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Sandra Bennett dissolved into tears on live television as colleagues ambushed her with a surprise 20th anniversary celebration on QVC. Alberti Popaj, 47, and Meghan Murray crept onto the set over the weekend while Bennett, 56, was mid-broadcast, completely unaware…
Giada De Laurentiis is facing down a painful toe injury just days before her “Dancing With the Stars” debut. The celebrity chef, 56, revealed the gnarly setback in an Instagram video Tuesday, showing fans a close-up of her visibly bruised…
Dianna Russini is plotting her return to NFL coverage this season on her own terms and her own timeline. The former Athletic journalist, 43, plans to address her relationship scandal with New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel, 51, only…
Global test scores have crashed to their lowest level in two decades, with the official who oversees the exam tying the collapse directly to students’ deepening dependence on artificial intelligence and social media. The 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment…
The City of Malibu declared a local emergency and ordered mandatory evacuations for more than 30 coastal properties after a massive sinkhole opened on Tuesday. The sinkhole appeared directly in front of the $10.5-million beachfront home of actor Nicolas Cage,…
Crews dumped wet concrete into a churning sinkhole Monday in a desperate bid to save Nicolas Cage’s Malibu neighborhood before the evening high tide hit. The actor, 62, purchased the four-level, 3,938-square-foot residence at 31630 Sea Level Drive for $10.5…
Lady Gaga’s inner circle suspects she has already married Michael Polansky in secret. The “Poker Face” singer, 40, has gone more than a month without any public sightings, fueling speculation among friends that she and Polansky, 42, quietly eloped and…
One of the pilots in Sunday’s deadly Amazon cargo jet crash at Miami International Airport borrowed a bystander’s phone moments after escaping the wreck and told his wife, “My career is over.” The pilot, whose identity has not been publicly…
A 1937 mural depicting 17th-century Massachusetts colonists has sparked a viral conspiracy theory that an indigenous figure is holding a modern smartphone. Umberto Romano’s “Mr. Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield,” completed nearly 90 years ago, shows a Native American…
The State Department said Tuesday that roughly 70 Americans remain unaccounted for in the Nepal-China border region following catastrophic flooding last month. The figure marks a slight improvement from the previous count of 75 Americans still missing, while the number…
A 32-year-old man was fatally shot in the head by a masked gunman in Brooklyn on Monday evening, the deadliest of at least four separate shootings that erupted across New York City in a violent overnight stretch. Cleo Daniels, 32,…
Macklemore has defended his onstage “Free Palestine” remarks after fellow stars Pink and Boy George condemned the performance, insisting his criticism was aimed at Israeli policy rather than Jewish people. The Seattle rapper, 41, whose real name is Benjamin Hammond…
ABC news anchor Liz Cho and her estranged husband, Josh Elliott, have agreed to settle their bitter divorce through private arbitration. The exes, both 55, signed off on a plan to have Connecticut Judge Elliot N. Solomon hear their disputes…
Former FDNY Commissioner Tom Von Essen has publicly urged Mayor Zohran Mamdani to skip Friday’s 9/11 25th anniversary memorial ceremony. Von Essen, who led the Fire Department during the 2001 terror attacks and lost 343 firefighters in the Twin Towers,…
A Long Island man accused of fatally stabbing his father was ordered held without bail after prosecutors described how the dying 69-year-old crawled to a phone to summon help. Sage Arias-Brown, 33, pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder on Tuesday…
Jimmy Kimmel’s long-running ABC late-night show is heading toward its final season, according to sources familiar with the network’s plans. “His contract is not getting extended,” a source familiar with the situation explained. The upcoming season of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,”…