Author: Gesi Lloyd

Why won’t Victor Wembanyama endorse sports betting? The San Antonio Spurs star says it clashes with what he wants his name to stand for. After a training camp practice Thursday, Oct. 1, reporters asked whether he would ever partner with a betting or prediction market company. He shut it down immediately and said he never will. He added that it saddens him to watch other players promote gambling, though he respects their right to choose. He also revealed that he has walked away from far more endorsement money than he has ever accepted, turning down offers that did not fit…

What is in the eye drops recall? Nearly 750,000 units of lubricant eye drops and eye ointment, including more than 500,000 Walgreens store brand units, are being pulled because they may not be sterile, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Sterling Pharmaceutical Services LLC of Dupo, Illinois, started the recall Aug. 20. The FDA classified it as Class II on Sept. 21. What should you do? Check the product name, lot number and expiration date on any drops in your medicine cabinet against the FDA’s enforcement report. If yours match, stop using them and call your doctor. Which…

Jay-Z calls Ye one of the most brilliant creative minds the world will ever see in episode six of his HBO docuseries “JAŸ-Z in 8.” The moment comes as director Rick Rubin plays “Jail,” the opening track of Ye’s 2021 album Donda, which features Jay-Z. Jay says Ye has always kept a place for him and a kind of reverence for him as a big brother, and that he doesn’t believe Ye has lost that feeling. The timing of the interview complicates the moment. Rubin recorded these conversations over two days in April 2023, according to Complex. Since then, Ye’s…

Sleep debt is the running total of sleep you lose night after night, and it doesn’t disappear when the coffee kicks in. The CDC recommends at least seven hours a night for adults, yet about a third of U.S. adults regularly get less. In your 20s, the cost shows up as brain fog and cravings. By your 30s, it shows up in your skin, your mood and your blood sugar. By your 40s, it can show up in your blood pressure and your heart. The longest-running evidence points even further ahead. A study that followed nearly 8,000 British adults for…

Keke Palmer says her 3 year old son, Leo, is picking up big words fast, from tarantula to destination, along with his mom’s protective streak. In an interview with People published Saturday, the 33 year old Emmy winner said Leo repeats the protective lines she uses around him. On arcade trips, for example, she narrates a Jurassic Park game by shouting that the dinosaurs aren’t getting her son, and now he shouts it too. She calls herself a territorial mom, and Leo is doing the same thing for his cousin. When Palmer’s sister scolds her daughter, Leo steps in and…

Avengers: Doomsday opens in U.S. theaters Friday, Dec. 18, with Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom. Fans in the U.K. get it two days earlier, on Dec. 16. Anthony and Joe Russo directed the film, tickets are on sale now, and the Endgame re-release in theaters this weekend includes four new scenes that fans believe connect to the new movie. It is the first Avengers team movie since 2019. Most of the buzz is about Downey in the mask. Far less of it is about Wakanda, which has a lot riding on this film. Sam Wilson carries the shield as…

About 167,639 pounds of raw pork, beef and goat are under a Class I recall, the most serious level the U.S. Department of Agriculture uses. Star Meat Delivery Inc. of Lucama, North Carolina, processed the meat without federal inspection. It shipped the meat under labels with the establishment number EST. 1363, which does not have a federal grant of inspection. The meat went to A&D Foods, a distributor in Duluth, Georgia, and on to restaurants and retailers. No illnesses have been reported. Most coverage misses what’s on the list itself. It includes oxtail, pork feet, pork hocks, beef shanks, goat,…

Chadwick Boseman’s estate fight is no longer mainly about cash. His widow, Taylor Simone Ledward, told a Los Angeles court on Sept. 24 that nearly every dollar has already been paid out. That includes more than $1.7 million she says she has paid Carolyn and Leroy Boseman since 2022. What his older brothers, Derrick and Kevin Boseman, want now is a say in how the Black Panther star’s name, image and story get used. The brothers filed their petition in July on behalf of their parents and asked the court to remove Ledward as administrator. Ledward, 35, says the case…

The woman who accused Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13 has formally admitted her claims were false. In a sworn declaration filed Thursday, Sept. 24, in Manhattan federal court, the Alabama woman known as Jane Doe said she never met or spoke to Shawn Carter. She said he never did anything inappropriate to her. Carter then dropped her from his lawsuit. The reversal comes nearly two years after she named the Roc Nation founder in a lawsuit alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs. The suit claimed both men assaulted her at a party after the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards.…

A forensic examiner hired by Nolan Wells’ family said Today that Snapchat messages were deleted from the teen’s phone after the last time he used it, and that someone had to take a deliberate action on the device to delete them. Andrew Garrett of Garrett Discovery said he could not determine who deleted the messages or why. Wells, 18, disappeared during a July 4 trip to Mississippi’s Horn Island, and his body was found in the water two days later. That finding runs straight into the official account. Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath has said the phone reports…