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Mo'Nique has been feuding with everyone in Hollywood from Whoopi Goldberg to Oprah Winfrey to Steve Harvey. She appeared on "The Steve Harvey Show"  on Wednesday and the conversation got intense with neither of them backing down. The interview started with Mo' expressing her disappointment in people saying she was difficult and said directly to Harvey: "This is my brother, and when I heard you go on the air and you said 'My sister done burned too ... Read more

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The top executive at Italian luxury brand Gucci pleaded ignorance to knowing that his company could receive criticism over its sweater that resembles blackface-even though blackface is also controversial in Europe. Marco Bizzarri, Gucci's president and CEO, and the company's creative director Alessandro Michele broke their silence on Tuesday about the blackface controversy that has engulfed the company, the Los Angeles Times reported. After an avalanche of criticism last week, Gucci ended sales of its ... Read more

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NATIONAL CHEDDAR DAY Grilled cheese would be buttered bread without melt-able slices piled high; burgers would be lackluster without a perfect ooze; mac & cheese would just be...mac, to be frank. So many of our iconic American dishes simply wouldn't be the same without a slice of cheddar's deliciousness. CHEDDAR HISTORY There's some history to this love of cheddar as well. How exactly did cheddar become a staple in so many of our favorite foods? ... Read more

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Fairfax Accuser Said She Was Raped By Former NBA Player Corey Maggette Meredith Watson is one of the women who claims she was sexually assaulted by Virginia's lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax. Now it is being reported she was also raped by former NBA player and Fox Sports analyst Corey Maggette. The New York Times reports Watson was allegedly raped 20 years ago at Duke University by Maggette "and that school officials did not pursue the ... Read more

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The queen of hot topics, Wendy Williams, is now headline news. Her talk show has been postponed for weeks and now a new report comes out that her staff doesn't even want her to return. A "close source" told Radar Online, "It has been like a vacation having guest hosts. Everyone is laughing and smiling and working together. We all had gotten so used to walking on eggshells around Wendy and Kevin, we forgot what a fun ... Read more

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Forecasters say more snow and cold are on the way for the Twin Cities.  Up to eight inches of light, fluffy snow fell overnight on parts of the Twin Cities and more is expected Thursday night.  Meteorologists say that despite late January's polar vortex, snowfall levels are about average for a Minnesota winter.  Anoka Hennepin Schools are closed today. Minneapolis and St. Paul schools are open. >>Mother, Daughter Identified In Minneapolis Double Homicide  (Minneapolis, MN)  ... Read more

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Stil beaming from an historic win last fall, Commisioner Angela Conley says there is work to do. She was able to tap in voter freustration over county wide  racial disparities and a dissatisfaction with national politics to win her seat on the seven-member board. Coney is the frist African American to serve in the Board's 166 year- history. Conley told Freddie Bell and Chantel Sings that her experience as a black, single mother who once lived on ... Read more

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Former First Lady Michelle Obama wowed the crowd at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles last night.  Obama talked about how music has helped her share her story and she said that's true for everybody.  Obama said, "Whether we like country or rap or rock, music helps us share ourselves."  The author of the best-selling autobiography Becoming told the crowd that from the Motown records she wore out growing up on the South Side of ... Read more

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Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Sunday joined the growing group of Democrats jostling to be president and positioned herself as the most prominent Midwestern candidate in the field, as her party tries to win back voters in a region that helped put Donald Trump in the White House. "For every American, I'm running for you," she told an exuberant crowd gathered on a freezing, snowy afternoon at a park along the Mississippi River with the ... Read more

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Young actress Marsai Martin is out here winning. Nearly a month after it was revealed that she had made history by becoming Hollywood's youngest executive producer, Martin, 14, has inked a huge production deal with Universal Pictures through her Genius Productions company, Variety reported. Under the first-look deal Martin and her team will collaborate with Universal Pictures on a variety of scripted projects, the news outlet writes. One of the projects is an upcoming comedic ... Read more

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