General Hospital star Haley Pullos was booked into the Los Angeles County Jail on Monday, her lawyer tells People. The actress, 25, pleaded no contest to the charges stemming from a 2023 hit-and-run, followed by a wrong-way crash on a Los Angeles freeway, causing bodily injury and property damage. She s set to be sentenced on July 29. Additionally, Pullos must serve five years of probation, 200 hours of community service and pay $8,260 in restitution to Courteney Wilder, the other driver involved in the crash, per her lawyer .Guardians of the Galaxy s Karen Gillan and The Afterparty s Zoë Chao have been tapped to star in the feature comedy Let’s Have Kids!, according to Deadline. The movie follows two best friends who decide to try to have their first babies at the same time to experience new motherhood together, but find their friendship tested when only one of them gets pregnant, per the outlet. Sam Richardson, Max Greenfield, K.J. Apa, Ed Begley Jr. and Mary Steenburgen
Steve Prorak/EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Rural Americans are more likely to die early from one of the five leading causes of death than those who live in urban areas, according to new federal data.Researchers looked at the number of potentially preventable deaths from 2010 through 2022. The report was published Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Rural Americans were more likely to die from heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, stroke and chronic lower respiratory disease before age 80 compared to urbanites, researchers said."There is a well-described, rural-urban divide in the United States, where rural residents tend to be sicker and poorer and to have worse health outcomes than do their non-rural peers," Dr. Macarena Garcia, a senior health scientist in the CDC s Office of Rural Health, said during a press conference on Monday.About 20% of the U.S. population lives in rural areas while the remaining 80% live in urban areas, according to da
Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesNicole Kidman and Keith Urban turned their red carpet appearance into a sweet family affair this weekend.Kidman was the honoree at the 49th American Film Institute Life Achievement Award Gala on Saturday, and the teenage daughters of the actress and the singer Sunday, 15, and Faith, 13 made their first red carpet appearance together with their parents at the event to celebrate their mom.Kidman is the first Australian actor to receive the AFI honor at the star-studded event, which was held at Los Angeles Dolby Theatre.During the evening, Meryl Streep presented the achievement award to fellow Oscar winner Kidman, who received a standing ovation from the crowd when accepting the honor, according to AFI."It is a privilege to make films," she said in her speech. "And glorious to have made films and television with these storytellers who allowed me to run wild and be free and play all of these unconventional women. Thank you for making me better a
Lena Badr’s grandmother, Aziza Badr, was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Az-Zawayda neighborhood in Gaza on Dec. 23, 2023. (Lena Badr)(NEW YORK) When Palestinian American Lena Badr learned about the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, she said she was "horrified and immediately concerned" about what Israel s retaliation would mean for the Gaza Strip where part of her family resides.Badr scrambled to reach her family, to send money in anticipation of the hardships ahead: "I knew it would be bad. I did not – I couldn t have envisioned that it would be this bad," said Badr.Since Israel began its retaliatory bombardment of the Gaza Strip, she said two of her family s homes have been hit with airstrikes.The massive loss of life in the Israel-Hamas war has wiped out swaths of family lines and gone with them are parts of the culture they carried, Palestinians say. The loss has become all the more poignant as Arab American Heritage Month celebrations come to an end, wh
Courtesy of Curb RecordsWith "This Town s Been Too Good to Us" making its way up the country charts, Dylan Scott shares why he chose it as a single and the significance of this hometown ode."It s about where I grew up. It s something else I ve lived. . Everybody s from a town somewhere, right? So I feel like people can relate to it," Dylan tells the press in an interview."It s another song [where] we put it out and [it] started streaming well and people wanted to hear it. So we knew we had to take it to radio as the follow-up to Can t Have Mine and it s doing well for us," he says."I don t know if it s the back-to-back from coming off the #1 of Can t Have Mine to that song, but it s just really strong right now," adds Dylan. "Everything feels good." You can find "This Town s Been Too Good to Us" on Dylan s Livin My Best Life (Still), the deluxe version of 2022 s