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Rihanna loves her body and is not ashamed of showing it off or even posing nude on magazine covers. But what does her boyfriend Drake think about her barely-there outfits? HollywoodLife.com has the exclusive scoop.

Drake has already began to tame Rihanna, but when it comes to her sexy outfits or lack there of, he’s not trying to stop her, a source close to the rapper told HollywoodLife.com exclusively. He thinks she’s “flawless!” Who doesn’t?!

Rihanna’s Naked Pics — Drake’s Reaction’s Like Ours: ‘ She’s Flawless’

Some men would probably not be too happy if there woman was going around town, flaunting their body on mag covers and in photo shoots. But like we said, Drake is not one of those men! The 27-year-rapper thinks Rihanna is “flawless” and has no intention of asking his boo of covering up her half-naked body when she’s out in public or approached to do photo shoots.

“Drake would never complain or criticize Rihanna‘s sex appeal because in his mind, she’s FLAWLESS!” a source connected to the rapper exclusively revealed to HollywoodLife.com. “Nobody does it better than her. She’s grown and sexy, with a banging body and if she wants to wear her birthday suit all day long, he’s down with that.”

Rihanna Bares Full Nipples On ‘LUI’ Cover

Ri Ri headed out to a Brooklyn Nets game on April 25 in a tight white tank, and didn’t even bother wearing a bra — showing her nipples! She also landed the cover of Vogue Brazil, and showed them again in the inside spread! However, the most risqué one ever could be her most recent — the cover of French adult entertainment mag LUI, where she’s completely topless on the cover and not covered up at all. In the inside of the mag — she has no bottoms on!

But Drake doesn’t sweat it.

“He’s been infatuated with her from day one and now, thankfully, he’s the luckiest man on the planet,” the source added.

What do you think, HollywoodLifers? If you were Drake, would you care about Ri Ri’s super sexy shoot? Should Rihanna stop? Let us know!

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Witnesses to a Botched Execution - New Yorker (blog)

On Tuesday night, just after 8 P.M., a series of chilling tweets from an Associated Press reporter in Oklahoma City, Bailey Elise McBride, began to circulate widely. Before joining the AP, McBride was a high-school teacher. She writes a blog called PBR & Pearls, on which she logs inspirations and interests; most recently, a “mild obsession” with the band Tiny Ruins. At work, her subject matter tends to be darker. In addition to covering a mysterious case of dead birds dropping from the sky and the financial complications prompted by a bridge closure, McBride was one of the reporters following Oklahoma’s plans to execute two death-row inmates, on the same night, by lethal injection.

Both executions, of Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner, were to be carried out by midnight, and, as the Fordham law professor and death-penalty expert Deborah Denno told the Los Angeles Times, “The world was watching.”

Oklahoma had run out of lethal-injection drugs for the same reason that other death-penalty states have also run out of them. As Jeffrey Toobin described in a Talk of the Town piece, the sole American manufacturer of sodium thiopental, a key ingredient in lethal injections, stopped making the drug in 2011. Death-penalty states turned to European manufacturers, but it became impossible to import the drugs to the United States, owing to the European Union’s commitment to wipe out capital punishment worldwide. Left with dwindling supplies, states shifted their execution protocols toward the improvisational, recombining drugs and seeking the services of compounding pharmacies, which are loosely regulated by the federal government.

Where are states getting these chemicals? And how are they tinkering with them? These are excellent questions, but new secrecy laws allow certain states, Oklahoma among them, to remain completely silent on the matter. Constitutional challenges based on Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment have failed. Lethal injection—supposedly ethically superior to hanging, gas, electrocution, and firing squad—has been employed with untested and controversial drug combinations that are bought, with legally protected secrecy, from companies that want anonymity. Texas is refusing to reveal the source of its newest compounded drugs; Georgia considers the names of its suppliers a “state secret.” Secrecy laws involving lethal injection have been attacked, unsuccessfully, in Missouri and Louisiana.

Executions, meanwhile, have continued, some of them with horrific results. In January, the Oklahoma inmate Michael Lee Wilson said, during his execution, “I feel my whole body burning.” An inmate in Ohio spent ten minutes “struggling and gasping loudly for air,” NPR reported, and made “snorting and choking sounds.” It took nearly thirty minutes for him to die.

For the execution of Clayton Lockett, Oklahoma used, for the first time, the midazolam (a sedative) in combination with vecuronium bromide (which paralyzes the respiratory system) and potassium chloride (which stops the heart). The drugs are delivered intravenously, in that order. The suffocating pain caused by the second and third drugs would be agonizing without the sedative effects of the first.

Oklahoma’s secrecy laws make it impossible to know anything beyond the names of the ingredients injected into the condemned prisoner. The state has declined to provide the public with reasons for selecting a particular drug cocktail, or with any details about the drugs themselves, or about the supplier. The state reportedly buys the drugs with petty cash, to make the purchases more difficult to track and, therefore, harder to legally challenge.

What is known, though, is that, ten minutes into Lockett’s execution, a prison official told a doctor, “Go ahead and check to see if he’s unconscious.”

After checking, the doctor said, “Mr. Lockett is not unconscious.”

“I’m not,” Lockett said.

Courtney Francisco, a reporter for KFOR-TV, in Oklahoma City, was one of the witnesses at the execution. She told the BBC that Lockett, strapped to the gurney, was moving his arms and legs and mumbling, “as if he was trying to talk.”

McBride’s tweets told the rest of the story:

“He was conscious and blinking, licking his lips even after the process began. He then began to seize.”

“At 6:33 the doctor said Lockett was unconscious and then at 6:34 Lockett began to nod, mumble move body.”

(Witnesses reported that Lockett seemed to try to sit up. At one point he said, “Man.” Observers heard a prison official say, “Something’s wrong,” and then the blinds on the observation window were closed, and the witnesses were led out.)

“Checking to see the status of Lockett and whether he is alive or dead or in transport to the hospital.”

“Sedated 7 minutes into execution, at that time began pushing 2nd and 3rd drugs. Some concern drugs were not having an effect.”

“7:06 inmate Clayton Lockett suffered heart attack and died.”

“Prison Director has stayed execution for (the second inmate) Charles Warner for 14 days.”

“Lockett’s vein blew during the execution preventing the chemicals from effectively entering his body.”

One of Lockett’s lawyers, a witness, later told reporters, “It looked like torture.”

Lockett was executed for a crime he committed in 1999: he shot a nineteen-year-old girl named Stephanie Neiman with a sawed-off shotgun, and then he watched as a pair of accomplices buried her alive. Charles Warner, the inmate who was to be executed after Lockett, was convicted of raping and killing an eleven-month-old girl in 1997. “This is not about whether these two men are guilty; that is not in dispute,” Ryan Kiesel, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Oklahoma office, said in a statement. “Rather, it comes down to whether we trust the government enough to allow it to kill its citizens, even guilty ones, in a secret process.”

