WhatsApp has begun testing a feature that will allow users to pin chats on the latest beta version of the popular messaging app. Users who are on the latest beta version can pin a message to the top of a group chat for up to 30 days. The Meta-owned messaging service is also working on a new username picker for the app and a feature that will protect a user’s privacy when making calls on WhatsApp, according to details shared by a feature tracker.With the update to WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.21.4, users who are on the beta testing channel can…
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) speaks at a press conference as Rep. Steve Scalise looks on following a Republican caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol.Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesThe top Republicans vying to replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy as the next speaker of the House of Representatives have backed out of a televised debate that was scheduled to air Monday on Fox News.House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan both agreed that the debate on the conservative news network would not be a good idea, two sources told NBC News on Friday.Rep. Kevin Hern, chair of the Republican…
Doja Cat is once again being accused of pandering to fringe communities after wearing a shirt with a photo folks on the alt-right know all too well … showing off one Sam Hyde. The rapper/singer posted and then deleted these pics on her IG Friday, but fortunately … the Internet captured them and they’re now circulating — with DC getting dragged through the mud for what many consider an endorsement of Hyde and his brand of humor/following. For those unaware, Hyde is a comedian … who has been widely embraced by trolls in online chat rooms and forums, and who’s…
US President Joe Biden addresses the terrorist attacks in Israel from the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 7, 2023.Jim Watson | AFP | Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden on Saturday detailed a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which he expressed support for Israel after the deadly attack by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.”I made clear to Prime Minister Netanyahu that we stand ready to offer all appropriate means of support to the Government and people of Israel. Terrorism is never justified. Israel has a right to defend itself and its people,”…
With the imminent release of her memoir, Down the Drain, Julia Fox has been sharing more details of her personal life that have caused a lot of conjecture before, particularly about her relationship with Kanye West. In an interview on Friday with The Los Angeles Times, Fox shared that when she and the rapper were linked in 2022, she felt he “weaponized” her against his former wife, Kim Kardashian. “I thought ultimately I’d be helping a precarious situation, but I learned very quickly that I was being weaponized,” she claimed.She added that she “really understood” West “on a visceral level”…
Everybody loves a bad boy (or girl), and our favorite television heroes and heroines are no exception. We love the idea of finding the humanity within the monster, even when the title of “monster” isn’t quite so metaphorical. When these characters see a supernatural hottie with a dark side and a heart of gold, they can’t help but fall in love with the monster even if every ounce of their being says to run the other way. So, here are a few of the scary good monster romances that have given wings to the unexpected over the years. 1. Elena…
Let’s do a little exercise, shall we? I’m going to type a word, and you’re going to close your eyes, count to five, and say the first thing that pops into your head. Ready? Here goes…Candles. Wait, wait, don’t tell me. Was it “women?” Maybe, maybe not. If so, it’s time to set aside that tired mentality and embrace the candle as the calming, elevated, sexy little open flame that it is. If not, good on ya’. The best candles for men, like the best men themselves, are confident in their own skin. Yes, cedar and wood and leather and…
Safiya Sinclair writes in her memoir How to Say Babylon, “The perfect daughter was nothing but a vessel for the man’s seed, unblemished clay waiting for Jah’s fingerprint.” The memoir, Sinclair’s first, is about her journey to shaping a future that isn’t limited by the idea of the perfect daughter or Rastafari’s tenets. Raised in Jamaica in a strict Rastafari household under the watchful eye of a father obsessed with his daughters’ purity and keeping the corrupting influences of the Western world at bay, Sinclair knows the perfect daughter in her father’s eyes covers her body, treats it as Jah’s…
In this articleVOLV.B-SEFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTStriking United Auto Workers members from the General Motors Lansing Delta Plant picket in Delta Township, Michigan, on Sept. 29, 2023.Rebecca Cook | ReutersDETROIT — United Auto Workers members with Volvo Group-owned Mack Trucks will vote this weekend on a tentative agreement that falls significantly short of what the union is demanding in negotiations currently being held with Detroit automakers.The Sunday vote by roughly 3,900 union members could test the willingness of workers to ratify a lesser deal compared to raised expectations set by UAW President Shawn Fain for hourly pay increases, equal…
