Cardi B turned down 7-figure deal for photos of baby Kulture
There’s not a check big enough to convince Cardi B and Offset to release photos of their new baby.
Talking with Apple Music host Ebro Darden on Wednesday, the “Bodak Yellow” rapper revealed she was offered an enormous sum for images of baby Kulture.
“Me and my husband … we just don’t wanna show our baby right now,” she said. “I got offered seven figures, but I’m just not ready yet … Over a million.”
Cardi B and Offset, both 26, welcomed Kulture on July 10.
Since then, they’ve only shown pictures of her hands or feet — never her face.
While Cardi B may not be sharing new photos of her kid, she’s talking nonstop about how her life has changed.
She quipped a few days ago that giving birth to Kulture “broke” her vagina.
Pooch Hall Now Facing Six Years In Prison For DUI And Child Abuse
Actor Marion “Pooch” Hall has been formally charged with driving under the influence and felony child abuse by the Los Angeles County District Attorney for an accident earlier this month that resulted in his arrest.
If convicted, The Game star faces a maximum of six years and six months behind bars, reports TMZ.
According to police reports, a witness saw Hall’s vehicle collide into a parked car in Burbank, California on October 3. The witness told authorities that Hall was behind the wheel at the time of the crash along with his 2-year-old son, who was sitting in his lap instead of a car seat. The witness claimed Hall was allowing his son to take steer the car alone as if it were a toy.
Shockingly, no one was injured in the accident, but witnesses say the toddler erupted into a fit of tears after the crash. His son is now in the custody of his wife.
After failing field sobriety tests, the 41-year-old actor reportedly blew three times the state’s legal limit when he was finally given a breathalyzer test.
Hall was released on $100,000 bond after being booked for child endangerment and driving under the influence of alcohol.
The Ray Donovan star has been mum about the incident on social media. His Instagram and Twitter accounts have not been updated since he was arrested.
Article via Essence
Tamar Braxton Finally Gives Fans a Peek at Her ‘Fine’ Nigerian Boyfriend
Tamar Braxton has been doing a pretty good job of keeping her Nigerian boyfriend out of the spotlight but a recent video has given fans their closest look at him yet.
Braxton and her man, whose name is said to be Yemi according to the singer’s Tamar Chronicles fan page, went to one of the stops of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On the Run II Tour in September. As Bey sang “Young Forever/Halo,” Braxton swiveled her phone camera around to capture her and reportedly her new man rocking sunglasses and embracing as she caressed his face.
“I mean, he’s the real-life T’Chella,” Braxton told St. Louis, Mo.’s 95.5 The Lou recently, comparing him to fictional Wakanda native T’Challa of “Black Panther.” “He’s originally from Nigeria but he’s been here [in America] … he lives in California … He is fine.”
Braxton has recently been opening up more about her man, including when she visited “The Wendy Williams Show” last month. There, she echoed talk of how attractive her boo is.
“Thank you, God, he’s so fine! I can’t take it sometimes. It’s like a whole snack — a Lunchable!” she exclaimed.
Once fans saw the video, which was uploaded to Braxton’s page on Thursday, Oct. 18 before it was pulled down, they wholeheartedly agreed.
“? I just started to declare, I don’t date American Men no more, not at all. I’m trying be smiling like Tamar. Ijs, let me see your birth certificate and passport book, okkk. I’m not playing…?”
“Get yo ass a Wakanda ladies!!! You won’t regret it ?”
“Sheed I sware…. mane that’s I was when I first experienced an African man. Its was amazing until I realize he just like a nigga. Blessing. Happy for you❤️”
“Keep smiling boo!! Enjoy that ride, it’s your turn??””
“Yesssss im happy for my girl go boo keep doing you long as you and Logan is happy that’s all matter much love #teamtamar?????”
“Happy for you I love you how you feeling about that situation god blessing you girl god is really with you keep him don’t let him go have faith.”
Disney theme parks confirm long-running urban legend is true
Some people enjoy Disney World and Disneyland so much that they never leave.
Despite years of denials from the House of Mouse, an urban legend has been confirmed: Human ashes are regularly scattered at the theme parks.
