Cam’ron has been hit with a lawsuit for an image used on items sold by his Dipset Couture brand. Billboard reports the merchandise featured a 2003 picture of himself, taken by Djamilla Cochran.The photographer claims Cam used the photo without her consent and repeatedly posted it on his socials for promotion despite being told he’d been using an unlicensed image. He’d allegedly been sharing Cochran’s photos on products dating back to 2014.
The infamous photo of Cam’ron was taken at the 2003 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Show in New York. It features him in a fuzzy pink coat and hat with a matching flip phone in hand.
President JoeBiden has named The Eagles’ Joe Walsh to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
The committee was founded in 1982 to advise the president on enhancing federal support for the arts, humanities, and museum and library services, which it deems relevant to the country’s “health, economy, equity, and civic life.”
“For more than 50 years, I’ve been blessed with opportunities to share my music with my fellow Americans and with the world,” Walsh shares on social media. “I’ve been humbled by participating in the creation of sacred spaces where those who disagree can come together, if only maybe for just a few minutes at a time, sing along in a shared experience and celebrate the things that make us all unique, American and uniquely American.”
He continues, “I love American Rock and Roll. I love my job. I love my country. If there’s anything I can do to assist in the guidance of future generations of Americans in finding their voices, sign me up, Mr. President.”
He added, “I graciously accept your invitation to serve on @PCAHgov and will do so with pride and with honor.”
In addition to Walsh, other newly appointed members to the committee include George Clooney, Jennifer Garner, Shonda Rhimes, Kerry Washington and Grammy winner Jon Batiste, with Lady Gaga and Oscar-winning TV and movie producer Bruce Cohen named as the committee’s co-chairs.
Beatle George Harrison, who passed away in November, 2001, was honored with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.
The ceremony was attended by Harrison’s widow Olivia and son Dhani, along with the late rock star’s famous friends, including Sir Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Sheryl Crow, Eric Idle, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson and more.
The star, at 1750 Vine Street, was the 2,382nd star on the Walk of Fame.
Tan France and his husband, Rob France, are expecting baby number two via surrogate, the star of Netflix’s Queer Eye announced via social media on Thursday.
“Hard to believe it was two years ago today we announced Ismail was on his way! And today — we couldn’t be prouder to share that he’s going to be a big brother!” France captioned a clip from his appearance on the Milk Drunk podcast posted on Instagram.
“Becoming dads has been our greatest joy, and we are so excited to grow our family with the help of our wonderful surrogate,” he continued. “I’m excited to share more about our journey through surrogacy, becoming dads of two and a few choice words for anyone with opinions on our choices.”
France did not reveal the baby’s due date, but shared, “We are due not so long from now.”
Two of Tan’s Queer Eye co-stars commented on the video; Karamo Brown responded with heart emojis, while Jonathan Van Ness wrote, “Congratulations!”
The 39-year-old fashion designer and pediatric nurse and illustrator tied the knot in 2007 and welcomed their first child, Ismail in July 2021.
Graham Nash is set to release his new album, Now, on May 19, and it features a song he wrote about his band, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
In the tune “I Watched It All Come Down,” he sings about “the rock and roll parade,” and watching it both fall and grow. He tells Variety he’s singing about his “emotional feelings” about his band.
“I reached incredible heights musically with them, and the opposite has been true with them, too – saddened that we didn’t make more music,” he explains. “We do, though, know that the music we did make is the most important part of our relationship.”
He adds, “So this is about the thrill of having made music with David, Stephen and Neil. I wish it could have continued.”
Nash also talks about Crosby, and how they had rekindled their friendship before his death in January and had a FaceTime call planned for the day he passed away. “I’d like to only think of the good times, now,” Nash says of his friend. “I’ll remember the great music that we made, the fun times that we had.”
He also shared a sweet story that showed the goodness of Crosby, noting that once while they were on a hike with their tour manager, the manager shattered his kneecap and Crosby carried him a mile to find help. Nash notes, “I always thought that such a moment showed off what a big heart that David had.”
(NEW YORK) — Five years ago, Shannel Perman nearly became a statistic in the growing Black maternal health crisis in the United States.
In the last week of her pregnancy with her first child, Perman, now 33, said she began to experience complications like swelling, high blood pressure and weight gain that she said were dismissed by her doctor.
