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Serena Williams makes her return to professional tennis on Thursday, six months after suffering terrifying complications and nearly dying after giving birth to her daughter, Olympia.
The tennis superstar is also speaking up about the need for improved maternal health care, particularly for black women.
“Doctors aren’t listening to us, just to be quite frank,” she told the BBC after a tennis exhibition in New York City on Monday, noting that black women are three times more likely than white women to die during pregnancy or childbirth. “It may be time for women to be comfortable with having uncomfortable conversations.”
Williams experienced a pulmonary embolism (blockage that occurs in the lungs) after giving birth via C-section. Because she had had blood clots before, the athlete knew what symptoms to look out for and alerted her doctor as to what was going on. Williams also knew which tests to request.
“I was in a really fortunate situation where I know my body well, and I am who I am, and I told the doctor: ‘I don’t feel right, something’s wrong.’ She immediately listened,” Williams told BBC. “She was great. I had a wonderful, wonderful doctor. Unfortunately a lot of African-Americans and black people don’t have the same experience that I’ve had.”
There’s a lot of pre-judging, absolutely, that definitely goes on. And it needs to be addressed.
Had the tennis superstar not known her body as well as she did and advocated for doctors to listen to her, she might not be here today.
“Because of what I went through, it would be really difficult if I didn’t have the health care that I have ― and to imagine all the other women that do go through that without the same health care, without the same response, it’s upsetting,” she said. “I think there’s a lot of pre-judging, absolutely, that definitely goes on. And it needs to be addressed.”
Williams said she is thinking about having another child, despite the challenges she faced when giving birth to Olympia.
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“I definitely want two [kids], God willing,” she told “Entertainment Tonight” earlier this week. “But right now, I want tennis as well. So, I’m going to wait and see what happens.”
Williams said it’s “definitely not easy” to balance her career and motherhood.
“I have this undying drive to be the best that I can be,” she said. “Whether it’s [being] a mom or playing tennis or doing my designing. I just want to do the best that I can.”
Williams sits on the board of advisers to Oath, HuffPost’s parent company.
So the WWE brand extension draft it's set to take place on July 19th this Tuesday night so my question is, who is going to be the number one draft pick will it be John Cena, will it be Seth Rollins, or will it be Dean Ambrose the disgusting lunatic paper Champion himself?! Normally I don't have no idea what's going to happen on Tuesday. Anyway. The brand will feature every WWE Superstars from Raw SmackDown and WWE NXT mostly my favorite number one draft pick will be none other than Seth Rollins who at WWE Battleground will take back what he is and that is the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Well anyway... Who's going to be your number one draft pick from Raw SmackDown and NXT go to wwe.com
The gunman in a Baton Rouge shooting that killed three cops was identified as Gavin Long, 29, a former Marine from Kansas City, Missouri, law enforcement sources told ABC News. Long was discharged in August 2010 after five years of service, records show.
Three police officers are dead and three others injured from the shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which happened after officers responded to a 911 call of a man in all black walking around with a rifle, officials said.
The suspect, who was not identified by police at an afternoon press conference, died at the scene, Louisiana State Police Superintendent Col. Mike Edmonson said this afternoon. He said there is no active shooter scenario but the investigation is ongoing.
"We believe the person that shot and killed our officers, that he is a person that was shot and killed at the scene," Edmonson said. He said police do not believe there are "any other shooter[s] held up ... in the Baton Rouge area."
The East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office said earlier today that officials believed two suspects might have been at large.
The shooting happened around 8:45 a.m. in the Old Hammond area -- less than a mile from police headquarters, officials said. The incident began when officers responded to a 911 call reporting that a man wearing all black was walking around with a rifle, officials said.
Three officers died: Two worked for the Baton Rouge police department and one worked for the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's office, police said.
Three officers were injured: one officer was in critical condition and the two others suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
One of the Baton Rouge police officers killed in the shooting was 41 years old with just under one year of service, police said. The other was 32 years old with 10 years of service. The third officer killed today, an East Baton Rouge Parish deputy, was 45 years old.
"This is truly a sad day in Baton Rouge," Mayor Kip Holden said. "We continue to ask the question and continue to make the statement, let peace prevail in Baton Rouge and this parish. We must look ahead.
