Princess Anne Pokes Fun at Her Awkward Handshake with Scotland Rugby Captain: See the Hilarious Moment!

Princess Anne poked fun at her previous awkward encounter with Scottish Rugby player Sione Tuipulotu after the team's recent win

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• Sione Tuipulotu had attempted to hug the Princess Royal in February, but she offered him a handshake instead

• Tuipulotu jokingly pretended to lean in for another hug over the weekend

Princess Anneshowed her sense of humor when she joked with Scottish rugby player Sione Tuipulotu about an awkward moment the two previously shared.

Following Scotland's win against England last month, an excited Tuipulotu went to hug the Princess Royal, 75, when she congratulated him — a gesture Princess Anne politely rejected, opting to shake Tuipulotu's hand instead.

On Saturday, March 7, while celebrating Scotland's victory against France in the Six Nations Championship, Tuipulotu jokingly pretended to lean in for another hug as the royal laughed and playfully held her hands up. However, they once again skipped the hug in favor of a handshake.

Guinness Men's Six Nations shared a clip on Instagram comparing the two moments, writing in the caption that it was a "brilliant moment."

"This close to a hug," Scottish Rugby captioned a video of the moment onX, getting in on the fun surrounding the royal who has been the patron of the Scottish Rugby Union since 1986.

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While members of the British royal family can be greeted with a curtsy or bow, less formal gestures, such as handshakes, are also acceptable. However, initiating physical contact is generally discouraged.

Lucy Hume, an associate director at coaching company Debrett's, a respected authority on modern British etiquette, previously toldThe Mirror, "Best not to initiate personal physical contact with a member of the royal family. Again, it may be that they offered to give you a hug or to put their arm around you, but usually wait and see what's expected or what's appropriate for the event."

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Television personalityElisabeth Hasselbeck, a former co-host ofThe View,recently recalled a similarly awkward encounterwhen she tried to hug the late Queen Elizabeth.

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Conan O'Brien opens up about his 'name being attached' to the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner

Conan O'Brienis getting ready to host Sunday'sOscars, which will include atributeto the late actor and filmmakerRob Reiner. Ahead of the ceremony, O'Brien opened up about the "sadness" surroundingthe lossof his close friend.

The comedian hosted a holiday party in December that Reiner and his wife, Michele, attended the night before they were found stabbed to death.

"Very simply, we had a party, we invited our really good friends and then, the next day, this terrible thing happened,"O'Brien toldThe Hollywood Reporterof his name being connected to the tragic events. "Whatever difficulties my wife and I have experienced having our name attached to it are nothing compared to the scale of the tragedy for the family and the loss of Rob and Michele. If you're a known person, your name is going to get dragged into things sometimes, but it is not a hardship. There is only sadness that they're gone."

The Reiners were found dead in their home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, Calif., on Dec. 14, and their son Nick was subsequently arrested andchargedwith murder.Sources later told PEOPLEthat Rob and Nick hadengaged in a heated argumentat O'Brien's Dec. 13 party, with one person telling the outlet that Nick was "freaking everyone out, acting crazy, kept asking people if they were famous." Another report fromNBC Newssaid that Nick's behavior left his parents and other guests feeling uncomfortable.

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O'Brien toldTHRthat he has opted not to address the loss of the Reiners on his own podcast because that felt "disrespectful." The comedian did previously open up about his relationship with the Reiners in aNew Yorkerprofile.

"I knew Rob and Michele, and then increasingly got closer and closer to them, and I was seeing them a lot,"he said. "My wife and I were seeing them a lot, and they were so — they were just such lovely people. And to have that experience of saying good night to somebody and having them leave and then find out the next day that they're gone. … I think I was in shock for quite a while afterward."

"It's just so awful," O'Brien continued. "And I think about how Rob felt about things that are happening in the country, how involved he was, how much he put himself out there — and to have that voice go quiet in an instant is still hard for me to comprehend."

Nick Reiner has pleaded not guilty to the murder charges, and his next hearing is set for April 29.

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“The View” cohosts slam 'vapid' and 'shallow' Timothée Chalamet over anti-opera comments: 'Be careful, boy'

The View cohosts have spoken out against Timothée Chalamet's anti-opera comments.

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• Sunny Hostin called Chalamet "vapid" and "shallow" over his words.

• Whoopi Goldberg advised, "Be careful, boy," after the Marty Supreme star said "no one cares" about those specific performing arts disciplines.

