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The first New Music Friday of December arrives with standout releases across genres. St. Louis rapper-singer Smino delivers his soulful fourth album, Maybe in Nirvana, featuring collaborations with Ravyn Lenae, Thundercat, and Aminé. Meanwhile, Milwaukee artist J.P. drops The Groove, a live EP of tracks from his summer album Coming Out Party. Country duo The […]
Ahead of her upcoming wedding to actor Anthony Davis, Yvette Nicole Brown opened up on the My So-Called Midlife podcast, encouraging women over 40 to embrace being single and child-free. The Good Times: Black Again star shared her journey of finding love later in life and rejecting societal pressures to marry or have children. In […]
A federal appeals court has upheld a law mandating TikTok to divest from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or face a U.S. ban by January 19, 2025. The court rejected TikTok’s claims that the law violates the First and Fifth Amendments, ruling that it aims to protect U.S. citizens from foreign influence and data security […]
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. has eased to 6.69%, the lowest since late October, down from 6.81% last week, according to Freddie Mac. This marks a decrease from last year’s 7.03% average. Rates on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages also dipped, falling to 5.96% from 6.1%. Mortgage rates are influenced by factors […]
Northern California experienced its most powerful earthquake since 2019 on Thursday, as a 7.0 magnitude quake struck near Ferndale in Humboldt County. The temblor rattled a region known as “earthquake country,” where three tectonic plates converge, prompting a tsunami warning that spanned 500 miles of the U.S. West Coast. The alert, later lifted after no […]
A woman died after consuming frog venom at a spiritual cleansing retreat in Mexico. After the woman took in the frog venom she began to suffer from severe vomiting and was denied medical treatment by the people at the retreat before being taken to a Red Cross Hospital where she died. The Attorney General’s office […]
A bus driver for the Ontario bus company has been fired and is being investigated after being accused of encouraging 5th graders to fight on the bus. One of the kids involved came home with a bleeding lip and told his mother what happened. A supervisor for the bus company pulled the video and it […]
“Jamie Foxx literally died,” reads a voiceover in the trailer for Foxx’s new Netflix special, before the comedian triumphantly walks out onstage and proclaims, “I’m back!” Streaming Dec. 10, the highly anticipated comedy hour, titled “What Had Happened Was…,” sees Foxx telling the truth behind his 2023 medical emergency that left him hospitalized and fighting […]
Tennis star Coco Gauff ranks No. 1 for the second straight year with $30.4 million from prize money and endorsements. She is just the third woman in sports to earn more than $30 million in a given year, after Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams. The world’s 15 highest-paid female athletes will earn an estimated $221 million in 2024, up […]
The idea that eating cocoa-rich, dark chocolate may offer health benefits is not new. Cocoa is loaded with compounds called polyphenols that have been shown to help our bodies fend off inflammation, lower blood pressure and maybe even improve our moods. Now, a new study finds people who have a habit of eating a little dark chocolate […]
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