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Parker McCollum is putting family first as his wife, Hallie Ray, prepares to welcome their second child. With their baby boy’s arrival expected soon, the country star has rescheduled his remaining shows this week so he can be by her side as they welcome the newest member of their family.
The Texas native shared the news with fans on Wednesday evening, explaining that he couldn’t be more excited to become a father for the second time.
“Hey everyone, Wanted to share some good news with you all,’ his message began. “My beautiful wife is blessing our family with our second baby and it’s looking like he’ll be here tomorrow! I couldn’t be more excited to become a dad for the second time.”
“Unfortunately, that means I’ve got to reschedule the rest of this weekend’s shows. Once I step off the stage at Red Rocks, I’m headed straight home to be with the family. Hate having to make that call, but family comes first.”
The postponed shows in Omaha and Kansas City have been rescheduled for September 10 and September 12, respectively. Fans should hold onto their tickets, as all previously purchased tickets will be honored for the new dates.
“Thanks for understanding and for all the love. Can’t wait to see y’all soon,” he said.
The “What Kinda Man” singer and Hallie Ray first shared the exciting news that they were expecting their second child during the holidays with a sweet Christmas Day announcement. The couple shared a series of family photos taken on Christmas morning, including a festive moment in front of their Christmas tree surrounded by presents. Hallie and their son, Major, wore matching pajamas as she cradled her growing baby bump.
The couple also revealed they were expecting another boy, writing, “McCollum party of 4 next Christmas!!!! another BOY joining us summer 2026!!! Merry Christmas, everyone! Thank you, Jesus! HBD!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️”
Parker and Hallie are already parents to their son, Major Yancey Tyler McCollum, who was born on Thursday, August 8, 2024. The couple introduced their newborn to fans the following day with a series of heartwarming photos from the hospital, their first moments at home, and a sweet family picture featuring their dog, Ruger.
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A couple of months ago, Jinger Duggar and Joy-Anna Duggar discussed their latest family disgrace.
But they have more in common than, unfortunately, sharing both Josh and Joseph as brothers.
It was not always so.
Now, the sisters described being kept apart as children. They could only really bond as adults.
‘The bond was not really there’
On the Wednesday, July 29 episode of the Jinger & Jeremy podcast, Jinger chatted with Joy-Anna about their friendship — and how, as children, they weren’t close.
“I would say we were close in proximity but not like relationally,” Joy-Anna characterized.
She added: “The bond was not really there.”
“There was an age gap, and I felt like the age gap was segregated by sections,” Jinger assessed. Both women are about 4 years apart.
She added: “[Our family was] separated by an age gap of the older kids, the middle kids, the younger kids. I was, kind of, in the older section for many years [of] the six oldest.”
So, even though Jinger is 32 and Joy is 28, their 4-year age gap had their notorious parents sorting them differently.
“I was in the older half, and then I just felt like you were one of the little kids and you were sandwiched between, you know, a lot of boys or whatever,” Jinger described.
“We also [have] different personalities,” she continued.
“But I’m saying when you were little, that’s what I remember,” Jinger said. “Like, you’re much younger than me. It’s crazy ‘cause you’re not.”
In an ordinary household, they might have been free to spend more time together. But, in the Duggar cult, they might as well have been neighbors rather than sisters.
‘I feel like I do talk to you the most’
“[We were] very, very different as kids,” Joy recalled.
“I think part of it is because I was so, like, ‘I will not be a girly girl. I will not wear nice clothes,’” she said of her childhood.
Joy elaborated: “We just had very different interests and I was like, ‘I will never understand why they like shopping so much.’”
Being an adult has changed things, as she admitted: “But, it’s grown on me.”
It is very common for people to enjoy certain things — including but not limited to clothing — more when they are adults who are able to choose things for themselves. An outfit that you like at 28 is very different from an outfit that your famously poorly dressed mother likes when you’re 10.
These days, as adult women, both Jinger and Joy feel closer than they were as kids. Even though Jinger is in California.
“We live so far away, but out of all the sisters, I feel like I do talk to you the most,” Joy-Anna told her older sister.
“We are very, maybe, just chill and we are who we are,” she added. “I feel like we’re in the same season of life.”
As we have explained in the past, “season” is a peculiar evangelical expression to refer to eras, chapters, or other segments of one’s life.
“At least for me on my side, I feel like I can just pick the phone up, and there’s no pressure to talk to you,” she continued. “But also when we do it’s, like, there’s been no time between our conversations.”
