Author: Susan Hauser

After nearly three decades of marriage, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos have developed a communication style that is efficient, honest, and — as it turns out — dental-appliance-dependent. The morning television hosts provided their audience with an unexpectedly candid peek behind the curtain of their long-running marriage this week on “Live with Kelly and Mark,” when a segment about koala mating habits took a sharp and very personal turn. The moment began innocuously enough. Consuelos was discussing the mating behavior of koalas — specifically, how a female koala signals her disinterest by simply turning her back on a prospective mate.…

When The Beatles dissolved, Paul McCartney lost more than a band. He lost the framework around which his entire professional identity had been built. What came next — the uncertainty, the freedom, the grief of an ending he hadn’t chosen — required something he hadn’t expected to find in a two-word phrase from his wife. In the new documentary “Paul McCartney: Man on the Run,” directed by Morgan Neville, the 83-year-old music legend reflects with remarkable candor on that period of his life — and on the woman whose outlook on the world quietly remade his own. The Beatles’ breakup…

In the chaotic aftermath of a serious car crash, most people worry about their physical wellbeing. Tiger Woods, it turns out, had something else on his mind almost immediately: his golf clubs. Newly released bodycam footage from the March 27 crash in Jupiter Island, Florida, captures an unexpectedly human moment amid the wreckage — a quiet but revealing exchange between a deputy and Woods’ manager about the irreplaceable contents of a crushed trunk, and the lengths authorities went to in order to protect them. Woods’ 2025 Range Rover had rolled onto its driver’s side in the collision. Nearly two hours…

A South Florida community is grappling with grief and shock after one of its most prominent local officials was found dead inside her own home. Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen was discovered by police officers on Wednesday morning at approximately 10 a.m., after authorities initiated a check on her well-being. By midday, her husband was in custody and the city was searching for words. Coral Springs Police Chief Brad Mock confirmed the death is being investigated as a domestic violence incident, and said that Stephen Bowen, the vice mayor’s husband, had been taken into police custody. The chief…

For patients diagnosed with glioblastoma, the statistics are devastating. It is among the most aggressive brain cancers known to medicine, and despite decades of research, survival rates have not meaningfully improved in 20 years. A typical patient lives just 12 to 18 months after diagnosis. That sobering context is precisely what makes a new study from the University of Calgary worth paying attention to — even if the findings are early, small in scale, and come with significant caveats. Researchers found that adding high-dose vitamin B3, also known as niacin, to standard glioblastoma treatment was associated with a notable improvement…

The nation’s first municipal reparations program is heading to court — and a federal judge has decided the case is worth hearing. On Friday, U.S. District Judge John F. Kness rejected the City of Evanston, Illinois’ attempt to have a constitutional lawsuit against its reparations initiative thrown out, allowing the case brought by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch to move forward. The ruling represents a significant legal moment for a program that has been celebrated by reparations advocates and condemned by its critics in equal measure since it became the first of its kind in the United States. Evanston made…

Protecting your heart may not require a complete reinvention of your daily routine. According to a major new study, the cumulative effect of a few modest, consistent changes — including barely more than ten additional minutes of sleep each night — could meaningfully reduce your risk of serious cardiovascular disease. The findings, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, challenge the assumption that only dramatic lifestyle transformations produce significant health outcomes. Instead, the research suggests that incremental, sustainable shifts may carry more power than previously understood. The study tracked the habits and health outcomes of more than 53,000 adults…

Last week, a group of American left-wing influencers and public figures traveled to Cuba, describing their visit as an aid mission. Fox News contributor David Marcus isn’t buying it. In his view, what unfolded on the island looked far less like humanitarian outreach and far more like a carefully staged political photo opportunity — one that, he argues, inadvertently revealed something uncomfortable about where a vocal segment of the American left stands ideologically. “The entire episode would be hilarious,” Marcus writes, “if it were not for the horrendous suffering of the Cuban people.” The figure Marcus focuses on most heavily…

For 29 years, Chuck Norris had no idea a daughter of his existed somewhere in the world. Then, in 1991, a letter arrived in his mailbox that would alter the course of his life. It was from a woman named Dina — and she believed he was her father. The legendary martial artist and actor, who passed away on March 19, 2026, at age 86 in Hawaii, later chronicled the stunning revelation and its emotional aftermath in his 2004 memoir, “Against All Odds.” To understand how Dina came to exist, Norris looked back to August 1962 — one week before…

What began as a late-night punchline quickly became something considerably more combustible. On Tuesday night, Jimmy Kimmel used his ABC monologue to take aim at Markwayne Mullin, the newly confirmed Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security — and the joke he chose to land on was Mullin’s pre-political career as a plumber. By Wednesday, the bit had ignited a sharp and wide-ranging debate about class, condescension, and exactly what late-night television reveals about the cultural assumptions of those who make it. Kimmel introduced Mullin to his audience with deliberate mockery, mangling his name before zeroing in on his biography.…