Miss Universe

More than 100,000 children and adults with special needs around the world dressed to the nines to attend prom Friday evening as part of the Tim Tebow Foundation-sponsored “Night to Shine” event.

Things are going pretty well for Tim Tebow. Not only has the former NFL quarterback/turned baseball player been invited to the New York Mets Major League spring training, but the Florida Gators great is also engaged to be married.

Miss Spain, Angela Ponce, the first transgender contestant for the Miss Universe contest, claims she was a woman before having a vagina. Ponce did not win Sunday’s Miss Universe contest — that honor went to the Philippines’ Catriona Gray — but

Angela Ponce of Spain, has become the first transgender woman to compete in the Miss Universe contest.

Tim Tebow has had quite the news cycle this week. First, he gets an extra base hit in the Eastern League Double-A All-Star game. Next, we find out that when he’s not climbing the major league ladder, he’s dating a former Miss Universe.

A transgender model who was originally born a man will be competing in this year’s Miss Universe pageant, a first for the global competition.

JERUSALEM — Sarah Idan, Iraq’s 2017 Miss Universe beauty pageant contestant, is visiting Israel this week, a trip that has enraged people back home.

Gretchen Carlson, chairwoman of the now-swimsuit-free Miss America, would very much like you to know that she isn’t just a pretty face. She also has a degree from Stanford and spent a year studying Virginia Woolf at Oxford.

Sarah Idan, the Miss Iraq contestant for the Miss Universe pageant, charged that the Miss Iraq Organization lied when they denied threatening to take her title away if she refused to remove a picture of her smiling next to Miss Israel, Adar Gandelsman, accompanied by a message of hope for peace.

TEL AVIV – In a rare move of solidarity, the Miss Universe contestants from Israel and Iraq posed together for selfies they posted to their respective Instagram accounts. “Get to know, this is Miss Iraq and she’s amazing,” gushed Miss

The spokesman for Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has defended remarks he made last week in which he said he would “congratulate” a rapist who targeted Miss Universe, claiming that the comments were “sarcastic” and “the people … really get him.”

In the late 1990s, as President Bill Clinton was about to face the biggest sex scandal of his political career over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, a beauty queen named Alicia Machado caused a major scandal by gaining a large amount of weight after winning the Miss Universe crown.

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Billionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump reacted to the Miss Universe pageant catastrophe after host Steve Harvey mistakenly named Miss Colombia the winner. “Very sad what happened last night at the Miss Universe Pageant,” he said. “I sold it 6 months ago for a record price. This would never have happened!”

Colombia contestant Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo was already wearing the crown as this year’s Miss Universe winner when host Steve Harvey returned to apologize.

A resolution to condemn Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s remarks about Mexican immigrants failed Wednesday night to win approval of the city council in Doral, a city dominated by Hispanic immigrants and home to one of the billionaire businessman’s biggest resorts.

Musician Wyclef Jean, who first appeared with Republican presidential contender Donald Trump on The Apprentice in 2005, is the latest to turn on the billionaire business magnate over comments made about illegal immigrants during his June 16 presidential announcement.

Firing back at Univision for its refusal to air his Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, the outspoken mogul and GOP presidential candidate has barred anyone who works for Univision from the greens of his Miami golf course.

Puerto Rican actress Roselyn Sanchez is now the latest to back out of the Miss USA beauty pageant following Republican presidential contender Donald Trump’s June 16 comments on Hispanic immigrants.

Ariana Miyamoto, the first ever biracial woman to be crowned Miss Japan, is fighting off critics who say she “isn’t Japanese enough” to represent her country in the upcoming Miss Universe Pageant, because her father is black. The 20-year-old speaks

As the Miss Universe competition drew to a close on Sunday night, fighter Manny Pacquiao threw a roundhouse right of a question at Miss USA. “If you were given 30 seconds to deliver a message to global terrorists, what would you say?” he asked.

Miss Lebanon may lose her title over selfie with Miss Israel; Lebanon on edge after Israeli air strike kills Hezbollah commanders; Europe, under intense financial pressure, expected to start quantitative easing

Saly Greige, participating in the Miss Universe competition as Miss Lebanon, apparently angered some of her fans after a “selfie” photo, showing her alongside Miss Israel, made the rounds on social media over the weekend.