Jennifer Lopez Marks Memorial Day in White Bikini with Family Sing-Along Alongside Kids Max and Emme

Jennifer Lopez marked Memorial Day with her twins Max and Emme and close friends in Los Angeles

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• The singer shared pictures of her sunbathing, swimming, and clips of her sing-along to "Total Eclipse of the Heart" with loved ones to Instagram on Monday, May 25

• Lopez welcomed her kids, now 18, with ex-husband Marc Anthony in February 2008

Jennifer Lopezwas feeling patriotic as she marked Memorial Day with her nearest and dearest friends and family.

The singer, 56, spent May 25 soaking up the bright Los Angeles sun and posted a picture of herself sunbathing poolside in a white triangle bikini onInstagram.

In another clip, the mom of two was filmed taking a dip in a floatie while relaxing with her loved ones.

Lopez captioned the sweet images: “Spending the day with the people I love. Happy Memorial Day everybody ❤️🤍💙.”

She was joined by her twins for the event,Max Muñiz and Emme Maribel Muñiz, both 18. The actress was filmed cuddling Max as the pair posed for a picture with the U.S. flag in the background.

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Lopez sported a white lace, cutaway dress for the event while Max and Emme dressed down.

The “On The Floor” singer even showed off her musical prowess as the crew enjoyed a passionate sing-along to “Total Eclipse of the Heart” byBonnie Tyler.

Lopez welcomed her kids with ex-husbandMarc Anthonyin February 2008, tellingPEOPLEwhen they were age 6 that the love she felt for them was “unconditional."

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“I know everybody feels this way about their kids, but I just feel like they're super special. I can't wait to see what they do," she added, noting, "I feel like my job is to not mess them up too much.”

Emme has followed in Lopez's multi-talented footsteps as a singer and author and once shocked fans by joining her mother onstage during her 2020 Super Bowl performance and belting out “Let's Get Loud.”

But while Lopez is incredibly proud of her kids, the actress previously admitted that being a mom to teenagers comes with new challenges.

"The teenage years are tough," she said in an interview onLive with Kelly and Markin May 2023. "It's challenging. You have this baby for a while and then it's like, your best little friend who loves being with you all the time, and then all of a sudden it's like, 'Get out of my room.' "

“They are challenging everything you say and everything you do and everything you are, and that's what it is,” she added. “You have to kind of just ride the waves."

"I think it's particularly hard on moms, because they always love dad, they're always like, 'Dad's the best!' — and I was like that with my dad too!" she continued, turning to her mom,Guadalupe Rodríguez, who joined her on the show. "And my mom told me, and I'll say it to you right now, on TV in front of everybody. I understand you so much more now."

Elsewhere in the interview, Lopez commented on how she parents differrently to her mother, revealing that she was "looser" than her mom.

"I think my mom, for a long time, was a stay-at-home mom, and I've always been a working mom, so that right there is a very different thing,' she continued. "And also she was 20 years old — by the time she was 26, she had 3 kids."

"So she was kind of a kid raising kids. And I had my kids when I was 38, so I had them much later, so I was more of an adult at that time," said Lopez. "We kind of grew up together," she concluded.

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Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith Reveal if U.S. Bakers are Better than Brits

Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith discussed differences in American and British baking styles, including ingredient preferences and taste palates during a recent interview

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• Leith noted Americans tend to bake larger, sweeter cakes compared to British bakers' more modest creations

• Season 4 of The Great American Baking Show premiered on The Roku Channel on May 11

Paul HollywoodandPrue Leithare revealing whether they prefer American or British baking styles.

Leith, 86, and Hollywood, 60, star onThe Great American Baking Show, having also been judges onThe Great British Baking Show, referred to asThe Great British Bake Offin the U.K. They were quizzed about their preferences in an interview withThe Hollywood Reporter (THR)published on May 22.

“[Americans] are not better, they're different,” said Hollywood in aclip from the interviewshared on Instagram.

“They use a lot of whisked sponge, they use a lot of banana, they use a lot of pecans,” he continued. “They use things that we use in the U.K., but not to the extremity [that] the Americans do. That's the big difference. Their taste palette is a bit different from ours, but their baking is very similar.”

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Leith agreed, adding that aside from the quantity of each ingredient, the overall size of cakes also differs between bakers in each country.

“I think that Americans, by and large, like things to be sweeter than the Brits, and bigger. Big and sweet,” she toldTHR.

As the interview took place during filming in the summer of 2025, Leith also shared an observation that she made that day.

