CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple said it will roll out a “lockdown" option for iPhones, iPads and Mac computers intended to protect against spyware unleashed by state-sponsored hackers — although enabling that protection will also make these devices less useful. The safeguard announced Wednesday is a tacit acknowledgement that not even Apple — the world’s most valuable company — has […]

Andrew Yang, a 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and 2021 NYC mayoral candidate, is on the side of the economists saying that a U.S. recession before the end of next year is more likely than not. “You can put me in the camp that thinks that a recession will happen sometime in the next six quarters,” Yang said in an interview […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was clinging to power on Wednesday, gravely wounded by the resignation of ministers who said he was not fit to govern and with a growing number of lawmakers calling for him to go. Johnson’s finance and health secretaries quit on Tuesday, along with several in more junior roles, saying they could no […]

Fears of a summer super-strike grow: Railway unions may join forces to wreak havoc over pay row in latest blow for getaway plans  RMT boss Mick Lynch urged rail workers to gear up for ‘the fight of our lifetime’  He primed 50,000 members for a summer of walkouts as cost of living bites  Train drivers’ union boss said government can […]

British Independent Film Awards becomes latest to go gender neutral: Bifa follows the Brits and MTV Movie Awards in scrapping male and female categories  The MTV movie awards introduced their gender neutral awards in 2017 BIFA has five awards with zero mention of ‘actor’ or ‘actress’ for their 25th awards  Two new music awards separate the original award into two […]

Things could have gone a lot worse for the Pittsburgh Steelers in Ben Roethlisberger’s final season. Roethlisberger was a shell of himself. The offense as a whole wasn’t good. The defense, despite having NFL defensive player of the year T.J. Watt, wasn’t great either. It was a Steelers team that had a very fortunate record in close games and caught […]

EASTENDERS star Mona Hammond has died at the age of 91. The Jamaican-British actress was adored for her role as Blossom Jackson in the BBC soap in the early nineties. She was also known for her character Susu in Desmond's. Marcus Ryder acknowledged Mona's passing in a post on Twitter and shared some of her accolades. He said: "It is […]

Independence Day arrives at a time when the United States is roiled by hearings over the Jan. 6 insurrection, awash in turmoil over high court rulings on abortion and guns and struggling to maintain the common bonds that keep it together. Yet many also see cause to celebrate: The pandemic continues to be on the wane and, despite its faults, […]

UK has given £310m to Strasbourg body that blocked Rwanda flight… while officials repeatedly reject requests to reveal judge’s identity  The injunction said deportees faced ‘real risk of irreversible harm’ Human rights tsar Dunja Mijatovic has criticised Home Secretary Priti Patel The UK Government gave £310million to the Council of Europe this decade Britain is spending millions of pounds a […]

Kourtney Kardashian is accusing the paparazzi of selling weeks-old photos of her amid husband Travis Barker’s recent health crisis, which the reality star says made it look like she was “out and about while my husband was in the hospital fighting for his life.” Kardashian, 43, took to Instagram Stories on Saturday to share how the resurfaced photos, which show […]