As she faces ovarian cancer for the fourth time, a Utah mother is determined to create a lasting bucket-list memory with her young daughter.

Jenny Lowe, 41, discovered in August that the disease had returned. Even amid another difficult round of treatment, she remains focused on making the most of the time she has with her family.

Lowe and her husband, James, are set to attend a Kacey Musgraves concert, but their five-year-old daughter Hope is too young to go. Now, Lowe is hoping to arrange a brief meeting between the singer and her family.

The couple bought tickets for Musgraves’ October 15 performance in Salt Lake City with friends. Only later did they realize that Hope was also an enthusiastic fan of the country music star.

Lowe recently shared an Instagram video of Hope singing “Too Good to Be True,” tagging Musgraves in the heartwarming clip.

She has since appealed directly to the musician, asking whether there might be a chance for Hope to meet her family’s favorite artist—even if only for a few minutes.

“Kacey, I’m taking a chance and hoping this somehow finds its way to you,” Lowe wrote in her post. “My five-year-old daughter, Hope, has accidentally turned one of your songs into something that belongs to the two of us.”

She said Hope was devastated to learn that she would not be able to attend the concert.

“If there is any possible way for Hope, my husband and me to meet you for even a few minutes while you’re in Salt Lake City, I would be incredibly grateful,” Lowe continued.

“I don’t need anything elaborate. I’d just love for Hope to meet the woman behind the song she calls ‘Make Some Breakfast,’” she added.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Lowe said her close relationship with Hope gives her one of the strongest reasons to continue fighting the illness.

“I can handle a lot of things in life, but the thought of not being here to be her mom as she gets older is one that brings me to tears EVERY. SINGLE. TIME,” she said.

Although she struggles to imagine life without her daughter, Lowe said she must also confront the painful possibility that it could become the outcome of her cancer journey.

Musgraves’ music has become part of the mother and daughter’s daily life. Lowe often sings “Too Good to Be True” to Hope as part of their bedtime routine.

Hope knows the lyrics by heart, but because the song begins with the words “make some breakfast,” she believes that is its actual title.

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Lowe recalled that after learning her cancer had returned, she was feeling especially low one evening when Hope began singing the song to comfort her.

“I recorded it in the dark, and you can’t even see her, but I’ve kept that little recording because hearing her sing it to me is one of the most precious memories I have,” Lowe wrote.

She told ABC4 that the moment was special because she realized how kids listen to things carefully and we often do not notice how it can impact them.

It was after this heartwarming moment that the mom decided to shoot her shot and see if Hope and the family could meet Musgraves.

‘I kind of just made this public plea about, you know, is there any way we could meet her, or somehow get in front of her so that Hope could meet the woman behind ‘make some breakfast,’’ Jenny told the outlet.

She was astounded that so many people shared her story, calling it a ‘moment of human interest and impact.’

‘It’s just this really humbling and profound moment… People are just being so kind to share our story and be willing to make these small bucket list items come to fruition,’ she told the outlet.

‘These memories that we make right now are the most important I can hold on to forever,’ Lowe said. 

Lowe was diagnosed with stage three ovarian cancer in 2019, ABC4 reports.

She and James were planning to start a family but due to the diagnosis, Lowe said she lost the ‘ability to have children of my own.’

The couple had Hope in 2021 through surrogacy, Lowe told the outlet.

‘My heart breaks. It is not more complex than that,’ Lowe told The Daily Mail as she opened up about her journey.

‘Just a mom who is heartbroken over the thought of not being able to see her daughter grow and get older,’ she said.

Her cancer came back in 2023 and was in remission but it came back again in 2025.

The mother has also written a book on her cancer journey titled Saved by Hope.

‘Hope is just always here to bring a light… I don’t know what this journey would look like without her here. She’s a blessing to have in our family,’ she said.

Cornell University on Monday criticized the alleged victim in a fraternity gang-rape case, calling her “irresponsible” for suggesting the accused faced little more than an essay-writing punishment.

The embattled Ivy League school did not deny that the seven accused students were ordered to write essays following the alleged assault. However, Cornell said the essays were not the only disciplinary measures imposed.

“None of the individuals charged were offered the opportunity to write essays as a sole consequence of their involvement,” the university said in a statement issued just hours after the local district attorney announced a new criminal investigation into the alleged ketamine-fueled gang rape.

Cornell also sharply criticized the accuser’s lawsuit, arguing that it presented an “irresponsible” account by implying the accused fraternity members faced minimal consequences.

“A continuation of the false narrative that there were minimal consequences in this case is irresponsible, will make survivors feel less safe and supported, and will perpetuate the underreporting of sexual assault,” the university said.

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According to Cornell, an internal disciplinary panel’s investigation resulted in some of the fraternity members being suspended and others being expelled.

In an earlier statement to The Post, which first reported on the lawsuit, the university said “federal privacy law” barred it from publicly discussing “any other disciplinary response.”

