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01of 10The Big Revealgetty images (2)Upon winning MVP of the NFL in 2021, Rodgers made a virtual appearance during the NFL Honors broadcast to accept his award — andmade a surprise announcement.“It’s an honor to win this award for the third time. 2020 was definitely a crazy year filled with lots of change and growth, some amazing memorable moments. 180 straight days of having my nose hair scraped, playing for very little fans or no stands the entire season,” he said on Feb....

Photo: Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty Active shooter drills may be commonplace in schools across the country, but many experts have raised concern that the simulationscan be traumatic. Meant as a way to prepare students in therare eventof a school shooting, the drills can be very realistic. “What more schools are starting to do is to actually simulate what an active shooter situation would be like, which means they’re having someone dress up pretending to be the active shooter,” Melissa Reeves, a professor at Winthrop University and the former president of the National Association of School Psychologists, recently toldNPR....

Adam Brody (left) and Leighton Meester.Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer/GettyAdam Brodywas head over heels forLeighton Meestersince the moment they first met.TheFleishman Is in Troublestar, 43, gushed about his wife, 37,on the latest episodeof the Stitcher Studious podcastPodcrushedwhile detailing how their relationship began.“I think the first time I saw her is when I met her at Canters, the Deli in Los Angeles,” recalled Brody while speaking with hostsPenn Badgley, Sophie Ansari, and Nava Kavelin....

Adam Driver on August 31, 2023.Photo:Maria Moratti/Getty Maria Moratti/Getty Adam Drivergot testy with an audience member at aFerrariscreening. On Sunday, avideo on X(formerly known as Twitter) circulated showing Driver, 39, answering questions from audience members following a recent screening of his new movie atPoland’s Camerimage Film Festival. In thevideo, an audience member can be heard asking Driver for his thoughts on how the movie depicts car crashes. The audience member says one scene in question “looked harsh, rustic, and I must say, cheesy for me,” before asking Driver, “What do you think?...

Photo:Scott Yamano/Netflix Scott Yamano/Netflix Critics are diggingAdam Sandler’s latest movie! Sandler’s latest movieYou Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvahnow stands as the actor and comedian’s highest-rated movie of his career onRotten Tomatoes. The Netflix film garnered a 96% critical rating, meaning 96% of the 49 critics who have officially reviewed the movie granted the film a net positive reaction. Prior to the new family comedy’s release, the 2022 Netflix-Sandler collaborationHustleheld that title with a 93% critical rating based on 168 reviews....

Photo: Jim Spellman/Getty Adrien BrodyandGeorgina Chapmanare going strong! On Saturday evening, the 48-year-old actor and his fashion designer girlfriend, 45, made their red carpet debut at theTribeca Film Festivalpremiere of the crime thrillerCleanin New York City. Seen linked arm in arm with one another, the pair posed for photographers with warm smiles. For the occasion, Brody donned a maroon suit with a matching undershirt, which he paired with a pair of black dress shoes....

Nex Benedict.Photo:Go Fund Me Go Fund Me More than 350 advocacy groups and LGBTQ+ activists wrote an open letter this week calling for the immediate removal of an Oklahoma state superintendent following the death ofNex Benedict. The groups allege Walters “has a long history of anti-2SLGBTQI+ (two spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex+) rhetoric and policies” and they’re calling for an investigation into the Oklahoma Department of Education “to determine what actions and policies have led to a culture where rampant harassment of 2SLGBTQI+ students has been allowed to go unchecked....

Photo: Wisconsin Department of Corrections Nearly 250 people — including legal experts, politicians, psychologists and falsely convicted former inmates —signed an open letterto Wisconsin’s governor requesting clemency forBrendan Dassey, whose murder conviction was featured in the 2015 Netflix docuseriesMaking a Murderer. Dassey, 30, is serving a life sentence for first-degree intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse and sexual assault in connection with 25-year-old Teresa Halbach’s death in 2005. Making a Murderercast a critical light on theconvictions of both Dassey and his uncle Steven Avery....

Photo: Tech. Sgt. Zachary Boyer/U.S. Air Force A pregnant Afghan woman, who wasfleeing the Taliban in Kabul, went into labor on Saturday as she and her family evacuated aboard a U.S. Air Force plane. The unnamed mother boarded the C-17 cargo plane with her husband and their other young child before meeting an aeromedical staging squadron at a base in the Middle East and moving on to Ramstein Air Base in Germany, PEOPLE confirms....

Photo: courtesy Trenton BarfieldTrenton Barfield didn’t think he could catch COVID.Then on spring break last year, he started feeling sick. When he got home, he tested positive for COVID. He began texting friends and family members, worried that he had gotten them sick too.Now, the 18-year-old high school senior at Airline High Schoolin Bossier City, Louisiana is an ambassador for the non-profitTeens for Vaccines. He now works to convince others – including his father, who is against vaccines – to take get the shot....

Dexter the dog is the Internet’s latest obsession. The 6-year-oldBrittany Spanielhas gone viral on social media thanks to his impressive ability to walk significant distances in his hometown of Ouray, Colorado while standing on his hind legs. “Everyone in town knows him,” Dexter’s owner, Kentee Pasek, told9 Newsof the canine, who only has trouble using his front legs due to a past accident. “In fact, they know him now more than they know us....

Before Rebecca* learned she was eight weeks and one day pregnant, there were weeks when the thought hadn’t even crossed her mind. But in mid-September, after realizing she “wasn’t feeling myself for a series of days,” Rebecca decided to take an at-home pregnancy test “to get peace of mind.” “I wanted to rule that out and think it was maybe something else, just other environmental circumstantial things that I hadn’t considered,” she tells PEOPLE....

Sarah Krivanek in a meeting room at the Russian penal colony.Photo: Prisoner Monitoring Service Sarah Krivanek’s wellbeing remains a concern for activists and loved ones, heightened after an official saw the American woman’s condition in person for the first time since she was imprisoned in Russia. Natalia Filimonova, a prisoner’s rights activist working for nonprofit organization Russia Behind Bars, organized a visit from the state-run Prisoner Monitoring Service recently. She tells PEOPLE that foreign inmates do not have access to money and supplies from family and friends abroad “so they find themselves in a critical situation if their health deteriorates....