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Bradley Cooper's Ex-Wife Jennifer Esposito Reacts to His Chemistry with Lady Gaga View photos Bradley Cooper's Ex-Wife Jennifer Esposito Reacts to His Chemistry with Lady Gaga More Jennifer Esposito has weighed in on her ex-husband Bradley Cooper‘s powerful connection with Lady Gaga. During Gaga and Cooper’s intimate Oscars performance on Sunday evening, David Spade snapped a photo of the highly-speculated  A Star Is Born  costars. While on stage, the on-screen lovers shared a piano bench, singing a stripped-down take on the track cheek-to-cheek before affectionately gazing into each other’s eyes, with Cooper wrapping his arm around Gaga’s waist. “Is there any chance these 2 aren’t f—?” he jokingly asked in the Instagram caption, prompting many users to share their thoughts. View photos David Spade's Instagram More One of those users included Espos...

Investors still have ways to save at tax time. Even with the tax-law changes going into effect with the 2018 tax year, investors still have ways to save on their federal tax bills, along with some pitfalls to avoid. In addition, investors can use tax season as an opportunity to address charitable giving and estate planning. As deadlines approach for 2018 contributions to qualified vehicles, such as individual retirement accounts, investors should take some time now to review whether or not they are eligible to contribute before April 15. In addition, with itemization more difficult than in the past, investors might want to consider vehicles such as a donor-advised fund. Check mutual fund distributions. At the end of every calendar year, some mutual funds make capital-gains distributions, a result of the fund selling shares of securities. Investors with taxable accounts must include these capital-gains distributions in their reported income for the y...

Last week, was the anniversary of the abduction of the saintly Leah Sharibu, the Dapchi school girl who was taken from her school with her colleagues by the dreaded Boko Haram in 2018. A sad anniversary for her and her loved ones, especially. Her parents had pleaded with the federal government not to allow her spend the anniversary in captivity, but the government could not do anything to return her home. While Leah’s colleagues were released following a quick intervention by the Buhari-led government, she was held back for holding onto her faith and refusing to be converted from Christianity to Islam. That act of courage has been appreciated by people of both faith. I call her a saint, for her dogged determined to live her faith despite the deathly circumstance she finds herself. She also represents a lesson in courage, and if there is a Nobel Price for courage she deserves it. Perhaps, she should be nominated by our National Assembly for the closest, which is the Nobel Peace pr...

Ferocious winds from a potent "bomb cyclone" roared across the eastern United States, and 550,000 homes and businesses were still without power Monday.  At midday, nearly 80 million people were under high-wind warnings or advisories across parts of 14 states, according to the National Weather Service. At least 1,200 flights were canceled Monday, according to Flight Aware. Wind gusts of up to 81 mph were reported from the storm, toppling trees and power lines. Giant chunks of ice spilled over the banks of the Niagara River across from Buffalo on Sunday, creating bizarre, 30-foot-tall ice mounds. At one point early Monday, 650,000 were without power. The storm was the same system that earlier had brought snow to Los Angeles and Las Vegas, record snow to Flagstaff, Arizona, a blizzard and bitter cold to the upper Midwest and floods and deadly tornadoes in the South. It is called a bomb cyclone because it rapidly intensifie...

Ward 8, Polling Unit 011, A and B at Maryland, Lagos as voting was underway.  G iven  my preceding accreditation as a Domestic Electoral Observer by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC), I took an early trip on Saturday 23rd February to a particular polling unit in Lagos, South-west Nigeria, to observe the rescheduled Presidential, senatorial and the House of Representative elections. On that day, at that time, and in that place, I met with young Nigerians mostly men sprinkled with a few women. They were from different tribes and states of the federation but united by a common objective- a sincere desire to engage as leaders best minds to help get the answers and deploy the resources we need to move into the future via a free, fair, and credible general election. Though I pretended not to be listening to the conversation, I, however, took a keen interest in one of the guys for he was open and honest in his presentations. Alas! I could not preten...