After defense lawyers argued for disclosure about the drugs, the Oklahoma Supreme Court agreed to a temporary stay, but the state legislature threatened to bring impeachment proceedings against the justices, and Mary Fallin, the Oklahoma governor, threatened to fight the delay; the execution went forward as planned.

Fallin spent today addressing the fallout, which included a statement from the White House saying the execution had “fallen short of humane standards.” Fallin stayed Warner’s execution for fourteen days and has ordered a full review of execution procedures, “to determine what happened and why.”

McBride, meanwhile, has fielded media calls from around the world—her tweets from the prison were retweeted or favorited more than two thousand times. Before signing off for the night, she made it clear that she had not been tweeting about the execution as it happened—she reported the events after the fact, according to the AP, based on information from prison authorities and from her colleague Sean Murphy, who was one of the witnesses. “Live-tweeting an execution seems unnecessary and kind of sick to me,” McBride told her readers, just before 10 P.M. “After what happened, I felt like it was important for people to know.”

Above: Clayton Lockett. Photograph courtesy Oklahoma Department of Corrections/AP.

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Real Madrid power batters Bayern before speed ends tiki-taka's rule - The Guardian (blog)

Cristiano Ronaldo finishes off a lightning-quick break to score Real Madrid's third goal at Bayern Munich. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters

The victory was extraordinarily more comprehensive, but this tactical battle was incredibly similar to the first leg, where Bayern Munich dominated possession without offering any penetration, and Real Madrid attacked at speed. In Madrid, the Spanish side's best two chances had come from ruthless counterattacking play – Karim Benzema putting Real ahead on the break, and Cristiano Ronaldo missing a golden chance to double the lead in similar circumstances. Here, the pattern was simply more extreme.

That was logical considering the slight differences in situation and lineups – whereas Bayern had played cautiously in the first leg, here they required a victory and necessarily played more adventurously. Thomas Müller was fielded as a supplementary striker, whereas Guardiola had previously used three midfielders, while the return of Gareth Bale ensured Real Madrid had yet another devastating weapon on the break.

But if the pattern was predictable, the sheer one-sidedness was remarkable. Real were rampant, and there were warning signs from the opening minutes, with Angel di María overlapping Ronaldo on the break in an almost identical situation to the movement shown by Fábio Coentrão for Real's goal in the first leg. Bayern started by playing more directly than we've come to expect, but then retreated into their shell and offered slow, patient and rather predictable passing football. Real simply sat deep in two banks of four, waited for Bayern moves to break down, then attacked at tremendous speed.

The use of that midfield quartet meant Ronaldo was able to play upfront alongside Benzema, and at transitions Bayern were simply unable to cope two-against-two at the back, with Jérôme Boateng and Dante lacking midfield protection. As Bayern were using a high defensive line, Manuel Neuer was forced to sweep up outside his box, twice getting his clearances wrong, allowing first Bale and then Ronaldo to attempt long-range efforts at an empty net – both were off target. When even Neuer, the ultra-dependable goalkeeper widely considered the best in the world, was unable to perform simple tasks which are usually second nature, it was clear Bayern were in for a difficult evening against Real's pace.

As vulnerable as Bayern were to counterattacking, however, their terrible set-piece defending was their most crucial failure. Twice Sergio Ramos headed into the net when unmarked, which represents a worrying regression from last season, when Bayern got their noses in front against Spanish opposition, Barcelona, at this stage because of their own set-piece power.

Indeed, it was something of a role reversal. Bayern were now playing the fruitless tiki-taka while their opponents powered their way in front from set plays, then turned a commanding lead into a rout with brilliant counterattacking. Real's third goal summed it up, with Benzema, Bale and Ronaldo motoring forward instantly when possession was won, constructing a lightning-fast break based around speed and selflessness.

Bayern had little response. There was surprisingly little invention from the midfield zone, with Arjen Robben and Franck Ribéry the only players willing to take risks in possession. Guardiola's half-time change must be the first time in history a manager has introduced a holding midfielder, Javi Martínez, in place of a striker, Mario Mandzukic, when requiring five goals. The Spaniard at least provided the Bayern centre-backs with some much-needed protection, while Müller moved forward to offer more varied movement than Mandzukic upfront.

But Bayern were never going to score five goals, and did not manage any – a testament to Real's brilliant defensive structure.

Carlo Ancelotti's side defended excellently as a unit, with their physically imposing but occasionally rash centre-backs protected by a highly disciplined midfield quartet. Arguably Ancelotti's most impressive achievement is fielding a midfield featuring four naturally creative players – Bale, Luka Modric, Xabi Alonso and Di María – without suffering from any defensive issues. Alonso's suspension from the final is a significant blow to Real, although it's at least an excuse for Ancelotti to bring some physicality into the midfield, assuming the long-term injury absentee Sami Khedira is fit to return.

Regardless of whether Atlético Madrid or Chelsea progress to face Real in the final, it will be a contest between two counterattacking specialists, rather than possession hoarders. This certainly isn't the death of tiki-taka – but it's becoming impossible to deny that reactive football is currently dominant.

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Rihanna's topless photo removed by Instagram: report - New York Daily News

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Rihanna may get booted from Instagram if she doesn't cover up.

The international bad girl is known for her scandalous snapshots that almost always expose plenty of skin. But the photo sharing site says she's gone too far and is now threatening to shut her account down permanently if she doesn't behave, reports TMZ.

The debate began when the "Unapologetic" singer posted topless photos from a recent shoot for French skin magazine Lui on her account, which is followed by over 12.8 million fans.

Shortly after posting the nearly naked pic, Instagram reportedly took it down due to their nudity violation rules. The site administrators emailed Rihanna and warned her to discontinue posting snapshots of herself wearing barely there clothing, sources told TMZ.

The 26-year-old pop star responded to their threats by posting a funny Photoshopped picture showing a slightly plumper Rihanna in what looks like a bad high school senior class picture.

"Rih's Next Magazine Cover If It Was Up To Instagram," the silly pic's caption read, with the singer adding a sad face emoticon in the caption.

Her next response -- posting the erotic photographs on Twitter. She also added several animated variations of the Lui cover on Instagram. 

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Clayton Lockett writhed and groaned. After 43 minutes, he was declared dead - The Guardian

We had been warned that the execution of Clayton Lockett, a convicted murderer and rapist who had shot his 19-year-old victim and ordered a friend to bury her alive, would take longer than usual.

Jerry Massie, a spokesman for Oklahoma's corrections department, explained to the group of witnesses permitted to watch the procedure that the first drug to be used under the state's new lethal injection protocol would take some time to have its desired effect.

“Don't be surprised," he said.

