Bryan Adams, Steve Winwood and The Doobie Brothers are among the contenders for the 2025 class of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
The organization just announced the artists in the running for induction next year, with Adams, Winwood and Doobie Brothers members Tom Johnston, Patrick Simmons and Michael McDonald getting nominated in the performing songwriters category.
Others nominated in that category include The Beach Boys’ Mike Love, Boy George, David Gates of Bread, George Clinton, Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morissette, Janet Jackson, Eminem, Tommy James and Dr. Dre, Easy-E, Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella of Public Enemy.
In the non-performing category, the nominees include the folks who wrote or co-wrote hits like Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Pat Benatar‘s “Love Is A Battlefield,” The Foundations‘“Build Me Up Buttercup,” The Four Tops‘ “Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got),” The Commodores‘ “Nightshift” and Whitney Houston‘s “How Will I Know.”
Some of the people nominated this year have been in the running for the Hall of Fame in the past, including Adams, Winwood, The Doobie Brothers and Clinton.
Nominees become eligible 20 years after their first “significant commercial release of a song.” Voting will run through Dec. 22, and the inductees will be celebrated at a gala event in New York City next year.
My Chemical Romance has fans buzzing after sharing a mysterious teaser.
In an Instagram post, the reformed “Helena” rockers have shared an image of three symbols over a background of paper falling down over a hazy city skyline.
“If you could be anything, what would you be?” the caption reads.
As for what’s going on, fans are speculating that MCR could be teasing the release of The Paper Kingdom, an album that the band had been working on after the release of their 2010 album, Danger Days, before breaking up in 2013.
Stay tuned.
My Chem reunited in 2019 and planned a tour for 2020, which was then delayed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Just before the tour launched, they released a new song called “The Foundations of Decay.”
More recently, MCR headlined the 2024 When We Were Young festival in October, during which they performed their 2006 album, The Black Parade, in full.
For a guy who’s 73, Sting looks pretty good. But he says if he ever stops looking good, he’ll stop performing onstage.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Sting says his fitness regimen includes yoga, swimming, working out and walking, but admits that 55% of the reason he does it is vanity — the other 45% is discipline.
“I don’t look at pictures of myself. But you need enough professional vanity to go onstage in the first place,” he says. “I wouldn’t want to go on if I was overweight or wearing spandex. If that happens to me, I’m not going onstage. So the vanity is somewhat essential, and it’s not particularly harmful.”
“I’m not spending hours of the day looking in the mirror or getting made up … or wearing a wig or a corset,” he adds.
While Sting isn’t getting any younger, his music is finding new, younger audiences, because so many artists continue to sample it. Last year, Pink and Marshmello reworked his song “Fields of Gold” into the song “Dreaming,” for example.
“[W]hen somebody wants to interpolate or whatever it’s called, I never object because I always learn something about the song that I hadn’t known or anticipated. And I get paid, so why not?” he says. “It keeps them current.”
Sting also denies that the allegations against disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs have somehow “tainted” the way he thinks of his most famous song, “Every Breath You Take.” Combs famously sampled that song in his #1 hit “I’ll Be Missing You.”
“I mean, I don’t know what went on [with Diddy],” he says. “But it doesn’t taint the song at all for me. It’s still my song.”
The election of former President Donald Trump to a second term has put a spotlight on what his return to the White House may look like, particularly when it comes to women’s health.
Online searches for topics related to women’s health have spiked since the Nov. 5 election, particularly when it comes to birth control, Google data shows.
Searches for IUDs, birth control pills, and Plan B are trending higher than they have since June 2022, when Roe v. Wade was overturned, giving states the power to decide abortion access.
Since then, at least 14 states have ceased nearly all abortion services, and 21 states have put into effect restrictions on abortion.
The current abortion landscape combined with Trump’s comments about birth control on the campaign trail and his first administration’s efforts to roll back insurance coverage of contraceptives have led to uncertainty about what will happen in his second term.
Here are five questions answered.
1. What does the term ‘birth control’ include?
Birth control, also known as contraception, is the broad term for the act of preventing pregnancy.
