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  • Floyd Mayweather Jr.: I’ve Paid the IRS $26,000,000

    Floyd “Money” Mayweather wants to make it clear that he isn’t ducking paying his taxes. In fact, the undefeated fighter, who is set to take on the Great White Hope in August, claims that he paid the IRS $26 million in 2015. “What else could they possibly want?!” Mayweather told TMZ Sports. The pound-for-pound champ…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    July 11, 2017
  • Valerie Jarrett, Top Adviser to Obama, Signs Book Deal

    Valerie Jarrett, the most trusted woman in former President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, has signed a book deal. The former White House senior adviser’s untitled book is expected to combine personal history and civic advice. “From her work on ensuring equity for women and girls, protecting civil rights, reforming our criminal justice system and protecting working…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    July 11, 2017
  • Russian Lawyer Contradicts Trump Jr.’s Account of Meeting: I Didn’t Have Clinton Info They Wanted

    A week ago, Natalia Veselnitskaya was just a Russian lawyer with a really difficult last name to pronounce. Now Veselnitskaya is at the center of a Russia-White House scandal, and it still doesn’t make her last name any easier to say aloud. Depending on whom you believe—the lie trapped inside the fib, which is trapped…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    July 11, 2017
  • The Real Reason Floyd Mayweather Is Fighting Conor McGregor

    Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. is rich. Superrich. He’s also really shallow and vapid. As such, he has 100 girlfriends and almost as many cars. It’s hard to keep up with the reported $700 million he’s made during his fight career, but at one point, Mayweather was burning $100 bills in the club. Well, it turns…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    July 10, 2017
  • How a Goofy Russian Pop Star’s Publicist Is Involved in All This White House Russia Stuff

    I imagine that Papa Steve Bannon is inside the Oval Office having to hold Big Donnie back from beating Lil’ Donnie to a pulp. That’s because Lil’ Donnie, aka Not-Ivanka, didn’t realize that the company line about the meeting he had with a Russian lawyer in June 2016 was that it wasn’t a big deal…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    July 10, 2017
  • Chelsea Clinton Claps Back at Trump Over G-20 Ivanka Sit-in

    Because President Donald Von LonelyFace, who can’t seem to keep the names of any of the Clinton clan off his tiny Twitter fingers, has of course made his G-20 flub of subbing in his daughter Ivanka to hold his seat about the former first family. “When I left Conference Room for short meetings with Japan…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    July 10, 2017
  • Trump Jr. Just Confirmed That Russia Is, in Fact, the USA’s Play Cousin

    If President Vladimir TrumPutin supporters want to know why the media keeps talking about TrumPutin’s connection to Russia, it’s because the president has connections to Russia. According to the New York Times, in June 2016, Donald Trump Jr., aka Not-Ivanka; Jared “Got Dem Visas” Kushner; and disgraced American Paul Manafort all met with a “Kremlin-connected…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    July 10, 2017
  • Rob Kardashian Paid for Blac Chyna, and Now That She’s Gone, He Wants a Refund

    Updated Friday, July 7, 2017; 4:20 p.m. EDT: If Monday’s court proceedings go in Blac Chyna’s favor, Rob Kardashian will have a restraining order filed against him. “Women’s rights lawyer Lisa Bloom will appear in court Monday for a restraining order against Rob, claiming he crossed the line by posting nude pics of her, medical information…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    July 7, 2017
  • The Real Housewives of Potomac’s Black Bill Gates Owes Millions in Taxes

    Looks like the black Bill Gates is just an old-ass Wesley Snipes. Ray Huger, the husband of The Real Housewives of Potomac star Karen Huger, owes millions in taxes. That’s right, the slow-moving software exec, whom his wife has dubbed “the black Bill Gates” (feel free to vomit), reportedly “owes nearly $1.5 million in back-due…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    July 7, 2017
  • Caption This Savage G-20 Eye Roll Angela Merkel Just Gave Vladimir Putin

    Angela Merkel, only the chancellor of a small Western European country called Germany—maybe you’ve heard of it—is not here for any of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “handsplaining.” Watch her deliver the most savage of eye rolls and caption below in the comments.

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    July 7, 2017
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