Hoda Kotb, Al Roker & Craig Melvin Open Megyn Kelly's Today Hour in First Show Since Cancellation

TheTodayshow is refreshing its third hour followingMegyn Kelly‘s blackface scandal. TodayanchorsCraig Melvin,Hoda Kotband Al Roker replaced Kelly in the show’s first 9 a.m. slot sinceNBC confirmed the disgraced anchor’s hour was canceledlast week. “Today, as you know, we are starting a new chapter in the third hour of our show as it evolves,” she said. “We want you to know that the entireTodayfamily will continue to bring you informative and important stories, just as we always have....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 373 words · Vincent Archer

HomeStar: Sega Planetarium Compy 386

For eons , scientists and their rascal progenitors have think that the stars in the sky were innumerable . Not so , friend . Sega has create a planetarium that shows just 10,000 of the most authoritative 1 , including a red blistering shot star function , for kicks . The HomeStar — yes , we experience , Strong Bad — costs $ 229.99 and lets you project the universe on your ceiling and walls ....

March 16, 2025 · 1 min · 154 words · Stephen Smith

How 'American Idol' Changed Luke Bryan's View of Parenting and Approach to Mental Health

While working onAmerican Idoldoesn’t directly involve his children,Luke Bryanis realizing that his time on the show has made him an even better parent. During the show’s season 18 premiere event on Wednesday, the 43-year-old country singer told PEOPLE of how his experience with the series’ contestants has changed him as a father, “I didn’t realizethat when I signed up for thisthat I would lay in bed at night wondering about these kids and praying for their well-being....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 506 words · Andrew Rogers

How 'OITNB' 's Danielle Brooks is Advocating for Body Positivity: 'I Love My Body'

AsDanielle Brooksprepares to be a first-time mom, spreading body positivity and acceptance has become even more important to theOrange Is the New Blackstar. Talking to SHAPE for its new cover story, the actress opened up about wanting her child to love whatever body they have. “I feel like the world has built these invisible bullets to bully us in telling us who we’re supposed to be and what we’re supposed to look like....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 401 words · James Price

How a Vegan Diet Helped this Mom Drop 153 Lbs.: 'I Love Food So Much More Now'

“I overate all the time,” Reid, now 36, tells PEOPLE for the2019 Half Their Size issue. “Food was just a big part of my family. My heritage is Caribbean, and it’s all about the rice and the meat and greasy foods that are good, but not good for you.” She remembers being a senior in high school and going with friends to the Miami Dade County Fair, only to have the trip end in embarrassment after one of the ride guardrails wouldn’t lock over her body....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 575 words · Devon Duffy

How Gloria Vanderbilt Coped After the Suicide of Her Son, Carter Cooper

Gloria Vanderbiltwas never the same after losing her son,Carter Cooper. Vanderbilt and her son,CNNanchor Anderson Cooper, opened up about the painful experience in a2016 interviewwith PEOPLE. At the time — 28 years after Carter’s tragic death — both said they still did not have closure. “The most terrible word in the English language, ‘closure,’ " Vanderbilt said at the time. “It doesn’t exist. There’s no such thing,” added Cooper, 52....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 442 words · Gregory Peterson

How I Parent: A Calif. Mom About to Have Two Under Two

What was your journey to having the family life you have today?For my husband and me, once we got married, we didn’t want to put pressure on each other about having kids. My husband was convinced that I was going to be the first one to bring it up but within our first year of marriage, he was the one to say he was ready for kids. I wanted to be married for at least a year but he would tell me all the time that he wanted kids and he didn’t want to be an old dad....

March 16, 2025 · 7 min · 1438 words · Pamela Mendez

How Mike Johnson, One of Congress' Staunchest Religious Conservatives, Became Second in Line to the President

Mike Johnson.Photo:SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty New House SpeakerMike Johnsoncame into the role fairly easily, considering the tumult that engulfed the Republican Party in the weeks leading up to his election. But that doesn’t mean his speakership will be without controversy. Already, Democrats have voiced concerns that the little-known Louisiana congressman could be among the most extreme House speakers in recent history. How Did Johnson Become House Speaker?...

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 600 words · Stephanie Gray

How NASA Mounts a Space Shuttle on an Airplane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNKW4CBj08I The Space Shuttle Endeavour just completed its final flight around California today and if you were question how a freaking place bird ends up on top of a 747 , well , watch the video above . It ’s a mounting process that ’s not unlike strapping a few motorcycle to your elevator car ’s roof ( only a teentsy bit more complicated ) . The Endeavour will now be on display at the California Science Center ....

March 16, 2025 · 1 min · 140 words · Jamie Schwartz

How Original Brady Bunch Cast Honored Florence Henderson and TV Christmases Past on HGTV Special

hgtv “Uniting together was the most fun,” said Williams, 65. “We’ve never truly spent Christmas together as a group, so it was really special.” McCormick agreed: “Everybody’s been off doing different things, so we were reminiscing, but also making new memories today as adults, celebrating where we all are in our lives. I discovered new things about all these people that I love, and that was really a beautiful thing for me because that show meant so much to me and the people mean so much to me....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 471 words · Katie Mitchell

How Pop TV President Brad Schwartz Took a Winning Gamble on 'Schitt's Creek'

Photo: Eric Charbonneau/SHOWTIME “You never know how big a show will become, but we had done a lot of research, and this show was a perfect fit for what we wanted to be, and the white space we saw in the market,” Schwartz says, noting that at the time, most networks were concentrating on dark dramas or reality progamming. He adds, “The fact that comedic legend Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara were involved also didn’t hurt....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 425 words · Richard Thomas

How Queen Camilla's Campaign on Domestic Abuse Inspired Royal Family Friend to Write Her Story

Queen Camilla’s long-running campaign to counter domestic abuse helped inspireLady Anne Glenconnerto highlight her own painful story. Glenconner, 90, who is a longtime friend of the royal family and was a coronation maid to the lateQueen Elizabeth II, gives a graphic account of the physical abuse she suffered at the hands of her late husband in her second memoir,Whatever Next?Lessons from an Unexpected Life,out on Feb. 21. Lord Colin Glenconner’s vindictive and sadistic behavior was so bad that once he beat her so hard with a walking stick that she lost the hearing in one ear, she recounts....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 650 words · Sara Lopez

How Simmering Racial Tensions Led to Innocent Mom's Murder: 'They Were Waiting to Ambush Someone'

In the summer of 1969, Lillie Belle Allen found herself at the wrong place and at the wrong time. Every year, the 27-year-old divorced mother-of-two would drive her children and her parents from their home in Aiken, S.C., to York, Pa., to visit family and friends before heading to New York. But this annual visit turned into a tragedy when they found themselves in the middle of citywide riots in York erupting from long-simmering racial tensions....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 305 words · James Robinson