The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.Photo:Getty Getty The Golden Gate Bridge is almost finished adding safety nets. The goal of the project – which began in 2018 – is to help prevent suicides from occurring. According to a page on thebridge’s website, the The Suicide Deterrent System, also known as the Safety Net, will be placed 20 feet below the sidewalk, extending 20 feet out from the bridge....
Sandra OhandAndy Sambergare in the building. Can’t get enough of the Globes? Check outour full Golden Globes coveragefor the latest news, fashion and more. Samberg went on to quip that his least favorite race of people is “the Hollywood half-marathon.” They also offered upthe Oscarshosting gig in the wake of Kevin Hart stepping down following backlash over old homophobic tweets. “We are gonna have some fun, give out some awards and one lucky audience will hostthe Oscars!...
McCarthy, 57,spoke to reporters from outlets including Axiosafter Cawthorn, 26, raised eyebrows with his recent appearance on a podcast in which he claimed that some older lawmakers had allegedly invited him to participate in orgies while others had done “key bumps of cocaine” in front of him. “It’s just frustrating. There’s no evidence behind his statements,” McCarthy said, per Axios. “And when I sit down with him … I told him you can’t make statements like that, as a member of Congress, that affects everybody else and the country as a whole....
Gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.Photo: Courtesy San Diego Zoo Gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park have tested positive for thenovel coronavirus(COVID-19), the zoo announced Monday. The preliminary tests detected COVID-19 on Friday, and the The U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) confirmed the positive results Monday. The park’s executive director, Lisa Peterson, said in a statement that the gorillas are doing well aside from some coughing and congestion....
Photo: Sam Greenwood/Getty “I thought, ‘Not today.’ There was no way I was going to die,” 46-year-old grandmother DeDe Phillips of Hart County, Georgia, tells theAthens-Banner Heraldof her terrifying encounter with a rabid bobcat on June 7. The wild animal attack, which was unprovoked, occurred in Phillips’ yard around 6 p.m. The woman had walked out of the house with her cell phone, wondering why her neighbor’s dog was barking....
Photo: Go Fund Me A Texas family is mourning the loss of one of their own. Trisha Ragland was one of seven people, including four children, who were hospitalized on Tuesday night after a fire broke out at a family home in Bryan, according to local CBS affiliateKBTX. When firefighters responded to the blaze, the house was already engulfed in flames and smoke, per the outlet. “My husband, myself and my mother-in-law and then our three children and my niece were trapped in the house last night,” Brittany McPeake told KBTX in an interview....
Photo: Granger Smith/Instagram. Inset: Michael Loccisano/Getty The newest member of the Smith family is here! GrangerandAmber Smithwelcomed their fourth child together, son Maverick Beckham Smith, on Friday, Aug. 20, the proud dadannounced the same dayon Instagram.The newborn arrived at 12:45 p.m. CT in Round Rock, Texas, and weighed 7 lbs., measuring 20 inches long. “He’s here! Wow…so many emotions,” Granger wrote on Instagram, sharing a photo of Amber and their newborn son in the hospital....
Photo: USA Network/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Grayson Chrisleyhas been having a hard time since his parentsToddandJulie Chrisleybegan theirprison sentencesforfinancial crimesin January. The 17-year-old opened up on his older sisterSavannah Chrisley’sUnlockedpodcast about how flying back and forth to visit his parents has made him “bitter.” “I struggle going back to back weeks because I’m in that mood… and then I go and start it all over again. You never really get out of it,” he said, adding that “some days or weeks are harder than others....
Even before she was the Duchess of Sussex,Meghan Marklehad an air of royalty about her. Runawaysstar Gregg Sulkin starred alongside the actress-turned-duchess in the 2015 filmAnti-Social –and he’s not surprised that Meghan has adjusted nicely to royal life. “Everybody does know her as a princess, but in real life, she genuinely is also like a princess,” Sulkin, 26, said onFair Game with Kristine Leahy.“She is one of the classiest, the nicest, one of the most sincere and genuine people I’ve ever met....
Here’s something to be grumpy about: Grumpy Cat, the furry feline who started as an Internet meme sensation before becoming a household name, has died. She was 7. Grumpy’s caretakers — Tabatha Bundesen, her brother Bryan Bundesen and her daughter Crystal Bundesen, all of Morristown, Arizona —announced the news on Friday morningin a touching message to the cat’s more than 12.4 million followers across social media. They explained that the cat had died “peacefully” in Tabatha’s arms on Tuesday morning, due to complications from a recent urinary tract infection that “unfortunately became too tough to overcome....
Gwen Stefaniand her kids are celebrating Blake Shelton in style. The family of five posed together in front of Shelton’s star, with Shelton, 46, standing between his wife and boys. “I kind of stopped checking things off my list of great accomplishments in my life when I married Gwen, so this is just icing on the cake,” said theBoys ‘Round Heresinger at the ceremony. “I love you so much, and that’s the great thing that’s happened along this journey....
Gwyneth Paltrowknew she wouldn’t want to act forever when she was just 26. In a new interview on SiriusXM’sQuarantined with Bruce,the Oscar winner, 45, says she was in her mid-twenties, fresh off an Oscar win forShakespeare in Love, when she realized she didn’t “love acting that much as it turns out.” “I sort of felt like, well, now who am I supposed to be?” she added. “Like, what am I, what am I driving towards?...
Photo: LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images Oksana Chusovitinawas filled with emotions after her record-extending eighth Olympics. The 46-year-old gymnast’s time in Tokyo came to an end afterSunday’s qualifying roundand afterwards she was met with overwhelming support from gymnasts around the world. Chusovitina, a gymnast from Uzbekistan, performed two vaults in hopes of making the top eight and qualifying for the event final. However, her average score of 14.166 wasn’t high enough to advance, ending her Olympic run....