Loved ones of the recently deceased are known to place the remains on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, the Dumbo ride, near Cinderella’s castle — pretty much everywhere, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. It happens about once a month, often enough that custodians know to call for a “HEPA cleanup” with a special vacuum cleaner when it does.
The most popular place for people to spread ashes? “The Haunted Mansion probably has so much human ashes in it that it’s not even funny,” an unnamed custodian told the newspaper.
One employee said she and her co-workers got in trouble for referring to such incidents as “Code Grandma.”
For guests, there are consequences for getting caught.
“This type of behaviour is strictly prohibited and unlawful,” a company spokeswoman told the Journal. “Guests who attempt to do so will be escorted off property.”
The act of spreading ashes without permission is a misdemeanour, according to a spokesman for the Anaheim (California) Police Department.
But there are plenty of people willing to take the risk, if it means their beloved friend or family member can spend eternity with Mickey Mouse and pals. They just hide the ashes in Ziploc bags or pill bottles when they come to the park.
Jodie Jackson Wells went with the latter in 2009 when she brought her mom’s ashes to Disney World, where she sprinkled them on the It’s a Small World ride and in front of Cinderella’s Castle.
“Anyone who knew my mom knew Disney was her happy place,” Wells told the Journal.
When people like Wells do get caught, theme park employees reportedly shut the ride down for “technical difficulties” until any visible ashes are removed.
So that’s what they’re doing…
Article via Yahoo News
‘Survivor: David vs. Goliath’: Emergency forces entire cast to be evacuated off island
It was more than just a game on Wednesday’s episode of Survivor.
The entire cast of Survivor: David vs. Goliath was evacuated from their Fijian island under threat of a cyclone — the second they had experienced since starting the competition just 12 days earlier.
“We’re all Davids today. That’s the Goliath,” Christian said, as he, the Vuku, Jabeni and Tiva tribes were all escorted away from their camps and rushed to safety.
The cast returned to find that, just hours later, their entire camps were completely destroyed. “We get back from being evacuated, and our shelter is obliterated,” Angelina expressed. “Had any of us been inside of that, I mean, it would have been game over, for sure.”
“I think everyone’s mood was like, oh God,” Alec added. “It looked like a bomb went off… It’s pretty intense.”
“Two cyclones, a medical evacuation, a person quitting,” Alison recalled of the adversity they’ve faced since starting the game. “It just speaks to the crazy nature of this game.”
After 37 seasons of Survivor, however, host Jeff Probst wasn’t freaking out. The entire cast of Millennials vs. Gen X was similarly evacuated early in the competition in 2016.
“You are all safe and sound, and the game is back on,” Probst told the David vs. Goliath cast on Wednesday’s episode as they kicked off their first immunity challenge since the cyclone.
Survivor airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
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Florida schoolgirls arrested for ‘satanic murder plot’
Two Florida schoolgirls have been arrested and accused of plotting to kill classmates in a satanic rite.
Police say the pair, 11 and 12, told officers they were Satan worshippers and planned to kill at least 15 students at Bartow Middle School.
On Tuesday they were searched by police who found weapons including a butcher’s knife, pizza cutter and scissors.
They told investigators they planned to drink the blood of their victims and “possibly eat their flesh”.
The search took place after a student informed a teacher about a possible attack in a school building.
The two girls were waiting in the toilet for younger students that they could “overpower to be their victims”, police said.
In a statement, Bartow police chief Joe Hall said a search of the girls’ mobile phones revealed text messages plotting the attack, and officers had also found a handwritten note saying: “Go to bathroom to kill.”
Article via BBCNews
All The Targets In This Week’s Mail Attacks Have Been Trump’s Worst Enemies
Suspicious packages and pipe bombs have been mailed to several of the president’s favorite punching bags.
Explosive devices and suspicious packages are showing up at the homes and offices of top Democrats, the people who fund them and the press that covers them. Most, if not all, of them have made their way to people and organizations that President Donald Trump despises.
Trump has repeatedly called his followers to violence against the people and organizations that were victimized this week. There were no confirmed motives or suspects by Wednesday afternoon. But his violent rhetoric over the past two years has led one of his biggest enemies, CNN, to ascribe some blame for the attacks to the president.
