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Woman Makes Wearable Wedding Dress and Veil Using Lego Bricks — See Her Incredible Creation Erin ClackSeptember 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM 0 LEGO® House (2) Wedding dress made of Lego on display at Lego House in Denmark A woman made a wearable wedding dress and veil using Lego bricks Her creation is curren...

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A woman made a wearable wedding dress and veil using Lego bricks

Her creation is currently on display in the Masterpiece Gallery at Lego House in Billund, Denmark

According to Lego, she achieved "fabric-like movement" with the design

A woman turned her creativity with Legos into a one-of-a-kind wedding dress.

Satu Aaltonen, a Lego enthusiast from Finland, used the plastic toy bricks to artfully fashion a wearable dress featuring a blue and white color palette, sleeves and a small train, along with an ornate headpiece and veil to match. According to a Lego press release, Aaltonen managed to achieve "fabric-like movement" with the design.

She used thousands of Lego pieces to create the dress, which she has named the "Bride of the Frozen Crown," per Finnish outlet Yle.

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Satu Aaltonen's wedding dress on display at Lego House in Denmark

Explaining her inspiration, Aaltonen told the outlet, "I wanted to create something out of Lego that has not been seen before. For me, building is both art and play, but also a meditative counterbalance to my everyday computer work."

She said she made the dress without any glue. It's designed so that one side can be opened and closed.

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Satu Aaltonen's bridal headpiece and veil, made with Lego

"When moving in the dress, it makes a sound like walking on ice," Aaltonen noted. "The Lego pieces rattle against each other."

While she's proud of its aesthetic appeal, she joked that she "wouldn't dare" attempt to sit down in the dress. "But you only need to walk to the altar and dance a little at the wedding party," she told Yle.

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LEGO® House A close-up look at Satu Aaltonen's Lego wedding dress

Aaltonen shows off her dress being worn by a model in a Vimeo video. In the video's description, she shared that the design features "1,200 white leaf pieces that form crystalline structures, frozen flowers and a translucent train that shimmers."

"What looks delicate and ethereal is, in fact, a meticulously engineered structure, built by hand over six months," the description added.

The wedding dress and veil are currently on display in the 2025-2026 Masterpiece Gallery at Lego House in Billund, Denmark, where the toy brand is headquartered. This year's gallery features 17 exhibitors from 12 countries, according to Lego.

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Satu Aaltonen's Lego wedding dress on display at Lego House in Denmark

Highlights include 3D, wall-mounted mosaics celebrating Mexican culture and folklore, a Victorian dollhouse with historically accurate interiors, as well as a Fender guitar and other musical instruments — all brought to life with Lego bricks.

"The Masterpiece Gallery is our way of celebrating the creativity, talent and passion of the global LEGO fan community, and inspiring the builders of today and tomorrow," Kathrine Kirk Muff, managing director of Lego House, said in a statement. "This year's exhibitors show just how limitless a LEGO brick can be."

"We hope guests leave energised to build in new ways, perhaps even with skills they've learned in the new LEGO Masters Academy," Muff added.

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As for Aaltonen, she is working on five other Lego dresses that will form a series along with her "Bride of the Frozen Crown" design.

"The greatest compliment is when people are surprised to discover that the dresses are made of Lego bricks. I want to inspire wonder in viewers and show that creativity has no limits," she told Yle.

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Back in 2023, Lego showcased a series of Lego-loving couples who incorporated their passion for the brand into their weddings.

"It's happily ever after, LEGO style! Get tangled up in these heartwarming love stories, as couples share LEGO inspiration that built the foundations of their love," the company wrote in the caption of an Instagram post that featured the couple's creative — and colorful — Lego wedding details, including ring boxes, flower bouquets, boutonnieres and custom figurines as favors.

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Members of Louisiana Coalition for Reproductive Freedom and supporters arrive at Planned Parenthood on the day they are closing, to deliver cards and flowers to the organization, in New Orleans, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Planned Parenthood on Tuesday shuttered its two clinics in Louisiana over what the organization said were mounting financial and political challenges that made operating in the state no longer possible after more than 40 years.

The closures make Louisiana the most populous of just four states with no Planned Parenthood locations.

The exit underlines the pressures on Planned Parenthood as it warns of wider closures nationwide in the face of Medicaid funding cuts in President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill. The organization is also halting advocacy work in Louisiana, where the state's Republican leaders have cheered on the closures.

The closures were "not the result of a lack of need" but rather the outcome of "relentless political assaults that have made it impossible for us to continue operating sustainably in Louisiana," said Melaney Linton, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.

