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President Barack Obama was on the Today Show this morning, so of course one of the questions deemed important enough to ask about was Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s trip to Cuba. Yes, that was sarcasm.

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You can consider Pitbull to be an expert on all things Cuba. The Miami rapper dropped his own freestyle take on Jay-Z’s much discussed new song, “Open Letter.” Pit uses his version to drop some Cuban history, good and bad, and to comment on the political chit chatter Hova and Beyoncé’s wedding anniversary trip has caused.

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The White House wasn’t going to let Jay-Z rap about a conversation with the president without giving a response. Hov name drops President Obama on his new track “Open Letter,” claiming that he spoke with the commander in chief about going to Cuba.

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Stacey Dash’s latest flailing grasp at relevancy occurred earlier today (April 9) when the Clueless star tweeted a little slander in the direction of Jay-Z and wife, Beyoncé.  The physically stunning, if not exactly politically astute, actress used social media to blurt out an attack that seems scripted by her brand new Republican friends. 

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Marco Rubio, a Republican and noted Tupac stan, is still mad that Beyoncé & Jay-Z’s got to travel to Cuba. Although the couple’s trip was approved by the Treasury Department, the Florida Senator is calling for the Obama administration to explain why they were allowed to travel to the island nation. 

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Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s celebration of their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba prompted a pair of Republican lawmakers to demand an investigation of the trip. Last Friday (April 5), Florida Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart sent a letter to the Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control at the Treasury Department inquiring about the superstars’ […]

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As you diehard Jay-Z and Beyoncé stans probably know, today (April 4) is the happy power Hip-Hop couple’s 5-year wedding anniversary. The two money makers were spotted in Cuba celebrating. 

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was announced dead today after a long bout with cancer. Vice President Nicolas Maduro delivered the news in a televised broadcast earlier this afternoon.

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President Obama addressed the nation Monday (Oct. 29), making it clear that his first priority is making sure people on the East Coast are safe. “Obviously, everyone is aware at this point that this is going to be a big and powerful storm,” he said from the White House press briefing room.

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Ozzie Guillen, the outspoken former manager of the Chicago White Sox, once again finds himself in the media spotlight after the eccentric baseball veteran spoke somewhat favorably of former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in a Time magazine interview. The Marlins suspended Guillen for five days after comments he made saying he admired the oppressive leader […]

On Saturday, September 26, a poll went online on Facebook asking users “Should Obama be killed?”   The users were given 4 choices: Yes. Maybe.  If he cuts my health care.  And no. The poll was part of an application which allowed an individual Facebook user to create it. Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt quickly pointed out […]

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The controversial president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, was confronted by a Fox News reporter after his speech to the United Nations last week. Speaking through a translator Chavez called the people from Fox News stupid, but not the reporter talking to him specifically. Although he did say the reporter’s mind had “many confusions.” At a […]