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From the Washington Post: Prisoner in van said Freddie Gray was ‘banging against the walls,’ document says
A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of the vehicle and believed that he “was intentionally trying to injure himself,” according to a police document obtained by The Washington Post.
The prisoner, who is currently in jail, was separated from Gray by a metal partition and could not see him. His statement is contained in an application for a search warrant, which is sealed by the court. The Post was given the document under the condition that the prisoner not be named because the person who provided it feared for the inmate’s safety.
The document, written by a Baltimore police investigator, offers the first glimpse of what might have happened inside the van. It is not clear whether any additional evidence backs up the prisoner’s version, which is just one piece of a much larger probe.
From
Rolling Stone:
The Empty Stadium Game: See the Surreal Pictures from Inside Camden Yards
Major League Baseball made of bit of odd, unfortunate history on Wednesday, when the Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox played to an empty house at Camden Yards – the result of riots that shook parts of the city earlier this week.
Citing public safety, fans were barred from attending the game, something MLB historian John Thorn says has never happened in more than a century of professional baseball. Though the press box inside Camden Yards was filled, the Associated Press reports that fans who showed up at the stadium were summarily turned away, and the stadium's bleachers and grandstands remained empty throughout the game. The official paid attendance was announced as zero, breaking a mark of 6, set during an 1882 game in Worcester, Massachusetts.
From
Salon:
Dear white Facebook friends: I need you to respect what Black America is feeling right now
Dear White America,
It is somewhat strange to address this to you, given that I strongly identify with many aspects of your culture and am half-white myself. Yet, today is another day you have forced me to decide what race I am — and, as always when you force me — I fall decidedly into “Person of Color.”
Every comment or post I have read today voicing some version of disdain for the people of Baltimore — “I can’t understand” or “They’re destroying their own community” or “Destruction of Property!” or “Thugs” — tells me that many of you are not listening. I am not asking you to condone or agree with violence. I just need you to listen. You don’t have to say anything if you don’t want to, but instead of forming an opinion or drawing a conclusion, please let me tell you what I hear:
I hear hopelessness
I hear oppression
I hear pain
I hear internalized oppression
I hear despair
I hear anger
I hear poverty
If you are not listening, not exposing yourself to unfamiliar perspectives, not watching videos, not engaging in conversation, then you are perpetuating white privilege and white supremacy. It is exactly your ability to not hear, to ignore the situation, that is a mark of your privilege. People of color cannot turn away. Race affects our lives every day. We must consider it all the time, not just when it is convenient.
From
BBC News:
Japan PM Abe offers 'deep repentance' over war with US
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed "deep repentance" over Japan's role in World War Two, during an historic address to the US Congress.
He offered his "profound respect" and "eternal condolences" for US soldiers who died in the conflict.
Mr Abe is on a state visit to the US to discuss a wide-ranging trans-Pacific trade deal.
He and US President Barack Obama have also agreed on new guidelines for defence co-operation.
But his speech to the joint session of Congress was scrutinised for comments on Japan's aggression in World War Two. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the conflict.
From the
New York Times:
French School Deems Teenager’s Skirt an Illegal Display of Religion
A secondary school in northeastern France has sent a 15-year-old student home twice in the last two weeks for wearing a long skirt that the principal judged was “an ostentatious sign” of the girl’s Muslim faith.
The case has lit up social networks in France and infuriated many of the country’s Muslims, who see the school system’s censure of the girl as discriminatory.
A law adopted in 2004 forbids elementary and secondary school students to wear visible signs of their religious affiliation to school, including skullcaps for Jews, noticeable crosses for Christians and head scarves for Muslims. School officials, though, are increasingly construing the ban to apply to articles of clothing like long skirts and headbands, in ways that appear to vary from school to school.
“It’s a huge problem,” said Elsa Ray, a spokeswoman for the Collective Against Islamophobia in France.
From
The Atlantic:
The Dangers of a Constitutional 'Right to Dignity'
If the Supreme Court strikes down same-sex marriage bans, it may well do so on the grounds that they violate the dignity of gay couples. And although proponents of marriage equality may cheer a decision along these lines when it is delivered, the expansion of the constitutional right to dignity may produce far-reaching consequences that they will later have cause to regret.
The oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Tuesday made clear that Justice Anthony Kennedy’s biggest contribution to the gay-marriage debate is his expansion of constitutional protections for the right to dignity. Justice Kennedy invoked the word “dignity” five times in the oral arguments; and other lawyers invoked it 16 times. It was central to the opening statements of Solicitor General Don Verrilli. “The opportunity to marry is integral to human dignity,” he began. “Excluding gay and lesbian couples from marriage demeans the dignity of these couples.” It was also one of the first words uttered by the plaintiff’s lawyer, Mary L. Bonuato. “If a legal commitment, responsibility and protection that is marriage is off limits to gay people as a class,” she said, “the stain of unworthiness that follows on individuals and families contravenes the basic constitutional commitment to equal dignity.”
Although the word dignity has appeared in more than 900 Supreme Court opinions, Justice Kennedy, as Kenji Yoshino of NYU has noted, has been especially drawn to it. He has referred to “dignity” in cases ranging from partial-birth abortions to prisons. As Yoshino puts it, “When Justice Kennedy ascribes dignity to an entity, that entity generally prevails.” Kennedy’s recognition of the dignity interests of LGBT couples has been influential in persuading lower court judges to strike down bans on same-sex marriage. But although Kennedy’s description of the dignitary interests of LGBT couples is inspiring, and it accurately describes their social experience, the roots of the right to dignity in constitutional text, history, and tradition are harder to discern.
From the
Los Angeles Times:
Despite progress, still too few Latinos admitted to UC, report says
Despite progress in gaining admission to the University of California, Latino students in the state still are underrepresented compared with their overall population, and are heavily concentrated at three of the system’s 10 campuses, according to a new report.
The report released Wednesday by the Campaign for College Opportunity comes a year after UC officials announced that for the first time in history more Latinos than whites were offered freshman admission for fall 2014.
The study delves deeper into the numbers and finds cause for concern: The admission rate for Latinos is 9 percentage points lower than for whites and has declined 28% since 1994.
That compares with a 21% decline in that period for all applicants.
And while the number of Latino applicants to flagship campuses UC Berkeley and UCLA rose 350% in the last two decades, admission to those two campuses has remained fairly flat, rising by less than 2%.
From
The Guardian:
Supreme court asks if execution drugs are like being 'burned alive at the stake'
The prospect of death row inmates being “burned alive at the stake from inside” in the absence of effective anesthesia was invoked at the US supreme court on Wednesday as the justices wrestled with the nationwide crisis caused by the European-led boycott of lethal injection drugs.
Anger spilled from the nine justices from both sides of the court’s ideological divide. The more conservative wing vented their disapproval at those they called “abolitionists” who they accused of trying to overturn the death penalty by stealth, while the more liberal judges attacked states such as Oklahoma for using a new drug protocol that had left prisoners “writhing in pain” in executions that took up to two hours to complete.
The fraught oral argument, the first hearing of its sort at the supreme court in seven years, encapsulated the highly charged nature of the debate around capital punishment in America today. It indicated that the ethical and legal conundrum induced by a boycott of medical drugs being sold to US corrections departments has now percolated right to the pinnacle of the country’s judicial system.
From
NPR:
Nepal Death Toll Tops 5,000; At Least 1.4 Million Need Food Aid
More than 5,000 people are confirmed dead from Saturday's earthquake just outside Kathmandu, Nepal. Nearly 11,000 more were injured, according to Nepal's National Emergency Operation Center.
From Kathmandu, NPR's Kirk Siegler reports that strong tremors are continuing:
"We had an official bulletin last night, telling people that it was OK for them to return home and sleep indoors tonight. Shortly after that bulletin went out, we had a 4.8 aftershock. So, things still very much evolving here — and a lot of scared and nervous people."
The U.S. State Department confirmed late Monday that four Americans were among those killed in the earthquake, all at an avalanche-struck Mount Everest base camp. The fatalities included a Colorado-based documentary filmmaker and a Google executive, the AP reported.
The BBC reports that 1.4 million of the 8 million people affected need food aid, citing the United Nations saying that there also are severe shortages of body bags and medical supplies.
From
CNN:
After Baltimore riots, some leaders slam 'thug' as the new n-word
A term used by President Barack Obama and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to characterize rioters has given new life to a debate over the word "thug."
