YouTube/CThaGod Travis Scott is breaking his silence for the first time since Astroworld, insisting he didn’t know the severity of what was happening in the crowd, and alleging the person in his ear never expressed an urgency to immediately stop the show. Travis sat down with Charlamagne tha God for nearly an hour to talk…Continue Reading
Slim 400 Dead at 33 Shot and Killed in L.A. 12/9/2021 4:26 AM PT Slim 400 — an up-and-coming rapper in the California hip-hop scene — has been shot and killed in L.A. … TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … Slim was gunned down Wednesday night in Inglewood. It’s currently unclear what…Continue Reading
J. Prince Ye & Drake Are Gonna Save Lives By Sharing Stage for Benefit 12/9/2021 1:00 AM PT TMZ.com Drake and Ye wouldn’t be getting ready for tonight’s huge Larry Hoover benefit concert at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum if music mogul J. Prince hadn’t stepped in to broker their peace treaty … and he’s telling…Continue Reading
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed on December 10, 1948. This year’s theme is Equality. December 9, 2021Continue Reading
The military’s role in politics has emboldened the religious far right. December 9, 2021 Islamabad—Last week—in a bewildering display of public violence—a Sri Lankan factory manager, Priyantha Kumara, was lynched and set ablaze by a mob of his own workers in the industrial city of Sialkot, Punjab. Speaking to the media before their arrest, the…Continue Reading
Thanks to a recent investigation, we now know that two of the men who spent decades in prison for the crime were innocent. But we are no closer to closure over an assassination that changed the course of world history December 9, 2021 The exoneration last month of Muhammad Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam 55…Continue Reading
Doug Henwood argues that without raising taxes, many leftist policies will come with risks, while Lauren Melodia writes that the GOP is exaggerating inflation concerns. December 9, 2021 Inflation is a serious problem for the first time in decades. Starting in the late 1960s, the rate of inflation began increasing; 1965’s 1.6 percent rose to…Continue Reading
Posted December 9, 2021 at 7:45amHouse Democrats have updated their list of incumbents who will receive the bulk of the party’s support during the 2022 midterms, as redistricting narrows Democrats’ path to keeping the majority. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is dropping five members from Texas and Georgia from its Frontline program for vulnerable incumbents and…Continue Reading
House Democrats are pushing legislative proposals to task the Securities and Exchange Commission and other financial market regulators with requiring companies to disclose racial and gender pay equity audits, board director demographics and other diversity-related information.Such measures would pressure investment firms and other public companies to follow through on vows to address racial and gender disparities in…Continue Reading
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