If there’s one thing we can depend on as a society, it’s fried greatness from theState Fair of Texas.The 24-day “fried food capital of Texas,” running until Oct. 19 in Dallas, includes live music, livestock competitions, an auto show and, most importantly, a grand exhibit of all the different foods that can be thrown into a deep fryer. This year, the fair featured another slew of new fried absurdities, including Deep-Fried Sweet Tea, Deep-Fried Brisket and Deep-Fried Pumpkin Spice Oreos....

01of 10Dagmar MidcapAugust 17 is Clear The Shelters, NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations' annual national pet adoption campaign. On this day, pets at more than 1,400 partner shelters across the country and Puerto Rico will be offering waived and reduced pet adoption fees. It’s an opportunity so sweet and enticing, that many of the anchors at the NBC and Telemundo station that make this event possible each year, have gladly given in to temptation and adopted their own pet during Clear the Shelters or on one of the other 364 days of the year....

Americans , like the repose of the world , areafraidof many affair – and like many emotional reception , they are n’t always logical . Last year , one sketch evoke that more Americans are afraid of clowns than they are of terrorist attacks , economic collapse , biologic warfare , climate change , andeven death itself . This was just a single survey , though , and fit in to Chapman University ’s fourth annual Survey of American Fears , the rottenness of government officials is still the thing that people reverence the most in the domicile of the Brave ....

Jana Roberts’ life changed forever in the early morning hours of June 29, 2017. She had been visiting her dad in Alabama with her two young sons, Kannon and Kipp, then 5 years old and 9 weeks old, respectively. It had been a pretty routine night for a mom of two young kids. She breastfed her newborn at 12:30 a.m. and put him back in his crib, and left money under Kannon’s pillow for the tooth he had just lost....

Gray Benkois adding a huge splash of color toMagnolia Network’s newest renovation series! The photographer-turned-interior designer will be starring in an all-new design show calledHappy to be Home with the Benkosalongside her husband Mike. And the couple’s maximalist designs featuring wall-to-wall rainbow hues are just about as far from shiplap and white wash — the signature materials oftheir new Magnolia Network bossesChip and Joanna Gaines— as you can get. PEOPLE got an exclusive first look at the trailer (above) for the new series, premiering Sunday, April 9, in which the design couple will transform properties in their South Carolina home town....

Photo: Lauren Akins/Instagram. Inset: Getty The force was definitely withThomas RhettandLauren Akins' family this Halloween! For their costumes, the musician dressed as Luke Skywalker, Akins as Chewbacca, Willa as Princess Leia, Ada as C-3PO and Lennon as R2-D2. “Happy Halloween 💛🎃🕷👻 from the cast of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope ✨,” Akins writes, while Thomas Rhett wrote on his page, “Happy Halloween y’all! Countdown to Christmas begins in like 3 hours👻🎄”...

Tia Mowry-Hardrictworks hard to balance her work and family life. While pumping breast milk behind-the-scenes of her new showFamily Reunion, the star candidly opens up in a chat with NetflixFamily (shared exclusively with PEOPLE) about what it’s like to be a mother while on set. “I don’t feel like men get asked that question about how do you balance life,” she says on Netflix Family’s Pump and Dump. “I feel like society just puts these standards on women that we have to do everything....

Photo: Tia Mowry Instagram Tia Mowry-Hardrictis soaking up every moment of motherhood. On Tuesday, theSister, Sisteralum, 40, shared apicturein which shebreastfed5-month-old daughterCairo Tiahna. In the Instagram photo, Mowry-Hardrict — who also shares 7-year-old son Cree Taylor with husbandCory Hardrict— smiled warmly at the camera as she cradled her daughter, who wore a yellow outfit. With a pink heart emoji, she wrote alongside the picture, “This is Love. #breastfeeding #motherhood #5months....

Tiffani Thiessen talks about aging as she looks ahead to turning 50.Photo:INSTAR Images/Alamy INSTAR Images/Alamy As she looks forward to turning 50 next January,Tiffani Thiessensays she’s feeling “confident” — and it might have to do with “not giving a s—t” about what people say. The actress and author, 49, spoke to dietitian Shira Barlow on her podcast,Good Instincts, about Thiessen’s second cookbook,Here We Go Again. The book focuses on how to avoid food waste and “get our food to last,” which Thiessen says she learned from her mother....

Photo:Tiffany Haddish/InstagramTiffany Haddishis sharing a look at a trip to Hawaii amid her ongoing DUI case.On Saturday, the comedian and actress — whocurrently faces two misdemeanor chargesafter she was arrested in Beverly Hills in late November for allegedly falling asleep at the wheel of her vehicle — shared a post on Instagram, which showed her on a black sand beach.“I Love being silly on the black sand beach. I have always wanted to do a swimsuit photo shoot....

Photo: Dominik Bindl/Getty Images Tiffany Haddishis “one funny woman,” according to one of the funniest women alive. On Friday, theBad Tripstar, 41, was surprised with a video message from Whoopi Goldberg, congratulating her on her recent historicGrammy Awardswin. “That’s the one I won 155 years ago,” Goldberg noted in the video message, which aired during Haddish’s guest-hosting appearance onTheEllen DeGeneresShow. Goldberg also pulled her glam team, including her daughter Alex Martin, into the video message to help her congratulate the first-time Grammy winner....

01of 20TIFFANY HADDISH: CLEAN YOURSELF VERY THOROUGHLYJamie McCarthy/Getty Images"Lesson one would be hygiene, because good hygiene equals good sex,“theNight Schoolstar toldLate Late Showhost James Cordenof how she would teach a sex education class. “I would tell the women, the young ladies in my class, ‘Look, you gonna have to take a bath at least once a week. You gotta drown. Okay, you gots to drown it. And put, like, a half a box of baking soda in there, get the pH balance right....

Photo: BACKGRID Tiffany Trumpandboyfriend Michael Bouloswere spotted out and about in London over a week aftergoing public with their relationship. Tiffany, 25, wore a pair of black pants with a black jacket and a shiny green top. The Georgetown Law student paired the ensemble with black heels. Boulos also dressed to impress, opting for a black coat and pants with matching sneakers and a Louis Vuitton scarf. BACKGRID Tiffany first went public with her relationship on Jan....