The Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five member faces a potential 25-year sentence for fatally stabbing a homeless man in 2017 Hip-hop pioneer Kidd Creole has been found guilty of first-degree manslaughter for stabbing a homeless man in 2017. The musician, real name Nathaniel Glover, 62, was an original member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five alongside his brother Melle Mel, AKA Melvin Glover. (He is not associated with Kid Creole and the Coconuts, the band led by August Darnell.) On 1 August...
Republican leaders are refusing to commit to allowing a vote on Biden’s pick for a potential vacancy if they win control of the Senate this fall. Then-Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, with President Joe Biden, speaks after she was nominated to be a justice of the Supreme Court at the White House on Feb. 25. WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden secured a legacy that is poised to outlast his time in office with the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51,...
POTTSVILLE, Pa. – 69 News has learned that 5 people are dead from injuries sustained in a collision involving more than 50 vehicles that closed a portion of I-81 on Monday. The pileup sent at least 20 more people to area hospitals. It was just after 10:00 a.m. Tuesday that the coroner was back on scene of the massive pileup. Dr. David J. Moylan, the Schuylkill County coroner, said he suspects there could be more victims as the investigation continues. The...
Will Smith apologized to Chris Rock on Monday saying he “reacted emotionally” to a “joke about Jada’s medical condition00:3801:56https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.508.0_en.html#goog_1650009477 Jada Pinkett Smith is speaking out two days after husband Will Smith struck Chris Rock onstage at the 94th annual Academy Awards on Sunday. The actress posted a message on her Instagram that read, “This is a season for healing and I’m here for it.” Jada’s...
The moment when the best actor winner hit Chris Rock on stage overshadowed the awards themselves – and symbolised everything wrong with this year’s event, writes Nicholas Barber.T The 94th Academy Awards will be remembered for the wins by Coda in the best picture, best adapted screenplay, and best supporting actor categories, making it the second best picture winner in a row to be directed by a woman, and the first to be … oh, who am I kidding? Sunday night’s...
The moment when the best actor winner hit Chris Rock on stage overshadowed the awards themselves – and symbolised everything wrong with this year’s event, writes Nicholas Barber.T The 94th Academy Awards will be remembered for the wins by Coda in the best picture, best adapted screenplay, and best supporting actor categories, making it the second best picture winner in a row to be directed by a woman, and the first to be … oh, who am I kidding? Sunday night’s...
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson listens to a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images After three long days of confirmation hearings, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s pick to be the next Supreme Court justice, largely acquitted herself well. She was controlled and calm and mostly needed to reassure Democrats so they stick together in voting for her. If they do, she would...
March 21: Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in for her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing.Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Over the last three days, the Senate Judiciary Committee held confirmation hearings for President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Here’s a look back at Brown Jackson’s last three days on Capitol Hill: March 21: Law students from the Southern University Law Center traveled from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to support...
(CNN)President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, defended her judicial record Tuesday as she faced intense questioning from Republican senators during the second day of her historic confirmation hearings.The hearings kicked off on Monday with opening statements from senators on the panel and the nominee. Two days of questioning — expected to be the most contentious part of the public vetting process on Capitol Hill — got underway Tuesday morning and will continue through...
‘We Are Family Forever’ “She was a bright light, a wonderful daughter, an amazing sister, a loving mother, wife, grandmother and a respected performer,” Toni Braxton wrote in tribute to Traci Traci Braxton, the singer, and member of the famous Braxton Family passed away on Friday (March 11th) after a bout with cancer. TMZ reports that Braxton has been battling cancer for about a year. Her family were by her side at the time of her death. Traci, along with her sisters Toni, Towanda, Trina,...