Perman, who lives near Baltimore, went onto give birth to a healthy baby, a son named Jyace, 41 weeks into her pregnancy, and said she thought she was medically in the clear.
“As far as I was concerned, I was healthy. My baby was healthy,” Perman told ABC News’ Good Morning America. “That’s all my doctor kept telling me, was that I was OK and my baby was OK.”
It was not until a week after giving birth that Perman nearly lost her life.
She suffered a stroke while at home with her baby and husband, who rushed her to the hospital, where she eventually underwent two emergency brain surgeries.
“I wasn’t stroke-alerted when I came in to the hospital showing signs of a stroke,” said Perman, who added that it was her mom, who met them at the hospital, who demanded she get medical attention for a stroke. “I was failed multiple times.”
As a Black woman in the U.S., Perman is three times more likely to die during childbirth or in the months after than white, Asian or Latina women, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A recent CDC report found the majority of maternal mortality cases — about 53% — occur after the first week of childbirth.
Black women are also more likely than white, Asian or Latina women to die from pregnancy-related complications regardless of their education level or their income, data shows. And in cases of maternal death, Black women are more likely to die from cardiac conditions, like the high blood pressure complications that Perman described experiencing in her last week of pregnancy, according to the CDC.
Perman said that as an otherwise healthy 29-year-old at the time of her son’s birth, with no preexisting conditions, suffering a stroke came as a life-changing shock. She said she underwent several months of rehabilitation and continues to suffer from complications including memory loss, brain fog, migraines and light sensitivity.
Perman said it also came as a shock to learn the disparities Black women like herself face when it comes to giving birth, and how the maternal mortality rates have only continued to grow in the five years since she gave birth.
“A mom should be able to enjoy her pregnancy, enjoy her newborn and postpartum period and not have to worry about dying during childbirth or shortly after her child’s birth,” she said. “So it’s heartbreaking to think about, that this issue is still happening.”
For Perman, the decision to have a second child was one that took several years, a period of time that she said involved mental health therapy, prayer and finding the right medical team.
Last year, Perman gave birth to a healthy daughter, whom she and her husband named Jordyn.
She shared with GMA the things she did differently when giving birth to her second child, and what she wants other women to know.
1. I made sure I felt seen by my medical team.
Perman said she and her husband did their research on doctors, including meeting with several, to make sure they found the right fit.
“We wanted to find someone that made us feel comfortable and made us feel seen and heard. Someone that we didn’t feel rushed with. Someone that took the time to answer every and all of our questions,” Perman said. “And the team that we went with, they were great. If we showed any concerns, they were running tests and just doing all the things we would want from a doctor.”
Dr. Pam Oliver , a board-certified OB-GYN and executive vice president of Novant Health in North Carolina, said she also encourages patients to look around to find a team of doctors with whom they connect.
“I think that patients should look at the team that’s taking care of them and make sure they feel that connection. They feel like this is a place, or this is a team that truly cares about me,” Oliver, who did not treat Perman, told GMA. “And that becomes part of how you choose the team that actually is going to take care of you when you deliver.”
Oliver, also president of the Novant Health Physician Network, said she also encourages patients to work with the same OB-GYN prior to pregnancy, when possible.
“I like to take care of my patients prior to pregnancy so that they understand that how they come into pregnancy matters some with their outcomes,” she said. “We start a nine-month journey once we have a positive pregnancy test, but some of the outcomes and, unfortunately, the deaths that we see may be related to health issues that started way before pregnancy.”
2. I used an at-home blood pressure monitor.
Perman said that with her second pregnancy, she used an at-home blood pressure reader, which can be purchased over-the-counter for as little as $20.
“That can be a life-changing method for so many moms, if they have a blood pressure reader where they can be testing or checking their own blood pressure throughout their pregnancy and even the postpartum period,” she said. “Because for a lot of moms, we don’t get a [postpartum] checkup until the six-week appointment, and so much can go wrong in those six weeks.”
High blood pressure, or hypertension, can put women at risk during and after childbirth, raising the risk of stroke, preeclampsia and preterm delivery, according to the CDC .
The CDC also recommends that women keep track of their blood pressure at home so they can notify their healthcare provider if their blood pressure is higher than usual.
3. I was my own biggest advocate.
Perman said her biggest piece of advice to other women is to speak up and be persistent if they feel anything is off with their body.
