USA Update

TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees worldwide, with some particularly deep cuts to its content moderation team. According to Reuters, TikTok will be focusing on AI-powered content moderation instead.  Social media content moderation is not a job for the faint of heart. Back in 2021, a former Facebook content moderator spoke with NBC News […]

A train operator is dead and 23 are injured after a New Jersey Transit train hit a tree early Monday, officials say.  A River LINE train was traveling southbound from Trenton when it struck a tree north of the Roebling Station at 6:04 a.m, NJ Transit said in a statement. There were a total of […]

Bungie’s Destiny franchise is coming to a new platform with Destiny: Rising, a new entry designed for for mobile platforms. The free-to-play sci-fi RPG shooter will be a “brand-new adventure set in an alternate Destiny timeline,” developer and publisher NetEase said in a news release, with a narrative that explores the franchise’s post-Dark Age era. […]

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson will star in Craig Brewer’s upcoming musical drama, Song Sung Blue, directed by Crag Brewer for Focus Features.  Michael Imperioli, Fisher Stevens, and Jim Belushi round out the star-studded cast alongside Ella Anderson, King Princess, Mustafa Shakir, and Hudson Hilbert Hensley. The film’s logline summarizes two down-on-their-luck musicians (Hudson and […]

United States Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su has flown to Seattle to meet with Boeing and the union representing about 33,000 striking workers to nudge both sides back to the bargaining table, Reuters news agency has reported, citing an unnamed source. Her intervention comes days after the planemaker, dealing with a crippling strike now in […]

A senior dog has hit upon a genius way of getting up and down the stairs with little to no effort required. Mrs. Jingles, a 15-year-old Jack Russell, lives on the Isle of Wight in the U.K. with her owner Kerrie. In a video posted to her TikTok, @animals_and_other_family, Kerrie revealed the novel way her […]

Damien Woody, a two-time Super Bowl champion with the New England Patriots, ripped Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni on Monday for trash talking fans. Sirianni was seen barking back at fans after the Eagles’ narrow win over the Cleveland Browns. He was hearing boos and “Fire Nick” chants as the team eked out the […]

When Tangie Wilson’s 8-year-old daughter, Zoe, asked to use her iPad early one Sunday morning in September at their home in Bedford, Ohio, she assumed her child had settled into her room or on the couch with the device, so she went back to sleep. She didn’t know that Zoe, who was still upset after […]

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker said his much-maligned commencement speech—in which he called homosexuality a “deadly sin,” slammed abortion, IVF, and accused working women of being fed “diabolical lies”—was meant for a “specific crowd.” “I’m definitely saddened [some people] took it in a poor manner,” said Butker, a self-professed devout Catholic, last week on […]

In Always Great, Awards Insider speaks with Hollywood’s greatest undersung actors in career-spanning conversations. In this installment, Scoot McNairy reflects on the road to what might be his biggest year in movies yet, from helping lead the horror hit Speak No Evil to taking on a small but pivotal role in the upcoming A Complete […]