Travis Scott performs onstage during Fanatics Fest NYC 2026 at Jacob Javits Center on July 19, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Fanatics)
Travis Scott has released a new line of merch honoring Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.
The limited-edition capsule, available for one week only, features T-shirts, a tote bag and a long-sleeved Cactus Jack shirt.
Travis also designed two sneakers exclusively for the film’s cast and crew: the Cactus Jack x The Odyssey x Nike Moon Shoe and the Cactus Jack x The Odyssey x Nike ACG Moc.
His short film for “When I’m Home” featuring James Blake and Ludwig Göransson, which plays during the film’s end credits, is also out now.
In The Odyssey, Travis takes on the role of a bard, a professional storyteller or a singer who composed and recited verses.
“I wanted somebody on-screen who would be reciting words and holding attention in the room in a very credible way, that we can relate to in today’s world, so that we would understand the drama and the emotion that comes from storytelling through poetry,” Nolan previously told Variety. “If you view it in rarefied terms, if you elevate it and have some very formal version of what a bard in the palace of Ithaca might be, I would find that alienating.”
U.S. President Donald Trump at a Cabinet meeting at Camp David, the presidential retreat, on July 31, 2026 in Camp David, Maryland. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Friday blamed Minnesota’s Democratic governor for cyberattacks on the state’s water systems even though U.S. officials previously told ABC News authorities are investigating whether Iran or hackers associated with the country could be behind them.
“We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don’t think so. I think, I blame it on Minnesota because they’re grossly incompetent,” Trump said a Cabinet meeting at Camp David.
More than 30 water systems in Minnesota were targeted in a cyberattack Sunday and Monday according to Minnesota IT Services (MNIT).
MNIT said the attackers targeted systems to remotely monitor and control equipment, including the programmable logic controllers (PLCs).
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in an alert Thursday that cyber threat actors are targeting PLCs and modifying passwords to “to lock out operators.”
Despite the warnings, Trump laid the blame on Minnesota and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz.
“I think that Minnesota ought to get its act together. It’s one of the worst run states,” he told ABC News’ Mary Bruce when she asked about the attack.
Walz pushed back against Trump in statements on social media Friday.
“Trump knows exactly who is responsible for this attack, and knows that other states were hit too. This is what modern warfare looks like, and it further illustrates there’s no plan to win a war with Iran,” he said.
The governor also noted federal cuts by the The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) weakened cyber security.’
“DOGE took an axe to CISA and left the U.S. exposed to cyber attacks. Thankfully, our experts in Minnesota were able to identify the vulnerability quickly and work with local communities to stop it,” he said.
MNIT said there are no active requests from Minnesota localities for residents to change their water use and that it is working with federal investigators in the probe. The agency said it has not determined who was responsible.
“In this situation, ‘impacted’ means investigators confirmed malicious activity involving a system’s technology. It does not mean every affected community experienced a disruption to water service,” MNIT said in a statement Thursday.
Former Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman is giving fans a preview of his upcoming album, Return to the Red Planet, with the release of the new song “The Jezero Crater.”
Return to the Red Planet, dropping Oct. 16, is the second time Wakeman has released an album inspired by Mars. The first, The Red Planet, was released in 2020.
The new album is described as “a sweeping new progressive work that fuses science, imagination, and musical virtuosity.” The description adds that it’s inspired by “the remarkable images and research that have transformed our understanding of Mars in recent years.”
“Once I started looking at the new data and photographs, I realised there was an entirely new album waiting to be written,” Wakeman explained when the album was announced. “There was simply too much more to say about Mars – musically and spiritually – not to return.”
On the album, Wakeman is backed by The English Rock Ensemble, made up of bassist Lee Pomeroy, guitarist Dave Colquhoun, drummer Adam Falkner and vocalist Mollie Marriott, daughter of English musician Steve Marriott.
Patriot launchers modules mounted on M983 HEMTT, part of the U.S.-made MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, are pictured on a open field on Feb. 18, 2023, in Zamosc, Poland. (Photo by Omar Marques/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump appeared to reverse course on his offer earlier this month to license Ukraine to produce Patriot missiles, saying during a Friday Cabinet meeting that “we have not agreed to that.”
