Phoebe Gates Embraces Mom Melinda at Gates Foundation Event — and Gets Shout-Out from Dad Bill

Phoebe Gates, Melinda French Gates, Karlie Kloss and Jennifer Gates Nassar attends Goalkeepers 2023: Daytime Event at Jazz at Lincoln Center on September 20, 2023, in New York City.Photo:Paula Lobo/Getty Paula Lobo/Getty Phoebe Gateswas feeling the love for her mom and dad at one of their foundation’s biggest events! Phoebe attended and moderated a panel at theBill and Melinda Gates Foundation’sGoalkeepers Foundationevent on Wednesday in New York City. Phoebe, who has used her prominent family’s platform to advocate for a variety of issues—including reproductive rights—discussed entrepreneurship, agency and gender equity with Kloss and author Kathryn Finney during a panel she moderated....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 442 words · Ms. Betty Cox DDS

Photo of Over 30 Perfectly Posed Pups at Dog Birthday Party Wins Contest: 'Patience Is Key'

Photo:Jose Soares Jose Soares Herding cats is hard, but getting dozens of smiling dogs to sit still for one photo might be more challenging. Luckily, a professional canine wrangler was on-hand to snap the grand prize-winning photo forNexdoor’s 2023 #LoveYourNeighborhood Photography Competition. Users of the neighborhood network Nextdoor submitted over 35,000 photos into the contest’s five categories: #NeighborhoodCreatures, #NeighborhoodsEverywhere, #NeighborhoodFans, #NeighborhoodFaves, and #NeighborhoodGems. Jose Soares’s photo of more than 30 dogs enjoying a birthday party at Woof Pack — Soares’s dog training and boarding business in Miami — first won the #NeighborhoodCreatures category before taking the photo competition’s top prize....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 360 words · Kathryn Riley

Pilot and 5 Cruise Guests Die After Sightseeing Plane Crashes in Alaska: 'Hearts Are Shattered'

Photo: Dustin Safranek/Ketchikan Daily News via AP Six people died in a plane crash in southeast Alaska, according to theU.S. Coast Guard. Southeast Aviation LLC. — which the Coast Guard identified as the plane’s owner— addressed the tragedy in a statement. “Our hearts are shattered at the loss of six people today. We are thinking of and grieving with the families of the five passengers and our dear friend and pilot aboard the aircraft,” the company said, according to the AP....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 223 words · Paul Garcia

Pink Opens Up About COVID Weight Gain and Recovering from Surgery: 'Been Home Too Long'

Photo: Frazer Harrison/GettyPinkis opening up about being a “bionic woman” after bouncing back post-surgery and gaining weight during the coronavirus pandemic.“Having breaks is good for my voice. Not so good for the body,“Pink, 43, toldVariety.“Especially during COVID — I gained 36 lbs.,” the “So What” singer recalled. “All I did was make sourdough and then eat the sourdough.““And then I had not just the hip surgery but double disc replacement in my neck....

March 16, 2025 · 7 min · 1328 words · Brenda Kelly

Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond's Family Gathers Together for Paige's College Graduation

Photo: Ree Drummond/Instagram The Drummond family has a lot to celebrate! On Sunday, Ree Drummond posted a series of family-filled photos to her Instagram feed from youngest daughterPaige’s graduation at the University of Arkansas. The first photo features Ree and husband Ladd posing next to the smiling graduate. “We celebrated Paige this weekend. 🎓She’s definitely ready for the next stage in life! (As for me, I’m ready for a nap,” she captioned the post....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 428 words · Joseph Black

Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond's Kids Shower Their Mom with Sweet Mother's Day Messages: 'The Best There Is'

Ree Drummondis getting all the love thisMother’s Day. On Sunday, the Food Network star received tons of sweet messages on Instagram from her daughters Alex, 25, and Paige, 23. “Happy Mother’s Day 🤍 I love you!!!” Paige wrote. “The best there is. Don’t know what I’d do without you!” Paige Drummond/Instagram Alex posted a more recent photo for her tribute to her mom onher InstagramStory. In the picture, Ree and Alex are seated in front of a hearth and dressed in colorful blouses, fitted jeans and boots....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 401 words · Emily Key

