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Handler revealed on a March 5episodeof her podcast "Dear Chelsea" that she bought a Los Angeles home from the couple five years ago, but has yet to live in it.

"It was a disaster," Handler said, adding that she did not know who she was purchasing the home from because it was in a trust.

"When they opened up the house, they were like, this house is the most toxic environment, you cannot live here for at least two years," she continued.

The comedian, who shared the story after a listener called in about seeing Kennedy at their gym, said she has "my own issues" with the DHS secretary.

"The idea that this guy is in charge of the health of our country when he didn't even have a proper foundation at his house," Handler added.

USA TODAY has reached out to reps for Kennedy and Hines for comment.

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Robert Kennedy Jr. (R) speaks to the students at Pace University in New York Sept. 18, 2003, after endorsing Democratic Presidential hopeful John Kerry at a press conference. Kennedy endorsed Kerry citing his lifelong commitment and leadership to improve the environment.

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Chelsea Handler saysRFK Jr., Cheryl Hines' former home is 'cursed'

Handler said "everything has been redone" in the house she bought from Kennedy and Hines, but she has yet to move in because it has not passed an inspection.

"He has like a little outdoor storage unit that's been there since I bought the property — And they're like, 'this is illegal,' and I'm like, 'oh my God,'" she said.

"It's cursed," Handler added. "I mean, three people have come in and said this house is cursed."

Handler reportedly bought the Brentwood, California, home from Kennedy and Hines for $5.9 million in 2021, according toRealtor.com.

Kennedy and Hines have since moved to Washington, D.C., with the DHS secretaryreportedly having purchaseda $4.4 million Georgetown townhouse last year.

Melina Khan is a national trending reporter for USA TODAY. She can be reached atmelina.khan@usatoday.com.

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• Guests enjoyed sandwiches, salads, and appetizers like grilled cheese with jam and participated in a knitting station for a baby blanket

• Steinfeld shared photos on her Substack of the event, including her Stella McCartney dress and nursery-rhyme-inspired decor featuring books and flowers

Hailee Steinfeldis getting closer to welcoming her little one.

On Tuesday, Mar. 17, the pregnantSinnersactress, 29, wrote a post onher Substackabout her Mother Goose-inspired baby shower. Steinfeld shared that her shower took place on Saturday, Mar. 14, in her backyard.

"On a sunny Saturday in LA, my mom and about 30 women I love so much gathered in my most comfortable place — my backyard — for a baby shower," Steinfeld, who is currently expecting her first baby with husband Josh Allen, wrote in her post. "My mom planned the entire gorgeous thing."

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"From a 'Mother Goose' reference and a swatch of gingham, she pieced it all together. Looking around seeing this amazing group of women all together celebrating me in this moment meant so much," continued the mom-to-be. "I can't believe that this little person, who no one has even met yet, is so loved."

Steinfeld went on to share a few of her "favorite moments" from the day, adding pictures throughout the post. In one, the actress could be seen wearing a white dress and brown boots, posing with her hands on either side of her stomach.

She also added a picture of herself and her mom, who wore a white dress with green flowers on it.

"What stood out to me about this Stella McCartney dress was that the minute I put it on, it felt like something I'd wear pregnant or not," Steinfeld said of her dress. "The key to dressing when you're pregnant, I've found, is trying to wear what you would normally wear (or as close to it as you can)."

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Steinfeld included additional photos from the party, which featured lots of gingham and Mother Goose-inspired decor.

"There was no baby shower theme, per se, but a subtle nursery-rhyme thread was woven throughout the decor," she explained. "For example, there were nursery books everywhere, some fanned open with flower arrangements spilling out of the pages. Everyone brought a book, so this baby is building quite the little library."

For food, guests were treated to sandwiches and salads, as well as a few different desserts to choose from.

"For lunch, we had simple sandwiches and salads. There were appetizers passed around at the beginning; the standouts were these little grilled cheese with jam — they were insane," said Steinfeld. "Of course, there was also a big bowl of shrimp ;)."

The actress said her mom also organized a knitting station at the shower, where all the guests were able to knit a square. The little pieces will now be sewn together for a baby blanket.

"It's a very full circle moment for me because my mom took up knitting when I made my first movie," Steinfeld explained. "She was sitting in a trailer all day and needed something to do. It was Sudoku or knitting, and she chose the latter."

Although Steinfeld joked that she "can't really cast on or off," she said she was able to knit a square for her baby's blanket.

