‘I Thought I was Getting State Paid Leave. Then My Claim Got Rejected’

EXCLUSIVE: Sophia Bush (Good Sam) and Jeremie Harris (Fargo) will star alongside Simona Brown in MPI Original Films’ drama Freedom Hair from Oscar nominee Dianne Houston, which is currently in production in Atlanta.

Rob Lowe has come a long way. The 58-year-old actor rocketed to fame in 1983's and has since enjoyed an enviable career by any standards, but Lowe admits that even he worried that his career might be over at one point in the '90s.«One day I woke up and go, 'I haven't worked in two years,'» Lowe tells ET's Matt Cohen in a new interview, recalling the early days of raising his family with wife Sheryl Burkoff. The couple welcomed their first son, Matthew, in 1993, and their second, John, in 1995. «In fairness, I'd kind of taken my foot off the accelerator a little bit.» With a slew of big screen projects already under his belt -- including and — it was a starring role on in 1999 that marked a new beginning for Lowe, kicking off a run that would see him on a TV show (and sometimes more than one) every year since.

on Twitter Thursday night, revealing the remaining dates of his North American tour with his All Starr band have been scrapped.“I’m sure you’ll be as surprised as I was I tested positive again for Covid the rest of the tour is off I send you peace and love Ringo,” Starr wrote alongside a selfie.The shows affected by the news include a handful of California gigs starting Oct. 14 in San Jose, Paso Robles and Los Angeles as well as two dates in Mexico City on Oct.

Samuel W. Alderson is the genius who made dummies smart.  The California inventor parlayed a knack for tinkering in his old man’s sheet metal shop into a gift for making highways safer here in America and around the world.  A prolific producer of cutting-edge military hardware in World War II, Alderson is most famous as the father of the crash test dummy.  In scientific circles, these objects are known as anthropomorphic test devices — a more accurate indication of their robust capabilities.  "Sam Alderson was driven by a passion to save lives by using crash test dummies that produce data [that] engineers use to design safer vehicles," Chris O’Connor, president and CEO of Humanetics, a company founded by Alderson with headquarters in Farmington Hills, Michigan, told Fox News Digital.

Moderate Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, recently revealed that his first order of business at the start of Congress' new session would be voting for speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to remain in her leadership position, and then he would focus on his district. At the opening of his new campaign office in Texas, Cuellar told reporters that he could be counted on to vote for Pelosi to remain as House speaker.

President Biden will attend a big-ticket fundraiser for House Democrats Thursday evening alongside Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in Los Angeles. Tickets for the high-profile Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee event start at $5,000, with the top-spending attendees shelling out a whopping $50,000 per head, according to a Deadline report.  Though the hosts of the event remain unknown, the fundraiser will be held in Brentwood, one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Los Angeles and home to some of Hollywood’s biggest names including Gwyneth Paltrow, Lebron James and Tom Brady. The fundraiser is part of Biden’s four-day-long western U.S.

Michael Callan, the versatile actor who appeared in everything from broad comedies such as Cat Ballou to the original Broadway production of West Side Story to frothy romances like Gidget Goes Hawaiian and virtually every hit TV show of the ’70s and ’80s has died, according to a Deadline source. He was 86.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Financial companies that boycott the energy industry are pushing "anti-American" political agenda, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt told Fox News. "ESG is kind of rewriting how you invest.

New Music Friday! It's every audiophile's favorite day of the week, and some of our favorite artists from all different genres have blessed us with new tunes.Migos' Quavo and Takeoff paired for their new album, Charlie Puth dropped his new album, Carly Rae Jepsen and Rufus Wainwright teamed up for «The Loneliest Time,» and Ozuna shared his fifth studio album, . Ed Sheeran also officially announced the North American leg of his “+ — = ÷ x Tour,” which kicks off May 6, 2023, in Arlington, Texas.

In a race down to the wire, heavy metal outfit Slipknot today claim their third UK Number 1 album with The End So Far.

Brad Pitt is denying new allegations from Angelina Jolie.

Jolie was the plaintiff in an anonymous complaint filed against the FBI in 2016 after the organisation closed an investigation into alleged domestic assault by Pitt. Pitt’s team has denied all allegations of wrongdoing related to the alleged incident.The alleged incident onboard an aeroplane travelling from Europe to the US on September 14, 2016, reportedly also involved one of the pair’s children.

their infamous 2016 plane flight for the first time. In a court filing in Los Angeles, Jolie, 47, claimed Pitt, 58, became angry and abusive during the private plane flight from France to California after accusing the actress of being “too deferential” to their six children. “Pitt grabbed Jolie by the head and shook her.

Angelina Jolie has filed a countersuit against ex Brad Pitt.

Hollyoaks star Callum Kerr has reportedly split from his fiancée just 11 months after getting engaged.The 28 year old actor, who played PC George Kiss on the Channel 4 soap, is said to have removed all snaps of Olivia Anderson from his Instagram with the "split" reportedly "painful" for them both. Olivia is from Austin, Texas, which is where Callum met her in 2016, and the pair bonded over their love of travelling before Olivia moved to the UK to be with him.They then both moved to her hometown in 2021 so Callum could focus on his acting career. A source told The Sun: "Sadly things haven't worked out between Callum and Olivia and they have called it quits.

Catherine Zeta-Jones is a fan of the Princess of Wales! The Welsh actress, 53, took to her Instagram on Wednesday to share a photo of Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis’ mother. Alongside the picture, the Academy Award winner wrote: “I love our Princess of Wales❤️ I love our Welsh National Costume.❤️.”The Prince and Princess of Wales are heading to the US: DetailsThe sweet photo of the Princess with a little girl named Charlotte Bunting was taken earlier this week during the Prince and Princess of Wales’ visit to Swansea, Wales.

and sheer exhaustion, despite the many women and birthing people who have often gone through intense physical and emotional trauma during pregnancy and childbirth—tears or cuts around their vagina and in the perineum, long labors, C-sections, bleeding for weeks afterwards, infections, their children needing medical treatment, and more—there is .Whether you give birth, or have a child through adoption, surrogacy, sperm or egg donation, IVF, or more, if you work, you are afforded no federally supported paid time off.Yes, if you are employed by an organization with , the allows you to take 12 weeks off without losing your job, to recover from serious illness, or to care for a newborn, an adoptive child, or a family member with serious health conditions—but it is unpaid.And that’s it. You have to get lucky, with an employer who happens to have a .

American Idol has provided us with a ton of talent, from Kelly Clarkson to Carrie Underwood to Jennifer Hudson – but that doesn’t mean they always get it right.