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Thitiphat Khuankaew / EyeEm / Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Four Florida families filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court against Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, Board of Medicine, and Board of Osteopathic Medicine, over the state ban against gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The ban prohibits puberty blockers, hormones, cross-hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery […]
AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — “Let me tell you, it is a serious situation. It is a tragedy,” says Paul Turnbull, Malawi Country Director of the World Food Programme. He is talking about the aftermath of Cyclone Freddy, one of the deadliest and long-lived tropical cyclones to have ever been recorded in Southern […]
Finley Family Photo (FORT WORTH, Texas) — One Texas family is celebrating an extra special homecoming this week. Five-month-old baby JamieLynn Finley was discharged from the Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday, two months after undergoing successful separation surgery from her conjoined twin sister AmieLynn, according to a hospital press release. […]
Francis Specker/CBS Two of Mary J. Blige‘s songs have inspired original Lifetime movies, which she will executive produce. Mary J. Blige’s Real Love and Mary J. Blige’s Strength of a Woman are slated to premiere in June. Real Love sees Ajiona Alexus take on the role of 18-year-old Kendra, who’s heading to a historically black college in North Carolina on a scholarship, Deadline reports. She attempts to […]
ABC/Gilles Mingasson (NOTE LANGUAGE) In a wide-ranging interview with the Wake Up with Angela Yee podcast, Abbott Elementary Emmy winner Sheryl Lee Ralph discussed an accusation she made in her new book, DIVA 2.0: 12 Life Lessons From Me For You, in which a “famous” person sexually assaulted her at a public event. “There was […]
Rahul Bhatt for iHeartMedia J. Cole showed his support for an aspiring rapper by lending an ear to his music … in person. The rapper met up with Ty Trilly at a New York City apartment building, where he listened to the songs. “Cole pulled up on me To hear my new s***, No Meetings in the city straight Raw […]
Terence Patrick/CBS Rihanna recently took a trip to Bristol Farms supermarket, where she engaged with some of her fans. Content creator Stacey Roimen shared selfies and videos of her encounter with the singer, praising her for being kind and down to earth. “My God I don’t even know where to start,” Stacey captioned the post. “I had such a genuine […]
Rich Polk/NBC Will the Combs family be the next Kardashians? According to Page Six, they could be. The publication reports Diddy, born Sean Combs, is working with Hulu on a show that will feature him and his seven children — hence the tentative title Diddy + 7. “It’s going to profile the entire family. They all have businesses — even the […]
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The fraught politics of immigration have largely focused on the land border between the U.S. and Mexico, but on Thursday afternoon a panel of lawmakers will turn to Florida’s maritime border and what government data shows is a sharply rising wave of migration from the Caribbean. The […]
Stella/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — More than 30,000 picketing Los Angeles school service employees are expected to return to work on Friday after a planned three-day strike prompted the city’s mayor to intervene and jumpstart labor negotiations. The job walkout by the Service Employees International Union Local 99 — which includes bus drivers, cafeteria workers […]