Although Cornell has now acknowledged that some of the students were expelled, it has not said how many of the seven defendants received expulsions compared with temporary suspensions. The university also has not disclosed whether any of the men remain enrolled.

Cornell did not respond to a list of questions from The Post seeking clarification.

The accuser filed a civil lawsuit against the men after the district attorney initially declined to bring criminal charges in the case.

Former “American Idol” contestant Caleb Flynn returned to court Monday as his Ohio murder trial entered its second week. Jurors continued watching his recorded police interview, while prosecutors moved closer to completing their case.

The jury began viewing the interview Friday. In it, Flynn recounted what he said took place inside his Tipp City home before and after his wife, Ashley Flynn, was fatally shot on Feb. 16.

Prosecutors allege Flynn shot Ashley in the back of the head and then arranged the home to make it appear that an intruder had broken in. Flynn has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and other charges.

The prosecution was also considering calling the couple’s 10- and 12-year-old daughters, who were inside the home when their mother was killed. As court resumed Monday, no final decision had been announced.

If they testify, the girls will do so by audio only, under an arrangement approved by the court.

During the portion of the interview played Monday, Flynn pointed investigators toward a stranger he said had appeared outside the family’s home the day before Ashley’s death.

Flynn said Ashley and the girls were in the living room when a vehicle pulled up and remained outside. A man eventually stepped out and approached the front porch.

“My daughter can confirm,” Flynn told investigators.

He described the man as long-haired and awkward, adding that he did not appear to be wearing clothing with a company logo. According to Flynn, the man delivered what Ashley considered a “weird” sales pitch involving an American flag.

Flynn said Ashley eventually shut the door after the man indicated he would come back later.

Flynn also described his actions before the shooting. He said the family dogs were with him as he slept on the couch, until one began shaking and scratching and woke him.

He told investigators that he checked on his daughters, tucked the younger girl back into bed and then chose to lie down beside her.

Flynn said gunfire woke him again.

“The shots woke you up?” an investigator asked.

“Yes, sir,” Flynn replied, describing the gunfire as “back-to-back” and “loud.”

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Detective Sgt. Mike Morgan later testified that Flynn told him he froze for four to six seconds before racing to the master bedroom, where he found Ashley wounded by gunfire.

The recorded interview followed two days of testimony from Flynn’s former mistress, Alleigha Botner. She described their affair and read messages they exchanged during the months leading up to Ashley’s death.

Botner testified that Flynn repeatedly discussed wanting his wife dead. In one message, he allegedly wrote that he had stayed awake until 4 a.m. “literally thinking of ways to kill her and not go to jail.”

But Flynn’s attorneys used their cross-examination to emphasize the broader context of more than 107,000 messages exchanged during the roughly year-and-a-half affair, including emotionally charged language used by Botner herself.

Botner also testified she understood Flynn’s plans for Feb. 16 to mean he intended to finally leave Ashley and seek a divorce – not kill her.

Shortly after midnight that morning, however, Flynn allegedly told Botner, “It’s happening,” followed by, “February 16th – day I’ll never forget.”

“You’re about to be free,” Botner responded.

“I choose you,” Flynn replied.

Investigators have not recovered the gun prosecutors allege was used to kill Ashley despite extensive searches. There was no eyewitness to the shooting, and testimony showed no gunshot residue was found on Flynn.

Prosecutors have several additional witnesses they plan to call as they move closer to resting their case. It remained unclear Monday morning whether Flynn’s daughters would be among them.

News Media has remained in contact with Flynn’s attorney, who declined to comment while the trial is ongoing.

The 16-year-old daughter of 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones has criticized her mother’s decision to enroll her in underperforming public schools that reflected Hannah-Jones’s beliefs about equity and school integration.

In a New York Times opinion essay published this month, Hannah-Jones, 50, acknowledged that she and her husband had the means to send their daughter, Najya, to one of New York City’s elite private schools. Instead, they chose poorer, predominantly Black public schools in Brooklyn.

Hannah-Jones said she believed the presence of affluent families could strengthen public schools. She wrote that she “felt an obligation to make educational decisions based on the collective good and not just our individual advantage.”

According to Hannah-Jones, Najya ultimately fell years behind her classmates and was struggling with basic math and writing by age 12. The journalist also said her daughter recently confronted her after realizing that the schools had been selected deliberately despite better options being available.

During an interview with This American Life, Hannah-Jones said Najya was so unhappy with the decision that she later presented her mother with a list of schools she wanted to consider for the remainder of high school.

“She comes back with her list of schools, and I internally cringed,” Hannah-Jones said.

“I’m like, I cannot believe this. My child came up with the exact opposite of my life’s work… And every school on there is a school that screens and has hardly no Black kids.”

