Taylor Frankie Paul, Jessi Ngatikaura, Jennifer Affleck, Mayci Neeley and Mikayla Matthews during ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ season 3 reunion special. (Disney/Fred Hayes)
Deck the halls with lots of drama.
Hulu has announced that The Secret Wives of Mormon Wives season 3 reunion special will debut on Dec. 4. This time around, the end-of-season reunion will be hosted by Vanderpump Villa star Stassi Schroeder.
“‘Tis the season for the most dramatic reunion yet! Host Stassi Schroeder reunites #MomTok and #DadTok to explore the shocking scandals, uncover never-before-seen footage, and deck the halls with controversial guests in the Season 3 Reunion,” according to its official logline.
Cast members Taylor Frankie Paul, Demi Engemann, Jen Affleck, Jessi Draper Ngatikaura, Layla Taylor, Mayci Neeley, Mikayla Matthews, Miranda Hope and Whitney Leavitt will take to the reunion couches to discuss the messy drama that unfolded over the course of the third season.
A teaser trailer for the reunion was also released, and it shows Schroeder interrogating the ladies of the cast, as well as their husbands. We see the women of the show answer tough questions and even shed some tears.
When asked if things had improved at all between Paul and Engemann, the former responds, “No, not really. She was a snake in the grass.”
The teaser then shows a clip of Engemann pointing to her head and asking, seemingly to Affleck, “What is wrong with your brain?”
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season 3 reunion special will also be available to watch on Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally.
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Carlos Santana Oneness tour admat (Courtesy of Santana)
Carlos Santana has announced a 2026 leg of his Oneness tour.
The 78-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has booked 10 new shows, kicking off March 28 in Thackerville, Oklahoma, with stops in Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina and Florida. The tour wraps April 11 in Hollywood, Florida.
A fan presale for tickets begins Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, with tickets going on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
Ahead of the tour, Santana will be returning to the stage in Las Vegas. He’ll launch the first 2026 dates of his An Intimate Evening with Santana: Greatest Hits Live residency on Jan. 21 at the House of Blues inside Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
A complete list of dates can be found at Santana.com.
A recent image of Saad Almadi. Courtesy Ibrahim Almadi
(WASHINGTON) — The son of Saad Almadi who is held in Saudi Arabia on an exit ban for allegations of “cyber crimes” by the kingdom, said that President Donald Trump has failed to make his father’s release a priority as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman comes to Washington for a state visit Tuesday.
Ibrahim Almadi, whose 75-year old father was detained in Saudi Arabia on a family visit in 2021, says his father has been “harassed” by authorities there and seeks a return to the United States, which has been his home for decades. Almadi is a dual American-Saudi citizen who emigrated to the U.S. in 1976.
When he was arrested in 2021, Saudi authorities accused Saad Almadi of terrorism for 14 tweets he wrote that were critical of the royal family. Two years later, the charges were reduced to so-called “cyber crimes,” and he was sentenced to an exit ban that bars him from leaving the kingdom until 2054.
One of the tweets, which were published while Saad Almadi was in the U.S., advocated for the renaming of a Washington, D.C., street for Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post journalist who was killed at a Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Trump, asked about the Almadi case, told reporters in May he would “take a look” at it.
In an interview with ABC News, Ibrahim Almadi said U.S. diplomacy achieved his father’s release from detention and even “saved his life” in 2023. But he argued that bin Salman, the de-facto Saudi leader who will be greeted by Trump at the White House before a state dinner, is still “getting away with jailing Americans” by banning his father’s travel.
That Saudi Arabia, an American ally, has not released the elder Almadi is “insulting,” Ibrahim Almadi told ABC. He contended that Trump, who has enjoyed warm relations with Saudi Arabia, could make “one call” to free Almadi.
Trump has made the release of Americans detained abroad a priority, often dealing with adversaries to bring U.S. citizens home — like in the case of Venezuela, with which Washington has no formal diplomatic ties.
