5-month-old boy drowns in tub while father plays video game
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Authorities say an Alabama man arrested in the suspected drowning death of his infant son told investigators he placed the child in a tub of running water and forgot about the baby while playing a video game.
Sheriff’s officials in Birmingham say 23-year-old Cordarius Cotton is charged with reckless manslaughter in the death of the 5-month-old boy.
A police statement released Sept 25 says deputies answering a call earlier in the week about a medical emergency arrived at a home to find a child who wasn’t breathing. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
The statement says Cotton told investigators he turned on bath water and left to play a video game, forgetting about the child.
Authorities haven’t released the child’s name. Court records aren’t available to show whether Cotton has a lawyer.
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Kellyanne Conway: ‘I’m a victim of sexual assault’
Kellyanne Conway cleared her throat for what she was about to say.
“I’m a victim of sexual assault,” President Trump’s adviser told CNN on Sunday.
Conway and anchor Jake Tapper were discussing the political edges of sexual assault allegations against Brett M. Kavanaugh in the wake of the Supreme Court nominee’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
A final vote on his nomination has been delayed to allow time for the FBI to investigate those allegations.
“I feel very empathetic, frankly, for victims of sexual assault, sexual harassment and rape,” Conway said during the interview on “State of the Union.”
Then she paused and made her personal revelation.
“This is the first time I’ve ever heard you talk about something personal like that, and I’m really sorry,” said Tapper, who, like Conway herself, appeared taken aback.
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Pete Davidson Joked About Messing With Ariana Grande’s Birth Control on SNL
The 44th season of Saturday Night Live premiered on Saturday night—and it definitely gave fans a lot to talk about. There was Matt Damon’s portrayal of a super bro-y Brett Kavanaugh in the show’s cold open, as well as Kanye West performing dressed first as a giant bottle of Perrier and then in a MAGA hat. But there was one moment during Pete Davidson‘s turn on the “Weekend Update” desk that Twitter is decidedly not ok with.
While sitting down with SNL cast mate Colin Jost to chat about his engagement (and whether or not the couple has a prenup), Davidson joked that his fiancee, singer Ariana Grande, pays $60,000 for rent while all he has to do is “stock the fridge.” When Jost commented that a man “doesn’t always have to be the breadwinner in a relationship,” Davidson replied, “G*****n right, he does not—last night I switched her birth control with Tic Tacs.”
“I believe in us, and all,” he continued, “I just want to make sure she can’t go anywhere.”
If you’re fully cringing at this statement, you are definitely not alone.
Fans on Twitter were less than thrilled with the comment, especially given the timing of this weeks episode. “Apparently Pete Davidson thinks it’s ok to make jokes about switching Ariana’s birth control with tic-tacs?? Really? At this stage in the game this dude can no longer call these jokes,” wrote one fan on Twitter. “#SNL Pete Davidson joking that he switched Ariana Grade’s birth control with tic tacs IS COMPLETELY TONE DEAF given all of their needling of Kavanaugh.”
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Kanye West Delivers Pro-Trump Rant on ‘SNL,’ Gets Booed By Audience
The rapper/entrepreneur delivered a pro-Trump speech in a red MAGA hat after his final performance—one that didn’t make it to air.
Following his performance of “Ghost Town” during the 44th season premiere of Saturday Night Live, Kanye West, sporting a red Make America Great Again hat in support of President Donald Trump, went on one of his typical rants.
The bizarre lecture occurred off-air, after his performance, where he was joined by Kid Cudi and 070 Shake, and was cut for time—but comedian Chris Rock, who was in the audience at Studio 8H in New York City, was able to capture part of it on his Instagram.
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Chicago blues guitarist Otis Rush dead at 84
He was an architect of Chicago’s ‘West Side Sound’ in the 1950s and 1960s.
CHICAGO — Legendary Chicago blues guitarist Otis Rush, whose passionate, jazz-tinged music influenced artists from Carlos Santana and Eric Clapton to the rock band Led Zeppelin, died Saturday at the age of 84, his longtime manager said.
Rush succumbed to complications from a stroke he suffered in 2003, manager Rick Bates said.
He catapulted to international fame in 1956 with his first recording on Cobra Records of “I Can’t Quit You Baby,” which reached No. 6 on the Billboard R&B charts.
He was a key architect of the Chicago “West Side Sound” in the 1950s and 1960s, which modernized traditional blues to introduce more of a jazzy, amplified sound.
“He was one of the last great blues guitar heroes. He was an electric God,” said Gregg Parker, CEO and a founder of the Chicago Blues Museum.
Rush loved to play to live audiences, from small clubs on the West Side of Chicago to sold out venues in Europe and Japan.
“He was king of the hill in Chicago from the late 1950s into the 1970s and even the 80s as a live artist,” said Bates.
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Tiffany Haddish is glad she didn’t have to kiss Kevin Hart in Night School: ‘Ew, gross’
For most of Night School, Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish’s characters seem destined to end up together. It’s a Hollywood tale as old as time: The main male character has a fiancée who doesn’t truly love him for him, but then he meets a woman who makes him a better man, and after some spirited back-and-forth, they realize they are the ones for each other. Well, that is what Teddy (Hart) thought, going in for a kiss on Carrie (Haddish) during a slow dance at prom, only for her night school teacher to reveal that she’s gay. And it turns out, Haddish is very thankful for the twist.
“I love that we switched it up,” she tells EW. “Me, being in love with Kevin? Ew, gross. [Laughs.] He’s like my brother. If they would have gone, ‘Okay, now you guys have to kiss,’ I would have been like, ‘Ughhhh.’ That would have been really hard for me to do. Kevin’s not gross, I’m just saying that’s like my big brother. Literally, I’ve known him for so long and he’s mentored me and checked me on so much stuff just like a big brother would, even though he’s only like four or five months older than me.”
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Malia Obama Makes Music Video Debut In New Dakota’s ‘Walking on Air’
In addition to being the eldest daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama, Malia can now add music video star to her resume.
Cue Lil Duval’s “Living My Best Life.” Because that’s exactly what Malia Obama is doing during her second year at Harvard.
In addition to being the eldest daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama, Malia can now add music video star to her resume, as she recently appeared in indie rock band New Dakota’s video for “Walking on Air.”
She can first be seen rocking out during an audition, and later appears playing the harmonica. According to TMZ, the band members — Chris Haley, Scott Roberts, Alasdair MacKenzie, and Juan Carlos Fernandez del Castillo — also attend Harvard. The song is on the band’s April album, Marsh Street.
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Kanye West Has Changed His Name
Kanye West has changed his name at age 41, and rather than adding a “Kardashian” to his moniker, the rapper has selected two letters from his name to go by and is dropping the rest. “The being formally (sic) known as Kanye West,” he tweeted Saturday night, ahead of his gig on Saturday Night Live. “I am YE.” Ye has been a longtime nickname, and he even chose it as the title of his June album, notes the Guardian.
But there’s also personal significance, notes People: “I believe YE is the most commonly used word in the Bible,” he said in June, when the album was released. “In the Bible it means ‘you.’ So I’m you, I’m us. It went from being Kanye, which means the only one, to being just YE—just being a reflection of our good, our bad, our confused, everything. I’m just more a reflection of who we are.” Ye’s new album, Yandhi, dropped Saturday night; in it, he raps about “givin’ up my slave name.” Sky News has a list of more celebrities who’ve changed their names after years in the limelight.
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