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• Melissa Gilbert shared a social media post about child sex abuse weeks before her husband, Timothy Busfield, is now facing an arrest warrant tied to two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse

• The actress shared the Instagram post in November, after Megyn Kelly made comments about convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

• Little House on the Prairie's Gilbert and Busfield, known for his role in The West Wing, wed in 2013

Melissa Gilbertspoke out about child sex abuse in a social media post, weeks before her husband,Timothy Busfield, isnow facing an arrest warranttied to two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse.

In an arrest warrant issued by the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) and obtained by PEOPLE on Friday, Jan. 9, authorities alleged that Busfield, 68, engaged in unlawful sexual conduct with two boys, who are both 11 and related, and whose identities were withheld from the public, with one of the minors alleging that the incidents began when he was 7 years old.

Only weeks prior, in aNov. 15 Instagram post, Gilbert, 61, shared a throwback photo of herself and reflected on herLittle House on the Prairieexperience, when she filmed with an older love interest, played byDean Butler, who had a multi-year age gap with her at the time.

"So, I debated posting this but, I feel compelled to share. After seeing many women's posts with the hashtags #iwasfifteen #imfifteen #iwasachild, I decided to Google search myself at that age and see what came up. And this is some of what I found," Gilbert wrote in her caption.

"And now, at this age, at this time, I am actually nauseated. The girl on vacation in Hawaii with her family, is the same girl who was expected to 'fall in love with' and kiss a man on film who was several years older than she was," she continued, referring to working with Butler, now 69.

"Through the lens of today, this is shocking. I have no words other than to say, 'I WAS A CHILD.' 'I WAS FIFTEEN.' And I was the good news," added Gilbert. "Thank God my mom andMichael [Landon Sr.]and so many others were there to make sure I was safe. Can you imagine if I hadn't had them all? I am so fortunate (Sort of). Many other young women aren't."

Representatives for both Busfield and Gilbert have not responded to PEOPLE's requests for comment.

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Gilbert shared the reflective post afterMegyn Kellymade commentsabout convicted child sex offenderJeffrey Epstein.

Kelly, 55,seemingly questioned whether Epstein was a pedophilewhen she said on the Nov. 12 episode of her Sirius XM program,The Megyn Kelly Show, that Epstein "was into the barely legal type."

"@Megynkelly you need to be careful with your words," Gilbert concluded her November Instagram post.

An investigation into Busfield, who is known for his role as Danny Concannon onThe West Wing, began in November 2024, after a doctor at the University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) alerted police about alleged sexual abuse.

According to the arrest warrant, the victims' parents told Officer Marvin Kirk Brown that the minors were child actors who met Busfield on the set of the FOX seriesThe Cleaning Lady, where he served as a director. (The television program ran from January 2022 until June 2025.)

The parents were advised by an attorney to take the children to UNMH, where they say professionals suggested the boys "were groomed," per the warrant. It was later determined, however, that the case did not meet authorities' acceptance criteria at the time.

Later, in October 2025, the victims' mother filed a police report and told Child Protective Services (CPS) that "her children both disclosed that there was sexual abuse by Timothy from around November 2022 to Spring 2024."

However, according to the warrant, she was told that because physical abuse had not occurred, nothing could be done.

During an investigation, Busfield allegedly told police that the parents were upset their sons had been replaced with a younger actor who auditioned, according to the warrant. Shortly after, the actor got a call from Warner Bros., informing him they were investigating a complaint.

Before the recent arrest warrant, Busfield faced prior sexual assault allegations dating back to 1994, according to the warrant. Those did not result in charges.

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Gilbert and Busfield crossed paths twice before they began dating, the actress said on the July 29 episode of theI Choose Mepodcast.

"We actually first met many, many, many, many years ago in the '80s, and then we remet in the '90s. Now, we've been together for 13 years," Gilbert told hostJennie Garth.

The pair reconnected in a bar in 2012. At the time, Gilbert was newly single after splitting from ex-husband Bruce Boxleitner, whom she was married to from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, she was married to Bo Brinkman from 1988 to 1994.

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Last April, Gilbertcelebrated her 12th wedding anniversary, marking the occasion with atributeto Busfield on Instagram.

She wrote, "12 years of true partnership, love, laughter, compassion, commitment, passion, laughter, cooking, kids, grandchildren, chickens, dogs, creating homes, films, plays, television. 12 years of writing together, traveling, cuddling, delicious meals, romantic getaways, spooning, reflecting, meditating, praying."

