Today is Tuesday, March 4, 2025.
It is the 63rd day of the year.
302 days remain.
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NOTABLE & NOTEWORTHY: A bandit in New Jersey targets a very specific breakfast chain.
SEAN COMBS gets locked down and BLAKE LIVELY faces more scrutiny. More in SHOWBIZ.
See what your favorite actors like to chow down on for McDonald’s breakfast in CASTING CALL.
A roundup of the UK’s favorite royals in ROYALS.
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This season’s meteorological winter – December 1 to February 28 – was the coldest in the United States in over a decade.
Across the Lower 48, the average temperature was 1.1 degrees below normal. An area of western Kentucky averaged 7 degrees colder than normal. Ironically, despite the deep freeze, two-thirds of the country also saw less snowfall than normal.
The first day of Spring, according to the astronomical calendar, is March 20. [via Washington Post]
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POPEWATCH: The Vatican announced Monday that POPE FRANCIS experienced “two episodes of acute respiratory insufficiency” on Monday.
Tests suggest the Pope is still battling his original bout of pneumonia and that the accumulation of gunk in his lungs is his body fighting off the illness, a promising sign. Despite the ongoing complications, a rep for the Vatican says, “The prognosis remains guarded.” [via Vatican News]
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BLAKE LIVELY has been accused of cultural appropriation after a L’Oreal ad from 2017, in which she claims to be part Cherokee, resurfaced.
In the ad, the blue-eyed blonde claims to be “English, Irish, German, and Cherokee,” while promoting a True Match foundation.
“It’s giving appropriation… her great great great great grandmother twice removed must be a Cherokee princess,” one person commented, while another added, “It literally never ends with her…”
Lively was previously called out after having her 2012 nuptials with RYAN REYNOLDS at Boone Hall Plantation & Gardens in South Carolina. Following that backlash, the couple donated millions of dollars to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. [via Daily Mail]
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ALANIS MORISSETTE is heading to Sin City.
The 50-year-old will perform eight shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in her first-ever Vegas residency, “Alanis Morissette: Las Vegas 2025.”
The shows will run from October 15 through November 2. [via People]
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JIMMY JOHNSON is ready to call it quits.
The former Dallas Cowboys coach announced on “The Herd” with COLIN COWHERD that he is retiring after 31 years as a broadcaster with Fox Sports.
The 81-year-old has hosted the “Fox NFL Sunday” pregame show alongside TERRY BRADSHAW and HOWIE LONG since it premiered in 1994. The trio were later joined by MICHAEL STRAHAN and ROB GRONKOWSKI.
No word on who will fill his big shoes. [via NY Post]
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UP NEXT: CASEY ANTHONY’s new cause, the longest speech in Oscars history, the Speaker kicks the can toward economic collapse again, and King Charles II surrenders significant territory on this date in history.
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