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The fight to bring a legend home. WNBA star Brittney Griner has been in Russian custody since February 2022, and plenty of her fellow athletes are leading the charge to get her back to the United States.

Ahead of Game 2 of the NBA Finals in June 2022, the Boston Celtics wore T-shirts reading “WE ARE BG” during practice. “The shirts were super important not only showing our support for our sister that is detained over in Russia, Brittney Griner, we just wanted to show that togetherness and love that we have throughout not only the NBA but the WNBA,” player Grant Williams told ESPN of the team’s decision to wear the shirts...

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“She thinks he is a great dad,” a source tells PEOPLE of Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady’s co-parenting style amid the pair’s divorce after 13 years of marriage

Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen are committed to amicably co-parenting amid their speedy divorce.

A source tells PEOPLE the seven-time Super Bowl champion, 45, is spending the weekend in Tampa, Fla. with their kids as he practices with the Buccaneers, following Friday’s news that the pair was filing for divorce, which was quickly finalized later that day.

“He is always happy when he is with his kids,” the source adds. “The kids have slowly been getting used to spending separate time with Tom and Gisele. They lived separately for months.”

 Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen’s Divorce Is Officially Finalized

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He led Abyssinian Baptist Church and helped revitalize his community by building housing, some of which he reserved for existing residents.

The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, the Harlem preacher whose talent for oratory and political savvy was a force for social and racial justice, and who raised $1 billion to remake America’s most storied and influential Black neighborhoods, died on Friday at his Harlem home. He was 73.

His son Calvin O. Butts IV said the cause was pancreatic cancer.

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The first error(s) of the 2022 World Series came before its first pitch, courtesy of Eric Burton.

The Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter of the Black Pumas opened Game 1 of the Fall Classic on Friday with a rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” containing multiple lyrical errors and pitch issues.

Burton was in trouble just a couple notes into the performance at the Houston Astros‘ Minute Maid Park, but the misadventures didn’t really start until he reached second stanza. To get a sense of what went wrong, here are the first two stanzas of the national anthem as they are supposed to be sung:

Oh, say, can you see

By the dawn’s early light

What so proudly we hail’d

At the twilight’s last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars

Through the perilous fight

O’...

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The shooting forced students to barricade doors and huddle in classroom corners, jump from windows and run out of the building to seek safety.

Students stand in a parking lot near the Central Visual & Performing Arts High School after a reported shooting at the school in St. Louis on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. | David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP

ST. LOUIS — A gunman broke into a St. Louis high school Monday morning, fatally shooting a woman and a teenage girl and wounding six others before police killed him in an exchange of gunfire.

The shooting just after 9...

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Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday agreed to temporarily freeze a lower court order requiring the testimony of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham in front of an Atlanta-area special grand jury that is investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state.

Thomas acted alone because he has jurisdiction of the lower court that issued the original order.

Thomas’ move is an administrative stay that was most likely issued Monday to give the Supreme Court justices more time to consider the dispute.

The court has asked for a response from the Georgia investigators by Thursday.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, is spearheading a special grand jury investigation into Donald Trump-aligned efforts to manipulate the results of the 2020 elect...

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Coolio, the ’90s rapper who lit up the music charts with hits like “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” has died, his friend and manager Jarez Posey, told CNN. He was 59.

Posey said Coolio died Wednesday afternoon.

Details on the circumstances were not immediately available.

When contacted by CNN, Capt. Erik Scott of the Los Angeles Fire Department confirmed that firefighters and paramedics responded to a call on the 2900 block of South Chesapeake Ave. at 4 p.m. local time for reports of a medical emergency. When they arrived, they found an unresponsive male and performed “resuscitation efforts for approximately 45 minutes.”

The patient “was determined dead just before 5:00 p.m.,” Scott said.

An autopsy performed on Coolio Thursday did not reveal...

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The crooner behind the 1996 ballad “You” passed away peacefully Tuesday in his Los Angeles home, his family said in a statement.

R&B singer Jesse Powell, best known for the 1996 hit “You,” died Tuesday at age 51, his family said. 

Powell died “peacefully” in his Los Angeles home, according to his sisters, the recording artists Trina and Tamara Powell. 

“It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our beloved son, brother and uncle Jesse Powell,” Tamara Powell said in a statement from the family on Instagram. 

“The family asks for privacy at this time as we mourn this tremendous loss and celebrate his everlasting legacy,” it said. 

The family re...

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She had been “under medical supervision” at Balmoral Castle.

Queen Elizabeth II dies at 96: How the royal line of succession changesMembers of King Charles’ direct family are now higher in the line of succession.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II “died peacefully” on Thursday, according to a statement from Buckingham Palace. She was 96.

The news of her death came just hours after the palace announced that the queen’s doctors were “concerned” about her health and were keeping her under “medical supervision” at Balmoral Castle, the British royal family’s estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where she has been vacationing this summer.

Members of the royal family, including the queen’s four children, quickly gathered by her side at Balmor...

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Tiffany Haddish’s lawyer called the accusations “bogus claims” and said the actress “would not be shaken down”

Tiffany Haddish is speaking out after being accused of molestation.

Last Tuesday, a 22-year-old woman identified as Jane Doe sued Haddish, 42, and comedian Aries Spears, 47, in California’s Superior Court for Los Angeles County on behalf of herself and a minor identified as John Doe, her younger brother. In court documents obtained by PEOPLE, Jane alleged that Haddish “groomed” the plaintiffs, leaving them “traumatized for life.”

The plaintiff claimed that Haddish was a “longtime family friend” of her mother and that in 2013, when Jane Doe was 14, Haddish took her to the taping of a “sexually suggestive Subways commercial” that Haddish allegedly said would help Jane ...