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Wendy Williams, a longtime US daytime talkshow host, has been diagnosed with aphasia and dementia, her team has confirmed in a press release.On Thursday, Williams’ team shared a “very personal update” in an effort “to correct inaccurate and hurtful rumors about her health”.“Over the past few years, questions have been raised at times about Wendy’s ability to process information and many have speculated about Wendy’s condition, particularly when she began to lose words, act erratically at times, and have difficulty understanding financial transactions,” the press release states.“In 2023, after undergoing a battery of medical tests, Wendy was officially diagnosed with…

A second medical provider in Alabama announced it would suspend its in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments on Thursday, just days after the state Supreme Court ruled for the first time that embryos belong to “children outside the womb.””Due to the legal risk to our clinic and embryologists, we have made the extremely difficult decision to proceed with a new IVF treatment,” the Alabama Fertility Center posted on its Instagram account. “We are contacting those who will be receiving treatment today.” to find solutions for the patients affected, and we are doing our best to remind lawmakers of the profound negative…

My forthcoming novel, Exhibit, follows a trio of Korean women rioting with desire. It’s shot through with physical longing, queer lust and kink. The characters find joy and delight in trying to fulfill their bodies’ cravings.I’m also a Korean woman. I was raised Catholic. For a while, until I lost the faith, I turned into an evangelical Protestant so fervid that my life’s hope was to be a pastor – an ardent, single-minded servant of the Lord.The first time I read from Exhibit, at a literary festival, my parents sat in the front of a large crowd, shining with pride.“Trust…

The return of Blair Kinghorn and Keir Steyn to the Scotland starting line-up against England in the Six Nations at Murrayfield on Saturday has provided a huge boost to a backline led by Finn Russell.Full-back Kinghorn has missed their first two Championship games – a narrow victory in Wales and a controversial home defeat to France – with a knee injury – considering the 50-cap international Since Stuart Hogg retired.In Kinghorn’s absence, head coach Gregor Townsend started with regular wing Kyle Rowe and then the unused Harry Patterson at No. 15. Patterson’s final boost in the France game came when…

“Now he’s died,” said his mother’s voice down the phone. Instantly, Jaakko Teittinen knew that what he had feared for years had happened: his older brother, Tuomas, had taken his own life. He was 33.In a state of shock, Jaakko left work to join his mother at Linnanmäki, a theme park in Helsinki, where she was spending the day with Tuomas’s two children, who lived in foster care and had no idea what had just happened. While his mother started to make arrangements, he went on the rides with his brother’s children, trying not to give away what was on…

George Furbank made a surprise start at fullback for England’s clash with Scotland on Saturday, with Steve Borthwick dropping Freddie Stewart and scoring five tries in a crucial Calcutta Cup clash Adjustment.Furbank makes his seventh Test appearance for Steward and first in almost two years, while Ollie Lawrence has been named at inside center, Danny Care ) got the nod at scrum half, with Borthwick replacing two props in the starting XI against Scotland with Ellis Genge and Dan Cole.Firbank’s selection recognizes his fine form for Northampton this season but comes as a surprise following Stewart’s impressive display against Wales…

Planning a wedding can amplify life’s big struggles: money, body image, friendships, family ties and fractures. You rank the people in your life, draw a ring around those you’d like to attend and a smaller inner circle for the bridal party, then decide what everyone will wear and who sits with who. It’s ripe for drama and discord.I got engaged in July 2022 after eight years with my partner. Months after the proposal, we finally planned an engagement party and started dipping our toes into the wider world of weddings. I had been to weddings but never really imagined organising…

A Republican former congressman Adam Kinzinger warned in an interview with The Guardian that a second term for Donald Trump could mean the end of American democracy and “a devastating blow to the world order”.Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, has vowed to exact revenge on his political opponents in a second-term agenda that is more aggressive than his first, including mass deportations and a purge of the judiciary. Kinzinger, one of the most prominent Trump critics in the United States, is sounding the alarm.”The best-case scenario is that the government is completely incompetent and inefficient,” he said…

Lior, 45, BrightonOccupation Consultant, author, artist, coachVoting record Is not eligible to vote in the UK; in Germany, voted Green or SPD (broadly equivalent to the Labour party)Amuse bouche Trained as a war zone correspondent with the German army. They have a mock sniper village and blow up ditches so trainees know what that feels likeDarren, 53, Lancing, West SussexOccupation UnemployedVoting record Has “never voted for the Monster Raving Loony party or Lib Dem”. Otherwise, quite a lot of waysAmuse bouche Used to keep koi, and hand-feed them prawns, “which feels a bit weird”For startersDarren The food was lovely: strangely enough,…

Former Barcelona and Brazilian footballer Dani Alves has been sentenced to four years and six months in prison for raping a 23-year-old woman in a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022.A written statement from the National Court of Barcelona said the victim did not consent to sex with Alves and that in addition to the victim’s statement, evidence submitted to the court proved she had been raped.Prosecutors asked for a nine-year sentence, and the victim’s legal team asked for a 12-year sentence. Alves’ sentence is just over the minimum term of four years and, as he has served a quarter of…