No more complaints from fans that Olivia Rodrigo is “anywhere but the studio.” In an Instagram dump of photos captioned “November,” Liv is very clearly in the studio: She’s seen standing in front of a microphone in a vocal booth and pouting. Fans were thrilled, writing in the comments, “OR3 IS COMINGGGG” and “OR3 IS CLOSER THAN WE THINK.”
AIR Shop is offering BLACKPINK fans the chance to win two tickets to see the K-pop superstars at the Tokyo Dome in January. If you sign up for a free membership on the platform, which offers more than 40 million concert, sports and theater tickets worldwide, you can be one of five fans to win tickets to one of the group’s shows on Jan. 16, 17 or 18. You have until Dec. 13 to enter, but travel and hotel aren’t included.
John Rzeznik of Goo Goo Dolls has joined the lineup of Freezingman 2026, a two-night benefit held Jan. 9-10 in Madison, Wisconsin. The benefit, which will also feature members of The Go-Go’s, Portugal. The Man, The Bangles and many others, raises money for epilepsy research and children with special needs.
Victoria Beckham may not be interested in doing a Spice Girls reunion, but she doesn’t mind singing her group’s hits with her son. Cruz Beckhamposted a video of himself playing the Spice Girls hit “Viva Forever” on acoustic guitar as Victoria sings along with him. Fans were thrilled, with one commenting, “omg Cruz thank you for bringing mom back to singing.” Another wrote, “I love this so much. See, Posh CAN sing!”
The cast of Alicia Keys‘ Broadway musical Hell’s Kitchen will release a new holiday song called “Hell’s Kitchen’s A Merry Little Christmas.” The Adam Blackstone-produced song, a mash-up of the classic “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” and Alicia’s own “The Gospel,” features vocals from Yolanda Adams and fellow cast members Amanda Reid, Phillip Johnson Richardson and Jessica Vosk. It is now available for preorder.
Lil Baby continues Wham Wednesdays with the release of the song “Real S***” and its music video. Wham Wednesdays, which find the rapper dropping a new song and video on Wednesdays, will go on through the end of the year.
GloRilla may be known for her rapping, but she says she has another album in the works. She posted on X Wednesday, “& I will be doing a rnb album.”
Cardi B has shared some photos of her baby boy with NFL star Stefon Diggs, who was born on Nov. 4. Two pictures find her sitting in an armchair and cradling the newborn, who was dressed in an outfit adorned with footballs and his last name, Diggs. Another photo captures her in the hospital with the baby in her arms and Diggs by her side. The last slide, which finds baby Diggs on a bed, has also prompted engagement rumors because of the ring on Cardi’s ring finger.
A$AP Rocky‘s Don’t Be Dumb may come out in 2025. When sharing a fun fact with Vanity Fair, he said, “Danny Elfman, he just did my album with me that I’m putting out this year. He scored a bunch of the songs on my new album.”
Camp Flog Gnaw will take place in LA over the weekend, with a few changes to the lineup. Don Toliver, Tems and The Alchemist are among the acts who will no longer perform; Kali Uchis is one of the replacements.
‘Lullaby Renditions of Ariana Grande’ (Courtesy Rockabye Baby)
This album will be “Popular” with parents of crying babies.
Lullaby Renditions of Ariana Grande is coming out Nov. 21 from Rockabye Baby, the world’s leading lullaby brand. It features 13 of Ari’s biggest hits transformed into gentle instrumental tracks played on glockenspiel, xylophone and vibraphones. They’re all designed to send your little one off to sleep and have you saying, “thank u, next.”
You can watch an adorable animated video for the lullaby version of “7 rings” now.
Here’s the track list:
“7 rings” “thank u, next” “One Last Time” “Into You” “Popular” “Love Me Harder” “Santa Tell Me” “no tears left to cry” “God is a woman” “break up with your girlfriend, i’m bored” “Dangerous Woman” “Positions” “we can’t be friends (wait for your love)”
A screengrab from surveillance footage included in a federal complaint that prosecutors say shows Lawrence Reed on a Chicago Blue Line train holding a lit bottle, Nov. 17, 2025. U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois
(CHICAGO) – A man has been charged with terrorism for allegedly pouring flammable liquid on a woman and setting her on fire on a Chicago L train earlier this week, federal officials said.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Wednesday it has taken the suspect, Lawrence Reed, into federal custody in connection with the attack.
Reed, 50, of Chicago, has been charged with committing a terrorist attack against a mass transportation system, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois said.
“This horrific attack was not just a barbaric assault on an innocent woman riding a train, but an act of terrorism that strikes at the core of our American way of life,” U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Andrew Boutros said in a statement.
The arson attack occurred Monday night near the Clark and Lake station on a Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train, authorities said.