Supporters have said the closures will have a detrimental impact on Louisiana, where Planned Parenthood has never been licensed to perform abortions in the state but did provide other medical care services to nearly 11,000 patients last year at its Baton Rouge and New Orleans clinics.

Advocates and medical professionals fear that the organization's departure will further exacerbate reproductive health care in a state that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows already has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country. In addition, a March report by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor's office noted the state's significant OB-GYN shortage and health care deserts.

Planned Parenthood warns of more closures

Trump's spending and tax plan instructs the federal government to end Medicaid payments for one year to certain abortion providers. While the organization is seeking to have its funding restored through the courts, Planned Parenthood officials have warned that around one-third of roughly 600 clinics could be forced to close.

Earlier this year, five clinics in California and eight in Iowa and Minnesota shut their doors. In the past week, the Wisconsin affiliate announced that it would stop providing abortion and the Arizona affiliate said it would halt Medicaid-funded services.

Louisiana joins Wyoming, North Dakota and Mississippi as states where the organization is absent.

"This is a win for babies, a win for mothers, and a win for LIFE!" Republican Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry posted on social media Tuesday.

High numbers of Medicaid patients

Planned Parenthood provides a wide range of services, including cancer screenings and sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment. Federal Medicaid money was already not paying for abortion, but affiliates relied on Medicaid to stay afloat.

In Louisiana, a state with one of the nation's highest poverty rates, 60% of patients at Planned Parenthood clinics used Medicaid. Last year, the clinics in Louisiana provided nearly 30,000 tests for sexually transmitted infections, 14,400 visits for birth control, 1,800 cancer screenings and 655 ultrasounds.

Nearly a decade ago, Jordyn Martin said she turned to Planned Parenthood when she couldn't afford medical services anywhere else. While at the clinic, a doctor offered Martin a free HIV test. A week later, she was diagnosed with the virus.

"Planned Parenthood saved my life," said Martin, who went on to volunteer for the organization.

Connecting patients with new providers

Outside of the New Orleans Planned Parenthood clinic Tuesday, several people gathered and brought thank-you notes to the organization that has spent four decades in Louisiana. Inside the building, up until close, staff worked to connect patients with alternative health care providers.

Starting Wednesday, calls to Planned Parenthood numbers in Louisiana will be transferred to the nearest location in Texas or Arkansas.

Michelle Erenberg, the head of a New Orleans-based abortion rights group named LIFT, said people have been contacting her for help to find new clinics. She said it was important to connect people with providers but worries about the strain it will put on clinics that are already short-staffed.

"Whether patients are going to be able to get appointments quickly, or access all of the services that Planned Parenthood provided, is unknown at this point," she said.

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Trump administration to defund federal watchdog council Scott MacFarlaneSeptember 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM 0 Mark Schiefelbein / AP The Trump administration is pulling a federal watchdog off the beat in Washington, effective Wednesday, stripping funding from the Council of Inspectors General.

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The Trump administration is pulling a federal watchdog off the beat in Washington, effective Wednesday, stripping funding from the Council of Inspectors General.

Removing the council's funding will mean a further hollowing out of the work of federal inspectors general and internal government investigators who are supposed to root out waste, fraud, abuse and misconduct in the administration.

The council, which is an independent entity within the executive branch, is tasked with addressing "integrity, economy and effectiveness issues that transcend individual Government agencies," according to the council's website.

The Trump administration argues the inspectors general are "corrupt."

"Inspectors general are meant to be impartial watchdogs identifying waste and corruption on behalf of the American people," a spokesman for the White House Office of Management and Budget told CBS News in a statement. "Unfortunately, they have become corrupt, partisan, and in some cases, have lied to the public. The American people will no longer be funding this corruption."

The council, often referred to as CIGIE, helps train, equip and provide investigative expertise to the dozens of federal inspectors general. Its staff helps operate hotlines for tips, hosts websites for the inspectors and provides data analysis and investigative tools to help with probes. CIGIE helps support nearly 14,000 federal investigative employees, according to a former CIGIE official.

Mark Greenblatt, a former inspector general for the Interior Department and a former CIGIE chair, posted a statement Tuesday warning about the impact of the cuts.

"Without this infrastructure, I fear the individual inspectors general will be isolated, their effectiveness diminished, and their ability to protect taxpayer interests severely compromised," Greenblatt said.

CIGIE also helps review possible misconduct by federal inspectors general themselves, in a "policing the police" type of mission. Greenblatt alleges the organization is being defunded because of its prior review of a federal inspector appointed during the first Trump term.