"How lucky I am. I love you @timbusfield," Gilbert added, also calling her husband "my favorite person, who has my favorite face and my favorite soul."

If you suspect child abuse, call the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Child or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.

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The 64-year-old actor, arriving straight from an earlier appearance atthe AFI Awards,kicked off the eventon Friday, Jan. 9, by accepting the red carpet visionary award on behalf of the late Giorgio Armani, whose creations Clooney has often sported – most significantly, on his wedding day. The Italian fashion house founderdied in September.

"It's an odd thing to say: He was 91 years old, and he left us far too soon. He just celebrated 50 years in the industry," Clooney said. "I would argue that if anyone should be up here talking about Giorgio, it should probably beRichard Gere. I think the two put each other on the map."

"But since he couldn't show up, and you know? F--- him," Clooney joked to thunderous laughter in the ballroom. The A-lister then wisely backtracked, perhaps in an effort to mitigate a potential viral video moment. "And that's the only thing that will come out of this whole evening. I actually love him.Demi [Moore], stick with me on this one."

Moore, who was honored as a fashion icon, was seated at one of the tables in front of Clooney.

"I'm only accepting this only on behalf of [Armani's] family, his coworkers and his friends," Clooney added. "And all I can say is I wish he was here to see this, but maybe he's watching."

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Before stepping out at the Golden Globes, the most stylish names in Hollywood gathered Jan. 9 for the WWD Style Awards, honoring the visionaries who create red carpet magic. See all the head-turning looks, starting with Pam Anderson.

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Before stepping out at the Golden Globes, the most stylish names in Hollywood gathered Jan. 9 for the WWD Style Awards, honoring the visionaries who create red carpet magic. See all the head-turning looks, starting with Pam Anderson.

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The evening's guests appeared to appreciate the conciseness of a 90-minute ceremony that fell on the first day of a marathon weekend for Hollywood that leads up tothe Golden Globe Awardson Sunday, Jan. 11.

The longest speeches from the11 award recipients– which includedDemi Moore,Pamela AndersonandHailey Bieber– impressively only ran a few minutes, and the shortest speech of the night came from none other thanKourtney Kardashian Barker(less than 20 seconds). The reality TV star, founder of vitamin and supplement line Lemme, boasted the title of wellness entrepreneur of the year.

The recipients' succinctness, however, could have been lack of preparedness: "I was told there was no speeches tonight ... so I'll keep it very short and simple," Bieber said while accepting the style trailblazer award.

The WWD Style Awards primarily celebrated those behind the curtain in Hollywood who create magic for A-list stars: stylists Erin Walsh and Jason Bolden, makeup artist Gucci Westman, hairstylist Adir Abergel and facialist Lord Gavin McLeod-Valentine. Standing by these artists as their cheerleaders wereCameron Diaz, Emily Blunt, Mindy Kaling,Kristen StewartandTyriq Withers.

Demi Moore bemoans not getting a photo of her dog Pilaf withGeorge Clooney

Fashion icon Demi Moore waxed poetic about fashion as "a place to express [myself], to tell stories in a different way." But she also poked fun at her less glamorous moments that aren't typically captured on camera.

"As [stylist] Brad [Goreski] can tell you, if left to my own devices, I dress like a 12-year-old boy," "The Substance" actress said. She then gave a shoutout to someone else who's almost always at her side:her tiny chihuahua.

"I'm sorry I didn't bring Pilaf tonight. I was informed that I was missing my chance to get a picture with her and George," Moore told the crowd. "We're working on a book that is Pilaf and her leading men."

Switching to a more earnest tone, she opened up about her hope for self-acceptance in the new year.

"My 2026 [wish] is to continue with the acceptance of ourselves as we are. We don't need to be different," Moore said. "The most beautiful part of who we are is just being our unique selves, our imperfect selves."

Hairstylist Adir Abergel jokes he almost left Kristen Stewart 'bald'

Kristen Stewart, seated in between her hairstylist Abergel andher wife Dylan Meyer, was shown in a prerecorded video professing her love for someone who is "like a brother and sister and a best friend."

Abergel repaid the compliment by calling Stewart – who recently released her directorial debut "The Chronology of Water" – a "fearless artist" who is unafraid of being nearly bald.

"Thank you so much for knowing me so deeply as a human, whether we're shaving your head one day, bleaching your roots before a premiere or notching into your hair with kitchen scissors to the point where people yell at me asking me, 'Listen! Why are you leaving her bald? What is the problem here?' " he said. "This is the kind of collaborator you are in my life. You are an absolutely fearless artist and an icon."

