DWP issues update on number of disability cost of living payments made

Members of the Bey Hive who have always wanted to smell like Beyonce are going to love this news!

Some fans were given the thrill of a lifetime when Timothee Chalamet and Adam Sandler showed up on a public basketball court to play a friendly game!

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 8 is coming to an end this week, and we now know that at least one lip sync assassin featured in the season was actually a replacement!

Sam Smith is enjoying some time out with partner Christian Cowan as fans wait to hear new music from them.

If you’re seeing Oppenheimer on the big screen, you might want to get there early as certain screenings will not be showing any trailers… and there’s a fascinating reason.

Bethenny Frankel is calling for a reality TV union.

Indian movie “Kalki 2898 AD” (working title “Project – K”) made a splash at the San Diego Comic-Con with the successful teaser and title release.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Amazon agreed to pay a $25 million civil penalty as part of a settlement with the Justice Department and the FTC to resolve allegations the ecommerce giant’s Alexa voice assistant violated a U.S. children’s privacy law, the DOJ announced. Under the terms of the settlement, Amazon also is required to change its practices relating to the alleged violations and inform consumers of its practices. According to a complaint filed in May by the DOJ on behalf of the FTC, Amazon prevented parents from exercising their deletion rights under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA Rule) and kept sensitive voice and geolocation data for years and used it for its own purposes “while putting data at risk of harm from unnecessary access.”

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Samuel L. Jackson told The Times last year that he deserved to win the Oscar for best supporting actor over Martin Landau (“Ed Wood”) at the 1995 Academy Awards. In a new interview with Vulture, the actor said he was robbed of a second chance to win an Oscar just a couple years later with Joel Schumacher’s 1996 legal drama “A Time to Kill,” co-starring Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock. The John Grisham adaptation starred Jackson as a man on trial in Mississippi for killing the two men who raped his daughter. “In ‘A Time to Kill,’ when I kill those guys, I kill them because my daughter needs to know that those guys are not on the planet anymore and they will never hurt her again — that I will do anything to protect her,” Jackson said. “That’s how I played that character throughout. And there were specific things we shot, things I did to make sure that she understood that, but in the editing process, they got taken out. And it looked like I killed those dudes and then planned every move to make sure that I was going to get away with it. When I saw it, I was sitting there like, ‘What the fuck?'”

Warning: Spoilers for “And Just Like That…” season 2, episode 6. 

Kevin Spacey's lawyer claimed three of his four accusers were "liars" who fabricated sexual assault allegations against the actor in order to receive a potential payout. Spacey was an easy mark for men who hopped on a "bandwagon" and fabricated stories in hopes of a payout, attorney Patrick Gibbs said.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director While “Oppenheimer” has been touted as Christopher Nolan’s first biopic, that’s not necessarily true. It’s only the director’s first biopic to hit the big screen. Decades ago, Nolan wrote the screenplay for a biopic about aviator and business tycoon Howard Hughes, but the project never took flight because Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Hughes, beat him to it. Nolan told The Daily Beast in 2007 that his Hughes biopic was the best script he’d written, and he even lined up Jim Carrey to star as Hughes. Nolan said Hughes was the role that Carrey was “born to play.” Nolan’s Howard Hughes movie never materialized, but learning how to distill the life of an iconic American figure into a movie script would pay off years later when it came time to penning “Oppenheimer.”

BreAnna Bell International Drag Day was celebrated Wednesday night at the World of Wonder Gallery in Hollywood. As guests enjoyed the festivities, which featured cupcakes as well as “RuPaul’s Drag Race” merch and cocktails, the evening’s performers — Jiggly Caliente, Pangina Heals and Nicky Doll — addressed political attacks against drag performers. On Monday, Ohio representatives Josh Williams (R-Sylvania) and Angela King (R-Celina) introduced a bill at their statehouse that would ban “adult cabaret performances” that showcase “entertainers who exhibit a gender identity that is different from the performers’ or entertainers’ gender assigned at birth” in all locations outside of nightclubs or bars. The bill is the latest anti-drag motion to follow after Tennessee’s anti-drag show law, which was deemed unconstitutional by a federal judge in June. Measures have also been filed, with varying levels of success, in Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, and Idaho.

A row of shops has been cordoned off after a teenager was stabbed in the back.

Scotland's armchair fans look set to avoid a blackout of the national team’s bid for Euro 2024 qualification despite Viaplay’s decision to pull out of all UK sport coverage.

Rangers have launched a new and improved bid for top striking target Danilo.

Summer is prime time for pesky house flies to invade homes and once they get in they can be a nightmare to banish.