"Of course it's not the right word, to call our children 'thugs,'" Baltimore City Councilman Carl Stokes told CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront." "These are children who have been set aside, marginalized, who have not been engaged by us. No, we don't have to call them thugs."
"Just call them n-----s. Just call them n-----s," he said. "No, we don't have to call them by names such as that."
The Rev. Jamal Bryant drew the same comparison Wednesday morning on CNN. The President and the mayor are wrong, he said. "These are not thugs, these are upset and frustrated children."
From
Al Jazeera:
The fall of Saigon: How Vietnam ended up in the US orbit
Two stores in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, still popularly known as Saigon, told the story of modern Vietnam one Sunday morning in March.
In a souvenir shop foreign tourists haggled over some of Vietnam’s most iconic T-shirts: Those with the image of Ho Chi Minh, the country’s long-dead father of communism, for instance, and those with the hammer and sickle icon. But down the street in a newly opened Apple store, a crowd of young locals all vied to ask questions about the outlet’s most coveted item: the iPhone 6. And a lucky few with disposable income walked out with their new mobile devices in hands, beaming.
While the hammer and sickle and Uncle Ho’s image may still adorn T-shirts it sells to foreign tourists, Vietnam’s heart throbs for all things American, especially Apple. In 2014, in fact, Vietnam became its hottest market. In the first half of the 2014 fiscal year alone, iPhone sales tripled in this country, far surpassing sales growth in China and India.
But it is not just iPhones, of course, that exemplify America’s powerful presence in Vietnam 40 years after the war ended. Facebook entered Vietnam’s market four years ago and at one point was adding a million signups a month. As of October, it had 30 million users, and that’s out of 40 million Vietnamese who have access to the Internet.
From
NBC News:
FDA Approves Double-Chin Shot
Coming soon to a plastic surgeon near you -- a shot to get rid of that extra neck fat. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an injection designed specifically to reduce unsightly double chins.
The FDA said Wednesday it had approved Kybella, a version of a naturally occurring compound called deoxycholic acid, which helps the body absorb fats.
"Treatment with Kybella should only be provided by a licensed health care professional, and patients should fully understand the risks associated with use of the drug before considering treatment," FDA's Dr. Amy Egan said in a statement.
"It is important to remember that Kybella is only approved for the treatment of fat occurring below the chin, and it is not known if Kybella is safe or effective for treatment outside of this area."
From
SF Gate:
Economy skids to a crawl in 1st quarter
Repeating an all-too-familiar pattern, the economy slowed to a crawl in the first quarter of 2015, weighed down by a weaker trade performance, falling business investment and still-cautious consumers.
At 0.2 percent, the annualized growth rate last quarter was better than the winter wipeout in the first quarter of 2014, when the economy contracted at a 2.1 percent rate. But the figures released Wednesday by the Commerce Department confirm other signals in recent weeks that the economy, which was hit again by harsh weather in large portions of the nation, began 2015 by treading at water at best.
“The U.S. economy stumbled badly in the first quarter,” said Scott Anderson, senior vice president and chief economist at Bank of the West in San Francisco. “Modest growth in the fourth quarter of 2014 turned into virtually no growth in the first quarter of 2015.”
The anemic showing was led by two areas that were especially weak: net exports and business investment.
From
CNBC:
Market digs for next clue for data dependent Fed
The markets quickly shifted focus from the Fed meeting to the upcoming April jobs report, as the next possible source of clues on the timing of Fed interest rate hikes.
The Fed wound down its meeting Wednesday with a statement that failed to give the market any new guidance on when it might start raising interest rates, but it also did not rule out action at any upcoming meetings, including June. The Fed gave a nod to soft first-quarter growth, but added it was affected by temporary factors.
That set traders talking about how the April jobs report May 8 will be the next key data point that could influence the Fed, particularly after March's stunningly low 126,000 nonfarm payroll. Jobs data always looms larger than most other releases, including Thursday's personal consumption expenditure data, a Fed favorite. Income and spending is released at 8:30 a.m. ET, as is the PCE deflator, the Fed's preferred inflation measure.
