• Gabrielle Union calls NBC ‘a snake pit of racial offenses’ in new complaint

    Gabrielle Union calls NBC ‘a snake pit of racial offenses’ in new complaint

    Gabrielle Union has drawn Jimmy Fallon, Al Roker, Ted Danson — and her former “America’s Got Talent” co-star Julianne Hough — into her battle against NBC. Union filed a harassment complaint against NBC and Simon Cowell on Thursday after claiming NBC’s entertainment chief Paul Telegdy tried to silence her reports of racism. She has previously …
  • Ken Griffin pays $100M for Basquiat painting amid race protests

    Ken Griffin pays $100M for Basquiat painting amid race protests

    Hedge-fund billionaire Ken Griffin has shelled out more than $100 million for a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat, the late black artist whose works focused on race and inequality. The CEO of Citadel — who last year paid $240 million for a Central Park penthouse —bought the brilliantly colored 1982 masterwork “Boy and Dog in a …
  • Circus performer practices wild tricks at home during quarantine

    Circus performer practices wild tricks at home during quarantine

    As if the coronavirus pandemic wasn’t enough of a circus already. An enterprising Polish aerialist has managed to both pass the time and sharpen her skills during lockdown by practicing her gravity-defying feats at home in las Vegas. Since performers around the globe have been sidelined, with circuses canceling shows over COVID-19 concerns, Aleksandra Kiedrowicz …
  • Carrie Underwood’s husband opens up about her miscarriages

    Carrie Underwood’s husband opens up about her miscarriages

    Carrie Underwood is helping her husband Mike Fisher speak publicly about his emotional struggles following her miscarriages. The couple discussed suffering multiple miscarriages in the second episode of their “I Am Second” series. While the country singer, 37, revealed that she had three miscarriages leading up to son Jacob’s birth in January 2019, this is …
  • 1.9 Million More Claimed Jobless Benefits Last Week, Bringing Pandemic Total to 42 Million

    1.9 Million More Claimed Jobless Benefits Last Week, Bringing Pandemic Total to 42 Million

    Another 1.9 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the total of jobless claims since the coronavirus pandemic began up to 42 million. The level of new claims outpaced the Dow Jones estimate of 1.775 million. However, last week’s new claims were still lower than the previous week’s total, which were revised upwards …
  • North Korea Uses George Floyd Protests to Paint U.S. as Racist, Touts China’s Rise

    North Korea Uses George Floyd Protests to Paint U.S. as Racist, Touts China’s Rise

    North Korea on Wednesday excoriated the U.S. in the midst of George Floyd demonstrations, comparing the country to a setting sun with China rising. “Demonstrators enraged by the extreme racists throng even to the White House,” read a statement in North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun, translated in the New York Times. “This is the …
  • US workers file 1.9 million more jobless claims as crisis total tops 42 million

    US workers file 1.9 million more jobless claims as crisis total tops 42 million

    Nearly 1.9 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the coronavirus crisis put 42 million people out of work in less than three months, new data show. The weekly figure reported by the US Department of Labor continued its steady decline to fall below 2 million for the first time since mid-March. Yet …
  • Meghan Markle says ‘George Floyd’s life mattered’ in tearful speech

    Meghan Markle says ‘George Floyd’s life mattered’ in tearful speech

    Meghan Markle broke her silence about George Floyd’s police custody death during a virtual commencement speech Wednesday night for her former high school in Los Angeles. The Duchess of Sussex surprised Immaculate Heart students with a five-minute address to discuss the ongoing protests  and her own history as a biracial woman growing up in California, …
  • Meghan McCain left NYC for Virginia because she wanted guns

    Meghan McCain left NYC for Virginia because she wanted guns

    After Meghan McCain was mocked for exaggerating the damage done to her neighborhood by protesters, Page Six is told the “View” co-host isn’t even in the city. On Tuesday she tweeted, “My neighborhood in Manhattan is eviscerated and looks like a war zone” amid the looting in New York City. Referring to New York’s mayor …
  • Dow rallies for 3rd-straight day amid coronavirus woes, George Floyd protests

    Dow rallies for 3rd-straight day amid coronavirus woes, George Floyd protests

    Protests are dividing the US, a bitter spat over Hong Kong is brewing, a pandemic continues to rage worldwide — and the stock market is surging. The Dow Jones industrial average soared 527.24 points on Wednesday, or more than 2 percent, to close at 26,269.89, as Wall Street continued to shrug off spectacular images of …