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Taylor Swift and Ice Spice perform at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on May 26.Photo:Kevin Mazur/TAS23/Getty Kevin Mazur/TAS23/Getty Ice Spicehas a friend — and confidant — inTaylor Swift! The “In Ha Mood” rapper, whom Swift recently recruited for aremix of her hit “Karma,“opened up about their bond in a new interview withTheGuardian. Ice, 23, said it was “surreal” when Swift, 33, reached out to say she’d been listening to the rapper’s January debut EPLike....

At around 9 p.m. on Monday, pilot John Gregory attempted to crash-land his single-engine plane in an Idaho field, according to several reports — but a rather large tree got in the way.So Gregory landed his Piper Cub PA-18 atop the crown of the giant white fir, 60 feet above the ground, after the plane lost power and a strut wing caught part of the tree, according to the McCall Fire Department, reports theAssociated Press....

Illinois state Sen. Mike Simmons.Photo: Mike Simmons/Twitter An Illinois lawmaker this week introduced a proposal that he said is aimed at stopping discrimination in schools based on a student’s hair — citing his own experience growing up. State Sen. Mike Simmons, a Democrat from the northside of Chicago, introducedhis legislationon Monday. If passed, it would bar schools from having rules against “hairstyles historically associated with race, ethnicity, or hair texture,” specifically referring to “hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists....

Autumn Carver on her rehab discharge day.Photo: Laura Brown It’s been a long road forAutumn Carver, but after a little over three months, the Indiana mom is finally headed home! On Wednesday, 35-year-old Autumn — who has battledCOVID-19side effects for months — was finally discharged from Chicago’s Shirley Ryan AbilityLab rehab center. The exciting moment was one she and her husband Zach had been looking forward to ever since she wasfirst hospitalized on Aug....

Photo: Ron Schwane/Getty“Shoeless Joe” Jackson may have had the nickname first, but Cleveland Indians pitcher Óliver Pérez was the one sans footwear Monday in a bizarre incident at Fenway Park.The veteran pitcher, 37, found himself standing on the mound in just his socks during a game against the Boston Red Sox after a mishap involving his cleats.Pérez came out of the bullpen as a reliever for the Indians in the fifth inning, and threw several warm-up pitches before he noticed something was amiss....

Photo: Tiffany Mitchell/ Instagram A Nashville-based influencer is speaking out after she received backlash for sharing photos from her motorcycle accident to Instagram. “I misjudged a curve, took it too fast and my bike went off the road,” she explained in the caption. “It slid through the grass, and I hit the pavement. I had my helmet on so my head was fine, but I scraped up my left side....

Jamar Mackey.Photo: GMA Jamar Mackey was having lunch with his fiancée, their newborn and their 13-year-old son at the food court of a Virginia mall when a police officer approached and cuffed him. “You do this in public? You can’t tell me to walk outside? In front of my family?”Mackey can be heard asking on a video his fiancée filmed of the incident, TMZ reports. As Mackey’s fiancée, Kiara Love, told the officer he had the wrong man, the officer led Mackey out of the food court....

First Lady Dr. Jill Biden. Two months into the Biden administration, a fuller picture of First Lady Dr. Jill Biden’s job in the classroom is emerging. ACBS News report on Wednesdayoutlines Biden’s efforts to coordinate with both school administrators and fellow staff members at Northern Virginia Community College, where she has returned to teaching this spring after taking the fall off to focus on the 2020 campaign. Biden, 69, is the first first lady to maintain a full-time job while carrying out her White House duties....

Photo:John Shearer/GettyIt’s been more than eight years sinceMad Men’sseries finale aired, but forJon HammandJohn Slattery, the Emmy-winning show is the gift that keeps on giving.Hamm, 52, and Slattery, 60, bonded during the show’s seven seasons and have remained close ever since. “You could grow to hate each other or grow to love one another,” Hamm exclusively tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “We became great friends.”Hamm and Slattery collaborated together on the 2022 comedyConfess, Fletchand the new true-crime comedyMaggie Moore(s), in which Hamm’s lonely cop investigates the murders of two women with the same name....

Photo: Tim Rooke/REX/Shutterstock Meghan Markle‘s royal calendar is jam-packed! The Duchess of Sussex, 37, is ending the month with a set of solo engagements before kicking off February with a joint outing withPrince Harry, Kensington Palace announced on Friday. Meghan recently announced thefour causes she will officially champion in her royal life, and she’s already paid visits toanimal charity MayhewandSmart Works, a charity that helps vulnerable and longterm unemployed women regain the skills and confidence to get into work....

Photo: BACKGRID Sofia Richiehas raised the bar for celebrity weddings. Richie, the daughter of music legendLionel Richie, wed her now-husbandElliot Graingein the South of France on April 22, 2023. Grainge is the founder of music label 10K Projects and also the son of Universal Music Group chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge. Afterannouncing their engagementin April 2022, Richie and Grainge jetted to the French Riviera for anextravagant wedding weekendone year later, complete pre-nuptial activities like a pool party and rehearsal dinner....

Food & Wine Classic 2023.Photo:C2 Photography C2 Photography What do you get when you send a bunch of top-notch chefs to Colorado? TheFood & Wine Classic, an event that marked its 40th anniversary in Aspen this year. A slew of Food Network stars,Top Cheffavorites and other culinary masters came together in the mountains to toast food, wine and everything there is to love about cooking. Check out some of the best pics from the event....

Photo: ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty The Wednesday release of Trevor Reed, a former U.S. Marine held in Russia for nearly three years, may have appeared sudden — but it was in the works for years, as CNN details in anew report. The White House announcedReed’s releaseon Wednesday, with Russia’s Foreign Ministry saying his freedom was granted as part of a prisoner swap with Russian citizen Konstantin Yaroshenko. Reed was detained in Russia back in August 2019 and in 2020 wassentenced to nine yearsin prison for endangering the “life and health” of Russian police officers after a night of drinking — charges Reed has denied and which U....