Olivia Munn is sharing her emotional reaction to her double mastectomy and explaining how seeing her body for the first time post-surgery was a “shock to [her] system.” Munn said in a new interview that while her doctors assured her that she looked “fantastic” at her post-surgery checkup, she had “such a hard time” when she saw the aftermath of the 10-hour operation. “I remember just looking in the mirror with him and just having no emotion, just taking in what he was saying,” she told People. “When I got home, I undressed and looked in the mirror again, and that’s when I just absolutely ..read more

Kate Beckinsale appears to be out of the hospital and back home after a monthslong medical issue. The English actor was all smiles and back to her irreverent self in an Instagram series posted Tuesday. While the “Underworld” star didn’t directly state what had been ailing her, the T-shirt she wore in the images contained the biggest clue thus far: “Tummy Troubles Survivor,” it said, bearing an illustration of an armored bunny behind a medieval shield. The 50-year-old captioned her post with a muscle-flexing emoji and a white heart, but didn’t add further details. A few photos showed her dotin ..read more

Visitors at Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando experienced leg injuries, shortness of breath and loss of consciousness on rides at their theme parks in the first three months of 2024, a state report revealed Thursday. The document listed eight guest injuries at Disney and two at Universal from January through March. In January, a 63-year-old visitor injured her leg while leaving the ride vehicle for the Kilimanjaro Safaris at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park, and a 70-year-old guest fell and injured her leg while loading into Epcot’s Spaceship Earth&n ..read more

G7 foreign ministers meeting on Capril is issuing a message calling for “caution” after reports of blasts in Iran’s central Isfahan province during Israel’s overnight strikes, foreign minister Antonio Tajani told SkyTg24 news on Friday. “It will be a message addressed to everyone to urge caution’ that will come from the G7 underway in Capri after the Israeli attack on Iran overnight,” Tajani said. ”We want to send a de-escalation message,” said Tajani said, stressing that the G7 is working for a two peoples-two states solution to the longstanding confli ..read more

Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) signed a bill Wednesday that will require all Florida students to receive anti-communism education in school to highlight the “dangers and evils of Communism.” According to Spectrum News 13, Senate Bill 1264 will provide “age-appropriate instruction” on the history of communism for all Florida students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The outlet reported that the teachings will cover the “increasing threat” of communism, as well as the “atrocities” committed in the communist movement. In a Wednesday press release, the governor’s office noted that Senate Bill ..read more

Seven terrorists were killed while trying to infiltrate the Afghan-Pakistan border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district, the military’s media wing said on Wednesday. A statement from the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that the movement of the seven-member group was detected on Tuesday by security forces in the general area of Spinkai, Ghulam Khan. “The infiltrators were surrounded, effectively engaged and after an intense fire exchange, all seven territories were sent to hell. A large quantity of weapons, ammunition and explosives was also recovered,” the ISPR s ..read more

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine had several of his cars and other personal items seized from his home in Lake Worth, Fla., on Wednesday, as IRS agents and local police raided the residence. A video posted to social media shows several of the vehicles with papers taped to the windshield, identifying Tekashi by his legal name, Daniel Hernández, and claiming that his property was being seized for “nonpayment of internal revenue taxes.” The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office later confirmed to TMZ that they were dispatched to assist IRS agents in the area. Sources who witnessed the raid ..read more

Managers reportedly advised Toni Braxton against going public with her lupus diagnosis back in 2010. The 56-year-old singer-songwriter revealed in a recent sit-down that her handlers told her to hide her chronic illness out of fear it would impact her ability to get work. “People get scared around sick celebrities,” Braxton said on the latest episode of the SHE MD podcast, published Tuesday. “And I couldn’t get insured. … The second I was told I had [lupus], I didn’t get work at first.” “No one wanted to put me on a stage. ‘Well, suppose she collapsed on stage, and the insurance, how are ..read more

Health officials around the globe, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, are monitoring the ongoing avian influenza outbreak. Also known as bird flu, the highly contagious viral disease typically spreads among birds, but can also infect livestock and, in rare cases, humans. “Avian influenza is very common among migratory birds such as waterfowl,” says Dr. Matthew Binnicker, director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic. He adds that human infection is rare, occurring ..read more

California’s massive budget deficit, coupled with the state’s relatively high level of joblessness, has become a major barrier to reducing the billions of dollars of debt it has incurred to pay unemployment benefits. The surge in unemployment brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the state’s unemployment insurance trust into insolvency. And over the last year California’s joblessness has been on the upswing again, reaching 5.3% in February, the highest among all states. The March job numbers come out Friday. To keep the safety-net program operating at a time ..read more