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Rapper and designer West received a 24-hour ban from Instagram last week after sharing a slew of posts about his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, and her partner, Pete Davidson. He also directed a racial slur post at TV personality Trevor Noah. With the subsequent announcement that West would be barred from performing at the Grammy Awards due to “concerning online behavior,” Hostin said on Monday’s installment of The View that the star is being “stigmatized” over his mental health issues....

“I’m voting for Kanye West. When I think about my next president, I think about somebody who’s gonna help people, care about family, create jobs,” said one supporter from Connecticut. “These are things that Kanye West has already done. This is why I believe he will be our next president.” Other supporters featured in the video highlighted West’s independent candidacy, his “faith-based” campaign and his attention to young Americans....

From the days of the atrocious realities of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade until this very moment, an extremely painful fact remains true––oppressive white people in power have always needed someone Black to help them do their dirtiest work. You’d be hard pressed to find a single large plantation that ever existed without a Black man who exchanged his dignity for some measure of protection from the monsters around him. That’s some of what’s so ugly about the conservative, even white-supremacist turn that Kanye West has taken....

And veteran producer Mike Dean revealed a possible reason behind the delay of the star’s 10th studio album, when he responded to a meme on Twitter. West held a second listening livestream event at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the album on Thursday, with fans expecting that Donda would be released on Friday August 6. And as a series of memes circulated on Twitter with regards to another date being missed for Donda—which was originally scheduled for release in July 2020—as it has still not seen the light of day, one particular image caught the attention of Dean....

Had 23-year-old running back Kareem Hunt not tagged himself with a recent history of violent off-field incidents, which the Chiefs could not tolerate, he would not have been an option for the Browns. They would have been fine moving forward with rising second-year star Nick Chubb and dependable receiving back Duke Johnson Jr. But Hunt did become an option, and Cleveland took advantage. So much for those good vibes around the 2019 Browns....

While the newlywed couple have tied the knot, they’ve been struggling to connect on Season 11 of the Lifetime reality show. Karen is afraid to establish intimacy with her new husband and Miles is afraid that even the slightest touch may scare his new wife away. And we can’t forget how strongly Karen reacted when the topic of sex came up weeks ago—she quite literally ran away and didn’t return home until the next day....

An analysis of public voting records in the November race found that Democrat Katie Hobbs managed to pick up support from more than 33,000 Republican-leaning voters in Maricopa County, who backed GOP candidates in other state elections such as state treasurer. In comparison, Lake, a Donald Trump-endorsed 2020 election-denier, managed to gain only 5,953 votes from Democrat-leaning voters. Around 6,000 Republican-leaning voters also chose not to vote at all, or wrote in another candidate, rather than support Lake in November....

Lake, a Republican who lost to Democratic Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs in November, said during a Tuesday appearance on former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast that she may soon be targeted with politically motivated felony charges for sharing images of Maricopa County voter signatures from the 2020 election on Twitter. Images of 16 ballot signatures were tweeted by Lake last week. On Monday, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, referred Lake to fellow Democrat and state Attorney General Kris Mayes for potential prosecution over the tweet....

Earnie Stewart, who has held the same role for the U.S. men’s team for the past year, has been promoted to sporting director by U.S. Soccer. The former USMNT player will oversee all men’s and women’s national team programs and other areas for the federation. Markgraf, 42, also won two Olympic gold medals during a 12-year playing career as a defender for the U.S. in which she represented the country 201 times from 1998 to 2010....

As the duchess made her way to the U.K. government’s plane, RAF Voyager, on Tuesday, royal reporters traveling with the Caribbean tour were told of the striking outfit’s provenance. The jacket by Yves Saint Laurent was purchased by Kate when she was a student at university. Known for her sustainability when it comes to her wardrobe, often rewearing pieces a decade apart, Kate’s Yves Saint Laurent jacket was presumably sourced in Scotland during her course of study at the University of St....

