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Days of Our Lives star Suzanne Rogers revealed that she privately fought a battle this past summer. The Emmy-winning actress, 82, disclosed a bout with Stage 2 colorectal cancer in an interview with TVInsider. It started when she felt that something “wasn’t quite right,” she told the outlet, prompting a visit to the doctor. A colonoscopy raised red flags with her physician, who then ordered an MRI, a PET scan, and a biopsy: “And the minute he said that, I knew that it was something more.” The doctor later confirmed that her fears had come true. “He said, ‘You have cancer and you have to start treatment.’ It was all a shock. I mean, I think I was in a shock for several days because I take pretty good care of myself. But he said, ‘It’s a good thing you caught it in time.’” The actress said she began treatment in June and managed to “keep it under wraps” thanks to the show’s summer schedule. She completed treatment at the end of July. “The prayers and the good wishes from my friends and my family helped me stay positive and stay on top of it and beat this,” she said. Sean “Diddy” Combs has been relocated to a federal prison to serve out the rest of his four-year sentence for transportation to engage in prostitution. The disgraced music mogul, 55, arrived Thursday at FCI Fort Dix, a low-security federal prison in New Jersey. Combs is currently 14 months into a 50-month sentence after his highly publicized sex trafficking trial ended in two convictions for transportation for the purposes of prostitution. However, the former rapper was acquitted of the most serious charges against him, including racketeering and sex trafficking, which could have carried a sentence of up to 15 years in prison. Before this week, Combs was held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where a judge agreed to count his year in jail awaiting trial as time served toward his sentence. However, Combs’ defense attorneys, who are appealing his conviction, requested that he be moved to the New Jersey facility to participate in a drug treatment program offered there. Though Combs’ release is currently set for May 2028, he could shave up to a year off of his sentence by successfully completing Fort Dix’s 9-12-month substance abuse treatment. In another effort to shorten his prison time, the music producer’s legal team has also filed a motion to speed up his appeals process, arguing that under a standard timeline, the rapper could finish out his sentence before facing the court again. FCI Fort Dix was previously home to Martin Shkreli, the pharma bro convicted of securities fraud and Kwame Kilpatrick, the former mayor of Detroit who was convicted on corruption charges. Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission. If you’re looking for a way to level up cuffing season this fall, consider your search over. 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In trials, 97 percent of participants said they were more likely to reach a blended orgasm with the Next Duo than with any other toy. Even better, 91 percent reported feeling happier, more relaxed, and less stressed afterward. Considering that some studies show orgasms release endorphins and lower cortisol, think of this as your new go-to for pleasure and stress relief. After all, fall and winter are the perfect time to invest in your sexual wellness routine—and the Next Duo might just become the highlight of cuffing season. President Donald Trump threw a nighttime mid-air social media hissy fit on his way home from Asia, attacking a political enemy. Trump’s typed tantrum aboard Air Force One slammed a rival he called “ugly,” and a “lowlife.” It included a link to a Just the News webpage discussing a probe launched in 2022. At the center of the lengthy article is a former Special Counsel for the DoJ, Jack Smith, who led the investigation into alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 election’s results. “He is a CRIMINAL AND SHOULD BE IN JAIL,” Trump raged from the presidential airplane. “A MAJOR LOWLIFE AND FAILURE. An ugly person, both inside and out! I beat him badly, and love watching him squirm now.” AF1 touched down in Anchorage, Alaska, at 3.11 a.m to refuel, according to the BBC. That means Trump posted the message at around 6 a.m. local time. That’s around 11 p.m. in South Korea, where he departed from after ending his tour of Asia. Smith said in an interview with University College London on Oct. 14 that politics hadn’t played a part in the investigation. Oklahoma City Thunder player, Nikola Topic, has been diagnosed with testicular cancer, the team’s manager said Thursday. The 20-year-old guard, who was the No. 12 pick in the 2024 draft, will delay his debut in the league to undergo chemotherapy treatment. The team’s general manager, Sam Presti, told reporters that Topic’s doctors are “extremely positive” about his treatment. Presti said that Topic was diagnosed after he underwent a biopsy procedure at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston in early October. He did not want the news of his diagnosis to be shared with the public before he started his treatment. “Our only expectations for him are to focus on this,” Presti said. While the player has been training and working out, the team’s administration said they are “not putting any time length or expectations” on the start of his NBA debut. The Serbian player has had a rough start to his basketball career, as he was not able to play last season due to a torn ACL. Traditional smoking and vaping can be messy, undesirable, and inconvenient. What if you don’t have a lighter or your vape isn’t charged? 