In the event, the warning rang hollow. It would be a full 43 minutes after the drug was administered before Lockett died – and only after he had thrashed on the gurney, writhing and groaning – as it became clear that the procedure had been botched.

The grim scenes were the culmination of an unprecedented legal and political dispute in Oklahoma that has propelled the state into a nationwide tussle over the growing secrecy surrounding the drugs used by states to kill prisoners.

The governor of Oklahoma, Mary Fallin, had even publicly challenged the authority of a panel of judges who temporarily put a halt to the execution, in order to consider the inmates' challenges over the constitutionality of the secrecy. The court backed down, and denied the prisoners' claims. Then, in a move that attracted international attention, the state scheduled the two executions on the same night, two hours apart, in its first double execution since 1937.

It was a decision that backfired badly.

The execution of Lockett was scheduled for 6pm. A group of 12 selected media witnesses, including the Guardian, were shuttled to the white-walled Oklahoma state penitentiary in McAlester from a nearby visitor's building. We waited in the prison law library, as inmates banged on their cells and hollered to mark the event.

When officials were ready, we were taken to a viewing area, where we sat in brown metal chairs on a blue-grey carpet against the back wall. Lawyers and state officials sat in front of us. The family of Lockett's victim were in separate viewing room.

When Clayton Lockett was asked if he had any final words, he said 'no.' Photograph: AP

The beige curtain separating the execution chamber from the viewing area was opened and the state prison warden, Anita Trammell, stood over 38-year-old Lockett. She asked him if he had any final words. He said "no."

The process began at at 6.23pm, but Lockett – as we had been warned – did not appear immediately to fall unconscious. Beneath a white sheet pulled to his neck, the restrained prisoner blinked and pursed his lips. At first he looked straight ahead, but after four minutes, he turned towards the witness area. By 6.30pm, his eyes were closed and his mouth slightly open, but when an official stood over him to check, it was clear something was wrong. "Mr Lockett is not unconscious," Trammell said.

At 6.33pm, Lockett was checked again and declared to be sedated. But then, during the following minutes, Lockett lurched forward against his restraints, writhing and attempting to speak. He strained and struggled violently, his body twisting, and his head reaching up from the gurney. Sixteen minutes after the execution began, Lockett said "Man," and Trammell decreed the blinds be lowered. Before they fell, Lockett's right arm was checked.

Then, in a gesture that seemed to echo Oklahoma’s fierce commitment to secrecy in the way it carries out lethal injections, the curtains were drawn over the execution chamber, obscuring the gruesome spectacle from public view. Officials picked up prison phones and left the room.

After a few minutes, the corrections department director, Robert Patton, came to the viewing room. "We’ve had a vein failure in which the chemicals did not make it into the offender," he told the assembled group, which included lawyers for the condemned prisoner, as well as 12 journalists.

He said the second execution – Charles Warner, who was convicted of the rape and murder of 11-month-old Adrianna Waller – would not go ahead that night.

It was unclear whether Lockett was even dead.

The witnesses left the room, and Patton then appeared before reporters gathered outside the prison, where he attempted to explain what had happened. Lockett, he said, had been administered with all three drugs in the disputed protocol. When it became clear that the drugs were not having the desired effect, the prison doctor investigated and determined that the vein into which the drugs were being administered had “blown”.

Patton said he then spoke with the prison warden and notified the state attorney general's office and governor's office that he was going to halt the execution. It was only then, 43 minutes after the process had began, that Lockett suffered what "appears to be a massive heart attack" and died inside the execution chamber, away from the eyes of witnesses.

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YOU DECIDE: Was Naya Rivera fired from 'Glee'? - The Wire

Today in celebrity gossip: Conflicting reports from behind the scenes of Fox's non-hit musical series have rocked Hollywood; meanwhile Prince Harry, Olivia Munn, and Joel Kinnaman are now all single.

Not since the Black Dahlia murder has a mystery so captivated the entertainment world as this week's was-she-or-wasn't-she-fired saga of Glee's Naya Rivera. Now, it may have been a few years since you've even heard the word "Glee," but just as background, please know that Glee is a TV show that currently airs on Fox much like an abandoned freighter might continue floating undetected around our vast oceans. Anyway, as you'll recall if you haven't completely blocked the series out of your memory entirely, Naya Rivera plays a second-string character named Santana, a former cheerleading mean girl who never quite got along with Lea Michele's protagonist Rachel. As it turns out, that tension nicely parallels how the two actresses feel about each other IRL, as rumors have been swirling for a while now that they straight-up hate each other. It was only weeks ago that a (possibly Rivera-planted) story in TMZ painted Lea Michele as a disruptive primadonna on the set, but diametrically opposing reports have also suggested that Naya Rivera has been causing drama behind the scenes after splitting from her rapper fiancé Big Sean only to see him have a rumored fling with Lea Michele. Then yesterday word spread that Naya River had been straight-up FIRED from Fox's primetime autotuned scream-sing showcase and, tellingly, had been completely written out of this season's final episodes. Us Weekly reports that an unspecified "major altercation" happened between the two actresses resulting in the firing, but reps for Fox categorically denied that Rivera had been fired: "Any reports or rumors circulating that Naya Rivera was let go or fired from Glee are absolutely untrue. End of story." E! Online parrots that line, but confirms that Rivera was indeed written out of those episodes, quoting a source that assured them that Rivera "not being in the finale has nothing to do with Lea." So with all of these conflicting reports, what are we regular citizens to do? Ugh, it's such a powerless feeling, just feeling so tiny in the face of these gossip behemoths who refuse us answers. It's like we are tilting at windmills sometimes. That is a literary reference, I'm not sure to what or what it even means, but it feels right. Fine, I guess we will just have to decide FOR OURSELVES what is going on with Naya Rivera. Was she fired or wasn't she? YOU TELL ME. [Page Six, Page Six]

Love is dead, just FYI. Prince Harry has broken up with Cressida Bonas, who is a human woman named Cressida Bonas. What dramatic reason could have hastened the parting of these love birds of nearly two years? "He found her too needy and it just wasn’t working out." Ladies, if you are dating a prince, please learn from this scenario. Don't be too needy and also make sure it isn't not working out. This could make all the difference! [Page Six]

How many times can love possibly be murdered this day, you ask? At least once more: Olivia Munn and Joel Kinnaman have broken up after two years of living the dream. While it would be reasonable to assume that Munn broke up with Kinnaman after finally getting around to watching The Killing, that wasn't the real reason they're dunzo: "It had a lot to do with distance. He’s back filming in Toronto, and she’s in LA for good." So you see, no amount of Skype cybersexin' could save this steamy affair. Anyway, rest in peace, the concept of love. You had a good run. [Page Six]

Don't freak out, but Kurt Cobain is dead. Technically it happened many years ago, but that doesn't mean we can't still talk about it like it's a fresh wound. The thing that's newly noteworthy, though, is that the Seattle Police Department have been slowly releasing photos from the scene of Cobain's suicide and yesterday they released "a handwritten note from Cobain, found in his wallet, about Courtney Love." See, his official suicide note famously referred to his then spouse as "a goddess of a wife who sweats ambition and empathy," but this handwritten note is far more negative, containing a rude parody of his wedding vows:

Do you Kurt Cobain take Courtney Michelle Love to be your lawful shredded wife even when she's a bitch with zits and siphoning all yr money for doping and whoring...