"We thank our officers who have fallen in the line of duty, we pray for their families and we pray for peace everywhere," Holden said.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said in a statement, "This is an unspeakable and unjustified attack on all of us at a time when we need unity and healing.
"Rest assured, every resource available to the state of Louisiana will be used to ensure the perpetrators are brought swiftly to justice," Edwards said.
The Sunday morning shootings come in the wake of the death of Alton Sterling, a black man who was shot and killed after an altercation with Baton Rouge police officers on July 5. Sterling's death and the police-involved death of a black man in Minnesota a day later sparked nationwide protests. Then on July 7, a gunman targeted police officers at a protest in Dallas, killing five officers and wounding others.
In the wake of Sterling's death, there were calls to "purge" cops in Baton Rouge.
A warning issued by the FBI's New Orleans field office on July 7 mentioned "threats to law enforcement and potential threats to the safety of the general public" stemming from Sterling's shooting.
One image on social media said the Baton Rouge "purge" would start July 9 at midnight and end July 10 at 5 a.m.
The FBI said the information was not officially confirmed but was issued to alert law enforcement to be aware.
Last week, Alton Sterling's 15-year-old son, Cameron Sterling, urged Baton Rouge residents to "protest in peace."
President Obama told reporters today, "This has happened far too often."
"I know whenever this happens, wherever this happens, you feel it. Your families feel it. But what I want you to know today is the respect and the gratitude of the American people for everything that you do for us," he said.
Obama mentioned how he traveled to Dallas five days ago for a memorial service for the five officers killed there.
"I said that that killer would not be the last person who tries to make us turn on each other, nor will today's killer," Obama said. "It remains up to us to make sure that they fail. That decision is all of ours. The decision to make sure that our best selves are reflected across America, not our worst."
The Louisiana State Police Department is leading the investigation into today's shooting.
The FBI New Orleans office said it "has personnel on scene in Baton Rouge to assist our law enforcement colleagues. At this time, our focus is to help identify and bring to justice those who are responsible for this heinous act."
The Department of Homeland Security said it is "in contact with the FBI, Baton Rouge law enforcement, and our fusion center partners there, and the Secretary has directed that the full weight of the Department's resources be made available."
Obama said in a statement earlier today, "I condemn, in the strongest sense of the word, the attack on law enforcement in Baton Rouge. For the second time in two weeks, police officers who put their lives on the line for ours every day were doing their job when they were killed in a cowardly and reprehensible assault. These are attacks on public servants, on the rule of law, and on civilized society, and they have to stop."
He said he has offered the support of the federal government to state and local authorities in Louisiana.
"And make no mistake – justice will be done," he said. "We may not yet know the motives for this attack, but I want to be clear: there is no justification for violence against law enforcement. None. These attacks are the work of cowards who speak for no one. They right no wrongs. They advance no causes. The officers in Baton Rouge; the officers in Dallas –- they were our fellow Americans, part of our community, part of our country, with people who loved and needed them, and who need us now -– all of us -– to be at our best."
You have no problem today cutting through the subterfuge and getting right to the heart of the matter. Despite word tricks and other misleading activities, you see exactly what's going on and where it's leading. Impatience with this beating-around-the-bush waste of time could cause you to be unusually direct. In the circumstances, however, such a straightforward approach could cause others to go on the defensive. Coax the situation along with tact and composure.
Calvin Johnson: NFL's culture of playing hurt became too much  By Andre Vergara Published July 07, 2016 Facebook Twitter Email  Calvin Johnson recently retired from a superstar NFL career at 30, walking away from the Detroit Lions at an early age much like Barry Sanders did almost two decades earlier.
All the build up to the final gig in her Formation World Tour including fan reaction, stage times, set list, weather and pictures during Queen Bey's big night in Glasgow.
Glasgow braced itself for Beyonce's big night at Hampden as the hugely-anticipated Formation World Tour rolled into town for one night only.
Fans camped out overnight ready to be first in line to get into Hampden and get up close and personal with the megastar.
We'll were there today to bring you all the build-up to the show - and of course we were in the crowd later too with all the on-stage action as it happens.
State Department is re-opening an internal investigation into whether Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her top aides mishandled classified information, Fox News confirmed late Thursday.
