2020

The Grammy Awards will cease using the term “urban” in its awards and language as part of the latest round of annual changes to its rules and guidelines, the Recording Academy announced Wednesday (June 10). Along with the changes, which include updates to the Best New Artist category, Latin, R&B and Rap fields, Nominations Review …

MTV won’t be serving any golden popcorn this summer: The network’s annual Movie & TV Awards, which were expected to air later this month, have been postponed indefinitely due to coronavirus concerns. Per our sister site Variety, which broke the postponement news, MTV has long been considering moving the annual awards show to December, instead of …

The Joe Biden campaign has announced its opposition to defunding police departments in the wake of widespread George Floyd demonstrations, advocating for reform measures and even additional funding instead. “As his criminal justice proposal made clear months ago, Vice President Biden does not believe that police should be defunded,” Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said in …

Snoop Dogg says he’s never voted — but this year he plans on changing that. “For many years it had me brainwashed thinking that you couldn’t vote because you had a criminal record,” the rapper — who has gun and drug convictions going back to his high school days, though he says his record’s been …

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) on Thursday told reporters she could have difficulty backing President Trump in the November elections. Murkowski made the admission after praising former defense secretary James Mattis’s criticism of Trump’s performance. “We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership,” Mattis told the Atlantic on Wednesday. Murkowski said Mattis’s remarks were “necessary …

2020 is normal in one regard: the NBA playoffs will not include the Knicks. As long as the proposed 22-team restart format to the NBA season gets approved by the Board of Governors as expected on Thursday, the Knicks’ season is over. The Post previously reported this as a very likely scenario. Instead, all the …

The Jets gained $11 million in salary cap space Tuesday as a chunk of Trumaine Johnson’s contract came off the books. The Jets designated Johnson as a post-June 1 cut when they released him in March. That allows them to spread the dead money from his contract over two years. He carries a $4 million …

Joe Biden on Monday suggested that police forces could train officers to shoot attackers in the legs in order to reduce potential fatalities. There is “the idea that instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there’s an unarmed person, coming at him with a knife or something, to shoot him in the leg …

50 Cent endorsed Andrew Cuomo for president over the weekend after one of the New York governor’s latest coronavirus briefings, which also addressed the demonstrations in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Fiddy posted on Instagram: “THIS IS THE GUY RIGHT HERE, He doesn’t want to but we need him to be president.” The post …

The ongoing riots in Minnesota hurt Senator Amy Klobuchar’s prospects for Democratic nomination as vice president, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D., S.C.) said on Friday. Klobuchar declined to bring charges against multiple Minneapolis police officers involved in shootings over the course of her seven-year tenure as attorney for Hennepin County. Minneapolis has seen four …