By Leah Dolan, CNN

(CNN) — This is Dua Lipa’s week. Not only because she is our Look of the Week, but because the next seven days — if a swirl of reports are to be believed — will be bookended by her nuptials.

On Sunday, just as north London was being flare-painted red at a parade for triumphant local soccer team Arsenal after winning the English premiership season, the pop star and her partner, British actor Callum Turner, headed to the quiet of west London, where Lipa’s bridal whites would be kept pristine, for a secret civil ceremony at Old Marylebone Town Hall. The pair will reportedly next head to the Italian island of Sicily for a more flamboyant wedding party later this week.

The bar for bridal glamour was set high with her sophisticated, low-key register office look. Lipa descended the town hall steps hand-in-hand with Turner in a custom couture Schiaparelli skirt suit complete with “personalized gold bijoux buttons,” per the brand. The singer’s hips were padded, her hands were gloved and her face artfully shaded by a giant hat designed by Stephen Jones millinery that was lined with golf leaf. Turner meanwhile was dressed in a navy double-breasted suit by Ferragamo.

Lipa, who is usually styled by Lorenzo Posocco, was never going to be your standard bride. She’s a disciple of boom-boom fashion — animal print, fur, strong tailoring and glitz that flirts with garish. Her taste is a blend of ‘80s silhouettes and accessorizing principles (more is more!) refracted through the lens of modern designers such as Matthieu Blazy, Simon Porte Jacquemus and Chemena Kamali. One of the best looks from her presumed hen-do celebrations in Ibiza was an impossibly sparkly vintage Versace mini-dress with matching boots. The look was from the brand’s 1995 haute couture collection, modelled on the runway by Kate Moss with a bridal veil and bouquet. Lipa styled hers with a cigarette and a lighter that read “Dreamgirl.” She’s one of London’s most stylish party girls — known for heading straight back to the club after her stadium concerts end.

It made total sense, then, that at Old Marylebone Town Hall Lipa’s bridal style looked more Bianca Jagger than Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Jagger, a woman who once wore a sequin beret (eat your heart out, John Travolta) and was photographed at Studio 54 on horseback, is something of a sartorial spiritual predecessor to Lipa — and was “funmaxxing” in style long before her. Jagger’s Yves Saint Laurent suit worn at her 1971 wedding to Rolling Stones frontman Mick, included a bias-cut skirt, reportedly more comfortable as she was secretly pregnant with her first child Jade at the time, and a Le Smoking jacket. It went on to inspire brides everywhere, including model and actress Emily Ratajkowski, who in 2018 married her now ex-husband Sebastian Bear-McClard in a yellow suit and black wide-brimmed hat.

We can only imagine what kind of sartorial panache Lipa will exude at her big wedding party, which is set to welcome guests across 3 days. Surely there was only one condition for whoever designs her look for their sun-soaked Italian wedding this weekend: Being able to dance.

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By Eric Bradner, CNN

(CNN) — Former first lady Jill Biden says she felt she “had to support” President Joe Biden publicly in the wake of his disastrous 2024 debate with Donald Trump, despite acknowledging now that she feared her husband might have been having a stroke.

Her latest comments came in an interview Monday with NBC in which she was pressed on her public insistence that Joe Biden was capable of serving four more years in the Oval Office. It comes as the former first lady launches a tour to support her new memoir, “View from the East Wing,” which is being released Tuesday.

She said Monday that during the debate, she was “watching, just like everybody else was, scared to death, like, ‘What is going on?’”

“He gets off the stage. I see he appears to be OK. He says to me, ‘Jill, I really, in other words, messed up, didn’t I?’ And I said, ‘Yes, you did,’” she told NBC. (According to The Atlantic, Jill Biden writes her husband said, “I really f**ked up, didn’t I?”)

In a post-debate event that night, Jill Biden said, “Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question. You knew all the facts.”

“What do I say to him? I’m his wife. I’ve got to lift him up,” she told NBC, describing her thought process. “So, we go to the next event, and I’m thinking, what do I say that will lift him up that is true? I want to say things that are true.”

“And so, I said, ‘You answered every question,’” she said, recalling her comments onstage. “My mind’s racing.”

“I had to sort of lift him up. I’m his wife. I’m not going to get out on the stage there and say, ‘Joe, you really screwed that up.’ And we have all of our supporters there,” she said, adding, “That’s who we are. I had to support him.”

In late July — less than four weeks after the debate, and with the Democratic Party in a panic — Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race and threw his support behind his vice president, Kamala Harris.

Jill Biden was asked about Harris’ assertion in her own memoir last year that it was “recklessness” to leave the decision about whether Joe Biden should seek reelection to the president and first lady alone.

“That is her point of view, and if she felt that way, she should have said it,” Jill Biden said.

She also acknowledged in the Monday interview that Joe Biden was aging in office.

“He got older, and we all saw him aging. There were words that he would forget. But, you know, we were all aging,” she said.

