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Martin Short's daughter, Katherine Short, died at age 42, the family confirmed in a statement to PEOPLE on Tuesday, Feb. 24

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• "Katherine was beloved by all and will be remembered for the light and joy she brought into the world," the family said

• The comedian and Steve Martin had three shows on their "The Best of Steve Martin & Martin Short" tour scheduled for Friday, Feb. 27 and Saturday, Feb. 28, all of which have been postponed in light of the news

Martin Shorthas postponed an upcoming stop on his tour following his daughter's death.

On Tuesday, Feb. 24, PEOPLE confirmed thatthe actor's daughter, Katherine Short, died at age 42.

"It is with profound grief that we confirm the passing of Katherine Hartley Short," the family said in a statement. "The Short family is devastated by this loss and asks for privacy at this time. Katherine was beloved by all and will be remembered for the light and joy she brought into the world."

The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call from a Hollywood Hills home in the evening on Monday, Feb. 23, and the L.A. coroner confirms to PEOPLE that Katherine died by suicide.

Martin, 75, has since postponed his andSteve Martin's show, slated for Friday, Feb. 27, in Milwaukee. A message posted on the Pabst Theater Group website cited "unforeseen circumstances" as the reason for the show's postponement.

TheOnly Murders in the Buildingstars had two other shows scheduled this weekend, a matinee and an evening performance in Minneapolis on Saturday, Feb. 28, both of which have also been postponed.

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The duo's next show on "The Best of Steve Martin & Martin Short" tour is slated for March 13 in Washington, D.C.

Katherine was one of three kids Martin shared with his late wife,Nancy Dolman, whodied of ovarian cancer in 2010. He and Nancy married in 1980 and adoptedKatherine and her brothers,Oliver Patrick, 39, and Henry Hayter, 36.

Katherine worked in private practice as a licensed clinical social worker and also part-time at the clinic, Amae Health, to provide community outreach, family support groups, peer support and psychotherapy.

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She largely remained out of the public eye throughout her life and career, though she did attend a handful of events with her father over the years to support him. She received a bachelor's degree in psychology and gender sexuality studies from New York University in 2006 and went on to earn her master's in social work from the University of Southern California in 2010.

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The road to the 2026Oscarsis underway.

The98th Academy Awardswill celebrate the top films from the past year from "Hamnet" to "Marty Supreme," "Sinners" and more.

Ahead of Hollywood's biggest night, nominees convened at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on Feb. 10 for the annual Oscars luncheon to take their official class photo and to mingle with each other.

The luncheon doubled as a reunion, bringing filmmakers and actors back together as nominees traded congratulations and soaked in the moment.

With the Oscars now less than a month away, we're taking a look at everything you need to know.

When are the 2026 Oscars?

The 98th Oscars will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on March 15, 2026, starting at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.

How to watch the 2026 Oscars?

You can watch the Oscars ceremony on ABC and streaming on Hulu.

Who is hosting?

Conan O'Brienis hosting this year's ceremony for the second year in a row.

In a Januaryinterviewwith "Good Morning America," the television host and comedian teased "a lot of possibilities" for the upcoming show.

Oscar nominations 2026: Full list of nominees

"Early on, you just generate possibilities for the show: 'What might we do?' You have to wait and see which movies are nominated, what's in the zeitgeist, so there'll be a lot of ideas that come in late. Sometimes those are the best ideas," he said.

Who is presenting?

Last year's Oscar winners Adrien Brody, Kieran Culkin, Mikey Madison and Zoe Saldaña will return to the Oscars stage as presenters, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Feb. 19.

Producers will announce more talent joining the show in the coming weeks.

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Who is nominated?

2026 Oscar nominations were revealed in January.

"Sinners" reigned supreme,breakingthe record for the most Oscar nominations ever, a title previously held by "Titanic," "La La Land" and "All About Eve," with 14 nominations apiece.

Close behind in this year's nominees pool were "One Battle After Another" with 13 nominations and "Marty Supreme," "Frankenstein," and "Sentimental Value" with nine nominations each. "Hamnet" is also up for eight nominations.

See the full list of nomineeshere.

Who was snubbed?

Following the Oscars nominations announcement on Jan. 22, ABC News' Chris Connelly and Kelley Carter broke down the biggest snubs and surprises.

Notable names they mentioned that were left off the list included Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande for their roles in "Wicked: For Good" and Adam Sandler for his role in "Jay Kelly" opposite George Clooney, who was also left off the nominations list.

Oscar nominations 2026: Snubs and surprises

Is there a new category?

This year, the Oscars will debut a new category:achievement in casting.

The new category was announced in 2024 and films from 2025 were eligible for the award.

Casting directors who are nominated this year include Nina Gold for "Hamnet," Jennifer Venditti for "Marty Supreme," Cassandra Kulukundis for "One Battle After Another," Gabriel Domingues for "The Secret Agent" and Francine Maisler for "Sinners."

