Search Suspended for Cruise Ship Passenger, 77, Who Went Overboard

The U.S. Coast Guard has called off a search for a 77-year-old woman who went overboard while sailing on a cruise ship north of Cuba. The passenger went overboard on Thursday while traveling on the Holland America Line cruise ship Nieuw Statendam. A post on X from the Coast Guard said they had suspended the search “pending the development of new information” and added that their crews and cruise ship personnel had searched for around eight hours over 690 square miles. “We are deeply saddened to confirm that while sailing in waters north of Cuba, a guest on Nieuw Statendam went overboard earlier today,” Holland American Line said in a statement to the Daily Beast on Thursday. “The captain and crew initiated search and rescue procedures and worked closely with the U.S. Coast Guard which deployed a cutter and helicopter to assist. After 15 hours, the search was suspended at sundown.” They added that their family assistance team was supporting the guest’s family. “Our thoughts are with the guest’s loved ones during this difficult time.” The cruise ship departed Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Dec. 27 for a seven-day Eastern Caribbean cruise. As a result of the search, the ship’s planned stop at Key West, Florida, on Jan. 2 was cancelled.

Troubled actor Mickey Rourke has been told to pay nearly $60,000 in overdue rent on his L.A. home or vacate the premises. Rourke, 73, was served with a notice according to a complaint filed on Dec. 29 and obtained by People. His landlord, Eric Goldie, said Rourke was first served a notice on Dec. 18 that stated he owes $59,100 in back rent and he needs to pay it or vacate the property within three days. Goldie said Rourke allegedly “failed to comply with the requirements” of the Dec. 18 notice, which was posted on the premises and also mailed, due to the Iron Man 2 star not being home at the time to receive it. Rourke began leasing the property in March 2025 with the rent set at $5,200 a month before increasing to $7,000. Goldie is requesting the back payment as well as compensation for his legal fees and the “forfeiture” of their rental agreement. The Daily Beast has contacted reps for Rourke for comment. Former boxer Rourke was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Wrestler. He was recently in the headlines for being removed from the U.K.’s version of Celebrity Big Brother in April last year. He made homophobic remarks to fellow housemate JoJo Siwa, and left the reality show due to “inappropriate language and instances of unacceptable behavior.” That incident prompted Bella Thorne to accuse Rourke of allegedly bruising her genitals on the set of the horror thriller Girl, calling it “one of the all-time worst experiences of my life working as an actress.”

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Finding Prince Charming‘s Jasen Kaplan has passed away in New York at the age of 46. Kaplan, also known for his work as a celebrity makeup artist, passed away on Dec. 31 at a New York City hospital, according to Page Six. No cause of death has yet been announced. Kaplan had numerous famous clients, including Kelly Osbourne, Eva Longoria, Cyndi Lauper, and Bethenny Frankel. “I’m devastated, I love you so much,” Osbourne wrote on social media in reaction to the news. “Thank you for all the love, laughter and joy you brought my life. I hope you are at peace now! Life will never be the same without you! Rip my dear friend!” He began working on reality show Gastinau Girls in 2005 before appearing on the gay dating show Finding Prince Charming in 2016.

Five years after his viral moment at Joe Biden’s inauguration, Bernie Sanders has recreated his iconic meme, minus the mittens. The 84-year-old Vermont senator showed up to swear in New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, in a grey puffer jacket, sitting with his arms and legs crossed, a pose that instantly transported people back to 2021. Sanders accidentally became internet royalty when a photo of him sitting alone at Biden’s inauguration, masked up and wearing chunky homemade mittens, turned into one of the biggest memes of the decade. People photoshopped Sanders into everything, from classic paintings to popular movie scenes. The mittens look inspired a range of merchandise, from t-shirts to Christmas ornaments, and raised thousands for charity through sales. Wednesday’s ceremony had the same wintry vibe as Sanders sat patiently through the proceedings before swearing in his progressive protégé. This time, he wore regular gloves instead of the famous mittens, but the signature grumpy grandpa energy was still there.

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Jim Beam is halting whiskey production at its historic Clermont, Kentucky, facility for most of 2026 in a major pullback that shows just how badly the bourbon business has soured. The distillery, which opened in 1935, will keep bottling what it has already made and let existing barrels age, but it won’t be producing any new bourbon, marking a complete reversal for an industry that bet big on continued growth. Export sales have tanked as a result of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, with Canadian purchases falling by as much as 85 percent during recent trade fights. The trouble is that bourbon takes years to age, so distilleries ramped up production based on previously rosy forecasts that didn’t pan out. Now they’re stuck with huge inventories of barrels in storage, and still paying fees and state taxes on whiskey nobody is buying. Jim Beam has plenty of company in its misery. AM Scott Distillery, a boutique bourbon maker in Ohio, filed for bankruptcy last week, while Brown-Forman, the maker of Jack Daniel’s, which has been around since 1866, laid off 12 percent of its workers in January 2025. Several Kentucky distillers have shut down completely, knocked out by a perfect storm of changing consumer habits and a trade war that killed overseas demand just as American sales started sliding.

