Snoop Dogg performs at Amex x CARBONE BEACH 2026 in Miami Beach, FL on May 02, 2026, in Miami, Florida. (Photo by John Parra/Getty Images for Amex x Carbone Beach)
Snoop Dogg will act opposite Brandon Perea in an upcoming boxing drama written and to be directed by Eric Amadio, known for his work on the FX series Snowfall. Deadline reports Snoop will star in The Faith of Long Beach, though his role has not been revealed.
The Faith of Long Beach tells the story of “a soft-spoken street fighter raised in a Long Beach group home who is torn between his troubled past and a promising future as he attempts to leave behind backyard brawls and follow in his estranged father’s footsteps into professional boxing,” according to Deadline.
Eric notes the film will serve as both a coming-of-age boxing picture, according to Deadline, and a story about faith — “faith in yourself when nobody else has any, and faith in the people who refuse to give up on you.”
“With Brandon, I knew instantly I had my nuanced, complicated fighter. And with Snoop, I’ve got the authentic OG who’s seen every version of that kid and still bets on him anyway,” Eric continues. “It’s an honor to shine a long-overdue cinematic spotlight on the city and people of Long Beach.”
Snoop is equally grateful for the opportunity. “Death Row Pictures is proud to be a part of The Faith of Long Beach,” he says in his own statement of his production company, which will produce the film with Everlast Pictures. “This is the type of story that hits different – heart, grit, struggle and redemption all wrapped up in that Long Beach spirit. This one got soul.”
Cher attends the 2026 Met Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City. (TheStewartofNY/Getty Images)
Believe it: Ageless pop culture legend Cher turns 80 on Wednesday, May 20. The singer, songwriter, actress, activist, mother, philanthropist, fashion icon, gay icon and so many more things has been topping the charts for six decades, has won multiple awards and is one of the bestselling artists of all time.
Here are just some of the highlights of her illustrious career:
Cher’s Music Career
-She’s sold over 100 million records worldwide.
-She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2024 by Zendaya and performed that night alongside Dua Lipa.
-She’s received seven Grammy nominations and won a Grammy in 2000 for “Believe.” She was also given the 2026 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
-Cher’s Living Proof: The Farewell Tour was, at the time of its conclusion in 2005, the highest-grossing tour ever by a female artist.
-She’s the only artist ever to have a #1 Billboard single in six consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s.
-Her 2018 album Dancing Queen debuted at #3 on the Billboard album chart, tying the record for her highest-charting solo album ever.
-Her rebellious attitude, fashion sense and ability to reinvent herself has influenced everyone from Pink, Madonna, Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez to Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Cyndi Lauper, Tina Turner and Gwen Stefani. Sabrina Carpenter wore one of Cher’s Bob Mackie gowns from the 1970s to an event last year.
Cher’s Acting Career
-Received one best supporting actress Oscar nomination in 1984 for Silkwood; won thebest actress Oscar in 1988 for Moonstruck.
-Won three Golden Globe Awards in 1974, 1984 and 1988.
-Starred in movies including Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Mermaids, The Witches of Eastwick, Suspect and Burlesque.
-Received seven Emmy nominations, winning in 2003 for Cher: The Farewell Tour.
-Starred in TV shows including The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, Cher, The Sonny & Cher Show, Cher… Special and HBO’s If These Walls Could Talk, for which she also directed a segment.
Other accomplishments
-She’s a New York Times bestselling author, thanks to her 2024 book Cher: The Memoir.
-Her life inspired the 2018 Broadway musical The Cher Show, which won two Tony Awards in 2019.
-She received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2018.
-She’s a style icon who received the Council of Fashion Designers of America Award for “Influence on Fashion” in 1999.
-She’s a gay icon, activist and ally, and recipient of the Vanguard Award from GLAAD Media Awards.
-She’s lent her support to countless causes and charities: animal rights, elder rights, soldiers and veterans, people living with AIDS, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, the COVID-19 pandemic and more.