How to watch all the best picture nominated films

See our go-to guide for watching all the year's top projectshere.

Who won last year?

At the 97th Academy Awards in 2025, "Anora" took home the coveted trophy for best picture. It won five awards, including best director for Sean Baker and best actress for Mikey Madison.

Relive all the top moments from the 97th Oscarshere.

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Valerie Bertinelli is launching a new digital platform called Valerie's Place

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• The project will include a library of fan-favorite content along with original programming

• "My relationship with my fans has always meant everything to me," Bertinelli said

Valerie Bertinelliwants fans to feel at home at Valerie's Place.

The celebrity chef's latest project is a digital platform that will include a library of fan-favorite content along with new, original programming.

"My relationship with my fans has always meant everything to me," Bertinelli said in a statement shared with PEOPLE. "Valerie's Place is where I can share the things I love and also create brand-new content that feels honest, joyful, and truly mine."

"I've learned that you don't have to wait for someone else to hand you the opportunity, sometimes you need to create it for yourself," she added. "This platform gives me the freedom to do that, and to bring my fans along with me in a way that feels real and personal. I'm so excited for this next chapter."

When the platform launches on Wednesday, Feb. 25, viewers can access four cooking shows featuring theOne Day at a Timestar, 65.

Reheated: Valerie's Home Cookingwill see Bertinelli and her longtime producer Sophie Clark revisit recipes and episodes fromValerie's Home Cooking,while sharing behind-the-scenes stories.

Now Val's Cookingis a new "stand-and-stir" cooking show in which Bertinelli will whip up recipes she hasn't previously filmed, including both new dishes and recipes from her 2024 cookbookIndulge.

InNow We're Cooking, Bertinelli will cook with VP Preferred and VP VIP members, who are invited to comment and ask questions as they follow along.

AndMeals for Onewill focus on creating solo meals that deserve "just as much care as cooking for family and friends."

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In mid-March, Bertinelli will expand her programming to include a new podcast.

InGetting Naked: The Podcast, which takes its name from her upcoming memoir, she and guests will have "candid conversations about life, growth, creativity, and showing up as your real self."

Superfan Supper Club, also debuting next month, will give VP VIP members the opportunity to join Bertinelli on camera and be part of the show.

And late April will bring the launch of Val's Book Club, which will feature a new read every other month.

Bertinelli's upcoming bookGetting Nakedexplores what it's like to "grow older, love harder and start over," according to the publisher William Morrow.

The memoir addresses Bertinelli's "insecurities that have haunted her for decades," including body image issues and a persistent need to be perfect.

"I'm excited if not a little nervous because this book is almost uncomfortably personal," Bertinelli told PEOPLE. "I'm hoping it reaches the right people so that they can see themselves in it and know that there's a way through all the challenges we have in our life."

Valerie's Place was developed with the new platform Visible Things and will be available on the App Store, Google Play, andValeriesPlace.com. Subscriptions offering early access and premium content start at $2 per month.

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For Americans who call Puerto Vallarta home,the violence over the weekendwas an explosive reminder thatthey live in a countrythat is also home to some of the world's most powerful drug cartels.

But they're not about to give up their place in the sun.

Charity Palmatier, who lives year-round just outside the scenic city in a beachside development with other expats from the United States and Canada, dismissed the Jalisco New Generation Cartel'storching of buses and cars Sundayto protest the killing of its leader as "performative."

"The cartels like to make statements," Palmatier, 57, who has lived in the area for nearly a decade, told NBC News on Tuesday. "They have temper tantrums when one of their big guys gets captured or killed."

The violence erupted after drug kingpin Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, aka "El Mencho," died following a shootout with the Mexican military about 180 miles east of Puerto Vallarta.

There had been a $15 million reward for the capture of the head of a cartel that is one of the main suppliers of cocaine to the U.S. market and which earns billions from the production of fentanyl and methamphetamines.

Palmatier noted that while vehicles and some businesses were set ablaze and masked gunmen raided some residences and menaced people on the street, "no citizens were injured or killed."

"It's not the Wild West down here," she said. "It's much more safe than you would think."

Karen Davis-Farage, who divides her time between homes in Vallarta, as the expats call it, and New York City and Los Angeles, admitted that she booked a plane ticket to get out of town after a restaurant on the first floor of the building where she lives was set on fire.

"The cartel was driving up on motorcycles, they had these bags, and they were telling people to get out of the cabs, or get out of the car, or get out of a bus, and they were throwing these bags into the vehicle which was then lighting them on fire," Davis-Farage, 70, said. "Those were going on all over the city. You couldn't count all the plumes that were going on in the air."

But after it was over and she was able to go outside and see the damage, she canceled her flights back to the U.S. She said the threat appeared to be over.

"Everybody is safe and sound," she said of her friends in Puerto Vallarta.