This career, which started with Abergel behind a salon chair at age 16, has "given me my dream life."

"In a world that often prescribes norms and convention, I'm inspired daily by those who dare to be different, who embrace their uniqueness and allow their personal style to narrate their stories," Abergel said.

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Early Saturday morning, there were already active storms over parts of the South, primarily in Mississippi. The main threat will be in the morning into the afternoon hours where conditions will be more favorable for severe development.

These storms will continue into the afternoon from New Orleans to Clemson, South Carolina -- including cities like Atlanta and Pensacola. Damaging wind, tornadoes, and some large hail are the primary threats Saturday morning and into the day.

The threat will die down later in the afternoon and into the early evening but rain continues to push east and northeast from the late evening into the overnight hours.

Another few rounds of heavy rain are likely and could inundate areas of the South again, leading to a widespread additional 1 to 3 inches, with some localized areas of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee getting up to 3 to 4 inches of additional rain.

Rain is expected to fall in Philadelphia starting at 11 a.m., New York City after 12 p.m. and Boston and further up the I-95 corridor later in the afternoon. Rain will continue through much of the day across most of the Northeast down to the Mid-Atlantic.

On the northern side of the storm, some light snow -- quick dusting up to 3 inches -- could fall in Chicago on Saturday morning, but will be clear before the NFL Wild Card Matchup this evening.

Parts of Wisconsin and especially Michigan could see 3 to 6 inches of fresh snow on Saturday, while northern New England could be cold enough to see a dusting to 3 inches of snow and up to a tenth of an inch of ice.

MINNEAPOLIS — In the months before an ICE officer fatally shotRenee Nicole Goodon a residential street this week, residents in this south Minneapolis neighborhood had grown accustomed to the sound of car horns and shrieking whistles — alarms meant to signal that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were nearby.

The sounds had become a strange new normal for the diverse Central neighborhood. Across the country, similar tactics have emerged as a grassroots response to President Donald Trump's escalation of immigration arrests and deportations.

But on Wednesday, an encounter between ICE officers and Good, an American citizen, ended in gunfire, with an officer killing her in the middle of the street and sending shock waves through a city already shaped by repeated confrontations with police violence.

"It's terrifying. It's horrible. These are the conversations that now we have to have with our children, and the anxiety that it causes them," said Ginya, 41, who lives a few houses away from where Good was killed. Ginya asked that her last name not be used out of fear for her family's safety. "It's heartbreaking that any of this is happening, and we just want ICE to leave."

Trump said in asocial media postafter the shooting that Good "violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE Officer." Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused the driver of trying to run the officer over, saying "she hit him" in "an act of domestic terrorism." The agencycalled hera violent rioter. All said the officer fired in self-defense.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey sharply rejected DHS' narrative. After viewing a video of the incident, Frey told reporters Wednesday that federal officials were attempting to "spin this as an action of self-defense." Eyewitness accounts and video reviewed byNBC Newsraise questions about whether the vehicle posed an immediate threat, though key details remain under investigation.

For some residents, Good's killing reopened deep wounds in a city still reckoning with the police murder of George Floyd, which occurred just blocks away in May 2020 and sparked nationwide protests against police brutality.

"I think it's a really big trauma and tear on the city," said Amalia Perrier, 23, who was at the site of a makeshift memorial on Thursday night near where Good was killed.

Perrier said she and other Minneapolis residents were saying, "I can't believe this is happening here again. But one thing about Minneapolis is we are really acutely organized. It's a very, very strong support system here, and we're always going to rally for our community and neighbors."

That reflex to organize, protest and provide mutual aid has been shaped by years of unrest following deadly encounters between law enforcement and residents.

In recent years, demonstrators have taken to the streets after the killings ofPhilando Castile,Justine Damond,Daunte WrightandAmir Locke, demanding accountability and police reforms. Their names have since become part of the city's collective memory, invoked whenever violence involving authorities resurfaces.

Unlike those cases, the public outcry following Good's death has centered on the expanding role of federal immigration enforcement, sparking questions around ICE's tactics and its use of force in residential neighborhoods.

Residents told NBC News that they were already accustomed to ICE activity in the area, which sits near a Latino cultural corridor of restaurants and businesses. In recent months, neighborhood watch groups adopted warning systems similar to those used in other cities targeted by immigration enforcement, relying on whistles and car horns to alert others.