Pitcher Liam Hendriks Says 'Baseball Is the Thing that Helped Me Get Back' from Stage-IV Cancer

Liam Hendriks.Photo:Michael Reaves/Getty Michael Reaves/Getty There’s plenty of things that helpedLiam Hendriks recover from cancer, but he says baseball was his biggest motivator. The Chicago White Sox pitcher made his emotional return to the mound last month after he was diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in January and underwent both immunotherapy and chemotherapy. “I think baseball is the thing that helped me get back as quickly as I could,” Hendriks, 34, toldGQ Sportsthis week....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 459 words · Patrick Chandler

Pittsburgh Penguins Star Kris Letang Donates $58,000 to Cover 7-Year-Old Cancer Patient's Expenses

Photo: Gregory Shamus/NHLI via GettyIan Rosenbaum, 7, aspires to be a defenseman in the National Hockey League one day, representing number 58 like his idol, Kris Letang.And last Thursday, the Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman donated $58,000 to Rosenbaum and his family to help cover the costs of the young fan’s cancer treatment,NHL.comreported.“Kris is a true hero to Ian,” Ian’s mother Joelle Rosenbaum told the outlet. “He definitely looks up to him. He talks about him every time he’s at Children’s (Hospital) to all the nurses....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 848 words · Steven Brown

Plane Passenger Who Falsely Claimed to Have Coronavirus Mid-Flight for 'a Viral Video' Arrested

Photo: James Potok/Twitter A WestJet plane flying from Toronto toMontego Bay, Jamaica, was forced to turn around mid-flight on Monday after a man told his fellow passengers that he wasinfected with the coronavirus. The passenger was 28-year-old James Potok, an aspiring musician from Ontario, who says he decided to falsely claim he had the illness in order to create aviral videoto post on his social media channels. “Well, I had my camera with me....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 558 words · Emma May

Plane Passengers Come Together to Help Dad In Last Row Make His Twins' Father-daughter Dance

Mike Good is a frequent flyer, but the father of two says he’s never seen anything like the act of kindness he experienced last week, when an entire plane full of passengers came together to make sure he made it to his twins’ father-daughter dance.“It was just amazing. Everyone on that plane sat still so that I could make a run for it,” the father of two tells PEOPLE.Last Thursday, Good was trying to get home to Charlotte from a business trip in Nashville....

March 16, 2025 · 6 min · 1212 words · Ryan Shaw

Plumber Talks Man, 24, Down After Spotting Him on Brooklyn Bridge: 'I Was So Happy and Relieved'

A plumber was on his commute home from work in New York City when he intervened to save the life of a stranger in need. Joey Hansen, 29, left work early around noon on Monday due to weather conditions, as a winter storm was blanketing Manhattan. While riding home with a friend, Hansen was crossing the Brooklyn Bridge when he noticed a man standing on the edge of a beam, peering into the water below, he toldWLNY....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 369 words · Kevin Rivera DVM

Police Investigating After an All-In Family Fight Breaks Out in Disneyland's Toontown

Photo: Robert Holmes/Getty Images Police have launched an investigation after a horrific family fight broke out in Disneyland’s Toontown in California on Saturday. Sgt. Daron Wyatt with the Anaheim Police Department tells PEOPLE authorities responded to the incident after the family had already separated and were escorted out of the park. Wyatt explains everyone involved in the altercation is related. He says the family was uncooperative and refused to provide any information on what sparked the fight....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 425 words · Tyler Bryant

Police Warn Flushing Drugs Could Create Terrifying 'Meth Gators'

Photo: Joe Raedle/GettyIf you absolutely must have meth (which you absolutely should not), at the very least don’t flush your supply down the toilet lest you accidentally create “meth-gators.”That’s the half-joking, half-not message Tennessee’s Loretto Police Department shared after officers busted a man allegedly trying to flush his stash of meth down the toilet as the cops were serving him a search warrant at his home on Saturday.“Folks…please don’t flush your drugs m’kay,” thedepartment wrote on its Facebook page, noting that the contents “ends up in our retention ponds for processing before it is sent down stream....

March 16, 2025 · 5 min · 945 words · Marisa Melton