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Shelly Fisher, founder of Girls Nite Live.Photo: Courtesy Julia Farbman It was April 2020, just weeks into theCOVID-19 pandemic, when Shelly Fisher decided to step up and help struggling female business owners and entrepreneurs. “So many people we knew lost their jobs and businesses when the pandemic broke out,” she tells PEOPLE. “I knew my team had the bandwidth to help out, so I just thought, ‘What can we do?'”...

Photo: Courtesy Danielle Axman Danielle Axman, 29, is the creative — and business-minded — force behind the operations at SWISH Beverages, the wine brand which is home toWhite Girl Rosé and the popular BABE line of canned bubbly, both of which have been popping up on thousands of Instagram feeds for the past few years. In fact, she’s the company’s secret weapon. And she credits her drive to the women who’ve shaped her career....

The author with her family.Photo: Kim PerellAward-winning entrepreneur Kim Perell knows all about overcoming fear, but nothing prepared her for almost losing her first set of twins when they were born at just 24 weeks.In an interview with PEOPLE about her latest bookJump, the entrepreneur discusses her seven year IVF journey before she and her husband, John, a stunt pilot, turned to surrogacy. It was supposed to be the answer to her “biggest goal in life”: motherhood....

There’s a new boss in town — and she’s no joke! PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the trailer for the upcoming docuseriesShe’s the Boss, which follows entrepreneur Nicole Walters as she works to build her marketing empire all while managing her life at home with husband Josh. The series premieres Feb. 25 on USA Network. Along with Nicole and Josh, the modern-day family is made complete with the couple’s three adopted daughters and Eddie, Nicole’s executive assistant and best friend....

Taryn Southern, Bryan Johnson.Photo: Xavier Collin/Shutterstock, Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images Southern recalls in the document how her former fiancé swept her off her feet, taking her on lavish vacations, planning a forever future, and even dubbing her “Mrs. Johnson” within weeks of their meeting in 2016. By March 2018, the pair were living together in Venice, Calif., and engaged to be married. Johnson promised to “take care of her, financially and medically, for the rest of her life,” she claims....

Nicole Walters with Krissy, Ally and Daya, the sisters she adopted.Photo:Danielle Finney Danielle Finney The last decade has been challenging for influencerNicole Walters, who adopted three sisters from Baltimore and supported them as one battled cancer and another alcohol addiction. “In 10 years, I’ve experienced 10 lives,” Walters, now 38 and living in California, tells PEOPLE. “One [daughter] we thought had six months to live. One was in rehab. I built a company and went through a divorce....

Photo: FacebookFour people are dead after a tragic car accident in Northern California.Jud Bergman, the founder of Chicago-based wealth management company Envestnet, and his wife, Mary Miller, were riding in a taxi cab early Thursday morning on California’s Highway 101 in the San Francisco area when someone described as an “impaired” driver, traveling in the wrong direction, collided with the car they were in.No one survived the crash.The taxi driver has been identified as San Carlos resident Berkant Ahmed, 42,according to ABC7, and the other driver has been identified as 34-year-old Hillsborough resident Emilie Ross....

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Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection agency, has resigned,President Donald Trumpsaid in a tweet, Thursday. “I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Within the Agency Scott has done an outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this,” the president said of the 50-year-old former Oklahoma attorney general. Trump continued, writing through two tweets, “The Senate confirmed Deputy at EPA, Andrew Wheeler, will… on Monday assume duties as the acting Administrator of the EPA....

Photo: Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to weaken standards for cleaning up toxic chemicals used at military bases and found to have contaminated drinking water that millions of Americans consume, bowing from pressure from the Department of Defense, according to a report in theNew York Times. The toxic chemicals, called PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances), may pose health risks, including cancer, liver damage, decreased fertility and increased risk of asthma and thyroid disease, according to theHarvard T....

They may critique performances onAmerican Idol, butKaty Perry,Luke BryanandLionel Richiehave had their share of onstage bloopers too.After a few contestants encountered some lyrical slip-ups during Sunday night’s episode, the three judges opened up about their own personal experiences — including epic falls and forgotten lyrics!“They don’t have prompters,” Perry, 34, told reporters of theIdolcontestants after the show. “We were talking about this right before the show started for some reason. [Luke] forgot a couple lines on his show at Stagecoach, he told us....

Pizza Ratwould be so proud of this award-worthy representation of urban wildlife. With the dramatic image, Rowley hoped to offer a new perspective on the animals that roam the London Underground, the public transit system in the England region. Sam Rowley Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories...

Lynette Grey Bull.Photo: Dateline NBC For Indigenous females aged 19 and younger, murder is the third leading cause of death, reports theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. TheNational Institute of Justice, a research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice, found that more than four out of five Indigenous women have been subject to violence, and more than 50 percent have experienced sexual violence. In some counties, Indigenous women are 10 times more likely to be killed than white women, according to the institute....