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Janelle Monáe has come out as non-binary. The Grammy-nominated artist discussed her gender identity in the season 5 premiere of Red Table Talk with Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Norris. “I’m nonbinary, so I just don’t see myself as a woman, solely,” Monáe told the hosts. “I feel all of my energy. I feel like God […]

Most people who’ve got their assets in order choose to pass on their wealth to their children or family once they die. That’s a pretty standard move. John MacLellan, a life-long resident of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, a town near the famous Cape Breton region with a population of 4,300-ish people, had different plans for his […]

  The U.S. Capitol was briefly evacuated out of an abundance of caution Wednesday after police identified an aircraft near Nationals Park prior to tonight’s baseball game as a “possible threat,” NBC Washington reports.   The “possible threat” turned out to be a utility plane carrying members of the US Army Golden Knights who were participating in Military Appreciation […]

The presidential campaign of Donald Trump has been ordered by a court arbitrator to pay former Apprentice star Omarosa Manigault Newman 1.3 million in legal fees, The New York Times reports. Trump’s team sued Manigault Newman over her book “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House.” The memoir, in which she called Trump “a racist,” documented Manigault Newman’s time working for the […]

It seems Piers Morgan left Donald Trump triggered. In the debut episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored, the former president slammed the host for questioning his baseless claims about 2020 election fraud. Talk TV shared a 30-second trailer of the “explosive” interview, in which Trump called the British broadcaster a “fool” and “very dishonest.” The teaser ends with the former president […]

Magi Merlin is back with her latest track with Montreal label Bonsound, “Pissed Black Girl.” She’s also just announced her upcoming EP Gone Girl, coming May 27.  Following Gone Girl’s first single “Free Grillz,” “Pissed Black Girl” is a tune reminiscent of the peak of a night out. Calling on ’90s house and a big, buzzy bassline, the track is tied together […]

Content warning: This article contains footage and descriptions of police detaining a child. Viral footage showing cops in Syracuse, New York detaining a child for (in their words) “stealing stuff” is drawing widespread criticism. In the clip, which had been shared to Twitter and Reddit at the time of this writing, a child can be seen and heard crying […]

A newly released field report on a teen’s fatal fall from a Florida amusement park ride shows the attraction had been rendered “unsafe” due to manual adjustments, investigators said this week. Per a report from CBS News, Quest Engineering and Failure Analysis had been enlisted by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to […]

A Florida federal judge on Monday voided the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s national mask mandate covering airplanes and other forms of public transportation. CBS News reports U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle argues the CDC overstepped its authority in requiring, calling it “unlawful” that travelers must wear masks on airplanes, buses, and trains. Mizelle argued […]

An ex-principal at a Queens, New York high school who was allegedly involved in a scam to fraudulently hike up his school’s graduation rate will still get paid. The New York Post reports that Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir was previously the principal for Maspeth High School—at least until July 2021, when he was prohibited from his former […]