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Nastia Liukin’s been on the Olympic podium — and now, she’s covering the women who’ve stood on it in Tokyo. It also has her reflecting on some of the pressure that comes with that. “It’s hard to not put pressure on yourself just because you know that you’ve trained your whole entire life essentially for almost this one goal and this one dream,” the five-time medalist says. “And so, there’re nerves, there’s pressure, there are expectations....

Nathan Phillips.Photo: Michael Nigro/Sipa This not the first time Nathan Phillips has made headlines. Long before the world got to know the 64-year-old seen drumming and singing during a controversial faceoffwith Kentucky high schooler Nick Sandmannin the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial on Friday, his fellow Native American activists were familiar with his work. Back in 2000, Phillips, an elder in the Omaha tribe, camped out with his wife and two kids for the month of November in teepees near the National Mall in Washington, D....

The family of a retired Navy chief has been left heartbroken and confused after his body was discovered on the floor of his Texas apartment, close to three years after he had died. Doris Stevens is struggling to come to terms with the mysterious death of her son Ronald Wayne White, who she said had been missing since 2016, WFAAreports. “I can’t hardly cope with it, to be honest with you,” she told the outlet....

Mark Frerichs. PresidentJoe Bidenon Sunday called on the Taliban to release Navy veteran Mark Frerichs, who was taken hostage in Afghanistan two years ago while working as a civil engineer. Frerichs, Biden said, “has done nothing wrong” and yet is still being held captive. Biden, 79, said in his statement that the U.S. government would not recognize the legitimacy of the Taliban — which took over much of the country amid last year’s American withdrawal, ending a 20-year war — until Frerichs is released....

Photo: Brian Babineau/NBAE via Getty Tacko Fall, the NBA’s tallest player, recently got a concussion after hitting his head ahead of Wednesday’s game between the Boston Celtics and the Philadelphia 76ers, according toMassLive. Fall, who is 7’6″, told the outlet that he was trying to wash his hands after a workout when he bumped his head on a “low ceiling.” While at the time, the 23-year-old center thought nothing of it, he woke up in pain the following morning — and ultimately entered the NBA concussion protocol program....

Photo: neil patrick harris/ instagram Neil Patrick HarrisandDavid Burtkaare celebrating their love! Harris, 48, and Burtka, 46, honored their seventh wedding anniversary on Monday with sweet Instagram tributes. For Harris' post, heshared a casual photoof the couple posing in swim trunks. “Seven years ago today, we got married in Italy. Last week, we were swimming in Croatia,” theHow I Met Your Motheralum captioned his post. “Who knows where we’ll wind up next, but there is no one I’d rather travel the world with than you, David Burtka....

Looks likeBrad Pittdidn’t have a spring fling with a professor after all. Neri Oxmanhas “emphatically” denied ever dating the Oscar winner after the two were briefly linked in the spring,in a new profile in theNew York Times. Pitt, 54, and Oxman, 42, reportedly met through an architecture project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she works as a professor of media arts and sciences at the school’s Media Lab. Although Oxman put the rumors to rest in the article, she admitted to wanting to collaborate on a project with the actor....

Photo: Sabrina Lantos/Netflix Sex/Lifeis the latest series to get the boot. A Netflix spokesperson confirmed to PEOPLE on Friday that the drama series, starringSarah Shahi, hasbeen canceledafter two seasons. News of the cancellation comes one month after season 2 premiered on March 2. It came off the tail of a buzzed-about first season, which hada viral, spicy shower sceneand sparked a real-life relationship between Shahi and costarAdam Demos. Shahi, 43, recently describedthe pair’s onscreen working relationshipas “easy....

01of 16Phoebe DynevorThe 25-year-old actress plays the diamond of the season, Daphne Bridgerton.You can follow her Instagramhereif you like behind-the-scenes photos, outfit inspo and her incredible bangs. 01of 16 Phoebe Dynevor The 25-year-old actress plays the diamond of the season, Daphne Bridgerton. You can follow her Instagramhereif you like behind-the-scenes photos, outfit inspo and her incredible bangs. 02of 16Regé-Jean PagePage plays the swoon-worthy Simon Bassett a.k.a. the Duke of Hastings in the Regency-era drama....

Catsis almost here! A second trailer for the star-studded big screen adaptation of the hit musical debuted on Tuesday, giving fans further insight into the transformations the A-list cast undergoes to play singing cats. Taylor SwiftinCats.Universal Pictures UK Universal Pictures UK Judi Dench.Universal Pictures UK Rebel Wilson as Jennyanydots.Universal Pictures UK One of the film’s starsTaylor Swiftrecently unveiled her original song for the film, “Beautiful Ghosts.”...

PresidentDonald Trump‘s 2020 re-election campaignhas been the butt of jokesacross the internet in recent days after bizarre attempts to defend his record, includingediting his head onto a teenage girl’s bodyon the cover of TIME. Someone who isn’t laughing? The Joker himself — aka Trump’s latest booster. In a Batman comic released last week,Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child, the supervillain is shown campaigning for a hateful governor (and clear Trump stand-in) who’s running for re-election with the aid of an antagonist group....

After a 2007 battle with breast cancer left her unable to conceive a child biologically,Hoda Kotbthought she wouldnever be a mother. Now with two beautiful daughters —Hope Catherine, 3 weeks, andHaley Joy, 2 — theTodayshow host tells PEOPLE for this week’s issue that she isn’t ruling out the possibility of adopting a third child with boyfriendJoel Schiffman. “I come from three, so I’d never close a door, ever, ever,” says Kotb, 54....

A new study has found that anal cancer is on the rise in the United States. On Tuesday theJournal of the National Cancer Institutepublished research indicating a dramatic increase in anal cancer rates and mortality across the United States, particularly among young black men and the elderly. “Our findings of the dramatic rise in incidence among black millennials and white women, rising rates of distant-stage disease, and increases in anal cancer mortality rates are very concerning,” Ashish A....