32 Years Ago, This Now Rarely Seen Country Star Earned Her First No. 1

Music iconFaith Hillis a well-known name incountry musicthese days, but it wasn't until 1994, 32 years ago, that she began her rise in the industry, nabbing her first No. 1country songat the beginning of that year.

Hill's debut single, "Wild One," which came out in late 1993 on her first album,Take Me as I Am, was an almost instant hit.

The track quickly took over radio airwaves, and on Jan. 1, 1994, it took the top spot on theBillboardHot Country Singles & Tracks chart, becoming Hill's first No. 1 hit.

"Wild One" held the top position for four weeks, while other singles from the album weren't far behind. Only a few months later, on April 30, the track "Piece of My Heart" became her second No. 1 country song.

While there were no other No. 1 songs from the album, the title track, "Take Me as I Am," impressively reached No. 2 on theBillboardHot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

Related:Faith Hill's Daughter Delights Fans With Rare Photo Taken by Mom

Of course, this was only the start of Hill's long-lasting and successful country career, and throughout the 32 years since then, she has continued to release popular and memorablemusic.

Hill has had a total of nine No. 1 country songs so far. Along with the previously-mentioned tracks, this list also includes "Breathe," "The Way You Love Me," "This Kiss," "It Matters To Me," "Mississippi Girl," and "It's Your Love," the last of which is a duet with her husband, fellow country singerTim McGraw.

She has also hadsuccesson theBillboardHot 100 chart, with "There You'll Be," "It's Your Love," "The Way You Love Me," "This Kiss," and "Breathe" all entering the top 10. Her highest-charting song was "Breathe," which reached No. 1 on this chart.

While fans of Hill have plenty of great music from the past to listen to, many are hoping to see the singer return to music soon. In recent years, she's kept herlifequite private, only attending occasional events with herfamily.

Her last studio album to come out wasThe Rest of Our Life, her duet album with McGraw that was released on Nov. 17, 2017.

Related: Tim McGraw Shares Rare Photo With Faith Hill to Pay Tribute to Late Friend

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Kylie Jenner Rings in 2026 with Busty Gold Metallic Bikini

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NEED TO KNOW

• Kylie Jenner wore a sultry bikini in a series of Instagram Stories

• Posted on Friday, Jan. 2, the clips showed the mom of two looking sexy by a pool

• The TV personality accessorized with a silver necklace

It might be a new year, but it's "Summer Forever" inKylie Jenner's world.

Themom of two, 28, proved that her year is about to be golden by leaving little to the imagination in a series of sultry Instagram Stories on Friday, Jan. 2, wearing nothing but a gold metallic bikini and a silver necklace.

The necklace featured a striking panther pendant, which Jenner had previously worn, andPage Sixidentified as thePanthère de Cartier, valued at $30,500.

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Her sexy two-piece was the perfect ensemble to match her mood as she posted her first selfie video withAddison Rae's "Summer Forever" playing in the background.

As she moved the camera around, she flipped her hair and pouted her lips, putting all angles of her toned abdomen on display.

The television personality wasn't shy about showing off her cleavage as the second clip was a boomerang of her top abdomen and face.

It was just last summer thatJenner revealed her cosmetic procedure secrets, telling a fan on TikTok that she went with the Beverly Hills plastic surgeonGarth Fisherand got "445 cc, moderate profile, half under the muscle!!!!! Silicone!!!"

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In her third close-up, a shot of her face, Jenner wrote that she loved her makeup, which consisted of pink lipstick, blush, and light mascara.

It's been a special couple of days for Jenner, as a source previously told PEOPLE that she and her boyfriendTimothée Chalamet, 30, weremaking up for "a lot of time spent apart"as they planned to celebrate New Year's Eve together.

"It's been special for Kylie to have Timothée in Los Angeles more in December," said the source.

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According to the insider, Jenner and Chalamet were together "around the holidays" and his birthday. They also had a "trip planned" for the holiday.

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"They are making their careers work and making their relationship work at the same time," the insider said.

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“General Hospital” pays tribute to Anthony Geary after his death with special Luke Spencer episode

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General Hospitalrang in the new year by paying tribute to one of its own: the lateAnthony Geary.

The actor, who portrayed Luke Spencer across five decades on the ABC soap opera and one-half of the TV supercouple Luke and Laura,died Dec. 14, 2025.

Viewers were treated to a special encore of Geary's final episode as Luke Spencer on Thursday. The episode originally aired on July 27, 2015, and marked the end of Geary's story in Port Charles and on the show.

