Did Usher Tip Strippers With Fake Money With His Face Printed On It?

Picture it: You’re a stripper and you’re all dolled up, shakin’ your butt for Usher Raymond of “You Got It Bad,” My Way,” “Yeah!” and dated-Chilli-from-TLC-once fame. Then you get ready to count your night’s earnings you realize that some of the cash was fake. Instead of the portraits of Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, or Alexander Hamilton, you see stoic portraits of Usher.

A Vegas-based dancer, who goes by @beel0ve on Instagram, claims to have received the fake currency—Ushbucks, if you will—after dancing for the singer. Her location is relevant: Usher is embarking on a Vegas residency starting this summer, and recently posted a photo of himself to social media in which he appears to be hitchhiking through the desert… with a suitcase full of Ushbucks. They appear to be the same Ushbucks the dancer received.


Prosecutors: No charges for officer in Capitol riot shooting

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors will not charge a police officer who shot and killed a woman as she climbed through the broken part of a door during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Authorities had considered for months whether criminal charges were appropriate for the Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran from San Diego. The Justice Department’s decision, though expected, officially closes out the investigation.

Prosecutors said they had reviewed video of the shooting, along with statements from the officer involved and other officers and witnesses, examined physical evidence from the scene and reviewed the autopsy results.

“Based on that investigation, officials determined that there is insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution,” the department said in a statement.

If a white woman is killed in the Capitol Building and no one throws a riot, is she really dead at all?


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An Oil Painting Banksy ‘Vandalized’ With a Comment on Climate Change Will Highlight Christie’s June Sales

A Banksy painting from 2009 will be a highlight of Christie’s June sales. The painting, which is from a series of oil paintings that were “vandalized” by the artist is estimated at between £3 million and £5 million ($4 million and $6.9 million).

Called Subject to Availability, the work is a Banksy intervention on version of an 1890 oil painting of Mount Rainier National Park by Albert Bierstadt, who was a member of the Hudson River School. The street artist inserted an asterisk onto his own version of the idyllic landscape painting, which includes the note: “subject to availability for a limited period.” The work, which was included in the artist’s legendary exhibition at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, will be one of the highlights of the Christie’s 20th century sale on June 30 in London.


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