Photo: Getty Images The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) extended the U.S. federal transportation mask mandate. The policy, first set to expire Sept. 13, has now been extended until Jan. 18, 2022, asCOVID-19cases rise amid the spread of the Delta variant,Reutersand theAssociated Pressreported this week. A TSA spokesperson told Reuters the decision for the extension is “to minimize the spread of COVID-19 on public transportation.” Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images...

Photo: JIM WATSON/Getty Images Megan Rapinoe, Margaret “Midge” Purce, and the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team are continuing their fight for equal pay. Rapinoe, 35, and Purce, 25, brought the team’s concerns to the PresidentJoe Bidenand First LadyJill Bidenat the White House in honor of Equal Pay Day Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Rapinoetestifiedbefore the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. As 25 other members of the team appeared behind her on a video screen, Rapinoedelivered a moving speechabout their years-long fight for equal pay both within U....

Photo: Lauri Markkanen/instagramUtah Jazz forwardLauri Markkanenis ready for duty.The basketball star has officially reported for military service in Finland after geotagging Helsinki inhis Instagram post of his buzz cutover the weekend.Giving a thumbs up in his selfie, Markkanen, 25, jokingly wrote, “Curls will be back.“As a Finnish citizen, the NBA player told ESPN earlier this month thatserving his country is “mandatory.““We have to do it, but at the same time we take pride in it, too,” Markkanen said....

Texas elementary school shooterSalvador Rolando Ramoswas a loner who’d moved in with his grandparents two months ago following an intense argument with his mother, according to the man who has been dating her just over a year. Speaking to NBC News, Juan Alvarez, 62, said the fight that led the shooter to move out centered around Wi-Fi, and his mother’s decision to disconnect it. Alvarez added that the shooter —who murdered 19 children and two teachersin an attack that unfolded Tuesday morning — had a tumultuous relationship with his mom, and that the two argued often....

Feast your eyes on this cuteness! The adorable outfits featured a brown knit hat with a set of eyes, an orange beak and colorful feathers, as well as a brown knit bottom with feathers attached on the back. According to Ransier, dressing their young patients up in costumes during the holidays has become an ongoing tradition at the hospital. Shonda Ridley, a nurse in the woman and infant unit, echoed her coworker’s sentiments...

Valerie Bertinellitook a walk down memory lane when sonWolfgang Van Halenrang in his 30th birthday on Tuesday. “You’ve been through so much (more than anyone will ever know) and you are still kind, thoughtful, thankful, and gracious - with a wicked, sarcastic sense of humor,” Bertinelli, who shares Wolfgang with late ex-husbandEddie Van Halen, continued. “I know your father agrees that the happiest day of our lives was the day you were born,” she wrote to her son....

Vanessa Bryantis showering her daughter,Natalia Bryant, with love on her 18th birthday. On Tuesday, Vanessa, 38, posted several sweet tributes to Natalia on Instagram, including two throwback shots of the teen with her late father,Kobe Bryant, who died nearly one year ago on Jan. 26 alongside his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and several othersin a helicopter crash. “Daddy’s little princess, Natalia. ❤️🎉🎂🎉#18#BirthdayGirl,” she captioned the second post of Kobe holding his daughter....

Vanna White and Pat Sajak.Photo:Ricky Middlesworth/ABC via GettyVanna Whitecherishes her Ken-nection withPat Sajak.“We call ourselves Ken and Barbie,” theWheel of Fortuneco-host, 66, said on Friday’sGood Morning America. “We’re not quite that today, but Ken and Barbie go together and always have.“White admitted that she knows “everything” about Sajak, 77, after hosting the game show together for more than four decades.“How do you describe being with someone for 41 years that you love and adore?...

Photo: Direct Action Everywhere Brighton Animal rights activists in Brighton, England, took over a Brazilian steakhouse on Saturday night and forced the diners to listen to sounds of animals being slaughtered. According to local outletBrighton & Hove Independent, about 20 members of Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), an international animal rights network, entered Touro Steakhouse on West Street armed with photos of animals and recordings of slaughterhouses. They allegedly told diners to “listen to their screams....

Venus Williams at Day of The Championships Wimbledon 2023.Photo:Robert Prange/Getty Robert Prange/Getty Venus Williamslost in her first round at Wimbledon on Monday after she returned to the court following a leg injury sustained from slipping on the grass mid-match. While one point away from a 3-0 lead against Elina Svitolina, the 43-year-old tennis legend fell while trying to volley,ESPNreported. She stayed down on the grass as chalk was applied to her left leg....

Christina Parcell.Photo: Facebook A Juilliard-trained concert pianist who has performed all over the world faces murder charges after being accused of stabbing a vet tech to death in her South Carolina home last month, say police. On Wednesday, Zachary David Hughes, 29, of Greenville, was arrested in connection with the October slaying of Christina Larain Parcell, 41, of Greer, Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis announced at a press conference Thursday....

Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force JoAnne S. Bass.Photo: Staff Sgt. Jessica Montano Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force JoAnne S. Bass, its top enlisted leader, tells PEOPLE she was inspired to write the following op-ed for Veterans Day because “it’s more than just a holiday — it’s an opportunity to reflect on the service of America’s sons and daughters.” Bass, 47, will be spending Veterans Dayat her homeon Andrews Air Force Base with her husband, a retired a retired Army First Sergeant, and one of her two children....

Photo: go fund me (2) Two days after a U.S. Navy sailoropened fire at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, the shooter and two civilian victims have been identified. Vincent J. Kapoi and Roldan A. Agustin were named as the Department of Defense civilians that died as a result of Wednesday’s shooting, the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickamannounced on Twitteron Friday. Both men worked on the shipyard: Kapoi, 30, as a metals inspector apprentice and Agustin, 49, as a shop planner....