Hilary Duff and husband Matthew Koma welcomed the most recent member of their household final week: child Townes Meadow Bair.

The previous Disney Channel actor and “How I Met Your Father” star introduced the arrival of her fourth little one — her third with Koma — with an Instagram put up shared Tuesday. Duff posted images from what seems to be an at-home water beginning. The black-and-white photos present the “Lizzy McGuire” star and her husband embracing their new child.

“Now we all know why she made us wait so lengthy,” Duff captioned her images. “She was perfecting these cheeks!”

Duff stated her daughter was born Could 3, 5 months after she revealed in a December vacation card that she was anticipating one other little one. “Buckle up Buttercups, we’re including another to this loopy bunch,” learn the Christmas card that additionally teased the new child’s title.

The “Youthful” actor married musician Koma, 36, in 2019. The spouses share daughters Banks Violet, 5, and Mae James, 3. Duff can also be the mom to 12-year-old son Luca, whom she shares with ex-husband and former hockey star Mike Comrie.

Within the caption of her Instagram put up, Duff, 36, wrote to her new child about how she has “been dreaming of holding you in my arms” for months. Since her daughter’s arrival on Friday, Duff stated “the previous 5 days of attending to know you, stare at you and odor you has been pure moments of magic.”

“All of us love you such as you’ve been right here all alongside magnificence,” she added.

Koma touted Duff as a “literal warrior goddess of a spouse,” in his Instagram put up on Tuesday, which additionally shared the emotional home-birth images. He described his “pleased, wholesome, chunky” new child daughter and joked that she “appears to be like like no one in our genetic pool.”

“If anybody is aware of of @hilaryduff’s whereabouts roughly 9 months in the past so far, please attain out for a money reward,” Koma stated.

Hilary Duff’s fourth little one has lastly joined the Duff-Bair-Comrie Crew — and mama and child appear to be they’re in new child heaven.

On Wednesday, Duff shared a photograph of Townes Meadow Bair wearing a mermaid-printed onesie, snuggled up on her chest. She sweetly captioned the picture, “Townsie gahhh.”

The mermaid theme is totally applicable, on condition that Townes joined the household by way of water beginning on Could 3, in keeping with Duff’s Instagram submit from yesterday.

Together with images of the beginning, Duff wrote, “I’ve been dreaming of holding you in my arms for months, and the previous 5 days of attending to know you, stare at you and odor you could have been pure moments of magic. All of us love you such as you’ve been right here all alongside, magnificence.”

She additionally famous, “Now we all know why she made us wait so lengthy … she was perfecting these cheeks!”

Duff introduced her being pregnant in an adorably hilarious Christmas card in December. “A lot for silent nights,” it learn. The again of the cardboard had been candy images of the youngsters together with a notice: “Buckle up Buttercups, we’re including yet one more to this loopy bunch!”

Alongside along with her husband, Matthew Koma (who was born as Matthew Bair), Duff is elevating two ladies: Banks, 5, and Mae, 3. She has an older son, Luca, 12, from her earlier marriage to Mike Comrie.

Although Duff has that being pregnant glow, she has appeared anxious for it to be over.

She titled a carousel of being pregnant photographs on Instagram as “The wait …” And on April 17, she posted images of a “sluggish week,” saying that she’s “gently attempting to provide child the eviction discover.”

Though Duff needed to play “sizzling nurse” throughout Koma’s latest vasectomy, he seems to have been a beautiful assist throughout this being pregnant.

In a latest Instagram submit caption, Duff wrote: “4 children is a very wild alternative. And whilst you rage the farmers market with the youngsters after 4 nights of reveals and late nights so I can get some sleep and never hear, ‘Mother Mother Mama Mommy Mooooom,’ simply know this solely works due to you ♥️.” 

NBA Corridor of Famer Shaquille O’Neal appeared to deal with feedback made by his ex-wife, who mentioned he saved “going lacking” whereas they have been nonetheless collectively. 

O’Neal has been open about his flaws in his previous marriage with Shaunie Henderson, whom he was with for nearly 9 years earlier than they acquired a divorce in 2011. 

