Nicki Minaj donated $25,000 to Cosby Show actor Geoffery Owens

During her Beats1 Queen Radio show, the rapper and actor described Owens as a 'Legend' who had inspired her. Geoffrey Owens was recently the subject of a public shaming after he was photographed working at a Trader Joes.

John McCain, Senator and former Presidential candidate, dies at 81

Whenever America was in a fight during his long lifetime, John McCain was in the thick of it.

McCain, who has died at the age of 81, was a naval bomber pilot, prisoner of war, conservative maverick, giant of the Senate, twice-defeated presidential candidate and an abrasive American hero with a twinkle in his eye.

The Arizonan warrior politician, who survived plane crashes, several bouts of skin cancer and brushes with political oblivion, often seemed to be perpetually waging a race against time and his own mortality while striving to ensure that his five-and-a-half years as a Vietnam prisoner of war did not stand as the defining experience of his life.

He spent his last few months out of the public eye in his adopted home state of Arizona, reflecting on the meaning of his life and accepting visits from a stream of friends and old political combatants.

In a memoir published in May, McCain wrote that he hated to leave the world, but had no complaints.

"It's been quite a ride. I've known great passions, seen amazing wonders, fought in a war, and helped make peace," McCain wrote. "I've lived very well and I've been deprived of all comforts. I've been as lonely as a person can be and I've enjoyed the company of heroes. I've suffered the deepest despair and experienced the highest exultation.

"I made a small place for myself in the story of America and the history of my times."

McCain had not been in Washington since December, leaving a vacuum in the corridors of the Senate and the television news studios he roamed for decades.

In recent months, he was not completely quiet, however, blasting President Donald Trump in a series of tweets and statements that showed that while he was ailing he had lost none of his appetite for the political fight.

The Arizona Senator repeatedly made clear that he saw Trump and his America First ideology as a departure from the values and traditions of global leadership that he saw epitomized in the United States.

McCain had been planning his funeral services over the last year and his family made clear that Trump is not invited, a position that has not changed, two family friends said Saturday. Former rivals and Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush were asked to give eulogies, people close to both former presidents and a source close to the senator told CNN earlier this year.

McCain's two losing presidential campaigns meant he fell short of the ultimate political prize, one his story once seemed to promise after he came home from Vietnam and caught the political bug. In the end, he became a scourge of presidents rather than President himself.

Knaye West Kim Kardashian attend 2 Chainz's Wedding Reception

Power Couple Kanye and Kim Kardashian-West were among friends and associates invited to the wedding of rapper 2 Chainz and his longtime fiancee Kesha Ward at the old versace mansion in Miami Beach on Saturday, Ward is the mother of 2 Chainz's three children.

RIP: Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin Dead at 76

The legendary queen of soul Aretha Franklin, winner of 18 Grammy Awards, lost her long battle with pancreatic cancer on Thursday in her Detroit home.

Condolences are pouring in from across the country and around the world for the greatest soul singer to ever live.

On March 25, 1942, Aretha Louise Franklin was born in a ramshackle cottage in Memphis, Tennessee to promiscuous Baptist preacher Clarence LaVaughn “C. L.” Franklin and his wife Barbara Siggers.

Tired of his promiscuity, Siggers soon divorced Franklin and moved to Buffalo, NY with her son, Vaughn, leaving 6-year-old Aretha and her older sisters, Erma and Carolyn, with their father.

Thanks to her father’s army of girlfriends and admirers, Aretha was influenced by gospel music before she took her first baby steps.

Aretha’s mother died on March 7, 1952 before Aretha turned 10. Her grandmother Rachel, and gospel singer Mahalia Jackson took turns helping to raise the children while C. L. Franklin preached his fiery sermons at various churches around the country.

After Franklin relocated with his family to Detroit, Michigan, his New Bethel Baptist Church became a popular destination for gospel musicians such as Clara Ward, James Cleveland, Albertina Walker, and notables Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke.

