Ginger Minj and Jujubee star as Tess and DeeDee in ‘Stop! That! Train!’ (World of Wonder/Bleeker Street)
All aboard the Glamazonian Express.
Drag queens Ginger Minj and Jujubee star in the new comedy Stop! That! Train! The film, which arrives in theaters Friday, follows two train stewardesses who begin working for a glamorous high-speed train right as a catastrophic storm threatens to derail it.
Jujubee told ABC Audio it was always a dream of hers to be in a movie.
“I’m so grateful that our fabulous, talented, handsome director Adam Shankman chose me to play Deedee. I think it was my adult teeth that I was born with. Is that the reason?” Jujubee said. “We showed up and we worked our butt pads off. Everybody that was on that set was so happy to work … we wanted to create art for queer people, but everybody else as well.”
As for what it’s like to be atop the call sheet, Jujubee said, “It feels right.”
Ginger Minj, who stars as Tess, said that while films like To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert feature drag queens as characters, this movie takes it a step further.
“I love those movies. They did a lot for queer culture and for drag acceptance. But this is like, for drag by drag,” Ginger Minj said. “We’re actual drag queens who live in these heels every single day. So I think that informs the performance a little bit differently.”
The film is a comedy, but Shankman told Ginger Minj and Jujubee on their first day on set to play it as if it were a drama.
“I think that that grounds the entire film. All of the outrageousness that happens, it hits a lot harder because we do approach it from such a real place,” Ginger Minj says.
Jeff Ament attends the 2026 Tribeca Festival at Spring Studios on June 07, 2026 in New York City. (Jason Mendez/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)
Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament has premiered a new song called “Montana Grind,” recorded for the new documentary of the same name.
The film Montana Grind is about the skateboarding scene in Ament’s home state of Montana. Ament also recorded an original soundtrack for the doc.
You can watch the video for the song “Montana Grind,” which features footage of Ament singing the punk tune, on YouTube.
Montana Grind is available to rent now via Pearl Jam’s webstore.
Ament and Pearl Jam are set to headline Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival in September, which will be their first show with their new drummer. Matt Cameron, who’d been PJ’s drummer for 27 years, announced his departure from the band in 2025.
The 12th annual Craig Campbell Celebrity Cornhole Challenge during CMA Fest raised more than $35,000 for The Kenny Campbell Foundation. This year boasts both the most money raised for colorectal cancer so far and the biggest number of stars.
The new track from “Somebody Like That” hitmaker Tenille Arts, “Lonely Weekend,” comes out on Friday.
If you haven’t seen Lainey Wilson’s movie debut in Reminders of Him, it’s coming to Peacock on July 10.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with reporters while aboard Air Force One en route to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin on June 5, 2026. President Trump is traveling to an event at Custer Farms in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — Soon after President Donald Trump said in the Oval Office on Wednesday that the United States has been secretly ferrying “millions of barrels” of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, Trump announced on social media that “more than 100 MILLION Barrels of Oil” and “more than 200 Commercial Ships” have successfully traveled through the strait.
“Last month, I directed our Great U.S. Military to execute a secret mission to support Oil Tankers and other Commercial Ships through the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump wrote on his social media platform.
“Today, I am pleased to announce that this effort has resulted in more than 100 MILLION Barrels of Oil making its way through the Straight, and into the Open Market. More than 200 Commercial Ships have safely traveled through the Strait.”
The president referred to it as a “secret mission” that he says was conducted last month amid the ongoing war with Iran, which has led the strait to be closed to regular commercial shipping.
ABC News could not immediately verify the accuracy of Trump’s claims and the numbers of oil barrels and ships that he claims have passed through the Strait of Hormuz.
Earlier Wednesday, in the Oval Office, Trump alluded to apparent U.S. operations to stimulate shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, with Trump claiming that the U.S. recently “took” 22 ships, amounting to millions of barrels of oil, through the strait.
“Do you know, we’ve been taking out millions of barrels of oil? Nobody knows it. You know who doesn’t know about it? Iran, until right now. We took out the other night 22 ships late at night with no lights, because they don’t have any radar, because we blasted the crap out of it,” Trump said.
In his post Wednesday afternoon, Trump referred to the alleged operation as a “wildly successful effort” that is due to the U.S. blockade on the Strait of Hormuz.
“This wildly successful effort is because the UNITED STATES of AMERICA CONTROLS the Strait of Hormuz — NOT Iran,” Trump wrote.
Since last month, there have been reports of the U.S. Navy helping ships navigate through the Strait of Hormuz — though U.S. officials have said that the efforts have not been a revival of Project Freedom, the short-lived U.S. military initiative to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. Trump announced Project Freedom in early May — pausing the effort just two days later.
Rather, this most recent effort was a coordination effort where shippers could contact U.S. Central Command and in turn, receive information about where to transit through the Strait of Hormuz, according to a U.S. official.
