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Hailee Steinfeld is sharing a new photo as she settles into her pregnancy

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• The actress bared her bump in a snap alongside her husband, NFL star Josh Allen

• Steinfeld and Allen shared they are expecting their first baby together in December

Hailee Steinfeldis settling into her pregnancy style.

TheSinnersactress, 29, posted a new photo onher Instagramon Wednesday, Feb. 25, after first sharing the picture in an article on her Substack. In the snap, Steinfeld could be seen sitting on a kitchen table at home, wearing a long-sleeve blue and yellow striped shirt that was tucked above her bump.

She matched the shirt with a pair of mini shorts and white socks, holding a coffee cup up to her mouth. Steinfeld sat in front of her husband, Josh Allen, who had a matching coffee cup and smiled up at her.

"Life lately…@beausociety💌," Steinfeld wrote in her caption.

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Back in January, Steinfeld's NFL star husbandspoke in a press conferenceafter the Buffalo Bills introduced Joe Brady as their new head coach. After giving Brady his full support, Allen was asked what his offseason will look like as he and his pregnant wifeprepare to expand their family.

"I mean, to the best of our abilities," Allen said when asked if they are trying to map things out. "But I've known this from well in advance. I've got siblings that have kids, I've got a lot of friends that have kids. I don't know if you can plan too far in advance."

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"So I'm very much looking forward to that with my wife, of becoming a dad," he continued. "It's something that I will take with great pride. And we're going to have to figure things out on the go, just like anything else."

"But this is the most important thing I'll ever be in my life, being a dad. And I know I love being a football player, and I love being a quarterback for the Buffalo Bills. But I'm looking forward to this one."

Steinfeld and Allen first announced that they'reexpecting their first baby together in December. The actress shared her news in herSubstack newsletter, sharing a round-up of her 29 favorite moments from the past year in honor of her 29th birthday.

At the end of her list, Steinfeld included a video that announced her pregnancy. The actress could be seen posing in the snow with her pregnant belly out as Allen kissed her stomach. They could then be seen smiling and posing together as the star wore a fleece that read "mother" across it.

When the video concluded, it panned out to reveal the two holding hands in front of a tiny snowman.

Shortly after their newsletter announcement, the coupleshared a joint Instagram postwith the same video. "I love you ❤️," Allen commented on the clip.

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Tim Gunn opened up about the painful reason behind his celibacy

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• A gutting breakup and the hurtful circumstances surrounding it completely altered how Gunn approached intimacy, he said

• "Whenever I was even tempted to engage in something that could become serious with someone, all this would come back like Niagara Falls, and it would just take the desire away," Gunn said

Tim Gunnis shedding light on the painful reason behind his celibacy.

The formerProject Runwaymentor, 72, opened up on the Feb. 19 episode of theDear Chelseapodcast about his choice to remain celibate for more than four decades. Gunn made the deeply personal decision as a result of a particularly fraught breakup of a meaningful relationship, he said.

In 1982, Gunn was living in Washington, D.C., and had spent nine years in a relationship with a man he loved incredibly. Gunn "would have done anything for him," he admitted. Then one night, it was all over.

"I have no patience for you any longer," Gunn recalled his lover telling him. "I want you to leave."

Gunn got in his car and drove back to his apartment, stopping on the side of the road to try to ease his hyperventilation. Gutted, Gunn's pain was amplified by the fact that he still had to work with this person and see him every day.

The hurt of the breakup was just one part of Gunn's anguish, though. During that fateful conversation, his partner had confessed to cheating on Gunn — just as the AIDS crisis had begun picking up speed.

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"One of the things he told me that night was that he'd been sleeping with just about everything that walked by," Gunn said. "And I had been loyal and faithful to him. He was the only person I'd ever been with."

Gunn added, "The self pity then turned to completely unbridled anger because I thought he may have given me a death sentence."

Out of extreme caution, Gunn got tested regularly for HIV every six months for 10 years, and luckily the results always came back negative. But the emotional scar his former partner had left on him never budged and completely altered how Gunn navigated love and intimacy.

"Whenever I was even tempted to engage in something that could become serious with someone, all this would come back like Niagara Falls, and it would just take the desire away," Gunn said.

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Gunn later left Washington, D.C., for a teaching job at N.Y.'s Parsons School of Design — a position he said he rejected years earlier because he was "very happy" with his partner in D.C. The physical distance from his former lover and the city in which his heart was broken, coupled with years and years for the pain to dull, were the best cure for his broken heart, Gunn said.