Uhhh, okay. So that certainly implies that maybe Cobain and Love's marriage wasn't going so great at the time of his suicide. OR, you know, he wrote it in jest to tease her playfully. Who even knows? Is it even worth speculating about something that happened so long ago between two people of unsound brains? So far Love has remained uncharacteristically silent about this bit of retroactive gossip, but it pretty much adds fuel to that whole Courtney-killed-Kurt conspiracy. Man, who even knows? [Pitchfork]

Seeing as it already has upwards of 4.7 million views, it's very likely that you've already watched this clip from The Tonight Show in which Jimmy Fallon lip-sync battles with Emma Stone. But on the off-chance that you haven't, get in on this, friend. Here are seven minutes that you won't ever want or need back:

Here is The Big Bang Theory's Kaley Cuoco wearing a brassiere made out of her husband:

Here is some truly stirring poetry written by our generation's Maya Angelou, Beyoncé:

And finally, Game of Thrones' resident moppet-turned-assassin knows just how to brighten your day:

It worked! Thank you, Maisie Williams.

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Rihanna -- Cover Your Nips, Or Else ... Says Instagram - TMZ.com

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Rihanna loves to be nekkid ... A LOT ... but Instagram says her displays of public nudity go way too far -- and is now threatening the singer within an inch of her exposed nipples.

Rihanna posted topless snaps Tuesday from her photo shoot with Lui, a French skin mag -- and within an hour IG yanked 'em down ... because they violated rules against nudity.

Our Instagram sources tell us Rihanna got an email that basically warned her ... keep your clothes on or risk having your account permanently shut down.

But like a bikini trying to contain her boobs -- IG couldn't stop RiRi ... and she just posted the banned nudes on Twitter instead.

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Clayton Lockett writhed and groaned. After 43 minutes, he was declared dead - The Guardian

We had been warned that the execution of Clayton Lockett, a convicted murderer and rapist who had shot his 19-year-old victim and ordered a friend to bury her alive, would take longer than usual.

Jerry Massie, a spokesman for Oklahoma's corrections department, explained to the group of witnesses permitted to watch the procedure that the first drug to be used under the state's new lethal injection protocol would take some time to have its desired effect.

“Don't be surprised," he said.

In the event, the warning rang hollow. It would be a full 43 minutes after the drug was administered before Lockett died – and only after he had thrashed on the gurney, writhing and groaning – as it became clear that the procedure had been botched.

The grim scenes were the culmination of an unprecedented legal and political dispute in Oklahoma that has propelled the state into a nationwide tussle over the growing secrecy surrounding the drugs used by states to kill prisoners.

The governor of Oklahoma, Mary Fallin, had even publicly challenged the authority of a panel of judges who temporarily put a halt to the execution, in order to consider the inmates' challenges over the constitutionality of the secrecy. The court backed down, and denied the prisoners' claims. Then, in a move that attracted international attention, the state scheduled the two executions on the same night, two hours apart, in its first double execution since 1937.

It was a decision that backfired badly.

The execution of Lockett was scheduled for 6pm. A group of 12 selected media witnesses, including the Guardian, were shuttled to the white-walled Oklahoma state penitentiary in McAlester from a nearby visitor's building. We waited in the prison law library, as inmates banged on their cells and hollered to mark the event.

When officials were ready, we were taken to a viewing area, where we sat in brown metal chairs on a blue-grey carpet against the back wall. Lawyers and state officials sat in front of us. The family of Lockett's victim were in separate viewing room.

When Clayton Lockett was asked if he had any final words, he said 'no.' Photograph: AP

The beige curtain separating the execution chamber from the viewing area was opened and the state prison warden, Anita Trammell, stood over 38-year-old Lockett. She asked him if he had any final words. He said "no."

The process began at at 6.23pm, but Lockett – as we had been warned – did not appear immediately to fall unconscious. Beneath a white sheet pulled to his neck, the restrained prisoner blinked and pursed his lips. At first he looked straight ahead, but after four minutes, he turned towards the witness area. By 6.30pm, his eyes were closed and his mouth slightly open, but when an official stood over him to check, it was clear something was wrong. "Mr Lockett is not unconscious," Trammell said.

At 6.33pm, Lockett was checked again and declared to be sedated. But then, during the following minutes, Lockett lurched forward against his restraints, writhing and attempting to speak. He strained and struggled violently, his body twisting, and his head reaching up from the gurney. Sixteen minutes after the execution began, Lockett said "Man," and Trammell decreed the blinds be lowered. Before they fell, Lockett's right arm was checked.

Then, in a gesture that seemed to echo Oklahoma’s fierce commitment to secrecy in the way it carries out lethal injections, the curtains were drawn over the execution chamber, obscuring the gruesome spectacle from public view. Officials picked up prison phones and left the room.

After a few minutes, the corrections department director, Robert Patton, came to the viewing room. "We’ve had a vein failure in which the chemicals did not make it into the offender," he told the assembled group, which included lawyers for the condemned prisoner, as well as 12 journalists.

He said the second execution – Charles Warner, who was convicted of the rape and murder of 11-month-old Adrianna Waller – would not go ahead that night.

It was unclear whether Lockett was even dead.

The witnesses left the room, and Patton then appeared before reporters gathered outside the prison, where he attempted to explain what had happened. Lockett, he said, had been administered with all three drugs in the disputed protocol. When it became clear that the drugs were not having the desired effect, the prison doctor investigated and determined that the vein into which the drugs were being administered had “blown”.

Patton said he then spoke with the prison warden and notified the state attorney general's office and governor's office that he was going to halt the execution. It was only then, 43 minutes after the process had began, that Lockett suffered what "appears to be a massive heart attack" and died inside the execution chamber, away from the eyes of witnesses.

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A Possible Set List for Jay Z and Beyonce's 'On the Run Tour' - ABC News

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Jay Z and Beyonce have announced that they'll be touring together for the "On the Run Tour" beginning this summer.

Rumors had been wild all month that the super couple would be touring together for the first time. They took the stage together in February for the DIRECTV Super Bowl Party in New York City, as well as the Grammy Awards.

The question that immediately followed the announcement was "What will they perform together?"

Glad you asked - Here is a quick rundown of the songs Jay and Bey have recorded together over the years!

