The Oct. 15 episode of “Dancing With the Stars” was “Dedication Night time,” which meant the tears had been already flowing… after which Derek Hough and spouse Hayley Erbert took the ground.

The married duo celebrated her return to the ballroom with an emotional routine to “Stunning Issues” by Benson Boone, marking Erbert’s first time again following her emergency craniectomy.

Forward of the routine, the “DWTS” decide defined that simply three months after the 2 acquired married in August 2023, whereas the pair had been on their joint Symphony of Dance tour, their lives “got here to a screeching halt in essentially the most devastating approach.”

“I used to be on stage, and he or she’s supposed to come back out. The stage supervisor walked out and simply mentioned, ‘Hey, she’s not approaching stage.’ She was on the facet of the stage having full seizures and, primarily, dying. It’s actually exhausting to even put into phrases different than simply pure worry,” the longtime pro-turned-judge mentioned in a video bundle that aired Tuesday night time.

Erbert was rushed into the hospital for an emergency cranial hematoma.

“The physician got here to me and he mentioned that ‘She has a extreme mind bleed, so we now have to function proper now,’” Hough mentioned, choking again tears. “He mentioned that she won’t make it and that even when she does make it, she received’t be the identical particular person. They informed me, you mainly misplaced the individual that you knew… I simply keep in mind laying on the hospital ground simply begging. I used to be like, please don’t go.”

He mentioned she was “unrecognizable” the subsequent morning and was lacking 40% of her cranium. Nonetheless, she remembered that the pair had been dancing earlier than she landed within the hospital, and he felt so relieved he had his spouse again.

After the pair carried out in the course of the newest “DWTS” episode, Hough shared that the pair had been truly capable of dance on stage in entrance of medical doctors and nurses in Washington, D.C. following her restoration.

“Afterward, the medical doctors got here as much as us and mentioned, ‘Hey Derek, it is a miracle.’ And I mentioned, ‘Yeah it’s.’ He mentioned, ‘No Derek, it is a miracle,’” Hough shared on Tuesday night time. “He actually felt the load of simply how exceptional this lady is and her dedication and her spirit. You encourage me a lot. She’s unimaginable.”

Lilly Ledbetter was a fearless chief and advocate for equal pay. Her struggle started on the manufacturing facility flooring and reached the Supreme Court docket and Congress, and she or he by no means stopped combating for all Individuals to be paid what they deserve. Earlier than she was a family title, Lilly was like so many different girls within the workforce: she labored arduous, with dignity, solely to seek out out she was being paid lower than a person for a similar work.

Due to Lilly’s tireless efforts, the Lilly Ledbetter Truthful Pay Act—a important step ahead within the struggle to shut the gender and racial wage gaps—turned the primary invoice signed within the Obama-Biden Administration. It was an honor to face with Lilly because the invoice that bears her title was made legislation.

Lilly’s many years of relentless advocacy impressed us all and have introduced us nearer to residing as much as our Nation’s core values of equality and equity. Vice President Harris and I stay dedicated to constructing on Lilly’s legacy and to strengthening equal pay protections for all staff.

Jill and I ship our love and condolences to Lilly’s household and the entire girls she empowered and continues to encourage.

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Derek and Hayley Hough have an unimaginable story of survival to share.

The married dancers are engaged on a documentary that can have a look again on the horrifying second when Erbert collapsed backstage whereas performing their Symphony of Dance tour in December.

The Voyeur Verite Presents documentary, which has no distribution but, is directed by Jason Bergh (The Best Love Story By no means Advised) and produced by Bergh and Stephan Bielecki. EPs are Derek Hough, Jeff Golenberg and Courtney Carter. DP is Matt Bass.

On Tuesday’s episode of Dancing with the Stars, Hough remembered the second when he was ready on stage for his spouse to affix him. All of a sudden, the stage supervisor informed him that Erbert was having full seizures and “basically dying.”

Medical doctors later warned Hough that his spouse could not survive her emergency craniectomy, and if she did survive mind surgical procedure, she might not be the identical particular person — a lot much less be capable to stroll.

Erbert not solely survived the surgical procedure, however made a full restoration. She rejoined her husband on tour and, on Tuesday, returned to the DWTS ballroom to carry out a panoramic up to date with Hough on Dedication Night time.

Lilly Ledbetter, an former Alabama manufacturing facility supervisor whose lawsuit in opposition to her employer made her an icon of the equal pay motion and led to landmark wage discrimination laws, has died at 86.