-She’s the mother of Chaz Bono, whose father was her late husband Sonny Bono, and Elijah Blue Allman, whose father was her second husband, the late rocker Greg Allman.
James “JY” Young and Tommy Shaw of Styx perform during The Brotherhood Of Rock Tour at Ameris Bank Amphitheatre on July 06, 2025, in Alpharetta, Georgia. (Photo by R. Diamond/Getty Images)
Styx is featured in a new documentary that highlights their 20-year partnership with Kaboom Collective, a nonprofit arts organization based in Cleveland.
Twenty Years On looks back at Styx’s 2006 performance with a youth orchestra, talking to the band, past orchestra members and more. It also includes a new generation of orchestral students recording new arrangements of Styx songs “Blue Collar Man” and “Build and Destroy.”
“Every person in this film made a choice to show up, to trust the process, and to give everything they had to something bigger than themselves,” Kaboom founder and conductor Liza Grossman says. “That is what Kaboom has always been about, and Styx understood that from day one.”
She adds, “Watching those young artists grow into doctors, educators, Broadway musicians, and studio artists over twenty years has been the greatest gift of my career. This film is for every one of them.”
“We are excited to be a part of the Kaboom Collective documentary, Twenty Years On,” says Styx’s Tommy Shaw. “It is amazing to celebrate our relationship and performance with the Cleveland Youth Orchestra twenty years later and see the kids grown up. We can’t wait for you to see it!”
A trailer for the film was released Tuesday, with the documentary set to have its world premiere on June 6 at Heights Theater Studios, Kaboom’s professional soundstage in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
More info on the film can be found at 20yearson.com.
‘The Boys’ season 5 on Prime Video (Amazon MGM Studios)
The series finale of The Boys drops Wednesday on Prime Video. The big question is whether or not The Boys will be able to stop the sociopathic and seemingly invincible superhero Homelander, when all attempts so far this season have failed. So, will the finale manage to wrap up the story in a way that makes viewers happy?
Erin Moriarty, who plays Annie aka Starlight, told ABC Audio, “I hope so. I really hope so, I think the writers have done a brilliant job executing it. And I think that will translate into the fans feeling really satisfied by it, hopefully. We always hope so.”
“But I think … Eric Kripke [CRIP-kee], our showrunner, has done a brilliant job,” she added.
Moriarty’s Annie recommitted to the seemingly hopeless fight against Homelander, who is literally immortal, in last week’s episode, after she regained her sense of hope. That came despite a very bleak season that has seen the deaths of several major characters. But as star Jack Quaid, who plays Hughie, notes, it’s that emotion that has been carrying the characters through this season.
“Hope is a very big, poignant theme this season because I think the question the writers are asking is, ‘How do you have hope in a world that’s so dark, and dreary and horrible?'” he told ABC Audio.
“And I think that the answer to that is that hope is a choice. And sometimes all you have is hope and … [it’s] hard to keep alive. But doing so — it’s not naive. It’s not overly optimistic. It’s actually kind of bada**.”
All episodes of season 5 of The Boys are streaming now.
Shinedown’s Brent Smith performs on ‘American Idol.’ (Disney/Eric McCandless)
If you want Shinedown to honor your song request, maybe make sure your show count is in the triple digits before you ask.
Brent Smith and company broke out the deep cut “Junkies for Fame,” a bonus track off the deluxe edition of 2008’s Sound of Madness album, during a recent show at the request of a fan named Anthony, who was seeing Shinedown live for the 102nd time.
The performance marked the first time Shinedown’s played “Junkies for Fame” live in 18 years.
“We don’t do this for anyone,” Smith told the crowd before launching into the song. “Anthony, you are the #1 tonight, my brother.”
After the song was over, Smith got down from the stage and embraced Anthony at the barricade, while drummer Barry Kerch gave him his sticks.