CTA surveillance footage captured the attack, according to the federal criminal complaint. The footage showed Reed and the victim, who was not identified, were traveling in the same train car when, at approximately 9:24 p.m., the suspect moved from the back of the train while holding a bottle and approached the victim, who was seated with her back toward Reed in the middle of the car, according to the complaint.
“Reed then took the cap off the bottle and poured a liquid from the bottle all over the victim’s head and body,” the complaint stated.
The suspect allegedly tried to ignite the liquid, though the victim fought him off and ran toward the front of the train, according to the complaint. Reed then allegedly lit the bottle, dropped it, then picked up the now flaming bottle and used it to set the victim on fire, according to the complaint.
“Reed then ran to the front of the train car and stood watching Victim A as her body was engulfed in flames,” the complaint stated.
The victim, who was almost fully engulfed in flames, tried to extinguish herself by rolling on the ground of the train car, then exited the train while still on fire when it stopped at the Clark and Lake Street Blue Line platform, according to the complaint.
Reed was observed on the footage leaving the car and walking away, according to the complaint.
Police said the victim, a 26-year-old woman, was transported to a local hospital in critical condition with severe burns. She remains hospitalized with critical injuries, prosecutors said Wednesday.
A partially melted bottle and lighter were recovered from the train car, along with suspected ignitable liquid from the victim’s seat and “the burned remains of what appeared to be some of Victim A’s clothing,” the complaint stated.
Authorities found additional surveillance footage that showed Reed at a gas station 20 minutes prior to the attack filling a bottle at a gas pump, according to the complaint. He was wearing the same clothes as seen in the train car footage, according to the complaint.
Chicago police took Reed into custody on Tuesday, at which time he was still wearing the same clothes as seen in the footage of the attack and had “fire-related injuries to his right hand,” according to the complaint.
While being transported, according to the complaint, he allegedly made “repeated spontaneous and unprompted utterances, specifically yelling, ‘burn b—-‘ and ‘burn alive b—-.'”
Reed is scheduled to make an initial court appearance Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Chicago, prosecutors said.
If convicted, the charge is punishable by a maximum sentence of life in federal prison.
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ZZ Top is headed overseas in 2026. The Texas rockers have announced dates for The Big One! tour, their first European trek in two years.
The 23-show tour will have them hitting 13 countries, with a mix of festival appearances and headlining dates. The tour starts June 13 in Estonia and hits Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland and France before wrapping July 25 in Cadiz, Spain, which is one of several shows in that country.
“We love playing for European audiences as they’re among the most energetic and enthusiastic we’ve encountered over the course of the past five decades,” ZZ Top frontman Billy F Gibbons says.
He adds, “We predict a circumstance of direct communication because there’s no language barrier when the common parlance is to let it rock.”
A complete list of dates and ticket information can be found at ZZTop.com.
The announcement of the European shows follows the news that ZZ Top will be playing several dates in 2026 with country star Dwight Yoakam. Their Dos Amigos Tour kicks off March 26 in Brookings, South Dakota.
The NVIDIA logo is displayed on a mobile phone with the company branding visible in the background. Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images
(NEW YORK) — Chip giant Nvidia exceeded Wall Street expectations for revenue over a recent three-month period, the company said on Wednesday, rebuking fears of an AI bubble that have hammered markets in recent days.
The California-based company recorded $57 billion in sales over three months ending in October, which beat analyst expectations of $54.9 billion. The jump in revenue marked 62% growth compared to the same quarter a year earlier.
Analysts closely watched Nvidia as a bellwether for the stock market and the overall economy, which have both come to rely on massive spending on artificial intelligence to propel continued growth.
The latest test for the world’s most valuable company arrives at a fraught moment for markets, which have fallen for four consecutive days over fears of an AI bubble. Nvidia, which makes many of the chips fueling AI products, had suffered a decline of more than 10% over a two-week stretch before turning upward on Wednesday ahead of its earnings release.
As big-tech names spend hundreds of billions on chips and data centers necessary for the energy-intensive technology, the financial benefits remain uncertain. The earnings reported by Nvidia gauged demand for a key building block of AI, showing whether appetite for the technology remains at a fever pitch.
The results hold major stakes for the U.S. economy, which has shown signs of strain in recent months as hiring has slowed and consumer sentiment has dampened.
The AI spending boom, a lone bright spot, added a 0.5 percentage point boost to annualized gross domestic product growth over the first half of 2025, accounting for about one-third of economic activity, Pantheon Macroeconomics found.
“There is one company in the world that is the foundation for the AI Revolution,” Dan Ives, a managing director of equity research at investment firm Wedbush, told ABC News in a statement, referring to Nvidia.