1 - "'03 Bonnie and Clyde" - off Jay Z's "The Blueprint 2 (2002)"

2 - "Hollywood" - off Jay Z's "Kingdom Come (2006)"

3 - "Lift Off" - off "Watch the Throne (2011)"

4 - "Part II (On the Run)" - off "Magna Carta Holy Grail (2013)"

5 - "Tom Ford" - off "Magna Carta Holy Grail (2013)"

6 - "Crazy in Love" - off "Dangerously in Love (2003)"

7 - "That's How You Like It" - off "Dangerously in Love (2003)"

8 - Deja Vu" - off "B'Day (2006)"

9 - "Upgrade U" - off "B'Day (2006)"

10 - "Drunk in Love" - off "Beyonce (2013)"

(Applause, applause, applause - fans scream 'Encore, encore, encore' Then, Jay and Bey walk back out on the stage and ...)

Encore

11 - "Encore" by Jay Z, with Beyonce on the vocals (Crowd goes nuts!!!)

12 - "Glory" by Jay Z, with daughter Blue Ivy on the track and Beyonce again handling some lyrics.

Could this be the set list? We think so!

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Firefox 29 with revamped Australis interface rolling out - PCWorld (blog)

After nearly two years of sneak peeks and previews, Mozilla on Tuesday rolls out Firefox 29, the first official version of the open source browser with Mozilla's new Australis interface. "It’s not an interface adjustment or tweak. It’s not a bug fix. It’s a complete re-envisioning of Firefox’s user experience, and it’s been brewing for the past five years," Jennifer Morrow, senior user experience designer at Mozilla, wrote in a blog post on her personal site.

The new look borrows somewhat from Google Chrome, including rounded tabs and a menu icon in the upper right corner. (The image up top shows the old Firefox interface on the left side of the split, and the new Australis UI on the right.)

Nevertheless, the new browser still maintains a Mozilla-esque look with the oversized back button, a separate search box, and default menu options in the toolbar.

We've covered Mozilla's new design decisions previously, but here are the highlights:

• The Orange Firefox button is gone in Windows and replaced with a "hamburger" icon in the upper right corner
• Tabs are now rounded and only the current active tab is outlined
• The menu in the upper right corner is simpler and uses a drag-and-drop interface for easy customization

That last feature is perhaps the biggest change with Firefox 29. Now that the Windows 7-era orange menu button is gone, Firefox's menu uses large—dare I say touchable?—icons above the text.

This results in a streamlined default menu with only the basics available, such as the ability to open a new or private window, save a webpage, print, history, full screen mode, find in page, options, add-ons, and developer tools.

Anyone who wants to change the default menu can easily add or take away options by clicking the Customize option at the bottom of the menu. This takes you to a special tab where you can add options to the menu or the toolbar such as open file, email link, tab groups, or an RSS subscribe button. Drag-and-drop editing for the toolbar is a longstanding feature of Firefox, but the ability to edit the menu is new with Australis.

Customizing the new "Australis" menu in Firefox. (Click to enlarge.)

This tab also provides options to show or hide toolbars such as the bookmarks bar or show and hide the title bar at the top of the window. Anyone who prefers to have text menu options at the top of the window can still get them by right-clicking the main toolbar and selecting Menu bar from the contextual menu.

Firefox 29 is expected to be available Tuesday for download from Mozilla's site. Current Firefox users can force the update right now by clicking Help > About Firefox from the browser's main menu.

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Craig Ferguson to leave 'Late Late Show' - Entertainment Weekly

More changes in CBS’ late-night lineup: Less than two weeks after it was announced that Stephen Colbert would replace David Letterman on The Late Show, Craig Ferguson will now leave The Late Late Show, the CBS talker he’s hosted for 10 years.

Ferguson told his studio audience Monday that he will step down in December. (Watch his announcement below.) Ferguson’s contract, like Colbert’s with Comedy Central, expires in 2015.

He had this to say in a statement: “CBS and I are not getting divorced, we are ‘consciously uncoupling,’ but we will still spend holidays together and share custody of the fake horse and robot skeleton, both of whom we love very much.”

“During his 10 years as host, Craig has elevated CBS to new creative and competitive heights at 12:30,” CBS chair Nina Tassler said in a statement. “He infused the broadcast with tremendous energy, unique comedy, insightful interviews and some of the most heartfelt monologues seen on television. Craig’s versatile talents as a writer, producer, actor and comedian speak to his great days ahead. While we’ll miss Craig and can’t thank him enough for his contributions to both the show and the Network, we respect his decision to move on, and we look forward to celebrating his final broadcasts during the next eight months.”

The Scotland-born host earned Emmy and Peabody noms for hosting The Late Late Show, an irreverent program that was meant to buck the traditional late-night format. Ferguson eschewed a co-host and went with a talking robot, and his studio “band” was hidden behind a curtain. Two guys in a horse costume would routinely run on stage to get laughs.

Ferguson’s brand of talk made it fun for celebrities who had the gift of gab and hard for those who weren’t particularly funny. Ferguson doesn’t like to prepare questions and would routinely go in unexpected directions with his guests, often with great results.

In addition to hosting the show and performing stand-up comedy, Ferguson has written two books: Between the Bridge and the River, a novel, and American on Purpose, a memoir.

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Firefox 29 Launches With Major Redesign, Firefox Account Integration - TechCrunch

Mozilla is launching its most important release of Firefox in a very long time today. After almost two years of working on its Australis redesign, the company is now finally ready to bring it to its stable release channel.

After loading it for the first time, chances are you’ll be slightly confused. This is Firefox’s most radical redesign since it moved to its rapid release schedule a few years ago. The new version looks significantly more like Chrome than the old Firefox. It features the same three-bar menu on the right and rounded tabs, for example. At the same time, though, it keeps the separate search form — something most other browsers have now done away with.

“The point of the redesign is to adapt the design to how modern users engage with the web,” Mozilla VP for Firefox Johnathan Nightingale told me earlier this month. In total, the team made 1,300 user interface and bug fixes since it first publicly introduced the Australis redesign about a year ago.

Users will likely pick up on the user interface similarities with Chrome, and some of those reactions might not be exactly positive, but Nightingale didn’t seem too worried about this. “Google didn’t invent simplicity,” he told me. “We do lots of things differently.”

The redesign, which touches many more aspects of the browser than just its user interface, is meant to give people the ability to fully customize their browsing experience. “Outside the core stuff, everybody uses the browser differently,” he noted. Some people, for example, never use the back button (which seems weird, but maybe they use keyboard shortcuts).

One of the main aspects of this release was to make the browser more customizable. Firefox always features extensive customization options, but those were always somewhat hidden, especially for mainstream users who may not always dig into the advanced menus of their browsers.

With this redesign, the “Customize” button is now always present in the new Firefox menu. After clicking on that button, the browser switches into the customization mode and you can then move around virtually all of Firefox’s user interface elements and organize the browser according to how they work with it. Customizing is now as easy as dragging and dropping elements to wherever you want them.

