Ciara and Russell Wilson welcome bouncing baby girl

                    Ciara and NFL star Russell Wilson have welcomed their first child together.

The 31-year-old singer and 28-year-old Seattle Seahawks quarterback announced via Instagram that they had welcomed a bouncing baby girl on Friday night.

Along with a photo of a pregnant Ciara by the beach, the couple even revealed the name of the child: Sienna Princess Wilson.

The proud mother-of-two wrote:  'Dear Sienna Princess Wilson, No matter how big the wave, we will always be your calm in the storm. We Love You.

Aaron Rodgers Golf Date With "Baywatch" Actress

Aaron Rodgers was spotted at an L.A. golf course Thursday with a very attractive blonde  and we're told it's "Baywatch" actress Kelly Rohrbach.

Just a few weeks after reports surfaced he split with longtime girlfriend Olivia Munn  the Green Bay Packers quarterback hit up the Westchester Golf Course.

Tillerson presses for economic sanctions on North Korea in special UN meeting

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took the escalating threat of a nuclear North Korea to the United Nations Security Council Friday, urging member countries to financially cut ties with Pyongyang and freeze access to funds that could be used to build up that nation’s nuclear arsenal.

Tillerson called on the international community to fully implement U.N. sanctions and to suspend or downgrade diplomatic ties as well with North Korea.

“With each successive detonation and missile test, North Korea pushes northeast Asia and the world closer to instability and broader conflict," Tillerson said. "The threat of a North Korean attack on Seoul or Tokyo is real."

When going through a breakup? The placebo effect might ease your pain

Many of us have experienced the breakdown of a romantic relationship. Whether it was with your high school sweetheart or your spouse of 25 years, there is no denying the emotional pain that comes with a breakup.

"Breaking up with a partner is one of the most emotionally negative experiences a person can have, and it can be an important trigger for developing psychological problems," says first study author Leonie Koban, a postdoctoral research associate for the University of Colorado Boulder (UC Boulder).

oban notes that the pain of a relationship breakup can increase the risk of developing depression by as much as 20 times in the subsequent 12 months.

Meet The Newbie Podcast Pick 'Rookie'

                                        Tavi Gevinson, left, hosts the Rookie Podcast. The show features intimate conversations with stars 
                                           (including Lorde, right) that are insightful for teen girls... and adults. (Photo: Getty Images)

This week's podcast pick: Rookie Podcast It was only a matter of time until Tavi Gevinson'sRookie Magazine would get its own podcast.

As of April 4, the Rookie Podcast is here, and it has has the same "by and for teenage girls" vibe that the Rookie site has. Sure, Gevinson is 21 now, and some of the guests are adults (they're needed for Rookie's signature Ask a Grown advice series), but the topics are those that precocious 15-year-olds care about: growing up, the creative process, dealing with your parents, feeling the feels.

Celebrity Star Kim Kardashian Speaks Out About Caitlyn Jenner's 'Hurtful' Book

Kim Kardashian West has had enough! The 36-year-old reality star visited The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Thursday where she opened up on a variety of sensitive topics, including her traumatic Paris robbery and her former stepparent, Caitlyn Jenner.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy says intruder tried to break into his home after 'DWTS'

“Dancing with the Stars” pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy and his celebrity partner, “Glee” actress Heather Morris, were shockingly eliminated from the ballroom competition on Monday night. It was hardly the worst thing that’s happened to Chmerkovskiy this week.

Chmerkovskiy said Tuesday that an intruder tried to break into the Los Angeles home he rents with his fiancée and fellow “Dancing with the Stars” pro, Peta Murgatroyd, earlier that morning. He explained what happened to Maria Menounos on SiriusXM.

More From The Significance of The Treaty of Rome

ON MARCH 25th the European Union’s heads of government will gather in the glorious Sala Degli Orazi e Curiazi of Rome’s Palazzo dei Conservatori to issue a solemn declaration of unity. The moment will be freighted with significance: exactly 60 years earlier, as expectant crowds huddled under umbrellas on the Piazza del Campidoglio outside, plenipotentiaries from six Western European countries France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg assembled in the same room to sign the Treaty of Rome.

The 1957 treaty established the institutions that made up the European Economic Community the European Commission, the Council of Ministers, the European Parliament and the European Court of Justice (ECJ) which was in time to become the EU. (A second treaty signed that day created the European Atomic Energy Community, later folded into the EU.) What was the significance of the Treaty of Rome?

Between Work And Commitments! How Much Exercise Do I Really Need?

