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August 3, 2018 at 9:51PM
FILE In this Feb. 13, 2016 file photo, Rapper Drake, center, reacts on court during the skills competition at the NBA basketball All-Star weekend in Toronto. Celebrities abound as Drake strolls through the streets of New Orleans in his “In My Feelings” video. The social media challenge associated with the song is featured in the video, which was released Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. (Mark Blinch/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
Drake dropped an official music video Thursday in tribute to the #InMyFeelingsDanceChallenge that has gone viral. Above, the rapper enjoyed NBA basketball’s All-Star weekend in Toronto in 2016. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Celebrities abound as Drake strolls through the streets of New Orleans in his "In My Feelings" video. The social media challenge associated with the song is featured in the video, which was released Thursday. La La Anthony plays Drake's love interest and Phylicia Rashad is her mom. Comedian Shiggy, who created the challenge associated with the song, performs "The Shiggy Dance" throughout. Some of the more popular videos created for the challenge are also featured at the end of the clip, including ones made by Will Smith, Ciara, DJ Khaled and Ryan Seacrest. "In My Feelings" is featured on Drake's fifth studio album, "Scorpion."

Rosie will lead Trump serenade

Rosie O'Donnell and cast members from some of Broadway's biggest musicals plan to serenade President Donald Trump on Monday — but from outside the White House in protest. From Lafayette Park, the group will sing "The People's Song" from "Les Miserables," Burt Bacharach's "What the World Needs Now Is Love," "A Brand New Day" from "The Wiz" and "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" from "The Sound of Music." The performers will be current and former Broadway cast members from "Wicked," "Beautiful," "Hamilton," "Phantom of the Opera," "The King and I," "Les Miserables," "Cinderella," "Xanadu," "The Producers," "Head Over Heels" and more. The serenade will be livestreamed on the MoveOn Facebook page.

late but great: Even severe weather couldn't stop Beyoncé and Jay-Z from performing an explosive two-hour-plus concert for their feverish fans. After bad weather forced concertgoers at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium inside for close to an hour Thursday night, Beyoncé and Jay-Z hit the stage at 11:08 p.m. and played into Friday morning, wrapping up the energetic show at 1:29 a.m. Beyoncé thanked the audience for not "letting the rain stop the night."

no stopping betty: Betty White sees no point in slowing down at 96, as long as her phone keeps ringing with offers to work. The actress known for her roles in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Golden Girls" is marking her 80th year in show business with a PBS special that looks at her life and career. Moore, Georgia Engel and Gavin MacLeod are among those sharing insights in "Betty White: First Lady of Television," which debuts Aug. 21.

motion: Harvey Weinstein has asked a New York judge to dismiss multiple sexual assault charges against him, according to a motion filed Friday by his attorney. The motion cites "more than 400 warm, complimentary and solicitous" e-mails between the disgraced Hollywood director and an unnamed woman accusing him of raping her in 2013.

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FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2017 file photo, Rosie O'Donnell speaks at a rally calling for resistance to President Donald Trump in Lafayette Park in front of the White House in Washington. O’Donnell and cast members from some of Broadway’s biggest musicals plan to serenade President Donald Trump on Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, but from outside the White House in protest. The group will sing “The People's Song” from “Les Miserables,” Burt Bacharach’s “
O’Donnell (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
FILE- In this May 4, 2015, file photo, Jay Z, left, and Beyonce arrive at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating "China: Through the Looking Glass" in New York. After bad weather forced concertgoers at the MetLife Stadium inside for close to an hour Thursday night, Aug. 2, 2018, Beyonce and Jay-Z hit the stage at 11:08 p.m. and played into Friday morning, wrapping the energetic show at 1:29 a.m. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
FILE- In this May 4, 2015, file photo, Jay Z, lefwt, and Beyonce arrive at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating “China: Through the Looking Glass” in New York. After bad weather forced concertgoers at the MetLife Stadium inside for close to an hour Thursday night, Aug. 2, 2018, Beyonce and Jay-Z hit the stage at 11:08 p.m. and played into Friday morning, wrapping the energetic show at 1:29 a.m. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Betty White accepts the lifetime achievement award at the 42nd annual Daytime Emmy Awards at Warner Bros. Studios on Sunday, April 26, 2015, in Burbank, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) ORG XMIT: CACJ157
White (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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In this photo taken Monday, March 6, 2017, in San Francisco, released confidential files by The University of California of a sexual misconduct case, like this one against UC Santa Cruz Latin Studies professor Hector Perla is shown. Perla was accused of raping a student during a wine-tasting outing in June 2015. Some of the files are so heavily redacted that on many pages no words are visible. Perla is one of 113 UC employees found to have violated the system's sexual misconduct policies in rece

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