Ledbetter’s discovery that she was incomes lower than her male counterparts for doing the identical job at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Alabama led to her lawsuit, which in the end failed when the U.S. Supreme Court docket dominated in 2007 that she had filed her criticism too late.

The court docket dominated that staff should file lawsuits inside six months of first receiving a discriminatory paycheck – in Ledbetter’s case, years earlier than she realized concerning the disparity by means of an nameless letter.

Two years later, former U.S. president Barack Obama signed into the regulation the Lilly Ledbetter Truthful Pay Act, which gave staff the suitable to sue inside 180 days of receiving every discrimination paycheck, not simply the primary one.

“Lilly Ledbetter by no means got down to be a trailblazer or a family identify. She simply needed to be paid the identical as a person for her arduous work,” Obama stated in an announcement Monday.

“Lilly did what so many People earlier than her have accomplished: setting her sights excessive for herself and even larger for her youngsters and grandchildren.”

Ledbetter died Saturday of respiratory failure, in response to an announcement from her household cited by the Alabama information website AL.com.

Ledbetter continued campaigning for equal pay for many years after successful the regulation named after her. A movie about her life starring Patricia Clarkson premiered final week on the Hamptons Worldwide Movie Competition.

Enduring legacy 

In January, U.S. President Joe Biden marked the fifteenth anniversary of the regulation named after Ledbetter with new measures to assist shut the gender wage hole, together with a brand new rule barring the federal authorities from contemplating an individual’s present or previous pay when figuring out their wage.

Ledbetter and different advocates for years have been annoyed that extra complete initiatives have stalled, together with the Paycheck Equity Act, which might strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963.

The sense of urgency amongst advocates deepened after an annual report from the U.S. Census Bureau final month discovered that the gender wage hole between women and men widened for the primary time 20 years.

In 2023, ladies working full time within the U.S. earned 83 cents on the greenback in contrast with males, down from 84 cents in 2022.

Even earlier than then, advocates had been annoyed that wage hole enchancment had principally stalled for the final 20 years regardless of ladies making positive aspects within the C-suite and incomes faculty levels at a quicker fee than males.

Pay hole continues 

Consultants say the explanations for the enduring hole are multifaceted, together with the overrepresentation of ladies in lower-paying industries and weak childcare system that pushes many ladies to step again from their careers of their peak earnings years.

In 2018, on the peak of the #MeToo motion, Ledbetter wrote a opinion piece in The New York Occasions detailing the harassment she confronted as a supervisor on the Goodyear manufacturing facility and drawing a hyperlink between office sexual harassment and pay discrimination.

“She was indefatigable,” stated Emily Martin, chief program officer on the Nationwide Girls’s Legislation Heart, which labored carefully with Ledbetter.

“She was all the time able to lend her voice, to point out as much as do a video, to jot down an op-ed. She was all the time able to go.”

Ledbetter was a supervisor on the Goodyear plant in Gadsden, Alabama, and had labored there 19 years when she obtained an nameless be aware saying she was being paid considerably lower than three male colleagues.

She filed a lawsuit in 1999 and initially received $3.8 million US in backpay and damages from a federal court docket. She by no means obtained the cash after finally dropping her case earlier than the Supreme Court docket.

Though the regulation named after her did not immediately deal with the gender wage hole, Martin stated it set an essential precedent “for guaranteeing that we do not simply have the promise of equal pay on the books however we have now a strategy to implement the regulation.”

“She is a extremely an inspiration in displaying us how a loss doesn’t imply you possibly can’t win,” Martin stated. “We all know her identify as a result of she misplaced, and he or she misplaced massive, and he or she saved getting back from it and saved working till the day she died to alter that loss into actual positive aspects for ladies throughout the nation.”

Newest transfer comes after Pyongyang accused South Korea of sending drones carrying propaganda leaflets over its capital.

North Korea has blown up the northern sections of disused roads that join it to South Korea, in response to South Korea’s army.

Some elements of the street north of the army demarcation line dividing the 2 nations had been blown up at about noon (03:00 GMT), the Joint Chiefs of Workers stated in a message despatched to media on Tuesday.

The army fired warning pictures south of the demarcation line, it stated.

Seoul had warned on Monday that Pyongyang was making ready to explode the roads.

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have risen since North Korea accused its neighbour of sending drones carrying propaganda leaflets over the nation’s capital Pyongyang.

South Korea’s army later launched video footage of the blasts.