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While coauthoring a memoir with guitar heroSteve Lukather, music writerPaul Reeswas scrolling through Spotify and realized something important.

Thenumber of monthly listenersfor Lukather's band, Toto, along with many classic rock artists such asJourney, Boston,Heart, Bon Jovi andStyxconsistently hit above 10 million, on par with plenty of contemporary hitmakers.

But most of the those artists who solidly ruled the airwaves from the mid-'70s through the mid-'80s were critically derided – then and now – as "corporate rock," their popularity an unfair diminishment.

Rees' casual research led him to recognize that this enduring music, which often still steers thehighest-rated radio stationsin major markets, "really hadn't been documented in any meaningful sense," he says.

The result is"Raised on Radio: Power Ballads, Cocaine & Payola – the AOR Glory Years 1976-1986"(Da Capo Press, 495 pp., out now), Rees' riveting oral history of the era of "Album-Oriented Rock," or AOR.The genre is exemplifiedby chart-toppers who crafted polished rock songs with memorable hooks, whizzing guitar solos and more technical skill than often acknowledged (see: Boston).As a radio format, AOR also spotlighted album tracks, with program directors at the time following their gut to play worthy songs not necessarily christened as singles by the record labels.

Over about 18 months, Rees conducted 53 original interviews – most of them remotely via video – and scoured his own archives from his years as an editor of vaunted U.K. music magazinesQandKerrang!to cull stories directly from the artists.

In a recent interview from his home in Scotland, Rees shared insight into assembling the book, which shares a name with Journey's 1986 album, "Raised on Radio" (trivia alert –Randy Jacksonof "American Idol" plays bass on it).

"It was the title right from the word go," Rees says. "It's music that, whatever the dopamine receptor is in the brain, this hits it. It's happy music, and we could all do with a bit of that at the moment."

Here's what else Rees imparted about his study of backstories during one of the most everlasting periods of radio.

Artists who offered surprising revelations

Rees tags Toto singer/keyboardistDavid Paichas one of his favorite interviews for the book, along with Lukather ("a man completely without filter") andBryan Adams'longtime writing partnerJim Vallance.

In the book, Vallance recalls how he and Adams wrote the smash "Summer of '69" while sitting across from each other with blank sheets of paper and volleying lines about their memories.

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It's those "happy accidents" that Rees was most fascinated with while talking to his subjects.

But his "absolute favorite" wasHeart guitarist/singer Nancy Wilson, who shares plenty of stories in the book about sexism ("I was kind of the Farrah Fawcett of rock for a minute there," she comments about the band's big-hair '80s makeover) and record label headaches.

"Nancy was fabulous. I did a Zoom interview with her in her kitchen," Rees says. "A woman playing guitar in a rock band at the time – and (sister) Ann as well – and to have endured what she endured … how much they were viewed as commodities. It's not as if people who were there at the time are apologetic. It's always passed off as sort of, 'That's what the audience wanted.' So her, Ann,Pat Benatar– full respect."

Which artists turned down the chance to be in the book

While the book is rife with anecdotes and deep conversation with musicians includingKevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon, members ofNight Ranger, Styx,Chicagoand Foreigner and archival chats with departed artists including Boston singer Brad Delp and Eddie Money, Rees notes three elusive subjects.

"I just couldn't get to (former Journey frontman) Steve Perry," he says. "I think hecomes out and talkswhen he has a new record to promote but I don't think he willingly submits himself to the process. Ditto Tom Scholz (themastermind of Boston). Another person I really wanted to talk to is Pat Benatar. It got as far as management and they knocked back the idea. That was a shame because I am a really, really big admirer of hers."

Rees still managed to get insights from the trio in the book with material from previous interviews.

One artist who initially turned down Rees' request but reconsidered has now become a professional pal.

"Billy Squierfinally said, 'I'll talk to you but not about my music. I'll talk about radio and what it meant to me.' And when I actually got him, I couldn't stop him from talking," Rees says with a laugh. "He was hugely interested and articulate and since then, he's messaged me out of the blue with a new song he's written."

Why is there still so much hate lobbed at tremendously popular artists?

