NBA icon Charles Barkley visited “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on this week and got pretty candid about his advocacy for LGBTQ rights. DeGeneres started off by thanking Barkley for his protest against North Carolina’s House Bill 2, also known as the “bathroom bill,” which prohibited transgender people from using restrooms …
Read More »Daytime Emmys Finds New Home On Its Own Streaming App
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has found a new home for the Daytime Emmys with its own streaming service. The new platform is expected to launch within the next several weeks, yet months before the Daytime Emmys take place this year. According to Variety, the Daytime Emmys …
Read More »Mother Slams School For Calling Police On Kindergarten Student With Down Syndrome Over a Finger Gun Gesture
A Pennsylvania elementary school called the police on a kindergartner with Down syndrome for making a finger gun gesture at her teacher. Although officials concluded there was no threat, the girl’s mother says they went too far. Maggie Gaines, the mother of the six-year-old student, asked the Tredyffrin-Easttown School District …
Read More »Man Charged After Paralyzing Teen Who Refused To Have Sex With Him
18-year-old Shamar Walker is accused of shooting a 13-year-old girl in the back and paralyzing her after she refused to have sex with him last month in Gary, Indiana. Walker has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery, battery resulting in serious bodily injury and battery by means of a …
Read More »Thai Soldier Responsible For Massacre Killed By Security Forces
Thai soldier, Jackraphanth Thomma, 32, who went on a deadly shooting rampage Saturday has been killed by security forces authorities have confirmed. Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said early Sunday Thomma had been shot dead, and that the Terminal 21 mall in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima, also known as …
Read More »Netflix Docu-Series “Who Killed Malcolm X” May Lead To The Re-Opening Of His Assassination Case
For more than 50 years, scholars and skeptics have believed prosecutors convicted the wrong men in the assassination of Malcolm X. Now, the Manhattan district attorney’s office is reviewing whether to reinvestigate the murder…thanks in part to activist Abdur-Rahman Muhammad and Director Rachel Dretzin. “What got us hooked was the …
Read More »Q From 112 Responds To Ma$e And Diddy Conflict “I’m In The Same Situation”
Apparently, Ma$e is not the only former Bad Boy artist that feels slighted by Diddy and his questionable business practices. Quinnes “Q” Parker, formerly of 112, shares with TMZ that he’s in a similar predicament as Ma$e and wants the other half of his publishing back too. He also feels …
Read More »Lori Harvey Avoids Carjacking In Atlanta, Rolls Royce Not Stolen
Lori Harvey continues to have an eventful beginning to her 2020, but this time it wasn’t much of a positive vibe. Lori’s Rolls-Royce Cullinan was almost jacked at an apartment complex in Atlanta Wednesday night, but her quick thinking helped avoid injury and being without her ride. Lori told police …
Read More »Newborn Baby Rescued From Safe Haven Box At Indiana Fire Station
A newborn baby, only one hour old, was placed in a Safe Haven box at Seymour Fire Station Three in Seymour, Indiana. Fortunately, the baby was retrieved by firefighters within 60 seconds. Moments after the infant was placed in the temperature-controlled baby box, firefighters took her out and began giving …
Read More »Diddy Calls Out Grammy Awards “Black Music Has Never Been Respected By The Grammys”
Diddy was honored by his Bad Boy Records family last night at Clive Davis’ annual pre-Grammy party, and he used his acceptance speech as a platform to motivate everyone in the room to demand respect and recognition from the Recording Academy…and they only have 365 days to do so. The …
Read More »Kobe Bryant And Daughter Gianna Killed In Helicopter Crash
Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Marie, also known as Gigi, have reportedly died in a helicopter crash today in Calabasas, confirmed by TMZ Sports. Kobe and Gianna were on their way to the Mamba Academy in nearby Thousand Oaks for basketball practice with two other people in his …
Read More »Kobe Bryant Killed Helicopter Crash, No Survivors Aboard
Kobe Bryant has reportedly died in a helicoper crash in Calabasas this morning, confirmed by TMZ Sports. Kobe was traveling with at least three other people in his private helicopter when a fire broke out and the craft went down. Emergency personnel responded, however unfortunately there were no survivors. Five …
Read More »Marine’s Wife Dies After He Trips On Pothole While Carrying Her During Date Night
John Pinkham and his new wife Robyn were having a fun night out with friends on June 15, 2019, when things suddenly took a turn for the worst, and now John is seeking justice for the unfortunate accident. According to NBC affiliate KNSD in San Diego, Pinkham was carrying his wife …
Read More »California Man Charged With Intentional Deaths Of Three Teens Playing Ding Dong Ditch Prank
42-year-old Anurag Chandra of Corona, California, has been charged with murder after “intentionally” ramming his car into a vehicle carrying six teenage boys, killing three. According to authorities, the teens were playing a “doorbell ditch” prank on Chandra and prompted his violent reaction. Last weekend, six teen boys: Drake Ruiz, …
Read More »First U.S. Case Of Potentially Deadly Chinese Coronavirus Confirmed In Washington State
A man in Washington state has been diagnosed with the life-threatening virus, Coronavirus, becoming the first case confirmed in the United States of the China bred illness that has killed at least six people since December, according to the U.S. officials. The World Health Organization is meeting Wednesday to decide …
Read More »Former Drexel University Professor Arrested For Spending Almost $200K In Grant Money At Bars, Strip Clubs, and iTunes
Former Drexel University professor Chikaodinaka Nwankpa, 57, was arrested this week and charged with theft by unlawful taking and theft by deception after stealing $185,000 in research grant money and using it at adult entertainment venues and other expenses, according to the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. Nwankpa was arrested by …
Read More »Puerto Rico Emergency Director Fired After Residents Discover Warehouse Full Of Hurricane Maria Supplies
Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced fired director of Puerto Rico’s Office of Emergency Management, Carlos Acevedo, hours after a warehouse filled with water and supplies was discovered by residents of Ponce, a recently earthquake-ravaged city on the island. Several residents were seen opening rolling metal doors of the warehouse …
Read More »Kidnapped Teen Saved By Using Snapchat To Alert Friends Of Her Location
A 14-year-old California girl who had been kidnapped by three men was found this week after using Snapchat to tell her friends she’d been kidnapped and didn’t know where she was, according to the San Jose Police Department. In a press release, the department said the girl’s friends used the …
Read More »Instagram Implementing “False Information” Warning Label On Photoshopped Images
Instagram is reportedly implementing a new feature in which images that have been photo-shopped will be labeled as “false information” and could cause trouble in paradise for many IG models and influencers who previously got away with altering their images for likes. According to HypeBeast, the app will begin determining the authenticity …
Read More »Former Congressman Chris Collins Sentenced To 26 Months In Jail For Insider Trading
A Manhattan federal court judge sentenced disgraced former New York Congressman Chris Collins to 26 months in prison for insider trading on Friday after the 69-year-old pleaded guilty in October to the insider trading charges, in addition to lying to the FBI. Collins admitted he called his son, Cameron, from …
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