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The investigation, which was first reported by the Associated Press, focuses on how classified emails to and from Clinton's private server were categorized at the time they were sent.
The State Department started its review in January after declaring 22 emails from Clinton's private server to be "top secret." The investigation was halted after the FBI began investigating Clinton's so-called "homebrew" email setup last April. On Wednesday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said there would be no indictments resulting from the FBI probe.
"Given the Department of Justice has now made its announcement, the State Department intends to conduct its internal review," State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement. "Our goal will be to be as transparent as possible about our results, while complying with our various legal obligations."
Kirby set no deadline for the investigation's completion.
Clinton was secretary of state until early 2013. Most of her top advisers left shortly thereafter.
Kirby said earlier this week that former officials can still face "administrative sanctions." The most serious of those penalties is loss of security clearances, which could complicate Clinton's naming of a national security team if she becomes president.
Beyond the Democratic front-runner, the probe is most likely examining confidants Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan and Huma Abedin, who wrote many of the emails to their boss that the various investigations have focused on. Mills, Clinton's chief of staff at the State Department, has been viewed as a possibility for the same job in the White House. There is speculation that Sullivan, Clinton's former policy chief, could be national security adviser.
The State Department says it won't identify former officials that still hold security clearances. But in an email Fox News made public in February, the department described Mills as still holding a valid clearance.
The traditional goal of a presidential nominee is to win the presidency and then serve as president.
Donald J. Trump is not a traditional candidate for president.
Presented in a recent interview with a scenario, floating around the political ether, in which the presumptive Republican nominee proves all the naysayers wrong, beatsHillary Clinton and wins the presidency, only to forgo the office as the ultimate walk-off winner, Mr. Trump flashed a mischievous smile.
“I’ll let you know how I feel about it after it happens,” he said minutes before leaving his Trump Tower office to fly to a campaign rally in New Hampshire.
It is, of course, entirely possible that Mr. Trump is playing coy to earn more news coverage. But the notion of the intensely competitive Mr. Trump’s being more interested in winning the presidency than serving as president is not exactly a foreign concept to close observers of this presidential race.
Early in the contest, his rivals, Republican operatives and many reporters questioned the seriousness of his candidacy. His knack for creating controversy out of thin air (this week’s edition: the Star of David Twitter post) and his inclination toward self-destructive comments did not instill confidence in a political culture that values on-message discipline in its candidates.
When the rituals you rely on to feel normal get interrupted. That should not displace your entire sense of purpose. If it does. It's a signal to come with a purpose God is stronger. With deeper roots.
You're probably feel more like dancing around thework than actually doing it. Andthat'sokay. Ifyoukeepyour eyesopenwhiledancing, you will notice something key that containseverything.
Before you have verystrongleadto frustrationliketoday's.Butyouarealotmorepatientnow. When you feel frustration, youknow it won't be long before you're strong sense of recenttextsover!.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.And to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice forall.
Last night Beyonce cancelled World Tour in Nashville Tennessee which is mainly due to the stadium Construction Nashville Tennessee. I mean... millions of fans Nashville Tennessee last night to see Beyonce perform on stage instead it has been cancelled but don't worry people deformation World Tour performance by Beyonce will be rescheduling sometime this week!.
The reason why the Memphis Grizzlies were swept out of the playoffs by
the San Antonio Spurs 4 games to nothing in the first round is the cause
the Memphis Grizzlies nothing more than washed-up has-beens you don't
know when to give it up with both Marc Gasol and Michael Conley
sidelined they got no skill set they got no Street smarts and they got
no Manpower not whatsoever and why they don't have the because they are
nothing but shameless desperate parasites nothing but a bunch
of whiny pathetic NBA wash-ups who did not the San Antonio Spurs by
forcing game 5 which the Memphis Grizzlies have failed to do so with
that being said the hops and their dreams of because future NBA
champions are officially over and done Maybe the Memphis Grizzlies she
goes back to that disgusting vile unpleasant sickening abominable
unsavory hell hole they puked out of in Vancouver Canada and as for Dave
Joerger as far as I'm concerned he could take that sympathy that he has
for the Memphis Grizzlies when he was whining crying and bitching with
them fake ass tears running down his face and he can shove it because he
needs to go ahead and retire from coaching with a little dignity
because he does not deserve to be in Memphis Tennessee. That's all I got
to say about that.
