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Dessa.Photo:Sam Gehrke Sam Gehrke Dessabelieves that pop music shouldn’t have to be so simplified. “I think that, very often, it’s like, ‘Oh, if it’s pop music, the words have to be accessible,’” Dessa, 42, told PEOPLE ahead of the Friday album release. “And accessible means stupid. And I don’t think that’s true. I think that our common denominator is not nearly as low as the industry thinks it is. I don’t....

It has been more than a year since the February 14, 2018 mass shooting at Parkland, Fla.’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School claimed the lives of 17 students and staff members. But the emotional fallout hasn’t ended. To honor the memories of those lost and help raise awareness of the mental health issues that can linger after gun violence, PEOPLE spoke with six Parkland students about their experiences then and now....

01of 20HAPPY COUPLEVictoria BonviciniOfficially engaged on June 16,Chris LaneandLauren Bushnelltook just four months to plantheir autumn wedding. The timing was Lane’s preference. “Fall is my favorite time of the year,” he told PEOPLE.Bushnell revealed she initially toyed with the idea of eloping, but Lane said he told her, “You’ll look back one day and wish that you had done a wedding.” In the end, Bushnell was grateful he talked her into the formal ceremony and celebration....

After a mixup at an IVF clinic, two California couples gave birth to andraised another couple’s child— a situation experts say is incredibly rare. In this week’sexclusive cover story, Alexander and Daphna Cardinale open up to PEOPLE about the ordeal, which began shortly after Daphna gave birth to the couple’s second child in September 2019 — a daughter who, much to their surprise, looked nothing like them.That November, an at-home DNA test kit confirmed their child was genetically unrelated to either of them — and the following month, they found out that another couple at the clinic (who do not wish to be publicly identified) had delivered a child via IVF who also bore no biological relationship to the parents....

The legendary actressdiedon Jan. 25, 2017, at the age of 80. A source told PEOPLE she had been on a ventilator and had been hospitalized with pneumonia due to complications from her diabetes. According to her longtime rep, she passed away in the company of friends and, of course, her loving husband of more than 33 years. Moore wasmarried twicebefore she met Levine, first to producer Richard Meeker and then to television executive Grant Tinker....

Ted Bundy.Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images 01of 07 Linda Ann Healy, 21, on February 1, 1974 Find A Grave 02of 07Janice Ann Ott and Denise Naslund on July 14, 1974On a warm summer day, Bundy approached various women at Lake Sammamish State Park in Washington, asking them to help him unhook his boat from his tan Volkswagen bug. Janice Ott agreed to help, and was never seen again. Four hours later, Denise Naslund vanished after heading to the park’s bathroom....

“I’m trying to place him in American history,” Obama told a few of his aides after the meeting, according toThe World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House, out Tuesday. Rhodes writes that during Obama’s meeting with Trump, the president-elect repeatedly brought up his rally sizes. Trump also seemed open to “Obama’s arguments about healthcare, the Iran deal, immigration.” The new president was polite, but, as Obama explained it to Rhodes, Trump had “almost taken pride in not being attached to a firm position on anything....

Photo: Matthew Eisman/Getty; Mark Sagliocco/Getty PEOPLE is highlighting bothSpadeandBourdain‘s lives, legacies and deaths in this week’s issue, and also prominently featuring the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline — at 1-800-273-8255 — on the magazine’s cover. “We hope that publishing the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on the cover of People makes this resource more visible to anyone who needs it. The information also appears on this week’s cover of our sister publication, Entertainment Weekly....

Madison Russo.Photo: GoFundMe In October 2022, 19-year-old Iowa college student Madison Russo opened up about the devastating cancer diagnosis she said she’d received eight months earlier. “I feel like I’ve been rocked to my soul, and right now, everything is kind of uncertain,” the Bettendorf resident told theNorth Scott Pressabout purportedly being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at such a young age. “I just want to know my game plan, and right now, I don’t know what that is....

Photo: Tara Ziemba/FilmMagic; Inset: Ricky Vigil M/GC Images Ireland Baldwincouldn’t be happier for her cousin Hailey Baldwin. Though a source confirmed to PEOPLE that they werelegally marriedat a New York City courthouse earlier this month, Ireland admitted she has “no idea what their [marriage] situation is,”tellingEntertainment Tonightat the iHeartRadio Music Festival, “I think they’re just taking things slow.” Last week, Ireland’s fatherAlec Baldwinconfirmed that Baldwin, 21, and Bieber, 24, “just went off and got married,” during an interview withAccesson the red carpet at2018 Emmy Awards....

It’s been over two weeks sinceJ.P. Rosenbaumwas firstdiagnosed with Guillain Barre syndrome, a rare neurological disorder in which the immune system attacks the nervous system, and thankfully, the formerBachelorettewinner’s symptoms are steadily improving. “I am definitely progressing,” Rosenbaum, 42, tells PEOPLE exclusively in this week’s issue. “But it’s more of a three-day progression cycle. I feel better than I did three days ago, but not necessarily better than yesterday. It is still challenging for me, but I can at least function....

Jack Harlow.Photo: Arturo Holmes/MG21/Getty Don’t worry ladies,Jack Harlowis single. In an interview withGQ Hypeon Friday, the “What’s Poppin” rapper revealed that he’s single — and despite the stereotypes associated with rappers, he has “no interest” in hooking up with his fans. “I love women and dating is good,” he said after sharing his relationship status. “It’s funny, the bigger you get the more opportunities you have. But, ironically enough, you close up a little as the stakes are high....

Photo: Tessa Gourin/Instagram; FocKan/WireImage Tessa Gourin continues to speak out about her childhood and what she says it was like growing up as the estranged daughter ofJack Nicholson. The New York-based actress, 28, spoke withThe Daily Beastin a recent interview about her experiences, explaining that since she was young, her mother, Jennine Gourin, told her “not to tell anyone that I have this famous dad.” “I knew he was powerful and Daddy Warbucks-level rich, so I kind of equated my life to being like Orphan Annie’s,” she said....