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  • Celebrities speak out about postpartum hair loss: What moms need to know

    One of the most common, and yet still one of the most surprising, postpartum occurrences for new moms is hair loss. "Four months postpartum my whole hairline fell out, and now I have a bunch of cowlicks from all the baby hair growing in," supermodel Ashley Graham told the New York Times in October, nine months after giving birth to her first child, a son.

  • 'The Bachelorette' recap: Tayshia chooses her final four suitors

    Host Chris Harrison gathered some of the most unforgettable men from season 16 on Monday's "The Men Tell All" episode of "The Bachelorette," but first, Tayshia had to make some tough decisions of her own — whose families will she meet for the hometown dates. Hoping to gain some clarity on her relationship with Blake, Tayshia took him to a crystal guru to have their crystals and chakras read. Minutes later, a visibly shaken Tayshia paid the men a visit and pulled Riley away for a private conversation.

  • 25 Days of Cookies: These M&M Christmas cookie bars are Pinterest's most popular holiday cookie of all time

    For 25 days, we are featuring cookie recipes that are perfect to make for the holiday season. Mom and food blogger Melissa Mondragon of No. 2 Pencil blog holds the title of the most-Pinned holiday cookies of all time on Pinterest with these merry and bright M&M Christmas cookie bars.

  • Gabrielle Union says stepdaughter Zaya felt 'outed' by people online

    Actress Gabrielle Union opened up about her 2020 experiences in the premiere episode of Taraji P. Henson's new Facebook Watch show, "Peace of Mind with Taraji." During the wide-ranging interview, which focused on the challenges of mental health, specifically in the Black community, Union shared how 2020 has been a triggering year for her because of politics and "a daily barrage of the brutalization of Black and brown bodies." Union told Henson and Henson's friend Tracie Jade that those triggers took on a physical form that she says felt like "a full body heart attack."

  • Jeff Bridges gives fans update amid cancer battle: 'Feeling good! Shaved my head'

    Actor Jeff Bridges updated fans on the latest in his life since he announced in October he was battling lymphoma. The Academy Award winner appears to be in good spirits, and pointed fans to his website, where he tried to drum up the downloads for a musician friend, John Goodwin.

  • The ultimate work-at-home assignment: Create a vaccine to stop the COVID-19 pandemic

    In late March and early April, as the coronavirus spread across the country and the world, tens of millions of people were under instructions to “shelter in place” or “stay at home,” including thousands of researchers, scientists, and supply chain executives who were working around the clock on the greatest medical challenge in history: to develop a COVID-19 vaccine in less than a year. If Johnson & Johnson's COVID vaccine is approved, it will be her second vaccine in a year.

  • Attorney General William Barr to resign, Trump tweets

    Attorney General William Barr is resigning from the Justice Department before Christmas, President Donald Trump tweeted Monday evening. Trump said Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen will become Acting Attorney General after Barr departs on Dec. 23.

  • Trump, Biden teams grappling with getting COVID-19 vaccine early

    As the first COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the United States rolled out across the country this week, senior Trump administration officials weighed whether it would be worth it for them to essentially jump the line and get publicly inoculated in order to set an example for possibly skeptical Americans, as acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller was doing to show members of the military on Monday. President Donald Trump, who likely already has some degree of immunity after contracting this fall, has been vague about whether he would be willing to be among the first to receive jabs from the limited supply of doses available. "I am not scheduled to take the vaccine, but look forward to doing so at the appropriate time," Trump tweeted.

  • US administers 1st doses of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine

    The rollout of the first coronavirus vaccine began Monday morning and marked a major turning point in the U.S.'s battle against surging case numbers as the first doses of the Pfizer medication was administered to health care workers and nursing home staffers. Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse from Northwell Long Island Jewish Medical Center was the first vaccinated in New York at 9:23 a.m. during a livestreamed event with Gov. Andrew Cuomo. "What I don't trust is that, if I contract COVID, I don't know how it would impact or those who I come in contact with, so I encourage everyone to take the vaccine."

  • Pregnant people should have opportunity to get COVID-19 vaccine, physician group says

    As the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are being administered to people across the United States, a leading physician group is calling for pregnant people to be included, too. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), a professional membership organization for OB-GYNs, issued a practice advisory Sunday to say that both pregnant and breastfeeding people who are in the priority groups for the vaccine should receive doses as well. "ACOG recommends that COVID-19 vaccines should not be withheld from pregnant individuals who meet criteria for vaccination based on [Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices]-recommended priority groups," the statement read.

  • Women rally around Jill Biden after controversial op-ed calls for future first lady to drop 'Dr.'