After Henderson made the feedback in her new e-book, ‘Undefeated: Altering the Guidelines and Successful on My Personal Phrases,’ O’Neal posted on social media seemingly admitting his faults but once more. 

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“I perceive…I wouldn’t have been in love with me both,” he mentioned. “Wishing you all the most effective…All love, Shaq.” 

O’Neal and Henderson had 4 youngsters collectively: sons Shareef and Shaquir and daughters Amirah and Me’arah. 

Shareef O’Neal commented below his put up saying, “Love you man! You saved my life.” 

Shareef needed to endure coronary heart surgical procedure after being identified with an anomalous coronary artery, a congenital coronary heart defect that induced an artery to develop within the improper place when he was 18 years previous. 

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There was a chance Shareef would by no means play basketball once more, however he performed for the G League Ignite this previous season, averaging 5.6 factors over 15.5 minutes per recreation.  

Henderson broke down her marriage with O’Neal throughout the binds of her e-book, starting with how all the things appeared nice at first. Nonetheless, wanting again, she mentioned she was blind to issues early on that have been beginning to make the wedding “crumble.”

“I loved these candy early years being a mom and elevating my youngsters; my days have been all the time busy with children and household, and once in a while I acquired to journey or get pleasure from somewhat of the NBA excessive life. However invisibly, my marriage was starting to crumble,” Henderson wrote, per the New York Publish. 

NBA participant Shaquille O’Neal and then-wife Shaunie O’Neal at Muhammad Ali’s Movie star Combat Evening XIV on the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa on April 5, 2008 in Scottsdale, Arizona. (Michael Caulfield/WireImage)

“As I’ve written, it wasn’t apparent early on. You understand how once you first get sick, and the signs are so gentle that you just’re not even certain you’re sick? That’s how issues have been within the early years. I used to be busy and blissful and didn’t discover what was occurring. However because the illness progressed, the signs turned more durable and more durable to disregard.”

Henderson mentioned she couldn’t ignore O’Neal not being round when his each day tasks have been dealt with by others. 

“Take Shaquille’s behavior of ‘going lacking,’” Henderson wrote. “Our chef did all of the grocery purchasing. His managers paid all of the payments. I took care of the youngsters. So the place was he going within the morning, through the day, and at evening? Nobody works out that usually.”

Henderson added that she heard the rumor that O’Neal had a rental in Miami Seashore after he was traded from the Los Angeles Lakers to the Miami Warmth. 

Shaquille O’Neal speaks to the gang throughout his jersey retirement ceremony after the sport in opposition to the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder on Feb. 13, 2024 on the Kia Middle in Orlando, Florida.  (Fernando Medina/NBAE through Getty Photographs)

“I began to get suspicious, however he all the time had a solution, and I may by no means show something. Finally, I used to be pressured to confess that my household life wasn’t as blissful or excellent as I wished to consider.”

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Since their divorce, O’Neal has mentioned on quite a few events that he was an issue throughout their marriage. In April 2023, he went on “The Pivot Podcast,” the place he mentioned, “I used to be dangerous. It was all me.”

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Shaquile O’Neal has responded to a e book excerpt by which his ex-wife, Shaunie Henderson, admitted she might need by no means been in love with the NBA legend.

Henderson, now 49, who created the VH1 “Basketball Wives” sequence, launched a e book this week entitled  “Undefeated: Altering the Guidelines and Successful on My Personal Phrases.”

O’Neal, 52, now an NBA studio analyst for TNT, responded in a publish on Instagram to what Henderson had written about their marriage in her e book.

“I perceive,” O’Neal wrote.

“I wouldn’t have been in love with me both. Wishing you all the perfect. All love, Shaq.”

He added, “Belief me, I get it.”

The couple married in 2002 and divorced in 2011.

“I loved these candy early years being a mom and elevating my kids; my days have been all the time busy with youngsters and household, and from time to time I bought to journey or take pleasure in somewhat of the NBA excessive life. However invisibly, my marriage was starting to crumble,” Henderson, now 49, wrote.