“You have to be your own biggest advocate,” she said. “If you feel any symptoms or anything is concerning, you have to speak up. If your doctor isn’t listening to you or you don’t feel seen or heard, you need to find someone else that’s going to hear you because you cannot take any chances when it comes to your life or your child’s life.”
Perman continued, “You have to trust your own intuition and if something something doesn’t feel right, you just have to follow that and speak up and advocate for yourself.”
Oliver said she encourages patients to be persistent with their doctor and proactive with their health.
“Advocating is really about being persistent and making sure that your provider, whether it’s a physician or a midwife, understands what your issue or your concern may be and that you get some answer, even if it means you have to seek another opinion or talk to someone else to make sure that you truly are getting an answer,” Oliver said. “Because there are a lot of things in pregnancy we can’t explain. There are a lot of aches and pains and things that happen.”
4. I was alert for warning signs after giving birth.
With Perman’s second pregnancy, she said she knew that even after she gave birth, she needed to advocate for herself and pay close attention to how she was feeling.
“The experience between the two pregnancies were night and day,” she said. “This time around, I was able to know what to look out for.”
Oliver echoed that once a new mom goes home from the hospital, it’s important that she knows to speak up when something feels off in their body.
Among the warning signs for women to watch for are shortness of breath, chest pain, weakness, severe headaches and excessive bleeding, according to Oliver.
“Those are just a few of the things that we look out for because they may be tied to the most common causes for women dying after childbirth,” she said. “You have to make sure that you you’ve gotten your symptoms out, that you’re heard and that you’ve had an evaluation that feels reasonable to say, ‘We’ve ruled out the bad stuff.'”
Oliver noted that women should listen to their intuition and feel confident telling their doctor, “Something just feels off.” She added that if a woman is told by her doctor that a symptom, like a headache, for example, is normal, she should ask the follow up question, “When should I be concerned about this headache?”
“That is something you can truly act on,” Oliver said. “You need your team to be able to tell you when do you get concerned? When do you follow up? How do you follow up and what should you expect from there?”
5. I knew that maternal mortality was a major crisis.
Perman described it as “difficult” and “heartbreaking” to know that so many women, particularly Black women, die during and after childbirth due to forces beyond their control.
Oliver, too, said she struggles as a doctor to know that outside of medical care, there are issues like poverty, bias and systemic racism that impact the rising maternal mortality rate.
One reason for the maternal mortality disparity is that more Black women of childbearing age have chronic diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes, which increases the risk of pregnancy-related complications like preeclampsia and possibly the need for emergency C-sections, according to the CDC.
But there are also socioeconomic circumstances and structural inequities that put Black women at greater risk for those chronic conditions. Black women often have inadequate access to care throughout pregnancy which can further complicate their conditions, data shows.
Anecdotal reports also show that the concerns of Black women experiencing negative symptoms during pregnancy and postpartum are specifically ignored by some physicians until the woman’s conditions significantly worsen, at which point it may be too late to prevent a deadlier outcome.
Oliver said one of the most heartbreaking and frustrating things she hears as a doctor is Black women who are afraid to have children, or who have decided not to have children out of fear they will die.
“That hurts my heart because that’s not at all what we intend to do, is to scare people,” Oliver said. “It’s not about fear. It’s about empowering ourselves, advocating for things that we know help all women, getting legislators and others to understand what we need to do to get the data, to cover the services that need to be covered, to approach this from many angles.”
She continued, “It’s important for people to know it is still safe to have babies and every day millions of women are having safe childbirths, but the trouble is that Black women are dying at a rate that is three to four times that of White women.”
(WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency stay of an appeals court ruling that would sharply restrict access to the widely-used abortion medication mifepristone.
The restrictions were set to take effect early Saturday morning.
On behalf of the Food and Drug Administration, the DOJ has asked the court to impose an immediate administrative stay of the 5th Circuit’s abortion pill decision — to preserve the status quo while the justices consider the application — but to ultimately stay the ruling pending appeal.
“If allowed to take effect, the lower courts’ orders would upend the regulatory regime for mifepristone, with sweeping consequences for the pharmaceutical industry, women who need access to the drug, and FDA’s ability to implement its statutory authority,” the DOJ stated.
The government says the ruling creates a “host of unprecedented issues” that put the FDA in an “impossible position,” particularly in light of the dueling order out of Washington state.