The Viewcohosts have entered a ping-pong match of words againstMarty SupremeOscar nomineeTimothée Chalamet.

Amid public blowback to theHollywood superstar's recent jabs againstthe popularity of opera and ballet, EGOT-winning actressWhoopi Goldberg, legal expertSunny Hostin, and guest cohostSheryl Underwoodall took aim at Chalamet's words on Monday's broadcast ofThe View.

Hostin advised that "ballet is hard," and told the audience, "I'm offended and disappointed in what he said. I didn't realize he was that vapid and that shallow."

Underwood, a comedian and lifelong Republican filling in for conservative cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin, chalked the 30-year-old Chalamet's ill-advised words up to "being young."

"I think he thought he could say that," she added. "First, he just made the good ping-pong movie. He's a young, handsome man, but I bet if he was playing [dancer] Rudolf Nureyev… he'd respect the art form a little bit better."

"That goes to show a lot of young people need to understand, don't just flip off and say something," Underwood said. "Really understand that your words have meaning to other young people. I think he can do it."

Underwood then looked toward the audience at home to deliver a cheeky message: "But, also, where's the camera at so I can speak to Timothée personally: Young man, if you would like to come and talk to me about this, I'm willing to hear your thoughts."

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"Yes, correct, I'll join you," Hostin quipped, while Underwood exclaimed, "Tag team!"

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Goldberg then stepped in, reacting to the aforementioned bit with a firm, "Yeah, no," before adding her thoughts on the matter.

"You come from a dance family, so when you crap on somebody else's art form, it doesn't feel good," theGhostandColor Purplestar said, referencing Chalamet's mother and sister's involvement in the arts he criticized. "You probably didn't realize, until you said, 'Oh, I'm in trouble,' but then you compounded it and said, '14 cents.' No, when people get mad, it'll be a lot more than 14 cents, so be careful. I'm just saying. Be careful, boy."

After the cohosts and audience reacted in light shock over Goldberg's assessment, she doubled down: "He is a boy to me," she said. "No disrespect. Really, don't apologize when you've insulted. It doesn't sound right. You can't say, 'Oh, this is dumb, no disrespect.' That's absolute disrespect."

Entertainment Weeklyhas reached out to representatives for Chalamet for a response.

"I don't want to be working in ballet or opera, or things where it's like, 'Hey, keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore,'" Chalamet said in a recent town halldiscussionwith fellow actorMatthew McConaughey. "All respect to the ballet and opera people out there. I just lost 14 cents in viewership. I just took shots for no reason."

Chalamet's remarks also drew a response from the esteemed Metropolitan Opera, the Instagram account for which recentlyposted a videospotlighting the intense craftsmanship that goes into its productions.

"This one's for you, @tchalamet," the account wrote, tagging the four-time Oscar-nominee in the caption. "All respect to the opera (and ballet) people out there."

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Prewar US intel assessment found intervention in Iran wasn't likely to change leadership

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. intelligence assessment completed shortly before the United States and Israel launcheda war in Iranhad determined that American military intervention wasnot likely to lead to regime changein the Islamic Republic, according to two people familiar with the finding.

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The National Intelligence Council's assessment in February concluded that neither limited airstrikes nor a larger, prolonged military campaign would be likely to result in a new government taking over in Iran, even if the current leadership was killed, according to the two people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the classified report.

The determination undercuts the administration's assertion that it can complete its objectives in Iran relatively quickly, perhaps in a matter of weeks. The administration has asserted that it was not seeking regime change in Iran, even as the strikes have taken out many figures in the Iranian leadership and President Donald Trump considers whomhe would like to see lead the country.

The intelligence assessment concluded that no one powerful or unified opposition coalition was poised to take over in Iran if the leadership was killed, according to the people familiar with the report. It determined that Iran's establishment would attempt to preserve continuity of power if Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed, the people said.

In line with the assessment's findings, Iran's leading clerics on Sunday chose a new supreme leader,Mojtaba Khamenei,to succeed his father, who was killed in the war's opening salvo. The son is believed to hold views that are even more hardline than his father, and his selection is a strong sign of resistance from Iran's leadership and an indication the government won't step aside quickly.

The details of the assessment were reported earlier by The Washington Post and The New York Times.