Everybody knows that I am known to be such a Hulkamania fan but some people wanted to know the reason why the WWE decide to play Hulk Hogan back one thing that we all have to realize that Hulk Hogan made some mistakes in his life since that tape was released on 10 saying the N word numerous times which cost him to get fired in his contract terminated and him were being removed from the Hall of Fame lineup I mean..... I believe millions of fans are happy to see that he is back. And I believe in my opinion Hulk Hogan would do everything in his power to put all this mess behind him and he would move forward from there. I'm so happy that Hulk Hogan and cleaned inside and he is getting ready for Wrestlemania 32 live at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington Texas. Adapt Hulk Hogan would say to all the millions of fans out worldwide. Whatcha gonna do when Hulkamania runs wild on you?
Our Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever in the name of Jesus amen!.
Trumpmania may be telling us a lot less about the dominant mood in the electorate at large than we think. (Photo: Dominick Reuter/Reuters)
Voters of America: Get ahold of yourselves, please.
I know you’re irrational and seething with anger. I know this because I keep reading about it, in every somber piece of punditry about Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders or what’s going to drive the 2016 campaign. I hear it on my Twitter feed and in the fundraising emails that batter me all day long.
Apparently the entire country got hit with some kind of gamma ray, and now everybody’s all huge and green and hurling campaign buses willy-nilly across the highway.
Except that when I meet American voters, they don’t generally seem so unhinged to me. They mostly seem bewildered by our politics, and maybe a little too busy to care. Which makes me wonder if this whole year-of-the-angry-voter thing might be one of those instances where we think we’re seeing one thing, when really we’re seeing something else.
The chief exhibit in the case for voter rage, of course, is Trump. In case you haven’t heard, because maybe you’re all about Caitlyn Jenner and can fixate on only one attention-craved reality-TV star at a time, Trump is the clear frontrunner in the Republican field and the instrument of our blinding national outrage.
Also, just by the way, he’s phenomenal to the women.
Democrats and liberal commentators love the Trump story. It underscores, at a glance, how twisted with bile and bigotry the Republican Party must be. The guy excoriates Mexicans and manages to make Megyn Kelly look sympathetic, and still he’s ahead! What does that tell you?
Maybe not as much as you think.
Yes, there’s a sizable segment of enraged voters in the GOP — and on the left, for that matter. The angry vote is a fixture of the modern political landscape and has been, more or less, since at least the 1970s.
But Trumpmania may be telling us a lot less about the dominant mood in the electorate at large than we think. As one of the more astute liberal bloggers, Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum, points out, Trump has been drawing the support of less than a quarter of Republican primary voters, who in turn make up less than a quarter of the voting public.
And not only are Trump’s mad-as-hell voters a fraction of a fraction of the electorate, but they represent even a subset of that small group who are engaged in the campaign at this point and angry enough to actually take a pollster’s call.
In other words, Trump’s summer surge tells you about as much about prevailing political attitudes in America as the line outside the Yogiberry tells you about the state of the American dairy industry.
Here’s something interesting to consider: According to the Pew Research Center, which to my mind does the best polling on public attitudes across a range of topics, anger in the American electorate actually peaked in 2013 (at about 30 percent), after Republicans in Washington decided to turn the budget process into a series of hostage crises. Since then, the number of voters who identify themselves as angry has actually dipped precipitously, to about 19 percent last year.
It’s also worth noting that, according to the latest data from the University of Michigan, consumer confidence in the economy — which is what voters are said to be most angry about — is considerably higher than it was a year or two ago.
What Pew’s polling consistently shows, and has for a long time, is that voters trust their government less and less; that the share of voters who decline to join either party continues to rise; and that Republicans in particular are now disillusioned with their party’s leadership. The hostility that partisans from one side of the spectrum feel toward partisans of the other has also risen sharply.
But none of this suggests that voters want more extreme leaders who will impose their will by casting out all the immigrants or repealing all the trade deals. What it tells you is that most voters, conservatives included, have real anxiety about the ability of government to meet the moment, and they just want it to work better than it does.
They get frustrated at the futility of it all — and then they change the channel.