“When a fan who’s been with us since 2003 has a song request at show #102, you make it happen!!!” Shinedown writes in an Instagram post alongside footage of the moment. “Whether it’s your first show or too many to count, we’re so glad you’re here.”
Shinedown is currently on tour in support of their upcoming album, EI8HT, due out May 29.
The trailer for the fifth and final season of Power Book III: Raising Kananhas officially dropped, giving fans a glimpse of the tension between Kanan Stark and his mother, Raquel “Raq” Thomas.
Narrated by 50 Cent — who played the older Kanan in the original Power — the trailer reflects on Kanan’s transformation over the series.
“If you didn’t hate me before, you gon’ hate me now,” he says. “When you hustling, you ain’t thinking about anyone but you.”
The footage shows Kanan, played by Mekai Curtis, deepening his role in the Queens drug game, now working alongside Snap (Erika Woods), Pops (Wendell Pierce) and the new character Breeze, played by Shameik Moore.
“Your world about to get a whole lot bigger and your pockets fatter,” Breeze tells Kanan.
The biggest reveal is that Raq, played by Patina Miller, is back after surviving the shocking season 4 finale cliff-hanger, during which Kanan held his mother at gunpoint for believing she killed his girlfriend.
Their relationship now appears to be completely broken, with Raq warning, “You ain’t never have an enemy like me, Kanan.”
Kanan replies, “I’ve had you as an enemy my whole life.”
The trailer also features appearances from Marvin (London Brown), Lou (Malcolm Mays) and Unique (Joey Bada$$) while teasing betrayals, shoot-outs and tension between the Thomas family, Unique and the mafia.
According to the official logline, season 5 sees Kanan fully embracing the ruthless persona fans know from the original series, with his alliance with Breeze becoming central to the story and setting up the next chapter of Kanan’s story.
Power Book III: Raising Kananpremieres June 12 on Starz. “Tell them I said keep up, new heat,” 50 wrote when announcing the news. He serves as executive producer.
The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building on May 18, 2026 in Washington, DC. The Justice Department has announced the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion compensation fund for allies of U.S. President Donald Trump who allege they were unfairly targeted by the federal government under the previous administration. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Tuesday issued an addendum to its sweeping settlement to end President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS that would bar the government from conducting audits of tax returns filed by Trump, his family and their companies.
The filing, signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and posted to the Justice Department’s website Tuesday, states that the IRS is “forever barred and precluded” from “prosecuting or pursuing” examinations or reviews of Trump or “related or affiliated individuals” and businesses.
The addendum expands the unprecedented settlement agreement announced by the DOJ Monday that establishes a $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to compensate those who allege they were wrongly targeted under the Biden administration, in exchange for Trump dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS as well as two civil claims for $230 million related to the Russia collusion investigation he faced during his first term in office and the 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago estate.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Water bungalows on Kanuhura island resort at Indian Ocean in Maldives – stock photo (westend61/Getty)
(MALDIVES) – -Two investigations, including a culpable homicide probe, have been launched into the deep-water expedition in the Maldives that claimed the lives of five Italian scuba divers, and authorities said they didn’t know the group would be exploring a cave.
Both the Maldives government and prosecutors in Rome announced the investigations as the remains of two more divers were recovered from an underwater cave in the Indian Ocean.
In addition to the probe by the Maldives government, prosecutors in Rome have opened a culpable homicide investigation into the tragedy, sources told the Italian news agency ANSA.
It’s not immediately clear if any specific person or persons are the target of that probe.
Mohamed Hussain Shareef, a spokesperson for the Maldives president’s office, said the investigation by the Maldives government will focus on whether those in charge of the fatal expedition “took the correct precautions” and underwent the necessary planning.
“We believe that the retrieval of the bodies will itself reveal a lot, as far as that part of the investigation is concerned,” said Shareef, according to The Associated Press. “But that doesn’t take from the fact that cave diving in itself is very, very dangerous.”
