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And the winner is…Doechii. On Saturday, February 2, the MC sensation out of Tampa won Best Rap Album for her proper debut, Alligator Bites Never Heal, at the 2025 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
Doechii accepted her award by noting that two women before had won in the category, Lauryn Hill and Cardi B. It was the latter who present her with the award.
From the stage, she dedicated the win to her sobriety and “God told me he would reward me and show me just how good it can get.”
The “Denial Is A River” rapper also thanked TDE and her mother, show she brought up on stage and made sure to big up her Tampa roots.
Doechii won in a hyper-competitive field that included projects from J. Cole, Eminem, Common & Pete Rock and Future & Metro Boomin.
Hip-Hop is in great hands with Doechii.
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Kanye West is back on the Grammys red carpet in Los Angeles. In addition, for 2025, he brought along his wife, Bianca Censori, who was pretty much naked.
Seriously, Censori was on the red carpet at the Crypto.com Arena on Saturday, Feburary 2 rocking what looked like a sheer stocking minidress that didn’t leave much of anything for the imagination. As for Ye, he was rocking a black tee shirt tucked into his black pants along with some big ass combat looking boots—so we guess he wasn’t trying to coordinate.
To her credit, she initially rolled up in big fur coat, before revealing that was…wait for it…naked, again.
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But the kicker is that Ye and Censori reportedly rolled up uninvited, and then were escorted out by security. What a time.
Along with admiring Censori’s body, discussing what is the deal with Ye objectifying his wife and wondering if she voluntarily along for this ride, the social media peanut gallery had plenty more to say.
See for yourself, along with more angle—because, you care—in the gallery.
This story is developing.
1. Were you really shocked?
2. Does that count as rolling up?
3. Wait…
4. A law or two may have been fractured…
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6. The jokes always write themselves.
8. Allegedly.
10. A question that’s actually been answered.
Respectfully.
11. 67th GRAMMY Awards – Arrivals
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12. 67th GRAMMY Awards – Arrivals
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You know a trade is wild when social media has to check to see if Shams Charania’s account was hacked.
The entire sports world was left stunned last night when ESPN NBA Insider Shams Charania posted a megaton of tweets on X, formerly Twitter, announcing, in a mind-blowing move, that the Dallas Mavericks were sending all-star guard Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers as part of a three-team deal for big man Anthony Davis.
“The Dallas Mavericks are trading Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round pick, sources tell ESPN. Three-team deal that includes Utah,” Charania wrote in a post X.
The news came just hours after the Lakers smoked the New York Knicks in the Garden on Saturday night.
Davis did not play, but Max Christie did log minutes in the Lakers victory.
The news was so mindblowing that Charania had to follow up to ensure followers his account was not hacked and that the deal was indeed real.
Charania said the deal was made “in the shadows,” with Anthony Davis and LeBron James not even knowing it was going down.
“This deal materialized in the shadows … LeBron James had no idea this was coming. Anthony Davis had no idea this was coming. I’m told Luka Doncic is still stunned about this trade,” Charania said on ESPN.
LeBron James did chime in, responding to a post on CBS Sports’ official X account that he “had grown frustrated with Anthony Davis,” clapping back at the report, “You a fkn lie!!!”
NBA Players Were Left In Shock
As you can imagine, NBA Xitter, hell, everyone reacted to the news with shock. Luka Doncic is coming off a year that saw his Mavericks reach the NBA Finals, and he was pretty much cemented as the Mavericks guy for the foreseeable future.
Bruh!
You can see more reactions to the news below. This upcoming week will be an interesting one for the NBA.
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9. You called it
12. Kendrick Perkins had something to say
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Those old tweets will always come back to haunt you. That’s what Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón is finding out the hard way.
Netflix’s newest darling, musical Emilia Pérez, is garnering tremendous buzz during award season, good and some bad, specifically from those who feel the film isn’t worth all the praise it’s getting. Those people are now probably licking their chops as one of the film’s stars, trans actor Karla Sofía Gascón, is catching hell for some very problematic tweets from her past.
