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Hollywood stars Don Cheadle and Colin Farrell have thrown their weight behind a “Marshall Plan for Moms” that would see the federal government send out $2,400 checks each month to mothers for their unpaid work in the home. An open letter published Thursday as a full-page ad in The Washington Post urged Congress to pass financial relief for mothers who have taken on extra responsibilities in the home as a result of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. The letter, which was signed by 50 prominent men, demands “pay equity” for women and other measures such as affordable childcare, paid family leave, and a plan that will safely re-open schools five days a week. “When more than 30 years of progress for women in the workforce can be erased in 9 months, the underlying system is broken,” the letter said. “It’s time to create a new structure that works for women, that respects and values their labor.” Others who signed the letter include New York City mayoral candidate and former … [Read more...] about Colin Farrell, Don Cheadle Among Celebrities Pushing Congress to Pass $2,400 Monthly Payments to Moms

Paramount Plus is the subscription streaming-video service set to replace CBS All Access , costing $10 a month ad-free when it launches Thursday in the US and 18 Latin American countries. Paramount Plus will include live news and sports as well as on-demand shows and movies, including originals -- all of which leaning into parent company ViacomCBS ' brands like CBS , MTV , BET , Comedy Central , Nickelodeon and Paramount Network, plus movies from the Paramount Pictures studio. But Paramount Plus won't have the one show most associated with the Paramount name: Yellowstone . The first three seasons of the cowboy drama are streaming exclusively on rival service Peacock . Down the line, Paramount Plus will have exclusive Yellowstone spinoffs, like the prequel Y:1883 expected later this year. Paramount Plus will have a library of more than 30,000 episodes and 2,500 movies, plus 36 original series debuts this year. Among those originals will be a revival of … [Read more...] about Paramount Plus: Everything to know about CBS All Access’ streaming revamp

HBO Max is the premium network's streaming service featuring all the channel's regular programming plus an amped-up library of extra shows, movies and originals. In an unprecedented move, HBO Max will stream all Warner Bros.' new, theatrically released movies at no extra charge the same day each film hits US cinemas this year -- they'll stay on HBO Max for one month only. The latest first-run film on Max is Tom and Jerry, an update of the classic cartoon that mixes live-action filming with computer-generated animation; it began streaming Friday. Next up will be Godzilla vs. Kong on March 31. (See the next section for a list of all the titles and their expected release dates and times.) But HBO Max has killed its weeklong free trial . That means if you want to stream originals, like the four-hour-long (!) Snyder Cut of Justice League coming March 18, or any of the Warner Bros. movies on its 2021 slate, including Matrix 4 and Dune later this year, you need to … [Read more...] about HBO Max: How to watch Tom and Jerry, Snyder Cut and everything else to know

WASHINGTON: The US Senate confirmed conservative jurist Amy Coney Barrett as the Supreme Court's newest justice on Monday (Oct 26), delivering a landmark and controversial win for President Donald Trump just eight days before the election. The deeply divided chamber voted 52 to 48, largely along party lines in the Republican-controlled Senate, making Barrett the third Trump nominee to reach the high court and cementing a six-to-three conservative majority. One Republican, Susan Collins, voted against the confirmation. Republican lawmakers broke into applause as the tally was read out, and the White House is also expected to celebrate the confirmation in the final run-up to the Nov 3 election, in which more than 60 million Americans have already voted. Barrett's addition cements one of the most right-leaning Supreme Court rosters in generations. The shifting of the Supreme Court and the broader federal judiciary to the right has been a signature achievement of Trump's … [Read more...] about Barrett confirmed to US Supreme Court in Trump pre-election triumph

WASHINGTON: The Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Thursday (Oct 22) to advance Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate as Republicans powered past Democrats' boycott of the session. Democratic senators refused to show up in protest of the GOP's rush to install President Donald Trump's nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Never has the Senate confirmed a Supreme Court nominee so close to a presidential election. The Republicans, who hold the majority, voted in favour of Barrett, a conservative judge. Senators plan to convene a rare weekend session for procedural actions ahead of a final confirmation vote expected on Monday. “Barrett deserves to be on the Supreme Court and she will be confirmed,” said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, the committee chairman from South Carolina. Democrats, he said, “made a choice not to participate”. Instead, Democrats arranged for posters to be placed at their spots of constituents they said … [Read more...] about US Supreme Court nominee Barrett advances to full Senate vote despite Democrat boycott