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Jill (Duggar) DillardandDerick Dillardare speaking out afterJosh Duggarwas sentenced following a child pornography conviction on Wednesday. “Yesterday we learned that Josh was given a 151 month sentence in federal prison for his crime of CSAM [child sex abuse material],” their statement began. “The last several weeks and months have been difficult emotionally. Yesterday was another one of those hard days.” Continuing, the couple said, “The Bible clearly states that God effects justice and vengeance through the governing authorities....

Jill Biden.Photo: John Angelillo/UPI/Shutterstock First Lady Dr. Jill Biden on Monday kicked off a preview of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s"In America: An Anthology of Fashion"exhibition ahead of this evening’sMet Gala. Prior to taking a tour of the exhibit, Dr. Biden delivered remarks about the importance of fashion, saying “style helps us express things that can’t be put in words.” “No matter the words we choose or the speeches we give, the world sees the totality of who we are,” Biden, 70, said....

Jill Biden Talks to Harper’s Bazaar 2022.Photo: Cass Bird/Harper’s Bazaar Dr.Jill Bidenis honored to be first lady of the United States — but she still recognizes the importance of work. “I understand a woman’s need to have something for herself,” Dr. Biden, 70,tellsHarper’s Bazaarfor the magazine’s latest cover story. Much of her focus on independence, she tellsBazaar, stems from her first divorce. In 1970, the now first lady married former college football player Bill Stevenson, taking the name Jill Stevenson....

Photo: DiscoveryJim Belushi’s Discovery seriesGrowing Belushihas been renewed for a second season, PEOPLE can exclusively announce.Growing Belushi, which is filmed in southern Oregon, highlights discoveries in the medicinal cannabis industry, as well as the personal journey of Belushi and his marijuana farm.“Growing Belushiis about the world of cannabis from seed to sale to patients and consumers,” the actor, 67, says in a statement. “The new cannabis consumer will learn everything they need to know to have complete confidence in the expanding universe of cannabis — what to buy, what to ask, where to buy it, how to grow it — the testing, the qualities....

Jimmy Carteris the only modern-era president to return full-time to the house he lived in before he entered politics.In fact, he’s also the only living president who saves taxpayers money, specifically less than half the $952,000budgeted forGeorge H.W. Bush and the $1 millionforBill Clinton, George W. Bush andBarack Obama.Carter, who will become the second president ever to reach age 94, opened up about his modest life in Plains, Georgia, with wife, former first lady Rosalynn, tellingThe Washington Post, “It just never had been my ambition to be rich....

Jimmy Fallon (left) and the throwback photo (right) he shared on his birthday.Photo:Rosalind O’Connor/NBC via Getty; Jimmy Fallon/ InstagramJimmy Fallonis finishing off his forties!The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonhost celebrated his 49th birthday on Tuesday with a nostalgic look back at all his previous birthdays.Fallon shared a throwback photo from his childhood on Instagram, showing himself blowing out the candles on his white and blue frosted ice cream cake for his seventh birthday....

Jimmy Hayes died with fentanyl and cocaine in his system, according to his widow Kristen and father Kevin Sr. who spoke withThe Boston Globeon Sunday. The medical examiner also confirmed to PEOPLE that Hayes' cause of death was acute intoxication due to the combined effects of fentanyl and cocaine. His manner of death was determined to be accidental. On Friday, when Hayes' death certificate was issued to the town hall in Milton, Massachusetts, the Norfolk County District Attorney’s officeconfirmed to PEOPLEthat no foul play was involved in Hayes' death....

Photo: Kristen Marks Instagram Jimmy Hayes' widow,Kristen Hayes, is marking one month without her husband. On Thursday evening, Kristen penned aheartfelt tributeto her late love, which she shared alongside a series of pictures from a beach photoshoot with the pair’s two children: sons Beau, 2, and Mac, 4 months. “What I would give to go back to this night,” Kristen began the caption of her post. “At the beach, holding hands, kissing, laughing, throwing rocks, putting smiles on our babies faces....

TheFixer Upperalum, 40, and husbandChipsat down for an interview withKMOV St. Louis, where the new mother of five talked about her family dynamic before the arrival of sonCrewlast Thursday. (She and Chip, 43, are also parents toEmmie Kay, 8,Duke, 9,Ella, 11, andDrake, 13.) “But now I look at this as another opportunity to really embrace this moment with a newborn,” she explains. “My kidsare so excited about it… but [I want] to slow it down a bit....

Chip Gains (left) and Joanna Gains photographed in New York City on May 18, 2022.Photo:Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty TheMagnolia familyis celebrating one of their own. Chip Gainesturned 49 on Tuesday and to celebrate,Joanna Gainesshared a hilarious autotune-heavy song that “the team made” for her husband’s birthday. Set to a montage of photos of Chip with Joanna and funny clips of the home renovator at work, the song discusses theFixer Upperstar’s unique style choices — “Backwards hat bandana rang / tube socks over the calf” — and his farm lifestyle — “He loves the chicks, the kind that lay an egg....

Joaquin Phoenixis a big winner at the2020 Academy Awards! On Sunday night, Phoenix took home the coveted Best Actor prize — his first-time-ever claiming the award — for his role inJoker. He was up against fellow nomineesAntonio BanderasforPain and Glory,Adam DriverforMarriage Story, Jonathan Pryce forThe Two PopesandLeonardo DiCaprioforOnce Upon a Time… in Hollywoodfor the honor. While accepting his award on stage, Phoenix, 45, emotionally touched on the “distressing issues” that the world is facing, but said that he sees them as more of a unifying factor than a dividing one, and urged everyone to live with love and compassion....

Photo: Christopher Peterson / Splash News Joaquin Phoenixhas once again the streets in his full Joker costume and makeup to film scenes for his upcoming movie,Joker. The actor, 43, is fully decked out as the DC super-villain in the latest glimpse at director Todd Phillips’ thriller.Sporting the creepy facepainthe premiered earlier this fall, this latest image also shows Phoenix wearing the character’s signature color suit as he sprints through the streets and runs from police....

Ketanji Brown Jackson.Photo: Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images History will be made on Friday, when PresidentJoe Bidenannounces thatKetanji Brown Jacksonwill be the first Black woman ever nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, PEOPLE confirms. Biden is expected to announce Jackson’s nomination on Friday afternoon, the source says. If confirmed, the 51-year-old Jackson, currently serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, will replace Justice Stephen Breyer, whosaid in January he will retirefrom the court....