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June 10 (UPI) — Sony Pictures is giving a glimpse of the new film The Social Reckoning. The studio shared a teaser trailer for the movie Wednesday featuring Succession star Jeremy Strong as Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. Described as “a companion piece” to the 2010 film The Social Network, which dramatized the founding of Facebook in the early 2000s, The Social Reckoning focuses on the 2021 Facebook leak by whistleblower Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison). The movie is “inspired by the true story of how Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White), a…
The alleged knifeman in an “attempted beheading” that triggered riots in Belfast overnight has appeared in court, charged with attempted murder, knife possession, and threatening to kill an NHS radiographer. A court has heard Steven Ogilvy, the victim of the “attempted beheading” in north Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom this week lost one eye and suffered serious damage to the other, as well as deep cuts to his neck. He remains in hospital in serious condition. The alleged attacker, 30-year-old Sudanese national Hadi Alodid appeared at a Belfast court this morning by way of a video link from the…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood directors on Tuesday reached a four-year tentative contract agreement with studios and streaming services. The deal struck between the Directors Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers came four weeks after talks began. The talks were the first under new DGA President Christopher Nolan, who took the job in September. Along with similar four-year deals — longer than the industry three — ratified in recent weeks by unions representing writers and actors, the DGA agreement adds to the likelihood of long-term labor peace despite many other industry upheavals. The collective…
The View co-host Sunny Hostin insists there is no vote fraud in California and is defending the Democrat-run state for “doing it right” despite its habit of taking weeks to count votes when nearly every other state in the union can get it done on Election night, or the day after. Californians went to the polls last Tuesday for the state’s primary elections to determine who would be on the ballot in the general election in November. But now, almost a full week later, officials are still “finding” votes and the counting continues. But The View’s Hostin says it’s all good. After…
The House will vote Thursday on a three-week extension of a key surveillance program a day ahead of its expiration, Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday. But leaders of both parties expect the measure to fail, risking a first-ever lapse of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as the House prepares to leave for recess until June 23. The extension through July 2 is set to be debated Wednesday night under suspension of the rules, a fast-track House procedure that requires a two-thirds majority to pass. But the vast majority of Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, say…
A government spending watchdog has said that only black, female, or impoverished candidates will be considered for an upcoming taxpayer-funded paid internship, sparking accusations of discrimination against middle-class white males. A clause in the Equality Act 2010, which allows for private companies and public bodies to use “positive action” to “address disadvantage or under-representation” of certain ethnic or sexual groups in hiring, has seen a government programme being accused of being racist towards native British males. According to the Daily Mail, a paid summer internship by the government-funded National Audit Office (NAO) spending watchdog said that it would only be open to…
American tech professionals should accept low-wage teaching jobs in rural Alaska and let H-1B migrant Indians enjoy the high-wage jobs in sunny cosmopolitan Silicon Valley, says Vivek Wadhwa, an Indian-born tech investor. “Dear Anti-immigrants constantly crying that foreigners are taking American jobs: Why aren’t you teaching in rural Alaska?” Wadhwa posted on June 8 shortly after a judge rejected President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on arriving H-1B contract workers. He jeered: Hundreds of positions sit empty [in Alaska]. Remote districts are importing teachers from overseas on H-1Bs because you won’t move there. You don’t actually want those jobs; you just…
Robbers stole roughly half a million dollars’ worth of whiskey in a sophisticated heist at a Philadelphia warehouse in “broad daylight.” A driver of a semi-truck pulled up to a five-story warehouse Friday, showed his ID, and proceeded to load up roughly 10,800 bottles of Noble Oak bourbon, which was intended for commercial distribution. However, A21 Wine & Spirits, the company that owns Noble Oak, learned soon afterward that the bourbon did not reach its commercial destination. The bottles had fallen victim to a “coordinated cargo theft operation carried out in broad daylight.” Rob Koch, the chief operating officer of…
The US president has claimed Iran’s military is routed just as the IRGC launches missile strikes against American bases in the region The Iranian military has been “completely defeated,” US President Donald Trump has claimed, warning Tehran it will “pay the price” for delaying a deal with Washington. The warnings came after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced missile and drone strikes on American military facilities in several Arab countries in retaliation for recent US attacks. US Central Command said the operations inside Iran were carried out after an AH-64 Apache helicopter was lost near the Strait of Hormuz,…
President Donald Trump urged Congress on Wednesday to provide a short-term extension of a surveillance authority as he taps Bill Pulte to be Acting Director of National Intelligence. “I have named William Pulte to be Acting Director of National Intelligence, who will take over on June 19th, and have asked him to execute the immediate and needed downsizing of the office, reverting staff to their home agencies,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “At the same time, I am looking for a permanent ODNI Nominee with experience in National Security.” The president added: FISA 702 is very important to our Military,…