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The Oscarsare facing a crisis — and awards season has just begun! Hart opting out of the coveted gig came just over an hour after he vowed to not to apologize to the Academy. “So, I just got a call from the Academy and that call basically said, ‘Kevin apologize for your tweets… or we’re going to have to move on and find another host,’” Hart said in a video shared on Instagram that he captioned “I know who I am and so do the people closest to me....

Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty The votes are in, and Diana Taurasi has been namedthe greatest player in WNBA history! The Phoenix Mercury star, 39, was named the WNBA “GOAT” after a fan vote held in September in honor of the WNBA’s 25th anniversary. The league revealed the results prior to Game 1 of the WNBA Finals on Sunday, where Taurasi and Co. battled fellow “GOAT” nominee Candace Parker and the Chicago Sky....

Polk County Sheriff’s Office A Florida woman has been arrested after allegedly shoving her Chihuahua into a bag and tossing the dog in a garbage bin behind her apartment. On Saturday, two residents in the area discovered the Chihuahua, known as Diamond, sealed in a plastic bag wearing a pink collar after hearing her cries, the Polk County Sheriff’s Officerevealed in a statement. Animal Control responded to the scene and found a microchip in Diamond, which helped them track down her owner— Shawkimo Anderson, 41....

Photo: Detained in Dubai Laleh Shahravesh was arrested on March 10 at Dubai International Airport after flying to the city with her daughter, Paris, for the funeral of her ex-husband, Pedro Manuel Coreia Dos Santos,according to human rights organization Detained in Dubai. “I hope you go under the ground you idiot,” Shahravesh allegedly wrote in Farsi,according to theWashington Post. “Damn you. You left me for this horse.” “I have not seen my mother in 23 days, and with every passing day, I feel less hopeful of her return,” Paris wrote in the letter published last week....

Jennifer and James Faith.Photo: Gofundme The Texas woman whoadmitted to convicing her boyfriend to kill her husband in 2020was sentenced to life in federal prison for orchestrating the murder, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas announced Tuesday. Before sentencingJennifer Faithto life in prison, United States District Judge Jane J. Boyle called her “pure evil,” U.S. Attorney Chad Meacham said in a statement. Lopez, who is charged with murder, has pleaded not guilty....

Linda Almond.Photo: facebook A woman who died during therecord-breaking floods in middle Tennesseehad filmed rising waters surrounding her house before she was swept away. On Saturday morning, Linda Almond went on Facebook Live to show friends and family floodwaters rushing past her home. The 70-second video would be one of the 55-year-old’s final moments. “Well, if anybody’s seeing me on Facebook Live, we’re being flooded right now in Waverly, Tennessee,” Linda said during the livestream....

A 66-year-old woman was pronounced dead only to wake up hours later gasping for air at a funeral home in Iowa. The woman spent at least nearly 40 minutes in a body bag traveling from the Glen Oaks Alzheimer’s Special Care Center to the funeral home, according to a citation from the Health Facilities Division of the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals, which oversees health facility safety. The incident happened on Jan....

Courtesy of Julie Zhang The Dallas-based content creator and former travel nurse demonstrated her last-minute creative skills in anow-viral TikTok videowith over 466,000 likes. In the clip, Zhang — who tells PEOPLE she has “never baked a cake in my life” — used a spatula to precariously stack two Berry Chantilly cakes from Whole Foods on top of each other. Despite her initially wobbly construction and mid-video realization that “it looks worse than I thought,” she prevailed under pressure....

Photo: Courtesy Tawny Williams In a heartbreaking post on Facebook, Lisa’s mother Tawny Williams opened up about her daughter’s death and spoke on her final moments. “My beautiful Lisa, she was murdered while decorating a Christmas tree with homemade ornaments she was making with the kids (3 year old twins),” Tawny wrote in reference to Lisa’s boyfriend’s Travis Cook’s children which he shares with ex-wife Chelsea Watrous Cook, 32....

Photo: Kyodo via AP Happy birthday, Kane Tanaka! Tanaka — the world’s oldest living person, according to Guinness World Records — just celebrated her 119th trip around the sun. The great-grandmother, who was born in 1903, marked the milestone in a Fukuoka, Japan, nursing home. She turned 119 on Sunday, according to atweetfrom her great-granddaughter Junko Tanaka. Want to get the biggest stories fromPEOPLEevery weekday?Subscribe to our new podcast, PEOPLE Every Day, to get the essential celebrity, entertainment and human interest news stories Monday through Friday....

Helen Marouis.Photo: Courtesy P&G The countdown to the Tokyo Summer Olympics is on, and wrestler Helen Maroulis is one of the many athletes awaiting the chance to take home gold for Team USA. Two years later, Maroulis sustained a devastating head injury at the 2018 World Wrestling Championships, which left her wrestling future (and return to the Olympics) up in the air. But now, Maroulis exclusively tells PEOPLE, she’s made a full recovery and is ready to take on the competition in Tokyo this summer....

Thereal-life dramabetween ’90s R&B groupXscapeis still going strong all these years later — but this time, the cameras are capturing it all. At the premiere of the group’s new Bravo showSWV & XSCAPE: The Queens of R&B, many of the ladies admitted they were hesitant to do the show because they couldn’t put their ongoing issues aside. “I think everyone had reservations in the beginning, but we’re all here,” said LaTocha Scott, 49....

Yellowjackets Star Samantha Hanratty Opens Up About Planning Her Wedding: ‘It’s Been A Crazy Journey’.Photo:Lauren Dukoff Lauren Dukoff Samantha Hanrattynever thought planning a wedding would be easy. Now, with her nuptials only weeks away, theYellowjacketsstar, 28,thinks otherwise. “It’s been such a fun time,” Hanratty — who stars on the cover ofThe Knotmagazine’s winter celebration issue — tells PEOPLE. “It’s been a crazy journey, and I’m thankful The Knot has been there to help support me....