Trump and other top administration leaders have givendifferent justifications for the strikesthat began on Feb. 28, saying they were necessary to set back Iran's nuclear weapons program or to preempt an Iranian ballistic missile attack. While Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said the waris not aimed at regime change, Trump has said it'ssomething he wants to see.

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A spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment on the assessment on Monday and referred questions to the White House. Director Tulsi Gabbardfired the council's acting chairpersonlast year after therelease of a declassified NIC memothat contradicted statements the Trump administration has used to justifydeporting Venezuelan immigrants.

Trump, dating back to his first term, has been deeply skeptical of the U.S. intelligence community and has frequently dismissed its findings as politically motivated or part of a "deep state" effort to undermine his presidency.

Richard Goldberg, director for countering Iranian weapons of mass destruction at the National Security Council during Trump's first term, noted that there's also a measure of skepticism toward the intelligence community because of some of its big misses in recent years.

U.S. intelligence agencies widely failed to predict the rapid collapse of the Afghan government to the Taliban that transpired in 2021, with most assessments suggesting a much slower takeover. And in the lead-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the ODNI, the Defense Department and the CIA wrongly estimated that Kyiv would quickly fall to a bigger and better equipped Russian military.

Goldberg, who is now a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a hawkish Washington think tank, said an intelligence assessment is "almost like an op-ed from the intelligence community."

Associated Press writers Aamer Madhani in Doral, Florida, and David Klepper in Washington contributed to this report.

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TSA shortages snarl airports as government shutdown stretches into Spring Break

Travelers are facing major disruptions at multiple airports nationwide as Transportation Security Administration (TSA) staffing shortages worsen amid the ongoing partial government shutdown — which began on Feb. 14.

Wait times at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston stretched up to three hours at the standard security checkpoint as of Monday morning. Meanwhile, officials at the New Orleans International Airport urged travelers to arrive four to five hours before departures to allow extra time for security screening. Several passengers, however, still reported missing flights because of the delays.

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Meanwhile, many TSA employees are just days away from missing their first full paycheck, as Democrats and Republicans remain unable to agree on funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

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Democratic lawmakers have proposed changes to immigration enforcement, including a ban on face masks worn by federal immigration officials, requiring judicial warrants before agents can enter private property, mandating body cameras on all agents and establishing a standard uniform with a badge, identification number and last name prominently displayed. Republicans have not agreed to all the proposals, leaving DHS funding unresolved.

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According to The Associate Press, Chris Sununu, CEO of the trade group Airlines for America, urged Congress and the White House to act, saying in a statement that "America's transportation security workforce is too important to be used as political leverage."

"We are in spring break travel season and expecting record numbers of people to take to the skies," he said. "Airlines have done their part to prepare; now Congress and the administration must act with urgency to reach a deal that reopens DHS and ends this shutdown."

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U.S. "likely" responsible for bombing of girls' school in Iran, per early U.S. assessment

The U.S. may be responsible for the bombing ofa girls' school in Iranthat killed 168 people, many of them children, on Feb. 28, sources told CBS News.

The preliminary U.S. assessment suggests that the United States is "likely" responsible for the deadly attack but did not intentionally target the school and may have hit it in error, possibly due to the use of dated intelligence which wrongly identified the area as still part of an Iranian military installation, a person briefed on the preliminary intelligence told CBS News.

Israel's military was also not operating in the area, two sources told CBS News.

An additional source familiar with the ongoing inquiry told CBS News that investigators believe the U.S. military may have been responsible because it was operating in the area while Israel's military was not, though no final conclusions have been reached.

And an Israeli government source told CBS News that Israel was not behind the attack and its military was not operating near the school.

White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told CBS News in a statement that the "investigation is ongoing," and "There are no conclusions at this time, and it is both irresponsible and false for anyone to claim otherwise."

CBS News has confirmed the school building was located in close proximity to two sites controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Minab, a city in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan.

Footage filmed from a parking lot showed black smoke billowing from a damaged building adorned with murals featuring drawings of crayons, children and an apple. The CBS News Confirmed team geolocated the video to a building in Minab. Iranian media identified the building as the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school.

Iranian state media said at least 168 people, including schoolgirls ages 7 to 12, were killed in the strike which occurred last Saturday, on thefirst day of the war. Saturdays are regular school days in Iran.

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Alist publishedin Iranian state media from authorities in Iran's Minab county claimed to show the names of 57 of those killed.Human Rights Watch has saidat least 48 of those names appear to be children, according to their birthdates on the list, along with their school principal and teachers.

