David Worth, director of films including “Kickboxer” and DP on numerous films including Clint Eastwood’s “Any Which Way You Can,” died Sept. 4 in Sunland, Calif. He was 86. Worth started out as director of photography on low-budget movies before Clint Eastwood hired him as cinematographer on “Bronco Billy” and “Any Which Way You Can,” […]
Variety•Pat Saperstein13h ago
Leah Nelson’s “Tangles,” Louis Clichy’s “Iron Boy” and Ervin Han and Raúl García’s “The Violinist” are among the titles set to screen during Animation Is Film’s ninth edition. The festival will take place October 16 through 19, with the main programming taking place at TCL Chinese 6 Theaters in Hollywood, Calif. For the first time […]
Variety•Payton Turkeltaub22h ago
Sens. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday called on California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) to launch a probe into a whistleblower’s allegations that the Trump administration attempted to search through the state’s voting records. The senators wrote in a letter to Bonta that on Sept. 8, a whistleblower disclosed that the…
The Hill•Ryan Mancini22 SeptAlso: Bonanza Ditching, E-170 Control Yoke Becomes Loose, 35,000 Girls Set For Av-Experience, Air Traffic Control Reforms A restored Grumman Widgeon with a remarkable place in American aviation history is looking for its next caretaker. N44CH once belonged to aerobatic champion Charlie Hillard and was used for an early Young Eagles flight at Oshkosh. Now, decades of history and more than $230,000 in restoration work come together in one rare aircraft. NBC Los Angeles helicopter NewsChopper4 went down Tuesday while providing aerial coverage of a accident involving a bus and an SUV, leaving three dead. The Los Angeles Fire Department said more than 70 firefighters responded just before 7 p.m. Tuesday to the helicopter accident scene between two commercial buildings at 9151 N. Mason Ave. in Chatsworth, Calif. The helicopter, a Eurocopter AS 350 B2 Ecureuil, was maneuvering at a low altitude to film the scene of a fatal car/bus collision at the time of the accident. The Air Force is on track to reach its annual goal of graduating 1,500 new pilots that had proved elusive to this point, one year after the service launched a sweeping overhaul of its undergraduate pilot training program, Air Education and Training Command (AETC) said Sept. 14. Reaching the milestone under the new Future of Undergraduate Pilot Training, or FUPT, program, will help “support the Air Force’s broader effort to address a pilot shortage,” AETC stated. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne-Unlimited!!!
Aero-News Network20 Sept
Hayden Panettiere’s loved ones are gathering in her honor. One month after the Heroes alum died at age 36, her friends, family and colleagues alike flocked to Malibu, Calif., to pay their...
E! Online•Sasha Wayman20 Sept
IRVINE, Calif. and TORINO, Italy – Sept. 17, 2026 – Terran Orbital, a Lockheed Martin company and a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, […]
SpaceNews•Terran Orbital18 Sept
Independent Rep. Kevin Kiley (Calif.), a former Republican, said he will not caucus with Republicans next year if he wins reelection. “Congressman Kiley, much has been made about your decision to switch from Republican to independent next year. Are you still going to caucus with Republicans?” Semafor’s Nicholas Wu asked the California representative at a…
The Hill•Tara Suter16 Sept
On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging tech leaders to slow the pace of AI development. On a Sunday CBS News interview, he added that it “could be a good idea” to have an AI kill switch — not unlike what Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) have proposed. “Some…
The Hill•Kim Wehle, opinion contributor16 Sept
Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for Nick Reiner. Nine months after his parents Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were stabbed to death at their Brentwood, Calif., home on Dec. 14,...
E! Online•Sabba Rahbar15 Sept
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is hosting a ceremony at the Capitol Tuesday afternoon to unveil the official portrait of his predecessor, former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) briefly took over as Speaker pro tempore following McCarthy’s historic ouster in 2023. The California Republican irked his GOP colleagues after making concessions to Democrats…
The Hill•The HIll Staff15 Sept
Top House Democrats warned Tuesday that AI companies can’t be trusted to regulate themselves, arguing that the federal government will have to step in with industry-wide rules designed to ensure public safety. “This is not an industry that can regulate itself,” Rep. Pete Aguilar (Calif.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, told reporters in the…
The Hill•Mike Lillis15 Sept
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) went after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday for the Trump administration’s policy on artificial intelligence (AI), as warnings about the technology percolate. During Bessent’s appearance before the House Financial Services Committee, Waters said President Trump is “blindly” pushing for the development of AI models and data centers “with absolutely no…
The Hill•Max Rego15 Sept
Rep. George Whitesides (D-Calif.) on Monday said that the U.S. needs “a safety stand-down” regarding AI amid growing calls for regulation coming from both the tech industry and members of Congress. “I’m setting out a vision for how we need to develop AI,” Whitesides told NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill.” “I think we need,…
The Hill•Ryan Mancini15 Sept
Andrew Bower followed Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) from his personal office to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as Democrats elevated a fresh face, and with him, a fresh new approach to investigations. The committee has faced an avalanche of issues, but it’s the probe into deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that Bower said “has…
The Hill•Rebecca Beitsch15 SeptSAN JOSE, Calif. — A California federal court partially denied Adobe’s motion to dismiss class claims brought by consumers who say the company uses unfair and unlawful tactics in how they manage the terms and conditions for its software offerings, such as making it needlessly difficult to cancel a subscription. While a handful of the Consumer Legal Remedies Act claims are tossed for a lack of standing to seek injunctive relief, the broader class claims continue on the basis that a typical consumer could have been misled by the company’s confusing subscription sign-up process.
(KTLA) — Two young brothers worked quickly to rescue a group of elderly people after a fire broke out at an assisted living facility in Glendale, Calif., on Friday. Glendale firefighters responded to the burning home on the 1800 block of Mountain Street around 4:45 p.m. As the flames grew and heavy smoke billowed from…
The Hill•Vivian Chow14 Sept
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, pressed for answers on a Russian oligarch’s reported role in a wedding for one of President Trump’s sons. According to a report published Monday by ProPublica, Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding in May received funding from Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, who…
The Hill•Tara Suter14 Sept
The annual Stagecoach festival will return to the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif. next April, and as usual it has a powerful set of headliners: Garth Brooks, Riley Green and Zach Top, with a reunited Florida Georgia Line set for a special late-night set at the festival, marking the duo’s first officially announced performance […]
Variety•Jem Aswad14 Sept
In March 2021, Berkeley, Calif., became the first city in the world to ban the display of sugary beverages and snacks in store checkout lanes, where candy, chocolate and soda are commonly placed to encourage impulse buying while shoppers are in line.
Researchers at the security firm Calif have built a worm that takes over a WeChat account via an incoming call and demonstrated it spreading among three test phones. The person being called does not have to answer or touch their phone for it to work, but the caller must already be one of their WeChat contacts. Calif reported the flaw to Tencent in July and says the company has since
