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Local musicians are teaming up to raise funds for the family of a fellow East Texas musician who died in July.

Heading into its 85th anniversary after a two-year hiatus, the National Truck Driving Championships return with a high level of excitement and a slate of competitors ready to once again showcase their skills behind the wheel.

Image zoom From left: President John F. Kennedy and a bouquet-carrying Jacqueline Kennedy arrive at Love Field in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, on a campaign tour with Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson (rear) | Credit: Art Rickerby/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Many remember the weekend of Nov. 22, 1963, because of the national horror that unfolded: President ...

lifelines by melissa bernstein Image zoom "I was forever asking the question, why? Why am I here? What am I meant to do while Im here? What is the point of life if we ultimately just all perish? " the co-founder of Melissa & Doug says. "Those were the questions that plagued me." And they persisted until the toy maker was 50 years old, when she stumbled across a name for her feelings — "existential depression" (defined as the state of hopeless doubt that life has a...

| Credit: Drew Valo "I never got mad at them even to this day, but I wished they would have told me the truth," he says. "As I got exposed to people and they treated me as I am, as a Black young man, then it was strange for me. I would say, Oh, Im Spanish. And then theyd say, And mixed with what? " He says he was "devastated" when he learned the man raising him wasnt his real father. Out of ...

| Credit: Mireya Acierto/FilmMagic; Jamie McCarthy/Getty Mark K. Shriver wrote a new kids book about the importance of service with the help of his family — and his niece, new mom Katherine Schwarzenegger, is already a big fan! "I think in American culture, we celebrate and focus so much on money, power and fame," the president of Save the Children Action Network tells PEOPLE...

RELATED VIDEO: Former Trump Casino in Atlantic City, NJ, Demolished "We have a president, who Mika and I believe, through knowing him, is not mentally stable," Scarborough said at the time. "He is less stable [than he was] a year and a half ago when people on his campaign told me they believe he had early onset dementia." "Nobody feels comfortable working for him. Not one person," Brzezinski added. Addressing claims about the presidents mental fitness, the White House press secretary at the ti...

| Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty In her book, Selvaratnam, 49, recounts how other women reached out to her about Schneiderman after the New Yorker piece — including a woman who said she met him after the scandal broke. Schneiderman allegedly mistreated her, too. In Assume Nothing, Selvaratnam writes that this woman had sent her an email explaining that she felt "sympathy" for the former a...

| Credit: Marcus Owens Tabitha Brown — the vegan food star known for her uplifting videos on TikTok — wants to encourage her followers in a new way. Brown is writing an inspirational book, Feeding the Soul (Because Its My Business), PEOPLE can reveal exclusively. The new book will be published by William Morrow on Sept. 28 — and her own cookbook will follow. ...

Image zoom | Credit: Katie Yu/Netflix Fans of To All the Boys Ive Loved Before have been enthralled with the teen couples love story since the first film in the trilogy dropped on Netflix in 2018. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow Following Youll get the latest updates on this...