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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce get engaged, sharing photos

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce revealed Tuesday they are engaged, sharing images of the ring and a photo shoot in a garden filled with pink and white roses. 

“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” the couple captioned a joint post on Instagram.

The 14-time Grammy winner and Kansas City Chiefs tight end began dating in 2023 — after Kelce attended one of Swift’s Eras Tour shows in Kansas City.

After the concert, in an episode of his podcast, “New Heights,” with his brother and former Philadelphia Eagles star Jason Kelce, Travis Kelce said he was “butthurt” because he didn’t get to meet Swift and give her a friendship bracelet with his number on it. Friendship bracelets became a popular item to wear and trade at the Eras Tour as fans took a lyric in Swift’s song “You’re On Your Own, Kid” to heart. 

Months later, rumors spread that the two were dating, and Swift started attending Kelce’s games.

Ed Kelce, Travis’ father, told WEWS-TV in Cleveland that the engagement occurred about two weeks ago. Ed said the couple informed him via FaceTime while Ed was attending a public Eagles practice.

“At that practice … I got a FaceTime call from them, and as soon as I saw the FaceTime, I saw it was Travis, and then I saw Taylor there with him, I knew what they were going to say, and they, you know, let us know,” Ed Kelce said. 

In the latest “New Heights” episode, in which Swift announced her upcoming 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” Swift said she owed a lot to the podcast. 

“This podcast got me a boyfriend ever since Travis decided to use it as his personal dating app about two years ago,” she said. 

The pop star joked that Kelce threw a “man tantrum” about not meeting her at the concert, but then she thought, “If this guy isn’t crazy, which is a big if, this is sort of what I’ve been writing songs about wanting to happen to me since I was a teenager.”

“And I was sitting there at the Eras Tour listening to every single one of those songs like, ‘I know what she wants me to do,'” Kelce said. 

The post announcing their proposal is set to Swift’s song “So High School,” from her album “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology,” which she released last year. 

Fans believe the song is about Kelce. In one lyric, Swift sings: “You know how to ball, I know Aristotle.”

The engagement ring was designed by Kindred Lubeck, Swift’s publicist Tree Paine told The Associated Press. The diamond is an old mine brilliant cut, she said.

Lubeck, who is based in New York and operates Artifex Fine Jewelry, is the daughter of Jay Lubeck, a well-known goldsmith in Neptune Beach, Florida.

SpaceX plans to build the ‘biggest launch site on Earth’ for $100 billion in Louisiana

By CNN
(CNN) — SpaceX on Tuesday unveiled plans to construct a massive, $100 billion spaceport in Louisiana, where the company plans to launch its gargantuan Starship rocket thousands of times per year.Construction of the spaceport is expected to begin by the end of next year near the southern coast of Louisiana’s Vermilion Parish, with the first launch targeted as soon as 2029, according to an economic development website.Such a development would mark a dramatic shift for SpaceX and the US rocket industry — making Louisiana, which has never before hosted an orbital launch, perhaps the busiest launch hub on the planet.The new SpaceX campus will be dubbed “Starbase, Louisiana” — borrowing the name of SpaceX’s recently incorporated company town in South Texas. Starbase, Texas, is the current home to Starship’s testing and development facilities and the spot from which 13 test flights have launched to varying degrees of success.The Louisiana location, however, would host flights of the Starship rocket once its operational, having proven it can safely haul cargo to orbit. SpaceX also plans to land and recover every piece of its Starship rockets — including the upper spacecraft, which has never been done before — in order to allow the rockets to be rapidly reused and drive down the cost of each launch.That means Louisiana would not only become a hub for launches, but it would become home to numerous towers — standing hundreds of feet tall — that would be used to recapture rockets and spacecraft as they return from space.“Starbase Louisiana will ultimately have over a dozen launch towers, enabling more than 30 Starship flights per day and making it the biggest launch site on Earth!” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on his social media platform, X, on Tuesday.During an announcement event in Louisiana Tuesday, SpaceX’s chief operating officer, Gwynne Shotwell, also described the project as “a self-sustaining spaceport with its own propellant production, power generation, deep water shipping capabilities, vehicle processing facilities, and probably an airport.”Louisiana’s ‘worst kept secret’SpaceX had been quietly working on its spaceport plans alongside Louisiana elected officials for months. Company leaders have traveled to the state to scope out potential locations, prompting one local news outlet to refer to the project as the state’s “worst kept secret.”State governor Jeff Landry, a Republican, billed the project as an offer of “a permanent future and lasting prosperity.”“For generations, industries came to Louisiana not to build lasting prosperity, but to extract wealth,” Landry said. “Too often, Louisiana was left with the scars, while others enjoyed the profit. Today, what Elon Musk and his team is offering Louisiana is different.”Much about the plans remain to be seen. Starship is not yet operational. The company is expected to launch its most important test flight to date as soon as September — a mission that could send the rocket to orbit for the first time. Additional testing will be necessary to sort out how the rocket’s upper stage can be landed and flown again.A spaceport of such size and scale as the Louisiana project will also likely face extensive regulatory reviews: “The project will go through all applicable environmental, wetlands, natural resource and launch-related reviews,” a project website confirms.Such reviews related to SpaceX’s facilities in Texas — a far smaller complex than the planned Louisiana site — took nearly a decade to complete. And some local environmental advocacy groups continue to battle the company in Texas courts over the impacts of rocket testing on the community.Shotwell said Tuesday that SpaceX plans to keep “very large portions” of Starbase Louisiana’s 125,000 acres of land “untouched, so that high-value wetlands stay habitat and don’t become infrastructure.”“We will help fund protection, restoration, and stewardship while we build,” Shotwell said.The announcement is the latest in a long list of displays of confidence that Starship will transform SpaceX as a company. Already, SpaceX has said it’s begun to phase out use of its workhorse Falcon 9 rockets, which are currently the most prolific launch vehicles in the world, in favor of using Starship for most missions once it becomes operational.Earlier on Tuesday, SpaceX’s vice president of launch, Kiko Dontchev, said a Falcon 9 rocket that took flight the same morning would be the last ever to carry SpaceX Starlink satellites from Florida — an area due East of Orlando that is currently home to the world’s busiest spaceport across Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Space Force Center.“From here on, Starlink missions out of Florida will fly on Starship,” Dontchev said. “The West Coast team will continue regularly launching Starlink from Vandenberg. Super proud of this incredible team. You’ve made Falcon 9 the most reliable launch vehicle in history. You also helped build the largest low-Earth orbit satellite constellation providing connectivity to millions around the world, and you’ve set the foundation for what’s next.”SpaceX’s plans include continuing to fly Starship out of Texas, and it may begin flights from Florida as soon as this year. But the envisioned plans for Louisiana would make it by far the largest base of operations for the rocket.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
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