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Dwyane Wade fears for daughter's safety every moment she leaves home

Dwyane Wade is "afraid every moment" his daughter leaves the house.

The 40-year-old former NBA star's 15-year-old offspring Zaya came out as trans two years ago and he admitted he's constantly worried about her safety because of how people "perceive her" in the world.

He told CNN at the TIME100 summit: “As blessed as it is for my daughter to have parents who can support her, I’m still afraid every moment she leaves the house. And not just because of gun violence, but because of the way people perceive her in this world.”

Wade went on to urge lawmakers to spend a day with Zaya to understand the impact anti-trans policies have on her life.

He added: “To me, it’s a joke. This is our life. We live this. When you’re out there making rules, if you’re not experiencing this. Come and live a day with my daughter. Come and see how it is to walk through this world as her.”

The former sportsman is proud of Zaya — who he has with former partner Siohvaughn Funches – for having the confidence to be herself from such a young age.

He said: “I went years without telling my chef that I don’t like cilantro on my burger – as an adult, it took me years to have the confidence to say that. My daughter, at eight years old, had the confidence to say, ‘This is who I am. This is who I want to be'."

Wade - who also has Zaire, 20, with Siohvaughn, Xavier, eight, with Aia Metoyer, and Kaavia, three, with wife Gabrielle Union – previouslyadmitted he had learnt a lot from Zaya.

He said: "I didn't know anything, I really wasn't knowledgeable about the LGBTQ+ community. What it has done is it opened my eyes and my ears to something greater and bigger than I, and my daughter has allowed us gracefully to be her support system."

Paramount sued over ‘Top Gun’ copyright claim

The widow and son of the man who wrote the 1983 article that inspired the original Top Gun are suing Paramount Pictures over its sequel, Top Gun: Maverick.

In a complaint filed in California federal court Monday, Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay claim that the rights to Ehud Yonay’s story reverted back to them on January 24, 2020. The lawsuit contends that Paramount, which produced and distributed the sequel, did not reacquire those rights before releasing the film in May.

A spokesperson for Paramount Pictures said in a statement that the claims “are without merit, and we will defend ourselves vigorously.”

The lawsuit says that Paramount has been on notice since 2018 that the Yonays intended to recover the copyright under a provision that lets artists do so after 35 years. According to the suit, the Yonays sent a cease-and-desist letter in early May to which Paramount responded that the film had been sufficiently completed by Januray 24, 2020, and was not derivative of Yonay’s article. The Yonays counter that the film is a derivative of the 1983 article and that Top Gun: Maverick didn’t wrap until May 2021, over a year after the rights expired.

Yonay’s original article about the Navy Fighter Weapons School training programme and two pilots in the course, the hotshot 'Yogi' and his friend 'Possum', was published in the May 1983 issue of California magazine. Soon after, Paramount Pictures acquired the exclusive motion picture rights. Top Gun was released in 1986 and went on to become the No. 1 film of the year.

The sequel has been in development for years and was originally set for a July 2019 release but was delayed many times – first for normal reasons and then because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Top Gun: Maverick finally opened in theatres on May 27, has spent two weeks atop the box office and has already made over US$557 million in ticket sales worldwide.

Man arrested in shooting death of Atlanta rapper Trouble

CONYERS , Georgia ( AP ):

A man accused of fatally shooting Atlanta rapper Trouble has been denied bond after a confrontation that investigators allege stemmed from jealousy over a woman.

A judge in Rockdale County on Tuesday denied bail to 33-year-old Jamichael Jones of Jonesboro, local news outlets report, after Jones turned himself in to Rockdale County deputies early Tuesday.

It's unclear if Jones has a lawyer representing him. A judge set his next hearing on June 15.

Jones is charged with murder, aggravated assault, home invasion, and battery in the Sunday death of Trouble, whose legal name was Mariel Semonte Orr. The 34-year-old Trouble was found shot at an apartment complex in suburban Conyers before dawn Sunday. He died later at a hospital.

Trouble – who was also known as Skoob – had collaborated with artistes including Drake, The Weeknd, Young Thug, Gucci Mane, 2 Chainz in a career that began in 2011.

A warrant states that Jones arrived at an apartment to find Trouble asleep in bed with Jones' ex-girlfriend, who woke to Jones punching her in the face. The woman told deputies that Jones and Trouble began fighting until Jones pulled a gun, shot Trouble in the chest and fled. Investigators have said Trouble and Jones hadn't met before the shooting

Deputies found the woman with “visible injuries on her face,” WXIA-TV reports. The woman said she had broken up with Jones a week earlier after he hit her during an argument about “him not having a job and not helping her pay the bills.”

Deputies said the apartment door had been forced open and they viewed surveillance footage of Jones entering and leaving the apartment complex just seven minutes apart.

Rockdale County Sheriff Eric Levette said investigators were visiting Jones' mother when Jones called her. The mother connected Jones with deputies who persuaded Jones to turn himself in.

Trouble released a debut mixtape in 2011 that included the song Bussin, a local hit that led to more work and two albums, 2018′s Edgewood and 2020′s Thug Luv.