Omar Epps attends the ‘Red Clay’ screening during the 2025 Annual Atlanta Film Festival at Plaza Theatre on May 03, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Carol Lee Rose/Getty Images)
Omar Epps has joined the cast for an upcoming untitled football drama that will be making its way to Hulu. ABC Audio has confirmed he’ll be taking on the recurring role of an offensive coordinator who was formerly an NFL player.
Epps will join a cast starring Christopher Meloni and This Is Us alum Mandy Moore, who will portray Lauren, daughter of William H. Macy‘s Hank.
The logline for the Dan Fogelman series has yet to be disclosed, but it’s “set inside the world of the NFL with a generational family component,” according to a press release.
The untitled series will be Fogelman’s second series on Hulu. His show Paradise, starring This Is Us star Sterling K. Brown, premiered in January.
A plane heading to Jamaica to help with storm relief crashed in a waterway in a community in Coral Springs, Florida, Nov. 10, 2025. (Obtained by ABC News)
(CORAL SPRINGS, Fla.) — Two people died when a small plane heading to Jamaica for Hurricane Melissa relief efforts plunged into a waterway in a Coral Springs, Florida, neighborhood, according to local officials.
The Beech B100 went down at about 10:19 a.m. on Monday behind some homes, according to the National Transportation Safety Board and the Coral Springs Fire Department.
No one on the ground was injured and no houses were hit, fire officials said.
The plane went down about five minutes after takeoff from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport and was heading to Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, Jamaica, for relief efforts, according to Fort Lauderdale city officials.
Jamaica is working to rebuild after the massive destruction caused by Hurricane Melissa. The storm made landfall on the island on Oct. 28 as a Category 5 hurricane, one of the most powerful landfalls on record in the Atlantic basin.
There were more than 30 deaths in Jamaica from Melissa and 100,000 housing structures were damaged, according to the United Nations.
Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) signage at a grocery store in Dorchester, Massachusetts, US, on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. Mel Musto/Bloomberg via Getty Images
(WASHINGTON) — A federal judge said Monday that she will continue to block the Trump administration from enforcing a memo directing states to “undo” the issuance of full SNAP benefits.
The administration is currently seeking to “undo” hundreds of millions of dollars in SNAP benefits that went out after the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which operates the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, told states Friday afternoon that it was “working towards implementing November 2025 full benefit issuances” to comply with a court order.
During a tense hearing Monday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani rebuked the Trump administration for “trying to play vindictive games” with states that sent benefits to SNAP recipients.
“It would seem to me that if the agency is trying to comply with the law and with the executive branch’s preferences on policies, a piece of that wouldn’t be trying to play vindictive games with the states. That’s not part of it,” said Talwani, who said she planned to issue a written ruling later Monday.
The USDA sent out its initial guidance after U.S. District Judge McConnell on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to fully fund SNAP by Friday — but on Saturday the USDA told states that they must “immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025.”
Twenty states said they had already begun the process of issuing full November benefits.
“What you have right now is confusion of the agency’s own making,” Judge Talwani said.
The Trump administration, meanwhile, asked the Supreme Court Monday to stay the order requiring full payment of November SNAP benefits in order to allow Congress to finalize an end to the ongoing government shutdown without judicial interference.
“The irreparable harms of allowing district courts to inject themselves into the shutdown and decide how to triage limited funds are grave enough to warrant a stay,” wrote Solicitor General John Sauer.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who paused the order late Friday night, is expected to revisit it Tuesday.
Sauer, in an earlier filing, told the court that if the government reopens, its request would become moot — but in the meantime, the administration is making clear that it still wants the justices to allow it to make an only a partial payment of SNAP benefits for the month.
The administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday for an emergency stay of a ruling by U.S. District Judge John McConnell ordering the administration to fully fund SNAP for the month of November, saying it would partially fund SNAP with approximately $4.5 billion but that it needed the remaining funds to support WIC programs that feed children.
Justice Jackson granted the stay, pending a decision on the administration’s appeal to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Late Sunday, the circuit court denied the administration’s appeal, rejecting the administration’s argument that harm suffered by the government by complying with the order would outweigh the harm suffered by the millions of Americans who rely on the food assistance program.
