Simone Biles, 28, was one of the big winners at the 2025 ESPY Awards by taking home two trophies from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on July 16. At the Shane Gillis-hosted event to honor individual and team achievements in sports, the professional gymnast was named Best Women’s Athlete and Best Championship Performance during…
Source: Joe Raedle / Getty A prison—no, a concentration camp—squats in the middle of the Florida Everglades, slick with humidity and menace. Its perimeter is crawling with coiling pythons, prowling alligators, and water thick like swamp stew. But the only sign greeting visitors is deceptively simple, a bright blue highway placard that reads, almost cheerfully,…
Residents gather during a community vigil on Monday, June 30, 2025, to stand in solidarity with an immigrant family after ICE agents detained Rosalina Luna Vargas on Saturday, June 28, in front of her children, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) A newly revealed agreement gives ICE access to the personal data of 79 million…
FILE – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event on May 31, 2023, in Salix, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) Florida’s Supreme Court upholds a congressional map that dismantled a majority-Black district, ruling that restoring the district would constitute unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. Florida’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the state’s current congressional redistricting…
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – SEPTEMBER 22: Akon performs on the Mundo Stage during the Rock in Rio festival at Cidade do Rock on September 22, 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Wagner Meier/Getty Images) The “Smack That” rapper and singer also provided an update on the country album that he’s working on…
Megan Thee Stallion and Klay Thompson confirm relationship rumors (Photos: Getty Images) “He makes me genuinely happy,” Megan Thee Stallion said of her new boo Klay Thompson at the Pete & Thomas Foundation Gala. It looks like it’s a lover girl summer for rapper Megan Thee Stallion. Last night, the “Body” rapper and NBA star…
Cellphone video posted to social media shows the moments a Burger King employee admitted to using racial slurs while on his headset with other employees, leading to a heated confrontation between him and two customers. The footage caught the moments the worker at a Burger King in Crystal River, Florida, confessed to using the N-word,…
Source: Stephen Maturen / Getty Look, it’s bad enough when police officers are fired for egregious misconduct or police brutality, only to be hired on by another police department, where they ultimately repeat the same behavior, but the Minneapolis Police Department is really playing around in our faces by giving Amir Locke‘s killer the role…
Brett Hankison, Breonna Taylor (Collage by TheGrio) The officer was convicted on one count of abusing the civil rights of Breonna Taylor for firing shots through Taylor’s bedroom window in the 2020 raid. A former officer convicted in the raid that led to the 2020 shooting death of Breonna Taylor in her Louisville, Ky., home…
Bruno Mars has once again demonstrated his masterful ability to turn controversy into comedy, this time leveraging social media to address persistent rumors about his financial situation with characteristic wit and charm. The Grammy-winning superstar sent his 42 million Instagram followers into a frenzy with a playful post that referenced debunked claims about his alleged…