Luke bid his family goodbye and left Port Charles behind for good during the episode, with the character existing almost exclusively off screenuntil his official deathon Jan. 3, 2022. In the shocking episode, Luke's widow Tracy Quartermaine (Jane Elliott) reveals to his former and eternal flame Laura that Luke's been killed in a cable car "accident" in Austria.

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Geary originated the role of antihero Lucas Lorenzo Spencer onGeneral Hospitalon Nov. 20, 1978, for what was initially supposed to be a 13-week run. But the actor won over the audience as the hitman with ties to the mob who reunites with his younger sister, Bobbie (the late Jacklyn Zeman). Instead of killing off the character, writers capitalized on the popularity of the pairing between Luke and Laura Webber (Genie Francis).

The coupling quickly reached soap supercouple stardom, despitetheir highly controversial beginning: Luke's rape of Laura. Their 1981 wedding drew 30 million viewers, making it the highest-rated episode in soap opera history and one of 20th century television's most memorable moments.

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Francispaid tribute to her long-time costarshortly after news of his death made headlines.

"He was a powerhouse as an actor. Shoulder to shoulder with the greats. No star burned brighter than Tony Geary. He was one of a kind. As an artist, he was filled with a passion for the truth, no matter how blunt, or even a little rude it might be, but always hilariously funny," shewrote in several posts on X.

The actress went on to call Geary the "anti-hero," similar to his onscreen character Luke Spencer, who was known for his roguish charm. "Working with him was always exciting," sheadded. "You never knew what might happen. He spoiled me for leading men for the rest of my life. I am crushed, I will miss him terribly, but I was so lucky to be his partner. Somehow, somewhere, we are connected to each other because I felt him leave last night. Good night sweet prince, good night."

Following his retirement fromGeneral Hospitalin 2015, Geary lived with his husband, Claudio Gama — whom he met in February 1995 and married in February 2019 — exclusively in Amsterdam, where the couple shared their adventures together onGama's Instagram page, including glimpses of "little Max," their beloved cat.

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The actor had a love-hate relationship with the character of Luke throughout his tenure on the award-winning soap opera. He continually took hiatuses from the show during his time playing the Spencer family patriarch until his official exit in 2015. The role earned Geary eight Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama, a record that still remains in that category.

"It was once very difficult for me to realize that more than likely my obituary in the paper will read, 'Luke of Luke and Laura fame died today.' It was very upsetting when I came to that realization," Gearytold EWduring the filming of his final episode, although he would return for one final appearance in 2017.

"It's been a really exciting ride," Geary said at the time of his and Luke's final bow. "In the end, it's been well worth it."

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Why ordering takeout or calling the dog walker might lead to a happier relationship

It turns out, love may benefit from a little less labor.

Couples who spend money on time-saving services — like getting takeout, hiring a housecleaner or calling a dog walker — report greaterrelationship satisfaction, especially during stressful periods, says Ashley Whillans, a behavioral scientist and professor at Harvard Business School.

Whillans studies the "tradeoffs people make between time and money."

"When you spend money to save time — hiring an accountant, a babysitter, a cleaner — you feel more control over your life," she said. "That sense of autonomy boosts well-being."

Not everyone can afford to outsource bigger household chores. But Whillans says even a little bit can help. She advises couples to take a "time audit" — examining how they spend their hours and whatsmall changescould reclaim even a few moments.

"People underestimate how much these choices matter," she said. "It's not about luxury — it's about freeing up time to connect."

Whillans' team tracked busy, dual-income couples — partners working full-time who often report feeling time-starved — and found consistent patterns. In one six-week diary study, couples who made "time-saving purchases" on a given day were happier and more satisfied with their relationships.

Use that saved time for connecting

Simply outsourcing chores isn't a magic fix, however.

"It's about being intentional with the time you get back — using it to spend quality time together, to reconnect," Whillans said.

"Think of that half hour not as an opportunity to send more emails, but as a chance to spend time with your partner."

Targol Hasankhani, a Chicago-based marriage and family therapist, stressed that while outsourcing domestic labor can ease daily stress, it doesn't replace communication. Juggling careers and kids takes a toll on families, and housework is often freighted with resentments overwho is doing it.

"If conflict around chores is rooted in something deeper — like inequity or not feeling heard — hiring a cleaner won't solve that," she said.

Couples must dig deeper to address problems with many layers.

"It opens up time and space, but couples still have to know how to show up for each other in that space," Hasankhani said.