Asked for comment about Saad Almadi, an official at the National Security Council declined to discuss details. The official emphasized that “bringing our citizens home is a Number One top priority for President Trump,” pointing to “more than 75 Americans he has liberated in the last 10 months.”
ABC News has reached out to the Saudi embassy in Washington for comment on the Almadi case.
Ibrahim Almadi said U.S. officials have repeatedly told him in the four years since the arrest that they were in “final talks” and “advanced communication” to win his father’s release from the country.
“What my feeling is now — and my father[‘s] feeling — it’s a dismissal of the case,” he said. “They are dismissing the case.”
It leaves the Almadi son pessimistic ahead of the state visit, convinced that the crown prince “is using him as a card,” he said.
There are three Americans who are wrongfully held on exit bans in Saudi Arabia, according to the Foley Foundation, which advocates for American hostages and wrongful detainees held abroad.
Tate McRae ‘So Close to What’ deluxe (RCA Records)
Variety has already announced that Sabrina Carpenter will receive its Hitmaker of the Year Award during its annual Hitmakers celebration. Now some other chart-topping stars have been announced as honorees at the event.
Tate McRae has been named Powerhouse of the Year; EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI, the singing voices of “Golden” group HUNTR/X, have been named KPop Demon Hitmakers of the Year. Alex Warren will receive the Breakthrough of the Year award. The Marías are the Anti-Hit Hitmakers of the Year, whatever that means. Jack Antonoff, Mustard and Sounwave will be honored as Producers of the Year.
The honorees will receive their awards at a brunch on Dec. 6 in LA. Other stars will be announced in the coming weeks.
Welcome to Rockville 2026 lineup. (Danny Wimmer Presents)
Foo Fighters and Guns N’ Roses are headlining the 2026 Welcome to Rockville festival, taking place May 7-10 in Daytona Beach, Florida.
They join the previously announced headliners My Chemical Romance and Bring Me the Horizon.
The rest of the bill includes Five Finger Death Punch, Turnstile, Breaking Benjamin, A Day to Remember, Godsmack, The Offspring, Motionless in White, Rise Against, Staind, Parkway Drive, Lamb of God, Yellowcard, Alice Cooper, Poppy, Highly Suspect and All Time Low.
Tickets are on sale now. For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit WelcometoRockville.com.
Danielle Bensky, a Jeffrey Epstein survivor, speaks during the news conference with survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, November 18, 2025. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
(WASHINGTON) — Danielle Bensky, a survivor of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, said the push by members of Congress and, now, President Donald Trump, to release investigative files has led to a “moment of vulnerability” for herself and other survivors.
Bensky said on Monday in Washington that pending legislation amounted to a noticeable movement towards accountability for Epstein survivors. She called the moment “hopeful,” saying that it also felt like “unprecedented waters.”
“This is a moment of vulnerability,” Bensky said. “This is a moment, as you can see, when we are tapping into those youngest parts of ourselves and saying we’re doing it for that little person that used to exist. We’re doing it for women.”
ABC News spoke with Bensky, who goes by Dani, a day ahead of the long-awaited vote by the House to release the Epstein files. The House is expected to vote Tuesday, after Trump called on Republicans to release all the files, reversing his stance.
The House vote is just step one, though. If it passes as expected, Senate Majority Leader John Thune would then need to bring it up for a vote in the Senate. Passage in the Senate would then send it to Trump’s desk for possible signing.
House Democrats last week released emails subpoenaed from the Epstein estate that mentioned Trump by name multiple times. In one email, written in 2011, Epstein referred to Trump as the “dog that hasn’t barked” and he told accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell that an alleged victim had “spent hours at my house” with Trump.
Trump, who was friendly with Epstein for years, said after Epstein’s arrest in 2019 that they hadn’t spoken in more than a decade after having a falling out. The president on Monday said he would sign a bill to compel the Justice Department to release all files relating to Epstein if it reaches his desk.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters last week that emails related to convicted sex offender Epstein released by House Democrats “prove absolutely nothing, other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong.” Trump has denied all wrongdoing and denied having any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes.
