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Former President George Herbert Walker Bush has died at the age of 94. He was the forty-first president of the United States. Bush, a Republican, was elected to the presidency in 1988, defeating Democrat Michael Dukakis in the Electoral College 426 to 111. He received just over 53% in the popular vote. He would go on to lose his […]
It looks like Prakazrel “Pras” Michel is in some hot water. The ex-Fugees rapper and a former Justice Department official named George Higginbotham are being accused of taking part in a conspiracy to route millions of dollars, through multiple banks accounts they allegedly opened, to a Malaysian fugitive, prosecutors allege, per ABC News. Prosecutors are saying they did this in the […]
TMZ has obtained court documents from a class action lawsuit against Playboy.com filed by a legally blind man named Donald Nixon who claims he “cannot fully and equally use or enjoy the facilities, products, and services” provided by the website. Nixon claims in the suit that Playboy.com and Playboyshop.com are violating the American with Disabilities Act because their sites aren’t compatible […]
On Sunday, images of migrants at the border being shot at by U.S. border patrol agents and military with tear gas circulated online. One disturbing photo of a mother pulling her barefoot children away from a cloud of gas quickly spread on social media, drawing widespread outrage. A migrant family, part of a caravan of thousands traveling from […]
On the day after Thanksgiving, the government decided to crush our spirits by reminding everyone that climate change is only getting worse, and will have devastating consequences for our country and beyond. As CNN reports, the fourth National Climate Assesment outlines what impact climate change could have on our economy, as the U.S. could slose billions of […]
The Trump Administration is asking the Supreme Court to hear arguments on its transgender military ban, hoping that the conservative-leaning court will allow the ban to go through and end injunctions placed on the policy by lower-court judges, according to CNN. Justice Department lawyers filed petitions on Friday in three separate cases regarding the administration’s […]
Donald Trump repeatedly sought the prosecution of his political foes back in spring, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Sources familiar with the matter claim POTUS wanted the Department of Justice to indict his 2016 presidential opponent Hillary Clinton, as well as former FBI director James Comey. When he brought this up to then-White House counsel Don McGahn, Trump was […]
Very few memoirs blend musical and personal history as well as Questlove‘s Mo’ Meta Blues. And while Michelle Obama’s smash-hit Becoming is unlikely to knock it off its perch, it does come with a killer soundtrack via the man himself. The former First Lady tapped The Roots drummer and expert curator to create a 300-song […]
In everything she does, Michelle Obama goes high. And that includes selling books. Her new memoir Becoming is the fastest-selling book of the year. According to Forbes, the former First Lady’s book sold over 700,000 copies in its first day on the market. The book dropped on November 13 and instantly sold 725,000 copies across […]
Earlier today, it was reported that 6ix9ine (along with his former manager and a pair of other suspects) had been arrested on racketeering charges. Their arrests had been the end result of a collaborative investigation that the ATF had with assistance from Homeland Security Investigations and the New York City Police Department. The initial report was […]