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Cardi B’s “Ah Ha” is out now, following a great response to the song’s teaser. “AH HA is out RIGHT NOW!! Go run it up in the clubs… the weddings.. the funerals!!!” she wrote on her socials.
Isaiah Falls released LVRS PARADISE: SIDE B, the second part of his debut album, LVRS PARADISE: SIDE A. He’s also dropped the video for “HoneyButter” featuring Mahalia, which draws inspiration from the song’s flirtatious lyric, “red wine, some smoke in the room and acting like lovers do,” according to a press release.
Jacquees has dropped Mood 2, the sequel to his 2016 Mood mixtape. “10 years later… what started as a mixtape is finally an album. Some music never leaves you, it just waits for the right time. Thank y’all for keeping MOOD alive,” he says in a statement. BLXST, Kodak Black, NOBY, Rob49 and Ty Dolla $ign are among the guests on the album.
Skilla Baby’s out with “Show Me Love,” from The Price of Fame, arriving Aug. 21. It’s described in a press release as “a snapshot of the artist as he stands now: grateful, grown, on his grind, and without a single second to spare for haters and fake friends.”
Too $hort dropped SIR TOO $HORT, VOL. 2 – DRINK & SMOKE, featuring lead single “Out Tonight” with King George, about “wanting to have a night out on the town with a special lady,” according to a press release. Guests include E-40, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Tyga, Saweetie, Lil Jon and comedian Godfrey.
Carly Simon is offering up another preview of her upcoming album, Comes in Waves.
The latest is the single “Peaches,” which is now available via digital outlets. It is the second song she’s released from the album, following “Howl.”
“One day, I turned on the drum function and improvised ‘Peaches’ on the spot, which is the opposite way I usually compose music,” Simon said of the song’s origins. “The lesson here may be that underthinking a song can sometimes guide you down a strange, fearless road.”
According to Simon, “Peaches” is about “getting what you always wanted… and realizing you’d rather be home under the covers dreaming about these things.”
Comes in Waves, Simon’s first album of original music in 18 years, is due out Aug. 14. Her last album of new material was 2008’s This Kind of Love.
The song release comes just days after Simon announced that she has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
“So many people have written to me, kindly wondering about my relative silence, asking how I am and what I have been doing,” she said on July 27. “The truth is, I’ve been learning how to live with Parkinson’s disease.”
“Parkinson’s is different for everyone, and it can be unpredictable,” she added. “Some days I’m so tired I can’t get the day moving at all. On others, it gives me a little more room to move, think, work, and feel like myself.”
Ariel Gonzalez Rodriguez has been charged with manslaughter with a firearm, months after he allegedly shot and killed neighbor. (Collier County Sheriff’s Office)
(NEW YORK) — A man has been charged with manslaughter months after he allegedly shot and killed his neighbor, mistaking him for a bear, according to an arrest affidavit.
Ariel Gonzalez Rodriguez, 25, was charged on Tuesday for the March killing of his neighbor Jason Sheffield in Naples, Florida.
Rodriguez’s wife, Katherin Hidalgo, told investigators that she heard a noise around midnight and was worried a wild animal was attacking the farm animals she has in her backyard, so she woke her husband up to investigate, according to the affidavit.
After leaving the house with a smaller caliber rifle, Rodriguez — who was 24 at the time — returned to tell his wife he believed it may have been a bear, before retrieving a larger caliber rifle, according to the affidavit.
Rodriguez told investigators he fired a single round from the larger rifle to the ground. Rodriguez then alleged he believed the noise was walking closer and that he was about to be attacked, prompting him to shoot a round in the direction of his neighbor’s property at about waist level, according to the affidavit.
Hidalgo told investigators she heard at least two gunshots before her husband returned to the residence, according to the affidavit.
Hidalgo told investigators that Rodriguez told her whatever was making the noise — which he believed might have been a bear — began approaching him, so he shot off a “couple of warning shots,” according to the affidavit.
“According to Katherin, Ariel did not further investigate because he feared he might have wounded the bear and did not want to risk getting attacked. He told Katherin he would go check in the morning,” the affidavit said.