Fears of an AI bubble surfaced over the summer ahead of Nvidia’s previous earnings report, but the company defied naysayers.
Nvidia recorded $46.7 billion in sales over three months ending in July, which exceeded analyst expectations of $46.2 billion. The jump in revenue marked 56% growth compared to the same quarter a year earlier.
The company boasts a market cap of $4.5 trillion, making it roughly equivalent to the GDP of Japan or Germany. Nvidia has expanded at a breakneck pace since an AI craze set off by the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022, soaring nearly 700% over the ensuing two years.
Alongside continued growth, the company is weathering new challenges. President Donald Trump barred the sale of chips to China earlier this year, before revoking the ban in July. A month later, Trump struck an agreement with Nvidia and its competitor Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) that allowed the companies to sell chips in China if they hand over 15% of revenue generated by the exports to the U.S.
Speaking at the White House in August, the president recounted the agreement.
“I said, ‘If I’m going to do that, I want you to pay us as a country something, because I’m giving you a release,'” Trump said.
Earnings released in August said Nvidia did not sell any of its H20 chips in China over the most recent quarter, but the firm did not mention any losses related to the policy. The H20 chip was specifically designed for sale to China.
In recent days, Nvidia announced a large investment in AI, signaling confidence in the outlook of the technology. Nvidia on Tuesday announced a multi-billion dollar partnership with two of its largest counterparts in AI: Microsoft and Anthropic.
Under the terms of the deal, Nvidia and Microsoft agreed to invest $15 billion in Anthropic, a top developer of AI models. Anthropic, meanwhile, vowed to purchase $30 billion of computing infrastructure operated by Microsoft Azure on Nvidia systems.
Larry Summers, president emeritus and professor at Harvard University, during an interview in New York, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. Summers earlier this month warned that while financial markets have so far shown limited concern with regard to the Federal Reserve’s independence, the situation “could turn very quickly.” (Photographer: Victor J. Blue Bloomberg via Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — Harvard University is launching a new investigation into its former president, Larry Summers, and other individuals affiliated with the school who were associated with Jeffrey Epstein, a spokesperson for the university told ABC News on Wednesday.
“The University is conducting a review of information concerning individuals at Harvard included in the newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents to evaluate what actions may be warranted,” Harvard said in a statement to ABC News.
Harvard did not respond to questions about whether Summers’ teaching position at the university would be affected while the new probe is ongoing.
In a video obtained by The Associated Press, Summers on Wednesday addressed the topic of his communications with Epstein to students in a class he teaches at Harvard.
“Some of you will have seen my statement of regret, expressing my shame with respect to what I did in communication with Mr. Epstein. And that I’ve said that I’m going to step back from public activity,” Summers told his students, according to the video. “I think it’s very important to fulfill my teaching obligations. So with your permission, we’re going to go forward and talk about the material in the class.”
Early Wednesday, tech company OpenAI released a statement saying Summers, also a former Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, has resigned from its board of directors.
“Larry has decided to resign from the OpenAI Board of Directors, and we respect his decision. We appreciate his many contributions and the perspective he brought to the Board,” a statement from the OpenAI Board of Directors reads.
Summers’ resignation came just two days after he released a statement saying he was “deeply ashamed” of his relationship with Epstein. Summers’ email exchanges with Epstein were released last week by the House Oversight Committee.
No Epstein survivor has alleged wrongdoing by Summers and there is no public record evidence to suggest Summers was involved in any of Epstein’s crimes.
“In line with my announcement to step away from my public commitments, I have also decided to resign from the board of OpenAI,” a statement from Larry Summers said. “I am grateful for the opportunity to have served, excited about the potential of the company, and look forward to following their progress.”
Larry Summers previously announced that he was stepping back from public life after his apparent communications with Epstein were made public.
Summers is currently a member of Harvard’s faculty, according to the Harvard Crimson newspaper. But there have been calls, including from Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, for Harvard to sever ties with him.
“I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused. I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein,” Summers said in a statement on Monday.
He added, “While continuing to fulfill my teaching obligations, I will be stepping back from public commitments as one part of my broader effort to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me.”
It has been previously reported that Summers maintained a relationship with Epstein for many years, particularly during Summers’ term as president of Harvard from 2001 to 2006.
Summers flew at least four times on Epstein’s aircraft, according to flight records made public during litigation against Epstein, and he was the top official at Harvard during a time when the university received millions in gifts from Epstein.
All of those gifts were received prior to Epstein’s guilty plea in Florida in 2008 to charges of solicitation of prostitution with a minor, according to the university’s review of its Epstein connections.