From the
San Jose Mercury News:
Microsoft opens Windows 10 to iPhone, Android apps
Microsoft hopes to get more people using the next version of its Windows software on all kinds of devices, by giving them access to many of the same apps they're already using on Apple or Android phones.
In a major strategy shift, a top executive told an audience of several thousand software developers Wednesday that Microsoft will release new tools to help them quickly adapt the apps they've built for Apple or Android gadgets, so they will work on smartphones, PCs and other devices that use the new Windows 10 operating system coming later this year.
On the first day of the company's annual software conference, other executives showed off more uses for Microsoft's holographic "augmented reality" headset, the HoloLens -- although it's not yet for sale. They also announced the official name for a new web browser, called "Edge," that they promised will be faster and more useful than the Internet Explorer that's been a Microsoft mainstay for 20 years.
From
USA Today:
Apple Watch component found defective, report says
A defective key component of the Apple Watch prompted Apple to limit availability of the watch, the WSJ.com reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
The part, made by one of two key suppliers, involved the Watch's taptic engine. That's the part that jolts the user's wrist, say when he or she has been sitting too long, or another notification comes in.
Apple relies on haptic feedback or touch in lieu of noisy rings to provide users with notifications that are less intrusive.
From
Slate:
There's an Epidemic of Doctors Who Bully Nurses, Throw Things at Them, and Threaten Patient Health
A doctor-bully epidemic is jeopardizing both nurses and patients. In news reports and hospital break rooms, stories abound of physicians berating nurses, hurling profanities, or even physically threatening or assaulting them. Doctors are shoving nurses in the operating room; throwing stethoscopes, scissors, pens, or surgical instruments. In Maryland, a surgeon yelled, “Are you stupid or something?” at a nurse and hurled a bloody surgical sponge at him. A surgeon threw a scalpel at a Virginia nurse, who told me, “He was angry because I didn’t have a rare piece of equipment he needed, so he endangered me and several others by throwing a tantrum.”
Many things surprised me during the reporting for my new book, The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital, which follows the stories of four nurses and is based on interviews with hundreds of other nurses across the country. But this disturbing problem was one of the more shocking discoveries when nurses pulled back the curtain. Most nurses have witnessed or been the victims of doctor bullying. A 2013 Institute for Safe Medication Practices survey found that in the year prior, 87 percent of nurses had encountered physicians who had a “reluctance or refusal to answer your questions, or return calls,” 74 percent experienced physicians’ “condescending or demeaning comments or insults,” and 26 percent of nurses had objects thrown at them by doctors. Physicians shamed, humiliated, or spread malicious rumors about 42 percent of the surveyed nurses. A New York critical care nurse told me, “Every single nurse I know has been verbally berated by a doctor. Every single one.”
From
The Hollywood Reporter:
The Epic Saga of Joel Silver: Money Struggles, Feuds and (Another) Second Chance
On the evening of Saturday, April 4, Joel Silver, the storied and controversial producer of The Matrix and Lethal Weapon series, attended Robert Downey Jr.'s birthday party at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica with a wealthy friend in tow. It was quite a dazzling Hollywood event, with Steely Dan and Duran Duran entertaining guests, including Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Edward Norton. Silver had told associates that after a long search, he had found a wealthy investor who would help him launch a rejuvenated Silver Pictures. Few in attendance at the party, however, recognized his guest.
A couple of weeks later, on April 27, that person was revealed to be press-shy Canadian billionaire Daryl Katz, the 53-year-old chairman and CEO of the Katz Group of Companies, who has made an undisclosed investment in Silver's company. As Silver's friends hoped and his many enemies feared, the flamboyant producer had found a fresh source of financing at a time when many believed the prospects were bleak. For now, it appears, Silver can keep on living — albeit likely scaled back — as he did in the glory days, when Warner Bros. provided him with a rich deal and frequent advances running into tens of millions of dollars.
From
Variety:
David Letterman Opens up About His ‘Late Show’ Exit
The outgoing “Late Show” host denied the suggestion that he felt like younger latenight personalities Jimmys Fallon and Kimmel pushed him out of his job, but confessed that being aware of his age made him feel out of place. “I’m 68,” he said. “If I was 38, I’d probably still be wanting to do the show. When Jay was on, I felt like Jay and I are contemporaries. Every time he would get a show at 11:30, he would succeed smartly. And so I thought, This is still viable — an older guy in a suit. And then he left, and I suddenly was surrounded by the Jimmys.”
