Flyleaf frontwoman Lacey Sturm has shared a live video capturing an onstage collaboration with Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch during her February solo show in Pittsburgh.
Welch joined Sturm and her band for a rendition of the Flyleaf song “I’m So Sick” mashed-up with Korn’s “Blind.”
You can watch the performance streaming on YouTube.
Sturm has been touring in support of her latest solo effort, 2023’s Kenotic Metanoia. She reunited with Flyleaf in 2022 following a 10-year absence from the band.
When she was performing in Sydney, Australia, Dua Lipa covered “Never Tear Us Apart” by Aussie rockers INXS, and now she’s paid homage to another local artist, this time in New Zealand.
The pop star was playing the second of two shows at Spark Arena in Auckland on Friday when she decided to cover the Crowded House classic “Don’t Dream It’s Over.” This time she got some help for her cover, bringing out Crowded House frontman Neil Finn, who also penned the tune.
“Don’t Dream It’s Over,” off Crowded House’s 1986 self-titled debut, reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987, eight years before Dua was born.
Dua has been performing songs by local artists throughout her tour Down Under. In addition to the INXS and Crowded House tunes, she covered AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” in Melbourne, Australia, and Lorde’s “Royals” at her first show in Auckland on Wednesday.
Hailey Whitters is proudly wearing the mantle of Corn Queen on her new album.
“Fans started calling me the ‘Corn Queen’ because I’m from Iowa,” the “Everything She Ain’t” hitmaker explains. “At first, it seemed kind of silly, but the more I thought about it, the more I loved the duality of it. Corn is this simple, humble crop, and ‘queen’ implies royalty passed down through blood.”
“I come from a long line of blue-collar farmers and construction workers,” she continues. “I’ve been out here for over a decade brushing my teeth in truck stop bathrooms, sleeping on hotel floors, driving myself from gig to gig. It’s not glamorous, but I’m proud of it. I like the idea of a queen with a little grit and elbow grease.”
“High on a Heartbreak” is the latest preview of the 16-track Corn Queen, which drops June 6.
(NEW YORK) — President Donald Trump on Friday said he is extending the deadline for TikTok to be banned or sold off by its Chinese-owned parent company, ByteDance.
The previous April 5 deadline will be pushed 75 days, Trump said in a post to his social media platform. It’s the second time he has pushed the deadline since taking office.
“My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress. The Deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed, which is why I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days,” Trump wrote.
The move comes as Walmart is actively considering joining a group of investors to buy TikTok, according to sources close to the deal, who say Walmart’s interest was triggered by Amazon throwing their hat into the ring.
Back in 2020, Walmart said it was teaming up with Microsoft to make a bid for TikTok. The app would give the retail giant access to hundreds of millions of consumers who could become their customers and audiences for their advertisements, in a boost to their e-commerce business.
The Trump administration is considering a deal to save TikTok that would have China maintaining control of the algorithm that will be leased to a U.S. company, with a minority ownership stake, a source close to the deal told ABC News.
It’s unclear if that proposal follows the bipartisan law that Congress passed, which forces TikTok’s Chinese parent company to sell the wildly popular social media platform or face a ban in the U.S.
Sources say there are several investors interested in jumping in to purchase TikTok, including Amazon, Oracle and Applovin. A source close to the deal also says that Tim Stokely, the founder of the adult website OnlyFans, has also made a late-stage bid for TikTok.
The White House and Walmart have not immediately responded to requests for comment.
On Thursday, Trump hinted that his recently announced tariffs on China could be a negotiating tactic to achieve a deal on a TikTok sale.
“If somebody said that we’re going to give you something that’s so phenomenal, as long as they’re giving us something, that’s good,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One.
“We have a situation with TikTok where China will probably say, ‘We’ll approve a deal, but will you do something on the tariff?'” he said. “The tariffs give us great power to negotiate.”
Even if Trump approves a deal, China will still need to sign off on it. U.S.-China relations are tense, with the US about to hit China with a whopping 54% tariff. China is now retaliating with its own 34% tariffs on imports from the U.S.
“We hope to continue working in Good Faith with China, who I understand are not very happy about our Reciprocal Tariffs,” Trump wrote in his social media post on Friday.
“We do not want TikTok to ‘go dark.’ We look forward to working with TikTok and China to close the Deal,” he added.
(WASHINGTON) — Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said in a message to staff on Friday that he’s “expanded” the scope of his investigation into the office’s handling of cases stemming from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — and likened them to the government’s internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, according to an email obtained by ABC News.
Martin, whose nomination is still pending confirmation by the Senate, has dubbed his investigation the “1512 Project,” referring to the felony obstruction charge used against hundreds of Capitol attack defendants that was later narrowed by the Supreme Court.
“We have contacted lawyers, staff and judges about this — and sought their feedback,” Martin wrote in his email. “One called the bi-partisan rejection of the 1512 charge the ‘greatest failure of legal judgement since FDR and his Attorney General put American citizens of Japanese descent in prison camps — and seized their property.’ I agree and that’s why we continue to look at who ordered the 1512 and why. A lot to do.”
Fifteen of the 16 judges at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, including several Trump appointees, previously upheld the application of the 1512 charge for Jan. 6 defendants whose conduct, prosecutors argued, crossed the line beyond simple misdemeanor trespassing offenses.
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, also joined Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in dissenting from the court’s majority opinion to say that the obstruction of an official proceeding charge was properly applied to describing Congress’ certification of the presidential election.
Martin further told staff in his email that he has “been asked to look into leaks that took place during the January 6th prosecutions,” which he claimed were “used by the media and partisans as misinformation.”
“It was bad all around. (One participant said she believed the media was in a frenzy for attention like during the OJ Simpson trial),” Martin said.