Other changes that are meant to adapt the browser to all kinds of types of users include the fact that Firefox now completely de-emphasizes unselected tabs. They basically fade in the background, which allows those of us with lots of open tabs (and maybe lots of app tabs, too), to focus on the ones we are looking at.

Besides these changes, Firefox now also features an improved bookmarking mechanism, which uses an almost un-Firefox-like animation when you star a page (the star then drops into the bookmark list button to show you where you can find it again).

As part of this update, Firefox now also uses Mozilla’s Firefox Accounts for syncing settings and bookmarks between machines. Instead of its rather arcane older syncing system, which mostly avoided using any cloud services for storing your information, the new system relies on Mozilla’s online services. Previously, Nightingale told me, many users didn’t even know Firefox had a built-in syncing feature — and those who did often didn’t use it simply because it wasn’t exactly easy to use. The new Firefox Accounts uses the usual combination of email and password instead of random codes.

Nightingale tells me that the team is already looking at how it can use Firefox Accounts in other parts of the application. The new accounts are obviously already integrated deeply into Firefox OS and it’s coming to Firefox on Android today, too.

Given its fast release cycle, why did it take Mozilla so long to release the redesign? It has been making the rounds in some form or another for about two years now, after all. Nightingale stressed that a lot of the earlier design was hardcoded, and in order to make the customization features work, the team had to rewrite large parts of the interface to make it more flexible. It had to test this, too, and in the end, it wanted to make sure that the new user tour Firefox users will see today worked well.

Mozilla is obviously going through an interesting period in its history. It’s trying to move fast into the mobile space and today’s release is one of its most important. At the same time, much of what it’s trying to do has recently been overshadowed by the discussion around the short CEO tenure of Brendan Eich. Today’s release will likely put the focus back on Mozilla’s main mission and product again, but this is also likely to be a somewhat controversial release.

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Firefox 29 with revamped Australis interface rolling out - PCWorld (blog)

After nearly two years of sneak peeks and previews, Mozilla on Tuesday rolls out Firefox 29, the first official version of the open source browser with Mozilla's new Australis interface. "It’s not an interface adjustment or tweak. It’s not a bug fix. It’s a complete re-envisioning of Firefox’s user experience, and it’s been brewing for the past five years," Jennifer Morrow, senior user experience designer at Mozilla, wrote in a blog post on her personal site.

The new look borrows somewhat from Google Chrome, including rounded tabs and a menu icon in the upper right corner. (The image up top shows the old Firefox interface on the left side of the split, and the new Australis UI on the right.)

Nevertheless, the new browser still maintains a Mozilla-esque look with the oversized back button, a separate search box, and default menu options in the toolbar.

We've covered Mozilla's new design decisions previously, but here are the highlights:

• The Orange Firefox button is gone in Windows and replaced with a "hamburger" icon in the upper right corner
• Tabs are now rounded and only the current active tab is outlined
• The menu in the upper right corner is simpler and uses a drag-and-drop interface for easy customization

That last feature is perhaps the biggest change with Firefox 29. Now that the Windows 7-era orange menu button is gone, Firefox's menu uses large—dare I say touchable?—icons above the text.

This results in a streamlined default menu with only the basics available, such as the ability to open a new or private window, save a webpage, print, history, full screen mode, find in page, options, add-ons, and developer tools.

Anyone who wants to change the default menu can easily add or take away options by clicking the Customize option at the bottom of the menu. This takes you to a special tab where you can add options to the menu or the toolbar such as open file, email link, tab groups, or an RSS subscribe button. Drag-and-drop editing for the toolbar is a longstanding feature of Firefox, but the ability to edit the menu is new with Australis.

Customizing the new "Australis" menu in Firefox. (Click to enlarge.)

This tab also provides options to show or hide toolbars such as the bookmarks bar or show and hide the title bar at the top of the window. Anyone who prefers to have text menu options at the top of the window can still get them by right-clicking the main toolbar and selecting Menu bar from the contextual menu.

Firefox 29 is expected to be available Tuesday for download from Mozilla's site. Current Firefox users can force the update right now by clicking Help > About Firefox from the browser's main menu.

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Tornado Hits an Arkansas Street Particularly Hard - ABC News

Mark Wade and his family heard the dire warnings on TV and the tornado sirens, and were prepared to ride out the storm in their closet when a neighbor across the street on Vilonia's Aspen Creek Drive yelled out: "Come over! We're going in the storm cellar!"

So Wade, his wife and 3-year-old son joined 10 other people and seven dogs in a cramped underground shelter Sunday evening. When they emerged, their homes were gone. All gone. Stripped to the foundation.

"If we hadn't gone to that cellar I don't know if we would be here," Wade, 28, said Monday, picking through the debris of what was once his home.

The half-mile-wide tornado carved an 80-mile path of destruction through the Little Rock suburbs. Twisters or powerful straight-line winds were blamed in at least 17 deaths Sunday — 15 in Arkansas. The tornado outbreak continued Monday, with over a dozen more deaths in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee.

Most of the dead in Arkansas were killed in their homes in and around Vilonia, population 3,800. Firefighters on Monday searched for anyone trapped amid the piles of splintered wood and belongings strewn across yards. Hospitals took in more than 100 patients.

The tornado that hit Vilonia and nearby Mayflower was probably at least an EF3 on the 0-to-5 EF scale, which means winds greater than 136 mph, National Weather Service meteorologist Jeff Hood said.

Among the ruins was a new $14 million intermediate school that had been set to open this fall in Vilonia, a community also terrorized by a twister just three years and two days earlier.

But the epicenter of the tornado was Aspen Creek Drive, an upper-middle-class street of well-kept brick homes and friendly neighbors, an American dream kind of place.

Until Sunday.

Complete lists of the dead haven't been released, nor their addresses, but residents of the street said at least four of those killed lived there.

One of them was Daniel Wassom, a 31-year-old father of two. Wassom, who served in the Air Force, was huddled in a hallway of his home with his wife, Suzanne, and daughters Lorelei, 5, and Sydney, 7, neighbors and a relative said. At the height of the tornado, a large piece of lumber crashed toward the family.

Dan Wassom shielded Lorelei, taking a fatal blow to his neck, said Carol Arnett, Dan Wassom's grandmother.

Lorelei suffered a shoulder injury and was hospitalized. Suzanne Wassom was hospitalized with a concussion, her aunt, Sherry Madden, said.

Dan Wassom's final act of heroism didn't surprise relatives.

"Dan always put his family first," Arnett said, wiping away tears.

Madden said the family had just returned home from church, where the girls were fighting over who got to sit next to dad.

"He was the best dad," Madden said.