A Goldman Sachs Group Inc. logo hangs on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, May 19, 2010.Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesInvestors have piled into short-term U.S. government bonds in a bid to wait out the upheaval caused by a blowout in longer-term yields, according to a Goldman Sachs executive.An auction this week of 52-week Treasury bills at a 5.19% rate was 3.2 times oversubscribed, its highest demand of the year, said Lindsay Rosner, head of multi-sector investing at Goldman Sachs asset and wealth management.”They’re saying, ‘I’m now being afforded a lot more…
Imagine if the suffering chef of The Bear were physically becoming, well, a bear. Imagine if in his journey through grief, he landed in a kitchen of not only underdogs but a family of warring brujas. This comes close to the mythopoetic realm of Brendan Shay Basham’s debut novel, Swim Home to the Vanished, which plumbs depths of mourning—individual, communal, historical, environmental. When his younger brother disappears into the river, the protagonist Damien becomes convinced that he has transformed species—and now Damien himself is growing gills. “He thinks his brother turned into a fish,” Basham says. “In his grief, he…
A wacky film based on a stage show by comedians Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp, Dicks: The Musical – a riff on The Parent Trap with two adult men as the starring twins — opens in seven theaters in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco on a crowded specialty weekend as theatrical releases of fall film festival titles accelerates. Dicks, from A24 and developed by Chernin Entertainment, is, according to press notes, a first “adult musical comedy” for both. (It’s Chernin’s second musical after hit The Greatest Showman.) Directed by Larry Charles (Seinfeld, Borat), it stars the two creators Jackson and Sharp as self-obsessed businessmen who discover…
by Regina Avalos, October 6, 2023(Photo: Max) The third season of Sort Of will be its last. The creators have announced the end of the comedy series, per THR. Max announced the third season renewal in December 2022. Starring series co-creator Bilal Baig, Gray Powell, Ellora Patnaik, Amanda Cordner, Supinder Wraich, Gregory Ambrose Calderone, Kaya Kanashiro, Aden Bedard, Becca Blackwell, Grace Lynn Kung, Alanna Bale, and Cassandra James, the Sort Of series follows Sabi Mehboob (Baig), a gender-fluid twenty-something, as they try to balance their professional and personal lives. Baig and co-creator Fab Filippo said the following about the series…
TAMPA, Fla. — United Launch Alliance launched two prototypes Oct. 6 for the more than 3,200 Project Kuiper broadband satellites Amazon plans to build and deploy over the next six years. An Atlas 5 rocket carrying the satellites lifted off 2:06 p.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, and dropped them off in low Earth orbit about 18 minutes later. The launch was delayed six minutes following an alert that its trajectory would have passed too close to another object already in space. It was the 99th launch of an Atlas 5, and the…
Amazon Great Indian Festival 2023 sale is now live for Prime members. The festive season special sale will open up for everyone else at midnight, on October 8. Amazon Great Indian Festival sale brings hundreds of deals across all major product categories including mobile phones, laptops, TVs, Amazon devices, and other electronics. Amazon’s sale includes a large selection of bundled offers including product exchange benefits, no-cost EMI options, and bank payment offers.We’re scanning through this large list of deals to bring you the best tech deals on a single page. We’ll keep this page updated with the best electronics deals…
Striking Kaiser Permanente workers hold signs as they march in front of the Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center on October 06, 2023 in Vallejo, California.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesKaiser Permanente workers on Friday threatened further strikes if executives don’t meet their demands over health-care staffing and job outsourcing.More than 75,000 Kaiser workers are scheduled to end a three-day work stoppage in California, Colorado, Washington and Oregon at 6 a.m. Saturday local time. The current strike, which began Wednesday, is said to be the largest walkout by health-care workers in U.S. history.Nearly 60,000 of the workers currently on strike are in…
NewsKiller Mike Performs “Motherless” with Robert Glasper and Eryn Allen Kane on Fallon: WatchThe Atlanta rapper closed out the first week of post-strike shows with the celebration of his late motherBy Allison HusseyOctober 7, 2023FacebookXKiller Mike and Eryn Allen Kane on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (Still via YouTube)FacebookXKiller Mike stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to close out the week, honoring his late mother with Robert Glasper and Eryn Allen Kane in a tear-streaked performance of “Motherless.” Take a look below.The Atlanta rapper brought his Michael track to the program in its first week back after…
A worker sorts out parcels in the outbound dock at the Amazon fulfillment center in Eastvale, California, on Aug. 31, 2021.Watchara Phomicinda | MediaNews Group | The Riverside Press-Enterprise via Getty ImagesIt was late in the day on Oct. 27, 2021, when Fred Ruckel received the dreaded automated email from Amazon.Amazon’s software had detected that Ruckel’s popular cat toy, called the Ripple Rug, was being sold somewhere else for a cheaper price. His product would no longer be shown in Amazon’s all-important buy box, an area of the listing where shoppers click “Add to Cart.” Ruckel is the sole seller…