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Nas will receive the BMI Icon Award at the 2026 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards.The legendary Grammy-winning rapper will be honored at the private ceremony in Los Angeles on August 26.BMI said on Wednesday (July 29) that Nas is being recognized for his songwriting and his influence on hip-hop.The evening will be hosted by BMI CEO Mike O’Neill, EVP, Chief Revenue & Creative Officer Mike Steinberg, and VP, Creative, Atlanta Catherine Brewton.BMI will also honor the songwriters, producers and publishers behind the past year’s 35 most-performed R&B/Hip-Hop songs from its repertoire of more than 25 million works.Its R&B/Hip-Hop Songwriter, Song, Producer and…

Marcello Hernandez is addressing those viral rumors Paige DeSorbo cheated on then-boyfriend Craig Conover with the SNL star. “She said, ‘People are saying I cheated on my boyfriend with you,’” Hernandez, 28, said during a Monday, July 27, appearance on Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live, reading text messages he exchanged with DeSorbo, 33, as online speculation that something romantic occurred between the pair hit a fever pitch. “I said, ‘LOL, what?’ Then she said, ‘Some girl on TikTok, LOL.’ I said, ‘TikTok wants me to be Domingo. Marcello Hernández, the homewrecking Latino,” he continued. “She said, ‘Hahahahahaha.’” (Hernandez went…

Vasiliy Lomachenko is set to make his return, where he could finally take part in a long-awaited scrap with Gervonta Davis, and now welterweight title hopeful Conor Benn has shared how he thinks a meeting between ‘Loma’ and ‘Tank’ would play out. Few have risen to the peak of professional boxing as fast as Lomachenko did, equalling the men’s record by capturing world honours in his third bout. After becoming a three-division world champion, the Ukrainian did eventually meet his match, trumped by both Teofimo Lopez and Devin Haney whilst he competed as a lightweight. Still, 12 months after recapturing…

Iran has launched “multiple” ballistic missiles in an “attempted surprise attack” on American forces in the Middle East, the US military said, shattering a lull in the fighting.The attack occurred at 17:45 EDT (21:45 GMT) on Tuesday, with all missiles “successfully intercepted”, said US Central Command (Centcom), which did not disclose any locations of targets.The US military and Saudi Arabian forces meanwhile struck “Iran-aligned terrorists” in Iraq in retaliation for Iran-directed drone attacks, according to Centcom.Tehran has not yet commented. The reported crossfire ended a brief break in hostilities between the US and Iran, which was designed to bring negotiators…

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Emmy Rossum and Lola Petticrew‘s new show, Furious, deals with difficult subject matter but makes an effort not to show graphic scenes of abuse. “This is a show made mostly by women,” Rossum, 39, exclusively told Us. “You can feel that in the treatment of the women and the victims in the show.” Rossum noted that “nothing is gratuitous” in the eight-part Hulu show. “There are no flashbacks that are showing the violence against them,” she continued. “But we feel that in every aspect of them. We can see the specific ways that it shows up in their life.” Related:…

Anthony Di Marco of the Daily Faceoff joined TSN Radio in Montreal and was asked about why the plan in Detroit failed with Steve Yzerman as the General Manager of the Red Wings. NHLRumors.com Transcriptions NHL Rumors: Winnipeg Jets, and the Detroit Red Wings Host: “Well, let’s dive in a little bit here with Steve Yzerman, and correct me if I’m not wrong. You’ve been very bullish about the job that Yzerman’s been doing, or not doing, in Detroit. And a couple of years of failure, and it’s hard to move on from such a legendary player when you’re the…

On the morning of July 24, more than 20 Israeli settlers from the illegal Havat Gilad settlement attacked Palestinians’ homes on the eastern edge of Tal, southwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.Residents initially drove them back, but the settlers returned shortly afterwards, with Israeli soldiers. Videos appear to show a Palestinian man seizing a settler’s rifle and shooting him dead before soldiers shoot the man dead, with further video revealing Israelis continuing to open fire.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listFour Palestinians from the Ramadan family were killed in the ensuing violence. A settler and an Israeli…

In mid-July, Kalshi received approval from regulators to list a new type of event contract that would let anyone wager on flight cancellations. The plan, however, was promptly blasted by social media users who warned that troublemakers could seek to force an airport shutdown in order to make their bet pay off. In response, Kalshi said it was putting the controversial airport contracts on ice. But on Tuesday, the company said it is now going forward—sort of. According to Kalshi, it is listing a contract that lets users wager on whether more than 50% of flights into New York’s John…

In an unconformable on-stage moment, Usher asked a fan to leave after she visibly rejected getting into his seductive dance moves. During the Friday, July 24, R&B Tour show in Nashville, the “U Got It Bad” hitmaker, 47, performed alongside a female fan from the audience, per fan footage shared via Instagram in the show’s aftermath. In the video, the shirtless musician, who is currently co-headlining The R&B Tour with Chris Brown, is seen serenading the fan before he begins to lean into her while sitting on a bed. As Usher then attempts to nuzzle the neck of the fan,…