In truth, far from marking some new crescendo of outrage, this moment looks a lot like 1992, when the independent candidate Ross Perot managed to ride an undercurrent of anger to a stunning showing in the fall election, capturing 18 percent of the vote. (And before you start making comparisons, Perot appealed not just to conservatives but to the reform-minded middle, too; if Trump can get anything close to that as a third-party candidate, I’ll grow out a comb-over and dye it orange.)
What’s different now, 20-plus years on, is that the pockets of rage in our society are about a thousand times louder, to the point where those of who live in a political world can quickly lose our perspective on it. Blogs and social media create an effect that a friend of mine who works in politics likes to describe as putting a trash can over your head and letting someone beat on it with a stick.
If you’re covering the news or working on a campaign, and all you do is visit the same sites and watch the tweets roll in all day long, the anger can feel deafening and ubiquitous. But that doesn’t mean it feels that way to the rest of the country.
Trump’s mad-as-hell voters are a fraction of a fraction of the electorate. (Photo: Charlie Leight/Getty Images)
And the problem with repeating this constant mantra of unprecedented voter revolt, as if the streets of America were overrun with pro-Trump parades, is that we’re not just overstating the reality. We’re also affecting it.
The more we portray the angriest and least flexible elements of both parties as in charge and indicative of the national mood, the more the broader, disaffected swath of American voters turns away from the process altogether, seeing nothing in it that makes them anything other than depressed.
More to the point, no matter what they might say, the candidates and their advisers watch cable TV and read the paper, too. And that’s probably a big reason why nine other Republicans stood onstage with Trump last week and mostly stared at the backs of their fingernails while he mocked the very idea of political service and reduced their entire party to a prop in “The Apprentice.”
A Jeb Bush or a Marco Rubio doesn’t stand up, I’m betting, because they’re afraid the mob will turn on them. They’re not going to encourage what they imagine to be the rioting masses, but neither are they inclined to stand on top of a car and plead for sanity.
And yet everything about our modern political history suggests that both they and we are looking at this entirely the wrong way. Perot, Pat Buchanan, Howard Dean, John Edwards, Michele Bachmann — all of them rode some significant wave of anger to a crest in the primary season. But none of them were nominated, or even came close.
Why? Because more thoughtful, more optimistic politicians figured out how to channel enough of that anger while appealing, at the same time, to the much larger part of the electorate that just wants some real and compelling answers to the dilemmas of modern life. Two of those candidates, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, won four presidential elections between them.
I’ll bet good money that the next Republican nominee will be the one who ultimately makes voters feel less anxious, rather than angrier. When it comes to the sound and fury of modern politics, it’s best not to mistake one for the other.
What Pew’s polling consistently shows, and has for a long time, is that
voters trust their government less and less; that the share of voters
who decline to join either party continues to rise; and that Republicans in particular
are now disillusioned with their party’s leadership. The hostility that
partisans from one side of the spectrum feel toward partisans of the
other has also risen sharply.
But none of this suggests that voters want more extreme leaders who
will impose their will by casting out all the immigrants or repealing
all the trade deals. What it tells you is that most voters,
conservatives included, have real anxiety about the ability of
government to meet the moment, and they just want it to work better than
it does.
They get frustrated at the futility of it all — and then they change the channel.
In
truth, far from marking some new crescendo of outrage, this moment
looks a lot like 1992, when the independent candidate Ross Perot managed
to ride an undercurrent of anger to a stunning showing in the fall
election, capturing 18 percent of the vote. (And before you start making
comparisons, Perot appealed not just to conservatives but to the
reform-minded middle, too; if Trump can get anything close to that as a
third-party candidate, I’ll grow out a comb-over and dye it orange.)
What’s different now, 20-plus years on, is that the pockets of rage in
our society are about a thousand times louder, to the point where those
of who live in a political world can quickly lose our perspective on it.
Blogs and social media create an effect that a friend of mine who works
in politics likes to describe as putting a trash can over your head and
letting someone beat on it with a stick.
If you’re covering the news or working on a campaign, and all you do is
visit the same sites and watch the tweets roll in all day long, the
anger can feel deafening and ubiquitous. But that doesn’t mean it feels
that way to the rest of the country.
