Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Announce Their Engagement
Source: New York Times
The pop star Taylor Swift and the football player Travis Kelce are engaged.
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” the couple captioned a joint post on Instagram announcing the news on Tuesday, adding a dynamite emoji and a snippet of Ms. Swift’s song “So High School.”
In the first photo, Mr. Kelce is shown on bended knee below Ms. Swift, who is wearing a striped dress and standing under an elaborate floral arch. A later photo shows Ms. Swift sporting a large ring.
The news came just a few weeks after Ms. Swift appeared on Mr. Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast, which he hosts with his brother, Jason, to reveal details about her forthcoming album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” which will be released in October. In the friendly setting of a podcast hosted by her boyfriend and his brother, she gave one of her most in-depth interviews in years.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/style/taylor-swift-engaged-travis-kelce.html
This will no doubt, dominate the news today.
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Either I'm older than I thought and out of touch to an absurd level, or David Brinkley would never waste his time with what passes as for-profit news these days (actually, I think it's both).
Malarkey, I'm not old. We go out to the motion picture show and make monkey-shines at least once a month! 
I bailed on Top 40 back in the mid-’80s and have been rewinding backwards ever since (just hit my Gershwin/Goodman phase this year). If it came out in the past 40 years and isn’t an electronic gadget or a tool for the garage, there’s a good chance I’ve never heard of it.
Called it!
Good for them.
Link: https://www.forbes.com/self-made-women/
The OP link has an interactive list, below is a partial screenshot:
According to Forbes Magazine, Taylor Swift is the #21 wealthiest self-made woman in America. AND she's the highest ranking musical performer to make this list. Among the female performing artists, Taylor Swift is only outranked by one other woman - namely Oprah Winfrey.
I'd say yes this is important news and it belongs on the LBN, at least on a "slow news day" like today.
Cha-ching! 
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