Casey Mulligan Walsh, 71, a former speech pathologist and author in upstate New York, said the best part about hiring a housecleaner once a week was that it freed up time for her and her husband to spend together.

"My favorite day of the week was coming home to a clean house," she said. "We'd go get coffee together instead of arguing about who should vacuum."

A Valentine's Day gift that stuck

Getting started on delegating household tasks isn't easy for some couples, Whillans said. Besides the cost, "it takes time to find someone and coordinate — but the long-term payoff is real."

And making such decisions together can deepen trust anda sense of teamwork.

For one Colorado couple, outsourcing started as an act of love.

"When I started dating, my now-husband noticed how hard I was working — at my job, at home and as a single mom," said Melissa Jones, a 45-year-old teacher in Pueblo.

His Valentine's Day gift? A deep housecleaning.

"It was truly amazing," Jones said. "After that, I kept it up on my own for years. When my husband and I moved in together, we decided to continue."

"We're able to make memories with each other, our kids and our families instead of spending weekends scrubbing floors," she said.

Dinnertime can be a stress point

In Miami, Elizabeth Willard, 59, runs The Pickled Beet, a culinary service preparing customized meals.

"Most of the people I cook for are trying to invest in their health but don't have the time," she said, noting that families often juggle mixed dietary needs. "Sometimes the husband's a carnivore and the wife's vegetarian, one child's celiac. They're exhausted trying to make everyone happy."

Her clients, often families with children and two working parents, are "not fighting over what's for dinner. It's one less daily decision."

Whether ordering a pizza, paying a teenager to mow the lawn, or calling a car service to save 20 minutes, the outcome can be the same: Buying back time can buy peace.

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Six people injured in the fatal fire at a Swiss bar remain unidentified. It's an unbearable wait

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Sixteen-year-old Arthur Brodard went to theLe Constellation barwith friends to celebrate the New Year. Nearly 48 hours after a devastating fire, his mother still held out hope he might be one of the six injured people who remained unidentified after one of Switzerland's worst tragedies.

Those half-dozen people gave a glimmer of hope for families whose loved ones were missing in the aftermath of the fire at the Alpine ski resort of Crans-Montana that killed 40 people and injured 119 others, 113 of whom have been formally identified.

"I'm looking everywhere. The body of my son is somewhere," Laetitia Brodard, from Lausanne, Switzerland, told reporters. "I want to know, where is my child, and be by his side. Wherever that may be, be it in the intensive care unit or the morgue."

The severity of the burns has made it difficult to identify both the injured and deceased, requiring families to supply authorities with DNA samples. In some cases, wallets and any identification documents inside turned to ash in the flames. An Instagram account has filled up with photos of people who were unaccounted for, and friends and relatives begged for tips about their whereabouts.

Officials in the Valais regional government acknowledged the prolonged heartache.

"You will understand that the priority today is truly placed on identification, in order to allow the families to begin their mourning," Beatrice Pilloud, the Valais region's attorney general, told reporters Friday during a news conference.

Mathias Reynard, head of the regional government, added: "We are aware of the particularly difficult hours, of the unbearable side of every minute that passes without answers."

'You can't imagine the pain I saw'

Investigators said Friday that they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited thefatal firewhen they came too close to the ceiling of the bar crowded with New Year's Eve revelers, two hours after midnight Thursday.

"We were bringing people out, people were collapsing. We were doing everything we could to save them, we helped as many as we could, we saw people screaming, running," Marc-Antoine Chavanon, 14, told The Associated Press in Crans-Montana on Friday, recounting how he rushed to the bar to help the injured. "There was one of our friends: She was struggling to get out, she was all burned. You can't imagine the pain I saw."

Many of the injured were in their teens to mid-20s, police said. Authorities planned to look into whether sound-dampening material on the ceiling conformed with regulations and whether the candles were permitted for use in the bar.

Officials said they would also look at other safety measures on the premises, including fire extinguishers and escape routes. The region's top prosecutor warned of possible prosecutions if any criminal liability is found.

Injured hailed from across Europe

The injured included 71 Swiss nationals, 14 French and 11 Italians, along with citizens of Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Luxembourg, Belgium, Portugal and Poland, according to Frédéric Gisler, police commander of the Valais region. The nationalities of 14 people were still unclear.

Emanuele Galeppini, a promising teenage Italian golfer who competed internationally, was officially listed as one of Italy's missing nationals. His uncle, Sebastiano Galeppini, told Italian news agency ANSA that their family is awaiting the DNA checks, though the Italian Golf Federation on its website announced that he had died.

