HONOLULU (AP) — Lawyers for a former child model accusing ‘X-Men’ director Bryan Singer of sex abuse said Tuesday they want to get off the case because their relationship with the accuser has deteriorated.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Department of Defense has taken the unusual step of overseeing a plagiarism investigation being conducted by the U.S. Army War College against Sen. John Walsh because the Montana Democrat is a member of Congress, the college’s provost said Tuesday.
By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) – At first Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer thought she was seeing early concert footage of James Brown but then was told it was a screen test by Chadwick Boseman to play the “Godfather of Soul” in the new biopic “Get On Up.” From the gliding, intricate footwork to the hunched shoulders and fluid movements, Boseman had nailed Brown’s singular mannerisms and raspy voice. I could not believe it, and he had only been learning the dance for three days,” said Spencer, 44, who plays Brown’s no-nonsense, knife-wielding Aunt Honey in the film, which opens in U.S. theaters on Friday. This was supposed to be Chadwick Boseman’s role,” Spencer said. “Get On Up” follows the man and his music in flashbacks from his impoverished early years in a shack in rural South Carolina, to living in a brothel run by Aunt Honey and singing in a local church, to his early career performing with the Famous Flames and later international stardom.
Microsoft Corp’s hardware chief gave employees a sneak peek at a ‘selfie’ phone featuring a 5 megapixel forward-facing camera at an internal meeting this week, a source at the company said on Tuesday. Stephen Elop, the former Nokia CEO who now runs Microsoft’s devices business, showed off the phone in front of thousands at the company’s annual employee meeting in Seattle on Monday. The 5 megapixel camera on the front of the device is much more powerful than Apple Inc’s iPhone 5, with a 1.2 megapixel front camera, and the Microsoft phone’s screen is larger, making it better-suited for users who want to take pictures of themselves. Microsoft is jumping on the selfie bandwagon after rival Samsung launched the Galaxy K Zoom earlier this year.
HONOLULU (AP) — Lawyers for a former child model accusing ‘X-Men’ director Bryan Singer of sex abuse say they want out of the case because their relationship with the accuser has deteriorated.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats and Republicans in Congress vowed urgent support Tuesday for a $225 million missile defense package for Israel, boosting the likelihood that legislation will clear Congress before lawmakers begin a monthlong vacation at week’s end.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the latest effort to sidetrack Obamacare, a federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected a challenge by a conservative group that said Congress imposed new taxes unconstitutionally when it created the Affordable Care Act.
Kolkata/New Delhi, July 29 (ANI): Political leaders today welcomed court’s order for a probe by Criminal Investigation Department (CID) against Trinamool Congress (TMC) party MP, Tapas Pal for his controversial remark. Tapas Pal had allegedly exhorted his men to kill communist workers and rape their party women supporters. The Calcutta High Court, in West Bengal, on Monday ordered court-monitored inquiry into his statement and also directed police to file an FIR (First Information Report) against Pal.
Chandigarh, July 29 (ANI): Power minister of Haryana, Ajay Singh Yadav, resigned from his post on Tuesday and blamed what he called ‘inequality and bureaucracy prevalent in the state’. He said promises made by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda government in Haryana have not been fulfilled. Congress suffered a defeat at the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state in the recently concluded general elections.
By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. consumers often incorrectly estimate how much data they consume online and pay Internet providers for more downloading and uploading than they actually do, a U.S. government watchdog said in findings released on Tuesday. The observations were preliminary from the Government Accountability Office’s review of the practice of usage-based pricing, in which consumers pay Internet service providers (ISPs) for a specific amount of data they agree to consume instead of a flat fee for unlimited data. In a study requested by California Representative Anna Eshoo, the GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, found consumers often were unclear about what online activities consumed the most data and paid ISPs too much either for data they did not use or through overage fees for exceeding data caps. Most wireline ISPs told the GAO that usually only 1 percent to 2 percent of users exceeded their data caps.
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