Bensky has claimed she was recruited in 2004 when she was an aspiring ballerina in New York City. She alleges she was sexually exploited by Epstein for more than a year.
Bensky was among a group of survivors of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, his convicted accomplice, holding a demonstration Monday evening at the National Gallery of Art — a couple of blocks from the Capitol — at which they displayed a looped video of several survivors holding pictures of themselves at the age they met Epstein.
Maxwell was found guilty in December 2021 of conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors to participate in illegal sex acts, transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts, sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor. She is serving 20 years in prison.
Bensky said that being there at the National Gallery of Art gave her a bigger sense of meaning to “make the world safer” for the young kids and teenagers she works with as a dance choreographer.
Rachel Foster, co-founder and executive council chair of World Without Exploitation, an anti-sex trafficking coalition, described on Monday the fight to release the files as “truly bipartisan.”
“Truly a bipartisan effort. It’s not political,” Foster said. “This is about transparency, and this is a moment, if there’s any moment for people from both sides of the aisle to come together and say that victims who have sexual abuse need to have justice, and we all need transparency when it comes to either standing with victims, standing with women and children who have been abused or you’re protecting perpetrators.”
Luke Combs performs during 2025 Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park on October 10, 2025 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/FilmMagic)
In 2025 Luke Combs surpassed Garth Brooks to become the bestselling country artist of all time, according to the RIAA. He’s also in the running for entertainer, male vocalist and single of the year for “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma” at Wednesday’s CMA Awards.
They’re all major accolades the “Back in the Saddle” hitmaker takes in stride.
“It’s all very unexpected, I think,” Luke says. “You can’t plan to get to this point, you know. And obviously when I moved here, I just wanted to be able to make a living doing music, whatever that looked like. So it’s all kinda extra to me, like in a good [way]. … It’s all been a blessing, and I’m very fortunate and I’m just thankful, man, for the fans. I mean, it’s all them.”
It’s a sentiment that’s all the more believable coming from a man who’s determined not to let success change him.
“I mean, I’m very grounded,” he reflects, “and I’ve had the same basically band and crew. Ninety-nine percent of my guys have been with me for nine years now, you know, and so I’m just around the same people, and my assistant’s my best friend from high school.”
“And I just hang out at home with my kids and my wife and, you know, they don’t treat me any different than anybody else,” he continues. “And I go to the grocery store and cook dinner every night, and then I go to work and it’s like, you know, I just can’t really be any different. It would just be weird to me to be any different.”
Luke’s set to play his latest #1, “Back in the Saddle,” during the 59th CMA Awards, airing live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
Shinedown has premiered a new single called “Searchlight.”
Frontman Brent Smith describes the track, which Shinedown previously debuted live in October during their performance at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, as “a song about owning your true feelings.”
“It’s an awakening of the soul,” Smith says of “Searchlight.” “Lyrically it is a coming-of-age story that celebrates the moment you decide to go out into the world, and find your purpose. Musically it is an homage to all the music our parents, and grandparents brought us up on.”
“It is a love letter to Americana, Rhythm and Blues, Bluegrass, Outlaw Country, and of course Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Smith continues. “The creative process for this song was quite a journey, and we hope all the ‘Fans/Family’ feel that authenticity in every note, and every word.”
“Searchlight” marks the fourth song Shinedown’s released in 2025, following “Dance, Kid, Dance,” “Three Six Five” and “Killing Fields.” The band’s most recent album is 2022’s Planet Zero.
The booking photo for Tyler Matthew Johns. Henderson Police Department
(HENDERSON, Nev.) — The suspect who allegedly shot and killed an 11-year-old boy during a road rage incident in Nevada said he “did not know there was a kid” in the back seat of the vehicle when he opened fire, according to a declaration of arrest obtained by ABC News.
Tyler Matthew Johns, 22, was arrested on Friday and booked for open murder and discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle, according to the Henderson Police Department.
Johns remains held without bail after making his first court appearance on Saturday. The 22-year-old will appear in court again on Tuesday at 9 a.m. local time.