Many of the artists in Rees' book are still some of thebiggest touring juggernautsdecades after their most popular work ruled the airwaves. Yet there still is an apology factor attached to sayingBon Jovi's"Livin' on a Prayer" or Journey's"Don't Stop Believin'"are irresistible earworms.

That lack of respect, Rees says, stems from a "simple truth."

"This music happened without the permission of rock critics. It wasn't music they uncovered like punk or New Wave, which had a critical cachet and discovery point. Music critics like to think they discovered things and this music was popular because people didn't need to be led by the hand toward it," he says. "If you read about 1977, it was the year of punk, as if that was the only thing in pop culture. But if you look at the biggest records of that year, they wereMeat Loaf's 'Bat Out of Hell'andFleetwood Mac's 'Rumours.'If you liked one, it didn't preclude you from liking the other. But that's why these songs have endured: they were brilliantly written."

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By Simon Lewis and Humeyra Pamuk

People walk past an anti-U.S. billboard in Tehran

BASSETERRE, Saint Kitts and Nevis/WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Senior Trump administration officials on Wednesday made the case that Iran poses a major threat to the United States ahead of Thursday negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program.

U.S. and Iranian negotiators are due ‌to meet in Geneva on Thursday, the third round of nuclear talks this year, as the U.S. has built up one of its ‌biggest military deployments in the Middle East ahead of possible strikes on the Islamic Republic.

In his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, President Donald Trump accused Iran of restarting its nuclear program, ​working to build missiles that "soon" would be capable of reaching the United States and of being responsible for roadside bombings that have killed U.S. service members and civilians.

He has also warned that it will be a "very bad day" for Iran if no deal is reached to solve a longstanding dispute over Tehran's nuclear program. Iran has threatened to strike American bases in the region if it is attacked.

RUBIO SAYS IRAN TRYING TO REBUILD NUCLEAR PROGRAM

Speaking to reporters during a trip to St. Kitts and Nevis, ‌Rubio echoed Trump's comments.

"After their nuclear program was obliterated, ⁠they were told not to try to restart it, and here they are," Rubio said. "You can see them always trying to rebuild elements of it. They're not enriching right now, but they're trying to get to the point where they ultimately can."

Trump ⁠ordered strikes on Iran last year, claiming in July that they had "obliterated" the country's nuclear facilities. His aides have claimed more recently that Iran is very close to having the ability to make nuclear bombs.

Rubio said Iran also possessed a very large number of ballistic missiles that threaten U.S. interests in the region and that it was trying to ​develop ​weapons that can reach the continental United States.

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"Beyond just the nuclear program, they possess these ​conventional weapons that are solely designed to attack America and attack ‌Americans if they so choose to do so...They already possess weapons that can reach much of Europe already now, as we speak," Rubio said.

Tehran's insistence on not discussing the topic of ballistic missiles in the Geneva talks was a "big problem", Rubio said, adding that he did not want to characterize the Thursday talks anything other than "the next opportunity to talk" even as he hoped for progress. "Hopefully they're productive but eventually we'll have to have conversations more than just the nuclear program."

Iran has the largest stockpile of ballistic missiles in the Middle East, according to the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Iranian missiles have a self-imposed range ‌of 2,000 km (1,240 miles), which officials in the past said was enough to protect the ​country since it covers the distance to Israel.

'IRAN CANNOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON'

Earlier in the day, ​Vice President JD Vance said U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner ​will be meeting an Iranian delegation in Geneva on Thursday to assess whether an agreement can be reached. "The principle is very ‌simple: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon," Vance told reporters.

On ​Tuesday, Trump also faulted the government in ​Tehran for the deaths of thousands of protesters during recent anti-government demonstrations, although the specific figure he cited - that 32,000 people had been killed - is much higher than most public estimates.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi met mediator Badr al-Busaidi, Oman's foreign minister, following his arrival in Geneva on Wednesday ​ahead of Thursday's talks, Iran's Press TV reported.

Araqchi raised ‌with his Omani counterpart "Iran's points and considerations regarding the nuclear issue and the lifting of the U.S.' illegal and unilateral sanctions," the report ​said.

(Reporting by Simon Lewis, Humeyra Pamuk, Andrea Shalal, Steve Holland and Nandita Bose; Additional reporting by Hatem Maher in Cairo; Writing by Jan ​Wolfe and Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Chris Reese, Bill Berkrot and Lincoln Feast.)