Shortly after her mother’s death, 10-year-old Aretha began singing in the choir at her father’s church. 4 years later, C.L. Franklin began managing his 14-year-old child prodigy and took her out on the road with him to perform in various churches.

The road was no place for a 14-year-old girl with an insatiable appetite for food and attention from much older men.

In this excerpt from the book RESPECT, by David Ritz, Aretha is described as a promiscuous girl who bore 2 children by age 14:

“Two months before turning thirteen, she gave birth to a baby boy she named Clarence, after her dad. Rumors swirled that her own father was the father of her first child but it was Donald Burk, a guy she knew from school.

Aretha had a second child before she was fifteen by Edward Jordan, described by her brother as just a player. Both children would take the last name of Franklin and be raised in the Franklin home.”

Aretha reportedly developed a serious crush on singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, who was 11 years her senior. She allegedly spent nights in his hotel room where he serenaded her with his hit song “You Send Me”.

Franklin helped Aretha sign her first record deal with J.V.B. Records, where her first album, Songs of Faith, was released in 1956.

Trump Calls Omarosa a B*tch (in so many words)

President Trump unleashed a furious early morning tweet directed at his former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman. In the tweet sent out Tuesday at 7:31 a.m., Trump referred to Omarosa as a “dog”.

“When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!” Trump tweeted.

Trump didn’t refer to Omarosa as a “bitch”, but a female dog is defined as a bitch.

Trump lashed out at Omarosa after she apparently leaked audio of discussions that took place inside the Situation Room, also known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) within the White House.

Recording devices are strictly prohibited in SCIF rooms in the White House. Omarosa was terminated earlier in the year for misuse of government vehicles, “money issues” and other violations.

The response to Trump’s tweet was outrage.

One user tweeted:

“Nothing like waking up to see the President of the United States refer to a black woman as a dog. This level of discourse is disgusting and appalling at a national level. Those who vocally or silently support this behavior at this point have no excuse.”

Another user tweeted:

How is this okay? You are the POTUS and you are calling a woman a lowlife and a dog. You are the most unpresidential POTUS in the history of our country. So disheartened by your attacks on Twitter.

Jury awards terminally ill man $289 million in Lawsuit against Monsanto

Agribusiness giant Monsanto has been ordered by to pay $US289 million (AUD$396 million) to a former school groundskeeper dying of cancer, with a San Francisco jury saying the company's popular Roundup weed killer contributed to his disease.

The lawsuit was the first to go to trial among hundreds filed in state and federal US courts claiming Roundup causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which Monsanto denies.

Jurors in California's Superior Court agreed the product contributed to Dewayne Johnson's cancer and the company should have provided a label warning of the potential health hazard.

Mr Johnson's attorneys sought and won $US39 million in compensatory damages and $US250 million of the $US373 million they wanted in punitive damages. "This jury found Monsanto acted with malice and oppression because they knew what they were doing was wrong and doing it with reckless disregard for human life," said Robert F Kennedy Jr, a member of Mr Johnson's legal team. "This should send a strong message to the boardroom of Monsanto." Monsanto has denied a link between the active ingredient in Roundup — glyphosate — and cancer, saying hundreds of studies have established that glyphosate is safe.

Mr Johnson used Roundup and a similar product, Ranger Pro, as a pest control manager at a San Francisco Bay Area school district, his lawyers said. He sprayed large quantities from a 189 litre tank attached to a truck, and during gusty winds the product would cover his face, one of his attorneys, Brent Wisner, said.

In one instance a hose broke and the weed killer soaked his entire body.

Mr Johnson read the label and even contacted the company after developing a rash but was never warned it could cause cancer.

He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2014 at age 42.

Melania Trump's Parents were sworn in as US Citizens

First lady Melania Trump's parents were sworn in as U'S citizens . Viktor and Amalija Knavs took the oath granting them U.S citizenship Thursday morning in New York City, according to their attorney Michael Wildes. The couple have been living in the US on green cards.