Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky prepares to pose for a family photo before a cultural performance and concert during the G7 Summit on June 16, 2026 in Evian-les-Bains, France. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images)
(LONDON) — The Ukrainian military struck a Russian oil refinery in Ufa on Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as Kyiv continues its pressure campaign seeking to push Russia to end the war.
“This is an entirely just response to everything Russia is doing against us,” Zelenskyy said on social media. “Peace is needed, and this is exactly what Russia’s leadership must realize. Russia must end its war.”
The Russian Defense Ministry did not appear on Wednesday to publicly comment on the attack, but said in a message on Telegram that its forces had shot down or otherwise destroyed at least 179 Ukrainian drones over Russian or Russian-occupied territory overnight.
The refinery, which Zelenskyy said was one of Russia’s largest producers of lubricants, sits more than 1,300 km, or about 800 miles, from the frontline.
Ukraine overnight also launched an aerial strike at a military complex in the Penza region, where Russia develops and manufactures components related to missiles, Zelenskyy said.
The General Staff of Ukraine’s military said the target was an aerospace facility known by its Russian acronym, NIIFI. The site is used to build sensors for some cruise and ballistic missiles, as well as satellite components, Ukraine said.
“Hits and smoke were recorded at the facility,” the General Staff said in a Ukrainian-language update posted on social media. “This is a leading Russian enterprise in the field of space, aviation and military instrument-making.”
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is headed to streaming. The animated movie based on the popular Nintendo franchise will make its streaming debut to Peacock on July 30. The sequel film features a voice cast that includes Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Brie Larson, Donald Glover and Glen Powell. It finds Mario and Luigi traveling across the galaxy to save Rosalina from threats like Bowser Jr. …
The Reacher spinoff Neagley has received a release date on Prime Video. The new action series will premiere on Sept. 16. Additionally, season 4 of Reacher will debut its first three episodes on Aug. 12, followed by weekly new episodes that culminate with Neagley‘s debut. Maria Sten stars as the fan-favorite character Frances Neagley, a private investigator from Chicago and the former protégé of Jack Reacher …
There’s a new showrunner in town. Deadline reports that Dutton Ranch has found a brand-new showrunner in Benjamin Cavell. This comes after Paramount+ renewed its Yellowstone spinoff series for season 2 in June. Chad Feehan, who served as season 1 showrunner, exited the show ahead of its premiere …
Josh Ross’ “Hate How You Look” (MCA/CORE Records/Universal Music Canada)
Josh Ross has already enjoyed multiple number ones in his native Canada and been crowned entertainer of the year twice by the Canadian Country Music Association.
But success in the States can prove more elusive, making Josh’s second trip to the top in the U.S. even more significant.
“I just wanted to say thank you guys so very much [for] my second number one with ‘Hate How You Look,'” he said in a message to radio and his fans. “It’s just amazing to see what we’ve done in the last two years, and I wouldn’t be here without you guys.”
“It’s been incredible to see the music translate on the road,” he continues, “watching the fans grow every weekend for my own shows, and while we’re out opening and supporting other artists. So thank you guys so much.”
“Here’s to the next one, and here’s to the next — oh my gosh — hopefully 20, 30 years playing music for you guys,” he adds.
Josh first topped the U.S. country chart with “Single Again” in July 2025. It was the first time a Canadian male artist had topped the chart in nearly 30 years. It’s been more than 50 years since anyone’s made it two in a row.
Guitarist Phil Collen of Def Leppard performs at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on February 03, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Denise Truscello/Getty Images for Live Nation Las Vegas)
Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen is giving fans some insight into the band’s next record.
During an interview with the Thunder Underground podcast, Collen discussed the new album they’ve been working on. He notes that their latest single, “Rejoice,” which was released in January, is “one style of a song that’s on there.”
As for the rest, he says, “There’s some stuff on there that’s, like, ‘Whoa.’ You’d go, ‘This is really wacky.’ And so, I like that.”
“I love the fact that we’ve kind of, not got brave, but we haven’t got scared to express ourselves,” he adds. “Whoever writes whatever song, everyone puts 100% into it. So it kind of, again, takes on another life when you do that as well.”
He says that when it comes him and his bandmates writing songs “everyone gets involved.”
“It’s really diplomatic and it’s a democracy,” he explains. “But good ideas win.”
So far there’s no word on when Def Leppard will be releasing their new album. The record will be the first album of new material since 2022’s Diamond Star Halos.
In the meantime, Def Leppard is currently on a tour of Europe and the U.K. and will play the O2 in London on Thursday. A complete list of dates can be found at DefLeppard.com.
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson attends 3rd Annual Gotham Television Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on June 01, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
50 Cent has another television series in the works at Starz. He’s teamed with the network for the television adaptation of Cullen Bunn and Jonas Scharf’s supernatural graphic crime novel Bone Parish.
Set in the underworld of New Orleans, the series will follow the Winters family, who build a criminal empire around a new drug that allows users to experience vivid, haunting visions of the past. As demand for the product grows, the family becomes trapped in what a press release describes as “a violent and inescapable nightmare of crime, horror, and family legacy.”
“I’ve always been drawn to stories that break the mold, and Bone Parish does exactly that,” 50 said in a statement. “It takes crime, family, and power, and mixes it with something dark and supernatural, in a way that feels fresh. Exploring what happens when the world of the living gets mixed up with the world of the dead, this story has incredible depth, and we’re building a series that’s going to keep audiences locked in from the first episode.”
50 will executive produce through G-Unit Film & Television with Stephen Christy and Mette Norkjaer from BOOM! Studios, the publisher of the graphic novel, as well as co-showrunners Diane Ademu-John and Declan de Barra.
