“Samantha (Wonders) is alone; there are no witnesses and very little physical evidence. Her friends' band is playing her favorite downtown club but she leaves to meet someone, promising to return. She never does,” reads a logline from a press release. It continues, “As the crime against Samantha is investigated, she’s revealed to be the crucial connection between a series of mysterious citywide fires, the downtown music scene, and a wealthy uptown real estate family fraying under the strain of the many secrets they keep....

Chase Wright.Photo: jason myers Long before vaccines and pandemics and a world filled with a ‘new normal,‘Chase Wrightspent 2018 writing songs for his 2021 albumIntertwined. “It’s been a journey, that’s for sure,” Wright, 25, tells PEOPLE. “But it’s been worth it. The passage of time can make for some good songs.” Indeed, a good number of the songs now found onIntertwinedactually come from times far back, when Wright was just a kid growing up in Lebanon, Indiana....

Photo: Alamy; Stefani Reynolds/Getty Chasten Buttigieg called out Rep. Lauren Boebert for her Father’s Day tweet months after the congresswoman criticized his husband, Secretary of TransportationPete Buttigieg, for taking parental leave. Chasten wrote on Twitter that “our two-month-old son was on a ventilator at the children’s hospital when you attacked my husband for being with his family,” with a screenshot ofBoebert’s tweetwishing fathers well on Sunday. Chasten, who turns 33 on Thursday, continued, writing that “I watched [Pete] take calls and Zooms from our hospital room all day, managing crisis after crisis while our son’s heart monitor beeped in the background....

Chasten Buttigieg.Photo: Carina Teoh Chasten Buttigiegis criticizing proposed legislation in Florida that would ban discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in local classrooms. The proposal includes a provision that also prohibits schools from “adopting procedures or student support forms that require school district personnel to withhold from a parent specified information.” Critics worry the language could force educators and administrators to “out” students who might be afraid of disclosing their sexuality or gender identity at home....

Chasten Buttigieg.Photo: Carina Teoh Chasten Buttigiegis the first to admit that his new book,I Have Something to Tell You—For Young Adults, is coming out at an opportune, but unplanned, time. A new version of his bestselling 2020 memoir, it debuts as books geared toward LGBTQ+ youth are beingbannedin schools around America. Those bans weren’t in the headlines when Buttigieg first sat down to re-write his memoir, which he describes as “the book I wish I could go back in time and hand to younger Chasten....

From left: Chasten Buttigieg and Ronna McDaniel.Photo: Matt Baron/Shutterstock; Nick Hagen for The Washington Post via Getty Images Transportation SecretaryPete Buttigieg’s husband,Chasten Buttigieg, was among those pushing back on the chairwoman of the GOP after she tweeted a pro-Pride Month message this week that critics noted was at odds with the party’s priorities. In response, Chastentweeted backto McDaniel: “Those with ‘deeply held religious beliefs’ are often the parents who force their LGBTQ children out of the home and onto the street....

National Eating Disorders Association helpline is replacing volunteers with a chatbot.Photo:getty getty The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) is disbanding its helpline in its current form, replacing hundreds of staffers and volunteers with a chatbot named Tessa. Nearly 70,000 people reached out to the helpline last year, according to a recentNPR report. Those numbers doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic, when volunteers and staffers recalled more “crisis-type” situations, with callers reporting not only disordered eating, but also self-harm, suicidal thoughts, and child abuse....

Artificial intelligence-powered botChatGPT’s newest surprising skill is helping couples say “I do.” “Thank you all for joining us today to celebrate the extraordinary love and unity of Reece Alison Wiench and Deyton Truitt,” the bot said through a speaker. The speaker had a robotic,C-3PO-like mask sitting on top of it as it was stationed in between the bride and groom. The Colorado newlyweds were able to have this unique ceremony becausetheir state does not requireany licensed marriage official to perform a marriage ceremony....

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Chayce Beckham.Photo: Ethan Helms There was a time whenLuke Bryandidn’t knowChayce Beckham’s name and he certainly wouldn’t suggest thatDierks Bentleygo fishing with him. But not anymore. “Yesterday I drove out to Luke’s place to go fishing,” Beckham, 25, enthusiastically tells PEOPLE during a recent interview. “I fished till about 7:30 at night, so I called him up to ask if I could stay at the house since he was in Los Angeles doingAmerican Idol....

Chayce Beckhamknew somekeyinfo before he should have… “About the moment they called my name… I’ve never said this to anybody,” he said. “This actually happened. That card ishuge. And [host] Ryan [Seacrest] was right next to me. I saw my name on the card.” “This is the first time that story has been told,” he added as Bones laughs. “Ryan is standing there and goes ‘The winner is’… I didn’t want to look at it....

Congratulations,Chayce Beckham! During Sunday’s finale ofAmerican Idol, longtime hostRyan Seacrest— with judgesLionel Richie,Katy PerryandLuke Bryan— crowned the season 4 winner during a live show in Los Angeles, California. “I’ve gone through a lot of ups and downs,” Beckham, a heavy machinery operator who has long battled substance abuse, said during his audition. “It’s been quite the roller coaster. My whole life kind of flipped upside down and I moved back home with my parents....

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