Mike Ware, the former inspector general for the Small Business Administration, says the council's defunding could cripple the ability of federal watchdogs to monitor the administration's actions. Ware said nearly 30 inspectors general offices depend on CIGIE to host their websites, which he says are "essential for transparency and public accountability."

"It would also dismantle critical cross-agency collaboration by eliminating shared data analytics platforms that help expose waste, fraud and abuse," Ware said. "Just as concerning, it would strip away the training and professional development infrastructure that sustains the 14,000 oversight professionals dedicated to safeguarding taxpayer dollars."

The move has raised rare, bipartisan criticism. GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Susan Collins of Maine criticized the Trump administration's decision, writing in a letter this week, "Absent immediate action, (CIGIE) will need to furlough staff and terminate important functions that help prevent and detect waste, fraud, and abuse throughout the government."

In their letter, Grassley and Collins said, "We urgently request an explanation for these actions and ask that you to promptly reverse course," in order to allow CIGIE to continue its "important oversight work uninterrupted."

The two Republican senators, in an unusual rebuke of a decision inside their own party, have asked the Trump administration to hand over records and answers about the cuts by Friday.

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Shohei Ohtani smokes recordbreaking home run vs. Reds to lead off Dodgers' postseason Jason OwensSeptember 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM 0 OK, Shohei Shohei Ohtani picked up in the postseason where he left off another likely MVP regular season — with a bang.

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Shohei Ohtani picked up in the postseason where he left off another likely MVP regular season — with a bang. Ohtani took his usual leadoff spot in the Dodgers' lineup for Game 1 of their wild-card series against the Reds Tuesday night.

He worked Reds starter Hunter Greene to a 2-1 count. Greene responded with a 100 mph fastball over the inside corner of the plate. Ohtani turned on it and deposited a laser into the right-field bleachers at Dodger Stadium.

ESPN's Jon Sciambi barely had time to call the home run before it was over the wall for a 1-0 Dodgers lead.

LEADOFF HOMER? SHO OFF. pic.twitter.com/xD0rUBoRHB

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There's good reason. The home run was a first-of-its-kind. Or at least a first-of-its-kind in the Statcast era.

The ball left Ohtani's bat at 117.7 mph and traveled 375 feet on a line drive. That's the fastest home run hit off a 100-plus mph pitch since Statcast started tracking such stats in 2015. By a long shot.

Per MLB Stats, then-Red Sox slugger Rafael Devers previously held the distinction with a 113.7 mph blast off a 100 mph Gerrit Cole fastball against the Yankees on June 27, 2021. Ohtani's exit velocity Tuesday bested Devers' by a full 4 mph.

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Ohtani's home run is also one of the hardest hit of any kind in the postseason in the Statcast era. Per MLB.com's Sarah Langs, only Kyle Schwarber, Giancarlo Stanton and Ohtani himself have hit harder home runs since 2015.

Hardest-hit postseason HR under Statcast (since 2015)2022 NLCS G1 Kyle Schwarber: 119.7 mph2020 ALDS G2 Giancarlo Stanton: 118.3 mph2024 NLCS G4 Shohei Ohtani: 117.8 mph2025 NLWCS G1 Shohei Ohtani: 117.7 mph2024 ALCS G5 Giancarlo Stanton: 117.5 mph https://t.co/q5zHuN2RQs

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It adds up to a stellar start to Ohtani's postseason. At this point, we shouldn't expect anything less.

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We're a quarter of the way through the NFL season, and Nate Tice & Matt Harmon are ready to rank their top units, rookies and more in a special rankings episode. The duo kick things off with their thoughts on the two sloppy Monday night games, where the Denver Broncos and Miami Dolphins got away with wins, but the Dolphins lost WR Tyreek Hill to a brutal ACL injury.

Next, Nate & Matt start their quarter-season rankings with their top five rookies so far through four weeks, featuring guys like Grey Zabel, Emeka Egbuka, Tetairoa McMillan, Abdul Carter and more. Next up are the five biggest disappointments so far, including the Baltimore Ravens, Houston Texans, Carolina Panthers and more.

Later, the hosts rank the second-year quarterbacks so far, and Nate deep dives on Caleb Williams, Drake Maye's huge breakout season, Spencer Rattler cracking the top five and more. Finally, the duo wrap up with the best overall units this season, including the Buffalo Bills run game, the Los Angeles Rams pass game, the Los Angeles Chargers offense and more.

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FOXBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS - SEPTEMBER 21: Drake Maye #10 of the New England Patriots looks to pass prior to an NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Gillette Stadium on September 21, 2025 in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images) ((Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images))

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