Nate Smith & Tyler Hubbard’s “After Midnight” (Sony)
Nate Smith and Tyler Hubbard are getting to work to promote their new collaboration, “After Midnight.”
Though it will technically take place before the clock strikes 12, Nate and Tyler are taking over Mel’s Drive-In in Downtown Nashville on Thursday night.
From kitchen to table service, the two are ready to sling some hash to draw attention to their new song, even hawking a half-price pancake special as an extra incentive.
The fun kicks off at 8 p.m. CT and will go until the place shuts down if you wanna stop by. Mel’s is on 2nd Avenue N in Music City in the Lower Broadway district.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the Sunshine Summit opening dinner at Disney’s Contemporary Resort on November 12, 2015 in Orlando, Florida. (Photo by Tom Benitez – Pool/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral is being held at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, with several high-profile political figures attending the service for the man considered one of the most influential vice presidents in U.S. history.
Former President George W. Bush, who Cheney served for two terms, delivered a eulogy. Bush described the moment he decided to choose Cheney as his vice president.
“At such a moment, most in this position would have jumped at the chance. But Dick stayed detached and he analyzed it. Before I made my decision, he insisted on giving me a complete rundown of all the reasons I should not choose him,” Bush said.
“In the end, I trusted my judgment. I remember my dad’s words when I told him what I was planning. He said, ‘Son, you couldn’t pick a better man,'” Bush said.
Bush said in 2004, Cheney offered to resign if Bush wanted to replace him. Bush said he thought about it, but “after four years of seeing how he treated people, how he carried responsibility, how he handled pressure and took the hits, I arrived back at the conclusion that they do not come any better than Dick Cheney.”
“On that score, history should record that I chose my vice president not once, but twice,” Bush said.
Cheney’s longtime cardiologist, Jonathan Reiner, kicked off the service. Reiner said Cheney suffered a “relentless disease intent on killing him but he never looked over his shoulder, only ahead.”
Pete Williams shared several anecdotes from serving as Cheney’s press secretary when he was defense secretary under President George H.W. Bush, including Cheney’s response when Williams offered to resign in 1991 when he was about to be outed as gay by a magazine.
“He wouldn’t hear of it,” Williams said. “And for several days after that article appeared, he would call me on the direct line to my desk at the Pentagon to ask how I was doing and to tell me to get on with the job.”
According to the cathedral’s program, Cheney’s daughter, former congresswoman Liz Cheney, and his grandchildren will also give remarks.
Among the hundreds of mourners are President Joe Biden and Jill Biden, former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Vice President Mike Pence, former Vice President Al Gore and former Vice President Dan Quayle.
A White House official confirmed to ABC News that President Donald Trump was not invited to the funeral. Vice President JD Vance was also not invited, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News.
Also at the service are Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell, Bill Kristol, Hugh Hewitt and former Trump national security adviser John Bolton.
Cheney died on Nov. 3 at the age of 84 due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.
“Dick Cheney was a great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country, and to live lives of courage, honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing,” the family said in a statement at the time. “We are grateful beyond measure for all Dick Cheney did for our country. And we are blessed beyond measure to have loved and been loved by this noble giant of a man.”
A polarizing and powerful figure, Cheney worked for four decades in Washington. He served in Congress, as secretary of defense and then vice president under President George W. Bush.
He played a leading role in the response to the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, including the war on terror and invasion of Iraq.
Bush, in a statement after Cheney’s death, called Cheney “a patriot who brought integrity, high intelligence, and seriousness of purpose to every position he held.”
Washington National Cathedral, situated just miles north of the White House, has been the site of several state funerals for former presidents, including Jimmy Carter, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush.
After news of Cheney’s death earlier this month, the White House lowered flags but made no major proclamation.
President Trump was silent on Cheney’s death. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Trump was “aware” of his passing.
Trump and Cheney have a history of tensions, as Cheney became a blunt critic of Trump following his push to deny the 2020 election results and the pro-Trump mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Cheney, a lifelong conservative voice, endorsed Harris, the Democratic nominee, over Trump in 2024. Explaining his decision, Cheney said “there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.”
Trump responded at the time by calling Cheney an “irrelevant RINO” and “King of Endless, Nonsensical Wars, wasting Lives and Trillions of Dollars.”
Vice President Vance, asked about Cheney during a Breitbart news event on Thursday morning, expressed his condolences.
“Obviously, there are some political disagreements there, but he was a guy who served his country. We certainly wish his family all of the best in this moment of grieving,” Vance said.
ABC News’ Brittany Shepherd contributed to this report.
Task and House of the Dragon are among the shows returning for another season on HBO.
The network announced Thursday that Task, the Mark Ruffalo-starring crime drama series, will be back for season 2, while the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon will return for season 4.
The third season of House of the Dragon will air in summer 2026, with the fourth season airing in 2028.
Another Game of Thrones spinoff series, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, was renewed for a second season before the first season has even aired. Season 1 debuts Jan. 18.
HBO also renewed the comedies I Love LA and The Chair Company for second seasons.