The term includes everything from medicines and methods to devices and surgery used to prevent pregnancy, according to the National Library of Medicine.
One of the most widely-known and used types of contraception is the birth control pill, an oral, hormonal medication that commonly requires a prescription.
Around 14% of women in the United States between the ages of 15 to 49 currently use the pill, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
2. What did Trump say about birth control on the campaign trail?
During an interview with a Pittsburgh TV station in May, Trump was asked if he supports any restrictions on a person’s right to contraceptives.
“Well, we’re looking at that and we’re going to have a policy on that very shortly,” Trump responded with. “And I think it’s something you’ll find interesting and it’s another issue that’s very interesting.”
When asked to clarify if he was suggesting he was open to supporting some restrictions on contraceptives, “like the morning-after pill,” Trump responded, “Things really do have a lot to do with the states — and some states are going to have different policy than others.”
The former president quickly took to social media to clarify his position, claiming that he was not advocating for restrictions on contraceptives.
“I HAVE NEVER, AND WILL NEVER ADVOCATE IMPOSING RESTRICTIONS ON BIRTH CONTROL, or other contraceptives,” he wrote in a May 21 post on his social media platform.
The Trump campaign further attempted to clarify, claiming the policy Trump was referring to during the interview was mifepristone, often used in pregnancy termination. However, Trump was not asked about the abortion medication.
After winning the 2024 presidential election, Trump and the transition team have been advised on health-related appointments by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has also been in discussions to possibly fill a major role in the next administration, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
ABC News has not found public comment from RFK Jr. on the issue of birth control.
3. What happened on birth control during Trump’s first administration?
During Trump’s first term, the Department of Health and Human Services issued new rules allowing more employers to opt-out of the Affordable Care Act mandate guaranteeing no-cost contraceptive services for women.
The Supreme Court upheld the HHS decision in a 7-2 ruling in 2020, giving an employer or university with a religious or moral objection to opt out of covering contraceptives for employees.
4. As president, what power does Trump have over birth control?
As president, Trump would have the authority to order rollbacks of measures implemented by President Joe Biden’s administration to protect birth control.
As recently as October, the Biden administration announced a plan to require insurers to fully cover over-the-counter contraceptives.
In January, the administration announced several other measures to protect contraception access, including federal agencies issuing new guidance to “clarify standards” and make sure Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptive medications are available for free under the Affordable Care Act.
Once Trump is in office, he will also have the chance to appoint Supreme Court justices if vacancies arise. During his first term, Trump appointed three justices.
Trump could also work with Congress to enact legislation on women’s reproductive rights, including birth control. Following the Nov. 5 election, control of the House of Representatives is still up in the air, while ABC News has projected that Republicans will win the Senate.
5. What has the Supreme Court said on birth control?
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, a solo concurring opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas included a line on birth control.
In his opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the court “should reconsider” Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court ruling that invalidated a Connecticut law that made it illegal to use birth control devices or to advise about their use.
“We have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents,” Thomas wrote, citing the Griswold ruling among others.
ABC News’ Lalee Ibssa, Will McDuffie, Kelsey Walsh and Soo Rin Kim contributed to this report.
Marvel has released the trailer for the third and final season of its acclaimed animated series What If …? Guided by The Watcher, voiced by Jeffrey Wright, the series features a voice cast that includes a host of stars reprising their iconic Marvel characters, who “make unexpected choices that will mutate their worlds into spectacular alternate versions of the MCU,” per Disney+. What If …? season 3 launches Dec. 22. Marvel is owned by Disney, the parent company of ABC News …
Netflix has announced that America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders will return for season 2 sometime in 2025. The high-kicking ladies shared the news in a video released on Nov. 11 as only they can — with a cheer. Season 2 “will chronicle the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders from nerve-wracking auditions and grueling training camp all the way through the high-energy NFL 2024–25 season,” per the streaming service …
TV Line reports that NCIS: Sydney, which was renewed for a second season in March, will take over CBS’ 8 p.m. Friday time slot after Blue Bloods comes to an end around mid-December. That means the second season of NCIS: Sydney won’t debut until early 2025 at the earliest. The Australian procedural follows “a brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) … grafted into a multi-national taskforce to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet,” according to CBS …
Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger announced the arrival of their third child together on Monday.
