HomeGoods Decked Out 3 'Hideouts' in their Decor — and Is Giving Away a 5-Night Stay in Each!

Photo: HomeGoodsEver wished you could curl up amid the merch and callyour local HomeGoods storehome? Well, you’ll have to keep dreaming — but here’s the next best thing.Starting Tuesday, fans of the cult-favorite decor resource can enter to win a five-day stay in a “HomeGoods Hideout,” a private oasis designed to let you escape from the outside world and get lost in an aesthetically pleasing home away from home, PEOPLE can reveal exclusively....

March 16, 2025 · 8 min · 1511 words · Deborah Page

How Armistice Day Became Veterans Day, and Who Helped Make That Happen

Photo: Jin Lee/911 Memorial It was President Woodrow Wilson who proclaimed the dateArmistice Dayin 1919. Congress passed a resolution on June 4, 1926 declaring it a national day of “thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations.” An Act approved in 1938 made Armistice Day a legal holiday. Barry Thumma/AP By 1945, a Birmingham, Alabama, WWII veteran Raymond Weeks was dedicated to the idea that all veterans of the U....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 505 words · Sarah Anderson

How Bad Is Screen Time, Really?

No Stupid Questionsis a PEOPLE series that provides expert answers to your toughest (and funniest, and most embarrassing) parenting questions. Check out morehereand send yours toNoStupidQs@peoplemag.com. Pretty much any parent with a smartphone and a data plan has readthe World Health Organization’s latest recommendations around kids and screen time: No screen time for kids younger than 1, with an hour or less for children under 5. These recommendations run sharply counter to the trends in kids’ screen time usage, whichhas more than doubled in 20 years … and probably even more thanks to the coronavirus stay-at-home orders (gotta do what you gotta do, however)....

March 16, 2025 · 8 min · 1564 words · Melanie Salinas

How Becoming a Single Parent Made Jean Smart Think 'Dramatically' Differently About Her Health (Exclusive)

Photo:Rodin Eckenroth/WireImageOver the past few years,Jean Smarthas been reminded of how grateful she is for her health — and how quickly things can change.After losing her husband unexpectedly to a heart condition in 2021, theHacksstar has faced her own health scares this year, undergoing aheart procedurein February and an appendectomy earlier this summer.The death of her husband of nearly 34 years, fellow actorRichard Gilliland, “dramatically” changed how she treated her own health, says Smart, 71....

March 16, 2025 · 8 min · 1528 words · Leah Lindsey

How Can a Woman Have a Baby Without Knowing She's Pregnant?

Photo: Getty It sounds impossible — going a full nine monthswithout realizing that you’re pregnant. No morning sickness, no swollen ankles, no heavily swollen belly. But for some women, it’s their reality, and they learn that they’re pregnant during the late stages, or even during the delivery. It’s something that Dr. Mary Jane Minkin, a board-certified OB/GYN at Yale University School of Medicine and member ofPEOPLE’s Health Squad, has seen multiple times in the over 35 years that she’s been a doctor....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 698 words · Brendan Daniels

How Compton Cowboys Horseback Riders Save Lives on L.A. Streets — and 'Make It Dope to Get Involved'

Randy Hook is living proof that horses can transform lives. “My homies and I are all here today because we had horses,” Hook, 32, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue, which celebratesBlack History Month. “But so many of our friends and family didn’t have that. They fell victim to the streets or ended up in jail, strung out on drugs or dead. Now we’re using horses to reach the next generation, to keep kids off the streets and make them into decent human beings....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 545 words · Daniel Hill

How Kate Middleton's Jewelry Choices for Commonwealth Day Sent a Message of Support to Ukraine

Kate Middleton attends The Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey.Photo: Samir Hussein/WireImage Kate Middletonis continuing to show her support for the people of Ukraine. But it was her earrings and necklace that appeared to be a subtle message supporting Ukraine amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country. Kate, 40, wore sapphire and diamond jewelry — the same pieces she wore in October 2020 to meet Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife, Olena Zelensky, at Buckingham Palace....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 385 words · Kathy Meyer

How Martha Stewart Prepared to Pose on the Cover of 'Sports Illustrated Swimsuit' at Age 81

