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• Taylor Swift was spotted hanging out at Jack Antonoff's Grammys after party!

• The singer wasn't in attendance at the 2026 Grammy Awards themselves.

• FYI, Taylor's hit album, The Life of a Showgirl, will be eligible for 2027's award show.

Taylor Swift skipped the 2026 Grammy Awards, but looks like she was in the mood to celebrate because she was spotted chilling at an afterparty! The singer kept things low key in a long-sleeved black top, stacked necklaces, and her signature red lip, and was seen chatting to a group of friends.

🎥 | Taylor Swift spotted at a Grammys after party 🎉pic.twitter.com/6Epf4NOtx9

— Taylor Swift Updates ❤️🔥 (@swifferupdates)February 2, 2026

Sooooo, whose event was she at? According toDeuxMoi, the afterparty was hosted by Jack Antonoff.

If you're wondering why Taylor wasn't nominated for Grammys this year, that'd be because her hit album, The Life of a Showgirl, will be nominated next year. Basically, the Recording Academy's eligibility period was between August 31, 2024, and August 30, 2025, andThe Life of a Showgirldropped October 3. Meaning, the 2027 Grammy Awards will likely have Taylor's name alllll over them.

While we're here, reminder that Taylor's been nominated for 58 Grammys and has won 14—including Album of the Year four times forFearless,1989,folklore, andMidnights(which is a record, by the way!).

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This story contains graphic details that some readers might find disturbing.

More than eight years afterMatt Lauerwas fired from NBC's "Today" Show, one accuser is telling her side of the story.

In"Unspeakable Things"(out now from Viking), former NBC talent assistant Brooke Nevils starts from the first incident of alleged assault in 2014 when NBC was covering the Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. She also writes about the shame that kept her from disclosing the several instances of assault to her friends and colleagues, and the backlash that ensued after she did.

But "Unspeakable Things" is more than a personal retelling. The book employs Nevils' journalistic background to take a scalpel to toxic newsroom dynamics and who they protect. Nevils consults psychiatrists and experts in victim and offender behavior, alcohol, traumatic memory and sexual violence.

NBC fired Lauer in 2017, facing multiple accusations of sexual harassment and assault. Lauer has maintained that the sexual encounter with Nevils was consensual and denied wrongdoing. He has not faced any criminal charges.

Brooke Nevils interrogates 'superstar harasser' culture at NBC

From the author's note, Nevils makes it clear her book is not here to crack open new allegations "beyond those I reported in detail to NBC in November 2017" and what has been uncovered by investigative reports. Instead, Nevils looks at NBC's workplace culture through the lens of the "superstar" harasser, a term the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission used more than a year before the #MeToo Movement went viral in 2017.

"Superstars are privileged with higher income, better accommodations, and different expectations. That privilege can lead to a self-view that they are above the rules, which can foster mistreatment," the EEOC writesin its report. "In short, superstar status can be a breeding ground for harassment."

Nevils also points to other newscaster "superstars" fired due to sexual misconduct and harassment accusations, like Bill O'Reilly and Roger Ailes at Fox News and Charlie Rose at CBS.

Then-unreported allegations against Lauergo back to 1996, NBC found in its internal investigation. USA TODAY has reached out to representatives for Lauer and NBC for comment.

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"In all those years, why had no one complained? I think the answer is circular: Matt's behavior was clearly a problem, but it could never beseenas problematic because it was Matt's behavior. It was okay because he did it, so he apparently kept doing it because it was okay. We were all watching but still didn't see."

Nevils writes that after thanking Lauer for buying drinks for her and her boss, he invited her to continue hanging out in her hotel room. She didn't feel that she could say no. When she got to his hotel room, he pressured her to have anal sex. The next morning, she woke up in pain and with blood on her underwear and sheets, she writes.

"But there was no laughing off Matt Lauer, and there was certainly no rejecting Matt Lauer in his underwear. There was only pleasing Matt Lauer. To do anything else would have been to become a problem, and Matt's problems at NBC tended to disappear," Nevils writes.

She also writes that she had the realization that "if anyone else had done this to me, I would have gone to the police."

Who is the 'perfect victim'?

Lauer's advances continued after that, Nevils writes, pressuring her again to have anal sex and perform sexual acts in his office. Her shame was overwhelming, she writes. Friends and family noticed something was going on with her: "Every bad decision became a way of proving to myself that what happened in Sochi had not been an aberration, but my choice and something I deserved," Nevils writes.