Seven elephant seal pupshave tested positive for avian flu atCalifornia's Año Nuevo State Park,after scientists noticed several seals showing abnormal respiratory and neurological signs.

Scientists atUC Santa Cruz,UC Davis, and theU.S. Department of Agriculture's National Veterinary Services Laboratoryconfirmed the outbreak late Tuesday evening, marking thefirst outbreak of HPAI H5N1 in marine mammals in California, according to apress release from UC Davis.

"This is exceptionally rapid detection of an outbreak in free-ranging marine mammals," said Professor Christine Johnson, director of theInstitute for Pandemic Insightsat theUC Davis' Weill School of Veterinary Medicine."We have most likely identified the very first cases here because of coordinated teams that have been on high alert with active surveillance for this disease for some time."

In response to this outbreak, theAño Nuevo State Park has temporarily closedaccess to the elephant seal viewing area for the rest of the season. The park will provide refunds to any tourists who booked a spot to view the seals.

The state park's marine education center, horse barn movie theater, and a portion of the Año Nuevo Point Trail will remain open at this time,according to the park's website.

This is not the first timethe disease has been detected in an elephant seal population; in 2023, southern elephant seals in Argentina were affected by it. The disease decimatedsouthern elephant seals, as hundreds of dead pups appeared along the Patagonian coast of Argentina.

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After the avian flu killed hundreds ofsouthern elephant seals, scientists at UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis increased disease surveillance of the population in North America, out of concern that the disease might spread along the American coastlines.

"Given the catastrophic impacts observed in related species, we were concerned about the possibility of the virus infecting northern elephant seals for the first time, so we ramped up monitoring to detect any early signs of abnormalities," said Roxanne Beltran, a professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz.Beltran's lableads UC Santa Cruz's northern elephant seal research program at Año Nuevo.

The avian flu wasfirst reported in Canada in December 2021, after the virus was detected in wild birds in every province and territory. However, UC scientistsbelieve this is the first detection of avianflu among thenorthern elephant sealpopulation.

The risk of the avian flu transmitting to the general public is very low; the disease can spread between animals and people. Scientists recommend avoiding areas with infected animals, not touching live or dead seals, and not allowing pets to approach them.

If a person encounters a sick, injured, or dead marine mammal in California, Oregon, or Washington, call the NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region Stranding Hotline: (866) 767-6114.

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GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) — When roadblocks, explosions and gunshots broke out after thekilling of Mexico's most powerful drug lord, people who rushed to their cellphones for information found social media posts depicting a country in chaos.

TheJalisco New Generation Cartelresponded to themassive Mexican army operationto capture Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes,known as "El Mencho,"on Sunday with an even bigger wave ofretaliatory violencein some 20 states. More than 70 people were killed.

But in addition to real accounts of death and destruction and the warnings from governments for their citizens to shelter in place, the internet was flooded with disinformation — fake videos and images generated byartificial intelligence. They were designed to stoke fear, Mexican officials said.

"We didn't know what was true and what was false," said Victoria Elizabeth Peceril, 31, who was walking with her three children in the now-calm streets of Guadalajara on Wednesday. "We were really scared."

Some posts falsely claimed the president hid and an airport was seized

One fake post purported to show a commercial plane on fire at Guadalajara's international airport. Messages spread that gunmen had seized the airport and tourists had been taken hostage.

The government said there were between 200 and 500 troublesome and inaccurate posts — including up to 30 that have received more than 100,000 views — since Sunday's army operation.

Officials presented data compiled by Tecnologico de Monterrey, a private university, during President Claudia Sheinbaum's daily news briefing Wednesday. It said 35% to 40% of those posts lacked context, at least 25% were misleading, and nearly 25% were manipulated by AI or fabricated.

One post claimed a U.S. agent had strangled Oseguera Cervantes. Another said Sheinbaum was hiding on a naval vessel off Mexico's Pacific coast. Others speculated that Mexico killed Oseguera Cervantes rather than turn him over to the U.S., or tried to tie his killing to the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, according to the university's report.

The university did not suggest who, or what, was producing the content.

"There was a lot of badly intentioned news Sunday, looking to generate terror," Sheinbaum said a day earlier.

The Jalisco cartel is known for extraordinary violence

Many people in Mexico learn about what is happening in their communities via chat groups on messaging apps or from accounts on the social platform X. In the northern border cities that live in the grip of organized crime, these sometimes read like traffic reports, telling drivers the location of convoys of criminals so they can stay away.