Trump’s mad-as-hell voters are a fraction of a fraction of the electorate. (Photo: Charlie Leight/Getty Images)
And the problem with repeating this constant mantra of unprecedented
voter revolt, as if the streets of America were overrun with pro-Trump
parades, is that we’re not just overstating the reality. We’re also
affecting it.
The more we portray the angriest and least flexible elements of both
parties as in charge and indicative of the national mood, the more the
broader, disaffected swath of American voters turns away from the
process altogether, seeing nothing in it that makes them anything other
than depressed.
More to the point, no matter what they might say, the candidates and
their advisers watch cable TV and read the paper, too. And that’s
probably a big reason why nine other Republicans stood onstage
with Trump last week and mostly stared at the backs of their
fingernails while he mocked the very idea of political service and
reduced their entire party to a prop in “The Apprentice.”
A Jeb Bush or a Marco Rubio doesn’t stand up, I’m betting, because they’re afraid the mob will turn on them.
They’re not going to encourage what they imagine to be the rioting
masses, but neither are they inclined to stand on top of a car and plead
for sanity.
And yet everything about our modern political history suggests that
both they and we are looking at this entirely the wrong way. Perot, Pat
Buchanan, Howard Dean, John Edwards, Michele Bachmann — all of them rode
some significant wave of anger to a crest in the primary season. But
none of them were nominated, or even came close.
Why? Because more thoughtful, more optimistic politicians figured out
how to channel enough of that anger while appealing, at the same time,
to the much larger part of the electorate that just wants some real and
compelling answers to the dilemmas of modern life. Two of those
candidates, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, won four presidential
elections between them.
I’ll bet good money that the next Republican nominee will be the one
who ultimately makes voters feel less anxious, rather than angrier. When
it comes to the sound and fury of modern politics, it’s best not to
mistake one for the other.
“Two members of my team were stabbed last night in Philly. One was killed,” Minaj tweeted. “They had only been there for two days rehearsing for the tour.”
Minaj retweeted a link to a story published by NBC’s Philadelphia affiliate, which detailed the fatal altercation. According to the TV station, the fight broke out at approximately 2 a.m. at Che Bar & Grill. The brawl then moved to outside the bar, at which point one of the men involved in the fight pulled out a knife.
One of the victims died, while the other, identified by Minaj as Eric, suffered multiple stab wounds that left him in critical condition but he is expected to live.
In a social media post published Wednesday, chart-topping rapper Fabolous identified the dead victim as De’Von Pickett, who is described on his Twitter account as a road and tour manager.
“These guys flew into Philly for my tour rehearsals 2 days ago and were both stabbed last night,” Minaj wrote in a lengthy Instagram post that included a photo of the pair. “#RIPDAYDAY condolences to your family. Unbelievable. Eric (on the right) is recovering. Another senseless act of violence that took the life of a great guy. So sad.”
Poor Selena Gomez. Justin Bieber’s girlfriend had the most awkward night of her life on Sept. 30 when she was forced to be in the same room as two of Justin’s flings! Not only did she pose with Miranda Kerr, but she clearly spent the whole night avoiding Kendall Jenner, who had no problem posing with the Biebs.
The CR Fashion BOOK party in Paris on Sept. 30 will forever go down in history as one of the most awkward Paris Fashion Week parties ever. Selena Gomez, 22, partied in the same room as not one but two of boyfriend Justin Bieber‘s rumored former paramours — Kendall Jenner, 18, and Miranda Kerr, 31. What made this especially unfortunate for Selena is that Justin went on a dinner date with Kendallearlier that night!
Selena Gomez & Kendall Jenner Party With Justin Bieber In Paris — So Awkward
Much like Justin, 20, was avoiding Miranda all night, as TMZ reported, Selena seemed to have been avoiding former BFF Kendall. While Justin posed for a plethora of photos with Kendall and momager Kris Jenner, 58, Selena was conspicuously absent. Maybe she was posing for photos with Miranda as a form of revenge!
