Photo: OWN “I feel like in our culture, the narrative has sold us a lie about who we are that is often about struggle, and pain and hardship,” Ross tells PEOPLE. “And thatisa part of the experience, but as Black women, there’s also so much joy, and so much beauty and so much celebration with our hair.” In an effort to uplift the voices of Black women and “allow the joy to come forward,” Ross — alongside fellow executive producersMichaela angela DavisandOprah Winfrey— has createdThe Hair Tales,a docuseries celebrating Black women and their individual hair experiences....

Photo:NBC News/Youtube NBC News/Youtube Atransgenderman in a wheelchair says he was shot five times in a transphobic attack while going to the gas station to buy a snack on Saturday in Pontiac, Mich. “It was so bad I was leaking fluid and puddles of fluid were around my legs at the hospital,” he told NBC affiliate WDIV of Detroit, pointing to several places where he had been shot. “Since this happened, I can’t get comfortable....

Kansas City Chiefs starTravis Kelcewas all business on his 34th birthday. The tight end spent most of the day at practice in Kansas City, prepping for the Chiefs' game on Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings, but he did carve out time to hang with a few friends. Kelce was spotted meeting up with a group in a parking lot at the team’s facilities,Page Six reported, during lunchtime on Thursday. The friends chatted in his car for about an hour before Kelce went back to practice, the outlet said....

Travis Kelce on the ‘New Heights’ podcast.Photo:New Heights/YouTubeTravis Kelceis “motivated and still locked in” ahead of theSuper Bowl.On the latest episode of the Kelce brothers’ podcastNew Heights with Jason and Travis Kelcereleased Thursday, the Kansas City tight end, 34, called the Super Bowl the “biggest game of my life” and detailed his “excitement” for the upcoming match-up against the San Francisco 49ers.After his brother Jason, 36, asked Travis to differentiate between how he’s feeling ahead of Sunday’s game as opposed to his previous Super Bowl appearances,Travis described the feelingin Las Vegas, where the Super Bowl will be played at Allegiant Stadium....

Travis Kelce at Chiefs-Eagles Rematch on Nov. 20, 2023.Photo:Jamie Squire/Getty Jamie Squire/Getty Travis Kelceis scoring — even without his good luck charm in the stands! AlthoughTaylor Swiftwas absent from the Kansas City Chiefs player’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles on Mondaydue to her concert in Brazil, the superstar athlete, 34, carried in an impressive touchdown to put his team up 13-7. The tight end caught a four-yard pass from quarterback Patrick Mahomes and ran the football into the end zone for six points, giving the Chiefs a lead over the Eagles during the second quarter....

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.Photo:Gotham/GC Images Gotham/GC Images Travis Kelcedid not make it toTaylor Swift’s first Eras Tour concert in Buenos Aires Thursday, instead showing support for his quarterback, Patrick Mahomes. While Swift serenaded fans in Argentina, Travis attended Mahomes' third annualMahomies Foundation Gala, which included an auction. The foundation shared a video of Travis at the event held at The Midland Theatre in Kansas City on Instagram. Mahomes' foundationis “dedicated to improving the lives of children through initiatives that focus on health, wellness, underserved communities and other charitable causes,” according to their website....

Photo: Mark Brown/Getty Travis Kelceis making sure he’s putting in work both on and off the field this year. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 31, and the NFL recentlypartnered with Tideto urge others to switch to using cold water in hopes of saving energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions — even offering a chance to win a Kelce-voiced washing machine for those who join the mission in the process....

Troye Sivan.Photo:Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Troye Sivangot intimate in a new interview. DuringTuesday’s episodeofEmily Ratajkowski’sHigh Lowpodcast, the Australia-born actor and singer had a frank conversation about his sexuality and assumptions people may have had around it, including the misconception that he’s a “power bottom.” Sivan, 28, discussed how he doesn’t try to take sex too seriously. “I started to realize that sex is kind of like, inherently hilarious to me… it just reminds me of animals,” he told Ratajkowski....

Photo: Seneca County Sheriff’s Office A Florida truck driver was arrested after he allegedly doused a 1-year-old in “flammable liquid” and tried to light the child on fire at a gas station in Tyre, New York. Around 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning, the Seneca County Sheriff’s Office responded to a Love’s Truck Stop after a report of fires inside the building, police said ina press conferenceon Wednesday. Upon arriving at the scene, police say they “located two suspects that allegedly started and attempted to start the fires,” and the two – one of whom has since been identified as Jamie Avery Jr....

PresidentDonald Trump‘s administration is making significant revisions to theEndangered Species Act, prompting criticism from experts who say the changes will have a devastating effect on the wildlife that the law is supposed to be helping. But the move has drawn scrutiny, most notably the elimination of a “blanket rule” that automatically gives threatened species the same protections as endangered species. Bernhardt previously spoke out against the blanket rule, writing in a 2018 op-ed in theWashington Postthat giving both classifications of species the same protections “places unnecessary regulatory burden on our citizens....

Photo: Cengiz Yar/Getty As part of his ramped-up efforts to appeal to Hispanic voters, PresidentDonald Trumphosted a rally in New Mexico on Monday that included a bizarre shout-out to CNN contributor Steve Cortes, who was quizzed on whether he loved the United States or Hispanics more. “Another great friend of mine, somebody that was on CNN and they didn’t like him because he was too positive on Trump … He happens to be Hispanic, but I’ve never quite figured it out because he looks more like a WASP than I do,” Trump said....

PresidentDonald Trump‘s re-election campaign has routinelymade bizarre, even trolling choicesin order to go viral while promoting him and his agenda. The campaign took that strangeness to another level Friday,posting an edited imageof President Trump’s head on climate activistGreta Thunberg‘s new TIME cover. The manipulation of Thunberg’s “Person of the Year” cover shows Trump’s 73-year-old head pasted onto her 16-year-old body along with a list of his 2016 campaign promises that his re-election team claims he has already accomplished....

Photo: Martin H. Simon - Pool/Getty Images; Alex Wong/Getty Images “Due to the Shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed. We will rescheduled this seven-day excursion when the Shutdown is over,” Trump wrote in a Thursday letter. NPR reportsthat Pelosi and other Congressional Democrats were already en route to the airport when Trump intervened. His decision came as a surprise to her office,according to Politico, and possibly as a surpriseto the Department of Defense....