Jinger & Joy-Anna Duggar: Our Parents ‘Segregated’ Us as Kids! was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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CHICAGO — Beginning with commissioner Tony Petitti, every leading figure who addressed reporters from the primary stage at Big Ten Media Days has been flanked by the last three national championship trophies. These shimmering, cylindrical showpieces symbolize the conference’s climb toward college football supremacy. Their visual prominence is simple: For the first time since World War II, the Big Ten has won three straight national championships. In an era when the Big Ten and SEC keep jockeying for the unofficial title of preeminent conference in collegiate athletics, any opportunities to poke and prod must be taken. “In addition to winning three consecutive titles,” Petitti said during his opening remarks on Tuesday morning, “the Big Ten has dominated the first two seasons of the expanded College Football Playoff. Seven Big Ten teams [have] combined for the nation’s-best 11 wins, more than double the next closest league.” Consider the message delivered and the knife twisted. If Michigan’s national championship victory three seasons ago finally wrested college football’s biggest prize away from the southern states, whose representatives had hoisted the trophy 17 times over the preceding 18 years, then subsequent wins by Ohio State and Indiana became the tipping point in the sport’s balance of power. Regardless of whether the Big Ten can add a fourth consecutive championship in the coming months, the conference will have another opportunity to upstage the SEC in this year’s Heisman Trophy race. Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza snapped a run of 18 consecutive winners from outside the Big Ten, dating to former Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith in 2006. With a glut of high-end players returning for the upcoming season — many of whom spoke at the Hilton Chicago this week — the league could retain the award for a second straight year. That hasn’t happened since the mid-1970s. “Having big-time players on the stages that they are right now is so healthy for them and the conference,” Minnesota head coach P.J. Fleck when I asked him about the impact of potentially stringing together Heisman Trophy wins. “Because there’s a lot of people here that are going to be Heisman candidates as we talk through the whole year in the Big Ten. And I think the Big Ten is in the best spot it’s ever been.” So who are this year’s leading candidates? According to the most recent odds from DraftKings Sportsbook, which were updated earlier this week, four of the top eight betting favorites in the 2026 race will play for Big Ten schools: Oregon quarterback Dante Moore (+1000), Ohio State quarterback Julian Sayin (+1200), Indiana quarterback Josh Hoover (+1300) and Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith (+1400). It’s worth noting that Sayin and Smith finished among the top 10 in last year’s voting, too, as the conference claimed three of the six leading vote-getters overall. The Big Ten winning a second consecutive Heisman Trophy would continue to shift the mantle atop college football. Two years ago, the Big Ten ranked third in NFL Draft picks produced (42) behind both the SEC (60) and the old Pac-12 (43). By 2025, however, the Big Ten ascended to second with the help of absorbing some of the leading programs from the Pac-12. When coupled with the Big Ten’s current run of national championships, an overall narrowing of the gap seems clear — even as the SEC finished plus-19 in draft choices earlier this year. “I don’t think people see that as reflective of where the league is — or any league is,” former Indiana, LSU and Vanderbilt head coach Gerry DiNardo told me on Wednesday, in between his duties as a Big Ten Network analyst. “Now, if a Big Ten player win it [again this year], there are going to be people saying, ‘We’ve won three championships in a row and two Heisman Trophies.’ So I think people will tag that onto it and make the narrative there. But I don’t think it reflects the league.” Legitimate reflection or otherwise, completing such a rare achievement would be attention-grabbing. Only three times in the history of the Heisman Trophy, which has been awarded annually since 1935, has the Big Ten ever produced consecutive winners, according to FOX Sports Research. There were three straight Big Ten recipients from 1939-41, including Nile Kinnick (Iowa), Tom Harmon (Michigan) and Bruce Smith (Minnesota); there were back-to-back winners in 1954-55 with Alane Ameche (Wisconsin) and Howard Cassady (Ohio State); and former Ohio State tailback Archie Griffin remains the award’s only two-time winner after finishing first in both 1974 and 1975. Beginning around the turn of the century, however, quarterbacks have dominated the Heisman Trophy race. A victory for Wisconsin running back Ron Dayne in 1999 now feels like the unofficial end to an era with 21 signal-callers lifting the trophy across the ensuing 26 years, including Mendoza last winter. The only non-quarterbacks to win the award during that span were CB/WR Travis Hunter (Colorado), WR DeVonta Smith (Alabama), RB Derrick Henry (Alabama), RB Mark Ingram II (Alabama) and RB Reggie Bush (USC). Exploring what a wide receiver must do to win the award became a popular topic of conversation inside the Hilton Chicago when Ohio State’s contingent addressed the media. Smith, a unanimous All-American, finished sixth in last year’s voting after catching 87 passes for 1,243 yards and 12 touchdowns. Many coaches, analysts and scouts believe that he was, and still is, the single best player in college football, worthy of being selected No. 1 overall in the 2027 NFL Draft. Smith faces far longer odds of winning the Heisman Trophy based on his position alone. When asked about that conundrum on Wednesday afternoon, Smith said he’s never quite understood the voting requirements. Because of that, Smith told reporters he’d be happy to wind up on stage as a finalist come December. “I always felt it was a quarterback award unless you have a crazy season,” Smith said. “I don’t really know the criteria of what they look at. Is it the best stats? Is it the best player? I don’t really know. But we’ll see this year.” Smith or not, perhaps the answer will still reside in the Big Ten.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
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Ghislaine Maxwell won’t be getting out of prison any time soon — at least not if the US Senate has anything to say about it.