Gascón forgot to scrub her timeline of old tweets talking very recklessly about George Floyd, the unarmed Black man who was murdered by law enforcement, Muslims, and Oscars diversity, which hilariously is something Gascón would stand to benefit significantly from.
The tweets posted between 2020 and 2021 sparking outrage were deleted on Thursday, but not before journalist Sarah Hagi spotlighted them after Gascón criticized campaigns in an interview with a Brazilian newspaper on Jan.21, that she felt attacked her and Emilia Pérez.
Gascón Had A Lot To Say About Muslims
One of the tweets, which was translated to English from Spanish independently by Variety, read, “I’m Sorry, Is it just my impression, or are there more Muslims in Spain? Every time I go to pick up my daughter from school there are more women with their hair covered and their skirts down to their heels. Next year instead of English we’ll have to teach Arabic.”
“Islam is marvelous, without any machismo. Women are respected, and when they are so respected they are left with a little squared hole on their faces for their eyes to be visible and their mouths, but only if she behaves. Although they dress this way for their own enjoyment. How DEEPLY DISGUSTING OF HUMANITY,” another tweet attached with a photo of a Muslim family in a restaurant Gascón shared on Sept. 2, 2020.
Her Comments About George Floyd
Along with her despicable comments about Muslims, she also dropped a long thread about George Floyd just days after he was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, which led to protests across the country.
“I really think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler, but his death has served to once again demonstrate that there are people who still consider black people to be monkeys Without rights and consider policemen to be assassins,” she tweeted. “They’re all wrong.”
She continued, “Too many things to reflect on regarding the behavior of our species every time an event occurs. Perhaps it is no longer a question of racism, but of social classes that feel threatened by each other. Maybe that’s the only real difference.”
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Gascón, the first openly trans actor to be nominated for an Academy Award, was not a fan of what she saw during the 2021 Oscars ceremony.
“More and more the #Oscars are looking like a ceremony for independent and protest films, I didn’t know if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8M,” Gascón said. “Apart from that, an ugly, ugly gala.”
Gascón has since apologized via a statement through Netflix: “As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well, and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain.”
She continued, “All my life I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness.”
Her apology might be a little late because she is currently being read for filth on X, formerly Twitter.
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Those reactions to her old problematic tweets are in the gallery below.
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3. Y’all play too damn much
4. Well damn
8. Gotta love screen record
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President Donald Trump has announced plans to send tens of thousands of “criminal illegal aliens” to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, further demonizing other immigrants.
President Donald Trump announced that his administration plans to deport criminal aliens to the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba on Wednesday (Jan. 29) as he was signing the Laken Riley Act into law. “Some of them are so bad that we don’t even trust the countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back, so we’re gonna send ’em out to Guantanamo,” he said to reporters gathered at the White House. “We have 30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal aliens threatening the American people,” he added. The White House announced shortly afterward that Trump signed a presidential memorandum to that effect.
The Laken Riley Act is named after a nursing student from Georgia who was out for a run last February when she was attacked by a man named Jose Antonio Ibarra, who wound up killing her. Ibarra, a Venezuelan national, was found guilty in November of Riley’s murder and was sentenced to life in prison. The bill requires federal officials to detain any migrant charged with a crime such as assault or shoplifting. It also allows states’ attorney generals to sue the federal government for harm related to failures in immigration enforcement leading to the harm of people. The law received bipartisan support, with 46 Democrats in the House of Representatives and 12 in the Senate voting to pass the measure.
Newly-confirmed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth defended President Trump’s move in an interview on Fox News, calling Guantánamo Bay a “perfect spot” for those detainees. “We don’t want illegal criminals in the United States, not a minute longer than they have to be,” he said on Jesse Watters Primetime. “Move them off to Guantánamo Bay, where they can be safely maintained until they are deported to their final location, their country of origin.” The United States has leased land from Cuba for over a century, but the Cuban government has rejected the nominal payments sent out to it. Cuba’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, called the new move “an act of brutality.”