(CNN)Between work commitments, family responsibilities, and the stress of everyday life, we have legitimate reasons to fall short of our fitness goals. That's why, for many, the pre-goal should be maximizing the efficiency of your workout regimen.

Two and half hours a week of moderate intensity exercise is what is recommended by the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association. Ideally, this means 30 minutes, five times per week, of activities such as jogging, ballroom dancing, biking or swimming. Moderate intensity means you're working in the intermediate zone. If you're able to hold a conversation with the person next to you while doing that activity, you're in the zone.

If you don't have time for five workouts per week, recent evidence in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that cramming 150 minutes into the weekend, the so-called "weekend warrior" model, transfers similar health benefits to spreading out fitness across the week. The only risk here is overuse injury, such as a case of Achilles tendinitis from running 10 miles on a Saturday after not doing any exercise all week.

Recent Study: Have kids, live longer ?

A new research study finds that people who have had at least one child are more likely to live a bit longer than people who are childless. Some of the news coverage I’ve seen on this story might be making more of this than it should:

Photos: Peta Murgatroyd Reacts to Fiance Maksim Chmerkovskiy's Shocking 'Dancing With the Stars' Elimination

              Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd attend the 2016 'Entertainment Weekly' Pre-Emmy party at

 Nightingale Plaza Sept. 16, 2016, in Los Angeles. Todd Williamson/Getty Images

According to usmagazine Bye-bye, ballroom. Peta Murgatroyd is not happy that her fiancé, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, and his partner, Glee alum Heather Morris, were eliminated from Dancing With the Stars Monday, April 24.

"I'm so upset for him. He was so excited," Murgatroyd, 30, told Entertainment Tonight after the live show. "He was just getting over his calf injury, and I mean, I swear they were gonna be in the finals. I mean, they're incredible together. I just don't understand it. But, you know, the show is based so heavily on fan votes, so I think that's just it. They just lacked that, I guess."

Sydney’s social hierarchy on show at Cyndi Lauper’s Kinky Boots premiere [See Photos]

IF you are wondering where you sit in Sydney’s social structure, an opening night performance can help.
An A-list crowd packed the Capitol Theatre on Wednesday night to take in Kinky Boots and chance a close encounter with the show’s composer Cyndi Lauper.

Proximity to Lauper, in seat D17, was the measure of status on the night and none was higher in the pecking order than the Prime Minister’s wife Lucy Turnbull and daughter Daisy, seated next to Lauper, nine rows from the stage.

Others within close range in the premium seats included arts patron Ros Packer, freshly returned from “the country”. She was joined by her galpal/walker Vicky Jones and seated in front of Turnbull in Row C. Richard Wilkins and his on-theme androgynous son Christian and Kerri-Anne Kennerley, in jodhpurs, were also in the vicinity.

LOL! MKR favourites David and Betty can’t find time to watch the show as it’s on too frequently

EVEN the stars of Seven’s cooking juggernaut My Kitchen Rules are fatigued with the seemingly never-ending series.

Outspoken “just friends” duo Betty Banks and David Vu, who were last night announced as the only NSW representatives in final four including Amy and Tyson Murr, Valerie and Courtney Ferdinands, and Tim Attiwill and Kyle McLean, said the show is on too frequently for them to commit to regular viewing.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posing with Veluppillai Thangavelu

TORONTO — A photo of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posing with Veluppillai Thangavelu, the former vice-president of a group on Canada’s list of outlawed terrorist organizations, has underscored the pitfalls of selfie politics.

Thangavelu, who was a senior official in the World Tamil Movement when it was the target of an RCMP investigation, posted a photo on Facebook showing he and Trudeau in Toronto last month.

Thangavelu also appeared in the background of a photo of Trudeau posted that same day on the Twitter account of the prime minister’s principal secretary, Gerald Butts. “Good people,” the caption read.

Surprise Announcement: Marine Le Pen steps down as Front National leader and claims to be 'candidate for all French people

Marine Le Pen made the surprise announcement on Monday night that she was stepping down as leader of the Front National, claiming it would allow her to represent better the interests of "all French people".

On the surface, at least, it seemed to change little about her approach to the country's problems. Visiting a wholesale market outside Paris on Tuesday, she declared that under her regime, the government would promote meat and produce reared in France, so "our children take advantage of our healthy, quality products".

"Let's promote the 'eating French' especially in [school] canteens," she said. She was promptly booed by some workers in the fruit and vegetables section.

The far-right candidate has been forced to take drastic action, giving up control of her father's political party, after she scraped through to the second round of the French presidential election nearly one million votes behind centrist Emmanuel Macron - despite leading in polls throughout the campaign.

