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Bristol Palin is officially married!
The 25-year-old daughter of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin married her on-again, off-again beau, Dakota Meyer, ET exclusively confirmed on Wednesday.
"Life is full of ups and downs but in the end, you"ll end up where you"re supposed to be," Palin and Meyer told ET. "We are so happy to share with loved ones the wonderful news that we got married!"
"Hard work and G*d"s grace are the foundation of our new life together, and with the love and support of our family we know we can get through anything," they added.
The newlyweds, who are currently on their honeymoon, also gave ET a close-up look at their rings -- Meyer"s jewelry is all black, while Palin"s features stunning diamonds.
Speculation that the pair had secretly tied the knot began on Tuesday when Meyer posted a telling photo to his Facebook page. In the pic, Palin was sporting an engagement ring and a second band on that finger, seemingly indicating the two said "I do."
"On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences," Meyer, 27, captioned it. "On the other hand, we learn that we can never give up, knowing that with the right tools and energy, we can reverse any decree or karma. So, which is it? Let the Light decide, or never give up? The answer is: both."
Meyer and Palin announced their engagement in March 2015, but called off their wedding just one month later. Rumors that the two had reunited began three months ago when they both started sharing pics of each other and their 5-month-old daughter, Sailor Grace. (Palin is also mother to a 7-year-old son, Tripp, with ex Levi Johnston.)
"Baby daddy bff," Palin captioned a pic captured during a recent family trip.
Meyer also recently shared a photo of the two, writing, "Had an amazing time halibut fishing with @bsmp2 yesterday. #lifecouldntbebetter."
Hillary Clinton Appears To Hit Delegate Count Needed To Clinch | The View
Voters in six states cast ballots in presidential primary contests Tuesday, but many were looking ahead to the general election.
Democratic and Republican voters told The Associated Press they have long been weighing and comparing candidates with an eye toward who could come out on top in November.
Elections in New Jersey, California, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota featured a contest between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Sanders is urging superdelegates to drop their support for Clinton, arguing he is a stronger candidate to take on Donald Trump.
Clinton reached the 2,383 delegates needed to become the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Monday, according to an AP tally.
On the Republican side, Trump has had the nomination locked up for weeks.
Here are some voters" thoughts:
In San Diego, 82-year-old Harry Backer strolled past cyclists, skateboarders and kayakers on the way to vote for Clinton. The retired teacher, who also worked in construction, said America needs a level-headed, grounded woman with world experience.
"I"m left of Bernie Sanders, but I know that she"s the candidate that can possibly get something done," Backer said.
He also wanted to be part of history in making Clinton the first woman to top the ticket of a major U.S. political party.
Izabela Biel voted for Trump in Closter, New Jersey, an upscale suburb across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Biel said Trump"s success as a businessman symbolizes the American dream for her.
Biel came to the U.S. from Poland about 25 years ago, and she offered that even though he isn"t the perfect candidate, she prefers him to the Democratic candidates who "want to make everybody equal."
"I grew up in communism," said Biel, 46. "I"ve lived it, and I absolutely know that it"s proven that it doesn"t work. You can"t make everybody equal. That just doesn"t exist in the real world."
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, 72-year-old retiree Thomas Ocken biked to the University of New Mexico to vote for Sanders. Ocken said didn"t think it mattered after news of Clinton"s delegate count, but he wanted to cast a ballot anyway.
"I think Democratic Socialism is much more fair. I"m not afraid of socialism," Ocken said. "I don"t think he"ll win. At least he"ll put more pressure on Hillary."
Paul Westendorf, a 53-year-old Sioux Falls, South Dakota, resident who works in financial services, voted for Trump, though he wished he had other viable options. He said it was more about "finding what I dislike the least."
"It"s hard to get a read on what he really stands for, and I think that some of that is intentional," Westendorf said.