Without providing evidence, President Trump said Saturday that the U.S. believes the bombing "was done by Iran" and cited information that he had seen.

"We think it was done by Iran, because they're very inaccurate with their munitions, they have no accuracy whatsoever, it was done by Iran," Mr. Trump said aboard Air Force One after attending thedignified transferof six U.S. soldiers who were killed in an Iranian strike in Kuwait on March 1.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and U.S. Central Command have both said an investigation was ongoing and did not echo the president's assertions.

Questioned about the incident in aCBS News "60 Minutes"interview that aired Sunday, Hegseth said "unlike our adversaries, the Iranians, we never target civilians," and "it's being investigated, which is the only answer I'm prepared to give."

The New York Times and Reuters were first to report that the U.S. may be behind the fatal bombing.

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Ohio State President Ted Carter resigns over inappropriate relationship

After just over two years on the job,Ohio State University President Ted Carterhas resigned from the university after he disclosed an inappropriate relationship to the board of trustees.

Carter, 66, resigned over the weekend after a rare three-hour executive session for the board on March 7.

Carter told trustees in advance of that meeting that he had an inappropriate relationship with "someone seeking public resources to support her personal business," according to a university statement. He offered to resign and the board accepted.

"The Board was surprised and disappointed to learn of this matter and takes the situation and its potential impact on the university very seriously," Ohio State Board of Trustees Chair John Zeiger said in a letter accepting Carter's resignation. "We respect your decision and appreciate your cooperation in supporting an orderly leadership transition."

The Columbus Dispatch, part of the USA TODAY Network, asked the university to clarify the nature of the relationship that led to Carter's resignation. It did not share additional information.

Trustees have consistently praised Carter during his short tenure for providing steady leadership and being an ambassador for the university's land-grant mission and vision. In August,trustees approved a 4.5% merit raise, totaling $51,233,bringing Carter's new base salary to $1,189,733, as well as a $398,475 bonus, about 35% of his base pay.

In a statement sent to the campus community March 9, Carter said he "made a mistake in allowing inappropriate access to Ohio State leadership."

"I believe we have made much progress during my time at Ohio State, and I'm sorry I'm not able to remain your president longer," Carter said. "The students, faculty and staff at this university are among the very best in the world, and the Education for Citizenship 2035 strategic plan has Ohio State poised to succeed for years to come."

Carter said he and his wife, Lynda, are leaving Ohio State with "gratitude and appreciation for this wonderful community."

"It has been an honor to serve as this university's 17th president, and we wish the university ongoing success," he said.

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Carter officially began his two-year tenure at Ohio State in January 2024.He succeeded former OSU President Kristina Johnson, who stepped down following two years at the helm in May 2023 in a sudden resignation that revealedconsternation with the board of trustees.

His initial contract was set to run through Dec. 31, 2028.

Before coming to Ohio State, Carter served as president of the University Nebraska system. The bulk of Carter's career was spent in the United States Navy.

He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and the Navy Fighter Weapons School − also known as Top Gun − and studied at the Navy Nuclear Power School, the U.S. Air Force Air War College, the Naval War College and the Armed Forces Staff College. He led the Naval Academy as its longest continuously serving superintendent since the Civil War.

Carter spent much of his first year at Ohio State on a "listening and learning" tour, speaking with hundreds of students, staff, faculty and other university stakeholders to craft his 10-year strategic plan. That plan − Education for Citizenship 2035 − was introduced in November 2024 and officially launched in July 2025.

His plan included rolling out multiple new scholarships, investments in six specific colleges,an AI Fluency initiativeand a $100 million initiative to attract top faculty to Ohio State.

Ohio State did not immediately announce who would step in as interim president. Zeiger said in a statement to the campus community that the board will share a transition plan later this week. In his statement, Zeiger called on all Buckeyes to help the university succeed during the transition and into the future.

"Our collective dedication to advancing Ohio State's standing as one of the nation's premier public universities is unchanged. The current strength and momentum of Ohio State and its collective leadership team make us highly confident that our momentum will continue to be strong. You play a critical role in that mission, and we will share additional information about the transition in the coming days."

Higher education reporter Sheridan Hendrix can be reached at shendrix@dispatch.com and on Signal at @sheridan.120. You can follow her on Instagram at @sheridanwrites.

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