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The Dutch king rolled into Suriname and basically said they're not gonna dodge talking about slavery during his visit to the former colony. Willem-Alexander showed up with Queen Maxima for a three-day trip, and he made it clear the painful history stuff is on the table for discussion. The royal...

Japan's new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, won the country's catchphrase of the year award for promising to work nonstop for the nation. She beat out phrases like first female prime minister and Trump's tariffs. The whole thing backfired when people got mad about her telling lawmakers to work...

Trump apparently told Maduro to bounce from Venezuela during their phone call, but the authoritarian leader said nah and asked for worldwide immunity instead. The US president offered safe passage for Maduro and his family if he resigned right away, but Venezuela's head honcho wanted to keep...

Some dude in New Zealand got busted for allegedly chomping down on a Fabergé James Bond egg pendant at a jewelry shop in Auckland. Cops say the 32-year-old grabbed the locket and swallowed it right there in the store, and they arrested him within minutes of staff calling it in. The pendant is...

UK psychologists tested ChatGPT-5 by pretending to have serious mental health issues, and the bot completely whiffed on spotting dangerous behavior. King's College London researchers found the AI actually encouraged delusional thinking, like congratulating someone who claimed they were...

A jury ruled that gossip blogger Milagro Gramz defamed Megan Thee Stallion and caused her emotional harm by working with Tory Lanez to discredit the shooting story. The court also hit her for pushing a deepfake video about the rapper, and she has to pay 75 grand in damages. Milagro got big...

AI-generated photos showing Diddy hanging out with other prisoners have been making the rounds online, and they look wild and realistic with his grey beard and everything. His rep confirmed the images are fake and called out how messed up it is that people keep pushing doctored content while the...

Latto clapped back after some woman on TikTok claimed they share the same dad and that the rapper acts like she doesn't exist. The alleged sister said Latto ignores her because she's broke, and she threatened to spill everything in a book or podcast later. Latto posted on X, saying people will...

Kendrick Lamar used deepfake tech from the South Park guys to morph into various Black figures for his Heart Part 5 video back in 2022, and Jussie Smollett was one of them. The Empire actor had just been convicted on disorderly conduct charges for staging a hate crime in Chicago a few years...

50 Cent told Robin Roberts on Good Morning America that his Diddy documentary isn't about their beef, and it drops on Netflix. He said staying quiet would make hip-hop look complicit with the Bad Boy founder's behavior since nobody else was speaking up about it. Diddy got convicted for...

50 Cent dropped a new teaser for his Netflix docuseries about Diddy, and it shows some wild footage of the Bad Boy mogul freaking out in a hotel room days before cops grabbed him. In the clip, Diddy's on the phone, saying they need someone who handles dirty business because they're losing. The...

The Game went on The Cruz Show and said he'd kill whoever murdered Celeste Rivas if he were her dad. He was reacting to false reports about the 15-year-old's body being decapitated when cops found her in a Tesla that belonged to singer D4vd back in September. LA police already cleared up that...

An Instagram model named Nardose Mesfin posted screenshots showing Rick Ross DMing her with thirsty messages, and she used it as a warning for other women about celebrities sliding into their inboxes. She claimed attention from famous people means nothing, and she even went off about how Black...

Kanye dropped some budget-friendly Yeezy gear for Black Friday, with pieces going for under a hundred bucks on the site. The usual suspects are all there, like hoodies and jackets, and he's been pushing this whole affordable angle for a minute despite everything going on around him. Meanwhile...

A canteen operator at the Manhize steel works got hit with property seizures after dodging a $27k bill to former top cop Oliver Chibage, who runs a chicken supply business. The debt traces back to hundreds of birds plus vegetables and beef products that Jola Chickens delivered to Hotplate...

Zvimba Rural District Council just dropped their $24 million spending plan for next year, and the finance committee chair told people in Murombedzi they want better water access, fixed roads, and upgraded health and school buildings. The whole thing lines up with national development goals, but...

Twenty-five teachers from Chitungwiza just wrapped up a weeklong crash course on dealing with student drug problems, and Youth Aspire Development Trust ran the whole thing with help from the education ministry and the UN's drug office. The educators came from government and private schools all...

Zimbabwe's weather service is telling everyone to brace for more storms after the weekend dumped heavy rain across multiple provinces, with Chipinge getting slammed by 97 millimeters. Mutema and Bwerudza also caught decent amounts while most other spots recorded under 20 millimeters, but...

A Chitungwiza private school just dropped new buses and smart boards while doubling down on tech integration to match the government's Education 5.0 push. Pathway Group says it wants students ready for global competition, and the acting senior school head confirmed they are backing up national...

Police are looking into two separate killings after a 57-year-old guy got beaten to death by two men who thought he stole their donkeys, and a 13-year-old kid died after getting into a fight with another teenager over snacks. The donkey incident went down at Chimera Village in Mubaira when the...