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Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images Beyoncé‘s “Freedom” has seen an increase in streams thanks to Vice President Kamala Harris. According to Luminate, the song went from 16,600 streams to 235,400 streams between Sunday and Tuesday, up 1,300%, after it soundtracked Harris’ first walk onstage as a Democratic candidate for the upcoming presidential election. It has since […]
Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Joe Biden at the White House Thursday to discuss the U.S.-Israeli relationship amid tensions over the ongoing conflict in Gaza and a changing political landscape in the U.S. “Welcome back, Mr. Prime Minister. We got a lot to talk about,” […]
Steven Hirsch-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) –Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday asked a New York judge to reject former President Donald Trump’s attempt to throw out his criminal hush money conviction, arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on presidential immunity “has nothing to say about defendant’s conviction.” Trump earlier this month asked […]
Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office (SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) — The Illinois deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey in her home while responding to her 911 call was discharged from the U.S. Army for “misconduct (serious offense),” according to documents obtained by ABC News. Sean Grayson, the former Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy, was discharged on February 24, 2016, […]
NASA via AP (NEW YORK) — Boeing Starliner’s first astronaut-crewed capsule, which launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on June 5, remains docked at the station with no official return date, NASA said Thursday. “We don’t have a major announcement today relative to a return date,” NASA Commercial Crew Program Manager Steve Stich said […]
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A Fox News interview from 2021, in which Sen. JD Vance smeared Vice President Kamala Harris as a “childless cat lady,” has resurfaced since he became the Republican vice presidential nominee, sparking widespread anger. In the clip, Vance questioned Democrats — including Harris, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and U.S. Rep. […]
Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Pharrell has a busy October coming up, as his Something in the Water Festival will be taking place. The Virginian-Pilot reports the Virginia Beach Hotel Association shared the news with its members in an email Tuesday afternoon. “The Something in the Water dates are being released and will be held […]
Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal Tyler Perry has often been criticized for making the same kinds of movies, particularly with a Black female lead in a distressing situation. Instead of entertaining the noise, however, he tells Keke Palmer that he’s learned to tune it out. “You gotta drown all that out,” says Perry, whose movie Divorce in the Black earned […]
Sheila Paras/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Connecticut woman was found dead at her home on Wednesday, hours before she was scheduled to be sentenced for killing her husband. Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, 76, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in March in the 2017 death of her husband, 84-year-old Pierluigi Bigazzi, according to the Connecticut Division of […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie on stage at a speaking event in upstate New York in 2022 now faces federal terrorism charges, according to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday. Hadi Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, was indicted by a grand jury on three counts, including attempting […]