Westendorf is strongly anti-abortion, and he said he"s uncomfortable because he doesn"t have a good sense of Trump"s true stance on that issue. But he said Trump can surround himself with competent people and build a great team.
In Montana, Sanders supporter Sonya Goes Ahead held out hope that he could still get the delegates needed before the primary.
"The other candidates are not very truthful. They are in it for money," said Goes Ahead, who grew up on Montana"s Crow Reservation and is studying education at Montana State University in Billings.
Sanders was the first presidential candidate to campaign in Montana, in early May, when he also met privately with American Indian leaders from the state"s reservations
"He wants to help communities, help bring jobs to the reservation," the 24-year-old Goes Ahead said. "There"s not many jobs in my home just the schools."
In Helena, Montana, decorative painter Carmela Linguista had no hesitation about whom she was voting for: "Hillary, Hillary, Hillary."
"Hillary has pretty much devoted her life to the needs of women and children," Linguista said. "I think her forte is on the world stage."
She also pulled few punches about Trump.
"The man is insane. He"s a danger," she said. "He"s not presidential material."
Claudia Scott, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, voted for Trump who is "very brash" at times but speaks the truth.
"He"s saying to America what people don"t want to say out loud, but the way the feel," she said after casting her vote at a middle school.
One of the issues she agrees most with Trump on is immigration, she said.
"I hope he doesn"t change his stand on the way that he feels," Scott said.
Steve Mays, 60, a warehouse worker from Bismarck, North Dakota, said he was supporting Clinton.
"I think she will be the same as the old Clinton, Bill and that"s good," he said. "The economy was good when he was president and he knew how to balance a budget."
Mays said it makes no difference to him that she would be the first woman president.
"She"s got experience and I trust her," he said. "It doesn"t bother me at all whether someone is male or female or black or white," he said.
In Kearney, New Jersey, a blue-collar community, Antonio Cunha voted for Sanders, saying the candidate focuses on issues important to regular people.
"I like the idea of helping people afford college, whether it"s totally free or not," said Cunha, 32, who works for a civil engineering firm. "Back in the day everybody got around with a high school education, but now I can see how much more people make in their careers if they have college degrees. And everybody"s saddled with that debt, so that would be a big help."
Contributing to this report were: Associated Press writers Wayne Parry in Atlantic City, New Jersey; David Porter in Closter, New Jersey; Bruce Shipkowski in Toms River, New Jersey; Ellen Knickmeyer in Sonoma, California; Mary Hudetz and Russell Contreras in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Julie Watson in San Diego; Dirk Lammers in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, James MacPherson in Bismarck, North Dakota; Matthew Brown in Billings, Montana; and Matt Volz in Helena, Montana.
Jane Sanders Reacts To Delegate Count, Hillary Clinton, Lewandowski Charge | MSNBC
Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton added to her delegate count Tuesday night with a win in the nations most Hispanic state.
With 96 percent of votes in New Mexico tallied, Clinton won 53 percent of the vote in the state compared to the 47 percent that voted for challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. The former Secretary of State is now poised for a general election battle with the presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Clinton secured the 2,383 delegates she needed for the nomination on the eve of Tuesday"s voting, according to an Associated Press tally, but secured the nomination with a win earlier in the night in New Jersey.
Clinton trumpeted her victory as historic.
"We are all standing under a glass ceiling tonight," Clinton said Tuesday night during her speech in Brooklyn, New York. This is the first time in our nations history that a woman will be a major political parties nominee.
Clinton wanted to wait until most of the voting was complete Tuesday night before fully reveling in becoming the first woman nominated by a major U.S. political party
While Clinton claimed the state on the Democratic side, Trump was the candidate who was making headlines in the state in the lead-up to Tuesdays vote, where in an uncontested race he pulled in 73 percent of the vote with just over 50 percent of votes tallied.
The real estate mogul has in the past few weeks both derided and courted New Mexicos Gov. Susana Martinez, the first female governor in U.S. history.