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After her mother’s death from kidney failure in 1992, Riva published a biography recounting their tumultuous relationship. “I don’t use the word ‘mother’ for Dietrich,” she told People in 1993; explaining that the word “implies love shown to one person,” which she believed did not fit Dietrich. She described her as cold and self-centered. Despite their rocky bond, Riva co-authored a book honoring her mother with unseen photos and Dietrich’s poetry. As a child, she didn’t attend school because her mother wanted her nearby, wearing a uniform labeled “attendant to Miss Marlene Dietrich.” Living in her mother’s shadow, she befriended celebrities like Rosemary Kennedy and began acting in her mother’s films. After a brief marriage to Dean Goodman at 18, she moved to New York to teach at Fordham University, later marrying William Riva and raising four sons. An argument between two United Airlines attendants escalated to such an extent that it grounded the entire flight, leaving passengers stranded for more than four hours. The incident occurred aboard United Flight UA-2138, which was scheduled to depart from Des Moines International Airport at 11:26 a.m. on Monday and arrive at Chicago O’Hare around 90 minutes later. However, instead of taking off, passengers were deplaned after sitting on the tarmac for nearly two hours, as a heated argument between crew members had become too intense to continue. According to an internal flight record, the cause of the delay was a “disagreement” between two flight attendants, although the memo didn’t specify the reason behind their multi-hour meltdown. Eventually, United’s airport management intervened and pulled the entire crew from the Airbus A320, which was forced to locate and assign a replacement crew to operate the flight at short notice. The aircraft finally departed from Des Moines at 3:24 p.m. and arrived in Chicago at 5:09 p.m., resulting in a total delay of four hours and twelve minutes. A Black producer who worked for a CBS News show that was canceled on Wednesday said that every producer on his team who was laid off is a person of color, whereas the white producers are being reassigned within the company. Trey Sherman had worked since February as a full-time associate producer at the streaming show CBS Evening News Plus. He was fired Wednesday after the network’s new anti-woke editor in chief, Bari Weiss, announced CBS was canceling several shows, axing its race and culture unit, and laying off dozens of staff members. Sherman said in a video posted to TikTok that he had asked if it was possible to be relocated within the network despite his show being canceled. He was told that his bosses had advocated to keep him and his colleagues at the network, but that it hadn’t been possible. “It wasn’t until I went downstairs, thinking me and all of my colleagues had been laid off, that I found out it was only people of color,” he said. The Daily Beast has reached out to both Sherman and CBS News for comment. Anca Faur, Buzz Aldrin’s fourth wife, died on Tuesday from a rare and aggressive form of cancer at the age of 66. Bobby Charles, who attended the couple’s wedding two years ago, confirmed Anca’s battle with cancer to People. She died alongside Aldrin and her son, Vlad Ghenciu, according to the Faur and Aldrin families’ Facebook. Faur, a well-accomplished engineer, married Aldrin just two years ago after meeting at a work event in 2017. Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, said, “I am so fortunate to have found and married the love of my life.” He continued, “She brought joy to everything we did together. 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Myers’s mother, Renee Trice, told TMZ that he died at home on Wednesday morning after suffering a heart attack, having had three other heart attacks over the past three years. Myers made his onscreen debut in 1992, playing Young Will in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He went on to play Marlon Jackson in the limited ABC series The Jacksons: An American Dream, appearing alongside Angela Bassett, Billy Dee Williams and Vanessa Williams. Myers’s final acting role was in 2000, in the WB soap Young Americans. Since leaving Hollywood, he had co-founded the Fellaship Mens Group, a nonprofit dedicated to men’s mental health. The group paid tribute to Myers in an Instagram post, writing, “RIP to our good brother @rocwonder one of our co founders. Gone but never will be forgotten. The mission will continue in your honor. Next men’s meeting will be one for the books like we talked about! Love you bro, rest easy, big bro will take it from here.” Jesse Eisenberg has revealed he plans to donate one of his kidneys to a stranger, telling an interviewer the decision was a “no-brainer.” Speaking on the Today show, the Oscar-nominated actor, 42, said he had always been a regular blood donor and felt it was time to take the next step. “I’m actually donating my kidney in six weeks,” he told the host. “I really am. I don’t know why. I got bitten by the blood donation bug. I’m doing an altruistic donation mid-December. I’m so excited to do it.” An altruistic donation is when a person donates their kidney to somebody with advanced kidney disease, whom they don’t personally know. “It’s essentially risk-free and so needed,” Eisenberg said in a separate interview. “I think people will realize that it’s a no-brainer, if you have the time and the inclination.” There is currently a shortage of organ donors in the U.S., with around 90,000 people on the waiting list for a kidney transplant. Eisenberg also spoke of his love of blood donation, telling interviewer Craig Melvin, “I just have so much blood in me, and I feel like I should spill it. I really like doing it, and I don’t know why.”
