O A

The North Carolina Court of Appeals has upheld Billy Barrino’s life sentence for first-degree murder, rejecting challenges to the admission of rap lyrics, surveillance footage and jury instructions in his 2024 trial. Barrino, 28, argued that the trial court improperly excluded self-defense instructions and allowed prejudicial evidence to influence the jury’s verdict. The appellate court found no reversible error in the proceedings. Barrino shot and killed 24-year-old Jaleel Nivens on April 23,

A 31-year-old man has been arrested and charged after he allegedly pushed his estranged girlfriend and their infant daughter from a 15th-floor balcony in the Bronx earlier this week.  The New York Police Department identified the victim as 23-year-old Nathaly Ramirez, who was pronounced dead at Jacobi Medical Center following the fall. Her 8-month-old daughter, who was reportedly being held by Ramirez at the time of the incident, remains in critical but stable condition at the same facility. Au

Lil Wayne has confirmed that he and Drake possess a massive vault of unreleased music that could eventually be shared with the public.  During a recent appearance on “The Joint Venture Show,” the Young Money founder detailed the extensive backlog of songs the two hip-hop titans have recorded over the last decade.  The Grammy-winning rapper noted that the archive is not merely a collection of recent scraps but includes significant work dating back to at least 2014. Wayne explained that he frequ

Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson, whose work often blends verse, prose, dialogue and translation in a genre-defying mix, won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for what the Swedish Academy called her "bold and inventive oeuvre". "Crazy, I think they're all crazy," Carson ‌told Icelandic broadcaster RUV when asked how she was feeling after learning she had won while on the Arctic island. "I'll get a sticker on the front of my book." Carson, 76, who was born in Toronto and has a

Rihanna just sent her fans into a frenzy over the latest update about her long-awaited R9album, mentioning she has 170 unreleased songs at Fenty Beauty event.  The pop icon, 38, sparked fresh excitement around her ninth studio album, R9, during a Fenty Beauty TikTok Shop livestream. Rihanna was asked how much unreleased music she has stored away. Instead of providing a direct answer, she compared her music vault to Fenty Beauty’s Gloss Bomb Vault. “If there are 10 products in the Gloss Bomb V

Comedic actor Kevin Hart’s former assistant is seeking testimony from Montia Sabbag, the woman involved in Hart’s 2017 sex tape scandal, as part of her ongoing legal dispute with the entertainer. Miesha Shakes identified Sabbag as a potential witness and wants to question her about the recording and the investigation that followed, according to court documents cited by TMZ. View this post on Instagram A post shared by TMZ (@tmztv) Sabbag became involved in a legal dispute with Hart afte

Lionel Messi made his international debut in August 2005, coming on in Budapest as an 18-year-old for a friendly against Hungary. Twenty-one years and more than 200 appearances later, he said goodbye to the national team as a world champion and Argentina's record-holder. So what did the football legend's international career look like in numbers? 208 - Appearances Messi made for the national team, the most in Argentina's history. Javier Mascherano is second with 147 caps. 126 - Goals he scored

Cristiano Ronaldo broke his silence this Tuesday via an extensive statement, explaining exactly what transpired during Portugal's training camp and the reasons that led him to leave the Portuguese delegation in Copenhagen. The captain confirmed the meetings held, the conversations with Jorge Jesus, and the fact that he's not retiring from international football. In the statement released this Tuesday, Cristiano Ronaldo begins by noting that after the 2026 World Cup, he wrote "a letter to the Po

The NBA legend put more than 6000 miles on the car during his ownership, much of it driving to and from Chicago Bulls games. This week, Pharrell Williams-founded auction establishment Joopiter offered a pair of lots steeped in Michael Jordan lore that closed this week: the “Last Dance” jersey he wore in the 1998 NBA finals, and—more interestingly for Road & Trackreaders—the 1997 Ferrari 550 Maranello he purchased new and owned until 2002. On September 30, the car blitzed past Joopiter’s estimat

Kid Cudi has asked a California federal judge to dismiss music superstar M.I.A.’s $2.8 million lawsuit stemming from her removal from his Rebel Ragers Tour after a Dallas concert. Cudi, whose legal name is Scott Mescudi, filed an anti-SLAPP motion arguing that the First Amendment protects his decision about the performers appearing on his tour. Kid Cudi has removed M.I.A. from his tour after she opened for him in Dallas and went on a rant about “illegals” and “being canceled for being a Republ

Manchester City are expected to press ahead ⁠with an appeal against findings that they breached Premier League financial rules by today's deadline, ‌opening a fresh chapter in a case that has already ‌become one of the most significant in English ‌football. The club has consistently denied wrongdoing, and indicated they ‌will challenge an independent commission's findings that they ‌used "sham" commercial contracts as part of schemes to inflate revenue and understate costs by more than £900 mil

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been returned to solitary confinement at New Jersey’s FCI Fort Dix where he is serving his sentence. Combs, 56, was moved to the Special Housing Unit at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey, TMZ reported Wednesday. The move follows an NBC News report detailing allegations about his treatment behind bars. Diddy is reportedly being sent back to solitary confinement after an NBC News report detailed his alleged VIP treatment behind bars. According to the report, he paid fellow inmat

US President Donald Trump hosted a meeting of top technology bosses on Tuesday for what he called "an extraordinary gathering" of the minds that are "building America's Golden Age". The guest list included leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, SpaceX, Meta and Google - all key figures in the US AI industry. The meeting came as some tech executives and experts have called for tighter oversight of AI, citing concerns about the potential risks it poses to humanity. Here are three key takeaways

One of five men arrested near RAF Fairford in the early hours of Sunday morning had dialled 999 himself, according to the BBC. The suspect called the police at 00:45 BST, almost an hour before a female farmer also dialled 999 after seeing men in balaclavas. The five were arrested on suspicion of explosives offences and later terrorism offences after three vans were spotted, sparking a major security incident around the Gloucestershire base which the US military operates. They were released on