Politicians and immigration advocates worldwide have also blasted Trump’s memorandum. “Trump’s order [sends] a clear message … Migrants and asylum seekers are being cast as the new terrorist threat, deserving to be discarded in an island prison, removed from legal and social services and supporters,” Vincent Warren, executive director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a statement.
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Former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez was the target of an ethics complaint in 2006 by Republican Party opponents which opened the door to significant charges of corruption that ended the senator’s political career. This week, Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years behind bars floated an idea of seeking a potential pardon from President Donald Trump despite being a member of the Democratic Party.
As seen on CNN, Bob Menendez was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein in a Manhattan federal court on Wednesday (Jan. 29).
At root, Menendez was convicted in 2024 on bribery and corruption charges, which included taking over six figures in gold bars, cash, and a Mercedes-Benz convertible from Egyptian government officials and three businessmen in exchange for political favors.
Menendez was once a darling of the Democratic Party and was chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the height of his political career. However, the conviction on 16 felony counts has given the former senator the unwelcomed distinction of being the first United States senator to be charged and convicted of acting as an agent to aid a foreign government.
In court, Menendez made an emotional statement toward Judge Stein.
“You have before you a chastened man,” Menendez said. “Other than family, I have lost everything I ever cared about. For someone who spent his entire life in public service, every day I’m awake is a punishment.”
Menendez’s tune changed outside the courtroom when he spoke to a gathering of media.
“Only in the Southern District of New York would prosecutors allow a witness to walk away from over 10 criminal charges, including defrauding the United States government so that they can get him to lie on the stand. Welcome to the Southern District of New York, the wild west of political prosecutions,” Menendez said.
He added, “This process is political and it’s corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system.”
As noted at the top of the story, Menendez’s history of questionable political operations dates back to the late 1990s, and he was later indicted in 2015 on bribery, fraud, and false statement charges in connection to boosting the business interests of a Florida doctor with ties to the Dominican Republic in what would’ve benefited the doctor’s practice.
President Trump has not responded to Bob Menendez’s statement outside the court.
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On Thursday, January 30, Donald Trump confirmed he is the last person anyone seeking healing should want to hear from after a tragedy. The convicted felon proved so when he proceeded to blame Barack Obama, Joe Biden and even DEI for the plane crash near Washington, DC on Wednesday night (Jan. 29).
Trump’s speech started off well enough with the President reading the speech in front of him, sounding wooden with no real empathy, as to be expected. Then he started ad-libbing and per usual, he started talking crazy. He also seemingly had an assist from FOX News.
Reports the Guardian:
Speaking to reporters at the White House, he quoted in familiar scattergun style from what he said were “various articles [that] appeared prior to my entering office”.
“And here’s one,” Trump said. “‘The FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.’ That is amazing. And then it says FAA … says people with severe disabilities are most underrepresented segment of the workforce, [they] said, ‘They want them in, and they want them, they can be air traffic controllers.’ I don’t think so. This was January 14, so that was a week before I entered office. They put a big push to put diversity into the FAA’s program.”
He appeared to be reading from a report published by Fox News.
Trump continued: “Brilliant people have to be in those positions, and their lives are actually shortened, very substantially shortened because of the stress where you have many, many planes coming into one target, and you need a very special talent and a very special genius to be able to do it.”
During his diatribe he also baselessly blamed Joe Biden and Barack Obama for the crash. At one point he also placed blame on former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, who obviously no longer works in the administration.
Needless to say, social media is dragging the Orange Overload for his latest failure at leadership, and deservedly so. See some fo the most poignant commentary in the comments.