Sophie Marat, a transgender woman, has taken voice lessons so she can sound more feminine

                Sophie Marat, a transgender woman, has taken voice lessons so she can sound more feminine. Credit Caitlin Ochs for The New York Times

According to Nytimes news. In her 30s, Sophie Marat, now 42, used to record herself reading poetry aloud, then play it back to hear if she sounded like a woman. Ms. Marat, who is transgender, had spent years trying to remake her voice in private by speaking in a higher pitch but ultimately felt that her efforts were hopeless.

“I was feeling like changing my voice to match my gender identity was almost impossible,” she said. “It was terrible.”

Ms. Marat’s transition from male to female has been a gradual evolution. She had come out to friends and family back home in Mexico, then began to wear skirts to work as a software engineer in Manhattan. Still, her confidence would falter with everyday tasks like ordering takeout. “It was really painful to speak on the phone,” she said, “because they would reply, ‘O.K., sir.’”

That was before she started her weekly sessions with a voice therapist at New York University’s speech-language-hearing clinic, one of a growing number of programs that cater to transgender clients seeking to retrain their voices.

Just as some transgender women and men choose to take hormones or have surgery, or choose neither, some seek to feminize or masculinize their voices. Many say they want a voice that matches their appearance or that the change allows them to escape unwanted attention. There’s also a growing recognition among health professionals who have transgender patients that altering one’s voice can improve quality of life and reduce distress.

I just couldn’t believe it: Utah man initially denied lung transplant over pot use dies after complications, family says

A Utah man who was initially denied a lung transplant after a hospital found traces of marijuana in his system died on Saturday, in the Pennsylvania hospital that agreed to accept his case. Riley Hancey, 20, was recovering from a double lung transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania when he suffered fatal complications, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.

Hancey’s difficulties began in December, when he was admitted to the University of Utah Hospital after contracting pneumonia. He was placed on life support two weeks later, but ultimately denied transplant eligibility after tests revealed traces of marijuana in his system, The Tribune reported. His father, Mark Hancey, said his son smoked marijuana with friends over Thanksgiving, but was not a habitual marijuana smoker.

Photos: Jess William Seeks Joint Custody Of Kids In Divorce

Jesse Williams isn't looking for a fight over child custody in his divorce ... according to docs.
TMZ obtained the divorce petition filed by the "Grey's Anatomy" star on April 11, and he is requesting joint physical and legal custody of their 3-year-old and 1-year-old kids.

Politics Today: Trump prepares executive order spree in dash to 100-day mark

President Trump has dismissed the end of his first 100 days in office as an “artificial” marker, but he’s packed the final stretch with a burst of executive orders and lofty legislative goals covering health care, tax reform and more.

Before Saturday’s deadline, Trump plans to sign at least four executive orders -- including one aimed at easing regulations on offshore oil and gas exploration and another to protect whistleblowers at the Department of Veterans Affairs, under a microscope for failing to provide adequate patient care. Another would direct the Interior Department to review prior national monument designations.

Do You Know What Thyroid Disease Looks Like? VIEW

The American Thyroid Association (ATA) documents how an average of 20 million Americans will develop some form of thyroid condition. That’s no small number! If left untreated, thyroid disease can affect cardiovascular wellbeing, pregnancy, and bone health. There are two thyroid conditions – Hyper and hypothyroidism. Hyperthyroidism leads to excess production of T3 and T4 thyroid hormones, whereas hypothyroidism results in underproduction of hormones. Understanding thyroid health is essential for disease control and prevention. Do you know the signs and symptoms of thyroid disease?

What Hyperthyroidism Looks Like

Finally Bob Dylan Agrees to Receive Nobel Prize in Stockholm

© Christopher Polk, Getty, AFP | Bod Dylan had declined the invitation to attend the traditional Nobel Prize banquet and ceremony on Dec. 10 last year, pleading other commitments


Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will receive his Nobel Literature Prize diploma and medal in the next few days in Stockholm, where is he due to perform this weekend, the secretary of the Swedish Academy said on Wednesday.

The Academy's decision to give the bard of "Blowin' in the Wind" the literature prize caused controversy, only deepened by Dylan's silence about the award for weeks afterwards and his no-show at the annual banquet in December.

"The good news is that the Swedish Academy and Bob Dylan have decided to meet this weekend," Sara Danius said in a blog post. "The Academy will then hand over Dylan's Nobel diploma and the Nobel medal, and congratulate him on the Nobel Prize in Literature."

