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Cher said she wouldn't want to be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Now she's being inducted
Cher is apparently backtracking on comments she made previously, now that it's been announced that she would be among the 2024 inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. During an appearance on "The Kelly Clarkson Show" in December to promote her then-new Christmas single, "DJ Play a Christmas Song,” the singer noted how she had been snubbed even though her seven-decade-long career was packed with consistent, chart-topping hits. While Cher acknowledged that the Rolling Stones shared similar accolades, she was also quick to jest at how “It took four of them to be one of me."
United Methodist Church opens General Conference as denomination considers LGBTQ+ rights
The United Methodist Church is opening its General Conference, on Tuesday in North Carolina, to reshape the country's largest Protestant denomination in the hopes of slowing historic splintering over LGBTQ+ rights.
An adored ostrich at a Kansas zoo has died after swallowing a staff member’s keys
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A beloved ostrich at the Topeka Zoo & Conservation Center in Kansas has died after swallowing a staff member’s keys. The zoo announced in a social media post on Friday that the 5-year-old ostrich named Karen had reached beyond her exhibit’s fence and grabbed and swallowed the employee’s keys. Staff consulted with experts around the U.S. “to undergo surgical and non-surgical efforts to minimize the impact of the keys. Unfortunately, these efforts were unsuccessful,” the zoo said.
Contaminated deer meat may have caused 2 hunters' deadly brain diseases
Researchers have drawn a possible link between the deaths of two hunters in the last couple of years from a rare neurological condition. A report, authored by medical experts from the University of Texas at San Antonio and published earlier this month in the clinical journal Neurology, suggests the men contracted it by consuming venison from deer infected with chronic wasting disease, a degenerative illness not conclusively shown to be transmissible from animals to humans.Both men hunted at the same lodge and consumed meat from the same deer population before each developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and died soon afterward, the report's...
Now Breezy! Chris Brown Reacts After Quavo Releases New Diss Track Featuring Takeoff
Chile, Chris Brown doesn’t seem to be pressed about Quavo clapping back at him! Both entertainers have been going back and forth from the booth for the last month. Quavo dropped the latest release in their rap beef on Monday (April 22). RELATED: Yikes! Quavo Pops OFF On Chris Brown In Response To ‘Weakest Link’ Diss […] The post Now Breezy! Chris Brown Reacts After Quavo Releases New Diss Track Featuring Takeoff appeared first on The Shade Room.
Watch Jamal Murray hit game-winning fadeaway to cap 20-point comeback, put Nuggets up 2-0 on Lakers
Everything was breaking the Lakers’ way: D’Angelo Russell was hitting 3s (six in the first half), they had gotten to Nikola Jokic by making him defend in pick-and-rolls, the LeBron James/Anthony Davis pick-and-roll clicking, Davis dominated the second quarter (14 points on 7-of-7 shooting) and early in the third quarter Los Angeles led by 20. This felt like the night the Lakers would snap their nine-game losing streak to Denver.
The UK pledges $620 million in new military aid for Ukraine
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The U.K. on Tuesday pledged an additional $620 million in new military supplies for Ukraine, including long-range missiles and four millions rounds of ammunition, at a time when Ukraine is struggling to hold off advancing Russian forces on the eastern front line of the war, now in its third year.
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