U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) talks with reporters following the weekly Republican Senate conference meeting in the Mansfield Room at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, December 1, 2020. Tom Williams | Reuters The Senate returns to Washington on Tuesday facing pressure to increase direct payments in the year-end coronavirus relief bill to $2,000.
Run the Jewels have shared a stop-motion music video for their RTJ4 song “walking in the snow.” The video—helmed by “Burn the Witch” and “Don’t Get Captured” director Chris Hopewell—features action figure version of Killer Mike and El-P leading a revolution against an icy, authoritarian regime. Watch it go down below. “It was great to
With only a few days to go, the United States will likely fall short of its goal to vaccinate 20 million Americans by the year’s end as the nation embarks on what will be a historic campaign to inoculate hundreds of millions of people against the coronavirus by the middle of next year. Two Covid-19
Major spoilers for Promising Young Woman below. As satisfying as it is to watch a woman flip the script on sleazy guys at the bar and confront the people who enabled her friend’s rape, Promising Young Woman is more profoundly a devastating reflection of a woman consumed with grief. No scene in writer-director Emerald Fennell’s
A new version of Cinderella is set to be released on February 5, 2021. Described as a musical romantic comedy, the film was written and directed by Kay Cannon, who wrote and produced the Pitch Perfect film series and television shows such as 30 Rock and New Girl. This folk tale has been told by
Characters on Grey’s Anatomy come, go, and sometimes return. Dr. Teddy Altman left at the end of Grey’s Anatomy Season 8 but then recurred on Grey’s Anatomy Season 14 and returned to regular status on Grey’s Anatomy Season 15. After watching her as a regular character again for more than a couple of seasons —
There’s till time to support exciting, relevant, and inclusive literature in 2020! If you enjoyed reading Electric Literature this year, please make a year-end contribution today. The grand master put a brass collar around the new member’s neck, a symbol for dogs’ servitude towards their masters. Taking the new member by the right hand, he
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Ormat Technologies — Shares of the alternative energy company advanced more than 4% after Bank of America initiated coverage on the stock with a buy rating and $96 target, according to FactSet. The stock rose to an all-time high on the heels of the bullish call.
President-elect Joe Biden plans to invoke the Defense Production Act after he takes office next month to boost production of Covid vaccines, a member of his Covid-19 advisory team said Monday. “You will see him invoking the Defense Production Act,” Dr. Celine Gounder, a member of Biden’s Covid-19 advisory board, said during an interview on
As pollyannaish as it sounds, especially as the domestic 2020 box office crumbles to a historic all-time low of $2.27 billion due to the coronavirus pandemic, the global theatrical business is poised for a comeback in 2021. However, it might take a few months. How in God’s name can such a ridiculous projection be forecasted?
The massive bill authorizes $740 billion for national defense spending and sets policies affecting every aspect of military operations. WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives on Dec. 28 voted 322-87 to overturn President Donald Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2021. The measure is now headed to the Senate floor
We streamed, we Zoomed, we ordered groceries and houseplants online, we created virtual villages while navigating laptop shortages to work and learn from home. In many ways, 2020′s pandemic-induced isolation threw our dependence on technology into overdrive, snipping away at our real-life connections while bringing digital relationships to the fore. But for every life-changing Zoom,
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden delivers a speech after a conference video call focused on foreign policy at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, December 28, 2020. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President-elect Joe Biden said Monday his transition team has run into “roadblocks” and “obstruction” from Trump administration officials at key agencies, hindering the incoming Biden
Exclusive Lil Pump will NOT be flying with JetBlue anymore — at least that’s what the airline’s saying, because it claims he refused to wear a mask while up in the air. A rep for JB tells TMZ … a customer on one of their Saturday flights from Fort Lauderdale to L.A. became verbally abusive
The number of shipments coming through the nation’s busiest container port complex in Los Angeles is up substantially from the first half of the year, reflecting a rebound in business and shift in consumer habits. Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka in an appearance Monday on CNBC said cargo volume is up 50%
The future of the DC movie universe, at least some of it anyway, is on HBO Max. It has been revealed that DC Films is going to ramp up in the coming years, and not just on the theatrical side. On top of movies such as The Batman that are intended as theatrical releases, Warner
It’s been a long and winding road, but we are just days away from the final episodes of Vikings Season 6. As previously reported, Amazon Prime will be home to the final ten episodes, but they will see the light of day on History at some point in 2021. TV Fanatic had the opportunity to
Nothing Adds Up in American Math There’s till time to support exciting, relevant, and inclusive literature in 2020! If you enjoyed reading Electric Literature this year, please make a year-end contribution today. Dividing Line If every crosswalk is an equals sign, then every block’s an equation that needs balancing. On Kansas City’s State Line Road,