Houston Residents Ordered to Use Boiled Water as Pressure Plummets Due to Winter Storm

Photo: Cooper Neill/Bloomberg via Getty Houston has ordered millions of residents to use boiled or bottled water as the city’s water pressure plummeted dangerously low from winter storms sweeping across Texas. Arctic storms dropped large amounts of snow and ice on states from the South to the Northeast over the past several days, knocking out electricity in Texas, Louisiana and Kentucky, as well as other states. More than 3.1 million Texas customers were without power as of Wednesday afternoon, according toPowerOutage....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 253 words · Patricia Johnson

How 'The Game' 's Toby Sandeman Went From U.K.'s Top Track Athlete to Acting — and Why: 'A Huge Void Arose'

In this week’s issue of PEOPLE,The Gameactor opens up about his past as a professional track athlete — and why he chose to retire from the sport and pursue something completely different. “I fell out of love with the sport and this huge void sort of arose,” says Sandeman, who was among the top five track stars of the world at the time. “For me, I didn’t know what I was going to do in my life....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 293 words · Kathleen Washington

How 2 Strangers Found Love After Surviving 2017 Las Vegas Mass Shooting

Photo: Courtesy Chantal Melanson and Austin Monfort It was the last night of the2017 Route 91 Harvestfestival in Las Vegas, and Austin Monfort and Chantal Melanson were pushing toward the stage to catch a glimpse of the night’s final act,Jason Aldean. The pair crossed paths the night before at a Vegas bar, but Chantal, 27, a prison administrator visiting from Canada, and Austin, a 22-year-old college student from California, were still trying to figure out if they were into each other....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 391 words · Reginald Cruz

How Comedian Bill Burr Ended Up in Political Drama 'The Front Runner' with Hugh Jackman

Photo: Rodin Eckenroth/GettyThe Front Runner, about Senator Gary Hart’s disgraced 1988 presidential campaign, isn’t exactly the comedy Bill Burr’s fans are used to seeing him in. But Burr didn’t find himself solely responsible for keeping things light between takes with costarsVera Farmiga,Hugh JackmanandJ.K. Simmons.“There was a lot of characters on the set so making people laugh didn’t fall just on me,” Burr, 50, tells PEOPLE. “There was a lot of people making me laugh....

March 16, 2025 · 8 min · 1598 words · Andrew Cole

How Does Walmart’s New AR Virtual Try-on Work?

Returning clothes I purchase online because they were n’t what I was have a bun in the oven is one of the few things in this reality that really bust up me with guilt feelings , chiefly because I start think about thedamagemy returnsare causing the planet , all because my faineant rear end did n’t require to go to the fund . To give you a better musical theme of how many of us do this not - very - good affair , returns of habiliment in 2020 account for 12....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 254 words · Mark Hanson

How Far DoesSaw XGo with Its Gory Traps? 'Rarely Is Something Too Extreme,' Says Director (Exclusive)

“Saw X” (2023).Photo:Alexandro Bolaños EscamillaTheSawfilmmakers can stomach just about anything when conceiving the franchise’s shocking contraptions.Nearly 20 years later, theSawfranchise lives on with its10th installment,Saw X.This entry, which takes place between the events of the first and second films, features the return of John Kramer (Tobin Bell) and Amanda (Shawnee Smith) — plus a new collection of literal eye-popping traps.Has there ever been a trap too gruesome to make the final cut?...

March 16, 2025 · 8 min · 1667 words · Susan Mitchell

How Lauren Daigle Is 'Bringing People Together' Through Her New 'Hold on to Me' Music Video

Lauren Daigle. At the start of 2020,Lauren Daiglewas living her dream: she had just kicked off herfirst-ever arena tourand was riding high on the success of her massive, Grammy-winning 2018 albumLook Up Child. But then theCOVID-19 pandemichit. “It was like whiplash,” the singer-songwriter tells PEOPLE. “We were moving so fast, and things were happening at such a rapid pace, and then all of a sudden we were standing completely still....

March 16, 2025 · 8 min · 1517 words · Tommy Hoffman

How Nancy Reagan Herself Likely Made Sure the Bushes Weren't Invited to White House Dinner for Princess Diana: New Book

Photo: Dirck Halstead/Liaison; Pam Francis/Getty The culprit? A new biography on Mrs. Bush, Susan Page’sThe Matriarch, doesn’t give a definitive answer but notes “the universe of those empowered to do so wouldn’t extend much past the president and the First Lady” — andNancy Reaganand Mrs. Bush had never been friends. “She hated us,” Mrs. Bush told Page for her book. “I don’t know why, but she really hated us.”...

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 665 words · Julie Haynes

How Rev Run, Justine Simmons Healed After Newborn Daughter's Death: 'I Was Lonely for My Child'

In their new book,Old School Love: And Why It Works, the Run-DMC rapper and his longtime love share how they healed from their grief and, within a year, were able to adopt their daughter Miley Justine, now 12. “I had carried Victoria Anne full-term; she was in me, a part of me. I could feel her every single day in me,” writes Justine, 54, while reflecting on the days following her daughter’s death....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 399 words · Lindsey Herrera

How Steve Kazee Is Supporting Jenna Dewan Through Her Pregnancy: Burritos and Foot Rubs!

Jenna Dewanhas the best teammate! In this week’s issue of PEOPLE, the 39-year old actress and host ofFlirty Dancingopened up about her second pregnancy and how her actor boyfriendSteve Kazeehas been supporting her through the process. “Steve is amazing,” Dewan tells PEOPLE. “He’s the most nurturing man. He really is supportive and communicates well with me throughout the process. He’s always down for a foot rub and grabbing me bean burritos....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 418 words · William Sullivan

How Ted Turner Helped Daughter Laura Turner Seydel Become a Climate Hero: It's 'In My DNA'

Laura Turner Seydel.Photo: Erik Voss/ Chattahoochee RiverkeeperFor Laura Turner Seydel, being a champion for mother nature runs in the family — her dad is, after all, media mogulTed Turner, or as she calls him, a “real-life Captain Planet.““Taking care of the environment is in my DNA,” Seydel, 59, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “We composted, weeded the yard instead of using chemicals, and my dad took us around our neighborhood to pick up trash....

March 16, 2025 · 8 min · 1680 words · Colin Hughes

How the QAnon Conspiracy Can Lure Women into Belief, Expert Says: They 'Want to Help Children'

Photo: Getty The conspiracy theoryQAnonis perhaps most infamous for claimingDonald Trumphas actually been fighting a secret society of maniac pedophiles at the highest levels of power and influence. But QAnon, like an octopus, has many tentacles encompassing a broad set of beliefs about missing children, human trafficking and more. Law enforcement officials also say the theories have been linked to violence. “Social media has become, in many ways, the key amplifier to domestic violent extremism just as it has for malign foreign influence,” FBI Director Christopher Wraytold Congress in April, describing QAnon as a possible “inspiration for violent attacks....

March 16, 2025 · 5 min · 1015 words · Charles Simmons

How to Watch All of This Year's Celebrity Christmas Specials (& Some Throwbacks!)

Christmasseason is upon us, and with it comes thegifts that truly keep on giving:celebrity Christmas specials. Last year, we all fell (more) in love with John Legend andChrissy Teigenduring theirLegendary Christmasspecial (which will thankfully re-air this year) but they’re not the only celebs who can get you into the holiday spirit. Bill Murray, Mariah Carey – even Stephen Colbert are among the stars who have hosted those cheesy Christmas specials we all love so much....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 498 words · Paige Kirby