This year's Miss USA and Miss Teen USA are the first pageants to be held under the leadership of the organization’s new CEO, Thom Brodeur Last year's Miss USA winner, Alma Cooper, is bucking tradition ...

On Feb. 17, former Miss USA Alma Cooper posted a video of her crowning ceremony, marking one of the few times she's referenced her 2024 win In the caption of her post, the Stanford University graduate ...

Miss Michigan 2024 Alma Cooper, the 2024 Miss USA winner, skipped this year's Miss USA pageant after posting her intentions on Instagram, breaking the long tradition of crowning her successor, Miss ...

The newly crowned title Miss USA is researching "food insecurity, health, and nutrition" at Stanford University Susan Young is a reporter. She started contributing to PEOPLE in 2008, covering ...

Last year's Miss USA winner, Alma Cooper, is bucking tradition and will not attend the 2025 pageant to crown her successor. Hours before Miss USA's final round on Friday, Oct. 24, the Stanford student ...

Miss USA 2024 Alma Cooper revealed that she wouldn’t attend the iconic pageant or crown her successor in Nevada on Friday night — just hours before the event started. Cooper made the “extremely ...

Speaking with PEOPLE, Cooper says that both Noelia Voigt and UmaSofia Srivastava have reached out to her and "been nothing but kind" Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. Susan ...

Miss USA claims they made “multiple attempts” to include their 2024 winner in this year’s ceremony and knew well in advance she wouldn’t attend — as questions remained about Alma Cooper’s shock snub ...

Alma Cooper M.S. ’25, a Knight-Hennessy scholar and an aspiring data scientist, just added another title to her name: Miss USA. From studying food insecurity to sparkling on stage, Cooper exemplifies ...

Alma Cooper, a US Army military intelligence officer, is the new Miss USA. Cooper told BI she competed in her first pageant in a dress she found on Facebook Marketplace. She held onto her pageant ...