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David and Louise Turpin.Photo: Jae C. Hong/AP (2) Two children who escaped the Turpin family “House of Horrors” are breaking their silence about their traumatic living situation in Perris, Calif. In an interview with Diane Sawyer for ABC’s latest episode of20/20, 33-year-old Jennifer Turpin and 21-year-old Jordan Turpin shared new details of the physical and emotional abuse they endured at the hands of their parents, David and Louise, before they were rescued in 2018....

Photo:getty (2) getty (2) Twitteris reportedly threatening to take legal action against Meta after the Facebook andInstagramparent company launched Threads,a new text-based social media network. In the letter, Alex Spiro, a lawyer for Twitter, accused Meta CEOMark Zuckerbergof engaging in “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property,” according to the outlet, which first reported on the letter.CNNalso confirmed the letter’s authenticity. “Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information,” Spiro wrote in the letter, reportsThe Guardian....

Photo: Nueces County Jail A Texas woman was sentenced to six years in prison for selling her seven-year-old son to pay off a drug debt. Esmeralda Garza, 29, pleaded guilty to three counts of selling or purchasing a child, money laundering, and conspiring to sell or purchase a child. “The boy was seven years old, which is kind of mind-boggling,” Matt Manning, first assistant district attorney with the Nueces County District Attorney’s Office, tells PEOPLE....

Photo: Callaghan OHare/getty “Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb,” Gaetz, who is 40, said at the Student Action Summit in Tampa. “These people are odious from the inside out. They’re like 5′2”, 350 pounds.'" Rep. Matt Gaetz.Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Julianna says one of her friends alerted her to the situation via text. “I was critical of him, and then he just tweeted out a picture of me to his Twitter,” she tells PEOPLE....

Photo: Hayley hubbard/ instagram Hayley Hubbard is further opening up about her decision to not breastfeed her 8-month-old sonAtlas Roy. “It was never something that came easy to me or something that I honestly enjoyed,” she added at the time, “no matter how many specialists we talked to or how well I was producing milk.” Now, in a newMeaning Full Livingblog post, Hayley — who is also mom to sonLuca Reed, 21 months, and daughterOlivia Rose, 3 — recalls anxiety and “pressure” she experienced when she felt she had to breastfeed....

Tyler James Williamshas the same question asAbbott Elementaryviewers — will they or won’t they?While speaking with PEOPLE at the75th Annual Emmy Awardson Monday night, Williams teased the upcoming, supersized premiere ofAbbott’sthird season. Of course, he also mentioned that edge-of-their-seats love story between his character, Gregory Eddie, andQuinta Brunson’s Janine Teagues.“Are we ever really truly out of the will-they-won’t-they?” he said. “I live there now. I live in that space. Nothing is for sure....

Tyler Perry.Photo: Prince Williams/Wireimage Tyler Perryis making his vote count! On Tuesday, the 51-year-old multihyphenate star revealed that he flew back to Georgia to vote in the Senate race after his absentee ballot failed to arrive in the mail. On Monday, Perry tweeted that he never received his mail-in ballot. “Is anyone else having this problem? I ordered my absentee ballot on December 2nd. I’m told it was mailed on the 4th....

There’s no bad blood between Tyra Banks and Naomi Campbell… anymore. “It wasn’t a rivalry,” Banks told theWall Street Journal. “And I’m very sensitive to that word because a rivalry is with two equals to me, where one was very dominant. She was a supermodel and I was just some new girl that got on a plane from Paris and was studying fashion in magazines at a fashion library.” Michael Buckner/Getty...

With Prince Andrew’s birthday approaching, councils across the U.K. have been forced to reconsider its flag-flying policy. Though flying the Union Jack is normally customary for royal birthdays, the prince is currently mired in heavycontroversy due to his ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, leading the U.K. government to discuss whether or not the policy should still be honored for the prince. Prince Andrew at Royal Ascot.Mark Cuthbert/UK Press/Getty...

Photo: GOOP A U.K. woman is recounting the scary moment her Gwyneth Paltrow vagina-scented candle exploded in her living room. Jody Thompson of Kilburn, North London toldThe Sunthat she was at home with her partner David Snow when she went to light the cheeky votive, which she won in an online quiz. After lighting theGoop “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle, which went viral upon its release last January, Thompson said a large flame jumped from the wick to the outside of the glass jar....

Photo: John Todd/ISI Photos/Getty Images They’re back! The United States' men’s national soccer team (USMNT) has qualified for the World Cup for the first time in eight years, despite a 2-0 loss to Costa Rica on Wednesday. The last time they earned a spot in the international tournament was in 2014. The USMNT finished third among CONCACAF teams looking to qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar after 14 matches of the Octogonal,according to USA Soccer....

Women from the United States now live almost 6 years longer than men after the COVID-19 pandemic, per a new study.Photo:GettyLife expectancy between men and women in the United States has changed following theCOVID-19 pandemic, according to anew study.Earlier this week, the findings were published in the journalJAMA Internal Medicine, which discovered that the life expectancy gap between men and women grew to its largest since 1996, due to more men dying of COVID-19 and drug overdoses....

Paige Hauschild during Saturday’s Game.Photo: AP Photo/Mark Humphrey In just under an hour, Team USA’s women’s water polo team proved why they’re a force to be reckoned with. Team captain Maggie Steffens, 28, scored the first goal in the match and ended it with five total. Of the nine Team USA players to score, Madeline Musselman and Aria Fischer also each had four goals. Still, the women are always focused on what they can improve — especially before facing their next Group B opponent, China on Monday....