A group of Los Angeles residents launched a petition Wednesday to recall Mayor Eric Garcetti over the city’s failure to deal with the growing problem of homelessness during his administration. CBS Los Angeles reported: Garcetti has repeatedly promised to end homelessness throughout his tenure — and repeatedly fallen short, despite local taxpayers voting for more taxes and bonds to devote to the purpose. As the Los Angeles Times recently noted: “During his first mayoral campaign in 2013, he vowed to end chronic homelessness. Once in office, Garcetti said he would find housing for the city’s homeless veterans, first by 2015 and then 2016, before scrapping a timeline altogether.” He has promised…

Actress Lashana Lynch has been cast as the new 007, according to a report in the Guardian. The Guardian reports a “movie insider” says the next Bond film, which opens in April, has a “pivotal scene at the start of the film where M says, ‘Come in 007,’ and in walks Lashana who is black, beautiful and a woman,” the source said. “It’s a popcorn-dropping moment. Bond is still Bond but he’s been replaced as 007.” Lashana Lynch, who is 31, is probably best known as Captain Marvel’s best pal, Maria Rambeau. The source adds: “Bond, of course, is sexually attracted to the new female 007 and tries his usual…

U.K. International Trade Secretary Liam Fox | Dan Kitwood/Getty Images UK trade secretary: Extending Brexit talks would be ‘complete betrayal’ EU is pushing Britain toward a no-deal scenario, said Liam Fox. By Maxime Schlee 7/27/18, 12:01 PM CET Updated 4/19/19, 1:47 AM CET U.K. Trade Secretary Liam Fox warned Prime Minister Theresa May not to extend Brexit negotiations, claiming that doing so would amount to a “complete betrayal” of Brexit voters. May should “leave without a deal” if an agreement is not reached by March 2019 deadline he said in an interview with Business Insider published today. “The public have told us, it wasn’t a consultation, to leave the European Union,…

More than a year before Donald Trump criticized Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) in a tweet on Saturday for ignoring his Baltimore district’s “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” PBS aired a documentary titled Rat Film about the city’s rodent problem. The Baltimore Sun reported on February 26, 2018, that the documentary “about Baltimore’s rodent fight” was scheduled “to air on PBS” that evening: The Sun reviewed the documentary in an article titled “‘Rat Film’ highlights Baltimore’s rat warfare, urban planning failures,” five months earlier in September 2017, four months after it premiered at the Maryland Film Festival: “With rats and urban planning and all the other things the film goes into,…

The rescue ship Aquarius, seen here in the harbor of Marseille on August 1, 2018, will dock in Malta | Boris Horvat/AFP via Getty Images Aquarius rescue ship to dock in Malta The 141 migrants on board will go to France, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain. By Jacopo Barigazzi 8/14/18, 5:47 PM CET Updated 4/19/19, 1:44 AM CET The Aquarius rescue ship will be allowed to dock in Malta and the 141 migrants on board will be distributed among other EU member countries. The NGO-operated ship rescued the asylum seekers on Friday but European countries had been at loggerheads over who should take them in. In a repeat of events involving…

Exactly one year ago the news came out that designer Karl Lagerfeld had died. At that time he was the creative director of Chanel, Fendi and his own brand: Karl Lagerfeld. One of the big questions on 19 February 2019 was: what to do next? Who will take the artistic lead over the brands and how do you follow someone like Kaiser Karl? After a career so big and famous, who would want to try and fill those shoes, right? Yet one year later, and here is an update on how the brands have fared after the death of Karl Lagerfeld. Karl Lagerfeld & Virginie Viard. Photo: Bertrand Guay /…

Lucien Favre’s side face a tough test of facing off against Ligue 1 giants PSG in the first round of UCL knockout fixtures Borussia Dortmund be tasked with keeping Paris Saint-Germain at bay when they welcome the French champions to Signal Iduna Park in the first leg of Tuesday’s Champions League last 16 clash. PSG topped their group and will be boosted by the return of Neymar to their attacking flanks, with the likes of Kylian Mbappe and Edinson Cavani rounding out their frontline. The German side, however, will be able to unleash star arrival Erling Haaland onto the French champions, with the striker scoring nine times in six appearances for his…

Click:star tracker satellite attitude Georgia’s new Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act prohibits abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, but it will not imprison women who have abortions or miscarriages. Hollywood celebrities like Alyssa Milano and other columnists have spread misinformation about Georgia’s new law. The legislation bans abortions once the fetal heartbeat is detected, usually at six or seven weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for cases of rape, incest, or when the life of the mother is endangered. The new law, however, will not imprison women who have abortions or miscarriages, as some have described: “Women could get up to 30 years in prison for having a miscarriage…

“If the immigration situation does not change soon, a veto will be certain,” Di Maio wrote on Facebook | Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images Italy’s Di Maio threatens ‘certain’ EU budget veto over migration demands 5Star Movement leader’s words follow criticism from EU budget commissioner. By POLITICO 8/27/18, 10:17 PM CET Updated 4/19/19, 1:42 AM CET Italy’s threat to veto the next seven-year EU budget will become reality if the bloc doesn’t change its tune on migration, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said Monday. “If the immigration situation does not change soon, a veto will be certain,” Di Maio said in a Facebook post. “Above all, it is…

Author Stephen King endorsed Maine’s Democratic House Speaker Sara Gideon in her campaign to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R-MA) in next year’s election, declaring that it is “time” for Collins to leave office. “It is time for Susan Collins to go,” King said on Tuesday, in response to the news that Sara Gidgeon had announced her intention to run. The 71-year-old author who is a native of the Pine Tree State, has long been active in campaigns to remove their Republican representatives from office having previously endorsed Collins’s 2014 challenger, state Sen. Shenna Bellows (D). The “Pet Cemetery” scribe was also a vocal critic of former Republican Governor Paul LePage, calling him “a…