The State Department on Tuesdaylifted its shelter-in-place warningfor U.S. citizens in the Mexican state of Jalisco, which is where Puerto Vallarta and another resort city that experienced violence, Guadalajara, are located.

Some 1.6 million U.S. citizens live in Mexico,according to government figures from 2024, many of them expats who spend the winters there, although the number of Americans living there year-round is also growing.

Mexico City is the most popular destination for American expats, according toMexico News Daily,which cited government figures.

But the coastal cities in Jalisco are increasingly becoming a magnet for Americans in search of sunshine, a lower cost of living, as well as a slower pace of life, according to various websites likeViva Tropical that areaimed at expats.

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Both Palmatier and Davis-Farage said they started visiting Puerto Vallarta while still in college, drawn by the city's colonial charm, its spectacular beaches and artsy vibe.

"It's very mystical," Davis-Farage said. "From the mountains to the ocean, it's so beautiful, so vibrant. There's a lot of creative people who come here and stay here from around the world."

Palmatier said she lives in an expat bubble where she doesn't need to speak Spanish well to get by. But, she said, the Mexican friends she's made have been very warm and welcoming.

Alvaro Orozco, a Houston-based real estate agent who counts expats in Mexico as his customers and who previously lived in Puerto Vallarta for three years, said none of his clients are pulling up stakes since Sunday's disturbances.

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"No doubt what happened was scary, but generally it's very safe over there," he said. "A lot of the time, what happens in Mexico feels more dramatic in the United States."

This was different, he said, because it was so unexpected and happened in a community in which violent crime is something that generally happens elsewhere in Mexico.

"What happened Sunday, they were not killing random people, which is the kind of crime that really scares people," he said. "It was a show of power by the cartel."

Davis-Farage said that right around the time when the gunmen flooded the streets and started spreading mayhem, she was entertaining a visiting sorority sister. She said that she lives in a building near the beach filled with expats and that it was her friend who first noticed the "fog on the water."

"We don't have fog like that," she said. "I walked out on my balcony and saw black smoke on the horizon; I could smell the smoke and realized it was fire."

Davis-Farage said she immediately flashed back to Sept. 11, 2001, when she was working in lower Manhattan and Al Qaeda terrorists piloted hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center twin towers.

"I was at 9/11, I watched the buildings come down," she said. "It all came back. The kind of feeling where you are not in control and you know you could be in danger."

Davis-Farage said she and her friend joined the other expats gathered on the top floor of the building, where they scoured the web for news about what was happening on the streets.

"We felt pretty safe staying on the roof … I felt safer there than in my apartment just because we were amongst other people," she said.

Then her phone pinged and there was a text from a friend who said a bus had exploded nearby.

"They had to evacuate his condo," she said. "That created another level of fright. "

The fright escalated a few hours later.

"We smelled smoke and we realized that our building was on fire," she said. "That was probably the scariest part."

It turned out, Davis-Farage said, a cartel member had tossed an incendiary device of some kind into a restaurant on the ground floor. The only casualties, she said, were some of the instruments that the house band kept there.

Asked if she ever felt her life was in danger, David-Farage did not answer directly.

"The irony of this experience is, we never heard sirens," she said. "We never heard a siren the entire day. My reasoning is if (firefighters) had come out to try and put out the fires, they would have been killed by the cartel."

While there have been numerous accounts of tourists running for their lives from masked gunmen firing shots in the air, Palmatier said she never personally felt in any danger while she sheltered in place in her building. Most of the residents are expats like her from the U.S. and Canada.

"I see what happened as something that happens as a matter of course from time to time in Mexico," she said. "This got a lot more play because it was a big guy they managed to catch."

Palmatier believes that when violence happens in Mexico, "it certainly is not directed at someone like me."

Davis-Farage said, "I just hope people don't stay away from Vallarta because of this."

WASHINGTON (AP) —The Supreme Courton Wednesday ruled against a private prison company facing a lawsuit alleging immigration detainees were forced to work and paid only $1 a day in Colorado.

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The unanimous ruling is a procedural defeat for the GEO Group, but it's not a final decision. The company is fighting a lawsuit from 2014 alleging detainees in Aurora had to perform unpaid janitorial work and other jobs for little pay to supplement meager meals.

GEO defended its practices and argued that the case should be tossed out because it's immune from lawsuits as a government contractor.

After a judge disagreed, the company asked the Supreme Court to allow it to quickly appeal the ruling. But the justices refused.

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The Florida-based GEO Group is one of the top private detention providers in the country, with management or ownership of about 77,000 beds at 98 facilities. Its contracts include a new federal immigration detention center where Newark, New Jersey, MayorRas Barakawas arrested ata protestin May 2025, before the case against the Democrat was dropped.

Similar lawsuits have been brought on behalf of immigration detainees elsewhere, includinga case in Washington state, where the company was ordered to pay more than $23 million.

Follow the AP's coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court athttps://apnews.com/hub/us-supreme-court.