Source: UCG / Getty Most of us have songs that live so deeply in our memory, we can recite the lyrics on command years after the last time we listened to them. When we hear those songs again, even decades later, we enter a form of sonic time travel; the lyrics naturally repopulate in our…
President Donald Trump spent much of the weekend trying to convince people that his America 250 fair was a success. He told his followers it was “packed to the brim” and claimed an estimated 45,000 people attended. But his version of events doesn’t quite match the images circulating online after White House Press Secretary Karoline…
A distraught Virginia woman is calling for justice in the senseless killing of her dog at the hands of a Norfolk police officer. Stormi, a 3-year-old pit bull-type dog, was fatally shot by an officer responding to an emergency at Alizana Cummings’s apartment building. The tragic encounter occurred on Father’s Day, June 21. Police placed…
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 28: Lauryn Hill accepts the Living Legend Icon Award onstage during the BET Awards 2026 at Peacock Theater on June 28, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET) The annual awards honored the year’s top achievements in music, television, film and sports, with Teyana Taylor…
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 28: (L-R) Keke Palmer and Druski speak during the BET Awards 2026 at Peacock Theater on June 28, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET) Palmer grabbed the mic mid-show, joked the hosting job should’ve been hers and seamlessly introduced Cardi B’s performance. Keke Palmer…
An Ohio police officer claimed he was detaining a group of Black teens for their “safety” after spotting them walking in the middle of a residential street on April 10. But the Toledo officer ended up grabbing a 15-year-old girl, Kaelynn Reynolds, shoving her against a patrol car, then throwing her to the ground and…
Donald Trump seemed to be ready to trade headlines for the fairway over the weekend. The president traveled to his Trump National Golf Club Washington D.C., after weeks of a bunch of unfavorable headlines. His supporters have remained loyal through each controversy. Whether it was the algae-filled Reflecting Pool or the messy South Lawn after…
Donald Trump woke up Saturday and chose to embarrass himself. Again. And Barack Obama didn’t even have to show up. The 80-year-old president had already spent the morning posting AI images of himself as a character from Greek mythology holding the world on his shoulders. However, he was not done. Something in his mind made…
Donald Trump has spent a decade measuring his worth in bodies, both crowds and the women around him. From the moment he descended that golden escalator in 2015, crowd size became his currency. It was his ultimate proof that America loved him more than anyone who came before. MAGA followers have also pointed to his…
Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) used a House Oversight Committee hearing nominally focused on SNAP fraud to instead grill USDA Inspector General John Walk on his qualifications before pivoting to a prop-assisted takedown of an actual Trump-connected contractor accused of fraud. The first-term Democratic Virginia congressman opened his questioning period in the June 25 session by…
