Daniel Penny walks towards the courtroom, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa) A Manhattan jury cleared Daniel Penny of criminally negligent homicide in Jordan Neely’s chokehold death on a NYC subway last year. NEW YORK (AP) — A Marine veteran who used a chokehold on an agitated subway rider was acquitted…
Source: NYPD A man was shot and killed in public in Midtown Manhattan, and the collective response around the internet has been massive indifference mixed with a lot of dark humor on social media. @loloverruled ♬ layla piano exit by derek and the dominos – tyler Let me say up front that the loss of…
Hugh Jackman’s alleged affair with Broadway actress Sutton Foster has become the latest scandal, sending the Hollywood rumor mill into overtime. The affair with his costar led to the end of his 27-year marriage to actress Deborra-Lee Furness. While a husband’s betrayal is bad enough, another knife in the back comes from another Hollywood couple,…
Entrepreneur Matebogo Victoria communicates using a sign language during an interview with The Associated Press at the Westonaria agricultural park near Bekkersdal, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) The Voiceout Deaf farming collective was created by South African entrepreneur Matebogo Victoria to help deaf people develop agricultural skills and…
President-elect Donald Trump has unveiled a new line of perfume, cologne and self-branded wristwatches celebrating his November election win, but the expensive merchandise sparked fresh outrage on social media, with critics accusing Trump of grifting his supporters in the middle of the holidays. Trump poured more fuel on the fire after posting a hokey new…
This image released by Netflix shows Karla Sofía Gascón, right, and Zoe Saldaña in a scene from “Emilia Pérez.” (Shanna Besson/Netflix via AP) “Emilia Pérez” led the 82nd Golden Globes nominations, scoring 10 nods over other contenders like “Wicked.” ‘Nickel Boys’ also scored a Best Motion Picture nod. Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical “Emilia Pérez,” about a…
FILE – A child follows along with a bookmark as he reads during an after-school literacy program in Atlanta, Thursday, April 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, File) States around the country have been overhauling reading curricula in favor of research-based strategies known as the “science of reading.” A lawsuit filed by a pair of Massachusetts families is…
It seems Kanye West’s whirlwind lifestyle might be catching up with him, as a new report suggests his wife, Bianca Censori, has grown frustrated with the lack of stability in their lives. The couple have been traveling around the world and more recently across Japan over the last few months. But now Censori is tired…
Director Barry Jenkins poses for the photographers during the photocall for Disney’s movie “Mufasa: The Lion King” in Rome, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) The live-action prequel offers a fresh exploration into Mufasa’s origin, with help from stars Aaron Pierre and Blue Ivy. SAN DIEGO (AP) — When Aaron Pierre was cast as Mufasa, the…
Source: GoFundMe / GoFundMe The family of a Black man shot and killed by Southern California Police have launched a GoFundMe to raise money for his children, but it hasn’t received much attention. On November 19, Brandon Boyd, 38, was shot and killed by Long Beach Police while he was having a mental health crisis….
