B. Simone has made her love for DaBaby no secret -- and he may have made her wildest dreams come true. During this week's Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Outepisode, the rapper and the WNO cast member met at the alter during "Let Me Holla" (as seen in the video below). But not before B.…
Facebook Inc. acquired Giphy, a library of video clips and animated images known as GIFs that can be attached to messages to express emotion, adding features that could encourage users to communicate through its apps.Giphy will join the Instagram group within Facebook, according to a blog post on Friday, and the social-media giant has extended…
Getty Images Future, known supporter of masks during an unprecedented global time where they're more needed than ever before, had originally titled his eighth studio album Life Is Good. "It's about life and being good and just enjoying life," he told XXL earlier this year. That album is officially out as of today (May 15),…
Getty Images The search for the ever-elusive "bop" is difficult. Playlists and streaming-service recommendations can only do so much. They often leave a lingering question: Are these songs really good, or are they just new? Enter Bop Shop, a hand-picked selection of songs from the MTV News team. This weekly collection doesn't discriminate by genre…
Miss Rona can't keep television's fiercest competition down. RuPaul's Drag Race season 12 will sashay forward with an innovative presentation for its upcoming finale and reunion specials, both of which the network confirmed Friday will air as originally scheduled in the weeks ahead. Though the coronavirus pandemic complicated production, the RuPaul's Drag Race Season 12…
Heading into 1993, Saskatchewan was a leading candidate for a dubious honour: provincial bankruptcy.No province had defaulted on its debts since Alberta during the Great Depression, but Saskatchewan’s borrowing had soared throughout the 1980s and its credit rating had been downgraded, making it harder to sell its bonds to investors.Compounding the problem were the after-effects…
Prom season is here. Even in the face of dances being modified or outright canceled or due to COVID-19 — something one student told MTV News was "weird and upsetting" — springtime still means prom time. And it's still a time to celebrate: That's why MTV and When We All Vote, Michelle Obama's nonpartisan organization,…
The theater awards show was previously postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Grease is the one CBS wants to fill in for one of the most beloved American awards shows. The network has announced a singalong version of the classic 1978 musical (starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John) will air on Sunday, June 7 at…
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a federal wage subsidy for employees in businesses hit hard by COVID-19 will last at least until the end of August.The subsidy was set to expire in the first week of June, only a few weeks after the first payments rolled out.Trudeau says the idea is to give…
In my January 15 column, I had discussed the death of employment law, but, as Mark Twain put it, “the reports of (its) death are greatly exaggerated.”Whether my comments were prescient or premature, employment lawyers have now been resuscitated by COVID-19.There has long been a delicate dance in my field perpetrated by its bar. The…
Graduation has become grad-d'oh!-ation, as schools have gone online and public gatherings have been cancelled due to the pandemic. Who better than Homer to deliver your quarantine commencement speech? The world is in crisis, beset by challenges heretofore unseen. Ones that are testing spirits and reserves. Ones that will not allow you to attend concerts,…
Captain Pike, Mr. Spock, and Number One are officially getting their own spin-off series. The trio of characters played by Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, and Ethan Peck — respectively — were introduced (in their current iterations) during season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery. They will return to CBS All Access with their own show titled…
It is hard enough to make money in the stock market, even without the world shut down due to a global pandemic. In fact, studies have proven that the average stock actually goes down. So how does one make money? Well, it’s all in the math. A stock can “only” decline by 100 per cent.…
'Cause the world keeps spinnin' round and round — even in quarantine! EW can exclusively debut an epic at-home performance of the uplifting and high-energy "You Can't Stop the Beat" from the Broadway musical Hairspray. In a video created in partnership with Marc Shaiman — who wrote the music and co-wrote the lyrics for the musical adaptation…
Dave J Hogan/Getty Images On April 6, Charli XCX announced her intention to try an experiment. Over the course of the next five weeks, she'd create a brand-new album — including meeting the demands of music videos and promotion — all entirely from scratch while self-isolating. The end result of that period of creativity is…
YouTube/Katy Perry If you'll recall, Katy Perry is having a baby girl. We first learned this via her music video for "Never Worn White," an ode to her fiancé, Orlando Bloom, which dropped in March — and back then, Perry promised it was going to be a "jam packed summer." She made good on that…