One confirmed North Korean troopers in army uniforms establishing what seemed to be cameras on tripods forward of an enormous explosion, which blew up sections of the Gyeongui street and kicked up billowing clouds of smoke and dirt. Extra footage, apparently from after the blasts, confirmed excavators digging, whereas North Koreans in army uniforms labored close by. There was additionally footage exhibiting North Korea blowing up a bit of the Donghae street, on the east coast.

Whereas the 2 roads have lengthy been closed, analysts say their destruction signifies that North Korean chief Kim Jong Un is now not keen to barter with South Korea.

“It is a sensible army measure associated to the hostile dual-state system that North Korea has incessantly talked about,” Yang Moo-jin, president of the College of North Korean Research in Seoul, advised the AFP information company.

The blasts got here a day after Kim referred to as a gathering together with his prime army and safety officers to debate the drone difficulty.

Through the assembly, Kim described the flights because the “enemy’s severe provocation” and laid out unspecified duties associated to “fast army motion” and the operation of his “warfare deterrent” for defending the nation’s sovereignty, North Korean state media reported on Tuesday morning.

North Korea earlier put frontline artillery and different military items on standby to launch assaults on South Korea, if its drones had been discovered over North Korea once more. South Korea has refused to verify whether or not it despatched drones however warned it will sternly punish North Korea if the security of its residents was threatened.

Destroying the roads is in step with Kim Jong Un’s push to chop off ties with South Korea, formally cement it as his nation’s principal enemy and abandon North Korea’s decades-long goal to hunt the peaceable unification of the 2 Koreas.

In 2020, North Korea blew up the empty liaison workplace for the 2 Koreas, signalling the top of a interval of detente.

In November final yr, Pyongyang stated it will transfer extra troops and army gear to the border and would now not be certain by a 2018 joint army settlement after Seoul suspended elements of the settlement in response to Pyongyang’s launch of a army spy satellite tv for pc.

South Korean officers have stated that North Korea started including antitank limitations and laying mines alongside the border earlier this yr.

Singer closed out the Victoria’s Secret runway with a medley of “Consider” and “Sturdy Sufficient”

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea mentioned North Korea blew up the northern elements of inter-Korean roads not in use on Tuesday, because the rivals are locked in rising animosities over North Korea’s declare that South Korea flew drones over its capital, Pyongyang.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Workers mentioned in a short assertion that North Korea blew up elements of the roads on Tuesday.

It mentioned South Korea’s navy is bolstering its readiness and surveillance posture however gave no additional particulars.

The explosions got here a day after North Korean chief Kim Jong Un referred to as a gathering along with his prime navy and safety officers. Through the assembly, Kim described the alleged South Korean drone flights because the “enemy’s severe provocation” and laid out unspecified duties associated to “fast navy motion” and the operation of his “battle deterrent” for defending the nation’s sovereignty, the North’s state media reported earlier Tuesday.

North Korea earlier put frontline artillery and different military items on standby to launch strikes on South Korea, if drones from South Korea are discovered over North Korea once more. South Korea has refused to substantiate whether or not it despatched drones however warned it could sternly punish North Korea if the protection of its residents is threatened.

Destroying the roads can be in step with chief Kim Jong Un’s push to chop off ties with South Korea, formally cement it as his nation’s principal enemy and abandon the North’s decades-long goal to hunt a peaceable Korean unification.

Through the earlier period of inter-Korean détente within the 2000s, the 2 Koreas reconnected two street routes and two rail tracks throughout their closely fortified border. However their operations later have been suspended one after the other because the Koreas wrangled over North Korea’s nuclear program and different points.

Final week, North Korea mentioned it could completely block its border with South Korea and construct front-line protection buildings to deal with “confrontational hysteria” by South Korean and U.S. forces. South Korean officers mentioned North Korea had already been including anti-tank limitations and laying mines alongside the border since earlier this 12 months. They mentioned North Korea has additionally planted mines and eliminated lamps alongside its sections of the inter-Korean roads and brought out ties on the northern facet of the railways.

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A consultant for Kylian Mbappé has denounced reporting within the Swedish press concerning the French soccer star as “completely false and irresponsible.”

A number of Swedish retailers – together with Swedish public broadcaster SVT, who cite “paperwork obtained,” and CNN affiliate Expressen, who cite a police report – reported that Mbappé is “suspected on affordable grounds of rape” after visiting a nightclub and staying at a resort in Stockholm on October 10.

In accordance with Swedish police, suspicion on affordable grounds means “that there are particular circumstances that point out, to some extent, that the particular person in query has dedicated the act.”

Swedish prosecutors introduced Tuesday {that a} felony report had been submitted to the police following media studies a few suspected rape in Stockholm on Thursday.