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is living her best fashionable life during Paris Couture Week.The Houston Hip-Hop star is getting fits off in the City of Lights, and the hotties love every minute of it. The “Savage” rapper had jaws on the floor when she appeared at Gaurav Gupta’s spring 2025 Haute Couture show Wednesday.The 29-year-old musician popped out and showed n***** by wearing a finely detailed draped chain gown from the Indian couturier Gaurav Gupta that drew everyone’s eyes.The fantastic dress featured strings of chains, complemented by beads and coins that perfectly cascaded down from the choker. Underneath the elegant but revealing piece, the rapper, born Megan Pete, wore a brown strapless corset bodysuit underneath.To complete the look, Thee Stallion wore a beautiful headpiece from Gaurav Gupta, made in collaboration with Object & Dawn, strappy square-toe sandals, and taupe upside-down nails courtesy of Tahvya Krok. The designer shared a video of Megan Thee Stallion in the piece and wrote in the caption, “Megan is a cosmic force, and working with her to craft this disruptive piece that embodies the spirit of tribal India has been exhilarating. Her willingness to explore and push boundaries made the collaboration a monumental moment.”Thee Stallion also shared a photo of her in the dress, captioning it, “Chakras aligned in @gauravguptaofficial.”That wasn’t the only fashion moment from Megan Thee Stallion during Paris Couture Week. She was getting fits from the moment she set foot in the city.Earlier in the week, she kicked things off on Monday at Giambattista Valli’s spring 2025 couture show, wearing a creamsicle-colored hooded dress accentuated with vibrant red florals at the waist.She doesn’t miss.You can see more photos in the gallery below.
1. Gaurav Gupta: Photocall – Paris Fashion Week – Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025
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PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 29: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY – For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Megan Thee Stallion attends the Gaurav Gupta Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 29, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pierre Suu/Getty Images) vertical,color image,photography,celebrities,people,full length,france,one person,arts culture and entertainment,looking at camera,paris – france,dress,fashion,brown,silver colored,shoe,metallic,floor length,long dress,photo call,high heels,jewelry,silver – metal,fashion show,gold colored,spring summer collection,open toe,paris fashion week,sleeveless dress,bodysuit,headwear,haute couture,sweetheart neckline,january,silver dress,gold shoe,paris haute couture fashion week,sleeveless,megan thee stallion,chain – object,2025,gaurav gupta – designer label
2. Gaurav Gupta: Front Row – Paris Fashion Week – Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025
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PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 29: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY – For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Megan Thee Stallion attends the Gaurav Gupta Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 29, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Lyvans Boolaky/Getty Images) vertical,color image,photography,celebrities,people,full length,france,one person,arts culture and entertainment,paris – france,fashion,incidental people,fashion show,spring summer collection,paris fashion week,front row,haute couture,january,paris haute couture fashion week,megan thee stallion,2025
3. Gaurav Gupta: Front Row – Paris Fashion Week – Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025
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PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 29: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY – For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Megan Thee Stallion attends the Gaurav Gupta Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 29, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Lyvans Boolaky/Getty Images) vertical,color image,photography,celebrities,people,france,one person,arts culture and entertainment,looking at camera,paris – france,fashion,three quarter length,incidental people,fashion show,spring summer collection,paris fashion week,front row,haute couture,january,paris haute couture fashion week,megan thee stallion,2025
4. Gaurav Gupta: Front Row – Paris Fashion Week – Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025
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PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 29: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY – For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Megan Thee Stallion attends the Gaurav Gupta Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 29, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Lyvans Boolaky/Getty Images) vertical,color image,photography,celebrities,people,france,one person,arts culture and entertainment,looking at camera,paris – france,dress,fashion,brown,three quarter length,silver colored,jewelry,silver – metal,fashion show,spring summer collection,paris fashion week,front row,sleeveless dress,bodysuit,headwear,haute couture,sweetheart neckline,january,silver dress,paris haute couture fashion week,sleeveless,megan thee stallion,chain – object,2025,gaurav gupta – designer label
5. Street Style – Paris Fashion Week – Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 – Day Three
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PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 29: Megan Thee Stallion wears a brown corset bodysuit, a silver face accessory and a see-through dress adorned with jewels outside the Gaurav Gupta show during Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 29, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Valentina Frugiuele/Getty Images) vertical,color image,photography,celebrities,france,arts culture and entertainment,paris – france,dress,fashion,brown,day 3,jewelry,silver – metal,fashion show,spring summer collection,paris fashion week,personal accessory,bodysuit,corset,headwear,haute couture,sweetheart neckline,january,street style,paris haute couture fashion week,sleeveless,megan thee stallion,chain – object,2025,gaurav gupta – designer label
6. Gaurav Gupta: Front Row – Paris Fashion Week – Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025
