• Netflix plans Juneteenth musical by Kenya Barris and Pharrell Williams

    Netflix plans Juneteenth musical by Kenya Barris and Pharrell Williams

    EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is in talks with “Black-ish” and “BlackAF” creator Kenya Barris and “Happy” singer Pharrell Williams to develop a feature-length musical about Juneteenth – the commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. Deadline understands that the streamer and the pair are in the early stages of working up a plan for …
  • Nick Cannon talks ‘systemic’ issues on ‘America’s Got Talent,’ ‘Masked Singer’ secrets

    Nick Cannon talks ‘systemic’ issues on ‘America’s Got Talent,’ ‘Masked Singer’ secrets

    The behind-the-scenes action on “The Masked Singer” sometimes looks more like an episode of “Get Smart” than a top-rated talent competition series. Producers of Fox’s unscripted primetime hit go to great lengths to keep the identities of the celebrity contestants secret during production, “Masked Singer” host and executive producer Nick Cannon said during at wide-ranging …
  • Baseball needs a savior after players’ counteroffer botch

    Baseball needs a savior after players’ counteroffer botch

    Well, let’s hope you enjoyed the 13 minutes in which professional baseball players enjoyed prosperity in the court of public opinion. If you blinked you missed it all, kind of like Kevin Maas’ career as Yankee Clipper 2.0. It isn’t that the MLBPA was wrong to counter the owners’ 60-game schedule Thursday with one 10 …
  • Ugly MLB talks might finally have a compromise in sight: Sherman

    Ugly MLB talks might finally have a compromise in sight: Sherman

    The third person in a room with Tony Clark and Rob Manfred shouldn’t be a UFC referee, it should be a court stenographer. As we have learned with these two sides, they are never going to agree to agree even on what they supposedly have agreed upon. One man’s framework is another’s proposal. The difference …
  • Shares of German payment processor Wirecard plunge over ‘missing’ $2.1B

    Shares of German payment processor Wirecard plunge over ‘missing’ $2.1B

    Read More: Wirecard CEO quits amid allegations of fraud over missing $2B Wirecard says missing $2.1B likely never existed amid financial scandal Ex-Wirecard CEO Markus Braun arrested amid $2.1 billion accounting scandal Wirecard files for insolvency owing $4 billion
  • New Unemployment Claims Top 1 Million for 13 Consecutive Weeks

    New Unemployment Claims Top 1 Million for 13 Consecutive Weeks

    New jobless claims topped 1 million for the 13th-straight week, the Labor Department revealed Thursday, as 1.5 million additional Americans requested unemployment benefits in the second week of June. The Labor Department also said that while new claims fell by 58,000 from the last release, 20.5 million people continued to receive benefits — a relatively …
  • In this radical view, the universe is a giant supercomputer processing particles as bits.

    In this radical view, the universe is a giant supercomputer processing particles as bits.

    There are lots of theories on what are the basis of the universe is. Some physicists say its subatomic particles. Others believe its energy or even space-time. One of the more radical theories suggests that information is the most basic element of the cosmos. Although this line of thinking emanates from the mid-20th century, it …
  • Mama June admits to using $2,500 worth of meth a day

    Mama June admits to using $2,500 worth of meth a day

    June “Mama June” Shannon is speaking candidly about the depths of her meth addiction. During a recent episode of “Mama June: Family Crisis,” the 40-year-old reality star admitted during her reunion with daughter Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannon that she was doing $2,500 worth of the drug per day with boyfriend Eugene Edward “Geno” Doak. “Because you …
  • US workers file 1.5 million jobless claims as coronavirus total tops 45 million

    US workers file 1.5 million jobless claims as coronavirus total tops 45 million

    Read More: March jobs report numbers might appear better than reality Coronavirus puts 4.4 million more out of work, bringing crisis total to 26 million US workers file 1.5 million jobless claims as crisis total tops 44 million US workers file 1.3 million jobless claims as coronavirus total tops 51 million
  • ‘Miss Juneteenth’ review: The comeback of the pageant movie

    ‘Miss Juneteenth’ review: The comeback of the pageant movie

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