“These immediate, predictable, and unchallenged harms facing forty-two million Americans who rely on SNAP benefits — including fourteen million children — weigh heavily against a stay,” wrote Judge Julie Rikelman.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Nov. 7, 2025 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — Stocks closed markedly higher on Monday after the Senate voted hours earlier to advance a potential deal on the government shutdown, which has weighed on economic output and cast uncertainty over markets for well over a month.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 380 points, or 0.8%, while the S&P 500 climbed 1.5%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq increased 2.2%.
Lawmakers in a rare Sunday session cleared a key hurdle toward potentially reopening the government by advancing a short-term funding bill by a razor-thin vote of 60-40, just meeting the threshold for it to pass.
Stocks rebounded on Monday after major indices registered a loss over the previous week, a rare blemish that hadn’t happened in four weeks prior.
The economy has shown some signs of strain during the shutdown.
A report on Friday revealed a decline in shopper attitudes in November, leaving consumer sentiment at its lowest point since 2022, University of Michigan data showed.
The survey came days after data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York showed Americans’ household debt levels have reached a record high.
Those developments could hold significant stakes for the wider economy, since consumer spending accounts for about two-thirds of U.S. economic activity.
Still, markets have proven resilient over a turbulent year marked by fluctuating tariffs, stubborn inflation and a slowdown of hiring. The tech giants have defied these headwinds, buoyed in part by an investment boom in artificial intelligence.
The S&P 500 has soared 14% in 2025, while the Dow has climbed 10%. The Nasdaq has surged 19%.
The Senate reconvened on Monday to continue working toward ending the federal government shutdown, which is now in its 41st day.
There are still some procedural measures necessary for the Senate to pass a deal on the government shutdown and send it for potential approval in the Republican-controlled House.
A potential resolution of the government shutdown would restore jobs and backpay for thousands of federal employees, which is expected to provide a jolt for the U.S. economy.
The federal government would also resume the collection and release of key government day in the event of shutdown deal, allowing investors to observe monthly inflation and hiring reports.
The Federal Reserve is set to issue a decision on the level of interest rates early next month. The central bank has slashed interest rates a quarter of a percentage point at each of its last two meetings.
Michael Jackson at the Dreamgirls after-party at Desilu Studios in Culver City, California on March 30, 1983 ( Mike Guastella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images).
Michael Jackson just landed a new chart record.
Billboard reports that following Halloween, Jackson’s song “Thriller” — which initially peaked at #4 in 1984 — has jumped from #32 to #10 on the Hot 100 singles chart. That makes the late King of Pop the first solo artist ever to hit the top 10 in six different decades: the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, 2000s, ’10s and ’20s.
Michael has now passed the record set by Andy Williams, who reached the top 10 in five decades, mostly thanks to his holiday hit “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.”
After reaching the top 10 for the first time in 1969 as a member of the Jackson 5, Michael first hit the top 10 as a solo artist in 1971 with his song “Got to Be There.” Until now, he was last in the top 10 in 2018, as a featured artist on Drake‘s song “Don’t Matter to Me.”
Paul Rodgers performs onstage during the 2023 CMT Music Awards at Moody Center on April 02, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images for CMT)
Bad Company‘s Paul Rodgers couldn’t make it to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony Saturday due to health issues, so he’s decided to share his induction speech in a video posted to YouTube.
In the clip, Rodgers recalls that when he was 14 a teacher told his class that most of them, if not all, would wind up working in the steel mills, chemical factories and shipyards of his hometown of Middlesbrough, in northeast England.
“That night, I went to a dance and I heard a record by Little Richard,” he said, “And a whole box of fireworks went off in my head, rockets and all. And I thought to myself, I’m going to follow that music and find out all about it.”
“That’s what I did. I followed that music. Sixty plus years went by in the blink of an eye, and I find myself being inducted into the brotherhood and sisterhood of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with my bandmates Bad Company,” he added.
Rodgers went on to mention his bandmates, and thank the Rock Hall, his wife, family members, managers, artists he’s played with and more.
He also thanked their fans “for enabling us to live our dream,” and Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, who signed them to their Swan Song label “for their total support from the start.”
Bad Company’s Rock Hall induction featured an introduction by Mick Fleetwood, and a performance featuring the band’s drummer Simon Kirke, Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, Heart’s Nancy Wilson, The Black Crowes‘ Chris Robinson and Bryan Adams.
Highlights from the 2025 Rock Hall induction ceremony will air Jan. 1 on ABC.
