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  • Jewel on Having More Babies: 'My Eggs Are in Wheelchairs'

    In 2011, Jewel and her husband, Ty Murray, welcomed their son, Kase, into the world, but in a recent interview with ABC News, the singer-songwriter reveals that she's not necessarily planning on giving the little boy a sibling.

    "I'm really torn about it. I think I have one nailed, and two feels like something's gonna fall through the cracks!" says the self-proclaimed "perfectionist." Also, she says, "I think my eggs are in wheelchairs at this point. We'll have to see."

    At the moment, her focus is on instilling a sense of empathy in her son, especially now that she's an ambassador for ReThink, a national public awareness campaign dedicated to destigmatizing public housing and homelessness. When she was a teenager, Jewel, now 38, was homeless and recalls women making cruel remarks while she washed her hair in the sink of a local Denny's but also how kind people were to her too.

    "Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate. You

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  • Angie Everhart Tweets 'Thanks' From Hospital Bed

    Angie Everhart is thanking fans from her hospital bed after receiving a flurry of well wishes following her revelation that she has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

    "I'm in the hospital with my gown and my phone reading all the well wishes.. You all all [sic] awesome! Thanks again my Tweet friends!! Xoxo Angie," the former supermodel and actress wrote on Twitter.

    The actress also posted a photo from her hospital bed with her mother posing next to her, along with the caption, "My best friend, the greatest woman I know- my mother my support."

    Everhart, 43, is in the hospital undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer.

    READ: Angie Everhart Diagnosed With Thyroid Cancer

    "Word has been trickling out about supermodel/actress Angie Everhart's health," her rep said in a statement Monday. "She wants to set the record straight by letting everyone know that it is true that she has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer."

    Her rep

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  • 'Homeland' Actress Expecting First Child

    Actress Morena Baccarin is expecting her first child with husband Austin Chick, her rep confirmed to ABCNews.com.

    The 33-year-old Brazilian-born actress married Chick, 41, a director and screenwriter, in November 2011.

    Baccarin plays Jessica Brody, the wife of former marine-turned-terrorist Nicholas Brody, on the hit Showtime series " Homeland."

    Baccarin's baby won't be the first on the set, however. Her co-star and former grade-school classmate, Claire Danes gave birth to a son last December.

  • ABC News' Linsey Davis reports:

    Blowout bars offer no cutting or coloring of hair in their salons, just washing and blowing it out. But they've become all the rage because they tend to be cheaper and faster than a full-service salon.

    A typical blowout costs $35, and many women go as often as three times a week, which, once you add tax and tip, could cost you $500 a month, or $6,000 a year.

    RELATED: 'Blowout Junkies' Spend Thousands on Perfect Hair

    But as initially reported by Doree Lewak of the New York Post, there's a new upscale salon in New York that is creating a way for husbands to make themselves extra-useful at home, by offering blow drying classes that teach men how to style their wives' hair.

    The new beauty school begs the question of whether this can actually be a way to save money.

    Arsen Gurgov came up with the idea to teach a class at New York City's posh Louis Licari Salon, where your husband can learn how to blow out your

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  • Gators, Gila Monster, Snakes Pulled From Wisc. Home

    Authorities and zoologists in Wisconsin removed a throng of exotic reptiles being housed in an urban residence this week - including a Gila monster, crocodiles and snakes - as shocked neighbors looked on.

    Kenosha police responding to a possible animal cruelty complaint Tuesday entered a home, situated just a few blocks from the city's central police station, to find a 4-foot skeleton of an alligator in a large aquarium, the body of a large burned snake lying in some weeds, a dead 4-5-foot alligator, and the carcass of a fawn.

    In the basement of the residence officers found a homemade indoor pond and several aquariums of various sizes throughout the residence with live animals. One contained a large Gila monster, and another contained a 4- to 5-foot crocodile, while one housed multiple snakes. The animals were located in containers in the basement of the residence, where two 6- to 8-foot alligators were found in a homemade indoor pond. A "very large" snapping turtle found in a

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  • Vaccines Aren't Just for Kids

    By Dr. Sowmya Srinivasan for ABC News:

    Many of us incorrectly assume that the vaccines we received as children will protect us for a lifetime. But immunity can fade with time.

