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Drake is living very large this summer surrounded by superstar athletes, towering accolades and enough busty women to make his victory lap seriously top-heavy. The rapper uploaded an Instagram carousel from his second annual NOCTA Manor retreat where he invited a who's who to take over a New Jersey mansion. In one snap, Drake is suited up in matching gray sweats with Sexyy Red, Kevin Durant, Central Cee and Devin Booker. In another, Drizzy stands beneath massive banners celebrating his Billboard accolades.

Graphic details about the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez surfaced before her autopsy file became public. Now, more than a dozen Los Angeles County Medical Examiner employees have been ordered to explain whether they viewed restricted records without authorization.

Eminem's ex-wife Kim Scott unleashed a verbal barrage on police and paramedics as they tried to wheel her away following her suicide attempt. TMZ obtained the video from the police response to Kim's Michigan home. She was visibly furious as first responders strapped her to a gurney, dropping expletives and raging at nearly everyone within earshot. An officer was taken to a hospital because of a bite and exposure to Kim's blood.

Nearly 700,000 people live in Washington. We work, raise our children, serve in the armed forces, and pay federal taxes at a higher rate per person than residents of any state. Not one of us can cast a vote that counts in Congress. How did the capital of a self-governing nation come to deny self-government to the people who live in it? The answer runs through the city's history. When Black Washingtonians gained political power in 1867, Congress abolished the city's elected government and handed control to three presidential appointees. Direct federal rule lasted a century.