In a statement Wednesday, CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker said that Trump and members of the administration “should understand that their words matter.”
“There is a total and complete lack of understanding at the White House about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media,” Zucker said. “The President, and especially the White House Press Secretary, should understand their words matter. Thus far, they have shown no comprehension of that.”
House and Senate Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer issued even stronger statements, connecting Trump’s rhetoric to the neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year, as well as to violence against protesters at his rallies and more.
The revelation on Thursday that two more of Trump’s nemeses ― former Vice President Joe Biden and actor Robert De Niro ― were targeted only added fuel to the fire.
On Wednesday, CNN evacuated its New York offices after an apparent pipe bomb and an envelope with white powder were discovered in the mailroom. Several top Democratic individuals received similar threats ― Bill and Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, George Soros, Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.) and others received explosive devices or suspicious packages in the mail.
All of them have been Trump’s very public enemies. CNN has been the acute focus of Trump’s ongoing war against the media, or what he calls “the enemy of the people.”
He’s called CNN fake news. His family has laughed as Trump supporters angrily call out and threaten its reporters at the president’s rallies. The president has lauded a video depicting him beating up a person with the CNN logo superimposed on his head. Press freedom experts have long pegged Trump’s rhetoric as the begging of violent ends for American reporters. CNN’s inclusion in Wednesday’s terrorist activity was inevitable.
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County pays nearly $5M over heroin withdrawal death in jail
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A small Pennsylvania county will pay nearly $5 million to the family of a teenager who collapsed and died after four days of heroin withdrawal in jail. The family’s lawyer said jail staff ignored her dire medical needs for days and then lied about it.
Victoria “Tori” Herr, 18, was arrested for the first time on March 27, 2015, after police looking for her boyfriend found drugs in their apartment. Herr told intake staff at the Lebanon County Correctional Facility she used 10 bags of heroin a day, and confided to a cellmate that she feared the withdrawal process would be tough.
She went through severe bouts of vomiting and diarrhea over the next four days, and was given Ensure, water and adult diapers, according to the lawsuit. But she could not keep the fluids down and collapsed of apparent dehydration as she was being brought back to her cell from the medical unit on March 31. She died in a hospital on April 5.
“Anyone who looked at her would have known that she was very sick and that she needed attention,” said Jonathan Feinberg, a civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia who represents her family. “There was a complete disregard for her needs, which can only be tied back to the fact that she was addicted to drugs.”
He said a simple trip to the emergency room for intravenous fluids would have saved her life.
The family settled their civil rights and wrongful death claims with the county this month for $4.75 million, he said. Feinberg believes medical staff lied about taking Herr’s vital signs shortly before the collapse, given that she never regained consciousness.
Lawyer Hugh O’Neill, who represents Warden Robert Karnes, two nurses and other jail staff, said no county employees acknowledged any wrongdoing as part of the settlement. “The case was resolved amicably,” he said, declining to say this week if the county had reviewed or revised any policies in the wake of Herr’s death.
Increasingly, policymakers see jail and prison as an opportune time to intervene and offer medical help for people with opioid addictions.
In the three years since her death, Pennsylvania Secretary of Corrections John Wetzel has started offering methadone and other drugs approved to treat opioid addiction.
“The tide is turning. I think very slowly, but surely, there’s a lot of entities that have had to really look in the mirror, and ask how are they dealing with this medical condition,” said Steve Seitchik, who runs the Medication Assisted Treatment program in the state prisons.
Nationally, some studies show that about 25 percent of people entering local jails are addicted to opioids, according to Sally Friedman, vice president for legal advocacy of the National Action Center, a New York-based nonprofit. Only a fraction of the facilities offer medication as part of a treatment plan, but the number is growing, she said.
In Pennsylvania, Wetzel’s department now offers grants for county jails to offer medication-assisted treatment as well.
Herr, severely dehydrated, had begged for lemonade in a phone call with her mother on March 30. Stephanie Moyer tried to visit later that day, but was turned away and told her daughter was fine. The next time she saw Herr — who graduated from high school despite her addiction — she was on a ventilator.