Teyana Taylor isn’t the only one attending culinary school. Victoria Monét has announced she’s pursuing her “lifelong dream” of becoming a chef. “I’ve been super passionate about recipes that you can pass down from generation to generation and how food makes people feel when they’re communing together,” she said in an Instagram video. She’ll take fans on the journey via her Instagram account @itschefmonet, where she’ll start a weekly Saucy Sundays series. Victoria also made it clear she’s “in the studio everyday still cooking my album!”
Drake‘s Iceman episodes on YouTube are his way of breaking out of the “redundancy of” the music industry’s traditional album rollouts. He told Complex he was intrigued by the idea of a livestream rollout, where he put his spin on the streamer world. “I have been dying to act and have been dying for a challenge,” he said. “The game is extremely calm seas right now. Nobody is rocking any boat on the water and so once we discussed a [livestream] rollout, it just sounded like the perfect mix of risk and reward for me.”
Max Bspoke to Billboard about being a free man, something he’s still getting used to. “I’m just taking my time, I’m out here. It’s real, I done woke up in my bed a couple days straight, so I can’t complain, man, you know what I’m saying? Eating good food, got my wife, got my kids — I’m seeing my kids every day — I got my electronics.” He added he’s not the same guy who went into prison. “This the new grown and gorgeous Biggavel, this is the new and improved. This the new, distinguished Biggavel,” Max B said.
Former FBI Director James Comey talks backstage on June 19, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Carsten Koall/Getty Images
(WASHINGTON) — As the Justice Department’s criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey looks increasingly imperiled, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan and other DOJ officials are leveling unusual public attacks at the judge overseeing the case by mischaracterizing comments he made at a Wednesday hearing.
“Personal attacks — like Judge Nachmanoff referring to me as a ‘puppet’ — don’t change the facts or the law,” Halligan said in an statement exclusively to the New York Post.
“A federal judge should be neutral and impartial. Instead, this judge launched an outrageous and unprofessional personal attack yesterday in open court against US Attorney Lindsey Halligan. DOJ will continue to follow the facts and the law,” DOJ spokesperson Chad Gilmartin said in a statement posted to ‘X’ Thursday.
The statements refer to an exchange between U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff and Comey’s attorney Michael Dreeben in which Nachmanoff questioned whether their position was that Halligan was serving as a “puppet” or a “stalking horse” for President Donald Trump in his orders for retribution against Comey.
But Nachmanoff never asserted directly that Halligan was a “puppet,” and didn’t dispute in court when DOJ attorney Tyler Lemons flatly rejected that characterization.
“So your view is that Ms. Halligan is a stalking horse or a puppet, for want of a better word, doing the president’s bidding?” Judge Nachmanoff asked Dreeben during the exchange.
“Well, I don’t want to use language about Ms. Halligan that suggests anything other than she did what she was told to do,” Dreeben replied. “The president of the United States has the authority to direct prosecutions. She worked in the White House. She was surely aware of the president’s directive.”
Comey was indicted in September on charges of lying to Congress after Trump forced out previous U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert and installed Halligan, a White House staffer with no prosecutorial experience, then called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to act “NOW!!!” to prosecute Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Rep. Adam Schiff. Comey has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
An attorney for Comey argued during Wednesday’s hearing that by replacing Siebert with his former staffer and lawyer, and publicly calling for his political foes to be charged, Trump was “manipulating the machinery of prosecution” and committing an “egregious violation of bedrock constitutional values.”
Halligan also testified that the grand jury that indicted Comey voted to indict him on two of the three counts submitted in the original indictment, but that the final revised indictment reflecting the two counts Comey was ultimately charged with was not reviewed by the full grand jury — only by the jury foreperson and one other grand juror.
Charli XCX has given us our first look at The Moment, a kind of alternative history of the release and promotion of her world-beating 2024 album, Brat, based on her own original idea.
At first glance, the newly released teaser trailer looks like a regular documentary, as we see Charli designing her tour, going on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, trying on outfits, performing and meeting fans — but she seems uncomfortable throughout it all. As Charli told Vanity Fair recently, she plays “sort of a hell version of myself” in The Moment. “It’s fiction, but it’s the realest depiction of the music industry that I’ve ever seen.”
In one scene, Charli and her team are getting ready for a performance when a dummy with long dark hair falls from the ceiling and crashes to the floor, breaking into pieces. “Is that me?” she asks. “That’s supposed to be you, yeah,” she’s told.
In another scene, a member of her team tells her, “You’re not gonna die after an album cycle.” Charli responds, “I might!”
The Moment director Aidan Zamiri told Vanity Fair that the film is what would have happened if Charli had made “entirely different choices” during her Brat era. It co-stars Rosanna Arquette, Kate Berlant, Kylie Jenner, Rachel Sennott and Alexander Skarsgård,and arrives in theaters Jan. 20.
Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis walk together on stage to perform as part of their Live ’25 global tour in Sydney, Australia (Chris Putnam/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
And after all, will the Oasis reunion tour continue into 2026?
Vocalist Liam Gallagher appeared to tease that future shows were being planned when he declared “See you next year” during Oasis’ final show at London’s Wembley Stadium in September. Now, though, Liam has taken to social media to clarify his comments.