    The reaction from women was swift over the weekend after a controversial op-ed in The Wall Street Journal called on future United States first lady Dr. Jill Biden to drop the "Dr." from her title. The op-ed's author, writer Joseph Epstein, urged Biden, who earned her doctorate in education from the University of Delaware in 2007, to drop her title because she is not a medical doctor. "A wise man once said that no one should call himself 'Dr.' unless he has delivered a child," wrote Epstein, who began the piece by addressing Biden as, "Madame First Lady — Mrs. Biden — Jill — kiddo."

  • US sanctions NATO ally Turkey for purchasing Russian missile system

    A year and a half after Turkey acquired a Russian missile defense system, violating U.S. sanctions law, President Donald Trump has implemented penalties against the NATO ally. The sanctions, announced by the U.S. Treasury Monday, targeted Turkey's defense procurement agency, known as the Presidency of Defense Industries, and its senior officials, including its president.

  • Jesy Nelson announces she's leaving Little Mix to focus on her mental health

    Jesy Nelson announced Monday that she is leaving Little Mix in a lengthy statement posted to Instagram. Nelson began by calling her time in the group "the most incredible time of my life," and calling herself "the luckiest girl in the world" when she recalled them winning their first Brit Award and selling out the The O2 Arena. "The past nine years in Little Mix has been the most incredible time of my life," the 29-year-old wrote.

  • Wear a sticker saying you got the COVID-19 vaccine? The CDC thinks it could help

    The first health care worker to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in the United States put a sticker that said "Crushing COVID-19, got my vaccine" underneath the words "registered nurse" embroidered on her scrubs. Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse at Northwell Health Hospital in New York, told reporters the vaccine made her feel hopeful. Experts say encouraging people who get the COVID-19 vaccine to acknowledge it with some kind of "swag" could help promote efforts to vaccinate as many Americans as possible or serve as a public reminder for people to get the shot when it's available to them and follow up when they're due for the second dose required for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

  • Monarch butterfly fate on threatened species list to be decided by Trump administration

    The Trump administration is expected to announce a decision on whether to designate the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The monarch butterfly was added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species in 2014 after it was determined that 90% of its population had declined from its original levels. The beloved butterfly has died off due to increased use of farm herbicides, climate change and the destruction of milkweed plants, which is what monarch caterpillars eat and where monarch butterflies lay their eggs, the Associated Press reported.

  • Russian intelligence hit squad poisoned opposition leader Alexey Navalny: Report

    The independent investigative group Bellingcat says it has identified a team of Russian intelligence agents that it says were behind the poisoning of the opposition leader Alexey Navalny with a nerve agent this summer. In a detailed investigation published on Monday, Bellingcat said it was able to use phone and flight records to show that a squad of officers from Russia's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), had trailed Navalny for years and were in his vicinity in the Siberian city of Tomsk shortly before he fell sick.

  • US sanctions alleged Iranian spies in 'probable' death of retired FBI agent Bob Levinson

    The United States on Monday officially fingered Iran for the first time for the kidnapping, captivity and what it called the "probable death" of retired FBI Special Agent Bob Levinson 13 years ago, naming and shaming a pair of accused top Iranian intelligence officers. Senior U.S. government officials said the two Iranians -- whose whereabouts are not known -- were responsible for Levinson's sad end. Levinson's family has suffered years of frustration at the absence of information and what they have felt were betrayals by the U.S. government -- and particularly the Obama White House -- ever since the father and grandfather, who spent 28 years chasing drug traffickers at the DEA and then mobsters for the FBI, disappeared.

  • Jennifer Lopez dances in no makeup, pajamas for new dance challenge

    If anyone can get people excited about dancing around in pajamas, it's Jennifer Lopez. The singer, actress and businesswoman posted a fun video dancing to her latest song "In The Morning" on Instagram. Throughout the short clip, she's initially seen wearing pajamas and little to no makeup.

  • Hundreds of students missing after Nigerian boarding school attack

    Hundreds of students remain missing after gunmen attacked an all-boys boarding school in northwestern Nigeria, authorities said. A group of "bandits" wielding assault rifles stormed the Government Science Secondary School in the town of Kankara in Katsina state on Friday night, according to a statement from Katsina State Police Command spokesperson Gambo Isah. Police officers engaged the assailants in a gunfight that gave some of the students "the opportunity to scale the fence of the school and run for safety," Isah said in the statement Saturday.

  • Robin Thicke honors late father Alan Thicke on 4th anniversary of his death

    Just two days after announcing the birth of his newborn son, Robin Thicke honored his late father, Alan Thicke, on the fourth anniversary of his death. The "Blurred Lines" singer, 43, took to Instagram to mark the somber occasion and expressed how much he misses his dad. "Four years ago today, on December 13, 2016, my beloved Father passed away," Thicke wrote alongside a photo of him sleeping next to his latest bundle of joy, son Luca Patrick Thicke.