McConaughey recently made an appearance on The New York Times’ podcast Sway, during which he was asked about his views on Texas’ controversial Senate Bill 1, signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott in September. The Republican-led legislation, which is set to take effect in time for the 2022 primary elections, will see sweeping changes across the state, including the banning of overnight early voting hours and drive-thru voting in Democratic Harris County, according to the Texas Tribune....

Women’s boxing has seen many big names come through, including Christy Martin, Laila Ali, Ann Wolfe and Lucia Rijker. They helped pave the way for Serrano and Taylor, who are now on their own path to greatness. The road wasn’t the smoothest, but the long wait will be worth it. How, exactly, did boxing arrive at this moment? The Sporting News breaks down how Taylor vs. Serrano came to be....

First, she came out on a giant, motorized lion looking like an unmorphed power ranger and things went from there. She performed “Roar” and looked like she was born to tame that lion. MORE: Katy Perry halftime show gallery | Game updates | Photos | Commercials | SN picks Lenny Kravitz came out, with his permanently attached guitar, and sang a verse from “I Kissed a Girl” and handed it back to Perry, who most likely performed the quickest costume change of her career and sang “Teenage Dream” in front of what was reminiscent of a dream you would have after eating too much candy....

With Paul George also said to be joining from the Oklahoma City Thunder, an exciting Clippers team is set to go head-to-head against a Los Angeles Lakers franchise fronted by NBA icon LeBron James and Anthony Davis. Leonard, who spearheaded the Toronto Raptors to a maiden championship last season, is a signing who can make the Clippers – who finished eighth in the Western Conference in 2018-19 – a real force to be reckoned with....

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev referred to the demonstrators as “bandits,” “terrorists” and “militants” in a televised address to the nation, sharp rhetoric that might foreshadow further violent escalation in the conflict. “I have given the order to law enforcement and the army to shoot to kill without warning,” Tokayev said. “Those who don’t surrender will be eliminated.” The street protests are the worst Kazakhstan has seen since it obtained independence from the Soviet Union more than three decades ago....

But the funny thing is that neither Japan nor Germany is in much of a mood to imitate the United States. For all their problems, the Germans and the Japanese don’t want to be more like us. There are, make no mistake, plenty of businessmen in both countries who openly envy the flexibility and efficiency of the U.S. economy. But neither country shows much inclination to junk the systems that created their respective economic “miracles....

While walking to the back of the court, Nishikori threw his racket to the ground, flipping it on end as it spun around. It bounced off the hard surface and over his shoulder, and as the racket started to fall again Nishikori calmly caught it without looking. I’m not even sure how this is possible. It even looks like it could be in reverse but then you realize that the ball boy is running in the right direction....

For Military Appreciation Day, the players will instead wear the names of fallen members of the military. So instead of “Sykes,” the senior guard’s jersey will read “Opicka,” in honor of Lance Cpl. Dean Opicka, a Waukesha, Wis., native who died in April 2008 during combat operations in Iraq. MORE: SN Preseason All-Americans | Louisville’s Armed Forces Classic uniforms The Green Bay website has the official listing of the players and the military personnel they will honor....

On his Thursday show, Olbermann was at it again, ripping the league for launching an “independent” investigation that is being headed by former FBI director Robert Mueller, who works for the WilmerHale law firm, the same law firm that helped the NFL renegotiate its agreement with DirectTV. MORE: Fans defend decision to wear Rice jerseys | N.J. prosecutor defends investigation Olbermann is brash and outspoken, but he happens to be accurate in his assessment of the so-called “independent investigation....

They even brought out one of the stars of the network’s flagship shows — Kel Mitchell, one half of the coming-of-age buddy comedy “Kenan & Kel,” alongside Kenan Thompson. Mitchell, now 37, is still as lively as he was from 1996-2000 when he and his counterpart were to children what Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall had been to adults in the 1980s, if ony for a fraction of the time....