Martinez, the head of the Republican Governors" Association and the first Latina to be chief executive of any U.S. state, has been critical of the real estate tycoon a number of times in the past, including when he first brought up the issue of immigration and building a border wall last summer. His description of Mexicans as criminals was completely and unequivocally wrong, Martinez, who is of Mexican descent, said at the time.
Trump, for his part, called out Martinez while campaigning in New Mexico in May, telling supporters that she has got to do a better job. Shes not doing the job.
Then he added, "Hey! Maybe I"ll run for governor of New Mexico. I"ll get this place going ... She"s not doing the job. We"ve got to get her going."
Despite Trumps harsh words there have been rumors that the businessman has put Martinez on his shortlist as a possible running mate in the general election. A spokesman for Martinez, who has yet to endorse Trump for president, has said the two are set to meet in the near future.
Trump recently said he would welcome Martinez"s endorsement.
"The governor hopes to visit with Mr. Trump in the near future to discuss this issue and others that affect New Mexicans. As she has said, this has never been about her -- it"s about the issues that impact New Mexico." Martinezs spokesman Mike Lonergan said.
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Justice League: J.K. Simmons Will Be the Most Ripped Commissioner Gordon Yet - IGN News
Imagine running into this man in a dark, sketchy alley in Gotham City. Be honest: Youd probably be just a little frightened.
His biceps and triceps look like something out of, well, a comic book. His unkempt, free-flowing beard conjures up images of a feral lumberjack, or that one legendary dude in your local gym who, even at age 61, still has the old man strength to bench press more than all the young punks.
So yeah: J.K. Simmons looks d**n good in this photo.
Simmons typically gets casted as the friendly, cuddly typehe"s probably best known for his roles as the blind dad in the sitcom Growing Up Fisher, or his longtime run as the Farmers Insurance spokesperson. h**l, he"s the voice of the yellow M&M. And while he"s brought the heat beforeas hard-charging, cigar-chomping newsman J. Jonah Jameson in the first Spider-Man movies, and in his Oscar-winning turn opposite Miles Teller in Whiplash as sadistic jazz teacher Terence Fletcherat least back then he didn"t look like he could tear you limb from limb.
Those days are over.
For the past few months, Simmons has been training with Aaron Williamson, a ripped ex-Marine and personal trainer. That name ring a bell? It should: Williamson was also the driving force behind Zac Efrons transformation from a teen High School Musical star into the ripped dude of Neighbors and Baywatch.
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Williamson has also worked with other A-list celebrities, including Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Sylvester Stallone, and Jamie Foxxso to say Simmons is in good hands would be a bit of an understatement.
Simmons will likely continue to train with Williamson through 2017, when the new Marvel movie Justice League premieres. So while stars like Henry Cavill (Superman) and Ben Affleck (Batman) might garner more buzz the coming months, you"d be wise not to forget about J.K. Simmons. Because if you find yourself wandering around Gotham late at night, you might just skip the Bat-signal and just call Commissioner Gordon"s office instead.
Justice League, directed by Zack Snyder and starring Affleck, Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Amy Adams, and Jesse Eisenberg, hits theaters on November 17, 2017.
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Though it seems like only yesterday our Instagram feeds were deluged by festival season"s wave of flower crowns, metallic tattoos and peace signs, it"s already time again to fork out the cash to secure next year"s Coachella tickets.
The ticketsgo on sale starting at 11 a.m.and will run you$399 for general admission.If your wallet is still recovering from this year"s music and arts fest in the desert,you can purchase your passesin seven $57 payments through December, but be awarethis is the only chance you"ll have to take advantage of that offer.
All other passes and reservations are also available for payment plans during Wednesday"s advance sale, with the exception of the $7,000 Safari Tent. Event passes do not include car or tent camping spaces, which are sold separately, but you have to buy a festival pass to reserve a camping space.
The 2017 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will be on the weekends of April 14 to 16 and April 21 to 23. Lineups for both weekends won"t be announced until next year.
