Nicki Minaj announces pregnancy
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(CNN)First came love, then came marriage and soon will come Nicki Minaj with a baby carriage.

On Monday the rapper announced via her official social media accounts that she and husband Kenneth Petty are expecting.
Minaj posted a photo showing her in what appeared to be a two-piece sporting a prominent baby bump.

 

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Real Madrid clinch La Liga title with win over Villarreal
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Real Madrid won the La Liga title for the first time since 2017 after a 2-1 win over Villarreal gave them an insurmountable seven-point lead over Barcelona with one game left to play.

The triumph extends Los Blancos’ record haul to 34 league titles — eight more than Barca, who had lifted the past two La Liga trophies.

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Zinedine Zidane’s team overhauled their rivals with a 10-game winning streak since La Liga returned in June after a three-month break due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Washington Redskins executives accused of sexual harassment, verbal abuse
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The report surfaced hours after the Washington NFL team retained top attorney Beth Wilkinson to conduct an internal review of its operations.

A group of 15 female former employees of the NFL’s Washington Redskins accused top team executives of sexual harassment and verbal abuse in a damning report on the team’s internal culture on Thursday.

Washington team employees accused of workplace misconduct include top player personnel executives Richard Mann III and Alex Santos,

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Jeff Sessions Is Projected To Lose Comeback Bid For Alabama Senate Seat
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Jeff Sessions will not regain his old Alabama U.S. Senate seat this year.

The former U.S. attorney general has lost to Tommy Tuberville, a first-time political candidate and former college football coach, in the state’s Republican runoff election for the seat, The Associated Press projects.

Tuberville — who was endorsed by President Trump in the GOP matchup — edged ahead of Sessions in Alabama’s state primary in March but failed to secure a majority of the vote,

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Bari Weiss Resigns From New York Times Opinion Post
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In a letter posted online Tuesday, she cites “bullying by colleagues” and an “illiberal environment.”

Bari Weiss, a writer and editor for the opinion department of The New York Times, has resigned from the paper, citing “bullying by colleagues” and an “illiberal environment.”

In a nearly 1,500-word letter addressed to A. G. Sulzberger, the publisher, Ms. Weiss offered a deep critique of Times employees and company leadership, describing a “hostile work environment” where co-workers had insulted her or called for her removal on Twitter and in the interoffice communications app Slack.

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Marlo, a Rising Atlanta Rapper With Big Connections, Is Shot and Killed at 30
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A local favorite who came up alongside Lil Baby and Migos, Marlo was found dead after a highway shooting on Saturday night.

Rudolph Johnson, the up-and-coming Atlanta rapper known as Marlo, who loomed large among his city’s rap heavyweights even as he remained an underground figure and ambivalent local celebrity, was shot and killed there on Saturday night, the police said. He was 30.

The Atlanta Police Department said that officers had initially responded to a single-vehicle accident on I-285,

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Benjamin Keough, grandson of Elvis Presley, dies at 27
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(CNN)Elvis Presley’s grandson Benjamin Keough has died, a representative for his mother, Lisa Marie Presley, said. He was 27.

Keough died in Calabasas, California, Roger Widynowski told CNN Sunday.The representative said he did not have further details on the circumstances of Keough’s death, including the date.
Presley is “entirely heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated,” Widynowski said in a statement, “but trying to stay strong for her 11 year old twins and her oldest daughter Riley.”

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Mandy Moore isn’t exactly buying ex-husband Ryan Adams’ public apology
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Mandy Moore seems unimpressed by ex-husband Ryan Adams’ weekend apology for the way he said he has “mistreated people” throughout his life and career.

“I find it curious that someone would make a public apology but not do it privately,” the “This Is Us” actress-singer said Monday on the “Today” show.

She and a number of other women, including several high-profile musical collaborators and at least one then-underage fan, accused the singer-songwriter of sexual misconduct and abusive behavior in a New York Times exposé early last year.

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Patrick Mahomes Gets 10-Year Deal With Kansas City Chiefs
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Mahomes, 24, signed an extension worth $503 million on the heels of a Super Bowl win.

Quarterback Patrick Mahomes, one of the N.F.L.’s biggest stars, has signed a 10-year contract extension with the Kansas City Chiefs, according to a person familiar with the terms of the deal who was not authorized to speak for the team.

The big payday, worth up to half a billion dollars, for Mahomes, who at 24 has already been voted as the league’s most valuable player and won a Super Bowl,

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Of course Donald Trump wants fireworks over Mount Rushmore
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(CNN)George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt … Donald Trump?

For President Trump, nothing could be more natural than to stand alongside such giants of American history. On Friday night, he will travel to Mount Rushmore for an early Independence Day party, reviving the environmentally worrisome tradition of July Fourth fireworks over their massive carved likenesses.
Such frivolity might seem in poor taste amid a fast-worsening pandemic — and unwise since social distancing won’t be required at the event.

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