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PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 29: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY – For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Megan Thee Stallion attends the Gaurav Gupta Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 29, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Lyvans Boolaky/Getty Images) vertical,color image,photography,celebrities,people,full length,france,one person,arts culture and entertainment,paris – france,dress,fashion,brown,silver colored,incidental people,shoe,looking over shoulder,metallic,floor length,long dress,high heels,jewelry,silver – metal,fashion show,gold colored,spring summer collection,open toe,paris fashion week,front row,sleeveless dress,bodysuit,headwear,haute couture,sweetheart neckline,january,silver dress,gold shoe,paris haute couture fashion week,sleeveless,megan thee stallion,chain – object,2025,gaurav gupta – designer label
7. Gaurav Gupta: Photocall – Paris Fashion Week – Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025
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PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 29: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY – For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Megan Thee Stallion attends the Gaurav Gupta Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 29, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pierre Suu/Getty Images) color image,photography,celebrities,people,france,one person,arts culture and entertainment,horizontal,paris – france,fashion,three quarter length,incidental people,photo call,fashion show,spring summer collection,paris fashion week,haute couture,january,paris haute couture fashion week,megan thee stallion,2025
8. Gaurav Gupta: Photocall – Paris Fashion Week – Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025
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PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 29: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY – For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Megan Thee Stallion attends the Gaurav Gupta Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 29, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pierre Suu/Getty Images) vertical,color image,photography,celebrities,people,full length,france,one person,arts culture and entertainment,paris – france,fashion,incidental people,photo call,fashion show,spring summer collection,paris fashion week,haute couture,january,paris haute couture fashion week,megan thee stallion,2025
9. Street Style – Paris Fashion Week – Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 – Day Three
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PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 29: Megan Thee Stallion wears a brown corset bodysuit, a silver face accessory and a see-through dress adorned with jewels outside the Gaurav Gupta show during Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 29, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Valentina Frugiuele/Getty Images) vertical,color image,photography,celebrities,france,arts culture and entertainment,topix,paris – france,dress,fashion,brown,day 3,jewelry,silver – metal,fashion show,spring summer collection,paris fashion week,personal accessory,bodysuit,corset,headwear,haute couture,sweetheart neckline,january,bestpix,street style,paris haute couture fashion week,sleeveless,megan thee stallion,chain – object,2025,gaurav gupta – designer label
10. Giambattista Valli Front Row – Paris Fashion Week – Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025
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PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 27: Megan Thee Stallion attends the Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 27, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Giambattista Valli) vertical,color image,photography,celebrities,people,formalwear,france,one person,evening gown,embellishment,arts culture and entertainment,looking at camera,waist up,paris – france,portrait,dress,fashion,giambattista valli – designer label,orange color,fashion show,hood – clothing,sleeved dress,spring summer collection,draped,paris fashion week,front row,haute couture,january,orange dress,paris haute couture fashion week,megan thee stallion,2025
11. Jean Paul Gaultier – Front Row – Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2025
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Megan Thee Stallion at the Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2025 fashion show as part of Paris Couture Fashion Week on January 29, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Swan Gallet/WWD via Getty Images) color image,photography,france,arts culture and entertainment,horizontal,topix,paris – france,panties,fashion show,long sleeved,spring summer collection,front row,haute couture,fashion week,jean paul gaultier – designer label,puffed sleeve,cream colored,trench coat,black coat,black color,megan thee stallion,coat – garment
12. Jean Paul Gaultier – Front Row – Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2025
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Megan Thee Stallion at the Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2025 fashion show as part of Paris Couture Fashion Week on January 29, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Swan Gallet/WWD via Getty Images) vertical,color image,photography,france,arts culture and entertainment,topix,paris – france,train – clothing embellishment,shoe,panties,floor length,high heels,fashion show,long sleeved,spring summer collection,front row,stockings,haute couture,fashion week,jean paul gaultier – designer label,puffed sleeve,cream colored,black shoe,bestpix,trench coat,black coat,black color,megan thee stallion,coat – garment
13. Jean Paul Gaultier – Front Row – Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2025
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Megan Thee Stallion at the Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2025 fashion show as part of Paris Couture Fashion Week on January 29, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Swan Gallet/WWD via Getty Images) vertical,color image,photography,france,arts culture and entertainment,paris – france,fashion show,spring summer collection,front row,haute couture,fashion week,megan thee stallion
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The Department of Justice has reportedly discussed dropping the federal charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams with Manhattan prosecutors.
