Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks has been named this year’s NBA MVP, his second consecutive year winning the award, the league announced Friday. The 25-year-old forward, who also won Defensive Player of the Year, joins Michael Jordan and Hakeem Olajuwon as the only players to win both awards during …
Read More »Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay team up for Netflix series about his high school years
Colin Kaepernick fans will soon learn a lot more about the activist and football player — thanks to a new six-episode scripted series centering around his adolescent life. Netflix on Monday announced that renowned filmmaker Ava DuVernay and Kaepernick have created a limited series, titled “Colin in Black & White.” “The series …
Read More »Elon Musk just dropped an EDM track titled “Don’t Doubt ur Vibe” on Soundcloud
Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk unexpectedly released an EDM track on Friday. The 48-year-old said he wrote the lyrics and performed the vocals for a four-minute song titled “Don’t Doubt ur Vibe” – and he tweeted about it to his 31 million followers. “This song is hard,” he wrote on …
Read More »Ball drop New Year’s Eve: TV channel, watch live, online, stream as Times Square rings in 2020
Over a million people packed into New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve to ring in 2020. They and millions more television viewers watched a nearly 12,000 pound Waterford crystal ball drop to tick off the final seconds of 2019. Following a recent string of attacks against Jewish people …
Read More »Andre Emmett death: Former NBA player Andre Emmett shot and killed in Dallas at age 37, hours after posting video with daughter on Instagram
Former NBA player Andre Emmett was was shot and killed in Dallas early Monday morning, his family confirmed to CBS Dallas/Fort Worth. Emmett was found lying on the side of a road by a passerby at 2:30 a.m. The 37-year-old had a gunshot wound, and Dallas Fire Rescue transported him …
Read More »R. Kelly arrested again: New charges include child pornography, enticement of a minor and sex trafficking as singer back in jail again today
R&B singer R. Kelly was arrested Thursday in Chicago on federal sex trafficking charges. Law enforcement sources told CBS News he was arrested by the New York Police Department and federal Homeland Security agents. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in northern Illinois said Kelly is facing 13 counts, including child pornography, …
Read More »Bret Hart tackled: Zachary Madsen charged with assaulting WWE legend at Brooklyn ceremony
New York — Authorities say a spectator faces assault and trespassing charges after tackling wrestler Bret “The Hitman” Hart while he was giving a speech during the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony in Brooklyn. Bail was set at $1,500 for Zachary Madsen of Lincoln, Nebraska at a hearing on Sunday …
Read More »“Twilight” house featured in movies up for sale in Oregon
The “Twilight” craze was impossible to miss in the mid-2000’s, with young people everywhere obsessing over Stephenie Meyer’s series and later the movies. Now, the story’s fans are grown up, just in time to capture a piece of the story: Bella’s movie home. In the first book, and movie, of …
Read More »Bravo reality star Jeff Lewis’s surrogate sues network for filming birth
A woman who gave birth as a surrogate for interior designer and Bravo reality star Jeff Lewis is now suing the network, according to multiple reports. The woman says she never consented to having the birth filmed for Lewis’ show “Flipping Out,” Variety reports. Alexandra Trent served as a surrogate …
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