The Jalisco cartel has built a reputation for spectacular acts of violence, including downing a military helicopter and attempting to assassinate Mexico City's police chief, so social media posts proclaiming extraordinary cartel brutality are difficult to doubt.

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"At first, we believed everything," said 28-year-old Nicolás Martín, who lives in Mexico City but had been staying at a resort near Puerto Vallarta when the violence began. He said the images posted online resembled "what you see in movies."

Martín said he was surprised by the quality of posts that circulated early Sunday — including what appeared to be drone footage — supposedly showing explosions and fires in Puerto Vallarta. In the initial moments of chaos, you would expect the images to be less steady, more haphazard, he said.

Organized criminals are becoming tech-savvy

Vanda Felbab-Brown, an expert in organized crime at the Brookings Institution — a Washington-based public policy think tank — it's possible that people tied to the Jalisco cartel were behind at least some of the disinformation.

Among Mexico's organized crime groups, the Jalisco cartel in particular has invested in its online presence.

"The criminals are becoming very tech-savvy," Felbab-Brown said.

"It was impressive to see the level of misinformation," she said, citing the images purporting to show the cartel had taken over the airport in Guadalajara. She said those "impressive and sophisticated" posts are likely generated by AI from chatbots controlled by Jalisco Nueva Generación.

They "certainly added to the aura of chaos and meltdown in Mexico," Felbab-Brown said.

Even though Mexican authorities and the U.S. Embassy tried to knock down some of the false information circulating Sunday, Sarai Olguín, a 22-year-old college student in Guadalajara, said it was difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction.

Friends sent her videos and photos they found online as she and other residents hid inside their homes. She credits the posts in part with keeping people off the streets.

One post warned that "after a certain hour they were going to kill everyone," she said. "In a way it's good, because all of this false news helped take care of people even though they sowed immense fear."

Verza reported from Mexico City. Associated Press fact checker Abril Mulato in Mexico City contributed.

The question of who will start at quarterback for the Cleveland Browns has a wrinkle to it: There's a new coaching staff.

The staff that gave Shedeur Sanders seven starts last season when Sanders was a rookie is gone. Todd Monken, who was the Baltimore Ravens' offensive coordinator last season, was hired to become Cleveland's new head coach.

There's a full offseason to go, in terms of acquiring new players in trades, free agency or the draft. The quarterback landscape in Cleveland could change. But Monken, meeting with the media at the NFL scouting combine on Wednesday, had positive things to say about Sanders.

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"I think what you see is elite playmaking ability," Monken saidat the combine. "That's in him. You've seen it, we've seen it, you saw it in college, you saw it on tape last year. Sure there's a ways to go, but what rookie isn't? What first-year player doesn't have a long way to go? I'm excited to get started with him and all of our quarterbacks and all of our players."

Sanders was up and down as a rookie after a highly publicized fall in the draft. He had seven touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and general manager Andrew Berry pointed out at the combine on Tuesday that hehad to cut down on mistakes.

That progression, and the Browns' offseason moves, could determine if Sanders gets more starts next season. Monken said he didn't think it was necessarily important to add more quarterbacks in the offseason, but he said the team will do it's due diligence at the position.

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As is, the team's three options seem to be Sanders, fellow 2025 rookie Dillon Gabriel and Deshaun Watson, whom the team refuses to rule out as an option.

"I think anytime you have a player that at one time has exhibited the skill set at an elite level, I think you're always going to give them the benefit of the doubt that somehow we might be able to get that out of him again," Monken said about Watson.

That's not a great quarterback room, but the Browns also don't have a great path to adding a better rookie quarterback in the draft, and there are limited options in free agency.

If the Browns' quarterback room doesn't change, there's clearly no leader at the moment to start next season.

"Sure, I think it's an open competition," Monken said. "I don't know why it wouldn't be an open competition, and I don't mean to say that harshly. But I don't think there's enough on film over the last couple of years one way or the other to say, 'Boy, we have a starter at quarterback.'"

The Browns will evaluate whoever is on the roster over offseason practices and Monken said he'd like to have a starter in mind by training camp. But right now, he didn't know if he'd be able to name a starter by then.

"You would hope that's the case, you'd hope that by the time you get to training camp, the reps you're giving to a quarterback are for your starter," Monken said. "Whether we get to that place, I don't know. That will be determined in the offseason."