According to reports, senior officials with the Department of Justice have discussed the future of the federal corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the possibility that the charges would be dropped outright. DOJ officials are slated to meet with prosecutors in Manhattan from the office of the Southern District of New York this week and with the legal defense team for Adams. The embattled mayor is slated to go on trial April 21 and has been in constant communication with President Donald Trump in recent weeks, including attending his inauguration and visiting him at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Trump has publicly supported Adams, stating that he would “take a look” at a pardon for him in a press briefing last month.
Sources close to the discussions have framed them as preliminary. The Southern District of New York declined to comment – since Damian Williams stepped down last month, the office has been run by Danielle R. Sassoon, a veteran prosecutor appointed by Trump on an interim basis. Speculation has risen that the Justice Department is seeking a fast resolution to the matter before Trump’s picks for the SDNY and the U.S. Attorney General (Jay Clayton and Pamela Bondi, respectively) are confirmed. According to the New York Times, Sassoon is in a precarious position – if she were to drop the charges, it would allow Adams to say that the charges shouldn’t have been brought in the first place. If she refused, she could be forced to resign or be fired.
The news comes amid rumors that Adams, who until early Thursday (Jan. 30) was out of the public eye dealing with illness, would potentially accept a pardon and then resign. Adams’ lawyer, Alex Spiro (who also represents Trump crony and tech billionaire Elon Musk) dismissed that theory to reporters. “No, he’s innocent,” he said. The same sources claim that Shapiro intimated to the DOJ officials that Adams would hinder further immigration crackdowns in New York City if he were still under indictment. “That is a complete lie.” Shapiro said when asked about that conversation.
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Tragedy struck Washington, D.C. after an aerial collision between a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter and a passenger plane occurred at 8:47 p.m. ET last night (Jan. 29).
According to Newsweek, the horrific accident happened when both the passenger plane, which was flying in from Wichita, Kansas, and the U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter attempted to land at Reagan International Airport in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, it is suspected that all 64 passengers in the commercial plane and the three soldiers in the helicopter have not survived the crash. A search for survivors are underway.
The collision comes just a week after “President” Donald Trump reportedly fired the head of the TSA and the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, froze hiring of all Air Traffic Controllers, and also laid off 100 top FAA security officers. Now we’re not saying he’s responsible for this tragedy, but if anyone is wondering how such an incident could come to pass, that wouldn’t be a bad place to look.
Still, others feel it was on the helicopter pilot to have avoided the incident as a former pilot explained that the passenger plane had the right of way and the Blackhawk should’ve flown away to make room for the civilian aircraft.
Newsweek reports:
Former helicopter pilot Paul Beaver spoke with Sky News about the accident, saying that because the airline pilot was coming in to land, they would have had right of way. The helicopter pilot should have taken “avoiding action” to move out of the airplane’s flight path.
Air traffic control recordings from right before the crash show the air traffic controller speaking with the helicopter (PAT 2-5) operators.
The air traffic controller said: “PAT 2-5 do you have the CRJ in sight?”
Then: “PAT 2-5 pass behind the CRJ.”
The helicopter pilot responded: “PAT 2-5 has aircraft in sight, request visual separation,” just moments before the crash.
Donald Trump for his part took to social media to weigh in on the incident and after describing just how good of a night it was to fly a plane, he asked, “Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane. This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. NOT GOOD!!!”
We still can’t believe y’all truly voted for this kind of malarkey instead of an overqualified Black woman. respectfully.
No word on whether any survivors have been found as of yet, but authorities promise to recover every single body that is currently missing from the accident. And Trump has already blamed Barack Obama, Joe Biden and even DEI.