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Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare earlier this month sued the patient, saying she has refused to depart her hospital room since being discharged last October. The hospital also has asked a state judge in Tallahassee for an injunction ordering the patient to vacate the hospital room and authorizing the county sheriff's office to assist if necessary.

The hospital said that resources have been diverted from helping other patients because of her occupation of the room.

"Defendant's continued occupancy prevents use of the bed for patients needing acute care," the hospital said in the lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, the woman was admitted to the hospital for medical treatment and a formal discharge order was issued Oct. 6 after it was determined that she no longer needed acute care services. The hospital has repeatedly made efforts to coordinate her departure with family members and offered transportation to obtain necessary identification, the lawsuit said.

Rachel Givens, an attorney for the hospital, said Wednesday that the hospital had no comment. Hospital spokeswoman Macy Layton said Wednesday that the hospital couldn't discuss active legal matters, in response to emailed questions, including about what type of identification the patient needed. The lawsuit doesn't say what the patient was treated for, what her hospital bill was or how she was able to stay at the hospital for more than five months despite being discharged.

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No attorney was listed for the patient, who is representing herself. Phones numbers listed in an online database for the patient were disconnected. No one answered the phone when a call was put through to her room at the hospital.

An online court hearing on the lawsuit is scheduled for the end of the month.

Under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, hospitals that receive Medicare funds must provide treatment that stabilizes anyone coming to an emergency department with an emergency medical condition, even if the patient doesn't have insurance or the ability to pay. Hospitals can be investigated by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for violations.

The patient can be discharged when the clinicians have determined that any further care can be provided as an outpatient, "provided the individual is given a plan for appropriate follow-up care as part of the discharge instructions,"the federal agency saidin an operations manual.

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An ABC News analysis of satellite imagery and verified videos suggest that at least 10 radar sites have been struck byIranian dronesor missiles since the start of the war, including apparent damage to radar systems that rely on rare components and cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

While the extent of the damage cannot be verified, available imagery suggests that Iranian drones and missiles have been successful in targeting some of the facilities that house the sensitive equipment.

"It is incredibly expensive, really delicate and unbelievably vulnerable," said William Alberque, who previously served as the director of NATO's Arms Control, Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation Centre.

The scope of the damage remains unclear in part because major satellite companies that normally provide images to media have imposed delays and geographic constraints on the release of new information in and around Iran. Since the conflict began, Planet Labs imposed a 14-day delay in releasing images from the region, while Vantor does not share imagery of U.S. military locations.

A defense official told ABC News, "we do not discuss potential battle damage assessments."

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High resolution imagery released prior to March 5 and lower quality images that remain available suggest that Iran and its proxies have been able to inflict damage to bases hosting U.S. troops across the Middle East. An ABC News analysis verified over 25 locations hit across seven bases in five countries, including logistical buildings, hangars and fuel storage containers.

According to available imagery, Iran and its proxies have targeted radar systems in at least seven Middle Eastern countries, including damage to multiple AN/TPY-2 radar systems – which support THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) missile defense systems – and an AN/FPS-132 Phased Array Radar in Qatar.

"We knew going in that the Iranians were going to try to use their drones to target our high value targets such as this," said Tom Karako, the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "If you can take out the radar, you take out its eyes and it disables the whole THAAD battery. If it doesn't know where to shoot, if it can't see the threats coming in, it cannot direct the interceptors to go get them."

'Partially blinded'

The United States and its allies rely on a patchwork of radar and satellite systems to detect incoming threats, according to experts, and the intentional redundancy of some of the systems allows for the continued detection of threats, even if some systems go offline.

However, damage to some of the more critical elements of the U.S.-operated missile-defense infrastructure could diminish the ability to detect threats or decrease the amount of advanced warning the systems provide, experts told ABC News.

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Satellite images from the initial days of the conflict suggest Iran attempted to target and potentially damaged some of those vital systems. A satellite image from March 1 of Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia showed a plume of smoke from a building that, as of January of this year, according to satellite imagery, housed an AN/TPY-2 radar system. It is not clear from satellite images if the targeted building had a radar system at the time of the strike.

Satellite imagery from two locations near Abu Dhabi and Al Sader in the United Arab Emirates, on March 1, indicates radar sites were hit there as well. A review of satellite imagery indicates radar systems have been present in these locations since 2016 and 2018, and equipment can periodically be seen on imagery outside vehicle sheds.

