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Cody Rhodes.Photo:Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Cody Rhodes is making one Brooklyn classroom’s WrestleMania dreams come true!KIPP AMP Middle School teacher Victor Taylor Perry’s “Wrestling Club” students have been running a fundraiser selling popcorn to make enough money to travel to WrestleMania 40 in Philadelphia later this spring. And when the extracurricular group’s fundraiser caught the attention of Rhodes, 38, the WWE superstar sent out atweetinforming the students that he’d pay for the kids’ tickets and their hotel rooms – a message that sent the students into a frenzy when they found out....

BeforeCole Swindell’s mom died in September, she routinely reminded the country singer to soak up his victories. Now, the 38-year-old Georgia native must remind himself, and he’s had to do it a lot lately. Swindell’s recent No. 1 song “Single Saturday Night” was his 10th chart-topper and his current single “Never Say Never,” a duet with Lainey Wilson, is poised to be among the biggest hits of his career. Both songs are from Swindell’s new albumStereotype, which was released earlier this month....

Photo: Colin O’Brady/Instagram The 33-year-old American athlete and explorer began his journey almost two months ago and finally finished the 932-mile trek on Wednesday. He started to cross the final 77.54 miles early Christmas morning in “one continuous ‘Antarctica Ultramarathon’ push to the finish line,” which he completed in just over 32 hours, he wrote on Instagram. “I don’t know, something overcame me,” O’Brady said in a telephone interview with theNew York Times....

Though Powell’s family said at the time of his death that he was fully vaccinated against COVID-19, it’s been widely reported that he had Parkinson’s and had beendiagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer that suppresses the immune system. MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Powell’s son Michael, his daughter Annemarie, his Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who served in PresidentBill Clinton’s administration, all spoke during the funeral for the admired four-star general who broke barriers as the first Black secretary of state and 12th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff....

Isabella Thallas.Photo: Gofundme Close faces 22 separate criminal counts stemming from the fatal June 10, 2020, shooting of Isabella Thallas, including first-degree murder and multiple counts of possessing a prohibited large-capacity gun magazine. Thallas was walking her dog with her boyfriend, Darian Simon, when she was shot to death. She had turned 21 two days earlier. Michael Close.Denver District Attorney’s Office The shooting took place in Denver’s Ballpark neighborhood....

Colton Underwood, Jordan C. Brown.Photo:Emma McIntyre/Getty Emma McIntyre/Getty Colton Underwoodis loving his new role: husband. TheBacheloralum, 31, chatted exclusively with PEOPLE at his inaugural Pickle! for Purpose Celebrity Pickleball Tournament event at Pepperdine University’s Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center in Malibu, California, on Saturday evening, when he spoke about his marriage. “Married life has been great,” Underwood — who wed husbandJordan C. Brownin Napa Valley, California, in May — said. Sticking with the theme of the evening, theComing Out Coltonstar said his marriage to Brown, 38, has even helped him enhance his sporting skills....

Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Days afterKevin Barnett diedin Mexico, the late comedian’s cause of death has been revealed. “At the moment his body is still in facilities of the Forensic Medical Service of Tijuana, waiting to be delivered to his family members who are performing the legal proceedings,” the statement continues. According to theMayo Clinic, pancreatitis “is inflammation in the pancreas. The pancreas is a long, flat gland that sits tucked behind the stomach in the upper abdomen....

Photo: GoFundMe According tothe Monroe Sun,WFSB, andthe Valley Independent Sentinel, Connie Crowell and her son, Jack, drowned on July 31, 2020, in what investigators now say was a murder-suicide. The mother and son lived in Monroe. Jack graduated from Masuk High School in 2017,the Sunreports. The determination was announced in a press statement from Seymour Deputy Police Chief Roberto Rinaldi, the outlets report. “On the day of the incident, a boater who was in the area, observed the vehicle go into the water and went to assist and provide rescue efforts,” Rinaldi’s statement reads....

Photo: Justin Gigliello/Twitter On Sunday, Justin Gigliello shared a video from his serenade on Twitter, prompting thousands of social media users to applaud his talent. “I just wanted to share this video for a Disney experience! We just went to Disney World last week and my daughter asked the pianist at the Grand Floridian if I could sing while he played,” Gigliello wrote. The clip has since gone viral....

Photo: Getty Cornell University is investigating a recent rash of drug-laced drinks and at least one sexual assault. The Ivy League school announced Monday that they have temporarily suspended all fraternity social events after the alleged “drugging of at least four students” at off-campus residences affiliated with Greek life, as well as the sexual assault of another student. “These incidents reportedly occurred at off-campus residences affiliated with registered fraternities,” they added....

Photo: netflixMeryl Streepis always perfectly put together as image-conscious, doomsday-denying U.S. President Janie Orlean in the Academy Award-nominated filmDon’t Look Up, but one of her most stylish outfits had to be scrapped when her dog decided her belt looked more chewy than chic.While attending theCostume Designers Guild Awardsin Santa Monica on Wednesday,Don’t Look Up’s costume designer Susan Matheson, nominated for her contemporary creations for the Netflix film, told PEOPLE a story of “one of the greatest things that’s ever happened to me my career,” she said....

Kat and Alex.Photo: David Lehr It was 2019, and Alex Garrido found himself standing in the gift shop of the Grand Ole Opry, making one of the loftiest predictions of his life. “I told my mom that one day in the future, I was going to come back and play the Opry,” Garrido, 28, remembers during an interview with PEOPLE of the family vacation he took right before joining duo partner Kat Luna onAmerican Idolback in 2020....

Justin Carter.Photo: Justin Carter/YouTube Rising country singer Justin Carter has died. Carter was fatally shot with a gun that was being used as a prop on the set of a music video in Texas,according to ABC 13. He was 35. His mother Cindy McClellantold Fox Newsthat Carter was filming a music video in Houston on Saturday when a gun in his pocket “went off and caught my son in the corner of his eye....