Mitch McConnell during an event in Kentucky on Aug. 5, 2023.Photo:Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader vi­a AP Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader vi­a AP Longtime Republican Senate LeaderMitch McConnellfell after a gathering on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Dec. 10, according to several reports. The senior Kentucky senator, 82, fell while leaving a Senate GOP luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., per reports fromAxios,The HillandABC News. Mitch McConnell speaks with reporters after the Senate Republican Policy luncheon in Hart Building on Oct....

Mod Sun and Avril Lavigne.Photo: Mod Sun/Instagram It’s another year in the books for pop-punk princessAvril Lavigne— but regardless, “Here’s to Never Growing Up!” In honor of the special occasion on Tuesday, Lavigne’s fiancé and fellow punk-rocker Mod Sun dedicated a sweet birthday post to mark the milestone. “When I close my eyes it’s you I see. You’re the reason why my heart still beats. My love is yours eternally....

A Massachusetts mom is celebrating the arrival of her children —quadruplets in the form of two sets of identical twins— on Thursday. “The babies decided to make their entrance to the world sooner than expected,” mom Ashley Ness, 35, tells PEOPLE exclusively. “I feel amazing!” Ness' newborns were delivered after 28 weeks and two days — about 12 weeks earlier than a full-term pregnancy — and will spend roughly the next eight weeks at Mass General for Children, where they are already under the care of the staff in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, says a spokesperson for the hospitals....

LCSO “It was a normal day, I was outside monitoring parent-student drop-off when I saw a mother who appeared to be in distress. Initially, I didn’t know what was wrong, so I ran over to the mother,” Deputy Weaver tells PEOPLE. “She was frantic and holding her infant saying she had stopped breathing and was turning blue.” Deputy Weaver, whose heroic actions were captured on surveillance footage from the school, began performing back thrusts and chest compressions on the infant....

A parent giving car keys to a teen (stock image).Photo:Getty Getty A mother and daughter are squaring off over a missed driving practice session. The 56-year-old mother shared on Reddit’s popular"Am I The A——?" forumthat her 17-year-old daughter wanted to go out “practice driving” since she had her “learner’s permit,” and they had planned a date to do so, until a timing issue derailed the plans. The woman noted that she is a “single working mom” who cleans houses for a living — which she explained is a “physically demanding” job that makes her “exhausted” when she comes home from work most days....

Virginia Marie Stone.Photo: Charles County Sheriff’s OfficeA Maryland mother is behind bars this week for failing to seek medical care for her teenage daughter, who died in late 2020 from malnutrition, pneumonia and severe neglect, PEOPLE learns.A statement from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office alleges that Virginia Marie Stone, 45, “failed to provide adequate care” to her daughter, Elizabeth Marie Evening Star Stone, who was 18 when she died on September 30, 2020....

The body of a beloved Upstate New York English teacher who went missing in March was found in the woods of the Berkshires in Massachusetts, say police. On Monday, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner identified remains that were found in Lee on Friday as those of missing woman Meghan Marohn, 42, the Berkshire District Attorney’s Office confirmed to PEOPLE. On Thursday night, “a civilian discovered partial human remains in a heavily wooded area near Fox Drive,” Massachusetts State Police said in a statement....

Cordae and Naomi Osaka.Photo:Cassy Athena/Getty Cassy Athena/Getty Naomi OsakaandCordaehave ended their romance. On Monday, Jan. 6, the tennis star confirmed that she and the rapper, both 27, have broken up. “Hi everyone, just wanted to say that Cordae and I are no longer in a relationship,” Osaka wrote in an Instagram Story. She said there is “no bad blood at all” amid the split and described the rapper as a “great person and an awesome dad” to their daughter, Shai, who the couple welcomed in July 2023....

Billy Crudup, Sasha Schreiber and Naomi Watts.Photo:naomi watts/instagram naomi watts/instagram Naomi WattsandBilly Cruduphad a festive family vacation in Barbados! TheKing Kongactress, 56, recapped how she rang in the new year with a vacation photo dump that included cameos from Crudup, 56, as well asher two kids— Sasha, 17, and Kai, 16 — whom she shares with her exLiev Schreiber. “A perfect vacation in the sun. Thank you Barbados!! 🇧🇧 ♥️🏝️☀️🍹,” Watts captioned the Thursday, Jan....

Nashville Zoo has announced the birth of two clouded leopard cubs — one of the Tennessee zoo’s signature animals. On Wednesday,the Nashville Zoo announcedthat Jewels the clouded leopard gave birth to two cubs — a male and a female — on June 30. The cubs each weighed about half a pound at birth and measured around four inches in length. Cloud leopards are found in the tropical rainforests of Nepal, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, and China....

Sudiksha Konanki.Photo:linkedin linkedin Beth Holloway, the mother ofNatalee Holloway, has spoken out following thedisappearance of a 20-year-old college studentin the Dominican Republic. University of Pittsburgh studentSudiksha Konankiwas last seen early on the morning of March 6 on the beach at Riu Republica Resort in Punta Cana, Dominican authorities said. Konanki, who lived in Loudon County, Va., had been traveling with a group of six female Pittsburgh students. Natalee Holloway was an 18-year-old from Alabama on a high school graduation trip when she vanished on a beach in Aruba in 2005....

Seraphine Warren.Photo: Trailing Ellamae/Facebook After a 2,400-mile trek on foot, a Navajo woman whose aunt vanished over a year ago, arrived in Washington D.C. on a mission: to call attention to the growing number of murdered and missing Indigenous women whose cases go unsolved. According to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 63-year-old Ella Mae Begay disappeared from Sweetwater, Ariz., on June 15, 2021. “She never came back. She would not answer her phone calls or nothing,” her niece Seraphine Warren, who started walking on the anniversary of Begay’s disappearance this year, told the outlet in June....

In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE ahead of theNCIStribute episode to McCallum, airing Monday night, Dietzen, 46, reflects on the last conversation he had with the late actor a few days before his death. “I’ll say that I got to speak to him on his birthday, which was wonderful,” he says. “That was on a Tuesday. He ended up passing away that weekend, so he was already in the hospital and obviously not doing very well....