On Wednesday, the Senate unanimously approved a bipartisan resolution declaring that Maxwell should not receive a presidential pardon or any other form of executive clemency.
The non-binding measure passed Wednesday without opposition, reflecting rare bipartisan agreement as the Jeffrey Epstein case receives another round of renewed attention.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence after being convicted in 2021 on sex trafficking-related charges for recruiting and grooming underage girls for Epstein, the infamous financier and convicted sex who took his own life in 2019.
Although the resolution carries no legal force, it serves as a formal statement of the Senate’s position amid ongoing speculation over whether President Donald Trump could eventually consider granting Maxwell clemency.
When recently asked about that possibility, Trump declined to rule it out, saying he had not given the matter much thought.
The resolution was introduced by Senator Jacky Rosen, who argued that Maxwell’s crimes make her undeserving of any reduction in her sentence.
Speaking on the Senate floor, Rosen said survivors of Epstein’s abuse deserve justice rather than uncertainty over whether Maxwell could receive special treatment.
She also noted that the vote came as the Senate considered Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche, who has publicly stated that he would not recommend a pardon for Maxwell.
The Senate’s action follows months of renewed public and political interest in the Epstein investigation and those connected to it.
Earlier this year, Maxwell appeared before the House Oversight Committee but repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer lawmakers’ questions.
While the resolution sends a clear political message, it does not limit the president’s constitutional authority to issue pardons or commute federal sentences. Executive clemency remains solely within the president’s power.
Still, lawmakers from both parties made their position unmistakably clear by approving the resolution unanimously.
Whether the vote has any practical impact on Maxwell’s future remains uncertain.
But the Senate’s message was straightforward, and it’s clear that members of both parties believe Maxwell should serve the remainder of her sentence without receiving a presidential pardon or other form of executive clemency.
We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.
Ghislaine Maxwell: Senate Unanimously Votes to Oppose Pardon For Imprisoned Epstein … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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Raising Cane’s is keeping Megan Moroney’s Cloud 9 era soaring with the launch of two exclusive, limited-edition collectors’ cups.
As Moroney’s sold-out Cloud 9 Tour continues across the country, Raising Cane’s has unveiled two collectible drinkware items inspired by the country star’s signature pink aesthetic: the Megan Moroney Rhinestone Tumbler and the “Cloud 9” Souvenir Cup.
How To Get Megan Moroney’s Raising Cane’s Collectors’ Cups
Beginning today, fans can purchase the Rhinestone tumbler online or at participating Raising Cane’s restaurants, while supplies last. Plus, $2 from every Rhinestone Tumbler sold will benefit The Megan Moroney Foundation. The glittery “Cloud 9” Souvenir Cup is available exclusively in-store and can be added to any Combo or 32 oz. drink for a small upcharge at participating Raising Cane’s locations nationwide.
Inside The Limited-Edition Collection
Megan Moroney Rhinestone Tumbler: This eye-catching 24 oz. tumbler is decked out in sparkling rhinestones and features the iconic Cane’s logo. It’s available in-Restaurant and online at RaisingCanesGear.com for $19.99, while supplies last. Plus, $2 from every tumbler sold during the campaign will benefit The Megan Moroney Foundation, which promotes kindness while raising awareness for bullying prevention and mental health.
“Cloud 9” Souvenir Cup: Inspired by Megan’s signature pink aesthetic, this collectible cup features a glittery pink finish, a matching pink lid and straw, Megan’s signature, and a QR code that takes fans directly to her Cloud 9 album page. Fans can add the cup to any Combo or 32 oz. drink for a small upcharge, while supplies last.
The Story Behind The Rhinestone Tumbler
The idea for the Megan Moroney Rhinestone Tumbler dates back to the beginning of her partnership with Raising Cane’s last fall. The brand originally designed the sparkling tumbler exclusively for Moroney to use during her surprise appearance at the Raising Cane’s restaurant in Athens, Georgia, where she worked a “shift” alongside the crew and greeted fans to celebrate the launch of the collaboration.
Since then, the custom tumbler has become a recognizable part of Moroney’s partnership with Raising Cane’s, making appearances throughout the campaign, including national advertising efforts and a surprise Cloud 9 album listening party in New York City. Now, with Moroney out on her biggest headlining tour to date, Raising Cane’s founder and owner Todd Graves is bringing the once one-of-a-kind design to fans as a limited-edition collector’s tumbler.
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