Gloucestershire Police have confirmed that missing First Dates star Paddy White has been found.

Brendan Rodgers insists Daizen Maeda can be the centre of attention for Celtic this season as he sees the Japan star as a striker, writes Michael Gannon in Japan.

Season 2 of The Bear came in strong on Nielsen’s weekly streaming top 10, landing at No. 5. on the overall chart.

Cillian Murphy and Christopher Nolan are marking their sixth collaboration with Oppenheimer, the biographical epic about the titular complicated and brilliant physicist tasked with leading the Manhattan Project, the secret effort to create the atom bomb, and the moral and political struggles that followed. This is the first time Murphy, who plays Oppenheimer, is essaying a lead role for Nolan – “Finally!”, as he enthuses with a wink below.

Cable news was again a study in contrasts on Thursday: Fox News carried a big portion of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s testimony before a House committee, while CNN and MSNBC did not.

Carlin Glynn, the Tony-winning star of Broadway hit The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, died July 13 from complications of dementia and cancer. She was 83 and her death was confirmed by her daughter, actress Mary Stuart Masterson.

Refresh for more …The first Indian film, Project K, to make its grand debut in Hall H made a lot of noise –a lot — today with a grand musical number that rivaled Amazon Prime Video’s Lord of the Rings orchestra and choral last year.

If elections in Uganda were free and fair, pop star-turned politician Bobi Wine might be president of his country instead of the dictator Yoweri Museveni, who has clung to power for 36 years.

The Cleveland Guardians are actually one of the few teams in the MLB that have the assets to make a Shohei Ohtani trade happen. Ohtani is the biggest name in baseball right now and he has been for a few years. The Los Angeles Angels are not even sure if they are willing to trade Shohei just yet.

Vanna White has signed a new deal to return as host of ABC’s Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, which involves a significant salary increase, we hear.

Jessica White is reflecting on her past relationships.

3-minute clip that counts 1.9 million views since it was posted Wednesday to TikTok.“It’s a huge issue and people need to love themselves — even when hater-trolls tell them they’re ugly and worthless,” the “Jersey Shore: Family Vacation” star told The Post on Thursday. “F–k the weight bullying. People are so f–king rude.”Polizzi, 35, has been targeted by weight watchers since she joined the “Jersey Shore” cast in 2009.

Pantera is finally about to launch their 2023 headlining tour.From July 28 through Nov. 10, the legendary rockers will play venues all over North America with special guest Lamb of God.Along the way, they’ll stop in Camden, NJ’s Freedom Mortgage Pavilion on Aug.

Ryan Gosling knows that Ken gives credit where it is due, and he’s doing the same when it comes to his style in Barbie.

The highly anticipated movie Barbie is now in theaters after years of waiting and fans are going to pack cinemas around the country all weekend long to see the film!

Takeshi’s Castle is set to come to Amazon Prime Video next month, featuring new commentators Romesh Ranganathan and Tom Davis.The beloved series first aired in the UK in 2002. It ran until the beginning of 2004 and was rebooted for one series in 2013, before another reboot helmed by Jonathan Ross arrived in 2018.The latest reboot of the game show will launch on August 30.

Beabadoobee has released her latest single, a sentimental acoustic track titled ‘The Way Things Go’ with a ballet-inspired video. Check it out below.The song reflects on a relationship that has faded with the singer reflecting on both the good times as well as the bad.Beabadoobee – real name Beatrice Laus – sings “Didn’t think you’d ever stoop so low / Getting with the only girl you know / A lousy route that only makes me say / ‘That’s pretty lame and that’s the way things go’ / Oh, I guess that’s just the way things go,” recalling the wrong in a past relationship but finding peace as that’s just “the way things go”.Directed by Jacob Erland, the accompanying video features Bea and with guitarist Jacob Bugden longside a number of ballet dancers in an ornately decorated room. Bea previously teased a short bit of the track online, which gained a huge wave of fan support with ‘The Way Things Go’ taking on a life of its own online and across TikTok.The track follows her previous single ‘Glue Song‘ which saw her team up with Clairo for a new version of the song.

Earlier this year, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was asked to “make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a benefit” for people over the age of retirement who are caring for relatives and do not qualify for Carer's Allowance. A retiree cannot be awarded full State Pension and Carer’s Allowance at the same time as they are overlapping benefits, however, DWP said an older claimant could still be eligible for Housing Benefit.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced a new update for millions of people due to receive the £150 disability cost of living payment. The Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work, Tom Pursglove MP, told MPs in the House of Commons on Tuesday that DWP plans to have made 99 per cent of payments to those already eligible by Monday, June 26.