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Beyoncé and Blue Ivy Carter.Photo:Beyonce/Instagram Beyonce/Instagram BeyoncéandBlue Ivy Carterare showing their support forJAY-Z! The mom-and-daughter duo attended the unveiling of the rapper’sBook of HOV exhibition— showcasing the rapper and mogul’s archived and never-before-seen items and masters from throughout his career — at the Brooklyn Public Library in New York City on Thursday. Beyoncé — who kicked off the U.S. leg of herRenaissance World Tourthis week — shared photos on Instagram from the celebratory night, as she took time out of her busy schedule to show support for her husband, along with their eldest daughter....

Photo:Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Parkwood Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Parkwood Washington, D.C. will forever have a special place inBeyoncé’s heart. After performing at FedExField in Landover, Maryland for thelatest stopon theRenaissance World TourSunday, the singer, 41,shared on her official websitethat the city is the “eerbody on mute war winner.” The “eerbody on mute” challenge is one that the Grammy winner has issued throughout her multi-city tour that has consisted of her audience being asked to remain silent as she sings the lyrics, “Look around, everybody on mute,” off her track"Energy....

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Getty In its latest rebuke of Trump-era policies, the Biden administration on Tuesday announced it had suspended oil and gas drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The suspension comes six months after PresidentJoe Biden, on his first day in office,issued an executive ordertemporarily banning the leases. In a statement issued Tuesday, the Interior Department announced that the agency would oversee acomprehensive environmental analysisof drilling on the land and was notifying lessees that it was suspending oil and gas leases pending the review....

Photo: James Devaney/GC Images; Jason Davis/Getty Images The Biden administration slammedDonald Trumpdays after the former president had a dinner at his members-only Mar-a-Lago club withKanye Westand white supremacist Nick Fuentes, two controversial figures who have made a number of anti-semitic statements in recent weeks and months. “Bigotry, hate, and antisemitism have absolutely no place in America — including at Mar-A-Lago,” Deputy White House Press Secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement....

Ketanji Brown Jackson.Photo: Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images Among PresidentJoe Biden’s first set of federal judicial nominations is one name already igniting speculation about future Supreme Court nominees: U.S. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, widely viewed as a potential historic pick for the country’s highest court. Jackson, 50, was announced Tuesday as Biden’s pick to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, where she would take the place of Judge Merrick Garland, who resigned when he was recentlyconfirmed as U....

Hillary and Bill Clinton in January 2018.Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Bill Clintonis getting ready for another season of festivities in the Big Apple. “Hillary says I’ve always been our family’s Christmas elf,” the 75-year-old former president tells PEOPLE during an interview about hisnew video lecture serieswith MasterClass. This year, Clinton and his wife — former Secretary of StateHillary Clinton— will continue a tradition of decamping from theirChappaqua, New York, hometo spend the holiday in New York City with daughterChelsea, her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, and their three children: Charlotte, Aidan and Jasper....

Photo: Virgin GalacticSir Richard Branson, the billionaire business mogul with a flair for adventure, took his most daring trip yet on Sunday morning when he flew to the edge of space aboard a Virgin Galactic ship for the first time.Branson, along with five other team members, boarded theVSS Unity spacecraftaround dawn to embark on the company’s first fully crewed flight test, a mission dubbed “Unity 22.“The group took off from the company’s spaceport in Sierra County, New Mexico, shortly before 8:00 a....

Azmeh Dawood is speaking out about her nephew, Suleman Dawood, who wasone of five passengerswho reportedly died on theTitansubmersiblewhile on aTitanic-bound excursionon Sunday.Speaking to NBC News, Azmeh shared that Suleman went on the voyage to the historic underwater site to please his father,Shahzada Dawood.“I am thinking of Suleman, who is 19, in there, just perhaps gasping for breath … It’s been crippling, to be honest,” she recalled.Alamy Stock PhotoAccording to Azmeh, Shahzada had a passion for theTitanicfrom a young age and was not surprised that he had purchased tickets to travel on the OceanGate submersible for himself and his son....

After the deaths of former PresidentGeorge H. W. Bushand former First LadyBarbara BushinNovemberandAprillast year, the nation mourned the loss of two leading public servants. But for the Bushes themselves, the deaths were much more personal. Speaking with PEOPLE in this week’s issue,Billy Bush, H. W. Bush’s nephew and first cousin to former PresidentGeorge W. Bush, recalled his uncle’s state funeral in December. “Many people in the National Cathedral [were] saying, ‘We lost a great statesman, how sad....

Photo:Patrick Demarchelier/Hbo/Darren Star Prods/Kobal/Shutterstock, Patrick Demarchelier/Hbo/Darren Star Prods/Kobal/Shutterstock, For the 25th anniversary ofSex and the City’s premiere,PEOPLEspoke with female and LGBTQ+ actors, directors and writers about how the show affected them, impacted the industry and continues to influence pop culture. These are their firsthand accounts. Billy Eichner, 44, comedian andBrosstar and writer My earliestSex and the Citymemory is that I was home from college, flicking channels and I remember watching an episode or two....

After going public with their romance, Soulja Boy andBlac Chynacelebrated their first Valentine’s Day together. The rapper, 28, shared a photo of himself and Chyna, 30, on social media Thursday, when he celebrated the love-centric holiday with the mother of two. Soulja Boy/Instagram In a series of Instagram Story videos, Soulja Boy filmed the couple listening to music in the car before they made their way to a store, where he captured Chyna holding Christian Dior candles....

Blake Griffin and ex-fiancée Brynn Cameron settled their lawsuit nearly one year after she filed against the NBA star. A representative for the basketball player did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment. In February 2018, Cameron, 32,sued Griffin for palimony, claiming he abandoned her and their children to pursue a relationship with ex-girlfriendKendall Jenner. In the lawsuit filed on Valentine’s Day, Cameron alleged that the Detroit Pistons player “had no problem” trading her, “his former fiancée and mother of his two children, for reality television starKendall Jenner....

01of 129ASIMPLECELEBRATIONSteven Ferdman/GettyAnna Kendrick and Blake Lively are all smiles at the premiere of their movieA Simple Favorat the Museum of Modern Art in N.Y.C. on Monday. 01of 129 ASIMPLECELEBRATION Steven Ferdman/Getty Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively are all smiles at the premiere of their movieA Simple Favorat the Museum of Modern Art in N.Y.C. on Monday. 02of 129STARIN THE SKYThe Image DirectLady Gagaarrives at Toronto airport on Monday after premiering her upcoming film,A Star Is Born, at the city’s annual festival....