Around 8 a.m. the next day, Rodriguez explored his property but did not see anything. He then proceeded to explore his neighbor’s property, where he discovered his neighbor lying face down with blood on his body, according to the affidavit.
In the morning, Rodriguez told his wife he had shot someone before dialing 911, according to the affidavit.
Rodriguez dialed 911 and stayed on the phone with dispatchers until deputies arrived. Rodriguez was brought in on the charge of manslaughter with a firearm, according to the affidavit.
“Ariel was frantic as he informed the dispatcher that he shot off a gun yesterday at a noise he believed to be a bear, but now believed he accidentally shot his neighbor,” investigators wrote in an arrest affidavit.
When officers responded to the scene, Rodriguez and his wife were handcuffed, detained and placed in the back of separate patrol vehicles, according to the affidavit.
Investigators found the neighbor dead, lying face down in an overgrown patch of vegetation behind a chicken coop. He appeared to have blood on the back of his shirt, according to the affidavit.
Ariana Grande recently said she wrote her new album, petal, from a place of “unfiltered rage.” She definitely shows that off in the video for the title track, which may be a commentary on the singer’s relationship with the public, the music industry, or both.
In the clip, Ari is Pepper, an aspiring actress who shows up at an audition with dozens of other women. The first time she tries out, the old, ugly men judging her stamp her application with the words “Not Good Enough.” But she keeps coming back wearing multiple outfits, one of which seems to be a direct reference to Sandy’s “bad girl” fit in Grease.
Finally, the music stops and the men start telling her why what she’s doing isn’t working.
One says, “There’s something about you — you give off this feeling that is completely—” “It’s unmarketable!” barks another. “Unattractive,” says another. “Inauthentic,” adds another.
“The way you used to be, I miss that,” says the first man. “We miss the old you,” says another man. “Maybe you could go out and find her and give her another shot, huh?”
Then the first guy adds, “You should try singing tenor. Ten or 15 miles from here.”
“OK. Thank you,” says Ariana. She pulls out a chainsaw from a bag at her feet, starts it up, and slices and chops the men to death. As she emerges from the audition room soaked in blood, all the other women cheer, while the secretary says, “Good for you, b***!”
Next, Ari’s sitting in a Chinese restaurant, still covered in blood, opening a fortune cookie that says, “You bloom wherever you are planted.” The camera pulls back and we see that the whole thing was a movie.
As director Christian Breslauer congratulates Ari on her performance, she leaves the studio, stepping over a star on Hollywood Boulevard that reads “Pepper”; a flower grows out of a crack in the pavement.
Donna Massey, the mother of shooting victim Sonya Massey, is comforted during a press conference at New Mount Pilgrim Church on July 30, 2024, in Chicago. Sonya Massey was shot in the head and killed in her home by Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson after she called police to report a possible prowler. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — Sean Grayson, the former Illinois sheriff’s deputy who was convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal 2024 shooting of Sonya Massey, was on Friday denied early release by a prisoner review board.
“I am writing to confirm that the Board voted 3-0 to deny Sean Grayson’s medical release application,” an Illinois Prisoner Review Board spokesperson said in a statement to ABC News. “He will remain in custody.”
Grayson had asked for an early release because he has cancer. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison in January, after his conviction last October.
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Three decades after Deana Carter first served the world “Strawberry Wine,” it’s time for another drink.
To celebrate the classic’s July 1996 release, it returns in its first-ever remix by New York-based country DJ/producer Deerock.
“I cannot believe it’s been 30 years!” Deana says. “I am so grateful that ‘Strawberry Wine’ & my debut album have become the soundtrack of an era for so many people! I am blown away by all the fans that have carried this song through the years, passed it down and shared it with a whole new generation!”
The first single from the quintuple-Platinum Did I Shave My Legs for This? would go on to top the chart and win CMA single of the year in 1997.
“I’m super excited about our new remix with Deerock,” Deana adds. “It’s a fun, fresh way to celebrate such an anthem of the 90’s! Like a fine wine, may we get better with age and cheers to another round of ‘Strawberry Wine!’ Thank y’all for such an amazing ride!”
