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The boxing match between former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and Jake Paul has been postponed after a recent ulcer flare-up that left Tyson dizzy on a plane, promoters said Friday.

The fight had been scheduled for July 20.

Tyson, 57, felt nauseous and dizzy on a Miami-to-Los Angeles flight Sunday, and his representatives blamed it on the ulcer.

“During a follow up consultation on Thursday with medical professionals on his recent ulcer flare up, the recommendation is for Mike Tyson to do minimal to light training over the next few weeks and then return to full training with no limitations,” Most Valuable Promotions said in a statement.

Both Tyson and Paul agreed to the postponement, the company said.

The new date for the fight will be announced July 7, MVP said.

Tyson in a statement distributed by the promoter got in some trash talk to Paul, in true boxing fashion. "My body is in better overall shape than it has been since the 1990s and I will be back to my full training schedule soon," he said.

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Marian Lois Shields Robinson, 86, who raised her daughter, Michelle Obama, in a small apartment on Chicago’s South Side and later went to live in the White House when Barack Obama became president, died Friday, her family announced.

“My mom Marian Robinson was my rock, always there for whatever I needed,” Michelle Obama said in a post on X. “She was the same steady backstop for our entire family, and we are heartbroken to share she passed away today.”

The former first lady often credited her mother and her late father, Fraser, for instilling in her values and discipline while growing up at 7436 S. Euclid Ave.

Fraser Robinson, an operator at the City of Chicago Water Filtration Plant near Navy Pier, and a Democratic precinct captain, died in 1991.

After living in the White House, Mrs. Robinson moved back to Chicago, where she died Friday. The family statement announcing her death did not disclose the cause or funeral arrangements.

On Mother’s Day this year, Michelle Obama wrote, “My mom has always been my rock and I’m so grateful for all the ways she continues to show up for my family. She’s taught me so much over the years, and I feel so lucky that I get to pass that same wisdom down to my own girls.”

An exhibit in the Obama Presidential Center Museum, now under construction in Jackson Park, will be named in honor of Marian Robinson.

In announcing the naming of the “Opening the White House” exhibit after her mother, Michelle Obama wrote, “Growing up with my mom always was an adventure.

“It entailed trips to the library as a toddler to learn the alphabet; the entire family piling into our car to go to the local drive-in — homemade chicken in hand. It included Mom inviting family over for New Year’s Eve, raising a toast as the clock struck midnight.

“But above all else, my mother gave me nonstop, unconditional love in so many ways. She fostered in me a deep sense of confidence in who I was and who I could be by teaching me how to think for myself, how to use my own voice, and how to understand my own worth.

“I simply wouldn’t be who I am today without her.”

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When Barack Obama started his first term as president in January, 2009, Mrs. Robinson moved into the White House to help with child care duties for then young daughters Sasha and Malia.

During her time in Washington, she would leave the White House to go shopping or meet with friends, moving around the city unrecognized, a situation her famous daughter, who missed shopping at Target, envied.

It was a tough sell to persuade Mrs. Robinson to move in.

“I flat out begged her,” the former first lady wrote in her book, “The Light We Carry,” about convincing her mother that she needed to leave the South Side. “I’d enlisted Craig [Mrs. Robinson’s son and Michelle Obama’s brother] to further twist her arm. My mother was the rock of our family. She steadied us all. Since the time our daughters were babies, she’d help us out around the edges of our regular childcare arrangements.”

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Mrs. Robinson was born July 29, 1937, one of seven children growing up in segregated Chicago. Her parents separated when she was a teen.

Her mother, Rebecca Jumper, was a nursing aide. Her father, the jazz-loving Purnell Shields, nicknamed “Southside,” could not, because he was Black, join a union or get a construction job. Her father woke the family “by blasting jazz records,” teaching her, the family said in a statement, “that even in the face of hardship, there was music to be found.”

Mrs. Robinson became a secretary, studying as a young woman to be a teacher. From the cramped apartment on Euclid, she taught her children to read at an early age, setting them on a course that led for both to Princeton University.

During her White House years, Mrs. Robinson lived on the third floor, and her daughter, on especially fraught days, would go up a flight to find comfort with her mom.

While living at the White House, she would often accompany Malia and Sasha to school.

Barack Obama has often told the story of how he sat next to his mother-in-law on a couch on Election Night 2008 in Chicago, watching the returns on television, and he grabbed her hand when he was projected to win the White House.

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“As someone who grew up in deeply segregated Chicago ... there were always barriers,” Barack Obama recalled in an interview.

With Obama’s election as the nation’s first Black president — and Mrs. Robinson’s daughter to be first lady —"seeing it through her eyes, I think, made it a little more special.”

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 The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer released his new song “Houdini” today (May 31), and it features a sample from “Abracadabra” throughout as the backing track. Due to the NSFW lyrical content, you can listen to the song here.

What’s New with the Steve Miller Band?

Steve Miller Band hasn’t released a new album since 2011’s Let Your Hair Down. However, they still remain a draw on the road. Not only does the band have a number of headlining tour dates this summer, they’re also joining Def Leppard and Journey on select dates of their stadium tour. Keep scrolling below for a full list of Steve Miller Band’s complete tour itinerary this summer.

Steve Miller Band – 2024 Tour Dates

 Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, the daughter of actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, has taken legal action to distance herself from her father — at least in name.

Shiloh rang in her 18th birthday Monday by filing a petition in Los Angeles County Superior Court to drop the “Pitt” from her full name. The teen, whose full name is currently Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, wants her name to be “Shiloh Nouvel Jolie,” according to the petition reviewed by The Times.

Shiloh was born on May 27, 2006 in Swakopmund, Namibia. She is the third-eldest of the former Hollywood power couple’s six children, and the eldest of their three biological children. They also share kids Maddox, Pax, Zahara and twins Knox and Vivienne.

The “Kung Fu Panda 3” voice actor requested to change her name amid her parents’ contentious, drawn-out divorce. In September 2016, Jolie filed to divorce her “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” co-star days after they allegedly had a physical altercation on a private plane flight home from Europe. Several of the actors’ children were also allegedly involved in the incident, according to an FBI report. Details about the 2016 confrontation emerged in a 2022 lawsuit Jolie filed against the federal law enforcement agency.

Complicating settlement of Jolie and Pitt’s years-long divorce is more legal tension over their Chateau Miraval winery and former family home. In February 2022, Pitt sued Jolie and her company, Nouvel, for allegedly selling her share of their winery, without his supposedly agreed-upon consent, to “seize profits she had not earned and returns on an investment she did not make.”

Jolie fired back with a cross-complaint in October 2022. Earlier this year, her legal team filed a motion to acquire Pitt’s communications stemming from an “all encompassing” nondisclosure agreement allegedly connected to the sale.

Jolie and Pitt have been legally unmarried — a.k.a. single — since 2019 but have yet to finalize details of their divorce.

Shiloh may be the first Jolie-Pitt child to take her name change to court, but some of her siblings have also publicly dropped their father’s last name in recent years. In a video shared by Essence in 2023, Zahara can be seen and heard introducing herself as a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Spelman College. “My name is Zahara Marley Jolie,” she shouts in between poses.

Additionally, 15-year-old Vivienne dropped “Pitt” in her Playbill credit for the new musical “The Outsiders,” which her mother produced, People reported this week.

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