Author: Shekari Philemon

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on April 29 in one of the most consequential immigration cases of the current term, a challenge to the Trump administration’s effort to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians. But ahead of that hearing, attorneys representing TPS holders have submitted a letter to the justices alerting them to newly produced government documents that they argue directly contradict the administration’s stated reasons for terminating the program. The documents, obtained through the discovery process, raise pointed questions about whether the government’s public rationale for ending TPS protections was supported by its own…

Prince Harry is quietly working toward something he has not had in years — a genuine reconciliation with his father, King Charles III. According to royal observers, Harry is hoping to receive an invitation to Sandringham this summer during a planned trip to the United Kingdom, a visit that could serve as a meaningful step toward repairing one of the most publicly fractured relationships in the royal family’s recent history. But the path back is narrow, and the complications are mounting. At the center of the concern is Meghan Markle. While Harry’s desire to rebuild bridges with his family appears…

More than 30 years after their characters first set daytime television on fire, Shemar Moore and Vivica A. Fox are heading back to The Young and the Restless. The two actors, who helped build the show’s cultural footprint in the 1990s, are reprising their roles as Malcolm Winters and Dr. Stephanie Simmons in a multi-week return that has fans of the long-running soap opera counting down the days. Promotional clips released by the show earlier this week made clear that whatever brought audiences to their screens decades ago has not gone anywhere. Moore and Fox appear together with an ease…

The United Kingdom’s Home Office made a decision that sent ripples through the music world this week, officially barring Ye from entering the country on the grounds that his presence would not be conducive to the public good. The ruling effectively collapsed three nights of the annual Wireless Festival, where the Chicago rapper had been booked as the headlining act. Major sponsors including Pepsi and Diageo had already pulled their support over Ye’s history of antisemitic remarks, and without a headliner, the event had nowhere to go. Festival organizer Melvin Benn had initially defended the decision to book Ye, but…

A federal judge in Massachusetts stepped in on Wednesday to halt the Trump administration’s effort to end temporary protected status for thousands of Ethiopian immigrants living in the United States. The ruling found that the administration had bypassed the process laid out by Congress, making its attempt to terminate the designation unlawful. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, appointed during the Biden administration, issued the stay after determining that the government had acted outside its legal authority. At the heart of the decision was a foundational question about the limits of executive power and whether the president can override statutory obligations…

Most couples do not sit down and calmly discuss their finances. The topic tends to surface at the worst possible moments, after an unexpected purchase, during an already stressful week or when one partner has been quietly stewing over something they have not yet said out loud. By the time it becomes an actual conversation, the tension is already built in. That tension has roots deeper than any spreadsheet. Money tends to carry different emotional meaning for different people. For one person, financial security is the ultimate goal. For another, money represents freedom or the ability to enjoy life without…

The past week has been one of the most turbulent stretches in recent memory for rapper Offset. Days after being shot outside a hotel and casino in Hollywood, Florida, news broke that a Detroit casino had filed a lawsuit against him for an unpaid credit line of one hundred thousand dollars. The two events, separated by only a matter of days, have put the artist back in the public eye for reasons far removed from music. Offset, whose legal name is Kiari Kendrell Cephus, was shot on the evening of April 6 near the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.…

The woman accused of opening fire outside Rihanna’s Beverly Hills home returned to a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday for a brief hearing that ended without any change to her legal situation. Ivanna Ortiz, who pleaded not guilty last month to 14 charges including attempted murder, appeared before a new judge assigned to the case who denied a request from her public defender to lower her nearly two-million-dollar bail. The hearing was short but significant in its outcome. A date for a full preliminary hearing will be set at Ortiz’s next scheduled court appearance on May 13, moving the case…

A Georgia judge has granted NBA Hall of Famer Dwight Howard a protective order against his estranged wife, Amy Luciani, escalating what was already a deeply troubled divorce into something considerably more alarming. Under the terms of the order, Luciani must remain at least 100 feet away from Howard and his children at all times. She is also barred from contacting them by phone or social media, from approaching the family’s Georgia home and from coming near the private school the children attend. The order was signed earlier this week, weeks after Howard filed for divorce for the second time…

The popular image of bipolar disorder tends to be extreme. A person riding a wave of boundless energy, talking fast, barely sleeping, then crashing into a stretch of days they can barely get through. That version exists, but it represents only a slice of what the condition actually looks like across a population. Many people living with bipolar disorder never experience those dramatic swings at all. Experts, including those affiliated with the American Psychological Association, are increasingly framing bipolar not as a single fixed condition but as a spectrum, a shift that is reshaping how clinicians recognize, diagnose and treat…