The incident occurred at approximately 7:30 a.m. on Friday, when two vehicles in traffic began “jockeying for positions trying to pass each other on the congested freeway,” police said during a press conference on Friday.
One of the vehicles tried to pass on the shoulder of the freeway, which is when both drivers rolled down their windows and began arguing, police said.
Johns, who was in a four-door sedan, allegedly fired a single shot from a handgun at a hybrid SUV driven by the victim’s stepfather, identified as Valente Ayala — hitting the 11-year-old sitting in the back seat, police said.
The boy, identified as Brandon Dominguez-Chavarria, was on his way to school, officials said.
After the child was shot, Ayala then rammed the suspect’s vehicle to stop him from fleeing the scene, causing both of them to come to a stop in the middle of the freeway, officials said.
Both drivers got out of their vehicles and proceeded to get into a heated exchange as a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer happened to be driving by, officials said.
During this argument, two witnesses got in between the two men, with Ayala yelling that the suspect had killed his son, according to the declaration of arrest.
The witnesses then proceeded to open the rear driver’s side passenger door and “observed a juvenile male slumped over in the seat with copious amounts of blood coming from or about the head,” according to the declaration of arrest.
Johns had “spontaneously admitted to officers that he had discharged his firearm” and stated he “did not know there was a kid in the back,” according to the declaration of arrest document.
He then “turned around and placed his hands behind his back without prompting from the officers, in what appeared to allow them to place handcuffs on his wrists,” the declaration of arrest said.
Shortly after the suspect was taken into custody, the Henderson Fire Department arrived at the scene and transported the child to a local hospital, but “despite their best efforts,” the child succumbed to his injuries, police said. The boy’s cause of death was listed as a gunshot wound to the head, the Clark County Coroner said on Monday.
“We lost a life today that we didn’t have to lose,” Henderson Police Department Chief Reggie Rader said during a press conference last week.
Ayala told officials he believed the suspect “intended to shoot him, but based on their speeds,” the bullet struck the child, according to the declaration of arrest.
Ayala was not armed during the road rage incident nor does he own any firearms, the declaration of arrest said.
Ben Wishaw and Keira Knightley in ‘Black Doves’ season 1. (Ludovic Robert/Netflix)
Production has officially started on Black Doves season 2.
Netflix has announced that cameras are rolling on the sophomore season of the spy thriller series starring Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw.
The streaming service also revealed several new additions to the cast. One Day star Ambika Mod will play Laila, an anarchic Black Doves agent who has been sent to help Helen on a mission. Babou Ceesay is set to portray Mr. Conteh, a Black Doves executive with suspicious motivations, while Sam Riley will play Patrick, an emissary who offers Whishaw’s Sam a lifeline.
Notably, Neve Campbell has also joined the cast, playing a character named Cecile Mason. Other additions include Sylvia Hoeks, who plays Katia Chernov, Goran Kostic, who takes on the role of Alexi Chernov, and Samuel Barnett, who plays Jerry.
Sarah Lancashire, Andrew Buchan, Kathryn Hunter, Ella Lily Hyland, Gabrielle Creevy, Agnes O’Casey and Molly Chesworth all also return for season 2, which is now filming in London.
Season 2 finds Helen (Knightley) still betraying her nation’s secrets to the Black Doves, according to its logline.
“But after the misadventures of last Christmas, and with her husband Wallace (Buchan), preparing to become Prime Minister, she is walking a more treacherous line than ever,” the logline reads. “As Helen’s enigmatic handler Mrs. Reed (Lancashire) is ensnared in a ruthless plot to undermine her position in the Black Doves, Helen is reunited with her best friend Sam (Whishaw).”
The show’s creator, writer and executive producer, Joe Barton, says he “couldn’t be more excited to delve back into the world of our murderous little spy family.”
“To have so many of our amazing cast returning and also being able to add some of my absolute favourite actors into the mix is such a great joy. Downing Street will never be the same again,” Barton said.