Dazio reported from Berlin. Associated Press journalists Geir Moulson in Berlin, Graham Dunbar in Geneva, and Nicole Winfield and Giada Zampano in Rome contributed to this report.

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Russia files diplomatic request asking US to stop pursuing oil tanker originally bound for Venezuela

Russia filed a formal diplomatic request that the United States stop pursuing anoil tankeroriginally bound for Venezuela that has evaded US custody for almost two weeks, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

The demarche sent to the State Department on New Year's Eve comes as the vessel, called the Bella 1, appeared on Russia's official register of ships under a new name.

It is unclear if the diplomatic request, first reported byThe New York Times, will halt the US efforts to interdict the oil tanker, which was initially headed for Venezuela before turning around to avoid seizure by the US Coast Guard.

Russia's request comes as the Trump administration continues intense efforts to end Moscow's war in Ukraine. Trump has spoken twice with Russian PresidentVladimir Putinin the past week.

The tanker is currently in the North Atlantic, according topublicly available datawhich was also first reported by The Times.

The White House, State Department and Russian Embassy in Washington, DC, did not respond to requests for comment.

The Coast Guard's pursuit of the aging, rusted oil tanker is part of a series of increasingly escalatory actions taken by the United States against Venezuela and its leader, Nicolás Maduro, including a military buildup in the Caribbean and dozens of strikes against boats that the US has accused of trafficking drugs

Those strikes have killed scores of people and raised questions about the legality of the attacks. The boat strikes have also garnered criticism as they have come despite President Donald Trump's campaign pledge to extract the US from foreign entanglements.

The US has also begun to strike within Venezuela,CNN previously reported, with the CIA carrying out a drone strike last month on a port facility on the country's coast.

The pursuit of the Bella 1 comes after Trump last monthdeclared a complete blockadeof sanctioned oil tankers transiting to or from Venezuela. The US seized two other oil tankers earlier in December.

The Coast Guard has been chasing this vessel for nearly two weeks, which first resisted seizure on December 21 when it made a U-turn in the Caribbean after the Coast Guard attempted to interdict the ship as it was on its way to Venezuela to pick up oil.

While Trump has repeatedly said his hardline actions against Venezuela are part of an effort to stymie the flow of drugs into the United States, some of his closest advisers have undercut that claim.

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles suggested in a series of interviews to Vanity Fair published last month that regime change, not drug enforcement, was the administration's goal.

She said Trump wants to "keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle."

This story has been updated with additional details.

CNN's Avery Schmitz contributed to this report.

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Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson had to get naked, attack each other 'like tigers' on first day filming together

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What a way to bond with a new co-worker!

Jennifer Lawrencehas revealed that she andRobert Pattinson, her costar in the new dramedyDie My Love, spent their first day of filming in what might have been an awkward experience.

"Our first day on set was a naked scene where we were attacking each other like tigers," Lawrence said duringThe Hollywood Reporter's Actress Roundtable, which also featured Jessie Buckley (Hamnet); Laura Dern (Is This Thing On?andJay Kelly); Cynthia Erivo (Wicked: For Good); Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value); and Amanda Seyfried (The Testament of Ann Lee).

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Lawrence said the director of the film, Lynne Ramsay, had sent her and theBatmanstar to interpretive dance lessons ahead of time to help them prepare.

Surprisingly, theSilver Linings Playbookstar explained that beginning the shoot that way had been a relief.

"It was kind of nice that it was Day One," Lawrence said, "'cause then it wasn't hanging over our heads."

Seyfried said that plan was "actually brilliant," before adding, "If you know what the genitals look like, then you don't wonder."

Lawrence agreed: "Then I don't have to think about it."

She clarified that they were not naked during the interpretive dance lesson.

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InDie My Love, Lawrence plays Grace, a mother struggling with postpartum depression and her longing for connection, especially with her boyfriend Jackson, the part played by Pattinson.

The film, which is out now, costars Sissy Spacek, LaKeith Stanfield, and Nick Nolte.

And Spacek, for one, was impressed with their love scenes.

"They were brilliant to watch," SpacektoldEntertainment Weeklyof Lawrence and Pattinson last month. "I mean, there was nothing sexier than watching them fight and then make up. It was incredible."

TheCoal Miner's Daughterstar had an up-close seat, as she plays Pam, the mother of Pattinson's character.

Watch the full conversation above.

Die My Loveis in theaters now and available to rent or purchase on streaming platforms.

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