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19 hours ago | mercurynews.com | Martha Ross

During Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood’s lengthy interview published in Variety this week, “The White Lotus” co-stars didn’t just go to great lengths to dispel rumors that they feuded off-screen while playing star-crossed lovers on the hit HBO show. They also revealed that they worked together very closely on filming an “intimate sex scene” involving their two characters, Rick and Chelsea, for the season’s final episode.

1 day ago | mercurynews.com | Justice Delos Santos

Following a shocking flurry of roster moves, the Giants erased a five-run deficit against the San Diego Padres to beat their divisional rival, 6-5, snapping a streak of 16 consecutive games without scoring more than four runs. Daniel Johnson, a Vallejo native who was one of three players added to the roster this morning, made an instant impact in his Giants debut, totaling two hits, scoring two runs and stealing a base.

1 day ago | mercurynews.com | Martha Ross

Maybe rookie lifestyle influencer and “female founder” Meghan Markle got some advice from her new Montecito pal Gwyneth Paltrow about cashing in on controversy online. “I can monetize those eyeballs,” the Goop founder once told a class of Harvard MBA students about her reported special “dark art” — using “cultural firestorms” around her controversial advice on vagina steaming and other women’s reproductive health topics to drive traffic and potential customers to her website.

1 day ago | mercurynews.com | Rowan Briggs

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1 day ago | mercurynews.com | Martha Ross

A lawyer for U.S. gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton said she is “in good spirits,” despite being arrested last month on suspicion of driving while intoxicated in her hometown in West Virginia. But Retton’s being in “good spirits” apparently is news to family members in Fairmont, West Virginia. The Daily Mail reported they that they haven’t heard from Retton since her May 17 arrest.