Aunt Vivian is putting her mental health first in the fourth and final season of Bel-Air. Cassandra Freeman, who plays Aunt Viv on the Peacock series, tells ABC Audio the season finds her once again balancing family and ambition, but doing so on her own terms.
“I’m really big on this philosophy of the more women center themselves in their life and work, the easier life is, and I feel that a lot with Aunt Viv,” she says. “She could go back to her old ways in season 1 and only center her family, and in this [season] she’s like, ‘No, I’m gonna redo this thing.’ And she’s gonna put her own sanity and mental health in the driver’s seat, which is why she makes a lot of the decisions that she makes.”
Aunt Viv, as fans know, is the matriarch of the Banks family; the other women in the family are Hilary and Ashley, played by Coco Jones and Akira Akbar, respectively.
Coco says fans “will be gagged” by her storyline in the fourth season, especially when it comes to her relationships with LeMarcus and Jazz.
“Ithink Hilary has a lot on her shoulders this season. And it does get rocky, I can’t even lie, but it comes out with her finding a purpose and finding a reason behind all of the things,” Coco explains.
And Akira says Ashley becomes “more comfortable with who she is and her identity” while growing up and still going through “teenager problems.”
The first three episodes of Bel-Air‘s fourth season are now streaming on Peacock.
Travis Scott has a new album that he hopes will drop soon. A clip said to be filmed in Europe while he was on his Circus Maximus tour has surfaced on the web and sees him responding to whether he has recorded new music. “Oh yeah, like a whole album,” he said. As for when fans will be able to hear it, he added: “Soon, hopefully. Yeah, I made a whole album on tour.” The Circus Maximus tour, according to a Live Nation press release, has the most tickets sold on a solo rap tour and is the highest-grossing solo rap tour in history.
De La Soul stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night to perform a pair of songs from their new album, Cabin in the Sky. Posdnuos and Maseo took the stage with “Run it Back” before going into “The Package.” The performance is now available to stream on YouTube.
Nas and DJ Premier‘s collaborative album, Light-Years, is dropping on Dec. 12. The album will close out Mass Appeal’s Legend Has It series, which saw the release of seven new albums from iconic hip-hop artists, including Slick Rick and Mobb Deep. Light-Years is now available to presave, with limited physical products currently on sale.
Billy Joel, ‘Live From Long Island,’ RSD Black Friday 2025 (Legacy Recordings)
You can work off the calories after your Thanksgiving meal Thursday by walking around your local independent record store and picking up exclusive vinyls released for the 2025 Record Store Day Black Friday event. Here’s a roundup of just some of the items you can score this year.
Billy Joel is releasing his Live From Long Islandconcert as a three-LP standalone set. The 1982 show, recorded at Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum in December 1982, features most of Billy’s hits, including, “Allentown,” “Piano Man,” “Pressure,” “Big Shot,” “You May Be Right” and “Just the Way You Are.”
Who Believes In Angels? Live At The London Palladiumdocuments the March 25 concert Elton John and Brandi Carlile did at the London Palladium. It features a concert poster and live versions of songs from the duo’s Grammy-nominated album, as well as Elton hits like “Your Song,” “I’m Still Standing” and “Tiny Dancer.”
Phil Collins is releasing 12″ers, a six-track EP of extended mixes of songs from his album No Jacket Required.
Benson Boone‘s 2023 EP, Pulse, is coming to vinyl for the first time on electric yellow and bright blue splatter vinyl and includes a 12×24 poster.
Bruno Mars‘ debut EP, It’s Better If You Don’t Understand, is on vinyl for the first time. It features “Count On Me,” “Talking to the Moon” and two other tracks.
Billie Eilish is putting out live recordings from Amazon’s Songline series, which have never before had a physical release. The four-track LP includes live versions of “Birds of a Feather” and more.
Matchbox Twenty is releasingMad Season (Live 2001),a 2-LP set on truffle color vinyl documenting concert recordings from their tour promoting their second album, Mad Season. It includes hits like “If You’re Gone.”
Benson Boone, ‘Pulse,’ RSD Black Friday 2025 (Warner Records)
You can work off the calories after your Thanksgiving meal Thursday by walking around your local independent record store and picking up exclusive vinyls released for the 2025 Record Store Day Black Friday event. Here’s a roundup of just some of the items you can score this year.
Benson Boone‘s 2023 EP, Pulse, is coming to vinyl for the first time. It’s pressed on electric yellow and bright blue splatter vinyl, and it comes with a 12×24 poster.
Bruno Mars‘ debut EP, It’s Better If You Don’t Understand, is on vinyl for the first time. It features “Count On Me,” “Talking to the Moon” and two other tracks.