“We are overjoyed to announce the birth of our son, Ford Fitzgerald Schwarzenegger Pratt,” the couple wrote in a joint statement posted to Instagram.
“Mama and baby are doing well and Ford’s siblings are thrilled by his arrival,” the statement continued. “We are so blessed and grateful. Love, Katherine and Chris.”
Pratt and Schwarzenegger also noted that Ford’s birthday was Nov. 8.
The couple, who married in June 2019, are also parents to daughters Lyla, 4, and Eloise, 2.
Pratt also shares son Jack, 12, with his ex-wife Anna Faris.
The Parks and Recreation alum and Schwarzenegger recently celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary, sharing heartfelt messages to each other on social media.
A piano used to record “Layla,” by Eric Clapton‘s band Derek and the Dominos, is one of the many items going up for auction as part of a collection from the legendary Hit Factory recording studio in New York.
Items that will be available come from the personal archives of Danielle Germano, daughter of the recording studio’s founder, Ed Germano.
The 1960s Baldwin studio piano up for auction was purchased by the Hit Factory from Miami’s Criteria Studios in the 1990s. It was used not only on “Layla,” but also during the recording of the AllmanBrothers Band album Eat a Peach andLynyrd Skynyrd’s Street Survivors. It was also played by several big-name artists, including Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles.
Also being auctioned off is an original file from Germano’s belongings described as the “final session” of John Lennon’s 1980 album, Double Fantasy, the final album he recorded before his death. There are also hundreds of record awards, from such artists as Lennon, Clapton, The Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen.
The auction is being handled by Eaton & Brennan and will run online from Nov. 13 to Dec. 4.
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Jeff Goldblum, who famously played mathematician and chaos theorist Dr. Ian Malcolm in several Jurassic Park movies, will be passing the torch to Bridgerton’sJonathan Bailey, who will play paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis in the franchise’s upcoming seventh film, Jurassic World: Rebirth — and Goldblum couldn’t be happier.
Goldblum tells Variety, “The hope of the world resides, and I can think of no better baton receiver to carry on the ‘da da da da da,’” referencing John Williams‘ classic Jurassic Park theme. “It’s Jonathan Bailey! It’s like no other!”
“I had the invitation to join the ‘Jurassic’ world, to join the conga line led by Jeff,” adds Bailey, sharing that he and Goldblum discussed the role on the way to CinemaCon earlier this year. “The original film was a seminal cinematic moment, purely because of Jeff, but also, I went with my family, and the multi-sensory experience of going to see a film so perfectly realized.”
“There’s so much that I am so proud to join. But obviously … there is a sense of responsibility,” says Bailey. “And if I can match half of what Jeff and Sam Neill and Laura Dern achieved, I’ll be very lucky.”
Jurassic World: Rebirth takes place five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, per Universal Pictures. “The planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived.”
However, “The three most colossal creatures within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.”
Bailey stars opposite Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Homeland alum Rupert Friend and The Lincoln Lawyer‘s Manuel Garcia-Rulfo.
US Representative (R-FL) Mike Waltz. Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
(WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump has asked Florida Republican Rep. Mike Waltz to be his national security adviser, multiple sources told ABC News.
Waltz is a China hawk and is the first Green Beret elected to Congress. He emerged as a key surrogate for Trump, criticizing the Biden-Harris foreign policy record during the presidential campaign.
Waltz, who was elected to the House in 2018, sits on the Intelligence, Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees. He also serves on the House China Task Force with 13 other Republicans.
He has supported aid to Ukraine in the past, but has demanded “conditions,” including increased spending from European allies, additional oversight of funds, and pairing the aid with border security measures.
Waltz, a vocal critic of the Biden administration’s policy towards Ukraine who has visited the country, criticized the White House and allies for not providing Ukraine with more lethal aid — such as MiG fighter planes from Poland — earlier in the conflict.
Before running for elected office, Waltz served in various national security policy roles in the George W. Bush administration in the Pentagon and White House. He retired as a colonel after serving 27 years in the Army and the National Guard.