Feinberg said he hopes the lawsuit will remind even the smallest counties they have a duty to care for inmates battling addiction.
“The days of viewing people addicted to drugs as junkies unworthy of sympathy and care, are long past,” Feinberg said. “It’s a very short chain of events that leads to death.”
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Trump: ‘I am bringing out the military’ to stop border crossings
President Trump said in an early morning tweet on Thursday that he is “bringing out the military” to secure the border with Mexico, calling it a “National Emergency.”
“Brandon Judd of the National Border Patrol Council is right when he says on @foxandfriends that the Democrat inspired laws make it tough for us to stop people at the Border,” Trump tweeted. “MUST BE CHANDED [sic], but I am bringing out the military for this National Emergency. They will be stopped!”
Trump tweeted last week that he would use the military to stop a caravan of migrants from Central America, which has reportedly swelled beyond 7,500, if Mexico did not stop it.
“I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught — and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!” Trump tweeted.
He said Wednesday night at a rally in Wisconsin that the “military are ready” to help secure the border against the caravan, according to NBC News.
The Mexican ambassador to the U.S., Gerónimo Gutiérrez, said Monday that Mexico will continue to work to halt illegal immigration into its country and work with the Trump administration to block the caravan from passing into the U.S.
The Hill could not reach the Pentagon for immediate comment on whether has received formal orders to enforce immigration law.
Last week, a spokesman for the Pentagon, Lt. Col. Jamie Davis, said the military had not be tasked to support those working to secure the border.
“Beyond the National Guard soldiers currently supporting the Department of Homeland Security on our southern border … the Department of Defense has not been tasked to provide additional support,” Davis said in a statement.
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US mid-terms latest: How handwriting could affect your vote
The US mid-term elections in just under two weeks’ time will help define the rest of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Americans will vote for members of both chambers of Congress, as well as for governors in 36 out of 50 states.
Between now and then, we’ll bring you updates and all the best analysis every weekday in this round-up.
Today we look at a court battle over absentee ballots in Georgia, a new Trump law on opioids and different views at political rallies.
One court case
How good is your handwriting? A federal judge has ruled Georgia must stop throwing out absentee ballots when a voter’s signature doesn’t match their voter registration card.
“This ruling protects the people of Georgia from those who seek to undermine their right to vote,” American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) staff attorney Sophia Lakin said, calling the court’s decision a huge victory.
Judge Leigh Martin May issued a temporary restraining order, saying the state must notify voters first before they can reject their ballots or their applications.
“The court does not understand how assuring that all eligible voters are permitted to vote undermines the integrity of the election process,” she said.
Not all signatures are created equal
The ACLU argued Georgia election officials aren’t required to be trained in spotting differences in your signature, and there’s no rule or law defining differences between one person’s handwriting and another’s.
Georgia has until noon on Thursday to comment on the ruling, Judge May said.
The rules for absentee ballots differ across the country – 27 states and the District of Columbia allow absentee ballots from any qualified voter, but 20 states need an excuse from the applicant.
A Northern Illinois University study has drawn up a Cost of Voting Index, to measure how easy it is to vote across the US.
One law
“Together we are going to end the scourge of drug addiction in America,” President Trump said as he signed a sweeping new law on opioids.
The bill expanded access to substance disorder treatments for Medicaid users and aims to boost research efforts to find non-addictive pain killers.
In a rare show of bipartisan action, the Senate passed the legislation 98-1 earlier in the month. The House voted 393-8 in favour.
Last year, 72,000 died from drug overdoses, and both parties are focusing on the issue in their mid-term campaigns.
The Wall Street Journal reports that political ads about opioids have aired more than 50,000 times across 25 states in the run-up to the midterms.
One video
Remember Barack Obama? The former Democratic president is back on the campaign trail, trying to boost support for his party’s platform.
Donald Trump is also criss-crossing the nation, rallying the Republicans ahead of the midterms.
Both men are loved and loathed – so the BBC’s Rajini Vaidyanathan went to a rally on each side to ask people their thoughts.
Choose the outcome
Write your own future with our signature mid-term elections game, showing all the possible outcomes of the vote. Only 12 days to go.