A New Jersey couple recently got the surprise of a lifetime when they ordered their usual appetizer at a favorite restaurant. However, this year’s meal ended up being extra special when Michael found a pearl in the final clam of his appetizer. “When I picked it up on the fork it looked kinda heavy, but I didn’t think nothing of it,” he told the outlet. “Then when I started to eat it I noticed something was in my mouth....

Photo: Jefferson Siegel/NY Daliy News/Getty A 45-year-old man has been convicted of the 2009 murder of his estranged, wealthy wife who was found dead in the bathtub of her tony Manhattan apartment the day before she planned to cut him out of her will, multiple outlets report. On Wednesday, a jury found Roderick Covlin guilty of second-degree murder in the death ofShele Danishefsky Covlin, 47,The New York Timesreports. He is scheduled to be sentenced on April 10....

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Holds Weekly News Conference.Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty House SpeakerNancy Pelosiquickly clarified her initial reaction on Tuesday following theguilty verdictin the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted of murderingGeorge Floyd. In a much-maligned speech after the verdict was read, Pelosi thanked Floyd for “sacrificing [his] life for justice.” “Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice, for being there to call out to your mom — how heartbreaking was that — call out for your mom, ‘I can’t breathe,’ " Pelosi said at a news conference with the Congressional Black Caucus Tuesday evening....

Naomi Osaka.Photo:Chris Hyde/GettyDespite an early exit in her first tournament in a year and a half,Naomi Osakasays she’s feeling “pretty good” about where she’s at as shegets back to competitive tennis.Osaka, 26, was knocked out of the Brisbane International tournament on Wednesday after losing in the second round to Karolina Pliskova. It was the former World No. 1’s first competitive tennis tournament since September 2022 when she announced her pregnancy and that she was stepping away from the game to prepare forthe arrival of her daughterShai, who was born this past July....

Naomi Osaka.Photo: Presley Ann/Getty Naomi Osakais opening up about a parenting struggle she “had to conquer.” In a candid new post onX(formerly Twitter) Sunday, the tennis star, 26, revealed that she found herself feeling unconfident as a new mom. “Something I had to conquer recently is fighting the thought that I won’t be a good mom,” she wrote in both English and Japanese. “So many doubts raced through my head I had to swat them away like mosquitoes....

Naomi Osaka.Photo: Courtesy Play Academy Naomi Osaka started playing tennis at age three, but the journey from beginner to four-time Grand Slam winner wasn’t easy. Now, Osaka, 24, is continuing her efforts withPlay Academy, a program that aims to help other young girls find empowerment through sport, and launching a new website for the venture. “Play Academy with Naomi Osaka (PANO) is a program I created through a partnership between Nike and Laureus Sport for Good with the goal of changing girls' lives through play and sport — something that tennis did for me growing up,” she tells PEOPLE in a recent interview....

01of 139Female ThorENT/SplashNews.comNatalie Portman was spotted taking her dog for a stroll in Los Angeles. 01of 139 Female Thor ENT/SplashNews.com Natalie Portman was spotted taking her dog for a stroll in Los Angeles. 02of 139Light Up LifeJerod Harris/Getty ImagesYara Shahidi visited Audible’sStan Lee’s Alliances: A Trick of LightExperience at Comic-Con in San Diego. 02of 139 Light Up Life Jerod Harris/Getty Images Yara Shahidi visited Audible’sStan Lee’s Alliances: A Trick of LightExperience at Comic-Con in San Diego....

Photo: Mike Ehrmann/Getty NCAA president Mark Emmert is addressing themajor budget gap betweenits men’s and women’s college basketball tournaments, admitting they “dropped the ball.” Afterrecent controversyabout the differences between the two tournaments, the NCAA announced last week that a law firm will conduct an equity review of its events, the findings of which will likely be released this summer. During a Wednesday press conference, Emmert spoke about making meaningful changes to ensure equity across all sports....

Photo: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty NCT’s Johnny Suh is reflecting on his first-everMet Galaexperience. The 27-year-old K-pop star opened up about the “nerve-wracking” lead up to Monday’s eventin an interview withTeen Voguepublished Wednesday, noting that he hadn’t experienced such emotions on a red carpet before. “This was the first time that I was really nervous because I didn’t know what was going to happen in there,” he toldTeen Vogue. “I heard that my team couldn’t come inside, so that got me really worried....

Photo: CBSNeil Diamondis coming to terms with having Parkinson’s disease.In an interview set to air onCBSSunday Morningthis weekend, the “Hello Again” singer, 82, shares that it has only been “in the last few weeks” that he has accepted his diagnosis, which hefirst made public in 2018.“But somehow, a calm has moved in, and the hurricane of my life, and things have gotten very quiet, as quiet as this recording studio,” he tells reporter Anthony Mason....

NeNe Leakes.Photo: BravoNeNe Leakeshas a special message for everyone — including a few men — that have slid into her DMs following her husband Gregg Leakes' death last month.TheReal Housewives of Atlantaalum, 53,gave them a shoutoutWednesday on her Instagram Story, according toEntertainment Tonight, thanking them and others for sharing their support during this difficult time in her life.“Thank you to everybody. All the gentleman that have been in my DMs, thank y’all too,” NeNe said, perET....

As you prepare to settle in for the season finale of Netflix’s new relationship experiment show,Love Is Blind, there’s something you need to know: Those five “weddings” took place in mid-November of 2018. In other words, the couples have done a whole bunch of living and loving since then, whether together or apart. After all, that’s plenty of time for the happily ever afters on the show to become not-so-happy....

Yohanes Kidane.Photo:GoFundMe GoFundMe The family of a missing 22-year-old Netflix engineer is asking for anyone with information on his whereabouts to contact police in San Jose, Calif., this week. Yohanes’ brother Yosief Kidane told NBC News last Friday that his family became concerned after Yohanes’ phone continued to show his location stagnant at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco the next morning. Their sister, Sara Kidane, began to grow worried....