The email is just the latest in a series of controversial actions by Martin that has thrown one of the most important and high-profile U.S. attorney’s offices in the country into turmoil.
Martin, a “Stop the Steal” promoter who represented several defendants charged in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, has leveled numerous public threats to investigate Democratic lawmakers and sent menacing letters to critics of President Donald Trump.
Among those who have received letters from Martin in which he suggested their actions were under investigation by his office are Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., and Rep. Eugene Vindman, D-Va.
Earlier this week, ABC News confirmed Martin sent an informal letter to President Joe Biden’s younger brother James Biden, inquiring about the sweeping preemptive pardons he and his wife received in the waning hours of the Biden presidency.
Lenny Kravitz has dropped a new video for the track “Let It Ride,” from his latest album, Blue Electric Light, which was released in May 2024.
The clip, directed by Kravitz, is set in a club that’s mostly bathed in red light, and features lots of beautiful people who slowly let loose and begin dancing to the tune.
Along with the video, Kravitz has released a remix of the track by Welsh DJ Jamie Jones. It is available now via digital outlets. It’s the first in a series of remixes of the song Kravitz plans to release.
“Let It Ride” is the fifth video Kravitz has released for a song from Blue Electric Light, following“TK421,” “Human,” “Paralyzed” and “Honey.”
Lenny is currently on a European tour that hits Nice, France, on Friday. He’s set to play several festival dates in the U.S. this year, starting with the Beachlife Festival in Redondo Beach, California, on May 2. A complete list of dates can be found at LennyKravitz.com.
(WASHINGTON) — When President Donald Trump announced his controversial tariffs on virtually every trading partner in the world, he repeatedly called them “reciprocal” — a response, he said, to those nations that had hit the U.S. with tariffs and hurt the American economy.
But Trump’s claim is misleading not only because some of the nations hit with tariffs haven’t levied any against the U.S., but also because the math apparently used by the administration to come up the tariffs doesn’t hold up, according to several economic experts.
The White House’s list of tariffs issued against each location includes different tariff rates. In announcing the tariffs at the Rose Garden on Wednesday, Trump claimed the numbers were calculated based on “the combined rate of all their tariffs, non-monetary barriers and other forms of cheating.” Trump added that he was being “kind,” and divided that number in half and called it a “discount.”
The calculations for almost all of the tariffs was determined by dividing trade deficit of each nation with the value of its imports, according to economic experts’ analysis. That number was then divided in half for Trump’s “discount” for the final tariff percentage, experts said.
“Before yesterday, 99% of trade economists had never seen a formula like this before,” Oren Ziv, an assistant professor of economics at Michigan State University, told ABC News Friday.
Several economic experts and journalists blasted the formula soon after the speech, including James Surowiecki, a financial news journalist and author, who explained it in a post on X.
“So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is,” he said in his post.
The White House later put out an explanation of its calculations that said it was using the trade deficit and import figures.
“This calculation assumes that persistent trade deficits are due to a combination of tariff and non-tariff factors that prevent trade from balancing. Tariffs work through direct reductions of imports,” the White House said in a statement.
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told Fox News on Thursday about the administration’s thinking behind their policy.
“So what happened was that the U.S. Trade Representative looked at where the trade deficits were and adjusted the tariffs in order to respond to the national emergency that I think we all agree about,” he said.
Ziv said this logic does not fit with any modern definition of trade deficits.
“When economists study trade deficiency, they don’t find any evidence for this rationale,” he said.
Ziv noted that trade deficits are more related to the markets rather than exports and imports and manufacturing.
Ziv said the formula is not very likely to yield the results that the administration is seeking.
“Since World War II, most industrial countries have followed a consistent set of rules of trade policies. Essentially, they learned that trade wars don’t help anyone,” he said.
Dua Lipa continued her trend of covering songs by local acts during her April 4 show in New Zealand.
Having previously performed Lorde‘s “Royals” at her first show in Auckland on April 2, Dua raised the bar for Friday’s show: She didn’t just perform a tune by a famous New Zealand musical act, she did it with the guy who originally wrote and sang it.
The song in question is “Don’t Dream It’s Over” by New Zealand band Crowded House, which hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987, eight years before Dua was born. Dua sang it as a duet with Neil Finn, the frontman for the band, who also penned the tune. You can watch the duet on the Live Nation TikTok account for New Zealand.
Dua is next set to perform in Spain and France; she speaks a least a little bit of both Spanish and French, so we’ll see which local songs she chooses to cover while she’s there.
There’s a little bit of family tradition mixed into the new track from Brothers Osborne, “Finish This Drink.”
“When my brother and I were little our dad would always say that he would leave as soon as he finished his drink only to be there for the rest of the night,” TJ Osborne explains.
“Fast-forward to a few years ago,” he continues. “I was grabbing a ‘couple drinks’ with [The Cadillac Three‘s] Jaren Johnston when a couple drinks turned into getting back home at 4 AM, and then I thought, ‘Well the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.'”
A couple days later the song came to TJ while he was having breakfast alone at Waffle House. “I just started singing the chorus to myself and I had to go into the bathroom to record the idea so I wouldn’t forget it,” he recalls.
“Finish This Drink” is the first new music from Brothers Osborne since the Break Mine EP came out in March 2024. The siblings produced it themselves, and it was recorded at John Osborne‘s new studio, Pine Box.
Combs was arrested last year after being charged in a sprawling sex trafficking indictment. He has denied all allegations and pleaded not guilty to both previous indictments.
The new indictment against Combs adds an additional charge of sex trafficking and an additional charge of transportation to engage in prostitution, exposing Combs to the possibility of additional prison time if convicted.
The additional counts relate to an individual identified as Victim-2 and bring the total number of counts Combs faces to five.
