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First Stream: New Music From Drake, Doja Cat & Nicki Minaj, Megan Thee Stallion & Beyonce
Read more: First Stream: New Music From Drake, Doja Cat & Nicki Minaj, Megan Thee Stallion & BeyonceDrake attends the “Top Boy” UK Premiere at Hackney Picturehouse on Sept. 4, 2019 in London. Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. This week, Drake sets…
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Betsy DeVos sued for seizing wages from student loan borrowers during pandemic
Read more: Betsy DeVos sued for seizing wages from student loan borrowers during pandemicEducation Secretary Betsy DeVos and her department were sued Thursday for allegedly continuing to collect on defaulted borrowers’ student loans — more than a month after she said it would stop doing so to provide relief for those struggling during the coronoavirus outbreak. Plaintiff Elizabeth Barber, a home health aid in New York, has seen…
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Travis Scott & Kid Cudi’s ‘The Scotts’ Set to Challenge for No. 1 on Hot 100 Next Week
Read more: Travis Scott & Kid Cudi’s ‘The Scotts’ Set to Challenge for No. 1 on Hot 100 Next WeekThe former could dethrone The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights.” Travis Scott and Kid Cudi‘s new single “The Scotts” appears set to challenge for a No. 1 debut on next week’s Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated May 9). The song — billed to The Scotts, Travis Scott & Kid Cudi (both artists have Scott in their names, as Kid Cudi’s real…
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Trump to order meat processing plants to stay open
Read more: Trump to order meat processing plants to stay openPresident Donald Trump is expected to sign a five-page executive order under the Defense Production Act to compel meat processing plants to remain open amid the coronavirus pandemic. Trump had highlighted the order during an Oval Office meeting with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that was opened up to reporters. “We’re going to sign an executive order today,…
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Pentagon officially releases UFO videos
Read more: Pentagon officially releases UFO videosThe Pentagon has officially released three short videos showing “unidentified aerial phenomena” that had previously been released by a private company. The videos show what appear to be unidentified flying objects rapidly moving while recorded by infrared cameras. Two of the videos contain service members reacting in awe at how quickly the objects are moving. One voice…
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Mariah Carey ‘Overwhelmed’ by Resurgence of Love For ‘EMC2’: ‘What Is Going On?????’
Read more: Mariah Carey ‘Overwhelmed’ by Resurgence of Love For ‘EMC2’: ‘What Is Going On?????’#JusticeForEMC2. Mariah Carey took to social media on Monday morning (April 27) to express her excitement and disbelief at her 2008 album E=MC2 unexpectedly topping the iTunes albums chart 12 years after its release. “What is going on?????” the icon tweeted, sharing the surprise news with a series of mind-blown, lamb and sparkling heart emojis. Collecting herself, Carey…
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Hiroshima after 75 years: Walking the path of the atomic bomb
Read more: Hiroshima after 75 years: Walking the path of the atomic bombIt’s a discolored concrete slab, molding in the tropical humidity. But on this slab, not much bigger than the footprint of a beach cabin, history changed. What was once a doorway is obvious, as are the bases for a couple interior walls and an opening for a larger garage-like entrance. I walk through the doorway,…
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Kanye West is finally a billionaire, Forbes says. He sent the magazine a text to say it undervalued him
Read more: Kanye West is finally a billionaire, Forbes says. He sent the magazine a text to say it undervalued himKanye West has long coveted the title of “billionaire. “Last year, the rapper and fashion label mogul even suggested he may legally change his name to “Christian Genius Billionaire Kanye West” for a little while. Now, the 42 year old star has been given the title by Forbes magazine, which estimates he has a current net…
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NYT: Trump family seeks rent break for DC hotel from Trump administration
Read more: NYT: Trump family seeks rent break for DC hotel from Trump administrationThe Trump family business is asking the federal government to give President Donald Trump’s hotel in Washington, DC, a break on its monthly lease payments during the coronavirus pandemic, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The Trump Organization has looked into changing the Trump International Hotel’s lease payments to the General Services Administration in recent weeks, according to…
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Health workers face anti-lockdown protesters in dramatic photos
Read more: Health workers face anti-lockdown protesters in dramatic photosA small group of health care workers counterprotested at a large rally in Colorado demanding the state reopen and ease the restrictions designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Hundreds of people gathered at the state Capitol in Denver on Sunday, waving flags and protest signs and lines of cars and trucks drove around…