“As I’ve written, it wasn’t apparent early on. You understand how once you first get sick, and the signs are so gentle that you just’re not even positive you might be sick? That’s how issues have been within the early years. I used to be busy and blissful and didn’t discover what was happening. However because the illness progressed, the signs grew to become more durable and more durable to disregard.”

The couple shares 4 kids collectively — sons Shareef and Shaqir and daughters Amirah and Me’arah — whereas O’Neal has a daughter, Taahirah, from a previous relationship, and Henderson has a son, Myles, from a earlier relationship.

Henderson wrote that O’Neal had a behavior of “going lacking” and that she suspected infidelity.

“Wanting again, I don’t know that I used to be ever actually in love with the person, however I used to be in love with the thought of being married to the person I had a household with,” Henderson wrote.

“I used to be in love with the thought of constructing a life collectively. I actually did take pleasure in spending time with him. [NBA] highway journeys gave me an opportunity to be with my husband and expertise the NBA life for a short while.”

Final June, O’Neal admitted the place he got here up quick as a husband.

“I had two excellent girls and I messed it up,” Shaq instructed the singer Monica on her podcast.

“My first one was my child mom, Arnetta [Yardbourgh], after which I met Shaunie [Nelson]. Shaunie was additionally an ideal lady and I messed it up.

“Yeah, you understand, we have been younger and all the time simply doing dumb stuff. However, the benefit of our relationship is that they forgave me and we’ve a great relationship now. However once you ask me concerning the excellent lady — I had two excellent girls and I messed it up, simply by, you understand, being dumb.”

He relayed the recommendation he provides his sons of their relationships.

“Very first thing you need to be is trustworthy, trustworthy with your self and trustworthy together with your companion… I inform my sons on a regular basis, a person has three jobs in relation to a lady. Defend, present and love,” O’Neal continued.

“Some males can solely provide two, for no matter motive, however I’ma educate you provide all three. And that’s what I attempt to do — and though I don’t have a relationship with the ladies that I let get away, I’ll all the time PPL: defend, present, and love, no matter they want they get it from me.”

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Impartial presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. skilled a sequence of well being points in recent times, together with an abnormality that he stated was brought on by a worm that entered his mind after which died, The New York Occasions reported on Wednesday.

In 2010, Kennedy, now 70, skilled extreme reminiscence loss and psychological fog, he stated in a deposition two years later. In accordance with the Occasions, he consulted prime neurologists conversant in the medical historical past of his uncle, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, who had died of mind most cancers in 2009. A New York physician, after reviewing a scan of his mind, advised him that his well being points might be “brought on by a worm that acquired into my mind and ate a portion of it after which died,” Kennedy stated within the 2012 deposition, which involved a divorce from his second spouse, Mary Richardson Kennedy. Robert Kennedy stated on the time that his incomes energy had been negatively affected by the cognitive points, the Occasions reported.

Across the identical time, the Occasions stated, he suffered from mercury poisoning, which may result in neurological points equivalent to lack of peripheral imaginative and prescient, muscle weak spot and points with motion, listening to and speech, in addition to reminiscence loss. Kennedy advised the paper he has recovered from the reminiscence loss and mind fogginess and that the parasite didn’t require therapy.

As well as, he has grappled for many years with atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, an irregular heartbeat. He advised the Occasions it has been greater than a decade since he skilled the situation and stated he believes he not suffers from it.

Kennedy’s marketing campaign declined to supply his medical data to the Occasions. In a press release to CNN, Stefanie Spear, a spokesperson for Kennedy’s marketing campaign, stated he had “traveled extensively in Africa, South America and Asia” as a part of his work as an environmental advocate and stated he contracted a parasite in a kind of journeys.

“The difficulty was resolved greater than 10 years in the past and he’s in sturdy bodily and psychological well being. Questioning Mr. Kennedy’s well being is a hilarious suggestion, given his competitors,” the marketing campaign stated, referring to the superior ages of the 81-year-old President Joe Biden and 77-year-old former President Donald Trump.

In his first public feedback after the report printed, Kennedy in a social media post provided “to eat 5 extra mind worms and nonetheless beat President Trump and President Biden in a debate.”

“I really feel assured of the consequence even with a six-worm handicap,” he joked.