ABC News confirmed the Times’ report that, as of late last month, approximately 70 commercial ships had been guided through the strait. In addition to the U.S. coordinating safe passageways, the Times reported that many of the vessels traveling through the strait had turned off their transponders to “avoid detection.”
During the Oval Office event earlier Wednesday afternoon, Trump had also indicated that he was choosing to reveal this “secret” mission now because the Iranians had “figured it out.”
“But now I’m going to tell you, because they just figured it out. So now that they figured it out, I can tell you it was very hard for me. I wanted to say it so bad, but it was. I didn’t want to ruin it, but it was very hard,” Trump said.
Paul Stanley of Kiss attends the premiere of Sony Pictures Classics’ “Becoming Led Zeppelin” at TCL Chinese Theatre on January 27, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Unique Nicole/Getty Images)
KISS’ Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons are set to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame Thursday in New York, and ahead of the honor, Stanley talked to New YorkMagazine about their music.
When asked which song he considers the band’s “legacy defining” tune, he said, “It’s hard not to go with ‘Rock and Roll All Nite,'” the iconic track from their 1975 album Dressed To Kill.
“That song is really the template for a lot of songs that came after it, whether ours or other people’s, because it’s an anthem,” he said. “When I started writing it, there were no ‘anthems,’ per se. Our record-company president sat us down and very fortuitously told us that we needed an anthem and we had no idea what that meant.”
The song is known for its signature lyric, “I want to rock and roll all night, and party every day.” Stanley said he always went with “I” and not “we” because “what empowers you is ‘I.'”
“Partying didn’t mean pointed hats and fly whistles. It also wasn’t a drug-fueled social event,” he said of the song’s theme. “It was getting together with people and having a great time.”
“So although it wouldn’t necessarily be my favorite song, its legacy is undeniable,” he noted. “We’ve closed our shows for 50 years with that song because it encapsulates our ethos.”
And while he said plenty of other artists have gone on to release songs with the theme of “lets get together and rock,” Stanley’s not one to stand up and take credit for influencing them.
He added, “That’s for me to know, but certainly not for me to announce. That’s too much self-aggrandizing for me.”
This rendering shows what President Donald Trump’s “triumphal arch” would look like from the Lincoln Memorial. (National Capital Planning Commission)
(WASHINGTON) — To complete Donald Trump’s “Triumphal Arch” by the time he leaves office, the National Park Service plans to have construction take place 20 hours per day over the next two to three years, according to planning documents released by the Department of the Interior.
The National Park Service last week released designs, renderings and reports related to the planned arch as it seeks public comment about the controversial addition to the D.C. skyline.
“Because the Arch is intended to celebrate 250 years of American independence. … smaller heights were not considered representative of this milestone, unlike the 250-foot Arch proposed in the undertaking,” one of the reports said about the size of the project.
The project is being challenged in federal court, though lawsuits challenging the arch, and other projects like Trump’s White House Ballroom, planned golf course renovations and the repainting and sealing of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have so far been unsuccessful in stopping work.
Current designs call for the massive arch to be constructed out of concrete and clad with U.S.-sourced granite — a departure from some of the older D.C. monuments which are constructed from marble or limestone. According to planning documents, construction workers will require multiple cranes up to 320-feet tall — taller than the U.S. Capitol building — and other heavy construction equipment, including concrete pumps, forklifts, skid steers and other tools.
Because the monument will sit near the complicated flight paths for D.C.’s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), architects included “aviation required safety lighting” into the design of the arch, using the “least intrusive technology available” to minimize light pollution, according to planning documents.
The FAA recently completed a feasibility study about the arch and concluded it would have “no significant adverse effect on airspace and visual/instrument procedures” for the airport and that it would only require red obstruction lights.
“Career safety experts found no adverse impacts to operations at DCA. Their review determined the only requirement would be the top of the structure would need to be lit with red obstruction lights — a common safety tool,” an FAA spokesperson said in a statement, adding that it will next conduct a full aeronautical study with the National Park Service.
According to the documents, the project will include seven phases of construction over a two-to-three-year period. After workers excavate the site, construction would involve about five months of “continuous heavy equipment operations” to drive the foundation system down about 75 feet to bedrock. The NPS report estimated that removing material for the foundation would require about 30 trucks to move 100 loads of soil per day for months.
Once the foundation is completed, workers plan to spend about 10 months constructing the primary concrete structure of the arch and then affix granite panels to the concrete.
“Work would occur year-round, with work occurring in two 10-hour shifts per day (20 hours per day, year-round) for the duration of the construction period,” a NPS report said.
Around the same timeframe, construction workers will begin to assemble the inner structure of the arch, including stairs, elevators, roofing, plumbing, and electrical work. After about two years of work, plans call for a 300-foot mobile crane to be used to install a gold statue atop the arch.
The National Park Service said the construction would likely result in significant traffic disruptions around the Arlington Memorial Bridge.