Still, Stephen Colbert was named Letterman’s replacement only a week after he announced his retirement — a decision-making process Letterman was not part of. “Just as a courtesy, maybe somebody would say: “You know, we’re kicking around some names. Do you have any thoughts here?” But it doesn’t bother me now. At the time, I had made the decision [to leave] and I thought, OK, this is what comes when you make this decision,” Letterman said.
This isn’t to say that he wasn’t fearful of losing his job before — particularly after the 2009 scandal that erupted when he announced that someone was blackmailing him with threats of revealing that he’d slept with some of his female staff members.
“Looking at it now, yes, I think they would have had good reason to fire me. But at the time, I was largely ignorant as to what, really, I had done. It just seemed like, OK, well, here’s somebody who had an intimate relationship with somebody he shouldn’t have had an intimate relationship with. And I always said, “Well, who hasn’t?” to myself. But then, when I was able to see from the epicenter, the ripples, I thought, yeah, they could have fired me. But they didn’t. So I owe them that.”
From
/Film:
‘The Last Witch Hunter’ Trailer: Vin Diesel Battles Witches in Modern-Day New York
urious 7 was a record-breaking success, but to paraphrase that old Biblical saying, man cannot live on Fast and Furious movies alone. So Vin Diesel is shaking things up a bit with The Last Witch Hunter, in which he plays — yup — the last witch hunter.
Immortal and kind of unhappy about it, Diesel’s Kaulder is locked in a centuries-long battle against a witch queen (Julie Engelbrecht) who wants to unleash a plague on humanity. Fortunately, he’s got some help in the form of Rose Leslie, of Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey fame. Elijah Wood and Michael Caine also star.
The trailer plays like a mash-up of various other properties. There’s a bit of Riddick in Diesel’s weary warrior character, and a dash of Game of Thrones between the presence of Rose Leslie and what looks like a weirwood tree. The premise has shades of I, Frankenstein and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, though The Last Witch Hunters looks less ridiculous than either of them.
From
Latino Review:
Rumor: Asa Butterfield Is Marvel’s Top Choice for ‘Spider-Man’
Just a few days ago it was reported that Nat Wolff, Asa Butterfield, Tom Holland, Timothee Chalamet and Liam James were all being considered for the highly coveted role of Spider-Man.
We all know that the role needs to be cast soon since it has been confirmed that we will see Peter Parker in “Captain America: Civil War” in May 6, 2016 before he stars in the “Spider-Man" solo film slated forJuly 28, 2017.
So who is the front-runner? Asa Butterfield Leads the Bunch. We have reached out to Asa’s reps who have given us a “no comment.” We have also reached out other industry sources who have confirmed that he is indeed the front runner including one who believed that he already had bagged the role, by stating:
"Marvel had liked him since day one."
From
TIME:
Watch the Trailer for Woody Allen’s New Movie Irrational Man
The trailer for Woody Allen’s upcoming film, Irrational Man, shows the relationship between a philosophy professor played by actor Joaquin Phoenix and his student Emma Stone. Phoenix’s character appears troubled, and possibly has an alcohol problem. “You suffer from despair,” Stone’s character tells him. But the new trailer for the film, which opens in U.S. theaters in July, also hints at a transition for the professor, who finds new purpose.
From
Entertainment Weekly:
'Revenge' to end after four seasons
Emily Thorne’s quest for vengeance is over: Revenge will end its run after four seasons, EW has learned exclusively.
The upcoming finale, slated to air Sunday, May 10, at 10 p.m. ET on ABC, will serve as the end of the series. “We can officially tell our fans that this will be the end of the story,” executive producer Sunil Nayar tells EW. “We’ve been talking to the network and we all just wanted to make sure that we felt very confident. Now that everybody has seen the finale—which is fabulous—everybody understands that as much as we all adore the show, it has hit exactly the mark it needed to to end. This is the series finale of Revenge that will be airing in a couple weeks.”
Revenge made a splash in its 2011 debut, with 10 million viewers tuning in and a 3.3 in the 18-49 demographic, becoming a strong performer for ABC on Wednesday nights. Eventually, the series was shifted to Sundays and saw a ratings decline in later seasons. A recent outing drew 4.45 million viewers and 1.0.