Canadian Investors Look to LA, Where Some Celeb Homes Rival Inner-City Toronto

    The pool party-ready childhood home where actress sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning once lived is on the market in L.A. for $2.59 million US. Some Toronto        inner-city homes are rivaling the cost of celebrity pads in Hollywood. (zillow.com)

Some actors selling Hollywood homes for same price as family dwellings in coveted Toronto areas.

As if housing market prices in Toronto aren't discouraging enough, it hurts even more knowing a celebrity pad in Los Angeles can be comparable in price to some homes in the downtown core.

A Hollywood Hills house owned by Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club actor Jared Leto, for example, is currently listed for sale at $1.9 million US.

According to the listing by Modern Living LA, the four-bedroom, three-bathroom home is "hidden behind a quiet façade," has a recording studio and "a gorgeous lagoon-style pool surrounded by an expansive patio and lush mature landscaping."

Angela Merkel says she won't change course on refugees despite election rout

                                          Angela Merkel looks shaken as she addresses the media in Berlin in the wake of her poll humiliation Getty

Angela Merkel conceded that her “open door” policies on refugees had caused her ruling Christian Democrats to suffer humiliating losses to the xenophobic Alternative for Germany party in state elections, but the Chancellor insisted she would not change course on the divisive issue.

Speaking for the first time about her party’s rout, some 18 hours after polls closed on Sunday night, a visibly shaken Ms Merkel told a press conference in Berlin that her policies  which allowed more than a million refugees to enter Germany last year had determined the outcome of the weekend’s election.

Describing the result as a “bad day for the CDU [Christian Democrats],” she admitted that her policies had so far brought “no lasting solution” to the refugee crisis. However she said she was committed to finding a “European solution” to the problem during her meetings with the EU and Turkey later this week.

Still On Trump Inaugural: Palm Beach County’s Cline, Florida Crystals, NextEra, Geo gave big

Trump inaugural: Palm Beach County’s Cline, Florida Crystals, NextEra, Geo gave big

Coal-mining billionaire Christopher Cline of North Palm Beach is among three dozen or so contributors who gave at least $1 million to President Donald Trump‘s inaugural committee, according to a report filed this week.

Other big inaugural donors from Palm Beach County include West Palm Beach-based sugar giant Florida Crystals Corp. ($500,000), Juno Beach-headquartered NextEra Energy ($250,000) and private prison contractor Geo Corrections Holding of Boca Raton ($250,000).

Trump’s inaugural committee raised $106.8 million, according to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission.

Questions: Are people ready to embrace artificial intelligence and robotics in healthcare

The population of the UK is the least willing among 12 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa to consider using artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics as alternatives to traditional healthcare channels. That’s the finding of research that PwC commissioned to look into global variations in attitudes to healthcare technologies.  So does that mean for the UK these technologies are likely to be a non-starter? Far from it. Nearly four out of ten (39%) people surveyed in the UK said that they would be willing to engage with AI and robotics for their healthcare. And extrapolating those findings to the wider population indicates a significant potential market.

What the survey also tells us is that the younger the demographic group, the more likely they are to see new health technologies in a positive light. Well over half of 18 to 24 year olds would be willing to engage with AI and robotics to take care of some of their health. And if even only a proportion started to use more services that could start to realize big savings. Those could, in turn, make a serious contribution to addressing the challenges facing the health system in the UK.

Its Fresh, Simple, And Quick: 7 Stress Hacks You Can Use in the Next 5 Minutes

When you get stressed by a deadline, a bad driver, or a tax bill, your brain and body go into “fight-or-flight.”  Your heart beats faster, you breathe more rapidly, and your muscles tense up.  Because the stress response is rapid, you need to find stress relief strategies that you can engage quickly.  There’s no time to have a long conversation with yourself.  Luckily, science is helping us find new, simple and quick ways to de-stress that rely on recognizing the brain’s stress response (or worry and rumination response) and activating different brain networks to calm things down.

1. Recognize when you begin to feel stressed

When you get stressed a part of your brain called the amygdala hijacks the brain into a state of readiness for fighting or fleeing (called the fight or flight  response). This is because the stressors our ancestors faced were more acute and physical (like a prowling lion). When you start to go into "fight-or-flight," your breathing gets more shallow, your heart beats faster, and your muscles get tense. This response is generally quite rapid and caused my surges of adrenalin and cortisol  coursing through your body. If you practice watching for the first signs of stress (like your shoulders tensing), you can catch the response early in the process before your brain is completely hijacked.