Billie Eilish is putting out live recordings from Amazon’s Songline series, which have never before had a physical release. The four-track LP includes live versions of “Birds of a Feather,” “Wildflower” and more.
Chappell Roan is releasing a 7″ vinyl with “The Subway” on one side and “The Giver” on the other.
Kesha has a 7″ vinyl version of her 2024 Spotify Singles cover of Lindsey Buckingham‘s “Holiday Road”; the B-side is Kesha’s unreleased version of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” which dates from 2010.
The deluxe version of Role Model‘s Kansas Anymore (The Longest Goodbye) is available as a 2-LP set on colored. It includes a few live performances, including one of “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” plus a collaboration with Laufey.
James Bay is releasing his debut album, Chaos and the Calm, featuring “Let It Go” on ruby/black marble vinyl with alternative cover art.
Matchbox Twenty is releasingMad Season (Live 2001),a 2-LP set on truffle color vinyl documenting concert recordings from their tour promoting their second album, Mad Season. It includes hits like “If You’re Gone” and “Bent.”
Jelly Roll, ‘Beautifully Broken (Pickin’ Up the Pieces),’ RSD Black Friday 2025 (Republic Records)
You can work off the calories after your Thanksgiving meal Thursday by walking around your local independent record store and picking up exclusive vinyls released for the 2025 Record Store Day Black Friday event. Here’s what’s available:
Jelly Roll is releasing Beautifully Broken (Pickin’ Up The Pieces) in a physical format for the first time. The LP is pressed on “tequila sunrise”-colored vinyl and collects the 13 tracks from the digital deluxe version of Beautifully Broken, including collaborations with Keith Urban, ERNEST and pop star Halsey.
Post Malone is releasing Long Bed, the nine tracks from the digital deluxe version of his album F-1 Trillion, physically for the first time. It’s pressed on neon orange vinyl.
Morgan Wade‘s putting out a limited-edition purple vinyl pressing of the five new songs from the deluxe edition of her 2025 album, The Party is Over (recovered). It includes “Hardwood Floor (String Session).”
Fans of ’90s country will want to get Dwight Yoakam‘s And Then I Wrote… The First Three Albums Of The ’90s, available as a four-LP boxed set. It collects If There Was a Way, This Time and Gone, and throws in a full side of rarities from the era. Those albums include hits like “Turn It On, Turn It Up Turn Me Loose,” “You’re The One,” “Nothing’s Changed Here,” “Ain’t That Lonely Yet,” “A Thousand Miles from Nowhere,” “Fast as You,” “Try Not to Look So Pretty” and “It Only Hurts Me When I Cry.”
Twenty One Pilots’ Josh Dun at 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. (Disney/Cristian Lopez)
Twenty One Pilots‘ Josh Dun has shared a drum cover of the Turnstile song “T.L.C. (TURNSTILE LOVE CONNECTION).”
The performance is featured on Dun’s YouTube channel, where he’s also posted drum covers of Metallica‘s “Master of Puppets” and Rage Against the Machine‘s “Bulls on Parade.”
“Posting songs that inspire me in some way or another. Whether that’s just a feeling or a desire to get better,” Dun says. “[Turnstile’s] Daniel Fang is a drummer worth watching to get inspired, and this song is rad.”
Dun just paid tribute to another drummer, Meg White, when Twenty One Pilots covered “Seven Nation Army” in honor of The White Stripes getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Turnstile, meanwhile, released a new album, NEVER ENOUGH, in June. It was accompanied by a visual album that premiered at the Tribeca Festival.
Thick smoke and flames rise as fire engulfs high-rise residential buildings at the Wang Fuk Court complex on November 26, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. At least 13 people are dead and dozens of others injured as a major fire engulfed a residential apartment complex in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on November 26. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
(LONDON) — At least 13 people were killed and dozens of others were injured as a massive fire engulfed a residential apartment complex in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on Wednesday, according to fire officials.
“A fire broke out at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po at 2.51 p.m. today … The fire was upgraded to No. 3 alarm at 3.02 p.m., and to No. 4 alarm at 3.34 p.m.,” according to a statement from the Hong Kong government.
By 6:22 p.m. local time the fire had been upgraded again to a No. 5 alarm, city officials said.
At least 13 people were dead, fire officials said in an update at about 8 p.m. local time. About two hours earlier, city officials had released a statement saying at least four people were dead.
Another 28 people were injured, including many who were transferred to two local hospitals, fire officials said.
