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History was made on Thursday morning when talks between SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) ended Wednesday night without an agreement on a new contract. Now members of SAG-AFTRA’s negotiating committee have unanimously voted to recommend the guild go on strike, and a formal vote will be put to SAG-AFTRA’s national board Thursday morning. If …

Russian forces targeted Kyiv with a barrage of self-exploding Iranian-made Shahed drones early on Thursday morning, according to the Kyiv City Administration. Explosions were heard in different parts of the city, and debris from intercepted drones fell on four districts of the Ukrainian capital, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs. Buildings were damaged and two people were admitted to …

If you thought that The Walking Dead: Dead City was slowing down, its latest episode, “Everybody Wins a Prize” ramped things back up, raising the stakes and leaving us on a far too foreboding cliffhanger. With only two episodes left of The Walking Dead’s latest spin-off, tensions couldn’t be higher as Lauren Cohan’s Maggie and Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan continue …

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority The Steam Deck still rules the roost as far as PC-based gaming handhelds go, but the ASUS ROG Ally is its biggest challenge to date. It hasn’t been a perfect launch for ASUS, though, and reports of microSD card issues popped up shortly after the release. Now, the Taiwanese company has confirmed that the ROG …

Ellie Williams, the daughter of late actor Treat Williams, paid a touching tribute to her late father one month after his unexpected death, saying she keeps forgetting “he’s not coming home.” The “Everwood” star died in a motorcycle accident in Vermont on June 12. “I have been home with my family in Vermont for a month now, but it feels …

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Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple launches Tap to Pay on iPhone in the UK, starting with Revolut and Tyl by NatWest as the first platforms, following the US, Australia, and Taiwan  —  Apple has announced the launch of Tap to Pay on iPhone in the United Kingdom, allowing independent sellers, small merchants …

English doctors will strike on Thursday. They are protesting poor pay and staffing. They want their 2008-9 pay levels to be restored. Hospital doctors in England will on Thursday stage the biggest walkout in the history of the UK’s state-funded National Health Service, prompting fears for patient safety. The unprecedented five-day stoppage over pay and staffing is the latest in …

At the height of her family’s popularity, Amy Duggar was forced into the role of the family rebel. She was a natural fit for the part, as she was not a member of Jim Bob Duggar’s beloved cult, and she had no qualms about expressing her opposition to her uncle’s more bonkers beliefs. But Jim Bob and TLC producers worked …

American action movie villains have always acted as a sort of paranoia litmus test, capturing a snapshot of the particular anxieties plaguing the country and its citizens at any given time. During the Cold War, movies like From Russia with Love, Rocky IV, and Red Dawn nodded at the public’s fear of wily Soviets, ostensibly hell-bent on ruining the capitalist …