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Dolly Parton passed away at the age of 80, after enduring a year of heartbreak with the loss of her beloved husband and brother – all while dealing with her own health problems. The singer was finally forced to abandon her comeback last year after an incredible six decades dominating the country music scene. Her cause of death has not been publicly disclosed, but Parton’s agents said previously that she had been forced to cancel a string of shows due to ‘health struggles.’Parton’s Las Vegas residency – her first in 32 years – was initially postponed in September due to ‘health challenges,’…

Dolly Parton’s family revealed plans for her funeral after the Jolene hitmaker struggled with a variety of health woes over the years. Parton, 80, had been open about health challenges she faced after the death of her husband Carl Thomas Dean in 2025, including kidney and autoimmune issues. She shared her final health update on Friday, just days after canceling her Dollywood event, telling PEOPLE: ‘As I’ve shared in video messages throughout the past year, I am dealing with some health issues that I just didn’t pay attention to when I was watching over Carl.’Parton’s publicity team said the hitmaker’s funeral service…

We may receive commissions from some links to products on this page. Promotions are subject to availability and retailer terms. Mortgage interest rates can easily change this September, depending on how three primary items evolve in the month. sakchai vongsasiripat/Getty Images Following a month in which inflation improved but there was no Federal Reserve meeting in which to capitalize on the news, many borrowers find themselves looking forward to September and some potential positive movement again. With an inflation report scheduled for release on September 11, a Federal Reserve meeting the week after, not to mention unemployment numbers released earlier…

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Federal prosecutors are considering bringing criminal charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who is accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant in the leg during the Trump administration’s federal immigration surge in Minnesota in January, according to multiple sources familiar with the deliberations.The officer, Christian Castro, was charged in May by local prosecutors in Minnesota, and faces four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime after the January incident. Castro was arrested in Texas shortly afterwards and is currently in a jail in Cameron County, but Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has refused to extradite…

A son who stole £50,000 from his frail father and ‘frittered it away’ on sausage rolls and OnlyFans has been jailed for two years.Crooked barman Stephan Dewar was branded ‘despicable’ by a sheriff after he admitted posing as his vulnerable father to steal from him for several years.Sheriff George Way said: ‘This was a despicable crime. This was a breach of a profound obligation to protect and look after your father – not to steal £50,000 from him.‘There isn’t even a decent explanation, like had you had some really serious gambling addiction and you were being threatened by criminals or…

Dolly Parton, one of the most groundbreaking and successful musicians in the history of country music, with a hitmaking career that spanned six decades and launched her into TV and movie stardom, has died, her family announced Tuesday. She was 80.Since breaking onto the country music scene with her 1967 debut “Hello, I’m Dolly,” Parton never seemed to slow down, releasing nearly 50 studio albums and selling over 100 million records.A prolific songwriter, she won 10 Grammys and earned 55 nominations. Dolly Parton arrives for the Academy of Country Music Awards on May 11, 2023, in Frisco, Texas. Omar Vega/FilmMagic…

Popular left-wing streamer Hasan Piker drew stiff criticism from prominent Democrats on Monday after arguing that some Jewish Americans’ support for Israel is “making antisemitism worse” — leading one of his most prominent political allies, Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, to say that “nobody” speaks for him.It’s the latest controversy in the hotly contested Michigan Senate race to revolve around Piker, who campaigned with El-Sayed during the Democratic primary. Piker’s often-heated remarks about Israel and U.S. foreign policy — which he offers up in hourslong live streams on the platform Twitch — have divided Michigan Democrats and drawn condemnation…

These are the photos of James Blunt and Hayden Panettiere that sparked wild rumours he was the ‘famous British singer’ who the actress was put into bed with when she was just 18.The photos taken in Cannes in 2009 show the pair at an amfAR charity event with actor Justin Long and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Diana Jenkins.Other pictures show Blunt and Panettiere with friends on a yacht the day after the party.Since the actress’s tragic death on August 16, the 2009 photos have sparked wild internet rumours that Blunt is the unnamed musician from her memoir.On Monday, the…

The mother of the first British citizen to die fighting for Russia has revealed that her son told her he was going to Romania, not the front lines in Ukraine. Bradley Townsend, 33, was killed in combat after leaving his hometown of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, to enlist in Vladimir Putin’s war.The keen fisherman – with no previous military experience – had been fighting on the front line while in Lyman, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, on June 10, when he was hit in a drone strike.Today, his mother Maureen, an NHS care support worker, told the Daily Mail that her son did not tell her…