Here, Nevils scrutinizes the "perfect victim" and how the media – including her own past work – shifts the blame to what the victim could have done differently. Narrow legal definitions of consent and sexual violence, fear of the criminal justice system, blame and disbelief often causedelayed disclosureof sexual violence, according to RAINN.

In "Unspeakable Things," Nevils interviews Joyce Short, founder of the nonprofit Consent Awareness Network, about the difference between consent and agreement.

"If somebody is beating you over the head with a two-by-four and demanding sex and you ultimately say, 'Yes, get it over with, just stop beating me,' if a court does not have a definition of consent that allows the jury to distinguish between different kinds of agreement, then you have legally consented to sex," Short says.

If you or someone you know has experienced sexual violence, RAINN's National Sexual Assault Hotline offers free, confidential, 24/7 support to survivors and their loved ones in English and Spanish at: 800.656.HOPE (4673) andHotline.RAINN.organd en EspañolRAINN.org/es.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Matt Lauer accuser Brooke Nevils details toxic NBC culture in book

Baldoni praised Lively's It Ends With Us costume fitting photos in an unsealed voice note, calling her "beautiful" and saying he "legit got the chills"

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• In the message, recorded before filming began, the director and actor also asked for Lively's input on a key casting decision after reviewing about 2,600 auditions

• Baldoni and Lively have been locked in a bitter legal battle, which is set to head to trial in May
  

Justin BaldonipraisedBlake Lively'scostume fitting photos and asked for her creative input in a voice note sent just weeks before production began onIt Ends With Us, according to newly unsealed court exhibits related to their ongoing legal battle.

In the audio message, dated April 3, 2023, Baldoni, who directed and costarred in the film, thanked theGossip Girlalum, 38, for sharing photos from her fitting, telling her he "legit got the chills" when they appeared on his phone during a department head meeting.

"You look beautiful," he said. "It's going to work so well."

Baldoni, 42, then asked for Lively's input on a key casting decision, calling on her "genius marketing brain" and "EP brain."

He said the production reviewed roughly 2,600 auditions for the role of the young Lily Bloom, weighing the marketing appeal of fan-favorite Abigail Cohen against newcomerIsabella Ferrera, whom he says more closely resembles Lively.

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"I would love your brilliant mind and love to hear your thoughts," Baldoni told her, adding that he planned to pray and meditate on the decision before discussing it with Sony.

Last week, unsealed filingsrevealed a Feb. 8, 2023, voice note in which Livelyspoke candidly about feeling overwhelmed as she prepared to return to work while juggling multiple projects, a newborn, and family responsibilities.

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"I'm talking to you as a friend at this point more than anything," Lively said in that message.

During production, Baldoni also left Lively a separate voice note apologizingafter the two discussed changes she made to a scene, according to a message that later leaked in January 2025. PEOPLE was unable to verify when that recording was made.

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The April 3 voice note was sent several weeks before an April 25, 2023, meeting at Lively's home, during which Lively claimsRyan Reynolds, 49,confronted Baldoni over concerns Lively raised about alleged fat-shaming comments, per her amended complaint.

At a recent court hearing, the judge heard oral arguments centeredon Baldoni's motion for summary judgment, which seeks to dismiss the case before it reaches a jury.

Lively sued Baldoni in December 2024, alleging sexual harassment and retaliation — claims he denies — and isseeking more than $160 million in damages. Baldoni later filed a separate $400 million countersuit accusing Lively of extortion and defamation, which has since been dismissed by a judge.

The trial is currentlyscheduled to begin May 18, 2026.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged "maximum pressure" on Russia from the international community after Moscow fired hundreds of drones and missiles into Ukraine overnight into Tuesday morning, in a major attack that Zelenskyy said focused on the country'scritical energy infrastructure.

Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 71 missiles and 450 drones into the country overnight, of which 38 missiles and 412 drones were shot down or suppressed. Twenty-seven missiles and 31 drones impacted across 27 locations, the air force said.

The strike was the largest reported by the Ukrainian air force of the year so far, and the largest overall number of munitions launched in a single night since the night of Dec. 27.

The number of missiles fired on Monday night was also unusually high, and the largest total for a single night since April 24, according to air force data analyzed by ABC News.

Russia's Defense Ministry said in a post to Telegram that its forces "carried out a massive strike" on "Ukraine's military-industrial complex and energy facilities used in their interests, as well as places of storage and assembly of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles."

'Normal life has disappeared': Russia's energy offensive plunges Ukraine into dark and bitter cold

Zelenskyy said in a post to Telegram that the regions of Sumy, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Dnipro, Odesa and Vinnytsia were attacked, with energy infrastructure and residential buildings among those hit. At least nine people have so far been confirmed injured, the president said.