Maria Zhang, Miya Cech, Dallas Liu, Gordan Cormier, Kiawentiio Tarbell and Ian Ousley on the set of ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender.’ (Katie Yu/Netflix)
Production has officially wrapped on Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Netflix has revealed that the live-action reimagining of the popular Nickelodeon animated series has finished production on its third and final season.
To commemorate the occasion, Netflix shared a photo of some of the cast from one of their last days on set.
The photo features Gordon Cormier (Aang), Kiawentiio (Katara), Ian Ousley (Sokka), Dallas Liu (Zuko), Miya Cech (Toph) and Maria Zhang (Suki).
“That’s a series wrap on Avatar: The Last Airbender… and exciting Season 2 updates are coming very soon,” Netflix shared to Instagram on Monday.
Netflix renewed Avatar: The Last Airbender for two seasons, which were filmed back-to-back, after the success of season 1.
While the series has finished filming through its third season, season 2 has yet to premiere. Netflix shared that in season 2, “the stakes have never been higher as Aang, the young Avatar, learns to master the four elements (Water, Earth, Fire and Air) to restore balance to a world threatened by the terrifying Fire Nation.”
“When we started working on season 2, we gathered three forces: integrity, hope, and joy. And here we are almost three years later wrapping the end of production with an immensely talented and devoted team that met those ideals and exceeded them,” the show’s executive producer and writer Christine Boylan told Netflix’s Tudum. “I am eternally grateful to be part of this important, hilarious, action-packed team who is bringing this epic live action story to the world.”
Music City’s The Listening Room will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a March 3 concert at the historic Ryman Auditorium. HARDY, Jo Dee Messina, Mitchell Tenpenny and more are set to play, with tickets going on sale Friday.
CMA new artist of the year nominee Stephen Wilson Jr. will launch his Gary the Torch Tour March 6 in Columbus, Ohio. He’s also set to play ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Nov. 18.
Maddox Batson sets out on his 46-show Maddox Batson Live Worldwide Tour next year, with stops in Canada, the U.K., Germany, Norway and Sweden. Pre-sales start Tuesday, before going on sale to the public Friday.
Michael Jackson at the Dreamgirls after-party at Desilu Studios in Culver City, California on March 30, 1983 ( Mike Guastella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images).
Both Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson set new records on this week’s BillboardHot 100.
Taylor’s “The Fate of Ophelia” is #1 for a fifth week. With the song’s parent album The Life of a Showgirl also at #1 for a fifth week, Taylor is now the only artist to debut at #1 on both charts simultaneously and then hold those top spots for that length of time.
Additionally, “The Fate of Ophelia” is Taylor’s third #1 hit to have stayed on top for at least five weeks. The only other ones are “Anti-Hero,” which lasted eight weeks on top, and “Blank Space,” which spent seven weeks in pole position. She’s had 13 #1 hits in all.
Following Halloween, Michael Jackson’s song “Thriller” — which initially peaked at #4 in 1984 — has jumped from #32 to #10. As per Billboard, that makes the late King of Pop the first solo artist ever to hit the top 10 in six different decades: the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, 2000s, ’10s and ’20s.
Michael has now passed the record set by Andy Williams, who reached the top 10 in five decades, mostly thanks to his holiday hit “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.”
After reaching the top 10 for the first time in 1969 as a member of the Jackson 5, Michael first hit the top 10 as a solo artist in 1971 with his song “Got to Be There.” Until now, he was last in the top 10 in 2018, as a featured artist on Drake‘s song “Don’t Matter to Me.”
(L-R) Jon Bon Jovi and Jesse Bongiovi attend Hampton Water celebrates Bubbly with Jon Bon Jovi at La La Laundry on January 30, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Hampton Water)
Jon Bon Jovi’s family continues to grow.
The rocker’s son Jesse Bongiovi and wife Jesse Light announced on Instagram Monday that they welcomed their first child.
“Blair Lucy Bongiovi. Our sweet girl has arrived, and we couldn’t be happier,” they wrote, next to a partial photo of the infant. “Welcome to the world, baby Blair bear.”
This is Jon Bon Jovi’s second grandchild. In August, son Jake Bongiovi and his wife, Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown, announced in a joint Instagram post that they had adopted a baby girl.
The 30-year-old Jesse is Jon Bon Jovi’s eldest son. The rocker and wife DorotheaBongiovi have four children together, daughter Stephanie Bongiovi, 32, and sons Jesse, Jake, 23, and Romeo Bongiovi, 21.
