Strong winds continue to fuel the fast-moving, 3,000-acre Malibu wildfire that has destroyed homes and forced authorities to issue evacuation orders to around 20,000 people in Los Angeles County, California.The National Weather Service in Los Angeles warned Tuesday night there remained a "very extreme fire danger" across southern California as ( Read more... )

Candle-lit vigils and rallies were held across South Korea on Wednesday, a nation outraged and frustrated by the president’s surprise declaration of martial law the night before called for his resignation.Outside the National Assembly Hall in the capital Seoul, hundreds of people gathered on the steps as inside, opposition parties attempted to ( Read more... )

Walmart, the world’s largest private employer, is rolling back its diversity initiatives amid an increasingly challenging legal landscape for such programs - and as conservative activists threaten boycotts on social media.The retailer announced this week that it has stopped using the term DEI - which stands for diversity, equity and inclusion - and ( Read more... )

Comcast said Wednesday that it will spin off its cable networks, including MSNBC and CNBC, in a bid to unshackle its movie studio and theme parks from the waning fortunes of traditional television.NBCUniversal, Comcast’s media division, is set to cleave off a bundle of cable channels that generate roughly $7 billion in revenue annually, including ( Read more... )

Tech billionaire Elon Musk was handed a major win Tuesday evening when President-elect Donald Trump announced that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO would co-lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency” with Vivek Ramaswamy.The announcement reinforces the closeness that Musk has managed to achieve with Trump, even after the election. But for some people ( Read more... )

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Quincy Jones first met Michael Jackson in the early 1970s at Sammy Davis Jr.’s house in Los Angeles, when the 12-year-old was still a bubble-gum ( Read more... )

Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz brushed aside President Joe Biden’s “garbage” comment from Tuesday, stressing in a pair of interviews that a Harris administration will be inclusive.“The vice president and I have made it absolutely clear that we want everyone as a part of this,” Walz told George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America.” “Donald ( Read more... )

John Kelly, who was White House chief of staff during the Trump administration, said in a series of recent interviews that former President Donald Trump spoke positively about Adolf Hitler when he was in office.The remark, published Tuesday, was made in one of Kelly's interviews with The New York Times. Audio of his comments was made available ( Read more... )

A reunion tour for the legendary rock band Van Halen was axed because the group's lead singer, David Lee Roth, refused to pay tribute to the late Eddie Van Halen, his brother, Alex Van Halen, revealed in an interview with Rolling Stone.Alex Van Halen, who founded the band with his brother, opened up to the magazine for the first time since his ( Read more... )

The category 5 Hurricane Milton is expected to double its wind field by the time it makes landfall in the US late Wednesday or early Thursday, with up to 15ft (4.5 metres) of storm surge along a low-lying stretch of the Florida coast that includes the cities of Tampa, St Petersburg and Sarasota.Described as the “storm of a century”, with sustained ( Read more... )