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Barack and Michelle Obama appeared Sunday on YouTube’s “Dear Class of 2020” special to address high school and college students now graduating into a country “upended” by a deadly pandemic and “swept by protest.” The former president and first lady had the same message: They, too, have been grappling with anguish and uncertainty and loss. “But that doesn’t mean we […]
JK Rowling has come under fire for making “anti-trans comments” on Twitter. The Harry Potter author had taken issue with the phrasing of a headline for an opinion article about healthcare equality, titled Opinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate. “‘People who menstruate’. I’m sure there used to be a word for […]
Experts hired by George Floyd’s family and the Hennepin County Medical Examiner have concluded his death was a homicide, but they differ on what caused it. The independent autopsy says Floyd died of “asphyxiation from sustained pressure” when his neck and back were compressed by Minneapolis police officers during his arrest last week. The pressure […]
Designer Virgil Abloh has issued an apology. On Monday, the Louis Vuitton men’s artistic director and founder of Off-White took to social media to address his previous comments about people looting, as well as his $50 donation to help protesters who needed bail money. For some backstory: Over the weekend, Virgil uploaded a screenshot to his Instagram Stories—which has now expired but has been shared online—that suggested he […]
A zoo formerly owned by the star of Netflix documentary Tiger King is to be handed over to the woman he was convicted of trying to have killed. A federal judge has given Carole Baskin control of Joe Exotic’s old zoo in Oklahoma as part of a ruling in a $1m (£800,000) trademark dispute. Joe […]
Actor Kendrick Sampson said he was shot seven times with rubber bullets by police in Los Angeles on Saturday during a protest over the death of George Floyd. “He pointed the gun DIRECTLY AT ME,” Sampson wrote on Twitter, linking to a news report about his experience. “I actually got hit 7 times with rubber bullets and many […]
Elon Musk and Grimes have updated the name of their newborn son. The couple made waves earlier this month when they revealed they had named their baby X Æ A-12, pronounced “X Ash A Twelve.” But in an Instagram post on Sunday, Grimes said the baby’s name is now X Æ A-Xii — a tweak to comply with what their […]
Kevin Hart is now sharing that he was more critically injured during his car crash last year than he originally said. The comedic actor appeared the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast that posted Monday and said he suffered fractures in his back and had his spine fused. The crash made Hart appreciate life more, having come so close to death, […]
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — “Jamaicans” and “Caribbean” were trending on Twitter Saturday night after two legendary performers put on an Instagram Live show for the entire world. Music producers Timbaland and Swizz Beatz created Verzuz, a weekly Instagram Live battle, to bring together music lovers stuck inside during the coronavirus pandemic. Saturday’s installation featured Jamaican dancehall […]
KimYe are celebrating another year of marriage. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West wed six years ago today and they have “forever to go,” wrote the mother-of-four on Instagram in an anniversary post. “Until the end,” the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star added, alongside two throwback pics of the couple. The KUWTK star also shared a couple of snapshots of her wedding day […]