A few houses down, neighbors Deanna Noble, 32, and Regina Chavez, 31, couldn't find their trucks. Their homes were shredded and their vehicles were missing, perhaps blown hundreds of yards away.

Both tried clicking their truck remotes to see if they heard a distant honk. Nothing.

Officials said the death toll could have been worse if residents hadn't piled into underground storm shelters, safe rooms and fortified community shelters after listening to forecasts on TV and radio, getting cellphone alerts or calls or texts from loved ones, and hearing sirens blare through their neighborhoods.

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Craig Ferguson to leave 'Late Late Show' - Entertainment Weekly

More changes in CBS’ late-night lineup: Less than two weeks after it was announced that Stephen Colbert would replace David Letterman on The Late Show, Craig Ferguson will now leave The Late Late Show, the CBS talker he’s hosted for 10 years.

Ferguson told his studio audience Monday that he will step down in December. (Watch his announcement below.) Ferguson’s contract, like Colbert’s with Comedy Central, expires in 2015.

He had this to say in a statement: “CBS and I are not getting divorced, we are ‘consciously uncoupling,’ but we will still spend holidays together and share custody of the fake horse and robot skeleton, both of whom we love very much.”

“During his 10 years as host, Craig has elevated CBS to new creative and competitive heights at 12:30,” CBS chair Nina Tassler said in a statement. “He infused the broadcast with tremendous energy, unique comedy, insightful interviews and some of the most heartfelt monologues seen on television. Craig’s versatile talents as a writer, producer, actor and comedian speak to his great days ahead. While we’ll miss Craig and can’t thank him enough for his contributions to both the show and the Network, we respect his decision to move on, and we look forward to celebrating his final broadcasts during the next eight months.”

The Scotland-born host earned Emmy and Peabody noms for hosting The Late Late Show, an irreverent program that was meant to buck the traditional late-night format. Ferguson eschewed a co-host and went with a talking robot, and his studio “band” was hidden behind a curtain. Two guys in a horse costume would routinely run on stage to get laughs.

Ferguson’s brand of talk made it fun for celebrities who had the gift of gab and hard for those who weren’t particularly funny. Ferguson doesn’t like to prepare questions and would routinely go in unexpected directions with his guests, often with great results.

In addition to hosting the show and performing stand-up comedy, Ferguson has written two books: Between the Bridge and the River, a novel, and American on Purpose, a memoir.

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Emma Stone Takes on Jimmy Fallon in Lip Sync Battle (Video) - Hollywood Reporter

Always up for challenge, Emma Stone was keen to take on Jimmy Fallon in a Lip Sync Battle on Monday, giving the Tonight Show host a run for his money with a passionate performance before he pulled out a very lively dance to "Mr. Roboto."

Once the microphones were set aside, Stone shared her new Internet and TV obsessions: Pinterest, The Only Way Is Essex, and Made in Chelsea. "I am definitely watching that show."

Having filmed The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in New York City, the star went on to reveal that the crew "were blowing up cars in the street, and New Yorkers just wanted to get to work and would walk right by. They had to hire people to react!"

STORY: Donald Sterling's Racist Rant Dominates Late-Night Shows

Fallon also pranked unsuspecting New Yorkers by having them shout at a cardboard cutout of former Yankees player Robinson Cano in frustration over him leaving for the Seattle Mariners.

Cano later went on the show and pledged his respect for Jay Z, having signed with his management agency earlier this month. "He is a great guy, that is a guy you want on your side."

Jimmy Kimmel had Jennifer Lopez on his show, where the singer talked about the pressure of being late for her album deadline, revealing that if she doesn’t get it in on time, her manager, Benny Medina, shouts at her.

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When it comes to her other job, on American Idol, the "Jenny From the Block" singer said, "I do love it, I have a great time on that show," adding that Harry Connick Jr. "is not a mean guy, he's a pussycat."

Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss opened up about her talent for singing Jay Z songs. "The only time my musical talent will come out is in a karaoke situation," said the actress, confessing that she recently did a rendition of "I've Had the Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing "complete with lift" while partying in a karaoke bar in the Valley with co-star Jon Hamm.

After discussing being an English actor in an Irish play on Broadway, Daniel Radcliffe told Seth Meyers of his very American fascination with football.

"I am a secret American now. I love NFL, and I have gotten into the hockey playoffs," said the Harry Potter star, admitting he is obsessed with Fantasy Football, studies the mock draft and named his fantasy team "Barkevious Mingo's Mum" after a Cleveland Browns player.

David Letterman tried to make guest Joel McHale nervous about his upcoming hosting duties at the White House Correspondents’ dinner. "It seems pretty easy," said the Community star. "I am just going to wing it and see what happens."

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Rita Ora Ditches The Heavy Make-Up As She Joins Calvin Harris For NYC ... - Entertainmentwise

Rita Ora is normally pictured wearing her trademark red lippy on nights out, but the singer ditched the heavily made up look last night as she headed out for dinner in New York with beau Calvin Harris.

Despite being pictured earlier on in the day rocking a completely different look to appear on the Watch What Happens: Live show, Rita decided to swap the monochrome for a long orange and black coat to head out with her man, with the pair both looking less than impressed as they were surrounded by paparazzi and onlookers.

Rita is currently in NYC to promote her latest single I Will Never Let You Down and she was snapped arriving at the studio ahead of her TV appearance with her other half, with Ora laughing at split rumours on the show, the Mail Online reports, telling host Andy Cohen that they are very much still together.

Rita rocks more of an au natural look as she heads to dinner with Calvin (FameFlyNet UK)

The Hot Right Now singer previously opened up about her romance with Calvin to Elle magazine.

"There are so many things. The fact that he got something out of me that I never thought I had. Yes, like falling in love. I just didn’t think I had it. I’d never experienced it before. And I was just like in the wilderness, thinking, 'Will it ever happen?’" Rita said.

The couple have been dating since May 2013 and collaborated on Ora's latest single together.

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Speaking about why her latest material is different to her previous tracks, Rita said: "I didn’t know what the f*ck I was doing on my first album, let’s be honest. I was a kid having the time of my life.

"And I made a party album – party and bullsh*t. This time, I’m still having a great time, but I’m in a great, loving place. Now I want people to see you can have fun and be in love at the same time."

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Players want Donald Sterling ejected from the NBA family - CNN

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• NEW: Players hope Donald Sterling will have to give up Los Angeles Clippers
• NEW: Opposing NBA coach calls for Clippers fans to boycott playoff game Tuesday
• NBA commissioner will speak about investigation on Tuesday
• State Farm, airline Virgin America cut ties to the L.A. Clippers

(CNN) -- When Commissioner Adam Silver speaks to the media Tuesday about the NBA's findings in the investigation into racist remarks attributed to Clippers owner Donald Sterling, the league's players hope it includes the most severe penalties.

