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Tahj Mowry shared a heartbreaking tribute to Naya Rivera after she went missing during a boating trip on July 8, as is now presumed dead. Mowry calls the Glee star his first love and reveals they dated for four years. Taking to his Instagram early Saturday, the 34-year-old said that …

Read: Seven steps to swagger, with Amy Schumer This kind of physical and emotional frankness feels instinctive to Schumer, even as it takes such an obvious toll on her that you wonder whether it’s worth it. In one scene, riding the train to a show on Long Island, she takes …

Naya Rivera is presumed dead after a three-day search for the actress in Lake Piru, north of Los Angeles, was unsuccessful. The Glee actress was last seen boarding a pontoon boat on Lake Piru with her four-year-old son last week. When she was hours late to return the boat, the …

Cardi B and Offset aren’t letting the coronavirus spoil their daughter Kulture Kiari’s second birthday. On Friday (June 10), the Hip Hop power couple shared images from their baby girl’s celebration, posting photos of a happy toddler in a bright-pink tutu. “My Beautiful Baby KK you are a prize from …

Cardi B and Offset aren’t letting the coronavirus spoil their daughter Kulture Kiari’s second birthday. On Friday (June 10), the Hip Hop power couple shared images from their baby girl’s celebration, posting photos of a happy toddler in a bright-pink tutu. “My Beautiful Baby KK you are a prize from …

Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images) As anyone could have predicted—and as The Root did just a day ago—President Trump has used the power of his office to commute the sentence of his criminal crony Roger Stone. As the New York Times reports, on Friday evening Trump issued a statement announcing his …

Read: The week America lost control of the pandemic A lot went right in the early months. California had good leadership (by mayors, health officials, the governor, and corporate CEOs, many of whom told their workers to stay home well before the state’s stay-at-home order on March 19), good citizenship …

MSNBC anchor Joy Anne Reid is making major moves within her organization, going from the weekend spot into a prime time, weekday slot. The host of the cable news network’s show AM Joy has been appointed to succeed former Hardball host Chris Matthews in the 7 p.m. EST time slot …

Photo: Stephen Maturen (Getty Images) The mendacity of police officers never ceases to amaze me, not to mention the extensive luxuries they get to enjoy as a result of tax-payer money. As The Washington Post reports, 150 police officers from the Minneapolis Police Department have started the process of filing …

Moreover, the $600 bonus payments are acting as a lifeline for the whole economy, not just individual jobless workers. Without the additional UI payments, millions of Americans would have neither jobs nor cash to spend on groceries, rent, and so on. The economic contraction would become more severe, not less. …