Dr. Peter Hotez, an infectious illness professional and Dean for the Nationwide Faculty of Tropical Drugs on the Baylor School of Drugs in Houston, advised CNN that it’s troublesome to totally assessment Kennedy’s declare with out wanting on the scans. “It’s an incomplete story,” as he put it.

However, talking typically, Hotez stated individuals with pork tapeworm infections of their brains — a situation often known as neurocysticercosis — extra generally expertise seizures and typically should be on anti-seizure medicine for a very long time as a result of when the worms die, they kind a calcified cyst within the mind that may trigger the mind to launch inflammatory chemical substances referred to as cytokines.

The connection to reminiscence issues and dementia is beneath research, Hotez stated. These signs are additionally related to mercury poisoning, and Kennedy advised the Occasions that on the time he was identified with that ailment, he was consuming excessive portions of tuna and perch.

“Yeah, the worms will not be feeding the mind. They’re residing within the mind,” Dr. Hotez stated. The worms get vitamins from the physique, however they don’t seem to be consuming the mind tissue, he stated.

Pork tapeworm infections may be troublesome to diagnose as a result of when the worm is alive it masks itself from detection and doesn’t present up on scans. It’s extra frequent to search out the worm after it has died and left behind a calcified cyst within the mind, Hotez stated.

Kennedy stated he modified his way of life following these well being episodes, together with getting extra sleep, touring much less, decreasing his fish consumption and present process chelation remedy that seeks to expel metals within the physique.

On the marketing campaign path, Kennedy has portrayed himself as vibrant and youthful in comparison with Biden and Trump, participating in strenuous actions like snowboarding and weightlifting. Biden’s doctor, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, stated in February that there have been “no new considerations” with the president’s well being revealed in a bodily and the White Home has stated no cognitive take a look at was administered as O’Connor didn’t discover it needed. Trump’s marketing campaign late final 12 months launched a letter that made broad statements about his well being — together with claims that the previous president is in “glorious” well being and that his cognitive exams “had been distinctive” — however didn’t embody details about the forms of assessments that Trump took or what the outcomes had been.

Kennedy’s views on private well being, together with his long-held skepticism of sure vaccines, have been a particular function of his public picture. He has disputed solutions that he’s “anti-vaccine,” although he’s the founding father of the Youngsters’s Well being Protection, a gaggle that has been accused of spreading falsehoods about vaccines.

This story has been up to date with further particulars and response.

CNN’s Brenda Goodman and Aaron Pellish contributed to this report.

When the Dallas Stars are within the postseason, Al Montoya mentioned everybody wins, particularly the group.

Montoya is the primary Cuban-American to play within the NHL and is at present the Dallas Stars Vice President of Cultural Development and Technique. Montoya is keen about rising the Stars and the sport of hockey with under-represented communities each domestically and internationally.

“We simply got here again from a visit to Mexico Metropolis and we can be going again there quickly,” Montoya mentioned. “For us, that is actually a chance to actually present what we have been doing and get our message throughout.”

That message is that hockey is a recreation for everybody. Their mission is to carry that message to youngsters who could not in any other case have had entry.

“We launched a Study to Play program. It is a six-week program for teenagers from 4 to 10 years previous in Mexico Metropolis. We began it in April and they’ll graduate from this system in Could. This can be a likelihood for them to be launched to the sport that we love a lot and provides them that likelihood to play,” Montoya mentioned.

50 children are a part of this system, in partnership with the Nationwide Hockey League.

Domestically, Montoya has labored with the Boys & Women Membership of Better Dallas to accomplice within the free Future Stars initiative, introducing hockey at faculties and services throughout the area. The Future Stars program has grown from two places in 2023 to 9 places in 2024. The packages obtain help and gear to implement weekly youth hockey packages in underserved communities.

The group added the Stanley Cup Playoffs present an enormous increase in fan engagement and group outreach. The amplified consideration and consciousness have elevated the fundraising efforts of the 50/50 raffle at dwelling video games. Fifty % of the jackpot proceeds raised profit the Dallas Stars Basis, nurturing and enriching the lives of North Texans by Youth Hockey, Neighborhood Engagement and Well being and Schooling.