Shareef said the scuba-diving group — which was led by Monica Montefalcone, a marine researcher and an associate professor of ecology at the University of Genoa — had been issued a permit for the diving expedition.
“While they had a permit, there are certain gaps in the research proposal,” Shareef said.
He said the Maldives government was not informed that the group would be exploring an underwater cave.
“We didn’t know the exact location they were diving,” Shareef said.
He said two of the divers who died were not on the list of researchers that organizers had submitted.
“So we didn’t know they were part of the expedition as well. So, all these factors are being reviewed,” Shareef said.
Shareef said the scuba diving group was on an excursion he described as “very, very challenging” due to the depth, terrain, powerful current and strong draft in the area of the dive.
“The visibility, for example, once you enter the cave, would be almost zero; that’s what we are being told,” Shareef said.
The divers went missing on Thursday while exploring a cave in Vaavu Atoll, according to the Maldives National Defense Force.
A Maldives military diver died on Saturday while working to recover the bodies of victims, according to the Maldives National Defense Force.
Officials called the recovery effort a “very dangerous, high-risk operation.” The search was suspended at one point on Friday due to bad weather, the AP reported.
The Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology and the University of Genoa identified the deceased divers as Montefalcone; her daughter, Giorgia Sommacal, a University of Genoa biomedical engineering student; Muriel Oddenino, a University of Genoa research fellow; and marine biologist Federico Gualtieri, a recent University of Genoa graduate in marine biology and ecology.
The institute also identified one of the victims as diving instructor Gianluca Benedetti.
The Maldives government said three of the bodies have been recovered. On Tuesday, a Finnish diving team retrieved two bodies from the third chamber of a deep-water cave, Shareef said.
Shareef said the identities of the two recovered divers are pending autopsies. But Antonello Riccio, an attorney for Gualtieri’s family, confirmed that the remains of Montefalcone and Gualtieri were recovered on Tuesday.
Ahmed Shaam, another spokesperson for the Maldives government, said the bodies were found lying at a depth of around 200 feet. The legal depth for recreational diving in the Maldives is nearly 100 feet, officials said.
The Maldives government said on Monday that four bodies were spotted in the innermost part of the cave by the Finnish diving team. Divers are expected to return to the cave on Wednesday to recover the two remaining bodies.
“As was previously thought, the four bodies were found inside the cave, not only inside the cave, but well inside the cave into the third segment of the cave, which is the largest part,” Shaam said.
He said that the four bodies were found “pretty much together.”
Earlier in the recovery operation, the body of the diving instructor who was part of the lost group was recovered outside the cave, Maldives government officials said.
ABC News’ Othon Leyva, Phoebe Natanson and Clark Bentson contributed to this report.
Gavel on wooden desk with books as background (sean zheng lim/Getty)
(VIRGINIA) — A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school is standing trial on criminal charges more than three years after a then-6-year-old student shot his first grade teacher in their classroom.
Ebony Parker has been charged with eight counts of felony child abuse with disregard for life in connection with the January 2023 shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News — one count for each bullet that was unspent in the gun, according to the Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office. She has pleaded not guilty.
The criminal trial comes months after a separate jury in a civil trial found that Parker acted with gross negligence in the shooting and awarded the injured teacher, Abby Zwerner, $10 million in damages.
Prosecutors in the ongoing criminal trial allege that Parker failed to respond after several staffers raised concerns that the student, identified in the trial as JT, had a gun.
“For over an hour, multiple people went to Dr. Parker and told her there was an armed child at an elementary school,” Deputy Commonwealth Attorney Josh Jenkins said during opening statements on Tuesday. “Multiple warnings brought directly to her.”
Jenkins said the evidence will show that Parker did not say to search the child, did not call police and did not remove the child from the classroom.
“She didn’t even get up from her desk,” he said. “Warning after warning after warning — nothing.”
Jenkins said there were 19 children in the classroom at the time of the shooting who are the alleged victims in this case.