May the odds (and Wi-Fi strength) be ever in your favor so that next year you too can take pics in front of the ferris wheel.
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Somewhere in the middle of Brian Wilsons performance of The Beach Boys 1966 groundbreaking album, Pet Sounds, on Wednesday night under a starry sky at the Raanana Amphitheater, two terrorists were shooting up the Sarona Market a few miles away in Tel Aviv.
You could see some members of the middle-aged capacity crowd shift their cell phones from filming the 1960s legend singing the albums enduring standards like Wouldnt It Be Nice and G*d Only Knows to checking their messages or news updates. And then, as if their internal thought processes were on the surface, you could almost see them deliberating - whether to focus on the stark reality that is Israel today taking place outside the sloped, fenced-in grassy area or the majestic fantasy taking place within. Except for a few isolated cases, it looked like the latter won out in spades.
The gingerly-walking Wilson peppered the crowd with continuous Toda, Israel as he ensconced himself behind a black grand piano, seemingly like a fortressed shelter protecting him from the unknown and faceless crowd staring at him in a combination of wonderment and adoration.
Leading off with a rousing Heroes and Villains, Wilson and company offered a pleasing opening set of Beach Boys classic and nuggets, from Dance, Dance, Dance to Little Deuce Coupe. The huge band, more an orchestra, bolstered by co-founding Beach Boys guitarist and cheerleader Al Jardine and longtime family associate Billy Hinsche on keyboards, didnt miss a tympani, xylophone or castanet cue as they diligently sparked the Spectoresque studio sounds in Wilsons vision to life with energy and grace.
They compensated for their front mans sometimes unfocused or slightly off-key singing, glossing over the rocky parts with soaring Wilson-arranged harmonies and musical accompaniment. Wilson alternated lead vocals with Jardine and Jardines son, Matthew, who provided the falsettos on tunes like Dont Worry Baby that Wilson could no longer reach.
The only head-scratching moments in the crowd-pleasing set were the curious inclusion of the novelty 60s hit Monster Mash led by the bands semi-conductor and versatile wind instrumentalist Paul Von Mertens - and the funkified, extended version of the Beach Boys mid-60s stab at r&b, Wild Honey, led by longtime band associate Blondie Chaplain and his out-of-place overly long Princed-up guitar solo (he made up for it with a sterling rendition of Sail on Sailor which he was the original vocalist for in its 1973 recording).
Without ceremony, Wilson announced that the band was going to perform Pet Sounds and immediately launched into the bouncy Wouldnt It Be Nice? Like with any 50-year-old album some of it is going to stand the test of time, like the lush introspective ballads like You Still Believe in Me and I Just Wasnt Made for These Times, and some - like the instrumental title track (which Wilson introduced as having no voices) sound like they belonged in the 60s. However, performing like a tightly meshed unit, Wilson and the band faithfully recreated the album with its lows and with some amazing highs.
Back in the mid-1960s, Wilson told an interviewer that Pet Sounds aborted followup, Smile, was an attempt to create a teenage symphony for G*d.
Despite the lulls and occasional meandering path, his performance of Pet Sounds in Raanana, especially the sublime renditions of G*d Only Knows and Caroline, No, was ample proof those symphonies are just as relevant and goose-bump producing for adults as well.
At its conclusion and with the bands return for an encore, it felt like school was out of session and it was time for the fun to begin. And with the identifiable strains of Good Vibrations wafting across the sultry air, the band and the audience let go and danced through the songs that would keep them away from the news outside Help Me Rhonda, Surfin Safari, Fun Fun Fun.
Elated and exhausted, the crowd headed for the exits aware that their shared experience was at and end - but that even at times of despair and grief, they had just received a priceless gift. They could regain a semblance of serenity simply by closing their eyes and hearing those sounds come to life that Brian Wilson long ago once heard in his head. Thank you, Brian.
