Members of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow visited Brittney Griner on Thursday, just over a week after the WNBA star lost her appeal on drug smuggling charges. “We are told she is doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances,”White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Thursday …
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Nick Cannon will soon have enough children to build a soccer team. Via a nude photoshoot (of course) with model Alyssa Scott, the two announced that they have a “miracle” on the way after the couple lost their 5-month-old son to brain cancer last December. The baby on the way …
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Once the Black Panther, always the Black Panther. In the first episode of Wakanda Forever, Proximity Media and Marvel‘s official Black Panther podcast, host Ta-Nehisi Coates spoke with Black Panther director Ryan Coogler on how the Marvel film went from potential script to worldwide success. Coogler is returning to direct …
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In a series of rapid changes to the Twitterverse, the company plans on emailing employees on Friday about whether they have been laid off and will temporarily close its offices, Reuters reported on Thursday. “In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult …
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Jordan Rondel was three years into bringing her small business, The Caker — a sophisticated line of pre-made cake mixes — from New Zealand, where she launched it in 2010, to the United States when she got an unexpected notification in her Instagram inbox from none other than Chrissy Teigen. …
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Kyrie Irving finally addressed the controversy surrounding the antisemitic film he shared to his Twitter followers. But even with his statement, he didn’t apologize, with NBA commissioner Adam Silver criticizing the Brooklyn Nets star for not offering “an unqualified apology.” On Wednesday, Irving “took responsibility” for his action and said …
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Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal are not happy with the NBA’s decision to not suspend Kyrie Irving for his antisemitic actions on Twitter. Last week, Irving promoted a venomously antisemitic book on Twitter, which Rolling Stone first reported. On Inside the NBA Tuesday, the former pro players said they believed …
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COVID. Monkeypox. The old-fashioned flu. We’re living in a new era of overlapping viral outbreaks. But as frightening as these diseases might be, at least there are safe, effective and readily-available vaccines for each of them—even if the first COVID vaccines did take a year of frantic work. There’s at …
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It’s been a rough year for big tech, what with all those plummeting stock prices and rising costs making people question whether they really need to pay for extra subscriptions. The big companies have to do what they can to survive, which is why it looks like both Tumblr and …
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Nikolas Cruz was formally sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing 17 people in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, according to The Associated Press. The sentence was handed down Nov. 2, several weeks after the jury recommended he receive life in …
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