“A slight movement of the gun could have hit a child instead of Miss Zwerner,” he said. “All of them, you’ll learn, watched as their teacher clutched her chest and bled before these children, screaming in horror, ran across the hallway to another classroom.”
Jenkins claimed that Parker was the only person in the building at the time who had the authority and knowledge to respond to the crisis.
Defense attorney Curtis Rogers pushed back against that claim, arguing in his opening statement that other school staffers, including Zwerner, could have acted.
“The Commonwealth talks about, a lot, this ongoing crisis and that Dr. Parker was the only person that had knowledge of the crisis and the authority to act. I will submit that that’s not accurate. It’s not true,” Rogers said.
“Think about it — who was the one person that was there from the beginning to the end? And that was the teacher, Miss Zwerner,” he said.
Zwerner, the first witness in the trial, testified that she had told Parker prior to the shooting that JT “seemed to be off” that day and “in a violent mood.” She said another staffer, reading specialist Amy Kovac, alerted her that JT told other students he had brought a gun to school, and that Kovac reported that to the administration.
Zwerner said that in hindsight she could have separated JT from the other students and confirmed that she was responsible for the safety of her students. Though she said her understanding that a crisis or emergency needed to be brought to the attention of the administration, and that she trusted her colleagues.
Kovac testified that she told Parker that two students reported to her that JT had a gun in his bag, and that Parker nodded in acknowledgment when she said she would search the bag at recess. Kovac said she did not find a gun when she searched the bag and then told Parker that she believed the gun was in his jacket pocket.
Pressed by the defense on why she didn’t do more, such as by separating students from JT, Kovac said, “I did not know what his next actions would have been at that moment.”
“A weapon had been reported and no administrator did actions,” she said.
The criminal trial is scheduled to run through at least Thursday.
Zwerner also testified about the shooting during the civil trial, saying she “thought I had died.”
The bullet went through Zwerner’s left hand, which she had lifted, and then into her chest. She was initially hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, police said.
Parker did not testify during the civil trial.
Zwerner and Parker both resigned following the shooting.
The student brought the gun from home, police said. His mother, Deja Taylor, was sentenced to two years in state prison after pleading guilty to child neglect in connection with the shooting. She also pleaded guilty to using marijuana while in possession of a firearm and making a false statement about her drug use during the purchase of the firearm used in the shooting and was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison.
She was released from state custody on May 13 and transitioned to community supervision, according to online Virginia Department of Corrections records.
The Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson performs at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction (Disney/Frank Micelotta)
The Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson says anger prompted him to make moves in 2015 that wound up breaking up the band.
In an interview on Jay Mohr’s Mohr Stories podcast, Chris discussed the breakup, which his brother Rich Robinson said happened when Chris asked for a bigger stake in the band. Chris told Jay he asked for more money because he knew it would lead to the breakup.
“I had to remove myself because I was heartbroken about the whole thing,” he said. “I was angry.”
He said at the time their manager asked what it would take for him to continue with the band.
“And I knew this would be the nail in the head. I knew I could also set it down,” he explained. “I said, ‘I want more money then. If this is a cash cow, then I want my side of beef.’”
He added, “It’s not like I did it out of some random thing. I did it completely to put a nail in this thing, ’cause I knew.”
Chris said that during that period he felt the band was “out there just chasing money so everyone can live a certain lifestyle.”
“I felt, in all honesty, I was, like, I’m not here for that. And I’m not done. As an artist, as a person, I’m not done. This isn’t over,” he said.
“I’m also completely aware and prepared for that to sound selfish, self-indulgent,” he continued. “I did it to be cruel in a way, too, ’cause my heart was broken. And my spirit. I wasn’t gonna allow my spirit to be broken.”
The Black Crowes went on to reunite in 2019 and have since released two albums, 2019’s Happiness Bastards and 2026’s A Pound of Feathers. They are on tour now.
