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Pop Smoke, a rising New York rapper, was fatally shot in a home in the Hollywood Hills early Wednesday, law enforcement sources confirmed. Officers responded after someone calling from the East Coast reported that several people, at least one of whom wore a black mask and was armed with a handgun, had entered their friend’s home in Los Angeles shortly before 5 a.m., said LAPD Capt. Steve Lurie. When officers arrived at the $2.5-million home in the 2000 block of Hercules Drive, they found the 20-year-old rapper, whose legal name is Bashar Barakah Jackson, with gunshot wounds.He was taken to…

February 19, 2020 9:45AM PT Colin Jost has become famous by delivering fake news on the venerable “Weekend Update” segment on “Saturday Night Live.”  But he may be poised to deliver real headlines about his future with the program. Jost’s new memoir, “A Very Punchable Face,” is due out April 14 from Penguin Random House’s Crown imprint. In uncorrected galley proofs of the book reviewed by Variety, Jost mulls the possibility that he may leave “SNL,” where he has held forth for 15 years as a writer, head writer and member of the show’s cast. It’s possible the language and…

As Pokémon trainers, our ascent to Champion status in the video game franchise is practically foretold. The gym leaders along the way, meanwhile, are supposed to be the best in the world — so you gotta imagine that these people feel something when they get beat. And while some leaders take defeat gracefully, some of them seem likely to struggle with their failure and perhaps doubt themselves in the future. Gym leaders are, after all, merely human. This isn’t something we ever see in the games, but it’s the entire premise behind the latest short for Pokémon: Twilight Wings. Here,…

Justin & Hailey Bieber Looking to Buy, Complete 1st Home ... Could Spend $20 Million 2/18/2020 7:32 AM PT Exclusive X17 Justin and Hailey Bieber's potential starter home is one that's still under construction -- but we're hearing they're eyeing it pretty hard, and could spend a fortune to get it. Sources tell TMZ ... Mr. and Mrs. Bieber have been looking at this monster of a home in Brentwood, which is currently owned by the CEO of Playboy Enterprises. The guy bought the place when it was a vacant lot in 2014, spending around $9 million just for the…

Foo Fighters have announced a tour celebrating the band’s 25th anniversary. The 2020 Van Tour, which will revisit cities that Foo Fighters toured through in 1995 behind their eponymous debut album, kicks off April 12 in Phoenix and will take them across North America. Find the band’s full roster of tour dates below and buy tickets here. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.) Foo Fighters’ last album was 2017’s Concrete and Gold. Loading Loading Read More

February 18, 2020 7:24AM PT Deliberations in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial are slated to begin on Tuesday, but there were plenty of fireworks even before Justice James Burke could give jurors instructions. Before the jury was called in, prosecutors accused the former movie mogul’s lawyers of jury tampering, vociferously objecting to a Newsweek op-ed. The article, penned by Weinstein’s lead attorney Donna Rotunno, implored the jury to “look past the headlines” and “to base their verdict solely on the facts, testimony and evidence presented to them in the courtroom.” Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi objected to the piece, saying…