Katie Miller rang in the New Year by announcing she is pregnant with her fourth child. The 34-year-old posted a photo on X on New Year’s Eve showing her with husband White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, 40, at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago party, resting a hand on her stomach. Katie Miller, who earlier this year served as an advisor for the now‑disbanded Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Elon Musk and is now the host of her eponymous podcast, married her husband in February 2020 at the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C. The couple had a daughter later that year, followed by two sons in 2022 and 2023. In August, the soon-to-be mother of four told The Washington Post that she often stays up working until 1 a.m. and gets up at 6 a.m. to care for her children. “That’s what it means to be a career-minded woman,” she said. “It means you can do it all if you choose to do it.” The Mar-a-Lago party where Miller announced her pregnancy included guests such as the president, Eric and Lara Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and various conservative media figures.

George Clooney has fired back at Donald Trump after the president posted a nasty rant about the star actor and his wife on New Year’s Eve. Clooney, 64, told Deadline: “I totally agree with the current president. We have to make America great again. We’ll start in November.” Clooney is referring to the 2026 midterms, which are now just 11 months away—an election that early polls suggest will knock Republicans out of power in Congress, where they currently hold slim majorities in the House and Senate. Clooney’s response was much more subtle than the 79-year-old Trump’s fiery post to Truth Social. “Good News! George and Amal Clooney, two of the worst political prognosticators of all time, have officially become citizens of France, which is, sadly, in the midst of a major crime problem because of their absolutely horrendous handling of immigration, much like we had under Sleepy Joe Biden,” Trump posted in part. The president added, “Clooney got more publicity for politics than he did for his very few, and totally mediocre, movies. He wasn’t a movie star at all, he was just an average guy who complained, constantly, about common sense in politics. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Pop star Pink spent New Year’s Eve in the hospital. On Dec. 31, the 46-year-old posted a photo of herself in a hospital bed with a bandage on her neck. “I end the year giving reverence to, paying attention to, and to fixing my body,” the So What singer wrote in a caption, adding that she was leaving all of her “hurt” behind in 2025. “It may not be a fancy Face lift, but I am getting two new shiny discs in my neck,” she wrote to explain the hospital visit. Earlier this year, the Grammy winner, whose real name is Alecia Beth Moore, shared that she had contracted E. coli bacteria while on vacation and posted a photo of herself with an IV drip in her arm. In 2023, she postponed shows because of a respiratory infection and a sinus infection. The singer used her New Year’s Instagram post to say she is thankful that she got the “business of loving my children and helping them to follow their dreams.” Pink shares daughter Willow Sage and son Jameson Moon with her husband, Carey Hart. “Let’s do better for ourselves and for others,” the singer wished her fans in the new year.

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President Donald Trump’s staff is begging him to keep his eyes open while the cameras are rolling, an insider tells the Wall Street Journal. White House aides are reportedly “fearing the optics of his appearing to fall asleep.” If that’s the case, their fears are becoming reality, as Trump, 79, has routinely dozed off at public events in recent months—though he maintains that he is just giving his eyes a rest, not sleeping. “I’ll just close. It’s very relaxing to me,” Trump has said of shutting his eyes. “Sometimes they’ll take a picture of me blinking, blinking, and they’ll catch me with the blink.” Critics are not buying that line. Cameras have captured Trump with his eyes closed for an extended period on multiple occasions, including at a Cabinet meeting last month. The issue has become so serious, administration officials tell the Journal that White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has “urged cabinet members to shorten their presentations” so the president does not become bored and doze off. Trump has long boasted that he requires little sleep to get by. His public snoozing has not changed his habits, the Journal reports, as he still requires at least one staff member to stay up with him on Air Force One while others sleep.

The series finale of one of Netflix’s biggest shows was met with complications when it finally dropped Wednesday night. The final episode of Stranger Things aired as scheduled at 8 p.m. ET on December 31, but some users encountered an error message that read, “Something went wrong. Sorry, we’re having trouble with your request. You’ll find lots to explore on the home page.” According to Variety, the site crashed for about a minute—shorter than the outage on Nov. 26, when the platform went down for roughly five minutes after the series’ fifth season premiered, debuting with 59.6 million views and marking Netflix’s biggest-ever opening week for an English-language title. The crash prompted some fans to take to X to express their frustration. “NETFLIX CRASHED PLS LET ME IN I DO NOT HAVE NEW YEARS PLANS #StrangerThings,” one user posted. “My Netflix has crashed twice already three mins into the stranger things finale,” another wrote. While some users experienced issues on the site, others watched the highly anticipated finale, the last episode ever of the series, as it aired in more than 620 theaters across the U.S. and Canada on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1, an event that drew 1.1 million RSVPs, according to co-creator Ross Duffer.