2. Take a few slow, rhythmic breaths with long exhales

Slow rhythmic breathing activates the vagus nerve - a large nerve that travels throughout the body and links your brain with your heart, lungs, gut and other major organs. The vagus nerve is part of the parasympathetic nervous system, which slows down the “fight or flight response and takes the body back into a relaxed state known as “rest and digest.”  Blood flows from your hands and feet back to your inner organs, since your brain assumes you no longer have to run or fight. To practice slow rhythmic breathing, breathe in for a count of 5, rest for a count of 2, then breathe out through either your nose or mouth for a count of 6. if this is too difficult, you can begin with a 4-2-4 rhythm and then work up to 5-2-6.

Politics Today: Kansas, Georgia Takeaway: Special elections results mixed in predicting future

Old-timers used to leaf through the Farmer’s Almanac to learn of prognostications for a blizzard churning around Valentine’s Day or to determine whether drenching rains would douse their fields come early May.

The Almanac’s soothsaying is said to rely on mathematical equations, tidal movements and the prevalence of sunspots.

Special elections are kind of like the political version of the almanac. Sometimes they unveil a lot about the upcoming political weather. Sometimes, not so much.

The former is why much of political Washington poured over the results in two House special elections of late. Pundits filleted and quartered every precinct and trend. These votes were the first barometer of the electorate since President Trump scored his stunning victory last autumn. It’s notable that these two Republican districts were even remotely in play.

Photos: Humm! Professional Golfer Rory McIlroy Marries Erica Stoll at Star-Studded Ceremony in Ireland

Professional golfer Rory McIlroy married his fiancée Erica Stoll at Ashford Castle in Co. Mayo, Ireland earlier today, E! News has learned.

Multiple outlets are reporting that the Irish golfing ace and his American lady love got hitched in a lavish, $250,000 wedding at the 13th century castle with a slew of celebs at their side, including Stevie Wonder, One Direction's Niall Horan, Ed Sheeran, 50 Shades of Grey actor Jamie Dornan and Coldplay's Chris Martin.

Nicole Richie wears floral caftan for grocery shopping with her two kids and sister-in-law Cameron Diaz

She's the founder and creative force behind successful lifestyle brand House Of Harlow 1960.

And on Saturday, Nicole Richie stepped away from her work duties for a shopping outing in Studio City with her children Harlow, nine, and Sparrow, seven.

The 35-year-old, who slipped on a colorful caftan for the grocery run, was joined by her sister-in-law Cameron Diaz, 44.

A NEED TO PROTECT: He Observed The Earth From Space. Now He’s Trying To Protect It From The Ground.

 Leland Melvin hasn’t been to space since the beginning of Barack Obama’s presidency, but he’s sure glad to be back on Earth now.

The former NASA astronaut joined thousands Saturday on the National Mall for “the March for Science,” a mass protest against an array of President Donald Trump’s policies that critics say attack or dismiss critical scientific evidence.

“I’ve seen the planet from the vantage point of space,” Melvin, 53, told The Huffington Post, ducking into a tent to avoid the chilly drizzle outside. “It’s a beautiful planet, but there are a lot of things that are going on and, without the data, without the science, we’re going to decimate our planet.”

According to Washingtonpost Why People Are Marching For Science: ‘There is no Planet B’

Thousands of people gathered in the rain Saturday on the soggy grounds of the Washington Monument to turn Earth Day into an homage to science. After four hours of speeches and musical performances, they marched down Constitution Avenue to the foot of Capitol Hill, chanting “Build labs, not walls!” and “Hey, Trump, have you heard, you can’t silence every nerd!”

The March for Science began as a notion batted around online on Reddit after the Women’s March on Washington, which was held Jan. 21, the day after President Trump’s inauguration. The idea snowballed after it was endorsed by numerous mainstream science organizations, which vowed that it would not be a partisan event. It eventually became a global phenomenon, held in more than 600 cities on six continents  and cheered on by scientists on a seventh, Antarctica.

Read The Shocking Story of a The Remarkable Recovery of a Woman With Advanced Colon Cancer

The remarkable recovery of a woman with advanced colon cancer, after treatment with cells from her own immune system, may lead to new options for thousands of other patients with colon or pancreatic cancer, researchers are reporting.

Her treatment was the first to successfully target a common cancer mutation that scientists have tried to attack for decades. Until now, that mutation has been bulletproof, so resistant to every attempt at treatment that scientists have described it as “undruggable.”

An article about the case, from a team led by Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg, chief of surgery at the National Cancer Institute, was published on Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The patient, Celine Ryan, 50, an engineer, database programmer and the mother of five, has an unusual genetic makeup that allowed the treatment to work. She is now cancer-free, though not considered cured.

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