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Dr. Edward Barksdale needed answers and he turned to Cleveland’s SWAT team, the county juvenile detention center and the local police to get them. Barksdale, a pediatric trauma surgeon and the surgeon-in-chief at UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital/University Hospitals, wanted to know exactly what it was that was sending the same kids to his operating room — shot not just once but on more than one occasion. One boy, only 7 years old, had been shot three separate times and needed three separate operations, he said. In fact, in one two-year period, Barksdale said, he operated on gunshot wounds…

Movies from some of Hollywood’s biggest names including Leonardo DiCaprio and Bradley Cooper will be screened at this year’s London Film Festival (LFF). Major Irish and British stars including Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Mescal and Jodie Comer will appear in other films due to be shown. But the impact of Hollywood strikes means there’s uncertainty over whether the stars themselves will appear. The 12-day event kicks off in London on Wednesday 4 October. The line-up for this year’s festival includes some of the year’s most anticipated films. It includes Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which stars DiCaprio and Robert…

There is a small strata of Hollywood deal-making where who’s behind a project – and with whom the programmer gets to align itself – carries more weight than the specifics. That would seem to define Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry’s producing arrangement with Netflix, which bears fruit this week with “Heart of Invictus,” a docuseries about the games devoted to wounded, ill and injured veterans. The streaming giant’s 2020 partnership with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex clearly appeared to be modeled after its relationship with Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground. Indeed, the Daily Mail snidely observed that the…

Travis Scott is gearing up to again take the stage nearly two years after the Astroworld tragedy, his ill-fated Houston concert that left 10 dead and hundreds injured in 2021. On Wednesday, the rapper announced that his “Utopia – Circus Maximus” tour will kick off on October 11 in Charlotte, North Carolina and culminate in Toronto, Canada in December after playing in a total of 28 North American cities, according to a news release. The tour follows Scott’s live performance at the Circus Maximus in Rome, Italy earlier this month, which sold out 60,000 tickets in two days and sparked fears of…

Former Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has said he thinks daredevil stunts will still be seen on TV. Hammond was left in a coma after flipping a vehicle at 280mph while attempting to break the world land speed record on the show in 2006. A subsequent accident on his Amazon car show also led to hospital treatment. His comments come after current Top Gear host Andrew Flintoff was hurt in an accident while filming in December 2022, leading to filming being halted. When asked by BBC Radio 4’s Today programme presenter Nick Robinson if we have seen the end of daredevil stunts on TV now, following…

Marks & Spencer has returned to the FTSE 100 index of Britain’s biggest listed companies for the first time in four years after a surge in the retailer’s share price. M&S was relegated from the index in 2019 as it faced falling sales and stiff competition. This year, its share price has risen by more than 75% after a revamp of it shops and clothing range. Chief executive Stuart Machin said it was a “reflection” of its “hard work”. “We’ve just got to crack on with the job and make sure we continue our positive momentum”, Mr Machin added. M&S…

“One Piece” is based on one of the most popular manga series ever, with a quarter-century’s worth of history filling its sails. And if you haven’t familiarized yourself with it yet, this live-action Netflix series version of the outlandish pirate adventure feels like a poor place to start, offering scant incentive to bother trying to catch up now. Instead, the eight-episode first season falls prey to the pitfalls associated with trying to translate a very different art form to live-action life, a challenge Netflix already experienced with the short-lived “Cowboy Bebop.” The difficulties can be seen in “One Piece’s” all-over-the-map tone, which…

Burger King must face a lawsuit that alleges it makes its Whopper burger appear larger on its menus than it is in reality, a US judge has ruled. The lawsuit accuses the fast food giant of misleading customers by showing the burger with a meatier patty and ingredients that “overflow over the bun”. “The plaintiffs’ claims are false,” Burger King told the BBC. Rivals McDonald’s and Wendy’s are facing a similar lawsuit in the US. The class action lawsuit against Burger King alleged that the Whopper was made to look 35% larger, with more than double the amount of meat…

India’s Adani Group is facing a fresh controversy after a new report says it used “opaque” funds to bypass rules that prevent share price manipulation. The report alleges the group invested millions of dollars in publicly traded stocks of its own companies through offshore structures. It names two individual investors who allegedly bought and sold the stocks on the group’s behalf. The Adani Group rejected the claims, calling them “meritless”. The report was published on Thursday by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a global network of investigative journalists. The Guardian and Financial Times also published stories based…

Last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics delivered a jobs report that only Baby Bear could offer: not too hot, not too cold, but just right. The US economy added 187,000 jobs in July. While that figure was well below the breakneck pace of job growth over the past three years, it was roughly in line with the monthly average seen in the decade before the pandemic. The unemployment rate settled back down a notch to 3.5%. The jobless rate has calmly drifted between 3.4% and 3.7% since March 2022, the month that the Federal Reserve began an aggressive inflation-fighting campaign that…