Miley Cyrus' next musical era has arrived, and she's getting reacclimated with the charts. Her newest release Flowers debuted at number one on Billboard's Hot 100. It was her first top 10 hit since 2020 when she and The Kid LAROI dropped Without You, which landed at number eight. SZA's Kill Bill landed in the second slot, and rounding out the top three was Taylor Swift's Anti-Hero.
Did the Firm Lie?
Apparently Buckingham Palace attempted to discredit Netflix's Harry & Megan documentary, according to the director. Liz Garbus, told Vanity Fair that The Firm lied to the press when they said Netflix hadn't reached out for comments on claims raised in the documentary. "They did that to discredit us," she said. "And by discrediting us, they can discredit the content of the show." On release, the documentary garnered the most viewing hours of any documentary in a single week.
Paris Hilton Is a Mom
Paris Hilton is officially a member of the mom's club. She and husband Carter Reum revealed that the couple had a boy after speaking openly about their struggles to get pregnant. The two were able to successfully use IVF to conceive. "It's always been my dream to be a mother and I'm so happy that Carter and I found each other. We are so excited to start our family together and our hearts are exploding with love for our baby boy," Hilton wrote in an Instagram post.
The chief suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway has admitted he beat the young Alabama woman to death on a beach in Aruba after she refused his advances. New details in the killing emerged Wednesday as Joran Van der Sloot pleaded guilty to extorting Holloway's mother, resolving a case that has captivated the public’s attention for nearly 20 years.
The trial of a Fugees rapper, who was convicted this year in multimillion-dollar political conspiracies, stretched across the worlds of politics and entertainment — and now the case is touching on the tech world with arguments that his defense attorney bungled the case, in part, by using an artificial intelligence program to write his closing arguments.
Israel said Wednesday that it will allow Egypt to deliver limited quantities of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the first crack in a 10-day siege on the territory. Palestinians reeled from a massive blast at a Gaza City hospital that killed hundreds the day before and grew increasingly desperate as food and water supplies ran out.
A 4000-year-old slab of rock is being dubbed a treasure map for archaeologists. The rock was found in 1900 at the site of an ancient tomb in northwestern France and it was declared Europe's oldest known map in 2021.
