• The MTV Movie & TV Awards gave Black Panther its first taste of awards glory, with Marvel's blockbuster taking home four honors including two awards for its star, Chadwick Boseman. Boseman quickly handed off his best hero award to James Shaw Jr., who wrestled an assault-style rifle away from a gunman in a Tennessee Waffle House in April. "This is going to live at your house," Boseman told Shaw, giving him the show's golden popcorn award. The actor said while it was an honor to be recognized for playing a superhero, it was more important to "acknowledge the heroes we have in real life." Boseman, who starred as T'Challa in Black Panther, also won the award for best performance in a movie. Michael B. Jordan, who played the villain Erik Killmonger, won best villain. Stranger Things was the top television honoree, winning four awards including a repeat win for best show. The awards were handed out Saturday and were broadcast Monday night. Host Tiffany Haddish kicked off the show with a Black Panther skit, foreshadowing the film's big night.
• Sheriff's deputies in Florida searched for suspects Tuesday after troubled rapper-singer XXXTentacion was fatally shot in the driver's seat of a luxury electric sports car. The 20-year-old rising star, who pronounced his stage name "Ex Ex Ex ten-ta-see-YAWN" and whose real name is Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, was pronounced dead Monday night at a Fort Lauderdale-area hospital, the Broward County sheriff's office said. He was shot outside a Deerfield Beach motorcycle dealership where he was approached by two armed men as he prepared to drive off in a black BMW i8, sheriff's spokesman Keyla Concepcion said. At least one of them fired, and both men fled the scene in a dark SUV. A sheriff's office statement described the shooting as an apparent robbery attempt. The entertainer, who sported dreadlocks and facial tattoos, was a rising star. He notched a No. 1 album in March with his sophomore effort titled ? and had a top 10 hit with "Sad!" But he was facing trial on charges that he beat up his pregnant girlfriend in 2016. Onfroy racked up huge streaming numbers -- on Spotify, his "Sad!" had more than 270 million streams and was on its Top 50 chart this week in the United States and globally. Among topics he spoke about was depression, saying in a video: "I appreciate and love all of you and I believe in you all; do not let your depression make you, do not let your body define your soul, let your soul define your body. Your mind is limitless ... you are worth more than you can believe."
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