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Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, former VP Joseph Biden Jr., former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren at the Democratic debate at Las Vegas‘ Paris Theatre on Wednesday night and things got tense. A highlight from the evening featured Warren going after Bloomberg over […]
Soon-to-be former Cleveland Browns offensive lineman Greg Robinson was busted near the Mexico–United States border in Texas with 157 pounds of marijuana inside his rented sport utility vehicle Monday, TMZ reports. Robinson was traveling from Los Angeles to Louisiana with former NFL player and Auburn teammate Quan Bray, and a third unidentified person when their vehicle was stopped at around 7:15 p.m. on […]
Nick Cannon appeared on VladTV to discuss the various problems that continue to plague hip-hop—specifically drug abuse. The conversation began with a discussion of Lil Wayne’s recent run-in with the law. On Dec. 23, 2019, federal agents searched a private jet Weezy and his crew had taken to Miami. The search yielded nearly $26,000 in cash, bullets and […]
Young Thug, an artist known for defying gender norms, is receiving backlash over a tweet that has been deemed transphobic. The ATL rapper was addressing Dwyane Wade‘s 12-year-old daughter, Zaya, who recently came out as transgender. Thugger began his ill-conceived message by misgendering the child, and went on to suggest Zaya was going against god’s will by living her […]
50 Cent was not thrilled to learn that the estate of Rick James is currently fighting rape allegations. When 50 found out about the news on Monday, he took to Instagram where he questioned the accuser’s sanity. “Oh fuck this i’m done with all this shit,” 50 captioned a screenshot of the news. “Nah i […]
Ugandan actress Nikita Pearl Waligwa, who was in the 2016 Disney film Queen of Katwe, has died at 15 years old. Waligwa had been diagnosed with a brain tumor, BBC reports. After she initially found out she had a brain tumor in 2016, Queen of Katwe director Mira Nair reportedly urged people to donate to […]
Jussie Smollett’s purported co-conspirators in orchestrating last year’s hate crime believe the actor should confess. Abel and Ola Osundairo were leaving a restaurant in Chicago when TMZ caught up with them. Ola says that they are urging Smollett to “build up the courage to finally tell the truth,” thereby suggesting that they’re sticking to their […]
Advocates for criminal justice reform secured a big win this week: Los Angeles County announced it would dismiss nearly 66,000 marijuana-related convictions—some of which date back to 1961. According to the Los Angeles Times, The move was confirmed Thursday by county District Attorney Jackie Lacey, who underscored the way drug war enforcement disproportionately affected people of color. “The dismissal […]
Chinese officials confirmed that 1,716 medical workers have been infected with the coronavirus; six of those cases have resulted in death. Zeng Yixin, the vice minister of China’s National Health Commission, announced the startling figure during a Tuesday press conference. “At present, the duties of medical workers at the front are indeed extremely heavy,” he said, as reported by […]
Scientists studying the genomes of West Africans reported this week that they had “detected signs” of an extinct human species that they’re calling a “ghost population.” The discovery was detailed in a study published this week in the Science Advances journal, per a Reuters report from Thursday. “We estimate interbreeding occurred approximately 43,000 years ago, with large intervals of […]
