Queens of the Stone Age on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Queens of the Stone Age‘s upcoming Austin City Limits taping will be livestreamed.
The “No One Knows” outfit will take the ACL stage on Nov. 18, and you can tune in to watch the performance on YouTube starting at 8 p.m. CT.
The QotSA set will mark the season 51 finale of the long-running music performance TV series. If you miss the livestream, an hourlong broadcast of the concert is set to air on PBS in January 2026.
The ACL taping falls in the middle of Queens’ ongoing Catacombs tour. The outing is named after QotSA’s performance at the famed Catacombs of Paris, which was recorded for a live album and concert film.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nick Jonas is the latest cast member to return for the upcoming Jumanji movie, which will be the third installment of a franchise that began with the 2017 reboot, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. Nick will reprise his role as Jefferson “Seaplane” McDonough, a pilot in the Jumanji video game. Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan are also returning for the film, which is due to be released in December 2026.
A note that Taylor Swift wrote to late One Direction member Liam Payne is going up for auction. Taylor gave it to Liam on Dec. 1, 2017, when both of them performed at London’s Jingle Bell Ball concert. It reads, “Liam, Long time no see! I’m so excited for you, you’re crushing it out there. I’m obsessed with [your song] ‘Bedroom Floor.’ It’s so cool to see you from afar, I’m always cheering you on. Good luck tonight! Taylor.” Liam gave it to an associate as a present after he received it. It’s going on the block Dec. 2 via Omega Auctions in the U.K. and is expected to fetch anywhere between $6,500 and $13,000.
The Weeknd has donated $350,000 from his XO Humanitarian Fund to the World Food Program USA, in support of the millions of Jamaicans who were impacted by Hurricane Melissa in October.
Authorities respond to a shooting at Laney College in Oakland, California, Nov. 13, 2025. KGO
(OAKLAND, Calif.) — Legendary former football coach John Beam died on Friday morning after he was shot on the Laney College campus in Oakland, California, on Thursday, the Oakland Police Department said, as authorities announced a suspect’s arrest.
Beam, featured in Netflix’s “Last Chance U,” is a football legend in the Bay Area and had coached the sport for over 40 years before becoming solely the school’s athletic director last year.
Beam was at the Laney Fieldhouse when he was shot shortly before noon on Thursday, authorities said. The alleged shooter fled the scene.
Police combed through surveillance footage, and at 3:15 a.m. Friday, a person matching the suspect’s description was spotted at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station and was taken into custody, Oakland police said.
Police did not discuss a possible motive.
The suspect — 27-year-old Cedric Irving — did know the coach, but “they did not have a relationship,” police said. Irving played high school football in the Bay Area, but never played for Beam.
Irving didn’t attend Laney College or work at the college, but he went to campus “for a specific reason” and “has been known to loiter on or around the campus,” police said.
Oakland police said Irving was not known to the department.
A gun recovered from the suspect is the same caliber as the casings and rounds recovered at the crime scene, police added.
Beam, who was hospitalized in critical condition, died at about 10 a.m. Friday, Gloria Beltran of the Oakland police said.
Piedmont Police Chief Frederick Shavies called the coach an “absolutely incredible human being.”
“Our hearts are aching,” Shavies said.
“Coach John Beam was a giant in Oakland and mentored thousands,” Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said at a news conference on Friday.
“He gave Oakland’s youth their best chance,” Lee said.
“Coach Beam’s legacy isn’t measured in championships or statistics … it’s measured in the thousands of young people he believed in, mentored and refused to abandon, including my nephew,” Lee said.
A general view of the aftermath following an overnight wave of Russian strikes on November 14, 2025 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Kyiv was attacked by a wave of Russian drones and missiles on the night of November 14, with the Ukrainian president alleging that Russia had launched 430 drones and 18 missiles, damaging dozens of high-rise buildings. Search and rescue operations are ongoing as damage is reported across nine districts of the capital. (Photo by Maksym Kishka/Frontliner/Getty Images)
(LONDON) — At least six people have been killed and 35 injured, including a pregnant woman, from ongoing Russian attacks in the Kyiv region early Friday morning, Ukrainian officials said.
Sections of certain heating networks in the region were damaged from the attack, and some buildings were without heat supply, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a post on Telegram.
At least 15 buildings have been damaged in Kyiv so far from the attacks, the Kyiv City State Administration said in a post on Telegram.
Ukrainian officials said that 430 drones and 18 missiles were launched as debris from the strike rained down on Kyiv.
Meanwhile, earlier this week, Ukrainian forces were forced to withdraw from several positions in the Zaporizhzhia region, the southeastern front, due to intense Russian assaults, according to a spokesperson for the army.
Russian forces have launched more than 400 artillery strikes per day and Ukrainian troops faced the destruction of defensive fortifications, Southern Defense Forces spokesman Vladyslav Voloshyn told ABC News.
The withdrawal affected the areas around Novouspenivske, Nove, Okhotnyche, Uspenivka and Novomykolaivka, according to Voloshyn.
“The situation there remains difficult, in part because of weather conditions that favor the attacks. But we continue to destroy the occupier, and I thank every one of our units, every warrior involved in defending Ukraine’s positions,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday.
Ukraine is also facing the potential fall of Pokrovsk — a city home to around 60,000 people at the time of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine — to Russia after an 18-month battle of attrition. This could be one of the most serious defeats of the war for Ukraine.
Drake performs live on stage during day two of Wireless Festival 2025 at Finsbury Park on July 12, 2025, in London, England. Drake is headlining an unprecedented all three nights of Wireless Festival. (Photo by Simone Joyner/Getty Images for ABA)
Billboardranked the top 25 songwriters with the most Hot 100 #1s in the 21st century, and Drake came out at #3. He earns his spot with 14 chart-toppers crediting him as a songwriter, with “God’s Plan” named his longest-leading #1. The song spent 11 weeks on the Hot 100, a run that started on Feb. 3, 2018.
