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Ukraine’s PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy, a former actor-comediannow leading his country’s defenseagainstRussian invaders, says he does not shield his children from the horrors of war — because, though he is aware of the toll, he wants them to understand the sacrifice their fellow citizens are making. “My children know for sure what is happening and I don’t know whether it’s good or bad,” Zelenskyy, 44,told Fareed Zakariaon CNN’sGPSon Sunday. The president and his wife, Ukraine’s First LadyOlena Volodymyrivna Zelenska, have a daughter, 17-year-old Oleksandra, and a 9-year-old son, Kyrylo....

Zijie Yan, UNC-Chapel Hill associate professor who died in an on-campus shooting on Aug. 28.Photo:UNC Chapel Hill UNC Chapel Hill A UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student has been charged with first-degree murder inthe fatal shootingof an associate professor inside one of the North Carolina campus’s science labs on Monday, UNC Police said in a statement provided to PEOPLE. Tailei Qi, 34, was charged in the killing of Zijie Yan, an associate professor at UNC’s Department of Applied Physical Sciences....

For years, JoAnn Zywicki has wondered who killed her daughter, Tammy Zywicki, back in 1992 on her drive back to college before the start of her senior year. Athletic, upbeat and a talented amateur photographer, Tammy, 21, vanished on Aug. 23, 1992, after her car broke down on I-80 in Illinois, near LaSalle. Prior to her disappearance, she had dropped her brother off at Northwestern University in Evanston and was heading to Grinnell College in Iowa....

Vaccine.Photo: Getty New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that unvaccinated adults age 50 and over are muchmore likely to be hospitalizedafter contracting COVID-19 than their vaccinated peers. Compared to those that received a third shot as a booster, unvaccinated individuals age 65 and older were 49 times more likely to be hospitalized after contracting COVID-19, while those aged 50 to 64 are 44 times more likely....

An observant UPS driver from North Carolina is being credited with saving an elderly customer’s life last week after a “gut feeling” compelled him to enter the man’s house. During his 25 years as a UPS driver, Navy veteran Todd Holland has gotten to know the residents who live on his Ashe County route. According toYahoo,one of Holland’s friendliest customers is a man in his eighties who routinely waits on his back porch and greets him when he makes a delivery....

Usher in March 2023; Dr. Dre in May 2023.Photo:Daniele Venturelli/Getty; John Shearer/WireImage Daniele Venturelli/Getty; John Shearer/WireImage Usheris showing his love to one of hip-hop’s greatest. During hisMy Way Las Vegas Residencylast Friday, the R&B icon, 45, took a moment to shout outDr. Dre, who was in the audience. Audience memberscapturedthe thoughtful moment in which the performer came over to the rapper/record producer, 58. Usher during his My Way residency.Denise Truscello/Getty...

Tameka Foster in 2017.Photo:Tiffany Rose/Getty Tiffany Rose/Getty More than a decade after the son ofUsher’s ex-wifeTameka Foster—Kile Glover— died tragically in Atlanta’s Lake Lanier, the fashion stylist is asking for the body of water to be drained. In May, Foster launched aChange.orgpetition to “drain, clean, restore and improve safety measures at Lake Lanier,” citing her11-year-old son’s deathas one of “multiple tragic incidents that have resulted in the loss of innocent lives” at the location....

Photo:Getty Getty A Utah school district has banned the Bible for “vulgarity and violence” after the state’s Republican legislature passed alaw banning books deemed “pornographic or indecent"from schools. TheSalt Lake Tribunereports that the Davis School District (which lies north of Salt Lake City) has limited access to the King James Version of the Bible to high school–aged students only, following a December 2022 complaint from a parent who wished to draw attention to the pitfalls of the GOP-backed law....

Val Kilmeris opening up about his life, career and recovering from throat cancer in hismoving new documentaryVal. In thefirst trailer for the film, Kilmer shares an intimate look at his life through home movies, which also feature glimpses of a youngKevin BaconandSean Penn. At one point in the trailer, the 61-year-old actor uses his voice box to communicate how he has “tried to see the world as one piece of life....

Val Kilmer inTop Gun(1986).Photo: Paramount/Kobal/Shutterstock Val Kilmer’s Tom “Iceman” Kazansky makes an unforgettable appearance inTop Gun: Maverick— with a little help from science. Inan August 2021 blog post, Sonantic co-founder and CEO John Flynn previously said they “generated more than 40 different voice modelsand selected the best, highest-quality, most expressive one” for Kilmer. “Those new algorithms are now embedded into our Voice Engine, so future clients can automatically take advantage of them as well,” he continued....

Photo: Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/APThe vast majority ofwomen who get an abortion— 99 percent — feel that their choice was the correct decision five years later, a new study finds.Researchers at the University of California at San Francisco sought to track the emotions of women in the weeks, months and years after they have an abortion in a wide-ranging study of 667 women from 30 spots around the U.S., published Sunday in the journalSocial Science & Medicine....

Steve Lodgeis an engaged man again. The retired police officer, whoran for governor of California in the Gavin Newsom recall electionthis past September, popped the question to his girlfriend Janis Carlson last month, PEOPLE can exclusively report. “I did ask Janis on December 20th if she would become Mrs. Steve Chavez Lodge, and she happily agreed,” Lodge, 63, said in a statement. “We will be married in April 2022.” “We are both very excited, incredibly happy, totally in love and look forward to our life together,” he added....

Abdolvahab Alaghmandan.Photo: courtesy Megan Staker “I was just always so worried about him getting COVID,” says Staker, 37. Alaghmandan, 63, avoided contracting the virus — but he died at work on Wednesday when he was one ofnine people killedat the light rail yard. The shooter, a fellow VTA employee, took his own life when police responded to the scene. “I can’t believe he’s gone. He shouldn’t be gone,” Staker says....