An exterior view of the famous window and balcony two weeks after a robbery at the Louvre in Paris, France, November 3, 2025. The museum was targeted on October 19 by several criminals who smashed windows to steal eight precious royal jewels. (Photo by Adnan Farzat/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
(PARIS) — The director of the Louvre in Paris addressed on Wednesday a new security breach at the museum while detailing plans underway to overhaul the facility’s security system in the wake of last month’s $102 million jewel heist.
Laurence des Cars, president and director of the Louvre, appeared before the National Assembly Culture Affairs Committee and was grilled about a new security breach that occurred at the museum last week.
Lawmakers asked the director how two Belgian influencers were able to hang a portrait of themselves on Friday in a gallery housing Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa painting.
Saying she wanted to “put things in perspective,” des Cars said the security breach was one of a string of incidents that have plagued the 232-year-old museum over the years.
“We constantly have incidents in the Louvre’s galleries. Two years ago, it was activists,” des Cars, referring to environmental activists who hurled soup on paintings, a tactic other museums around the world have experienced.
She said the new security apparatus being implemented at the museum will help staff head off such incidents in the future, including the installation of what she described as anti-intrusion systems.
Des Cars said a major security improvement will be the construction of a police station on the grounds of the Louvre.
The director said the police station is among more than 20 “emergency measures” that will be put in place “in the coming days.”
She said the security measures will also include the installation of 100 new security cameras at the Louvre, including cameras to monitor the perimeter of the museum that were severely lacking during the Oct. 19 jewel heist.
The creation of a security coordinator position is also part of the security boost, des Cars said. She also said two galleries that were recently closed will get a security upgrade before they reopen.
Des Cars said the “appalling irony of the situation” is that the Louvre jewel heist occurred as many of the security improvements were being made. She said that between 2022 and 2025, 134 digital cameras were installed throughout the museum as part of a $933 million “Louvre New Renaissance” plan.
“I want to instill a genuine security culture,” said des Cars, adding that she has been calling for the security upgrades since she became the museum’s director in 2022.
Since the robbery at the Louvre, several security issues have emerged, highlighting concerns about the world’s most visited museum.
Among the revelations was that a single perimeter security camera outside the Louvre was not facing the Apollo Gallery, where the robbers used a truck-mounted mechanical cherry picker to reach the gallery and power tools to cut their way in. Earlier this month, a museum employee with knowledge of the security system revealed that the password for the museum’s video surveillance system was simply “Louvre.”
On Monday, the Louvre announced that a public gallery and several offices were being temporarily closed because they had become structurally fragile.
Four suspects have been arrested and charged in the October robbery, but the eight pieces of the French crown jewel collection swiped from the Apollo Gallery have not been recovered, authorities said.
French investigators said the jewel heist from start to getaway took seven minutes.
Prosecutors have not ruled out making more arrests in the case, but said investigators have yet to find any evidence implicating members of the museum staff in the robbery.
ABC News’ Joseph Simonetti contributed to this report.
Wu-Tang Clan logo on stage at Espaco Unimed on April 2, 2023, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.(Photo by Mauricio Santana/Getty Images)
Wu-Tang Clan is bringing some of their music moments to fans via a newly launched Monopoly game.
MONOPOLY®: Wu-Tang Clan Edition will feature tokens representing the Wu-Tang symbol, a microphone and other items from the hip-hop group, as well as poster art from tour stops and “exclusive Community Chest and Chance Cards showcasing rare Wu-Tang moments and challenges inspired by their journey,” according to a press release.
The goal is to bankrupt your opponents, much like it is in the original game, but in addition to buying, selling and developing property, players will be able to do the same with some of Wu-Tang’s legendary tour stops.
“Three decades later, The Wu-Tang Clan remains a household name, well-known by fans of all ages,” said Dane Chapin, CEO of The Op Games, the board game and puzzle publisher that launched MONOPOLY®: Wu-Tang Clan Edition. “We are thrilled to merge one of the most influential Hip-Hop groups of all time with one of America’s favorite tabletop games in this new edition of MONOPOLY®: The Wu-Tang Clan Edition, and we’re so excited to see this title span generations and entertain the whole family.”
The limited release of MONOPOLY®: Wu-Tang Clan Edition on the group’s website is already sold out; the game will soon be available at select retailers, but a release date has not yet been announced.
Randy Blythe of Lamb of God performs during a concert at Café Iguana on November 6, 2025 in Monterrey, Mexico. (Medios y Media/Getty Images)
Lamb of God has announced the release of a new song called “Parasocial Christ.”
The track, perhaps inspired by the Cambridge Dictionary’s newly announced 2025 word of the year, will premiere on Friday. It’s available to presave now.
“Parasocial Christ” will mark the second new Lamb of God song of 2025, following October’s “Sepsis.” The band’s most recent album is 2022’s Omens.
Lamb of God also just announced a U.S. headlining tour for 2026, kicking off in March. Presales are open now, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