However, she said, the two were also assured by doctors that he was healthy, and she “saw him doing his job” and “work hours into the night” every day.

“Yes, did I see him slowing down a little bit? When he got tired, did he stutter a little bit at night? Yeah, sure. But he was still doing the job, and he was doing a good job,” she said.

In the interview, Jill Biden also addressed her husband’s 2025 prostate cancer diagnosis and his current health.

Joe Biden’s personal office revealed that May that he had been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer

By Marshall Cohen, CNN

(CNN) — Election denier Tina Peters was released from a Colorado prison Monday, prison officials confirmed, weeks after the state’s Democratic governor granted a controversial commutation that cut her sentence in half.

The Republican former Mesa County clerk was convicted in 2024 of state felonies for conspiring with fellow election deniers to breach her county’s voting systems in hopes of proving President Donald Trump’s baseless 2020 voter-fraud claims.

She was sentenced to nearly nine years in prison, which was reduced last month by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to 4.5 years. She ultimately served about 1 year and 8 months in prison, due in part to Colorado’s parole policies.

Over the years, her plight has become a rallying cry in the pro-Trump election conspiracy movement. And until Monday, she was the last remaining person behind bars in connection with the varying efforts by Trump allies across the country to undermine the 2020 results.

Polis, a Democrat whose term ends next year, announced on May 15 that he was reducing Peters’ sentence.

The governor primarily justified his decision by citing a recent Colorado appeals court ruling that found the trial judge violated Peters’ First Amendment rights by improperly punishing Peters for her protected speech about the 2020 election. But he also defended his decision with a series of misleading and false claims about Peters’ case.

“It was a straightforward decision because, after reviewing the facts, and reading the Appeals Court decision, I concluded that her sentence was simply too long,” Polis wrote in a Substack post Sunday, where he condemned Peters’ crimes.

A bipartisan array of election officials, state prosecutors and lawmakers have condemned Polis for releasing Peters early. He was even censured by the Colorado Democratic Party, which said the commutation set a “dangerous and disappointing precedent.”

Peters’ early release marks a triumphant moment for the 2020 election denier movement and for Trump, who waged a long pressure campaign against Colorado over her incarceration. Polis said his decision wasn’t influenced by Trump’s actions — which included closing a Colorado-based climate lab, denying federal disaster assistance requests, vetoing a Colorado water project and pulling federal transportation funds.

Trump had granted a symbolic federal pardon to Peters last year, but she had remained in prison under state c

By Avni Trivedi, CNN

(CNN) — Ever wished for a love-at-first-sight moment at an airport, like Sam and Annie in “Sleepless in Seattle”? For anyone young enough to have only travelled after Sept. 11, 2001, walking your loved one all the way to their gate is something you only see in old movies, or reruns of “Friends.”

Gate passes are used by airlines to allow non-ticketed individuals to pass through airport security, typically to allow extra assistance to travelers, or for escorting unaccompanied minors to and from gates. Most airports do not have a program to allow it, but that is slowly changing.

A recent trend at some domestic airports is bringing that movie moment back to reality. As of this month, 21 US airports allow nonticketed guests to obtain a pass that will allow them to go through airport security and into the terminal, for free.

These airports invite guests to shop, dine and experience what else they offer, including live music or art exhibitions. For family and friends of travelers, these visitor pass programs let you hug them goodbye until they board and provide support for those who need extra help navigating the airport.

Pittsburgh International Airport led the way with myPITpass, in 2017.

“There were stories upon stories of date nights at the airport, people who had grown up here because US Airways was such a big presence here,” Christina Cassotis, CEO of the airport, said. “It was a really exciting place to be.”

US Airways, which has since ceased operations, was an American legacy carrier founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The myPITpass program ended in 2020 due to Covid-19 and didn’t restart after because the airport was undergoing construction on a new terminal.

However, it inspired and even helped other US airports to follow.

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport now has the longest-running program, started in 2018 as a way to bring in more “non-aeronautical revenue,” such as parking, dining and shopping. But Rosa Johnson, manager of aviation customer communications for the airport, says the program took on a life of its own, turning into more of a customer experience initiative.

Travelers who need extra assistance, like those with language barriers or disabilites, can feel more secure with a family member or friend guiding them through the airport, she explained. “Nine times out of 10, our SEA visitor pass is the solution to that problem, because they have someone that they know, trust and know their needs,” Johnson said.

The pass also makes it easy to retrieve something you left behind in the airport, or if you want to familiarize yourself with the facility before flying.

Allowing non-ticketed passengers through security seems to be limited to US airports, although some airports, like Singapore Changi Airport and Athens International Airport, place their security checkpoints at the gates, allowing visitors to eat, shop and provide assistance to travelers.

How do the programs work?

Nonticketed guests who would like to visit the airport are required to apply online or at a kiosk in the airport terminal on the day of their visit. Most airports allow you to apply up to a week in advance, but some, including San Francisco International Airport, allow applications up to 30 days in advance.

All the programs require you to provide your full name that appe