While Selena is trying to take the high road in Justin’s supposedly friendly relationship with Kendall, there’s no reason why Selena can’t have her little victories! As a source previously revealed to HollywoodLife.com, Selena isn’t upset about Justin’s dinner date with Kendall because she’s trying to “prove she can be mature. Justin has been treating her so well and she wants to show him that it’s making a difference. She’s made the choice to trust him again and that means letting him hang out with whoever he wants.”
t’s no secret that Justin and Selena are on and off more than a light switch, and one of their blowout fights this past spring happened as a result of Kendall reportedly sending Justin sexy selfies. Selena Gomez & Miranda Kerr Posed Together — Weird?
In case you didn’t know why Justin would avoid Miranda, we’re sure that you remember that time Orlando Bloom, 37, tried to punch Justin in his face. The scuffle reportedly occurred after Justin told Orlando that his ex-wife “was good,” implying that he had had sex with the Victoria’s Secret model. Miranda’s camp denied the reports of their fling as defamatory, so it’s no wonder that Justin steered clear of that situation.
We would give our limbs to know what Justin and Selena talked about after he learned that she and Miranda had posed together — seriously.
The reality star has posted 13 pics of her and Kanye while in Paris and it comes as a bit of a shock for Kim fans since we know she’s a fan of selfies. Kim & Kanye: Freaked Out By Attack & Hire Armed Security
But it hasn’t been one big love-fest in Paris, Kim was attacked by Vitalli Sediuk, a Ukrainian media personality, who ran up to her and knocked her over! He claims he was doing it, not to hurt Kim, but to retaliate against the United States for banning him from entering the country after punching Brad Pitt in the face in May of 2014.
He told the Daily Mail:”I hope Kim is OK and won’t be mad at me as I didn’t mean any harm. Kanye is one lucky man as Kim is a goddess!”
But in the meantime, Kim and Kanye have “beefed up” their security team and hired armed guards, scary!
Rory McIlroy is now one of golf's giants. We can't believe it either, but here we are. This 25-year-old kid, who arrived in this world right about the same time as the third Indiana Jones movie, is officially, certifiably, indisputably a legend.
McIlroy won the Open Championship on Sunday with only the briefest of hiccups. He was paired with Rickie Fowler, playing one pairing behind Sergio Garcia, and both of them veered within two strokes of McIlroy at two points in the afternoon. But McIlroy responded to the challenge with smooth drives straight enough to fire through a keyhole.
When he's playing well, as he did on Saturday afternoon, McIlroy struts. It's more king-of-the-playground than king-of-the-world, really, because of everything that Rory can do on a golf course, scaring you isn't one of them. He's not a Tiger Woods circa 2000, chasing you down, running you over, and then reversing gears a couple times to make sure those tire tracks are embedded. No, McIlroy's game has only two settings: inconsistency and perfection.
When McIlroy is on, as he has been in each of his three major wins, he's as good as anyone who's ever played the game. That's not hyperbole, that's fact. He holds the record for lowest score to par at a U.S. Open, and now he's won the British at 17-under – just two strokes off Tiger Woods' record at an Open.
Consider where the kid stands now in golf history. He's won three of the four jewels of the Grand Slam faster than anyone in the Masters era save Woods and Jack Nicklaus. You don't luck your way into three very different majors. That's skill, grace, and once-in-a-generation talent.
He's now got the rest of his career to do something that only five players — Nicklaus, Woods, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Gene Sarazen — have done: complete the career grand slam. Arnold Palmer never completed the career Slam. Neither did Sam Snead, or Tom Watson, or Phil Mickelson (yet). But here's McIlroy with a good quarter-century to win just once at Augusta ... a place, don't forget, where he very nearly won in 2011 were it not for one excruciatingly bad hole.
When we look back and write Rory's history — which, I guess, we're doing right now — that hole, the 10th at Augusta, will likely stand as the most critical in his career. That triple bogey, which cost him a green jacket, could have destroyed the kid, snuffed out his career, turned him into one of those what-ever-happened-tos that shows up for a couple majors a year and leaves before the weekend.
It didn't work out that way. McIlroy rebounded from that by winning the very next major, the U.S. Open at Congressional, by eight strokes. He owned the next year's PGA Championship at Kiawah, also by eight strokes. And now he's gone wire-to-wire at the Open Championship (just the seventh ever to do so), giving his pursuers only the illusion of hope, not real hope itself.
