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Photo: Getty Peter Luger doesn’t seem to be taking theNew York Times’ criticismtoo hard. On Tuesday, theTimes’restaurant critic Pete Wells published azero-star reviewof the famous Brooklyn steakhouse, titled “Peter Luger Used to Sizzle. Now It Sputters.” In the review, Wells pointed out that although he now feels “scammed” when visiting the establishment, that wasn’t always the case, as he recalled happily emptying out his wallet to eat one of theirsizzling porterhouse or rib steaksin the 1990s....

Russell allegedly stole the Horizon Air Q400, which had no passengers on board, at around 8 p.m. local time on Friday. He later crashed on Ketron Island, igniting a fire. He is believed to be deceased. The airport was temporarily shut down as a result of the incident. “There was an incident late yesterday involving the unauthorized operation of one of our aircraft that took off from Sea-Tac around 8 p....

James Lipscomb.Photo: GoFundMe One longtime Cincinnati Bengals fan may get his wish to see the team play in the Super Bowl in person after decades of cheering them on. Eighty-six-year-old James Lipscomb, who saw the Bengals play their first-ever game in 1968, became emotional when the team made it to the Super Bowl on Sunday, local ABC affiliateWCPOreports. Now, his family is trying to get him to the game with the help of an online fundraiser....

An Iowa community is rallying around five children who lost both of their parents in a matter of months. According to theDes Moines Register, Bazirake Kariya, 30, died on New Year’s Eve after his car was found in a creek amid a winter storm in the area. He had been traveling to his job at a pork processing plant, his family’s pastor, Eugene Kiruhura, told the newspaper. Kariya succumbed to his injuries shortly after rescuers were able to pull him from his submerged car, NBC affiliateWHO-13reported....

The Justice Department is investigating a taped conversation between PresidentDonald Trumpand his lawyer, Michael Cohen, discussing a potential payment to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Trump,The New York Timesreports. The F.B.I reportedly seized the recording — which Cohen secretly made two months before the presidential election — during itsraid of Cohen’s office and hotel roomin April, theTimesreports. Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph Guiliani, told theTimesthat Trump did discuss the payments with Cohen but the payment was never made....

Photo:Chris Porsz/ Comedy Pets Chris Porsz/ Comedy Pets You can always count on your furry friends to put a smile on your face! The 25finalists for the 2023 Comedy Pets Photography Awardswere recently announced, and these photos of pets from around the world are paw-sitively hilarious. The competitionstarteda few years ago when professional photographers Tom Sullam and Paul Joynson-Hicks, who already ran the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, wanted to branch out and bring awareness to the joy pets bring to people’s lives....

Fiona the hippois finally a big sister! The Cincinnati Zoo confirmed in anews releaseon Thursday morning that Fiona’s mother, Bibi, gave birth to her second hippo — a healthy, full-term calf, born Wednesday at 10 p.m. local time. Cincinnati Zoo/Twitter While Bibi and the newborn hippo get time to themselves to bond, Fiona and another resident hippo, Tucker, are growing used to hanging out on their own, the zoo wrote in a news release....

Photo: Bryan Bedder/GettyAmy Palmiero-Winters just became the first female amputee to run one of the most challenging races in the world.Palmiero-Winters, 46, completed the Marathon des Sables earlier this month. The ultramarathon, held in the Sahara Desert in southern Morocco each year, is 140 miles and six days long — over five times longer than the length of a regular marathon and subject to extreme hot weather conditions.According to theNew York Times, Palmiero-Winters’ lower left leg was amputated below the knee in 1997, after she was involved in a motorcycle accident....

Hayward Duresseau, of Lafayette, Louisiana, got the ultimate surprise on a day that had already been life-changing.Duresseau, 37, contracted bacterial meningococcal meningitis in February and completely lost his ability to hear as the illness wreaked havoc on his body, according toNBC News. After six months of recovery, Duresseau got a cochlear implant in August to help with his hearing loss.After a doctor turned on the implant, Duresseau was finally able to hear again....

Jessie Reyez is gearing up for her first-everGrammys. The Canadian singer, 27, is up for best urban contemporary album for her EP,Being Human in Public, at this year’s awards show — and in this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday, she reveals her must-haves for the big night. “Probably my Converse Chucks and a T-shirt, to make sure I have something to change into if I’m wearing heels and a gown,” Reyez says....

Florence Welch.Photo: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/GettyFlorence Welchis postponing her band’s U.K. tour for health-related reasons.On Saturday, the frontwoman of Florence + the Machine announced she had to postpone theDance Fevertour after suffering from an injury.“I’m so sorry to say that after an X-ray, it seemsI was dancing on a broken foot last night. 🩰,” she began the Instagram post alongside a picture of a stage floor with drops of blood after kicking off her tour at the O2 Arena in London on Friday....

Florence Pughis defending her relationship withZach Braff. On Saturday, the 23-year-oldLittle Womenactress postedan Instagram photoof herself getting food after a long flight. “First pit-stop, Matzo Ball soup,” she wrote, adding the hashtag “#curingjetlag101.” Pugh’s boyfriend Braff, 44, commented on the post with a princess emoji. In response to theScrubsalum’s comment, one of Pugh’s followers pointed out the couple’s 21-year age difference, writing, “you’re 44 years old.” Pugh herself clapped back at the commenter, writing, “and yet he got it ?...

Florence PughandZach Braffaimed to keep their breakup private. TheDon’t Worry Darlingactress, 26, revealed in her cover story forHarper’s BAZAAR’s September 2022 issuethat she and Braff, 47, quietly went their separate ways, hoping to keep the split under wraps to avoid commentary from strangers online. “We’ve been trying to do this separation without the world knowing, because it’s been a relationship that everybody has an opinion on,” said Pugh. “We just felt something like this would really do us the benefit of not having millions of people telling us how happy they are that we’re not together....