Drake follows #1 songwriter Max Martin and runner-up Dr. Luke. Other songwriters ranked in Billboard‘s top 10 list include Beyoncé at #5 with #11 Hot 100 #1s in the 21st century and Bruno Mars with nine of his own #1s as a songwriter.
The full list, which also mentions Timbaland, Pharrell, The Weeknd, Jermaine Dupri, Sean Garrett, Ye, and Jay-Z, can be found on billboard.com.
Sara Bareilles and Brandi Carlile, ‘Salt Then Sour Then Sweet’ (Epic Records)
Sara Bareilles and Brandi Carlile are executive producers on a new Apple TV documentary called Come See Me in the Good Light, and they’ve also teamed up to record a duet for the project.
The documentary, which is now streaming, is about the late Colorado Poet Laureate Andrea Gibson and wife Megan Falley, who faced Gibson’s incurable cancer diagnosis together. Gibson died in July of this year. While it sounds like an incredibly heavy topic, Sara tells Variety, “It’s so funny. You watch this film and Andrea is … hysterically funny, as is Meg. So you’re laughing a lot, and it’s just a joyful, life-affirming film that happens to be about cancer.”
Sara was also given the words of an unfinished poem by Gibson to use for a song for the end credits; she then tapped Brandi to turn it into a duet.”Salt Then Sour Then Sweet” is streaming now.
“Andrea didn’t want to leave people with some kind of broken-hearted, achy song. They wanted a love song for Meg, and so that’s what we wrote,” Sara tells Variety.
In a video on Instagram describing her involvement in the project, Sara refers to her breakthrough hit by joking, “I finally did write someone a love song — and it was Andrea Gibson.”
The song has already been nominated for a Hollywood Music in Media Award.
Meanwhile, Sara tells Variety that she has a new record coming out early next year, which is about “pretty much about grief.” “I’ve been going through a lot of loss these last few years,” she explains. However, she notes that grief “cracks you open in this way that I think is really important and helpful, ultimately, if you can sort of endure what’s hard about it.”
(L-R) Lonnie Jordan, Lee Oskar and Howard E. Scott of War attend the ceremony honoring War with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on June 05, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
War has teamed up with Playing For Change, a multimedia project that aims to connect the world through music, to release a new version of their iconic tune “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” to mark the 50th anniversary of the song, and the album of the same name.
The new track features 30 musicians from around the world, including War founding member Lonnie Jordan and former band members Howard Scott, Harold Brown and Lee Oskar.
“Fifty years on, ‘Why Can’t We Be Friends?’ feels more powerful than ever,” says War’s longtime producer Jerry Goldstein. “It’s a beautiful message, and we’re grateful to share it with the world and bring people together through the music.”
Released in April 1975, “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” was a top-10 hit for War, peaking at #6 on the Hot 100 singles chart. The album of the same name, which also featured the iconic tune “Low Rider,” was also a top-10 hit, reaching #8.
The Actor statue on display before the 24th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on Jan. 21, 2018, in Los Angeles, California. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Turner)
The SAG Awards are getting a new name.
SAG-AFTRA has announced that the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards will be renamed to The Actor Awards presented by SAG-AFTRA. This change will come into effect starting with the 32nd edition of the awards ceremony in 2026.
According to the guild, which announced the name change on Friday, this decision was made in order to align the show’s name with the physical statuette itself, which is known as The Actor.
“Evolving the show’s name to align with the award itself made obvious sense,” SAG-AFTRA said in a FAQ section on its website. “We wanted to provide clearer recognition in terms of what the show is about for our domestic and global audiences – we honor actors in film and television. Laser-focusing the name on those two things became the clearest and most straightforward path for this new chapter of the show.”
The guild also said that as the awards ceremony has expanded its global audience due to streaming on Netflix, the timing felt right to make the name change so as to “step confidently into the show’s next era.”
Actor Award nominations will be announced on Jan. 7, 2026. Because campaigning began before the announcement of the name change, the guild acknowledged that For Your Consideration campaigns can continue to refer to the ceremony as the SAG Awards for the time being. However, SAG-AFTRA has asked studios, networks and platforms to switch to the new name after the nominations are announced.
“We understand there will be a period of transition where people – past winners and audiences included – will still refer to their award and the show as the SAG Awards, and that’s OK,” the guild said in its FAQ. “We know it’ll take time to adjust to the change.”
The Struts on ‘Good Morning America.’ (ABC/Paula Lobo)
The Struts have announced an event at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles taking place on Dec. 8.
The show will feature a performance by and a conversation with the English rockers.
Presales are open now, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Saturday at noon PT. For more info, visit GrammyMuseum.org.
The Grammy Museum event will cap an eventful year for The Struts, which saw them tour the U.S. while celebrating the 10th anniversary of their debut album, Everybody Wants, and releasing a new version of their breakout single, “Could Have Been Me,” with Queen‘s Brian May.
Meanwhile, frontman Luke Spiller released his debut solo album, Love Will Probably Kill Me Before Cigarettes and Wine, in April.
Chayce Beckham wrote his new song, “Holdin’ You, Lovin’ You,” to use when he proposed to his now-wife Ashley Beckham.
You can check our Eric Church‘s official trailer for Evangeline vs. The Machine: Comes Alive ahead of its arrival in IMAX theaters on Feb. 11 and Feb. 14.
Caroline Jones‘ new album, Good Omen, is set to be released Feb. 13, 2026. It’s the first album the Zac Brown Band member has recored for Big Machine.
