The guy who owns half of Miss Universe just said he wants out after dealing with nonstop drama and accusations that the whole pageant is rigged. Raúl Rocha bought his stake less than two years back, but the business turned into a total nightmare with judges bailing out left and right.
Three judges quit right before the competition, and one of them claimed the finalists were already picked beforehand. Contestants were apparently devastated when they found out months of prep might have been pointless because decisions were made behind closed doors.
Rocha also had to ban some pageant executive after the dude got into it with the actual winner from Bangkok. The Mexican businessman told reporters he's exhausted from everyone questioning...
T-Pain went on Shannon Sharpe's show and basically said the whole brotherhood thing in music is fake as hell. The dude straight up called out how people act like family when they need something, but that energy never comes back around when you're the one asking.
He brought up DJ Khaled specifically, saying the producer kept calling him brother while they were making hits together, but none of that loyalty was real. Their beef apparently started when Khaled switched up and started working more with Future, which T-Pain called out back in the day. They made tracks like All I Do Is Win, and I'm So Hood before things went sideways.
After the interview dropped, people thought he said the phrase with DJ Khaled instead of about him, and...
Celine Dion dropped a Thanksgiving video on Instagram where she looked pretty healthy and told everyone to chill out and appreciate the people around them. The 56-year-old went on about slowing down, taking breaths, and being grateful for family time, whether that's in person or over the phone.
She's been dealing with stiff-person syndrome since revealing the diagnosis a couple of years back, which is this rare neurological thing that causes muscle stiffness and spasms that can spread throughout your body. It forced her to cancel or push back a bunch of concerts.
Despite the health stuff, her whole message was about staying positive and focusing on what matters. She wrapped it up by wishing her followers peace and gratitude for the...
Trump told reporters he wants to kill the Affordable Care Act subsidies when they expire, but he might cave if it helps him cut a bigger healthcare deal with Democrats. The guy basically said he'd rather hand cash straight to regular people instead of funneling it through insurance companies, calling the whole ACA system a disaster.
He shot down rumors about offering a two-year extension with stricter rules, saying that reporting was bogus. But he admitted talks are happening behind the scenes, which has Republicans pretty annoyed since they've spent forever trying to nuke Obamacare.
Democrats have been hammering this subsidy thing since the shutdown drama, trying to force the GOP to pick a side. The whole situation is messy, and...
Bluesky lost nearly 40% of its daily mobile users compared to last year, which is way worse than what happened to X or most other platforms. The drop started right after the presidential election, and people are saying the site never really figured out what it wanted to be.
Truth Social actually grew by about a third during the same stretch, picking up users whenever the former president would drop something big. Mark Cuban even dunked on Bluesky, calling it more toxic than he expected and saying users would brand you a fascist if you disagreed with them on literally anything.
The app was supposed to be where liberals could escape after the whole Twitter takeover thing, but the hype train seems pretty dead at this point. Turns out...
Harare just hit unregistered cabs with a brutal $154 penalty as part of some big cleanup operation targeting sketchy transport operators across the city. Regular drivers only get dinged $34 for traffic violations, but illegal taxi and kombi guys are catching an extra $120 fee on top of that base amount. City secretary Warren Chiwawa said the whole point is to make it painful enough that people stop running underground ride services.
The council ditched their old scattered enforcement method, where different departments worked separately, and replaced it with combined raids. Municipal cops, fire inspectors, health officials, and revenue collectors all roll up to the same spot at once to check everything in one sweep. Chiwawa mentioned...
Zimbabwe's finance chief says the country will eventually ditch the US dollar for local currency only, but he made it clear this isn't happening anytime soon. Mthuli Ncube laid out a massive checklist of economic targets that need hitting first, and the government promises nobody's losing their forex bank accounts when the switch finally goes down.
The requirements are pretty intense: inflation needs to stay in single digits, forex reserves have to cover three to six months of imports, and the exchange rate has to stabilize without going haywire. The ZiG launched back in April, and officials claim things are progressing, but meeting all these benchmarks could take years. The whole transition depends on market forces rather than some...
A soldier based in Plumtree and his buddy from Bulawayo each got slapped with a decade behind bars after they went on a wild armed robbery rampage through rural Zimbabwe. Edward Moyo and Prince Phuthi hit three spots over two days, waving around a blank airgun and cleaning out small shops and a homeowner. The pair scored cash in multiple currencies plus a bunch of airtime cards, but cops grabbed them pretty quickly after the spree.
Magistrate Malunga Dambudzo wasn't having any of it and handed down the maximum sentence after both dudes pleaded guilty. Police managed to recover a tiny fraction of what got stolen, which came out to over 36,000 rand total. The whole thing started at a general dealer where they ransacked the place, then...
Zimbabwe dropped exam scores for nearly 400,000 seventh graders, and the national pass rate slipped to 48.49 percent from last year's 49.01 percent. About 189,000 kids cleared all six subjects out of the 390,000 who sat for tests. Girls absolutely crushed it with a 53.64 percent pass rate compared to boys hitting just 43.06 percent.
Students with special needs had a solid year, with their pass rate jumping from 37.19 percent to 43.91 percent, and the number of special needs candidates taking exams surged by almost 16 percent. Results went live online for a four-day window before students had to grab physical copies from their schools.