    Keeping your vaccines up to date can help protect you and your kids, and especially older adults and those with weakened immune systems, who are more susceptible to preventable illnesses.

    Between 40,000 and 50,000 adults die each year from vaccine-preventable illnesses, according to a 2010 report from the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust for America's Health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that adult vaccine-preventable diseases cost about $10 billion annually in direct medical costs.

    Dr. Richard Besser, chief health and medical correspondent for ABC News, hosted a Tweet Chat Tuesday to discuss the importance of adult immunizations with such passionate participants as the Mayo Clinic, the CDC, the

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  • Will Angelina Jolie Boost Biotech Stocks?

    While Angelina Jolie's announcement on Tuesday that she had a double mastectomy after learning she carried a genetic predisposition for breast cancer raises awareness about genetic testing, analysts are skeptical that it will boost the stock prices in the biotech industry.

    "Obviously getting popular press is great, but I don't think that's the major driver," said Amanda Murphy, healthcare analyst with William Blair & Company.

    Read more: Jolie's Mastectomy Not Always a Lifesaver

    Shares of Myriad Genetics Inc., a company that works in human genomics based in Salt Lake City, Utah, rose to three-year highs on Tuesday, which some media reports attributed to the actress' announcement and a Supreme Court decision on Monday siding with agricultural biotech firm Monsanto against a farmer in a seed patent dispute.

    Myriad Genetics developed an expensive test called BRACAnalysis that looks for the genetic mutation that Jolie referred

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  • A group of friends who call themselves the "Robin Hood of Keene" and put their name into action by feeding parking meters for strangers are now facing something much more serious than a parking ticket.

    The group, part of the "Free Keene" movement in the small New Hampshire town, is being sued by the city itself, charged with harassing and taunting the city's parking enforcement officers, and asked to stay 50 feet away from the officers at all times.

    "I was definitely surprised," Garret Ean, one of the six Keene residents named in the lawsuit, told ABCNews.com. "The city had been talking about taking some sort of action and we didn't know what they would be doing because we knew they couldn't take criminal action against us."

    The lawsuit, filed by the city May 1, alleges that Ean and his co-defendants - James Cleaveland, Kate Ager, Ian Bernard Freeman, Graham Colson and Pete Eyre - have, "regularly, repeatedly and intentionally taunted, interfered with, harassed and intimated" the city's

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  • Beyonce 'Feeling Much Better Now'

    Beyonce is "feeling much better," a day after a doctor ordered her to postpone her show Tuesday night in Antwerp, Belgium.

    The singer posted on her website a handwritten apology to fans for having to cancel the concert. "I've never postponed a show in my life. It was very hard for me. I promise I will make it up very soon. I'm sorry if I disappointed you. Thank you for your concern. I'm feeling much better now and I'm ready to give you a great show."

    The "Single Ladies" singer had two shows in Antwerp scheduled for The Mrs. Carter Show world tour. Though it appears the show will go on tonight, there is no word on when the first show will be rescheduled.

    Beyonce released a statement Tuesday morning saying she had been "advised by her doctors to rest as a result of dehydration and exhaustion" and that "ticket holders should keep their tickets to be used with the re-scheduled date."

    Tuesday's cancellation quickly

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  • Doesn't look like Jaden Smith will be separating from his parents anytime soon.

    The 14-year-old actor and his famous father, Will Smith, set the record straight on rumors that Jaden was seeking to become an emancipated minor during an appearance today on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

    "See, here's the thing that you need to understand: I'm not going anywhere," Jaden told DeGeneres when she asked him about the rumors. "The thing that people don't get is everything at this house is free! So I can get anything and everything at his house, so I'm going to be there 20, 30 more years."

    "He says as soon as I have a movie that's bigger than one of his movies, I can get my own house," the "Karate Kid" star joked.

    READ: Jaden Smith 'Best Friends' with Kylie Jenner

    Father Will Smith joined in the laughs.

    "I mean … my baby boy, he's never leaving me, ever," he joked.

    Rumors that Jaden was planning to get a place of his own by his 15th birthday began swirling after Will

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