"When a hint of cancer is shown, you have to cut it out immediately, and I feel that's where the players are today," Kevin Johnson, the former all-star who is the chairman of the National Basketball Players Association's executive committee, told CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront."

Johnson said the players trust that the new commissioner, on the job for less than three months, will find the right penalties for Sterling, who has owned the Clippers for almost 30 years.

"They don't think he's worthy to be an owner," said Johnson, also the mayor of Sacramento, "so whether there's a sanction that includes a suspension, whether there's a sanction that includes a hefty fine ... the players feel very strongly that he's not fit to be an owner and a part of this NBA family."

The NBA has scheduled a news conference for 2 p.m. ET Tuesday.

Monday brought a slew of sponsors distancing themselves from the team and a host of other owners and team officials condemning the comments attributed to Sterling, who has never been disciplined by the league.

On Saturday, the website TMZ posted a 10-minute recording of a conversation, reportedly between Sterling and his girlfriend, whose legal name is V. Stiviano. According to the website, the conversation occurred on April 9.

On the recording, the man and woman argue about photos posted to Instagram in which she appears with African-Americans. The man says he doesn't want the woman bringing any black people to games with her.

Sterling has not commented publicly on the scandal. Team President Andy Roeser issued a statement this weekend that said "what is reflected on that recording is not consistent with, nor does it reflect (Sterling's) views, beliefs or feelings." He suggested that the recording was an attempt by Stiviano to "get even" with Sterling.

Speculation on possible punitive actions

Silver has promised the league would give Sterling due process but would act quickly.

It is unclear whether Silver could order Sterling to sell the Clippers, a team he bought for $12 million in 1981 and is now worth $575 million, according to Forbes magazine. A lifetime suspension and fine of at least $1 million is more likely, experts say.

The commissioner might announce an indefinite suspension while the investigation continues, CNN's Rachel Nichols reported.

Opinion: Sterling has to go

"He (eventually) could suspend Donald Sterling maybe for a year, maybe even two years or even indefinitely," Nichols said. "And the idea and the hope would be that if he made him so uncomfortable, if he was removed from day-to-day operations, if sponsors are pulling out the way that they are, there would be some way to convince Sterling, it's in your best interest and the interest of everyone else to sell the team."

Nichols likened the situation to the late Marge Schott, who owned the Cincinnati Reds and made racist and other insensitive comments. She was suspended twice, the second time in 1996, and sold the team in 1999.

Other NBA owners have called the remarks attributed to Sterling "abhorrent," "reprehensible," "hurtful," and said they have no place in the league or anywhere in society.

And they all said they have confidence Silver will handle the matter well.

Charlotte Bobcats owner and Hall of Fame Michael Jordan made a rare public statement on a controversial subject.

"As an owner, I'm obviously disgusted that a fellow team owner could hold such sickening and offensive views," he said. "As a former player, I'm completely outraged. There is no room in the NBA -- or anywhere else -- for the kind of racism and hatred that Mr. Sterling allegedly expressed."

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TMZ posts audio recording

In the recording, the man seems mad about a photo the woman posted to Instagram with Magic Johnson, now a part owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

"In your lousy f**ing Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with -- walking with black people," the man says.

"If it's white people, it's OK?" she responds. "If it was Larry Bird, would it make a difference?"

Bird was Johnson's chief rival when Bird's Celtics and Johnson's Lakers ruled the NBA.

"I've known (Magic Johnson) well, and he should be admired. ... I'm just saying that it's too bad you can't admire him privately," the man on the recording says. "Admire him, bring him here, feed him, f**k him, but don't put (Magic) on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don't bring him to my games."

On Sunday, the sports website Deadspin posted five additional minutes it said was part of the same audio recording.

Neither website has said how it obtained the recordings.

Stiviano's lawyer's office said Sunday that she didn't release the recordings to TMZ but that they are legitimate.

"This office understands that the currently released audio tape of approximately 15 minutes is a portion of approximately one (1) hour of overall audio recording of Mr. Donald T. Sterling and Ms. Stiviano, and is in fact legitimate," Mac E. Nehoray said in a news release. "Ms. Stiviano did not release the tape(s) to any news media."

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Sterling's wife, who is suing the woman, gave CNN affiliate KABC a statement Sunday night.

"Our family is devastated by the racist comments made by my estranged husband," Rochelle Sterling said. "My children and I do not share these despicable views or prejudices. We will not let one man's small-mindedness poison the spirit of the fans and accomplishments of the team in the city we love."

Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers told reporters Monday that he was offered an opportunity to speak to Sterling after the comments attributed to the team's owner were posted online, but Rivers said he "passed." Rivers added, "I don't think right now is the time or place, for me at least. And so I just took a pass."

The coach, in his first year with the Clippers, said he believes that Sterling did make the comments but said he wanted to find out if the recording was doctored.

Rivers confirmed the team's players had talked about boycotting a playoff game but decided against it. Whether the coach or a player will address the fans before Tuesday's Game 5 against the Golden State Warriors is being discussed internally, Rivers said. The teams each have two wins in the best-of-seven-games series.

Golden State coach Mark Jackson said Monday that fans should make a statement by staying home.

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Twelve Clippers sponsors have taken action. State Farm, Virgin America, CarMax, Red Bull were among companies to pull sponsorships, at least temporarily, CNN Money reported.

Sterling was to receive a lifetime achievement award at an event next month to mark the 100th anniversary of the Los Angeles NAACP, but the national organization said Monday that would not happen.

Sterling had been given a lifetime achievement award from the organization in 2009, according to a brochure obtained by CNN.

Roeser, the Clippers' president, suggested Saturday that Stiviano -- whom he didn't mention by name -- was "getting even" with Sterling over a lawsuit.

Rochelle Sterling filed a lawsuit last month against Stiviano, who she said was having an affair with her husband.

In the complaint, Rochelle Sterling accuses Stiviano of targeting extremely wealthy older men. The suit claims that Donald Sterling used the couple's money to buy Stiviano a Ferrari, two Bentleys and a Range Rover and that Stiviano took possession of a $1.8 million duplex through fraud. Sterling also gave her nearly $250,000 in cash, the court document says.

Stiviano countered in another court document that there was nothing wrong with Donald Sterling giving her gifts and that she never took advantage of the Clippers owner, who made much of his fortune in real estate.

Speaking about the recording, Roeser said, "We do not know if it is legitimate or it has been altered. We do know that the woman on the tape -- who we believe released it to TMZ -- is the defendant in a lawsuit brought by the Sterling family alleging that she embezzled more than $1.8 million, who told Mr. Sterling that she would 'get even.' "

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Reaction: 'Disturbing and offensive'

CNN's Paul Vercammen, Ashley Fantz, Stephanie Elam, Ralph Ellis, AnneClaire Stapleton, Joe Sutton, Wayne Sterling and Kevin Dotson contributed to this report.

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UFC 172 Results