“Regulated entities are trying to discern their legal duties and urgently demanding guidance. FDA has spent the last week first grappling with the implications of the district court’s order, then racing to untangle the different and enormously more complicated issues raised by the Fifth Circuit’s decision. And in the meantime, another district court has enjoined FDA from doing anything to change the conditions on the distribution of mifepristone in 17 States and the District of Columbia — which means that FDA risks contempt if it takes action to permit the marketing of mifepristone in a manner consistent with the Fifth Circuit’s order. This Court should put a stop to that untenable situation by staying the district court’s order in full,” the Justice Department’s application said.
The administration told the high court that a decision by a district court federal judge in Texas is “the first time any court has abrogated FDA’s conditions on a drug’s approval based on a disagreement with the agency’s judgment about safety — much less done so after those conditions have been in effect for years.”
A few minutes earlier, Danco Labs, maker of the abortion pill mifepristone, also filed an emergency application with the court seeking a full stay of the Texas judge’s order pending appeal or asks the justices to take up the case immediately on the merits and decide it this spring.
Danco cites the conflicting ruling from the Eastern District of Washington as the primary basis for urging the court to get involved now.
The company cites “regulatory chaos” that would ensue if those old FDA restrictions snap back at midnight and an “untenable limbo for Danco, for providers, for women and for health care systems all trying to navigate these uncharted waters.”
Notably, both the FDA and Danco warn that if the 5th Circuit’s decision stands — reverting to circa-2000 restrictions of the abortion pill — all existing doses of mifepristone would be “misbranded” because their labeling would no longer comply with the approval standard.
In turn, they suggest, those doses could not be properly sold or distributed under regulations. Adjusting the drug’s labeling “could take months” they say.
The government also points out that such a scenario would invalidate all generic versions of the drug, since those were approved for use subsequent to the year 2000.
And, they warn of danger to women …. forcing the government to “reinstate a now-obsolete and unfamiliar dosing regimen [from 2000] that includes higher doses of mifepristone than what we now know are needed for the intended use,” which could harm patients.
Portugal. The Man has released a new song called “Champ,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Chris Black Changed My Life.
“Champ” includes a “re-imagining” of the 1971 Edgar Winter song “Dying to Live” and also features the band With War. You can listen to it now via digital outlets.
Chris Black Changed My Life, which also includes the previously released single “Dummy,” drops June 23. It’s the follow-up to 2017’s Woodstock, which spawned the megahit “Feel It Still.”
Portugal. The Man will be playing a number of shows this summer in support of Chris Black Changed My Life, including sets at Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza.
Metallica‘s four-night residency on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! came to a close Thursday with a performance of “If Darkness Had a Son,” a track off the band’s brand-new album, 72 Seasons.
The residency launched Monday with a rendition of the lead 72 Seasons single “Lux Æterna.” Throughout the week, Metallica also played the Black Album tune “Holier than Thou” and the Stranger Things-boosted classic “Master of Puppets.” The metal legends also took part in a comedy skit in which they learned puppetry.
Metallica played the residency in honor of 72 Seasons‘ arrival, which finally came Friday. 72 Seasons is the 11th Metallica album and the long-awaited follow-up to 2016’s Hardwired…to Self-Destruct.
Metallica will hit the road on a world tour in support of 72 Seasons starting later this month in Europe. The trek will come to the U.S. in August.
(BOSTON) — The 21-year-old arrested in connection with the leaked documents probe has been charged with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and willful retention of classified documents, which collectively carry a maximum of 15 years in prison.
Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air Force National Guard, made his initial appearance before a federal magistrate in Boston on Friday morning.
Teixeira walked into court in a beige smock and pants with a black T-shirt underneath. He entered in handcuffs, which were removed before he sat at the defense table with his attorney. Teixeira appeared to briefly scan the crowd while in his seat.
Three people sat on a bench in the front row reserved for relatives of the defendant.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Nadine Pellegrini sought pretrial detention, which was granted pending the outcome of a hearing on Wednesday.
Teixeira was taken into custody in Massachusetts on Thursday “in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified national defense information,” Attorney General Merrick Garland announced.
Media reports have described the U.S. intelligence documents — which seem to contain top-secret information about the Ukraine war and other parts of the world — as being shared among a small group of users on Discord before getting wider notice.