Bone Parish is the latest addition to 50 Cent’s Starz shows, where Power Book III: Raising Kanan is currently airing. He also serves as executive producer on Fightland, which follows British-born boxer Duke Kilroy as he returns home from jail seeking revenge against the man he believes was responsible for his brother’s death. The show is set to premiere on July 31.
Two more of his shows, Power: Legacy and Power: Origins, have also been greenlit.
Noah Wyle as Dr. Robby in season 2 of ‘The Pitt.’ (Warrick Page/HBO Max)
Some new actors are clocking in for a shift at The Pitt.
Pruitt Taylor Vince, Malachi Beasley, Cheyenne Perez, Jeremy Radin, Charlz Williams and Rosanny Zayas have joined the recurring cast of The Pitt season 3, ABC Audio has confirmed.
Vince will plat Lance Candella, an emergency department patient; Beasley will play student doctor Taj Osei; Perez will play student doctor Marisol Elena Sambrano Monterossa; Radin will play Grant Emerson, an emergency department patient; Williams will play Angus Gunn, an emergency department patient; and Zayas will play physician assistant Vera Delgado.
HBO Max renewed The Pitt for season 3 back in January. Each season of the series takes place over the course of a single 15-hour shift in the emergency room at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. Every episode takes place during one of the hours of that specific shift.
According to its official logline, “The Pitt is a realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh.”
Season 2 of the medical drama starred Noah Wyle, Patrick Ball, Katherine LaNasa, Supriya Ganesh, Fiona Dourif, Taylor Dearden, Isa Briones, Gerran Howell, Shabana Azeez and Sepideh Moafi.
HBO Max announced that production on season 3 of The Pitt started on June 16.
It’s been 16 years since Christina Perri released what became her breakthrough song “jar of hearts,” and now she’s released a previously unheard version of the song “from the vault.”
Christina calls this take on the song the “epic version,” adding that she’s “always wanted to release” it, but “never quite found the right time.” She adds, “I’m proud for the world to hear this one!”
After being featured on So You Think You Can Dance, “jar of hearts” took off, eventually hitting the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was featured on Christina’s debut album lovestrong, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year.
To mark the occasion, she’s created lovestrong. 15, an acoustic YouTube series in which she revisits the album for the first time since it came out. Half of the series is out now, with the rest of the episodes dropping in July. There’s also a deluxe version of lovestrong available now on digital services. Among its 17 songs is “distance,” a duet with Jason Mraz.
U.S. President Donald Trump attends a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House on June 24, 2026, in Washington, DC. Secretary-General Mark Rutte is meeting with the President before the annual NATO summit next month and as the Pentagon does a six-month review of American forces in Europe. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump brushed off his loss after the Supreme Court rejected his attempt to end birthright citizenship — rooted in the 14th Amendment — on Tuesday, saying the decision is “too bad for the Country” and insisting that he can “easily make it up in Congress through Legislation.”
The court ruled in a 6-3 decision to reject Trump’s executive order that he issued on the first day of his presidency, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing for the majority, “Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to every free-born person in this land. We keep that promise today.”
Trump responded to the court’s decision with a post on his social media platform, writing, “The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process,” he wrote on his social media platform.
“No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship,” he added.
Birthright citizenship is rooted in both the Constitution and 1940 federal citizenship law. But even if the law were to be changed, this would likely be challenged in court on constitutional grounds with the possibility of the issue making its way back to the Supreme Court.
ABC News reached out to the White House for more information about how the president would use Congress as a workaround for the court’s decision and if he is prepared for the issue to potentially return to legal scrutiny, but the White House referred questions back to the president’s post.
On Monday, Trump said he would “accept” the results of the Supreme Court and acknowledged that “it’s up to them.”
In a subsequent post Tuesday, Trump again reiterated his desire to “correct” the birthright citizenship case in Congress while touting other cases that he won before the court.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, speaking at a House Republican news conference before Trump posted, said he was “very disappointed” with the decision and that Congress will look at amending the Constitution to address the issue.
“I think it subjects the country to serious challenges going forward and we’ll have to deal with it as a Congress,” Johnson said, saying the policy has been “grossly abused.”
“I’m sure we will continue to look at that. I’m sure the conclusion from this opinion is going to be you’ve got to amend the Constitution to fix that,” he said.
Johnson acknowledged a constitutional amendment would be “very complicated” and a “many-years-long process,” but said he thought it was likely the only way forward.
Amending the Constitution would take a two-thirds majority in both chambers of Congress ratification by three-quarters of the states.
Chlöe Bailey attends the BET Awards 2026 at Peacock Theater on June 28, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images for BET)
Chlöe has released the official music video for “Priorities.”
The video features her performing her song while dancing on a platform in a metallic dress, with some scenes capturing her in futuristic glasses. Directed by Andrew Makadsi and Derek Milton, it’s the latest from her collaborative album with Timbaland, Resurrection.
Speaking to Variety, she said she was drawn to the film because “[i]t had everything I love to watch — plus music — so it was a no-brainer of saying yes and attaching myself to it.”
She added she was also honored to work with Lynn Whitfield and friend Coco Jones.
In the film, Chlöe plays “a talented violinist [who] takes a prestigious job as a music tutor for the gifted daughter of an influential and enigmatic family,” according to a press release. Lynn is the daughter’s grandmother, and Coco Jones is her best friend Jasmine.
“She is just legendary, and I’m so happy that I was able to work with her in that way and do our stunts together,” Chlöe told Variety. “I’m just very honored that I got to do that with the iconic Lynn Whitfield. I’m so grateful for her. She really cared about this movie and put her stamp on it, and I learned so much working with her.”
When discussing Coco, Chlöe reflected on how far they’ve come since she met her when she was 12 years old. “To see how we’re both growing in our careers and who we as women is pretty cool, and to join back together in this movie is pretty dope,” she said.
