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DR MAX PEMBERTON: Cutting off your children is kind not cruelDaniel Craig doesn’t want his kids to inherit his estimated £117 million fortuneDr Max Pemberton explains why it seems a very sensible parenting decisionNHS psychiatrist says children can feel pressured to replicate parents’ success The view has been expressed that inherited wealth is like a medicine — give too much and, rather than the benefits you had hoped for, it can kill the patient.This is something Daniel Craig appears to have taken on board. He made headlines last week for saying he didn’t want his children to inherit his estimated £117…

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Time for a new role! Stephanie Beatriz and her husband, Brad Hoss, have welcomed their first baby together, confirming the news via Instagram on Sunday, August 22.Celebrity Babies of 2021“BÉBÉ HAS ARRIVED in style (and more importantly SAFETY) in @nuna_usa’s Pipa car seat,” the 40-year-old In the Heights star captioned an Instagram post of her little one buckled into her car seat. “Her name is Rosaline: pronounced Roz-uh-line. I’m very very in awe of the entire experience of having a kiddo. It is INCREDIBLE and HARD AF and BEAUTIFUL and EMOTIONAL, and I can’t remember ever being this amazed and feeling so overwhelmingly full of gratitude. Roz,…

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UPDATE: 6:55 p.m. ET — A statement by Santa Barbara County Sheriff revealed Tuesday night ‘Tarzan’ actor Ron Ely’s son stabbed his mother Valerie Lundeen Ely to death. Deputies responding to a 911 call found Valerie, 62, dead with multiple stab wounds. Deputies found the couple’s son, 30-year-old Cameron Ely, outside their Southern California home and fatally shot him. Authorities said Cameron posed an unspecified threat to the deputies, four of whom opened fire and killed him. Autopsies of both bodies were pending and NBC reported that the department was conducting criminal, coroner’s and administrative investigations surrounding the incident. Original story…

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ALBANY, PENNSYLVANIA: Lisa Rachelle Snyder had reportedly told authorities that she had found her two children hanging dead in the basement after her son was bullied and had “made threats of doing this, but didn’t want to go alone”. However, the 36-year-old mother has now been charged with the murder of her children. We had previously reported that, on September 23, she told a 911 dispatcher that she found her children hanging from the opposite ends of a dog leash in the basement.  According to prosecutors, Snyder murdered her eight-year-old son Conner and her four-year-old daughter Brinley on September 23 inside their…

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FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY: Two New Jersey teens pleaded guilty to the March 2019 smothering death of their newborn son, whose remains they then discarded in a public dumpster. Jada McClain, now 18, told the court she began dating the child’s father Quaimere Mohammed in 2018 and learned she was pregnant later that year, when she was still 17, according to the Asbury Park Press. She said she gave birth to the boy, who they named Legend, on March 29 in a downstairs bathroom at her parents’ home before taking him up, laying him on her bed, and pressing down on…

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With the release of Netflix’s documentary ‘The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez’, the tragic life of the abused Gabriel has come out in the open and as more details about the torture and death of the eight-year-old continue to surface, people are plain shocked. While some of these details are horrifying, some are really heartwrenching. For instance, we now know how desperate the boy was for love. Gabriel even made his mother a card to wish her on Mother’s Day, which was just asking for some attention and tenderness. Gabriel was beaten and tortured to death by his mother Pearl Fernandez…

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In 2009, the bizarre cult, ‘Spiritual Warrior’, started by self-help guru James Arthur Ray came under intense public scrutiny. On October 8, police officers were called into the town of Sedona, Arizona where three people lost their lives in a ‘sweat-lodge ceremony’ gone horribly wrong. Oxygen’s new documentary ‘Deadly Cults’ looks at Ray’s Spiritual Warrior retreat that led to three people dying and at least 18 injured.  Who was James Arthur Ray? James Ray is a leadership and performance advisor, life coach, and author and the founder of the Spiritual Warrior cult. He was born in 1957 in Honolulu in…

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The body-cam footage of the moment George Floyd died while being arrested by four cops on May 25 was made public on Wednesday, July 15. As he struggled with the disgraced Minneapolis officers before being pinned to the ground, the African-American man said, “I’m not a bad guy.” Despite the transcript of the footage being released earlier, Judge Peter Cahill, without giving an explanation, has prohibited the publication of the video. As a result, the fullest public visual record yet of Floyd’s interaction with the cops, who were later charged with his death, was made available for the first time…

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“I keep having these odd dreams and I don’t know why they’re blurry, and I normally have them at my mom’s.” These are the words of little Sophie Long, the nine-year-old who shook the nation with a heartbreaking tale of the alleged sex abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother’s boyfriend. Recent revelations have indicated that the minor might have been drugged before being abused while in her mother Kelly Marie Mitton’s custody. Sophie is finally back with her father Michael Long and safe in his custody, which is reason enough to celebrate. In fact, it seems the…

