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NEW YORK — Because who doesn't like a good Kardashian baby name announcement? Khloe Kardashian and Cleveland Cavaliers player Tristan Thompson have named their new addition True.
The April 12 birth came amid a torrent of tabloid speculation about the couple after surveillance video showed the basketball star making out with other women. True Thompson, who weighed in at 6 pounds, 13 ounces and measured 21 inches, is Thompson's second child and the first for Kardashian.
Kardashian said in announcing the birth online that True has “completely stolen our hearts.” She said she and Thompson are “overwhelmed with LOVE.”
The “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star has long talked about her desire to be a mother.
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After making history as the first black woman to headline Coachella, Beyoncé has expanded the scholarship program she launched last year with new donations to four traditionally black universities.
Through her BeyGOOD philanthropic initiative, the pop star has established the Homecoming Scholars Award program, which will award $100,000 in scholarships to Xavier, Wilberforce, Tuskegee and Bethune-Cookman universities.
“We salute the rich legacy of Historically Black Colleges and Universities,” said Ivy McGregor, director of philanthropy and corporate relations at Parkwood Entertainment, which houses BeyGOOD. “We honor all institutions of higher learning for maintaining culture and creating environments for optimal learning which expands dreams and the seas of possibilities for students.”
The singer established the program in 2017 to mark the one-year anniversary of her 2016 visual album, “Lemonade.”
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ALBANY, N.Y. — An influential liberal third party won't play spoiler in this year's New York governor's race and will reconsider its support for “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon in the general election if she doesn't beat Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, a top party leader tells The Associated Press.
Bill Lipton, the Working Families Party's state political director, said that if Nixon should lose the September primary to Cuomo, his party leaders will meet with her to find a way to avoid splitting the liberal vote in November and potentially handing the race to a Republican candidate.
“We are confident that Cynthia Nixon is going to win the Democratic primary and go on to be the Working Families and Democratic nominee,” he said. “In the unlikely event that she loses ... Cynthia is going to meet with our leaders, and we will make a decision that puts the interests of working families first.
“We will not be a spoiler. In 20 years we have never been a spoiler.”
Nixon recently picked up the endorsement of the party, a coalition created to harness the political power of progressive groups and organized labor that helped elect New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
By The Associated Press