The Dallas Stars are within the second spherical of the Stanley Cup Playoffs in opposition to the Colorado Avalanche.

Tremendous-sad information at this time out of Chicago, the place phrase got here down that musician, recording engineer, author, designer, skilled poker participant, and all-around iconoclast Steve Albini died of a coronary heart assault yesterday. He was simply 61.

I didn’t know Albini properly, however we had some good interactions over time. He was an enormous fan of my Nineteen Nineties zine, Beer Body: The Journal of Inconspicuous Consumption. When the primary six problems with that zine had been compiled right into a e-book, Inconspicuous Consumption: An Obsessive Have a look at the Stuff We Take for Granted, I requested Albini to write down the foreword, and he graciously agreed.

Extra just lately, just a little over a yr in the past, I did a very enjoyable, freewheeling interview with Albini. We talked in regards to the visible aesthetics of bands and data, the uniforms worn by the workers at his recording studio, the virtues of DIY design, and many different uni-adjacent subjects. (That interview, which was revealed on my Substack, is on the market and not using a paywall right here.) I’m proud to say that he owned a Uni Watch seam ripper and even prouder that he referred to it as “an unimaginable merchandise choice. I imply, I can’t truthfully can’t consider a merchandise merchandise extra particularly arcane than that.”

Like numerous indie-rock followers of my era, I used to be an enormous fan of Albini’s first Chicago band, Huge Black. However his writing all the time me greater than his music. His mid-Nineteen Eighties articles in Pressured Publicity, Matter, and different zines had been vastly influential on me after I was in faculty, and I used to be all the time curious about studying just about something he needed to write, as a result of he had such a fertile, attention-grabbing thoughts and such a palpable intelligence. Even after I didn’t agree with him, I felt like I all the time discovered issues from him.

Albini was fiercely loyal to folks he appreciated, however he didn’t endure fools gladly, had zero no endurance for bullshit, and will generally be acerbic, confrontational, and offensive, particularly when he was youthful. Extra just lately, he recanted a number of the extra inflammatory and morally questionable positions from his youth whereas sustaining his uncompromising advocacy for the higher, smarter world he needed to see. I’ve nothing however respect for the way he dealt with all of that.

Now that I’m about to go away Uni Watch and am on the brink of transition again to Inconspicuous Consumption, I hoped to interview Albini once more sooner or later within the close to future. My concept was that I’d get along with him throughout my subsequent go to to Chicago and have him take me on a tour of his favourite inconspicuous architectural particulars and design prospers across the metropolis. I do know it could have been nice, and it sucks to know that we’ll by no means get the prospect to try this. R.I.P., buddy — you’ll be missed.

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Pitchfork introduced that Steve Albini, indie music producer and common gadfly to the music business, has died of a coronary heart assault at 61 years previous. In case you have been between 13 and 33 years previous within the 80s and 90s and dug what was then often called “different” music, then he in all probability had his hand in a few of your favourite music out of your favourite bands, together with from Nirvana, PJ Harvey and the Pixies. He additionally fronted his personal bands, one among which, Shellac, apparently has a brand new album popping out subsequent week.

I knew Albini extraordinarily tangentially, in that we each frolicked on Bluesky and had some back-and-forth there. It was enjoyable to see somebody who truly had a big function within the tradition I and others of my era participated in hanging out, capturing the shit, and making observations each on the music business and the tradition basically. Albini was recognized to offer unvarnished opinions on the business he labored in (his essay “The Downside With Music” is a basic piece about how the music business largely sucked for each band in it), and he was additionally remarkably self-observant about being a white dude within the tradition, what that permit him get away with when he was youthful, and the way he wanted to personal that previous and work on the place he was now. As of late, that’s not nothing.

So, anyway, this actually sucks and as a music lover, I’m unhappy about this. Additionally, as somebody who chatted him up on-line a couple of occasions and loved his posts in any other case, I’m additionally unhappy. As I famous on Bluesky, that is very very like listening to that your neighbor has unexpectedly handed. It’s simply that on this case, the neighbor additionally was a fucking big in his subject. What a legacy he will get to be a part of.

— JS