Lower quality imagery from the Muwaffaq al Salti base in Jordan from March 2 showed damage to some of the buildings that house the AN/TPY-2 radar equipment there. A Jordanian source confirmed to ABC News that the radar system was damaged.

Satellite imagery of Camp Arifjan inKuwait, captured on March 4, shows multiple radar domes appearing damaged, which was confirmed by Kuwait.  Similarly, satellite images captured on March 9, show damage to what appears to be satellite dishes at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

"Taking out one TPY-2 does not take down your theater missile defense capability. It just reduces, you're just partially blinded," said Alberque. "You can network together your radar picture in order to cue targeting pretty well, but you would just always rather have the exquisite capabilities," referring to high-end capacity.

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An Iranian strike also appeared to damage part of an AN/FPS-132 Phased Array Radar in Umm Dahal, Qatar, according to satellite imagery captured on March 3, analyzed by Sam Lair, a researcher with the open-source intelligence team at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Lair, sharing his analysis with ABC News, identified debris from damage to the northeastern face of the radar, as well as water runoff from firefighting efforts.

'A cat-and-mouse game'

While the extent of the damage to those radar systems remains unclear, experts told ABC News that the success of some of the drone strikes highlights the challenges faced by the U.S. in deploying the sensitive and inherently vulnerable equipment.

In order to function, radar systems need to be able to transmit and receive radio waves, and the radiation they emit can serve as a beacon for certain kinds of missiles.

"You can't just pile up a bunch of concrete around the radar and expect it to then continue to function. It is a bit of a cat and mouse game as in the nature of air and missile defense," said Karako.

In addition to being vulnerable to attacks, radar systems are expensive, time-intensive to produce, and often rely on rare-earth minerals that are in limited supply, experts noted.

Videos and satellite imagery reviewed by ABC News show extensive damage to radar equipment at the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain. A video posted on social media shows the moment an apparent drone struck a radome on Feb. 28, the first day of the conflict.

According to theMissile Defense Agency,the U.S. Army currently has eight THAAD batteries, with two committed to Guam and South Korea on a long term basis. Each AN/TPY-2 radar – which is the main sensor for a THAAD battery – costs approximately half a billion dollars, according to publicly available DoD documents.

The AN/FPS-132 that was potentially damaged in Qatar appears to be the only one in the region and was purchased in a 2013 deal reportedly valued at $1.1 billion, according to DoD disclosures to Congress and a trade publication in 2017.

According to Sam Lair,  the importance of the radar systems and their vulnerability make them prime targets for Iran.

"Targeting radars in the gulf makes sense for the Iranians. If they can degrade those, then they will have made it much more difficult for the U.S. and Gulf allies to detect, characterize, and defend against missile attacks," he said.

'You're always fighting the last war'

According to Alberque, the damage to radar systems sustained during the initial days of the conflict demonstrates the changing threat faced by the U.S. and its allies in the region from Iranian drones.

"It was designed under a threat paradigm from the 90s and 2000s," Alberque said about the U.S. missile defense in the region.

"You are always fighting the last war – well, the TPY-2 is fighting the last level of threat. I think going forward the US is probably ... going to look at missile defense that is more mobile, modular, easy to replace and easy to defend," he said. "I think that is the issue here -- it's a legacy system designed for the wrong threat environment.

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The impact of the potential damage to radar systems remains to be seen, with available data providing an inconclusive picture of if Iran has become more successful in evading missile defense systems.

The United Arab Emirates – which initially disclosed the number of drones and missiles Iran intercepted and total numbers – saw a steep increase in the number of projectiles making it through their defenses on March 10. Two expensive radar systems were visibly damaged in the country on the first day of the war.

Until March 9, data compiled by ABC News using publicly available UAE Ministry of Defense statements showed that roughly 5% of projectiles were penetrating the UAE's defenses. On March 10, the data showed a sudden steep increase, with 25% of projectiles making it through. After this, the UAE stopped publishing complete data, only publishing a number of drones and missiles "engaged."

Although data overall appear to indicate a drop-off in the number of Iranian drones and missiles targeting Gulf countries, it is difficult to draw precise conclusions because the data released by most countries is not complete.

Saudi Arabia is one exception to this apparent drop in numbers. The country reported intercepting an average of 13 drones a day in the first week. This number has trended upward and on Saturday, March 14 alone, it reported intercepting 56 drones.