Punching

Turns out you can’t have whatever you like when it comes to dealing with rapper T.I. The Chainsmokers’ Andrew Taggart found that out the hard way when the “Bring Em Out” artist punched the DJ in the face after he apparently shocked T.I. with a kiss on the cheek. On Tuesday, the DJ duo’s official TikTok account shared a video with their 2.5 million followers that didn’t show the smack but detailed the events leading up to it. The video — captioned “My bad T.I. won’t happen again… unless?” — begins with footage of T.I. and…

A wind farm in McCook, Texas.Photo: Delcia Lopez/The Monitor (AP)Texas is on a roll—an energy use roll, that is. This week, amid sweltering temperatures, the power demand on the state’s grid soared to an all-time high on Wednesday, reaching 80,000 megawatts of demand. This marks the eleventh time this demand record has been broken this year alone.Texas consumers were allowed to keep their A/Cs cranking this week. But last week, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages the grid, asked consumers on…

Amber Heard vs Johnny Depp’s trial began on Monday, May 16 and a one-time close friend of Amber Heard recently testified. Heard’s friend revealed that Johnny Depp joked on their wedding day about being able to freely hit his wife. On Tuesday, the Fairfax, Virginia, courtroom heard the pre-recorded deposition of iO Tillett Wright from January. The witness said he’d also developed a friendship with Depp during the movie star’s relationship with Heard, and added that he’d never personally witnessed physical abuse. Wright…