Martha Stewart.Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty ImagesChances are you’ve never seenMartha Stewartlike this before!The lifestyle guru and business maven is one of four stars posing on the cover ofSports Illustrated Swimsuit’s 2023 issue (others includeMegan Fox, Kim Petras and Brooks Nader). And afterdebuting the cover exclusively on theTodayshowMonday morning, Stewart opened up toSavannah GuthrieandHoda Kotbabout why she agreed to do the shoot and what she did to prepare.“I’m sort of shaking because it’s odd to go to an island and get changed into nine different bathing suits in one day in front of all those people,” Stewart said, after seeing the cover for the first time....

March 16, 2025 · 10 min · 1960 words · Gregory Johnson

How Michelle Williams Found Love Again (Her Daughter Played Matchmaker!)

Michelle Williamshas had a long journey towards love. The actress is engaged toHamiltondirector Thomas Kail, who also directed her in this year’sFosse/Verdon. Williams, 39, and Kail, 42, are also expecting their first child together. Her new romance comes more than a year after Williams married indie musician Phil Elverum during the summer of 2018. The two quietly separated in early 2019, but Williams toldVanity Fairshortly after they married that their relationship provided the “radical acceptance” she had been searching for since her romance with ex-boyfriend Heath Ledger, who was Matilda’s father....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 419 words · James Riley

How Prince William Is Creating the Same 'Loving, Caring, Fun Home' as His Mom Princess Diana

As anew dad of three,Prince Williamhas his hands full at home at Kensington Palace — and he wouldn’t have it any other way. “[William] is a very good father,” a family friend tells PEOPLE. “As his own father has been. [Charles] has been a very good father to those boys and they’re very, very fond of him.” PA Images/Sipa Of course, the absence of William’s mother,Princess Diana, continues to be felt even 21 years after her death at age 36....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 221 words · Dana Davis

Howard Bragman, Public Relations Veteran and Notable LGBTQ Advocate, Dead at 66

Photo: David Livingston/Getty Howard Bragman, a beloved Hollywood public relations rep withdecades of experienceand a notable LGBTQ advocate, has died. He was 66.According toDeadline, Bragman died fromacute monocytic leukemiabefore his 67th birthday.Bragman’s partner Mike Maimone confirmed the public relations veteran died on Saturday in ajournal entry.“It is with our heaviest hearts we share that our dear Howard passed away peacefully in his sleep,” Maimone wrote. “The enormity of our shared loss can’t be overstated — Howard was a constant in so many of our lives and the brightest star in his wide constellation of friends and family....

March 16, 2025 · 6 min · 1271 words · Duane Jacobs

Hugh Jackman and Deborra-lee Jackman's Love Story: How They Met and Always Made Time for Each Other

Hugh Jackman and Deborra-lee Jackman.Photo: JB Lacroix/Getty Hugh JackmanandDeborra-lee Jackmanhave a long, meaningful history together. Hugh, 54, told PEOPLE for a Jan. 1, 2018, cover story aboutthe moment he met Deborra-lee, 67, his “leading lady” on the show whom he developed “a crush” on almost immediately. As the actor recounted, “I get picked up, and Deb is in the front seat of the car. I’ll never forget. She took off her seatbelt and she turned around and put out her hand and took off her sunglasses and said, ‘Hi, I’m Deborra-lee Furness, nice to meet you....

March 16, 2025 · 5 min · 1018 words · Brent Montgomery

Hummus Sold Under 10 Different Brands Recalled Over Listeria Concerns

Ten brands of hummus distributed throughout the U.S. have been recalled over listeria concerns, theU.S. Food & Drug Administrationsaid.The Houston-based company Pita Pal issued a voluntary recall of its hummus products after an FDA inspection found Listeria monocytogenes at its manufacturing facility.The chickpea-based dip is also sold under the brand names Bucee’s, Fresh Thyme, Harris Teeter, Lantana, Lidl, Reasor’s, Roundy’s, Schnucks and 7-Select.The FDA said that no listeria was found in any Pita Pal products, and that no illnesses have been reported, but the hummus was recalled anyway “out of an abundance of caution....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 412 words · Alan Williams