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The unscripted slap that Will Smith delivered to Chris Rock during the 94th annual Academy Awards will likely go down as one of the most shocking live television moments of all time. Smith, who approached Rock on stage moments after he delivered an off-side joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, managed to silence an […]
In HBO’s award-winning biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, it was important to recreate the Oscar scene. Dandridge was the first Black woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Drama for her title role in the Otto Preminger-directed Carmen Jones. The 1954 film, which featured an all-Black cast including Harry […]
TMZ has obtained an internal email sent by an Applebee’s franchise executive suggesting that the company’s best response to rising gas prices would be lowering the wages of new potential employees. Wayne Pankratz, an exec for American Franchise Capital, which owns a reported 50 Applebee’s locations across the Midwest, believes the restaurant could benefit from a number of factors, including inflation, the gas price […]
Elon Musk has a question for his followers. The Tesla CEO—who recently challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to “single combat”—hopped back on Twitter on Friday to ask his followers about free speech, and if they feel “Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle.” In a poll he shared, in which over 2 million users participated, roughly […]
Four people are dead after a driver crashed his vehicle into a homeless camp in Salem, Oregon, CNN reports. According to a press release from the Salem Police Department, the incident occurred around 2 a.m. on Sunday. Two members of the camp were found dead at the scene, while four others were transported to Salem Health hospital […]
Former President Donald Trump and his two sons have agreed to sit for depositions in a class action lawsuit alleging they worked with a fraudulent marketing company. CNN reports the 2018 lawsuit alleges that Trump accepted payments in exchange for the use of his show The Celebrity Apprentice to promote ACN Opportunity, a telecommunications marketing company linked to a […]
Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean islands have hit the market for $125 million. According the Wall Street Journal, the properties include the 160-plus-acre Great St. James and the 72-acre Little St. James, located near St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The late financier reportedly purchased the latter—widely known as “Pedophile Island” and “Orgy Island”—in 1998 for around $8 million. […]
A California man is facing decades behind bars for his alleged involvement in illegal wildlife trade. According to the Justice Department, 30-year-old Jose Manuel Perez—aka “Julio Rodriguez”—was arrested last month after he tried to smuggle dozens of reptiles from Mexico into the U.S. Federal agents say the Oxford resident was stopped at the border, and was found with […]
Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against his former presidential opponent Hillary Clinton. According to court documents obtained by CNN, the ex-POTUS is suing Clinton and dozens of others for allegedly undermining his 2016 campaign. Clinton’s co-defendants include the Democratic National Committee, former FBI Director James Comey, and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, all of whom are accused […]
The U.S. is expected to announce plans to welcome as many as 100,000 people from Ukraine who are fleeing the country amid Russia’s invasion. The Biden administration, per a source cited in an NBC News report, will allow for entry via a number of options, including the Refugee Admissions Program. Other avenues mentioned in the […]
