Billie Eilish apologizes for mouthing racial slur in newly resurfaced video
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Billie Eilish has apologized for mouthing a racial slur in a recently resurfaced video. Eilish addressed the video on Instagram, writing on her stories that when she used the word, she didn't know it was derogatory.
A compilation of old videos and some of Eilish's old tweets began circulating on social media last week, and in one clip, the singer mouths the lyrics to the song "Fish" by Tyler, the Creator. In the song, the rapper uses a slur against Asians. On Instagram, the 19-year-old said she was 13 or 14 when she was mouthing the lyrics to the song and she is now "appalled and embarrassed and want to barf" that she "ever mouthed along to that word."Rodeo star Spencer Wright and his wife are making end-of-life preparations for their 3-year-old son after he was found unconscious in a creek, a close family friend said in updates posted on social media and confirmed to CBS affiliate KUTV. The boy had been playing on his tractor before he ended up in the water and a mile downstream.
The launch of Boeing's star-crossed Starliner spacecraft on its first piloted test flight is slipping to at least June 1 to give engineers more time to assess a small-but-persistent helium leak in the capsule's propulsion system, and its potential impact across all phases of flight, NASA announced Wednesday.
Washington — As former President Donald Trump's "hush money" criminal trial in New York proceeds to closing arguments next week, the legal focus is moving south. His attorneys and longtime aide Walt Nauta appeared before Florida federal Judge Aileen Cannon, where they sparred with prosecutors during two contentious, day-long hearings on Wednesday.