WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will impose a fresh round of sanctions on 11 individuals, including Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, as tensions between the United States and China accelerate. The Treasury Department designated Lam for her role in overseeing and “implementing Beijing’s policies of suppression of freedom and democratic processes.” According to the department, Lam,
Month: August 2020
Play video content Cardi B‘s giving a lot of love to one of the famous female faces that appeared in her new music video — giving fans a sneak peak at Normani’s viral dance moves. CB posted a video Saturday that showed behind-the-scenes footage of how the video for her new single ‘WAP’ was shot
Attendees talk to a company representative in the Eastman Kodak booth at an International Consumer Electronics Show. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images A deal that would have seen Eastman Kodak get funding to produce drug ingredients that could have helped fight the coronavirus has been put on hold. In a tweet Friday evening,
“You were the one posting all those [Instagram] Stories, right?” It’s three days after Beyoncé’s jaw-dropping, feast-for-the-eyes Black Is King visual album dropped on Disney+, and I’m on the phone with her stylist, Zerina Akers, the woman behind the fashion fantasies that dazzle in the film and on Beyoncé in general. “You were on it,”
Liam Neeson did not have much faith in Taken when they first shot the movie. He figured it would open quietly in Europe and then go straight to VOD. However, the movie ended up earning over $225 million globally from an initial budget of $25 million. It was obvious that a sequel was going to
The adoption drama went on and on and on this week as temper tantrums were thrown all over Salem, and it seemed to be a contest to prove who could be more immature. The moment Nicole ratted out Sami to Allie, the dominos began to fall. Allie was furious with her mother, and then angry
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . Adapted from remarks given at the Toni Morrison Festival in February 2020. About three years ago, Toni Morrison wrote a short and,
A view outside Cinemas 1, 2 & 3 movie theater during the coronavirus pandemic on May 18, 2020 in New York City. COVID-19 has spread to most countries around the world, claiming over 320,000 lives with over 4.8 million infections reported. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images) Noam Galai While some industries have heralded the third
Fancy/Veer/Corbis | Getty Images Bianca Thomas was always working. Except on Sunday — that was church day. But in March, everything changed. Thomas lost her job as a prep cook in an eatery catering to Boston Bruins and Celtics season ticket holders. Singing in the church choir, a joy of hers for 13 years, wasn’t possible
China’s third Friday back to the movies scored a slight increase on last week’s comparable day at $4.38M. It’s short of the $7.6M generated last Sunday which was boosted by Warner Bros’ reissue of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, but still a jump on last Friday, while midweeks were solid. Play today was led by DreamWorks/Amblin/Universal’s 1917
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Air Force announced Aug. 7 that United Launch Alliance and SpaceX have been selected to receive five-year contracts to launch national security satellites for the U.S. military and intelligence agencies. United Launch Alliance received a $337 million contract and SpaceX received a $316 million contract for launches planned between between
Russia is trying to “undermine” presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s candidacy, while China and Iran are against President Donald Trump‘s reelection, a leading U.S. intelligence official said Friday. The analysis of the three U.S. adversaries’ alleged interference efforts came in a statement from William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, who said he
Courtney Barnett has shared a cover of Kev Carmody’s “Just For You.” The track appears on Cannot Buy My Soul, a tribute album of Carmody’s songs originally released in 2007 and set to be reissued with new tracks on August 21 via EMI Australia. Check out “Just For You” below. Earlier this week, Barnett appeared
Neel Kashkari, president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, in an interview on February 17, 2016. David Orrell | CNBC The U.S. economy needs an even more stringent shutdown than the last time if it’s going to defeat the coronavirus, Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said. In a Friday New York Times op-ed he authored with Michael
In March, Jennifer Aniston was supposed to reunite with her Friends co-stars to shoot a highly-anticipated, unscripted reunion special for HBO Max. Then the coronavirus pandemic pushed it back to May. It still hasn’t been shot, and now there’s no set date to film it—in part because the team plans to shoot the special in
Every now and then a thoroughly unique and magnificently odd piece of filmmaking comes along that’s not quite classifiable, yet so refreshingly weird it can’t help but find its audience. Lake Michigan Monster, a new release from Arrow Video, is just that kind of experience. Writer/director/star Ryland Brickson Cole Tews is the warped comedic mind
Are you ready for the last of the Marvel Universe series to take its leave from TV? We’re not either! But we are ready for Ted Lasso to being on Apple TV+ and to see what horrors are uncovered on Lifetime when Jeffrey Epstein gets the R Kelly miniseries treatment in Surviving Jeffrey Epstein. Find
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . I have always found revolution in queerness and Blackness, in people who dare to exist authentically on the margins of a world
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