Carolyn Bessettefirst met Ethel Kennedy in September 1994, several months after she began datingJohn F. Kennedy, according to J. Randy Taraborrelli’s new bookThe Kennedy Heirs, excerpted in this week’s PEOPLE. When Carolyn asked John what his aunt was like, he responded, “…She’s just…Aunt Ethel,” Taraborrelli writes. Carolyn asked him if she should call her “Aunt Ethel,” according to the new book, and “John winced,” adding, “If I were you, I think I’d probably go with Mrs....

“He’s my little sidekick,” Joanna, 40, says of her 9-month-old youngest child in the latest issue of PEOPLE, out Friday. “He comes to work with me every dayand goes to all my meetings.” For Chip, 44, and Joanna’s four older children — daughtersEmmie Kay, 9, andElla Rose, 12, plus their brothersDuke, 10, andDrake, 14 — the Magnolia headquarters in Waco, Texas, is like a second home. “They love being here,” she tells PEOPLE....

Lady Gagahasn’t been shy when it comes to flaunting her new man,Michael Polansky,and the world has taken notice — including Polansky’s ex-girlfriend.In a newop-ed forThe New York Times, Lindsay Crouse, a senior staff editor for the outlet’s Opinion vertical, opened up about the moment she discovered that the man she used to date for seven years has moved on with the Grammy Award-winning artist.“I scrolled through Instagram and saw a post fromLady Gaga:she was sitting in her new boyfriend’s lap,” Crouse recalls, afterseveral of her friends had texted herto check social media....

This is important ! The EFF ’s annualreport bill is outon how tech company reply to government requests for your private data . Some companies take a firm position against government undercover work while others are basically government patsies . Where do the table service you use abide ? The story card rates 24 fellowship on five different questions . These are explain in detail over at theEFF portal site for the news report ....

From left: Michelle Obama holds Huma Abedin’s son, Jordan, then 2 months old, next to her and Hillary Clinton in Washington, D.C.Photo: Sonya Herbert/The Obama White House There was husbandAnthony Weiner’s first sexting scandal — the one in 2011that blew upjust one year into their marriage, when she was pregnant, and precipitated his resignation from Congress. Then there was his second major scandal, in 2013 (under the nom de plume Carlos Danger) and then a third in 2016 — the one involving a lewd photo with the couple’s sleeping 4-year-old son in the frame; and the one when Abedinsent Weiner packing....

Rosario’s story, along with several other of theSarah Lawrence cult victims, are now the focus of the new three-part Hulu docu-seriesStolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence, coming out Feb. 9. The show explains howLawrence “Larry” Ray, ended up conning the students, bilking them out of over $1 million and coercing several of them into being sex trafficked. The twisted story began when Ray was released from prison for securities fraud, and wound up sleeping on his daughter Talia’s couch....

Photo: Rachel Fawcett Rachel Fawcett What was your journey to having the family life you have today?After I finished high school, I started waiting tables. I thought about going to college but I wasn’t necessarily motivated, so I picked up a job while I figured things out. Then two weeks before I turned 19, I had my son, Mikhail. My son’s father and I were briefly together before he was born but it didn’t work out so Mikhail never got to have a relationship with him and that was tough for both of us....

Photo: Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP/Shutterstock Molly Shannon caused peals of laughter with the portrayal of herSaturday Night Livecharacter Mary Katherine Gallagher, who loved to smell her own armpits and proudly called herself “Superstar!” In an exclusive excerpt from Shannon’s new memoir,Hello, Molly!, featured in this week’s issue of PEOPLE, she remembers those haunting first days after the crash — and how she and her widowed father, who struggled with alcoholism, moved forward....

Like many grandparents,Prince Charlescouldn’t help but pick up a few souvenirs for his grandchildren during his travels. There was just one problem: the royal didn’t have cash on him! In a new documentary marking Charles’ upcoming 70th birthday on Nov. 14, the cameras follow the Queen’s firstborn as he visited a market during his tour of the South Pacific island of Vanuatu back in April. “I’m wondering whether to buy a pig or not, they’re rather nice....

01of 21KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN & SCOTT DISICKKourtney Kardashian/InstagramThe co-parents posed together for a silly family pic with kids Mason, Penelope and Reign.“I woke up this morning in bed with my children, in the same house as my sisters (minus@khloekardashian😩😢i miss you), my brothers, the father of my kids, my mommy, my grandma, my nieces and nephew,” Kourtney wrote on Instagram. “I feel beyond grateful. Happy Thanksgiving!” 01of 21 KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN & SCOTT DISICK Kourtney Kardashian/Instagram...

For many, PresidentDonald Trump‘s possible impeachment is likely to take over dreaded political conversations at Thanksgiving tables across the country this Thursday. But, according to one communications expert, that could be a good thing. PEOPLE recently talked with Stacey Engle, president of the training and consultation company Fierce Conversations, about the best ways to navigate challenging conversations at the dinner table on Thanksgiving. According to Engle, tough conversations are vital to how people grow....

Megan Phelps-Roper wasn’t content to just walk away the Westboro Baptist Church — reviled across the globe for its inflammatory hate speech against gays and dead soldiers. “As someone who had contributed to that harm for so long, I felt an obligation to those communities to work to dismantle it,” writes Megan, whosenew memoirUnfollowis exclusively excerpted in this week’s PEOPLE. “Loving someone whose ideas we find detestable can seem impossible, and empathizing with them isn’t much easier — but it’s so important to remember that listening is not agreeing....

Howie Mandelis on the mend after hefainted at a Los Angeles Starbucksand was rushed to the hospital on Wednesday. TheAmerica’s Got Talentjudge, 65,shared a message on Twitterassuring his followers that he was doing better following the incident. “I am home and doing better. I was dehydrated and had low blood sugar,” he wrote. “I appreciate the great doctors and nurses that took such good care of me. Thank you to everyone who reached out but I am doing ok!...