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“It's been interesting today because we asked them to do a cake, which could have been a little cake, and they [all made] enormous cakes — you know, four-tier jobs,” she toldTHR.

The latest season ofThe Great American Baking Showpremiered on The Roku Channel on May 11.

Around the same time, Leith — who stepped down as a judge onThe Great British Baking Showearlier this year — spoke toPEOPLEabout blunders she's had in the kitchen.

She revealed that, despite being known as a chef and restaurateur, not everything went to plan when she had the opportunity to serve tea toQueen Elizabethat the opening of the Queen Elizabeth Centre (QEII Centre) in Westminster, London, in 1986.

"I actually think there's something about the royal family, they jinx things," Leith told PEOPLE. "Because I think what happens is people get quite overexcited at the thought of them and then everything seems to go wrong. You talk to any caterer and they'll tell you drama stories about the royals."

Leith recalls another instance of messing up when cooking for royalty in her memoirBeing Old and Learning to Love It!

She fumbled theQueen's order for strong black tea, instead presenting the monarch with a "weak lemony tea served by a half-wit.”

Reflecting on the incident, Leith said, "Personally, the thing that upset me most was not giving the Queen a decent cup of tea, because I much admired the Queen and I thought, 'Poor...woman. She's been walking around this extremely boring building for two hours… By the time she got to me, she must have been absolutely panting for a cup of tea, and I failed completely.' "

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Sheep theft ruins Eid festivities for Palestinian shepherd

By Mussa Qawasma

MASAFER YATTA, West Bank, May 26 (Reuters) - Palestinian shepherd Sameeha Rasheed was planning for the sacred ritual of sacrificing her family's sheep for the Eid al-Adha holiday, one of the holiest occasions in Islam, but West ‌Bank Jewish settlers stole them in a pre-dawn raid, she said.

Instead of celebrating, Rasheed has been left with nothing and ‌has also been deprived of the income she would have received from selling the sheep not used by her family.

The settlers stole around 45 sheep from her home ​in Masafer Yatta, a collection of Palestinian hamlets near Hebron, she said. Before the theft, they stole the family's guard dogs, so no one was alerted when the men broke in before dawn on May 21 and herded the animals away.

"This is our livelihood, my husband and I live from the income from these sheep. I don't have anything to get treatment for my husband or spend on myself," Rasheed, whose ‌husband has cancer, told Reuters.

Eid al-Adha, one of ⁠Islam's two main festivals, marks the climax of the annual Haj pilgrimage, when Muslims slaughter animals to commemorate the willingness of Ibrahim, or Abraham, to sacrifice his son on God’s command, often distributing meat to ⁠the poor.

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Rasheed said settlers had been carrying out near-daily attacks on shepherds in the area, spraying pepper gas toward homes and children.

CCTV footage obtained and verified by Reuters showed masked men moving sheep out of the farm at night. Reuters verified the location as ​near ​Masafer Yatta by matching buildings, structures and terrain to archive and satellite imagery.

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Settler ​violence against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has ‌surged since the Gaza war began in October 2023. Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has called it "Jewish terror" and a national disgrace.

Asked for comment on the sheep theft, the Israeli military said it had deployed troops to the area but did not see any settlers and it had handed the case to the Israeli police.

A spokesperson for the Yesha Council, which represents municipal councils of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

About 4,000 head of livestock have been stolen by settlers since the ‌start of 2026, according to Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture spokesperson Mahmoud Fatafta. He ​added that Palestinian farmers had lost more than $5 million due to settler attacks.

Israel's ​far-right governing coalition has enabled a rapid expansion of settlements, ​with some ministers openly advocating for the annexation of the West Bank. Most countries deem the settlements, built ‌on land captured in the 1967 war, illegal. Israel ​disputes this, citing historical and biblical ​ties to the land.

Palestinians have long sought an independent state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, territories Israel captured and occupied in 1967.

More than 700,000 settlers live in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, among more than three million Palestinians, ​according to a European Union report in ‌2024.

"When we have sheep during the time to sacrifice (during Eid Al-Adha), we sell them. But now there are no sheep, ​not for us to sacrifice nor even to sell," Rasheed said.

(Reporting by Mussa Qawasma, Additional reporting by Roleen Tafakji, ​Writing by Ahmed Elimam; Editing by Michael Georgy and Sharon Singleton)

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May 26, 2026

Sheep theft ruins Eid festivities for Palestinian shepherd

By Mussa Qawasma MASAFER YATTA, West Bank, May 26 (Reuters) - Palestinian shepherd Sameeha Rasheed was planning for the sacred ri...

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