The press launch offered by the Swedish prosecutors didn’t determine any particular people, and prosecutors mentioned that they might not present any additional particulars when contacted by CNN.

The 25-year-old Mbappé referred to as the media studies “FAKE NEWS” in a publish on X, previously referred to as Twitter, in response to the same story posted by French outlet RMC Sport. RMC Sport later deleted its authentic social media publish.

“A brand new slanderous rumor is beginning to set the online ablaze, originating from the Swedish media AFTONBLADET and EXPRESSEN,” Mbappé’s consultant instructed CNN on Tuesday by a public relations agency.

“These accusations are completely false and irresponsible, and their unfold is unacceptable. Kylian Mbappé is not going to tolerate below any circumstances that his integrity, repute and honor be tarnished by unfounded insinuations.

“In an effort to put an finish to this methodical destruction of his picture, all crucial authorized actions can be taken to re-establish the reality and pursue any particular person or media concerned within the ethical harassment and defamatory remedy that Kylian Mbappé repeatedly suffers.”

Mbappé’s lawyer Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard appeared on French TV’s TF1 Tuesday night time to defend her consumer, calling the studies a “slanderous denunciation.”

She mentioned he went to coaching on Tuesday and described Mbappé as being “completely calm” regardless of the accusations.

Nonetheless, Canu-Bernard mentioned, “He’s utterly flabbergasted from this sort of media frenzy and he doesn’t perceive what could possibly be held towards him from afar or up shut.”

Then on Wednesday, Canu-Bernard mentioned in an interview with French outlet BFMTV that the media studies have had “an affect” and have been “sophisticated” for Mbappé to stay with.

“I want him each success in scoring as many objectives as doable in his subsequent match,” she mentioned. “Sooner or later, if this media frenzy and these thinly-veiled accusations persist and light-weight just isn’t shed rapidly, he can be heard by the investigators.”

The Actual Madrid ahead didn’t play in France’s previous two UEFA Nations League video games – victories over Israel and Belgium. The ahead’s subsequent doable look on the pitch can be with Los Blancos as they tackle Celta de Vigo in La Liga on Saturday.

CNN has reached out to Actual Madrid for remark.

In accordance with AFP, Mbappé traveled to Stockholm final week and spent Thursday and Friday within the Swedish capital.

Former skilled hockey participant Janne Puhakka, Finland’s first brazenly homosexual hockey participant, was discovered lifeless in his residence in Espoo, Finland on Sunday. He was 29.

Finland’s prime skilled league, SM-liiga, launched a press release Monday on Puhakka, who performed 40 video games with the league’s Espoo Blues in 2015-16.

“The Finnish hockey neighborhood obtained unhappy information at this time when the information of Janne Puhaka’s passing turned public,” the assertion stated. “Puhakka was an vital position mannequin, and his braveness and openness left an indelible mark on Finnish hockey.”

Ilta-Sanomat, certainly one of Finland’s outstanding newspapers, studies that Puhakka was discovered lifeless in his house on Sunday. In keeping with Finnish police, he died of a gunshot wound and they’re investigating his dying as a murder, saying they’ve arrested a person as a possible suspect: Rolf Nordmo, 66, Puhakka’s companion, who lived with him in a semi-detached residence.

Puhakka got here out as homosexual in 2019 by an interview with Helsingin Sanomat.

“It could be preferrred if I didn’t have to speak about this,” Puhakka instructed the journal. “However so long as persons are silent on the topic, we should communicate up.”

Puhakka stated LGBTQ2S+ points are nonetheless taboo in hockey, and he wished he got here out whereas he was taking part in in SM-liiga.

“However I wasn’t adequate to have full safety in my job,” Puhakka stated. “That introduced uncertainty. I’m positive different gamers worry the problem due to their jobs as properly.”

In 40 video games with the Blues in 2015-16, Puhakka scored a purpose and an help. He additionally spent a season in Finland’s second-tier league with Espoo United, scoring 5 objectives and 7 assists for 12 factors in 49 regular-season video games.

Puhakka’s closing season {of professional} hockey got here in 2017-18, scoring three objectives and three assists for six factors in 25 video games with France’s Hole HC.

Earlier than turning skilled, Puhakka represented Finland within the Below-18 World Championships in 2013, incomes bronze. He would go on to play two seasons with the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League’s Chicoutimi Sagueneens, scoring 34 objectives and 34 assists for 68 factors in 131 regular-season video games.

Since retiring, Puhakka turned a widely known TV character in Finland, showing in two seasons of the Finnish version of the fact present The Traitors.