In a follow-up interview, Najya accused her mother of turning her education into a social experiment. She said Hannah-Jones had “put me on the line to help a school, but it didn’t work.”

Hannah-Jones became nationally known through the 1619 Project, a New York Times initiative that says it seeks to “reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of the national narrative.”

In her Times essay, she wrote that she and her husband, tech specialist Faraji, 50, could afford better schools for Najya but instead “decided to send her to the type of school that wealthier families with choices uniformly avoid — one that is low-income and mostly Black.”

“Our decision had been informed by values shaped by my years of reporting on the enduring and too often seemingly hopeless battle for school integration,” she wrote.

But during the conversation with This American Life, Najya said her mother’s reasoning did not make sense. In her view, receiving a weaker education had done little to improve conditions for other students who were struggling.

“You put me on the line to help a school, but it didn’t work,” she told her mother.

“I didn’t want to feel like I didn’t know anything because I was set back in other schools. I didn’t want to feel like I was dumb. In ninth grade, I did feel like I was dumb. It did feel like I didn’t know anything.”

“Why should I have to suffer with that? Why couldn’t you just benefit kids in another way? There’s other options.”

“You didn’t want me to have advantages over other kids, isn’t that what you want?” Najya asked during the discussion. “Is that not a normal thing to want me to have?”

Hannah Jones told her daughter that she had ‘many advantages’ in her life, and pushed back: ‘We don’t have to actually agree. It’s OK for us to see this in a different way. But ultimately, you got into your first choice of high school.’

‘But you could have had me way higher in education,’ Najya responded.

Hannah-Jones said her school choice ‘was not just about giving some additional funds to a school’, as she believed she could ‘change the power dynamics’ by being a wealthier family attending a poorer school. 

The author also defended sending her daughter to public schools in her early years because ‘most of the kids looked like her.’

‘She had a Chinese American educator. She had incredible Black educators. She had Caribbean educators. Amazing Black History Month celebrations,’ she said.  

But after Hannah-Jones told an anecdote about enjoying seeing Najya create self-portraits in school as a black woman and ‘seeing yourself in that lens and not in the lens of this outside world’, the teenager said the experience did not help her.

‘Yeah, I don’t really remember a lot from elementary,’ she said. 

‘It was just regular. It was fine… It was just a school that she picked for me. I didn’t really care about it. I wasn’t ever thinking about stuff like that.’

Hannah-Jones said she kept Najya at the school even when she realized in her daughter’s fourth-grade that she had fallen far behind in her education after looking through her error-filled homework. 

‘I felt like I was failing my child, like my decision was failing my child. God, I was so worried that I had done wrong by my child in a way that was irreparable,’ she said, saying she sat with her husband and briefly considered moving Najya. 

‘We felt stuck because those other kids did not deserve not to be taught either and understanding that the consequences for them were going to be so much greater than for my child. These were already kids living in public housing, living in poverty, no power in our society,’ she said.

‘We would have these discussions. And we would be like, who are we if the moment it gets really rough, we give up? Then what did we do it for in the first place? And in the end, we just felt we couldn’t abandon the rest of those kids.’

Hannah-Jones said she ultimately apologized to her daughter, but said she still believes her intentions were good in her daughter’s schooling.

‘The stakes were so high for me personally. I feel like the stakes are so high when it comes to the issue of integration and equality that I couldn’t admit to her that, yes, you did bear a cost,’ she said.

‘And I don’t know that we made the right choice. I don’t know what the right choice would be.’

A New York Times technology executive was allegedly gunned down by his elderly in-laws in California, The Post has learned.

Jonathan McKinsey, 40, the newspaper’s head of engineering for games player experience, was shot in the parking lot of Dublin Sports Grounds at around 3 p.m. Saturday, according to police. Authorities identified the alleged shooters as Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77.

Officers on patrol found McKinsey suffering from multiple gunshot wounds as 911 dispatchers were inundated with emergency calls from the area.

First responders performed lifesaving measures, but McKinsey was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses told police that two masked attackers had approached him in the parking lot.

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Witnesses said the gunmen took turns firing repeatedly at McKinsey before a passing police officer quickly apprehended them.

Zhang and Chen were booked into Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail on suspicion of murder.

DETROIT — Three people were killed and four others injured after an argument escalated into gunfire early Sunday at an after-hours strip club in Detroit, authorities said.

Officers responding to reports of a shooting at 7:21 a.m. found three men suffering from fatal gunshot wounds on a largely residential street, Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison said at a news conference.

Four additional victims — two men and two women — were driven to area hospitals in private vehicles. None was believed to have life-threatening injuries.

Bettison said the victims were believed to be in their 20s and 30s.

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“A fight occurred, an altercation occurred, and as a result individuals decided to settle it with gun violence,” Bettison said.

The location had drawn police attention before. Bettison said officers had received seven calls from the address this year and that investigators had leads, though he did not provide further details.

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