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Photo: Owen Richardson Illustration Courtesy of Penguin Workshop Disney/Muppets There’s a fun way for elementary school kids (and parents!) to engage in literary classics: Let the Muppets help. TheMuppetsMeet the Classicsbook series — for kids 9 and up — first launched in 2017 withKermit and crewstarring in aMuppet-y version of thePhantom of the Opera. Now, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Rizzo and more return to take on another literary favorite withMuppets Meet the Classics: Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm(out this week)....

Photo: Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via APRegulators are monitoring the cleanup at a Minnesota nuclear power plant after it leaked 400,000 gallons of radioactive water in November.The incident at Xcel Energy’s plant in Monticello, just northwest of Minneapolis, came to light on Thursday, after state officials said they wanted to gather more information before going public,according to the Associated Press.Officials said the water contains tritium, which occurs naturally in the environment, but is of no risk to the greater public....

Dalton Bruton.Photo: GofundmeAlthough his family initially feared he wouldn’t survive, an Oklahoma teen has been released from the hospital just days after an encounter with a horse sent him into cardiac arrest.Dalton Bruton, 16 — whose family owns a farm with over 50 horses — was preparing the animals for a virus check last week when one horse became uncontrollable, according to NBC stationKFOR.“We were just kind of trying to corner and, you know, get her calmed down a little bit,” the teen recalled during an interview with the outlet....

Hard Rock Resort and Casino Punta Cana.Photo: Shutterstock At least six high school graduates from Edmond, Oklahoma, fell ill while visiting the Dominican Republic earlier this month. According toThe Oklahoman, a group of about 75 people stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Punta Cana, where twoAmerican touristsdied after falling ill. On June 11, about six members of the group got sick after having dinner at the same restaurant, Deer Creek Public Schools Superintendent Ranet Tippens toldTheOklahoman....

Olivia Rodrigois feeling the pressure as she releases hersophomore album,Guts.After the runaway success of her debut,Sour, and particularly the stand-out single “Drivers License,” Rodrigo says putting herself out there again is a “scary thing.“JoiningZane Loweon New Music Daily on Apple Music 1, the 20-year-old said: “First time around I was just filled with so much adrenaline — I was like, ‘OK, wow, this is happening. I’ve never done this before.’ This time it feels a little more real and it’s a scary thing to know that people are going to be curious and they’ll maybe have a lot of ears on it....

Olivia Rodrigo.Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Olivia Rodrigois singing the praises of therapy. The “Good 4 U” singer, 18, revealed that she’s been seeing a therapist for the past two years as a way of prioritizing her mental health, and that it’s made all the difference. “I hadn’t really started going until I was 16, and that was a really big, life-changing moment, and I’ve learned so much about myself,” she said onCBS Sunday Morning....

Photo:Kevin Mazur/MG22/Getty; Taylor Hill/FilmMagic Kevin Mazur/MG22/Getty; Taylor Hill/FilmMagic Olivia Rodrigohas quickly become one of thebiggest names in music.Afterestablishing herself as a songwriterwith Disney+‘sHigh School Musical: The Musical: The Series, the singer gained critical acclaim withher debut album,Sour, which earned herthree Grammy wins, includingBest New Artist.At the same time, she has also made an impact in the style world withher Y2K-inspired looks,glamorous red carpet outfits, andsustainable fashion.Rodrigo has a particular passion for thrifting,tellingVogue, she tries to “shop vintage, mostly” in addition to purchasing items on Depop or the Real Real....

Photo: Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Minutes after tearing his swimming shorts at theTokyo Olympics, Hungarian swimmer Kristof Milak came upjust short in his attempt at setting a new world record. The 21-year-old was hoping to break his own world record in the 200-meter butterfly final on Wednesday but said a tear in his shorts caused him to become distracted leading up to the race. “They split 10 minutes before I entered the pool and in that moment I knew the world record was gone....

Photo:Youth to the PeopleOne question singer-songwriterOmar Apollois commonly asked is, “What’s your skincare routine?“His reply is always: “Girl, I’m not going to give you my secrets. My mom just passed me good genetics, but you do have to take care of your skin 100%.”Committing his all into something is a part of who theIvoryartist is. Even after receiving his first Grammy nomination and touring around the U.S. withSZAon her debut arena tour (all within the last few months), the 26-year-old still managed to add one more first to his résumé – a beauty ambassadorship....

Photo: Zach Pagano/NBC/Getty Images; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Omarosa Manigault Newman‘s tell-allUnhingedclaims thatIvanka Trumphated the Saturday Night Live sketch that labeled her “complicit” in March 2017. “At the senior staff meeting, Ivanka couldn’t stop bemoaning it, how offensive it was, how ridiculous it was,” Manigault Newman, 44, says about Trump, 36. “We’dallbeen subject toSNLattacks … We’d all been hit, many of us in that same week’s show. But Ivanka would not stop talking about being ribbed....

Photo: Richard Drew/APAs the shocking claims fromOmarosa Manigault Newman‘s new book about PresidentDonald Trumpcontinue to make headlines, his camp is firing back. On Tuesday, the president’s campaign announced ithas filed for arbitrationagainst the former White House aide for allegedly breaching a 2016 nondisclosure agreement, according to CNN.“Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. has filed an arbitration against Omarosa Manigault Newman, with the American Arbitration Association in New York City, for breach of her 2016 confidentiality agreement with the Trump Campaign,” a Trump campaign official said in a statement to CNN....

“Once the cameras stopped rolling, Omarosa also told me some other s— that I’m too scared to put into this book,” Mathews, 40, writes. “The day after we got out of theCelebrity Big Brotherhouse, we all met up at Marissa’s house to finally talk about all the stuff no one wanted to mention while cameras had been rolling twenty-four hours a day.” He continues: “Like a scene right out of a spy movie, Omarosa made us all put our phones in a corner, and then she spilled some serious White House tea that shook us all to the core....

Customs and Border Protection mounted officers attempt to contain mostly migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad AcuÒa into Del Rio, Texas,.Photo: Felix Marquez/AP/Shutterstock Haitian migrants expressed fear and worries about their children as the U.S. reportedly moved to expel some 12,000 of them from Texas this week — flying more than 320 people to Port-au-Prince on Sunday, with more flights expected daily. Mexican officials are mounting their own deportation operations across the Rio Grande,according to the Associated Press....