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Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Denzel Washington is one of the most famous people on the planet, but he shows a new side of himself in a first-person feature in Esquire. Denzel looks back at having “one foot” in the rough streets of Mount Vernon, New York, growing up, and tracks his life from then […]
Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead via Flickr (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump continues to announce his picks for top jobs inside his administration, most recently naming nominees for energy secretary and to helm the Federal Communications Commission. Meanwhile, fallout continues for former Rep. Matt Gaetz, Trump’s choice to serve as attorney general. The […]
Ismail Sen/Anadolu via Getty Images (CHAPEL HILL, N.C.) — Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space when she made a remarkable discovery. Barber used data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to observe the brightness of stars over time. During the […]
Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC (NEW YORK) — President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal hush money conviction in New York must be dismissed “to facilitate the orderly transition of Executive power,” Trump’s defense attorneys argued Wednesday in a letter to the court. Defense attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove — both of whom Trump nominated last week to top DOJ posts in his […]
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Melissa Lucio, the death row inmate who was convicted of capital murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, is speaking out in an exclusive statement and audio recording to ABC News for the first time since a judge found last month that the Texas mother who has been behind bars […]
Emily Fennick / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Righteous Torrance “Chevy” Hill had great plans for his future, cut short by a fatal shooting in front of his own home in February. Hill, a transgender man, left behind a budding legacy of activism as the founder of an LGBTQ-focused salon and barber shop called Evollusion. […]
Sophie Giraud/Netflix Meet Me Next Christmas, the Netflix film starring Devale Ellis and Christina Milian, remains in the streaming platform’s top 10 films for a second week. After debuting atop the list the week of Nov. 4-Nov. 10, the movie now sits in the #2 spot, following Hot Frosty. The film follows Christina’s Layla as she […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — While the House Ethics Committee will meet behind closed doors on Wednesday to discuss its investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, it’s possible that Congress could go around the committee to release the panel’s findings. According to House rules, any member of Congress […]
Photo by Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for ESSENCE Usher recently returned to Sin City for a different kind of residency. He has opened a skating rink residency titled Flipper’s World Roller Boogie Palace alongside friend Liberty Ross. “This is kind of a victory lap for Las Vegas,” he told PEOPLE at the spot’s grand opening, where he […]
Sam Costanza/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A man accused of killing three people in an apparent unprovoked stabbing spree in Manhattan made his first appearance in court on Tuesday. Ramon Rivera, 51, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder, according to the New York Police Department. He confessed to the killings […]