"Taking advantage of the coldest days of winter to terrorize people is more important to Russia than resorting to diplomacy," Zelenskyy said. "This clearly demonstrates what is needed from partners and what can help. Timely delivery of missiles for air defense systems and protection of normal life is our priority. Without pressure on Russia, there will be no end to this war."

"Right now, Moscow is choosing terror and escalation, and that is why maximum pressure is needed," Zelenskyy added.

Ukrainian Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said that thermal power plants powering parts of Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro were among the targets of the strike. "The targets were not military. They were exclusively civilian," Shmyhal wrote on Telegram.

DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy firm, said Russian strikes inflicted "significant" damage on its power plants, in what it said was "the ninth massive attack on the company's thermal power stations since October 2025."

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Emergency power outages were implemented in Kyiv's Dnieper and Darnytsia districts, DTEK said. Energy infrastructure was also damaged in Odesa, DTEK added.

Ukraine's state energy company Ukrenergo reported "a significant number of power outages in Kyiv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Vinnytsia and Odesa regions," which it attributed to the "massive" overnight attack. "There are also damaged energy facilities in several regions," Ukrenergo wrote on Telegram.

Moscow's latest strikes came after the expiry of a brief pause in attacks on energy infrastructure agreed to by both Moscow and Kyiv following a request from U.S. President Donald Trump. Russia said that the pause expired on Sunday.

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This winter -- the fourth of Russia's full-scale invasion -- has seen Moscow intensively target Ukraine's energy infrastructure, wreaking havoc on the national grid and precipitating rolling and extended blackouts for millions of Ukrainians.

Monday night saw temperatures drop as low as -14 F in some parts of Ukraine.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha suggested on X that Russian President Vladimir Putin "waited for the temperatures to drop and stockpiled drones and missiles to continue his genocidal attacks against the Ukrainian people."

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Zelenskyy later made the same allegation in a post to Telegram. "The Russian army took advantage of the American proposal to pause the strikes for a short period, not to support diplomacy, but simply to stockpile missiles and wait for the coldest days of the year," he said.

Russia launched its latest major strike despite an upcoming round oftrilateral peace talkswith U.S. and Ukrainian representatives in the United Arab Emirates, which are due to resume on Wednesday and continue into Thursday.

"Every such strike by Russia confirms that the attitude in Moscow has not changed: they are still counting on war and the destruction of Ukraine, and they do not take diplomacy seriously," Zelenskyy said. "The work of our negotiating team will be adjusted accordingly."

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte visited Kyiv on Tuesday to meet with Zelenskyy and address the Ukrainian parliament. Rutte told Ukrainian representatives that "important progress has been made" in trilateral U.S.-Ukraine-Russia talks.

"But Russia continues to attack, as it did last night," Rutte added. "This demonstrates their lack of seriousness about peace."

Monday night's attack prompted the scrambling of NATO fighter jets in Poland, which borders Ukraine to the country's west. Poland's Armed Forces Operational Command Operational Command said that no violation of the nation's airspace was recorded.

Russia downs 4,300 Ukrainian drones in December, setting new record, Moscow claims

German fighter jets and Dutch anti-air defense systems were among the assets put on alert, the command said.

Russia's Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said its forces downed at least 10 Ukrainian drones overnight.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces confirmed in a post to Telegram that it struck several targets on Russian-held territory overnight into Tuesday.

Ukraine's targets included a drone training and production site in occupied Zaporizhzhia, a concentration of Russian forces in the western Russian border region of Belgorod and an electronic warfare site in occupied Donetsk, the General Staff said.

ABC News' Nataliia Popova,Oleksiy Pshemyskyi, Patrick Reevelland Ellie Kaufman contributed to this report.

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Many hoped thereopening of the Rafah crossingbetween Egypt and Gaza would bring relief to the war-battered territory, but for the first few Palestinians allowed to cross, it proved more harrowing than a homecoming.

Mideast Wars Gaza Returnees

Three women who entered Gaza on the first day of the reopening told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Israeli troops blindfolded and handcuffed them, then interrogated and threatened them, holding them for several hours and inflicting what they said was humiliating treatment until they were released.

The three were among 12 Palestinians — mostly women, children and the elderly — who entered Gaza on Monday through Rafah, which reopened after being closed for most ofthe Israel-Hamas war, ever since Israeli forces seized the crossing in May 2024.