“You will see me next year and the year after and so on just not sure yet if it’ll be with oasis,” Liam writes. “We need to sit down and discuss these things.”
He adds, “If it was all up to me then you know we’d be touring till the day we die as it’s the best thing in the world but UNFORTUNATELY it’s not.”
When asked if his “See you next year” declaration got him into any trouble in the Oasis camp, Liam replies, “There was a few tuts and raised eyebrows.”
Of course, Liam did previously say that Oasis had recorded a new album upon reuniting, only to later clarify that he was joking, so who knows? Maybe he’s joking about this, too.
The Oasis reunion tour launched in July, officially ending the feud between Liam and his brother and bandmate, Noel Gallagher. The outing hit three U.S. stadiums: Chicago’s Soldier Field, MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles.
The last show on Oasis’ current live schedule is set for Sunday in Brazil.
The family of 18-year-old Anna Kepner, who was reported dead while aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise ship on Saturday, says they will remember her as a happy, bubbly, straight-A student with a bright future ahead. Kepner family
Kepner’s family asked mourners to wear colors, instead of black, to the celebration of life event “in honor of Anna’s bright and beautiful soul.” Instead of flowers at the service, the family said Kepner’s friends are encouraged to leave flowers on the teenager’s car.
The FBI is investigating Kepner’s Nov. 8 death on the Carnival Horizon. The Miami-Dade medical examiner has still not specified a cause or manner of death.
Kepner was found dead under a bed, wrapped in a blanket and covered by life vests, according to a security source briefed on the investigation.
Investigators are also looking at other possibilities, including a medical emergency or an overdose, the security source said.
A filing in an unrelated family court matter noted Kepner’s stepsibling could face charges. Kepner’s stepmother — who was also on the cruise, along with her children and Kepner’s father — requested a delay in her custody hearing, saying, “The Respondent has been advised through discussions with FBI investigators and her attorneys, that a criminal case may be initiated against one of the minor children.”
Kepner was set to graduate from high school in May and was interested in joining the military, her family said.
“She loved being around people. She had that type of energy that just drew you in with her smile and the way she carried herself,” her family said in a statement.
“She filled the world with laughter, love, and light that reached everyone around her,” her obituary said. “Anna was pure energy: bubbly, funny, outgoing, and completely herself.”
ABC News’ Josh Margolin, Aaron Katersky, Luke Barr and Alondra Valle contributed to this report.
(NEW YORK) — Stocks rallied in early trading on Thursday, just hours after blockbuster earnings from chip giant Nvidia and a stronger-than-expected jobs report.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped nearly 600 points, or 1.2%, while the S&P 500 climbed 1.8%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq soared 2.5%.
Shares of Nvidia, the $4.7 trillion juggernaut behind many of the chips fueling artificial-intelligence products, surged more than 4%.
A stock market selloff over recent days underscored the uncertainty looming over the economy as some investors warned of an AI bubble. The earnings blowout from Nvidia late Wednesday appeared to rebuke such concerns, however, reviving enthusiasm for an AI trade that has propelled much of the market gains this year.
The S&P 500 has soared 15% in 2025, while the Dow has climbed 10%. The Nasdaq has increased 19% this year.
Investors also appeared to draw optimism from a jobs report on Thursday morning, which showed far more hiring than economists’ expected. The fresh data defied a hiring slowdown that took hold over the summer.
The U.S. added 119,000 jobs in September, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That figure marked an acceleration from the previous month, and it exceeded an average of nearly 100,000 jobs added per month over the first half of 2025.
The report included a downward revision for the month of August, however, slashing performance from 22,000 jobs gained that month to 4,000 jobs lost.
An earnings release from Walmart on Thursday morning also exceeded revenue expectations, offering some reassurance about the health of consumer spending.
Inflation has picked up in recent months while hiring has ratcheted down, posing a risk of an economic double-whammy known as “stagflation.”
Those economic conditions have put the Federal Reserve in a bind, since the central bank must balance a dual mandate to keep inflation under control and maximize employment.
In recent months, concern has tilted toward strain in the labor market, prompting the central bank to reduce interest rates a quarter of a percentage point at each of its last two meetings.
On Thursday morning, markets appeared to digest the news as favorable toward a potential interest rate cut at the Fed’s meeting next month. The odds of a quarter-point rate cut ticked up from 33% on Wednesday afternoon to 43% on Thursday morning, according to the CME FedWatch Tool, a measure of market sentiment.
The xx has released a deluxe version of their 2009 self-titled debut album.
The expanded set includes five bonus tracks, including three covers. It’s out now on digital outlets and will be released on vinyl Dec. 5.
“Going back to 2009 has brought up so many memories – it really does feel like another world,” The xx says in a Facebook post. “This album means a lot to us, and we hope it still means something to you too. Thank you for being here, always.”
The album xx includes the trio’s breakout single, “Crystalised,” as well as fan-favorites “Islands” and “VCR.”
The xx has since released two more albums, 2012’s Coexist and 2017’s I See You, while the band’s three members —Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and Jamie xx — have all put out solo material. They shared in March that they were back in the studio together and are set to perform at the Coachella and Kilby Block Party festivals in 2026.