One of the dead had been a firefighter who was called to the scene from nearby Sha Tin Fire Station, according to Andy Yeung, the director of Fire Services.
Yeung in a statement named the firefighter as Ho Wai-ho, 37, adding that he “was found collapsed at the scene” of the fire. He was rushed to the hospital, where he later died, Yeung said.
“The fire has resulted in many casualties, including a fireman who died in the line of duty,” Hong Kong’s Chief Executive John Lee said in a statement posted to social media, “I express my deep sadness and my deep condolences to the families of the dead and the injured.”
Secretary for Security Tang Ping-keung said in a statement that emergency departments were at the scene of the blaze. The fire department was “doing its utmost to put out the fire,” he said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed his condolences to the victims and firefighters who died in the fire in a statement. The president also extended his sympathies to the families of the victims and the affected people.
The statement said Xi had ordered authorities to “do everything possible to ensure search and rescue operations, medical treatment for the injured, and post-disaster relief, and to provide necessary assistance to relevant departments and local authorities to minimize casualties and losses.”
ABC News’ Joe Simonetti and Karson Yiu contributed to this report.
(NEW YORK) — An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 struck the southeastern portion of Hawaii’s Big Island Wednesday night just before midnight local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
The USGS said in a press release that the earthquake had a depth of about three miles underground, and that the seismic event does appear to be related to the recent Kilauea volcanic eruptions.
“The earthquake had no apparent impact on either Mauna Loa or Kīlauea volcanoes. The event followed the end of episode 37 lava fountaining on Kīlauea by 10 minutes, but does not appear directly related to the eruption. Most earthquakes in this region are caused by movement of the south flank of Kīlauea,” the press release read, in part.
Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) and Woody (Tom Hanks) in ‘Toy Story 5.’ (Walt Disney Studios)
Toy Story 5 may be headed to big screens next summer, but Tim Allen has a couple of teases to share in the meantime.
The first teaser trailer for the Pixar film arrived on Nov. 11, and it showed how everybody’s favorite toys react to their caretaker, Bonnie, receiving a frog-shaped smart tablet called Lilypad.
Allen, who has voiced Buzz Lightyear in all five Toy Story films, caught up with ABC Audio back in May, where he spoke about what fans of the franchise can expect in the upcoming sequel film.
“Look, I’m a movie buff. I don’t like sequels, and I feel that [Toy Story] 3 was really, really good. [Toy Story] 2 was great. [Toy Story] 1, of course, is my favorite. [Toy Story] 4 was scary and very emotional. And I thought we were done at Toy Story [3]. They resurrected it,” Allen said.
The actor said that Andrew Stanton, who wrote the screenplay for the second film, is directing the fifth installment.
“He pitched this. I think it’s brilliant. And I’ll speak for Tom [Hanks],” Allen said, referencing the actor who voices the toy cowboy, Woody. “Tom did his part about a week ago. I finished the second [recording] series just yesterday, a five-hour session,” Allen said.
“It’s real funny,” Allen says of Toy Story 5. “It’s a big story about Jessie, which is wonderful. We’re all separated now because of time. It’s a real, real, real clever story.”
When asked if Jessie (Joan Cusack) and Buzz Lightyear’s romance factors in to the plot of Toy Story 5, Allen says, “Yes, that’s part of this.”
Allen then went on to tease a scene from the film.
“I’ll give you this. One of the kids that plays with us is giving a wedding with all the other characters. So she puts Buzz and Jessie together. And you know, kids are just doing that. But Buzz takes it very seriously.”
Toy Story 5 rides like the wind into theaters on June 19, 2026.
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(LONDON and KYIV, Ukraine) — The Kremlin’s top foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov, confirmed there is a “preliminary agreement” for U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff — and likely Jared Kushner — to visit Moscow next week, as the White House claims momentum toward a possible Ukraine-Russia peace plan.
“As for Witkoff, I can say that a preliminary agreement has been reached that he will visit Moscow next week,” Ushakov said in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin for the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin,” broadcast on Wednesday.
“We have agreed to meet with Mr. Witkoff. I hope he will not come alone, but will be accompanied by other representatives of the American team who are working on the Ukrainian dossier, and then we will begin discussions,” Ushakov added.
Witkoff, Ushakov said, will “definitely” meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin if he comes to Moscow next week.
The interview came after Bloomberg published excerpts of a recording of purported phone call between Witkoff and Ushakov, in which Trump’s envoy appeared to offer guidance on how Putin should present the Kremlin’s plan to end the war to Trump.
Ushakov appeared to confirm the call happened but declined to comment. Ushakov also alleged that the leak was intended to undermine the ongoing peace efforts.