Ginya said the heightened enforcement has reshaped daily life. Since the beginning of the school year, she said, parents have organized car pools so children don't have to ride the bus, fearing encounters with immigration agents.

"There are parents that stand at four points around the schools with ICE whistles. I took my children to the pediatrician, and my pediatrician was handing out ICE whistles to families," she said. "So that's just an indication of the climate that we are living in right now. It's the saddest thing."

For some, the helicopters flying overhead and protesters flooding the streets this week felt hauntingly familiar.

"It really felt like post-George Floyd," said Caroline, 46, who asked that her last name not be used for safety reasons. "It's been a rough year."

She pointed to the June killings of Minnesota state lawmakerMelissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in what authorities describe as politically motivated shootings.

"I feel like our federal government is trying to attack and destroy Minnesota," she said. "That's where I keep coming back to, how amazing this community is. We aren't going to fall, but it is hard."

Daniella Silva reported from Minneapolis, and Nicole Acevedo reported from New York.

On Friday, the U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua said Venezuela had taken an important step toward peace by releasing what it described as "political prisoners." But it lamented that in Nicaragua, "more than 60 people remain unjustly detained or disappeared, including pastors, religious workers, the sick, and the elderly."

On Saturday, the Interior Ministry said in a statement that "dozens of people who were in the National Penitentiary System are returning to their homes and families."

It wasn't immediately clear who was freed and under what conditions. Nicaragua's government did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The government has been carrying out an ongoing crackdown since mass social protests in 2018, that were violently repressed.

Nicaragua's government has imprisoned adversaries, religious leaders, journalists and more, then exiled them, stripping hundreds of their Nicaraguan citizenship and possessions. Since 2018, it has shuttered more than 5,000 organizations, largely religious, and forced thousands to flee the country.Nicaragua's governmentoften accused critics and opponents of plotting against the government.

In recent years, the government has released hundreds of imprisoned political opponents, critics and activists. Itstripped them of Nicaraguan citizenshipand sent them to other countries like the U.S. and Guatemala. Observers have called it an effort to wash its hands of its opposition and offset international human rights criticism. Many of those Nicaraguans wereforced into a situation of "statelessness."

Saturday on X, the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs again slammed Nicaragua's government. "Nicaraguans voted for a president in 2006, not for an illegitimate lifelong dynasty," it said. "Rewriting the Constitution and crushing dissent will not erase the Nicaraguans' aspirations to live free from tyranny."

Danny Ramírez-Ayérdiz, executive-secretary of the Nicaraguan human rights organization CADILH, said he had mixed feelings about the releases announced Saturday.

"On the one hand, I'm glad. All political prisoners suffer some form of torture. But on the other hand, I know these people will continue to be harassed, surveilled and monitored by the police, and so will their families."

Ramírez-Ayérdiz said the liberation of the prisoners is a response to pressure exerted by the United States. "There is surely a great deal of fear within the regime that the U.S. might completely dismantle it," he said.

Captain Brady Tkachuk took it another step on Saturday, Jan. 10, inan expletive-filled media sessionin which he said, "It's not true. It's just a (expletive) story."

General manager Steven Staios had put a statement on Jan. 8 about Ullmark, who went on leave on Dec. 28. It read in part:

"Linus is away from our team for personal reasons and he has the entire organization's support. We asked that people respect his privacy, but clearly that request was not heard by the lowest forms of trolls and sick people who scour the internet. We are disgusted that outside forces are attempting to disrupt our hockey club. This statement will put an end to the ridiculous speculation that spread online."

Tkachuk was asked about it on Saturday and said that it's OK for people to critique the team's on-ice performance but spreading rumors about players' families is stepping over the line.

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"It's embarrassing that it got to the point that it did and I can tell you for free that I'm not happy about it one bit," he said.

He added: "That's just our society and life now that people can just say whatever they want and no repercussions and don't really realize who it affects. It's just crazy to bring up a crazy story like that and talk about people's families and stuff like that. I honestly can't really wrap my head around it."

The Senatorslost 8-2 to the Colorado Avalancheon Jan. 8. Tkachuk said the players weren't using the rumors as an excuse and said he feels for Ullmark.

"Nobody knows what he's going through, but the fact that he has to even deal with this, even have to think about it," Tkachuk said. "All we care about for him is getting what he needs. We said from Day 1 that he has our support, the whole organization's support. Now that he has to deal with this, it's mind blowing."

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Senators' Brady Tkachuk rips 'not true' rumors about Ullmark's leave