Asked about the reports, the Israeli military said, "No incidents of inappropriate conduct, mistreatment, apprehensions, or confiscation of property by the Israeli security establishment are known." The Shin Bet intelligence agency and COGAT, the Israeli military body overseeing humanitarian aid in Gaza, did not immediately respond to questions about the women's allegations.

'A humiliation room'

The three women said the abuse took place at a screening station on the edge of the area of Gaza under Israeli military control that all returnees were required to pass through after crossing Rafah.

The 12 returnees were brought by bus through the crossing, then drove until they reached the Israeli military zone, said one of the returnees, Rotana al-Regeb, who was coming back with her mother, Huda Abu Abed. The two had left Gaza in March last year for the mother to get medical treatment abroad.

At the screening station, they were ordered out of the bus and members of an Israeli-backed Palestinian armed group, Abu Shabab, including one woman, searched their bags and bodies, she said.

Israeli officers then called them one by one into a room, she said. She said her mother was called first. When al-Regeb was called, she said she found her mother, who is in her 50s, kneeling on the floor, blindfolded with her hands handcuffed behind her back.

Al-Regeb said Israeli soldiers did the same with her and took her to an "interrogation room — or, a humiliation room." They questioned her about Hamas and other things in Gaza, "things we didn't know and had no connection to," she said.

They also pressured her to act as an informant for the Israeli military, she said. "They threatened that they will detain me and I won't return to my children," said al-Regeb, who has four daughters and a son, living with her husband in a tent in Khan Younis. "There was no beating, but there were insults, threats, and psychological pressure."

Abu Abed, her mother, confirmed the account to the AP.

The third woman, Sabah al-Qara, a 57-year-old from Khan Younis who left for medical treatment in Egypt in December 2023, gave a similar account, describing being handcuffed, blindfolded and interrogated.

"They interrogated us and asked us about everything that happened in Gaza," she said. "We were outside Gaza and knew nothing …. The Israelis humiliated us."

An arduous day

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Under the terms of Rafah's reopening, a European Union mission and Palestinian officials run the border crossing itself, though the names of those entering are first approved by Israel. Israel then has its screening facility some distance away. The military said authorities at the facility cross-check the identities of incomers with Defense Ministry lists and screen their luggage.

Israel has said checkpoints — both in Gaza and the occupied West Bank — are for security. But Palestinians and rights groups have long claimed that Israel mistreats Palestinians passing through them and tried togather information and recruit informants.

The women's ordeal came after a long and arduous day for the returnees, with far fewer Palestinians entering than expected and confusion over the rules.

Al-Regeb said 42 Palestinian patients and their relatives were brought to the Egyptian side of Rafah at 6 a.m. and completed their paperwork to cross at around 10 a.m. Monday. They then had to wait until around 6 p.m. for the gate to open for their buses. In the end, only one bus with the 12 people was allowed through, she and al-Qara said.

On the Gazan side of the crossing, the European team searched their luggage — loaded with gifts for relatives — and took much of it, al-Regeb and al-Qara said. Al-Regeb said they took mobile phones and food, kids games and electronic games. "We were only allowed to take the clothes on our backs and one bag per person," she said.

A person familiar with the situation speaking on condition of anonymity because they were discussing a diplomatic matter told the AP that returnees were carrying more luggage than anticipated, requiring additional negotiations.

The military said the luggage entry policy had been published in advance, without elaborating.

Tens of thousands seeking to come back to Gaza

Al-Regeb said that after they were released from the Israeli screening facility, U.N. buses took them to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where they finally arrived at 1 a.m. on Tuesday .

"Thank God that I have returned and found my loved ones," she said. "I am happy that I am in my nation, with my family and with my children."

Hamas on Tuesday blasted Israel over the allegations of abuse against the returnees, calling it "fascist behavior and organized terrorism." It called on mediators to take immediate action to stop the practices and ensure travelers' safety and freedom during transit.

Rights groups and Palestinian officials warn that abuses during the initial reopening could deter others from attempting to cross in the coming days, undermining confidence in the fragile process.

More than 110,000 Palestinians left Gaza in the first months of the war before Rafah was shut, and thousands of patients were evacuated abroad for treatment. Many are expected to seek to return. So far, some 30,000 Palestinians have registered with the Palestinian Embassy in Egypt to go back to Gaza, according to an embassy official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

But the crossing only gives a symbolic chance at return: Israeli officials have spoken of allowing around 50 Palestinians a day back into Gaza.

Magdy reported from Cairo, and Metz from Ramallah, West Bank.