethane wheels that resemble skates and are propelled by a 300-watt electric motor. Wearers, according to the business, will be able to walk at up to 11 km/hr, or a 250 percent improvement in pace. Years ago, Nancy Sinatra sang, “This fastest robotic shoe was intended for walking, and that’s just what…

Rocksteady co-founders Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker are leaving the studio at the end of this year, it has been announced. In a letter shared to the Rocksteady website, president of WB Games David Haddad wrote: “I have some important news to share with you about Rocksteady Studios. Co-founders and studio heads Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker have made the decision to leave the studio.” It continued: “We are very proud to have worked alongside Jamie and Sefton, who have led their talented teams to create some of the best…

Rocksteady co-founders and studio heads Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker have officially announced their departure from the company, with their roles being filled by Rocksteady director of production Nathan Burlow and Darius Sadeghian. In a letter posted on Rocksteady's website, Hill and Walker didn't provide any reasons for their departure, but they did thank their staff and fans for the support shown over the years."There is something extra special about Rocksteady that goes beyond the games we make, and…

WASHINGTON —  In a fittingly odd capstone to a political season dominated by the debate over abortion, control of the Senate may turn on how many Georgia Republicans stick with Herschel Walker despite strong evidence that 13 years ago, he paid for his then-girlfriend to terminate a pregnancy and two years later pressured her to do so again.In a party that advocates abortion bans — Walker has called for making the procedure illegal with no exceptions — that might seem a tough sell.But as we’ve repeatedly seen, in today’s…

Alan Garner’s oddball fable, shortlisted for this year’s Booker prize (the winner is announced on Monday), opens with the eponymous rag-and-bone man parking his horse and cart at the door of Joe Coppock, a boy who seems to live alone and wears an eyepatch to correct a lazy eye. Treacle Walker talks in riddles and has a face that is both old and young – “like them knacky postcards that change when you look,” notes Joe. Walker strikes a deal with the boy, giving him a jar containing the remains of some ointment and a…

WASHINGTON —  Christian Walker has long been one of my favorite online personalities. Since I first saw him dancing in front of a “gays for Trump” sign, he’s unafraid to bash liberals xx. While his approach as a conservative commentator is not novel, he does stand out in one important way—he’s very good at it. While he did at least once stomp for his father Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker, he began distancing himself from politics. Though he still bashes liberals, he rants have Main section text Check out…

My friend Michael Walker, who has died aged 80, was a film critic who wrote with intelligence and analytical rigour for magazines such as Movie and CineAction, and in a number of remarkable books.He was born in Hull, East Yorkshire, to Annie (nee Rippon) and Peter Walker, both teachers, and attended Hymers college in the city. He developed his love of cinema while studying physics at University College, Oxford.The influence of the critic Robin Wood (the author of a pioneering study on Alfred Hitchcock) shaped his outlook…