McIlroy isn't the most reliable of golfers. It's entirely possible he'll miss the cut at Valhalla next month. But when he's on, there's nobody better playing today. From here on out, his competition isn't the guys playing alongside him. It's the guys who've played golf in the decades before, and the decades after. This is going to be a fun career to watch.
James Garner, a legendary television and movie star, has passed away at the age of 86. According to TMZ, Garner was pronounced dead at his home at 8 PM Saturday night in Los Angeles.
The Oklahoma native and U.S. Army veteran got his start in a small role on Broadway, "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" before breaking into television. He was best known for his playing Brett Maverick in "Maverick" and Jim Rockford on "The Rockford Files." Garner also had a number of great screen roles in films such as "The Americanization of Emily," "The Great Escape," "Murphy's Romance," "Victor Victoria," "Maverick," "Twilight" (1998), "Space Cowboys" and "The Notebook."
Garner earned many accolades for his work over the years including two Emmy Awards (15 nominations), an Academy Award nomination for "Romance," a Screen Actors' Guild lifetime achievement award and three Golden Globe Awards (12 nominations). He also earned the TCA Awards lifetime award in 2010.
It looks like the daughter of the late and great Whitney Houston has bigger fish to fry then who’s playing her mother in the upcoming Lifetime biopic.
Bobbi Kristina Brown is once again back to defending her character after a recent photo surfaced on Instagram earlier this week depicting someone who appears to be Bobbi using a bong. The photo and the fake Bobbi Kristina Instagram page it was posted on were promptly deleted and the one-time reality TV star took to Twitter on July 15 to say, "I've never posted any photo of me doing anything! This is someone trying to tarnish and make a horrible name for myself. People are insane."
According to E! Online, the photo was posted along with a caption reading, "This picture may be inappropriate but I want to make a connection with you all. Don't worry this picture isn't recent just hear me out. Do you know what I feel? I feel strange I can't feel any pain anymore. I don't take any drugs as of recently. Things just happened. But then there is some situation that force me to do things and the impact I’ll feel pain. I did and I do. I was hurt."
The caption continued on, saying, “ "People kinda expect more from me. But I can't. I have lost my sense. It just happened. Then here we go again I'm in the same pain. I'm hurt. I'm trying to. I really do. But I know that I'm hurt and in pain but I can feel it but I don’t know what it is. What do I really do? God, Help me ignore and rebuke what these demons are saying, in Jesus Name. Amen.”
The photo caused quite a stir, as it’s known that both Kristina’s mother, Whitney, and father, Bobby Brown, struggled with substance abuse during the careers. Bobbi’s uncle, Gary Houston, told Radar Online that he the family has “concerns” about Bobbi K.
“When you love someone everything concerns you, so the fact of the matter is we have to get to the bottom of it,” he told Radar. “I have to find out for myself. I’m in the process of investigating it now.” But aside from it all, Gary insists that his niece is “doing very well.”
Congratulations are in order for David Arquette! The actor got engaged to his entertainment reporter girlfriend Christina McLarty on July 2, according to a breaking news report. How exciting!
Just two months after David Arquette, 42, and his girlfriend Christina McLarty, 33, welcomed their first child together, the cute couple are now engaged! We are so happy for these two lovebirds. David reportedly just proposed tonight during a romantic dinner in Malibu!
David Arquette & Christina McLarty — Couple Are Engaged
David proposed at the new Mastro’s steakhouse in Malibu, California on July 2, according to E! Online.
David and Christina’s two-month-old son, Charlie West, and his 10-year-old daughter with ex-wife Courteney Cox, Coco, were both present at the engagement dinner, according to the report. We think it’s really sweet that David involved his kids in his special moment.
David’s engagement news comes just about a week after his ex-wife Courteney got engaged to her boyfriend Johnny McDaid! We are so happy both of these amazing actors have moved on and found love again.
David and Christina have been dating on-and-off since 2011, with a brief split in 2012. Congrats, you two! David Arquette & Christina McLarty Welcome A Son
The couple welcomed baby Charlie West on April 28 in Los Angeles. “Charlie West is here. They are thrilled …[and] baby is healthy,” a source told Us Weekly right after the baby boy’s birth. We can’t wait to see how this couple incorporate both baby Charlie and Coco into their nuptials!
