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On Tuesday, two-time Cy Young winnerRoy Halladaywas voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, 14 months after the 40-year-old perished when the two-seater plane he was piloting crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. Halladay, who earned the nickname “Doc” during his 16-year MLB career split between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Toronto Blue Jays, was voted into the Cooperstown museum along with other legendary players like New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera, whobecame the first-ever unanimous selection....

TheGolden Globes‘ best supporting actress category was a competitive one this year, but the award went toLaura Dern! “My first time here I was 14 years old, it’s a great honor to be with you again tonight,” Dern said in her speech. “We long to be of service to give voice to the voiceless. And thanks to the brilliant Noah Baumbach, I got to do just that — give voice, pay tribute, to the divorce lawyer....

Lauren Boebert.Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Colorado Rep.Lauren Boebertis switching Congressional districts in the 2024 race, announcing on Wednesday she will run in the state’s 4th Congressional District. The switch comes as Republicans look to keep their narrow House majority in 2024 and as 37-year-old Boebert was expected to face a tough reelection bid for her current district, Colorado’s 3rd. The 4th district is more solidly Republican. In anannouncement videoshared to social media , the Republican said of the change, “It’s the right move for me personally, and it’s the right decision for those who support our conservative movement....

June “Mama June” Shannon, Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson and Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannon with daughter Ella.Photo: Paras Griffin/Getty After more than a year of not seeing their mother,Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannonis opening up about the “emotional” reunion she and sister Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson had withJune “Mama June” Shannon. “Before when mom called us and [said], ‘You want to meet up?’ it had been a year. It had been a year since we’ve seen her and the last time I seen her was when you all saw last season, me sit down on the couch with her, and that was not the same person that I met this time,” Pumpkin, 21, tells PEOPLE....

Rioters at the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021.Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty U.S. lawmakers, both Republican and Democratic, have denounced President Donald Trump and his supporters’ storming of the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday. “This is a coup attempt,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican,tweeted. Vice President Mike Pencecalledon the rioters to “stop now” and leave the building, saying violence “will not be tolerated and those involved will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law....

LeAnn Rimes is mourning the loss of her beloved dog Eveie. “This is one of the most difficult, heartbroken moments our whole family has ever experienced,” Rimes captioned a slideshow of photos of Eveie on Instagram. “She’d look in your eyes and speak deeply into you without any words. Eddie, the boys and myself are left with such a hole in our family and in our hearts. She was our daughter, our boy’s best friend,” Rimes said of her husbandEddie Cibrianand his sons Jake, 11, and Mason, 15, with exBrandi Glanville....

Photo: Mike Ehrmann/GettyLeBron Jamesis continuing to make history.On Monday,PWCC Marketplaceannounced that an autographed rookie basketball card of the sports star, 36, sold for $5.2 million, making it the most expensive basketball card ever sold.The card, a 2003-2004 Upper Deck Exquisite Basketball rookie card, is now tied with a1952 Mickey Mantle cardfor the most expensive sports card to ever be sold. That card sold in January of this year, through PWCC as well....

A New York woman is thankful to be alive after her son, who is legally blind, came to her rescue last week. Danette Rivera, 47, was at home in Queens on Sept. 1 when the remnants ofHurricane Idacamebarreling up the East Coast, according to theNew York Daily News. Eventually, she was able to open up a small window leading outside to call for help — and fortunately, her 29-year-old son Justin heard her....

As she reflects on her health journey,Lena Dunhamis proud of how far she’s come. “What a difference a year makes,” Dunham started. “First photo was indeed a year ago today, on the first night after my hysterectomy for severe endometriosis. I was smiling but my eyes say it all: full of anxiety and grief that I couldn’t locate through the layers of pain meds and benzos.” “Severe undiagnosed PTSD, feelings that my worth and purpose were being taken from me, angry and self-pitying with no sense of how I’d emerge,” she continued....

Lena Dunhamis speaking out about the controversy at her alma mater Oberlin College, where international students are citing the campus dining services’s cuisine as culturally appropriative. “There are now big conversations at Oberlin, where I went to college, about cultural appropriation and whether the dining hall sushi and Banh Mi disrespect certain cuisines,” the actress toldFood & Wine. “The press reported it as, ‘How crazy are Oberlin kids?’ But to me, it was actually, ‘Right on....

Photo: NetflixLeonardo DiCaprioandJennifer Lawrenceare about to star in one epic team up with a whole bunch of Oscar winners involved.DiCaprio and Lawrence, who have both won Oscars in the last decade, play the lead roles in Adam McKay’sDon’t Look Up. Fans had previously gotten a look at both stars in the movie while they filmed in Boston, but Netflix finally released an official teaser of the film in its star-studded 2021 lineup preview....

Leonardo DiCapriois reunited with directorMartin Scorseseagain in the new trailer forKillers of the Flower Moon. On Thursday, Apple Original Films debuted the first trailer for the film, which is an adaptation of David Grann’s 2017 bookKillers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. Set in 1920s Oklahoma, the movie is about the serial killings of members of Osage Nation, who became wealthy because of the oil discovered on their land....

Leslie Jonesis departing the cast ofSaturday Night Liveafter five seasons,according to multiple reports.The comedian and actress, 51, first joined the NBC comedy sketch series in 2014 as a writer. She quickly became a prominent cast member during the “Weekend Update” segments, earning three Emmy nominations during her five seasons.Jones will now be focusing on hernew Netflix standup special, set to air in 2020. The special will begin filming in Washington, D....