The design for the arch has not yet been approved by the National Capital Planning Commission. During a hearing last week, the commission asked the Trump administration to address a series of issues with their design, though Trump falsely claimed the design had been approved.
A group of Vietnam veterans also sued over the arch earlier this year and are asking a federal judge to block the construction, arguing the arch should be approved by Congress.
“With every passing day, Defendants’ arch moves closer to construction,” they wrote in a recent court filing.
The Trump administration has argued that a 100-year-old statute related to the building of the nearby Arlington Memorial Bridge authorizes construction of the arch. Department of Justice lawyers have also argued that the plaintiffs lack standing and that the lawsuit is premature.
“Forcing such disclosures of internal deliberations — before NPS has concluded its decision-making process — would ‘wreak havoc’ on the Executive Branch,” DOJ lawyers wrote in a court filing.
Sadie Soverall as Percy Fraser, Matt Cornett as Sam Florek in ‘Every Year After.’ (Cate Cameron/Prime Video)
Less than a year after the beloved Prime Video series The Summer I Turned Pretty wrapped, a new series is stepping in to deliver all the swoonworthy summer romance audiences have been yearning for.
Prime Video released all eight episodes of the seriesEvery Year After on Wednesday, starring Sadie Soverall and Matt Cornett. The streaming platform has described the new show as “the love story of the summer.”
The series follows Percy (Soverall) and Sam (Cornett), childhood best friends who fall in love over the course of six summers at Barry’s Bay, an idyllic lakeside town.
Ten years after their heartbreaking split, they are reunited when Percy returns to Barry’s Bay to attend the funeral of Sam’s mother.
“It’s a story that’s told over quite an incredible span of time,” Soverall told ABC News in an interview. “It follows them from the age of 13 to their mid-to-late 20s.”
Cornett added, “You get to see them grow together and then see their hardships that caused them to separate. And you see them come back together to try and regrow together.”
The series already has a loyal fanbase thanks to Carley Fortune’s New York Times bestselling novel Every Summer After, on which the show is based.
Going into the series, Cornett said that he wasn’t familiar with Fortune’s novel, but when he found out he booked the role of Sam, he said he went to the bookstore and saw the book displayed on one of the first tables in the shop.
“I was like, ‘OK, I guess this is a little bit bigger of a deal than I think it is,'” he recalled, adding that he was “blown away by it.”
“Carley’s writing is spectacular,” Cornett said. “And I remember reading the book and crying a lot, so the idea of getting to bring that to life was fun.”
Soverall added that she wanted to do the story justice knowing how beloved the characters are.
“I think that we’re both such big fans, so we get how important it is for these characters to be represented in a way that you want to see them as a fan,” she said.
The new series also stars Aurora Perrineau, Abigail Cowen, Michael Bradway, Joseph Chiu and Elisha Cuthbert.
Singer Joe attends the 2016 Trumpet Awards on January 23, 2016, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Marcus Ingram/Getty Images)
NPR’s Tiny Desk is back with another Black Music Month performance, this time from R&B star Joe Thomas.
He performed songs “Good Girls,” “Faded Pictures” with Case, “More & More,” “The Love Scene,” “All the Things (Your Man Won’t Do)” and “I Wanna Know,” with vocal assistance from background singers, including his daughter Kayla Thomas.
Other artists scheduled to appear in June are Eve, 8 Ball & MJG, Shaboozey and Bow Wow.
Even if you can’t be at the Grand Ole Opry for the 15th anniversary of Scotty McCreery’s debut on Thursday, you can catch up with him live backstage.
The “Bottle Rockets” hitmaker will perform and answer fan questions starting at 8 p.m. ET on TalkShopLive.
Of course, you’ll also be able to order autographed copies of his new collection, 15, which comes out July 17. It’ll be available on vinyl, CD and digitally.
15 collects nine hits and adds the four new tracks “Your Man” with Josh Turner, “Hello Darlin’,” “Why Me, Lord?” and “Been a Good Run” to Scotty’s catalog.
Russell Dickerson & Fetty Wap (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
A week after the kickoff of CMA Fest 2026, Russell Dickerson’s still living in the afterglow.
“THAT WAS THE BEST CMA FEST OF MY LIFE!!!!” he posted on his socials Wednesday, along with a photo of Fetty Wap.
The rap icon surprised fans onstage with Russell during the final performance at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium on Sunday.
Russell started his set with mainstay hits “Blue Tacoma” and “Yours” before doing his current hit, “Worth Your Wild.” That’s when Fetty appeared onstage to do the pair’s new collab, “Boots,” before the two segued into his classic “Trap Queen.”
Earlier, Russell kicked off CMA Fest with a Riverfront Stage performance, an Artist of the Day gig at Fan Fair X and the Blue Tacomies Fan Club Party.
You’ll have a chance to check out part of Russell’s set during the annual CMA Fest special, which airs Thursday, June 25, on ABC and premieres the next day on Hulu.
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