Anne Wilsonhas never particularly loved the seventh of June, and this year was no exception. “It was pretty hard,” says Wilson, 21, in an interview with PEOPLE. “I was just off. I didn’t get on my phone, didn’t answer text messages or anything.” This year, the Grammy-nominated Christian artist spent the seventh of June with her family at their Kentucky farm, trying their best to collectively get through the haunting day....

Photo: NASA About a fifth of snow on one of Antarctica’s islandshas vanisheddue to a recent heat wave. Record-breaking warm temperatures the continent experienced from Feb. 5 to Feb. 13 managed to melt 20 percent of snow on Eagle Island — an island located on the northwestern peninsula of Antarctica — in a matter of days, according to theNASA Earth Observatory. Mauri Pelto, a glaciologist at Nichols College, told NASA’s publishing outlet that four inches of Eagle Island’s snowpack thawed away following a warm spell earlier this month, exposing much of the land beneath the island’s ice cap and creating pools of meltwater on its surface....

Anthony Anderson, Jussie Smollett.Photo: Jesse Grant/Getty Images; Jerod Harris/Getty Images Anthony Andersonis sharing his thoughts onJussie Smollett. Anderson, 48, spoke toVarietyon Wednesday, ahead of his gig hosting the NAACP Image Awards on Saturday. Smollettwas nominated foroutstanding supporting actor in a drama series for hisEmpirerole, though it’s unclear if he will attend Saturday’s ceremony. On Tuesday, prosecutorsdropped charges againstthe actor, 36, stemming from hisindictment on 16 counts of disorderly conductfor allegedly staging an attack against himself in Chicago in January....

Anthony Bourdain‘s will has revealed new details about his finances before he wasfound dead of suicideon June 8 at age 61. The will, which was written in 2016, states that the majority of Bourdain’s finances will be left to his only child, 11-year-old daughter Ariane. Slaven Vlasic/Getty Due to Ariane being a minor, the court will appoint a guardian to protect her interests in his estate. If Ariane had died before her father did, the will states that his finances would have gone to her nanny, Myra Quizon....

Anthony Ramos and his dog, Prince.Photo:Purina Dog Chow Purina Dog Chow No matter whereAnthony Ramosis — and he says he’s mainly between Miami and L.A. these days — he’s never alone. “He’s dope; he travels the world with me,” Ramos tells PEOPLE while discussing Dog Chow’s Visible Impact Awards, which honor service dogs working with veterans suffering from PTSD. “He comes to work with me all the time. He’d be in the studio....

Photo: Getty “Chickenpox parties” — a.k.a., a gathering held in an attempt to get many children to contract the illness at the same time, to get it over with — are still all the rage among many parents. But are they safe? According to PEOPLE’s Health Squad Pediatrician,Dr. Elizabeth Murray, “There is no way to know if your child will get a mild case of chickenpox, flu, measles or any other vaccine-preventable disease....

As friends, family and the music communitymourn the lossof the Queen of Soul,Aretha Franklin, who died on Thursday at the age of 76 fromadvance pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type, herlongtime fashionand beauty collaborators are also remembering the legendary star they knew and loved. Much like her larger-than-life voice and stage presence, Franklin was similarly drawn to bold style and beauty looks, says her longtime makeup artist Robin Manoogian, who opened up to PEOPLE....

Ariana Grande’s single “7 Rings” is all about the joys that money can buy — and much of the money the song is raking in is actually going to Rodgers and Hammerstein.TheNew York Timesreports that Grande signed away 90 percent of the songwriting royalties for the No. 1 track, as much of its melody is lifted from the famed songwriting duo’s 1959 classic, “My Favorite Things,” featured inThe Sound of Music....

01of 12Defending Herself After Piers Morgan Said She Used Nudity to ‘Sell Records’“I use my talent AND my sexuality all the time because I choose to. Women can be sexual AND talented. Naked and dignified. It’s OUR choice. 🖤 & we will keep fighting til people understand. I say this [with] all due respect but thank u, next.“Also @piersmorgan, I look forward to the day you realize there are other ways to go about making yourself relevant than to criticize young, beautiful, successful women for everything they do....

Ariana Grandeis committed to her seven rings. Grande wanted to perform “7 Rings,” her latest break-up anthem released in January, and producers allegedly refused, prompting her to feel “insulted,” according toVariety. Eventually, both parties reached a compromise that included “7 Rings” as part of a medley, and that Grande could pick whichever second song she wanted. But she still rejected the offer, the outlet reports. Be sure to check outPEOPLE’s full Grammys coverageto get the latest news on music’s biggest night....

Ariana Rockefeller looked to the past while getting dressed for theMet Galathis year. The 39-year-old model and philanthropist stylishly arrivedat the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute benefitMonday evening in a gold and cream gown of floral silk brocade that belonged to her grandmother, Peggy Rockefeller. The ladylike Elizabeth Arden design, featuring bows that cinch as straps around the shoulders and waist, was made for the matriarch in 1954, and ever so slightly altered for her granddaughter to wear....

Patrick McCarthy and father Peter Judge.Photo: Courtesy of Patrick McCarthy After losing his job, an Arizona man was feeling a bit lost about employment status. Thanks to his son — and countless strangers — he now has some control when it comes to figuring out his next step. “I was in a zone I’ve never been in before,” Judge told the outlet. Speaking withThe Washington Post, Judge explained that had concerns about how long he would be able to manage his expenses without a job, but didn’t “want to file for unemployment....

One man continues to look out for straycatsin his neighborhood despite facing police pressure to stop. Paul Rodriguez of Gilbert, Arizona, has a nightly pattern of placing food and water around town for any stray cats in need — a routine that could land the 64-year-old in jail for going against a city ordinance, according toABC News. In May 2018, the town passed an ordinance making it “unlawful to feed or place food for any wild or feral animal on town-owned property or a public right-of-way,” with a $100 fine for those who disobeyed the new rule, according toKNXV....