“I speak with Witkoff quite often, but I do not comment on the substance of our conversations because they are confidential. No one should comment on them, actually,” he said.
The reported leak was “probably” intended to “hinder” discussions, Ushakov said. “It is unlikely that this is being done to improve relations. They are now being established, with difficulty, through contacts of this kind, including by telephone.”
Ushakov denied that Russia leaked the call. “Someone is leaking them, someone is listening in, but it’s not us,” he said.
In a separate interview with Russia’s Kommersant newspaper published Wednesday, Ushakov said he regularly contacted Witkoff “via secure communication” and via WhatsApp.
Ushakov then suggested that the leak could have been organized by Witkoff’s detractors.
Trump had already told reporters on Tuesday that his envoy would travel to Russia. “Now, Steve Witkoff is going over maybe with Jared. I’m not sure about Jared going, but he’s involved in the process, smart guy, and they’re going to be meeting with President Putin, I believe, next week in Moscow,” he said.
Pressed on the Bloomberg report and concerns that Witkoff was too sympathetic to Russia’s maximalist war goals, Trump replied, “No, but that’s a standard thing, you know, because he’s got to sell this to Ukraine. He’s got to sell Ukraine to Russia. That’s what he’s, that’s what a deal maker does.”
“You got to say, look, they want this. You’ve got to convince him with this. You know, that’s a very standard form of negotiation. I haven’t heard it, but I heard it was standard negotiation, and I would imagine he’s saying the same thing to Ukraine, because each party has to give and take,” Trump added.
Asked whether Witkoff was “too pro-Russia,” Trump did not answer directly. He instead said that a deal would be beneficial for both sides, while appearing to talk up Russia’s military capabilities.
“I think, look, this war could go on for years, and Russia’s got a lot more people, a lot more soldiers,” Trump said. “So I think if Ukraine can make a deal, it’s a good thing. I think it’s great for both. Frankly, I think it’s great for both.”
Weekend talks in Geneva, Switzerland, saw American, European and Ukrainian officials meet to discuss the controversial U.S.-backed peace plan proposal put to Kyiv last week, with terms critics say would have constituted a Ukrainian capitulation.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week the blueprint “could also form the basis for a final peace settlement,” and suggested it aligned closely with the outcomes of his meeting with Trump in Alaska in August.
On Monday, a Ukrainian official close to the matter told ABC News that the original 28-point draft had been revised down to 19 points after the Geneva talks, with both American and Ukrainian representatives framing the Geneva talks as productive.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that the Geneva talks produced a “framework,” adding Kyiv is “ready to move forward together — with the United States of America, with personal engagement of President Trump, and with Europe.”
“I am ready to meet with President Trump,” Zelenskyy continued. “There are sensitive points to discuss,” he said.
After the Geneva meetings, a U.S. delegation held additional talks with Russian and Ukrainian representatives in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. A U.S. official told ABC News on Tuesday, “The Ukrainians have agreed to the peace deal … There are some minor details to be sorted out but they have agreed to a peace deal.”
A source familiar with the discussions confirmed to ABC News that Ukraine agreed to the new 19-point peace plan during the talks in Geneva, not in Abu Dhabi.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Trump did not elaborate on which issues are still to be agreed with Kyiv. “Standard things,” Trump said when asked. “But people are starting to realize it’s a good deal for both parties if they got to stop the war, they’re losing a lot of people, a lot of soldiers, mostly soldiers.”
Pressed about Ukraine ceding land to Russia, Trump hinted at land swaps and called the overall process “complicated” and said it “doesn’t go that quickly.”
Trump also did not say what concessions Moscow is being asked to make. “They’re making concessions. They’re big concessions. You say stop fighting, and they don’t take any more land again,” the president said.
As to future security guarantees for Ukraine, Trump said the issue is being discussed with European countries. “Europe will be largely involved in that,” he said. “We’re working that out with Europe. Europe really wants to see it end, if possible.”
Moscow is yet to officially comment on the new 19-point plan. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned on Tuesday that “if the spirit and letter of Anchorage are removed in terms of the key understandings that we have established, then, of course, it will be a fundamentally different situation.”
In his interview with Zarubin broadcast on Wednesday, Ushakov said the new plan was “passed on to us,” as quoted by Russia’s state-run Tass news agency. But the Kremlin aide added that the plan “hasn’t been discussed in detail with anyone yet.”
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, meanwhile, told reporters on Wednesday it is “too early to say” that the warring parties may be nearing a deal, according to Tass.
ABC News’ Luis Martinez, Hannah Demissie and Anna Sergeeva contributed to this report.