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HOUSTON, TEXAS: Best friends of Alexis Sharkey have vowed to fight for justice as they claimed to have “a lot of information” which they want to share with police. The Instagram influencer was found dead on Saturday morning, November 28, less than 24 hours after she went missing. Her naked body was discovered by a garbage truck driver in Houston, Texas, a few miles away from the apartment, where she and her husband – Tom Sharkey – lived.After Alexis’ tragic death, her four close friends – 32-year-old Tanya Ricardo, 29-year-old Desiree Jacobs, Kendra Martin, 33, and Chealsea Turnbow, 33 –…

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Keeping it low-key. Hours after Us Weekly confirmed that Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott were expecting their second child together, the 30-year-old rapper kept a low profile while out-and-about in New York City.Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott: A Timeline of Their RelationshipThe “Out West” musician took a walk alone in the city on Friday, August 20, according to photos obtained by the Daily Mail. He wore a pair of light-wash jeans, white and green sneakers, a black baseball cap and a graphic tee from the 1997 Disney film, Flubber.The “Sicko Mode” performer, who has not publicly commented on the 24-year-old reality star’s…

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CANCUN, MEXICO: A Texas firefighter was found dead at a resort in Cancun while on vacation to celebrate his tenth wedding anniversary. While his family believes he was kidnapped and killed, Mexican authorities have said that he was accidentally asphyxiated when he became trapped in a window as he tried to enter a bathroom. Authorities discovered the body of 35-year-old Elijah Snow, of Arlington, last Monday and opened an investigation. Snow’s body was reportedly located in a bathroom window at a hotel, but it was not the resort where Snow had been staying. This hotel in Benito Juárez was about…

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HOUSTON, TEXAS: Two minors have been charged with the senseless murder of an elderly woman outside a gym at 10570 Fuqua Street in Houston. Elsa Mikeska was killed on June 17 after she parked her vehicle outside a gym at about 4.50 am on June 17. She was allegedly approached by the suspects before one of them gunned her down.In a press release, the Houston Police Department said that both the teens have been pressed with charges in relation to the death of the 62-year-old woman. However, since both are minors, their names were not released. One of the male…

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RIVER OAKS, TEXAS: A six-year-old Texas girl was allegedly killed by her cousin in an apparent “accident,” but now he is facing a murder charge in connection with her death. Isabella Courtney was found “severely injured” Wednesday evening, August 18, outside her residence in River Oaks, Fort Worth, WBAP reported. Authorities responded to a call shortly after 7.30 pm and tried their best to rescue the youngster until paramedics arrived. However, Courtney succumbed to her injuries around 8.30 pm at Cook Children’s Medical Center, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. READ MORE Who was Marzia Rahmati? Kin releases photo of dead…

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Don Everly, one-half of the pioneering Everly Brothers whose harmonizing country rock hits impacted a generation of rock ‘n’ roll music, has died. He was 84.Everly died at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday, according to his attorney and family spokesperson Linda Edell Howard. His brother, Phil Everly, died in January 2014 at age 74.“Don lived by what he felt in his heart,” a statement from the family said. “Don expressed his appreciation for the ability to live his dreams … living in love with his soul mate and wife Adela, and sharing the music that…

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Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships so we may receive compensation for some links to products and services.Do you feel like you’ve hit a dead end with your skincare? You layer up your toners, essences, serums and moisturizers night after night, you throw on a sheet mask whenever you have a spare 10 minutes and you sit in front of a desk humidifier all day…but nothing is changing! At best, you’re maintaining past progress, but there’s still so much more progress to make!Sometimes you just need a full-on reset. Something that will “regenerate, renew and reveal better skin each and every…

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Love Love Island? Our Factor 50 email brings all the goss direct to your inboxIt’s been widely circulated this year that the Love Island contestants are allowed Saturdays off for the purpose of having a “down day” to relax away from cameras and to have a professional beauty technician come into the villa to fix their hair extensions and nails.But does the Love Island budget stretch as far as hiring a professional for the final episode and crowning ceremony?Apparently so. In fact, it seems to be the only time during the whole series when the girls don’t have to do…

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A man who claimed to have a bomb and drove his pickup truck onto the sidewalk in front of the Library of Congress, sparking an hourslong standoff, is facing federal weapons of mass destruction charges and will undergo a competency evaluation ahead of his next court appearance. A man who claimed to have a bomb and drove his pickup truck onto the sidewalk in front of the Library of Congress, sparking an hourslong standoff, is facing a federal weapons of mass destruction charge and will undergo a competency evaluation ahead of his next court appearance. Floyd Ray Roseberry, of Grover,…

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A multi-agency law enforcement operation resulted in 93 fugitives being arrested, according to the US Marshals Service. A multi-agency law enforcement operation resulted in 93 fugitives being arrested, according to the US Marshals Service. “Operation Washout” focused on wanted violent offenders and gang members in the Baltimore, Maryland, area. The operation, led by the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Baltimore Police Department’s Warrant Apprehension Task Force, was carried out over a two-week period in July. Among those arrested were four suspects wanted for homicide, 11 wanted for attempted homicide, 26 wanted for domestic violence, three wanted for…

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