From the
A.V. Club:
2 Law & Order spin-offs spoiled a winning TV formula
NBC is in the midst of an age that could be accurately described as a Dick Wolf renaissance. Wolf, the godfather of the contemporary police procedural, has surged back into the pole position at NBC. His Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. are doing such solid numbers, a third Chicago-set medical show is currently in development. Wolf’s recent hits have even sparked talks of reviving the dormant flagship Law & Order series after NBC cancelled it in 2010, when it was on the cusp of eclipsing Gunsmoke as the longest-running primetime drama with a 21st season. Wolf’s current Chicago-based franchise is fascinating chiefly because a series born of a similar notion—to inject Wolf’s storytelling sensibility in a non-Manhattan setting—led to the partial collapse of one of the most successful television franchises in history.
Law & Order: Los Angeles wasn’t exclusively to blame for decimating the franchise, but it became emblematic of the process by which Wolf’s once-mighty cop-and-robbers empire crumbled. NBC picked up the left-coast incarnation of Wolf’s iconic procedural with a straight-to-series order in early 2010. By that point, another sputtering spin-off, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, had already been shipped off to USA, where it managed to churn out original episodes until its cancellation in 2011 after 10 seasons. Meanwhile, the mothership series was sagging with Jeremy Sisto and Anthony Anderson as one of the least compelling detective teams in the show’s history. Only Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was still thriving, but it was veering toward a cliff as a reportedly botched salary negotiation led to the departure of Christopher Meloni, one half of the show’s fan-favorite duo. Los Angeles was supposed to be the gust of fresh air the decrepit L&O franchise needed; instead it wound up severely bruising the brand at a crucial point in its history.
From
E! Online:
This High School Student Was Kicked Out of Prom for Wearing a Backless Dress—Was the Outfit Too Revealing?
One mom is sticking up for her teenager after she was kicked out of her high school prom for wearing a backless dress.
According to Connie Briceno, her 18-year-old daughter Mireya Briceno completely followed all dress codes when she attended the dance wearing a blue dress with white polka-dots.
"The guidelines specifically said backless dresses are acceptable," the Michigan mom told Yahoo Parenting. "The rules stated the dress needed to adhere to the ‘fingertip' rule—meaning the dress had to hit below your fingertip when standing with her arms by your side."
She added, "They also said no midriff showing, which to me means stomach. And they said the words ‘backless dresses are acceptable.'"
From
Rolling Stone:
Watch Ryan Adams' Redemptive Cover of 'Summer of '69'
The Ryman never forgets.
It's been more than 12 years since Ryan Adams infamously ejected a fan from the Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville, tossing him a $40 refund on his way out the door. The accused's crime? Shouting out repeated requests for Bryan Adams' "Summer of '69" — a harmless joke, perhaps, but a definite distraction during a show that otherwise featured little more than Adams' voice, his acoustic guitar and occasional cameos from Gillian Welch and David Rawlings.
Four years later, Adams came back to the Ryman, this time with the Cardinals in tow. Looking to bury the hatchet, the band delivered two hours of Deadhead-driven country-rock, stopping only when a heckler in the second row lobbed a string of taunts at the frontman. "Keep talking shit, motherfucker," Adams responded, stopping his performance of Jacksonville City Night's "Games" midway through the first verse. "Come up here, then; talk it to my face. Get up here! I dare you."
The heckler stayed in his seat, and the rest of the show unfolded as it was meant to, with no further refunds or reprimands needed. The gig couldn't erase lingering memories of that first Ryman show, though. It was the heckle heard 'round Music City, and Adams couldn't seem to do anything — including getting sober — to put it to rest.
Until last night.
From
Billboard:
Wiz Khalifa Rules Hot 100, Jason Derulo Hits Top 10
See You Again' reigns again, while Derulo's 'Want to Want Me' dances into the top tier. Plus, The Weeknd's 'Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)' crowns Radio Songs.
Wiz Khalifa's Furious 7 soundtrack hit "See You Again," featuring Charlie Puth, tallies a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Meanwhile, Jason Derulo jumps into the top 10 with "Want to Want Me" and The Weeknd takes over atop the Radio Songs chart with "Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)."