A burning car is seen following a crash at the Bedford Toll Plaza in Bedford, New Hampshire, March 31, 2026. (New Hampshire State Police)
(NEW HAMPSHIRE) — New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte and her security detail were among those who assisted in a fiery crash at a New Hampshire toll plaza on Tuesday — with a state trooper on her detail and two other bystanders helping pull the driver from the burning vehicle, according to state police.
The “dangerous” collision occurred at the Bedford Toll Plaza on the Everett Turnpike shortly before noon, according to New Hampshire State Police Director Col. Mark Hall.
The vehicle, a 2026 Lucid electric vehicle, “immediately became engulfed in flames,” Hall said during a press briefing on Tuesday.
The governor and her security detail came upon the accident just after the vehicle crashed into the toll plaza, Hall said. A New Hampshire state trooper assigned to her detail and two other bystanders helped pull the male driver — the lone occupant — out of the burning vehicle through the window, according to Hall.
Hall said he is not identifying the trooper due to the nature of the assignment.
“It is a veteran trooper, and certainly their actions were heroic in what they did — without hesitation, put themselves in danger to render aid to somebody that clearly was in need of it,” Hall said.
The governor and other witnesses also provided assistance at the scene, according to Hall.
“The governor did get out of the vehicle and tried to assist in any way that she could,” Hall said, adding he believed she tried to get a fire extinguisher from a vehicle to help put the fire out.
The driver was transported to an area hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Photos released by police showed the burning vehicle and firefighters at the scene.
The northbound lanes of the turnpike remain closed in the wake of the crash, and the New Hampshire Department of Transportation is assessing the damage to the toll plaza from the collision and fire, Hall said.
The crash remains under investigation.
ABC News has reached out to the governor’s office for comment and did not immediately receive a response.
Arnel Pineda of Journey performs at TD Coliseum on March 09, 2026 in Hamilton, Ontario. (Photo by Jeremychanphotography/Getty Images)
Journey is currently on their Final Frontier farewell tour, but it sounds like it almost didn’t happen.
A new article in Rolling Stone looks behind the scenes of the tour, featuring interviews with Neal Schon, Jonathan Cain and singer Arnel Pineda prior to the kickoff. It delves into the contentious relationship between Cain and Schon, and also reveals that Pineda originally didn’t want to do the tour.
Pineda’s reluctance had to do with the state of his voice and how his body handles cold weather, along with personal issues, including a contentious divorce, which was big news in his native Philippines.
“Back in 2024, I said to them, ‘If you’re planning to do a farewell tour, you better tell me, because my issues and my personal problems are getting more intense, and I don’t know if I want to go with you,’” he tells the mag.
But Pineda says the band booked the tour anyway, and he wasn’t happy. When he emailed them about it, he didn’t hear back. He was so upset he actually told them he wanted to retire, but he still got no answer.
When asked about Pineda’s feelings about the tour, Schon said “it’s been very confusing” and acknowledged Pineda sent messages about not knowing if he could do it. “But we all signed contracts, OK?” Schon says. “So, honestly, I’m signed up for the next two years. I’m ready for it.” He added, “I hope that he feels better about things.”
The interview ends with the first full-band rehearsal for the tour, with the writer noting Pineda sounded “stellar the entire time.” When asked if he was happy to be there, Pineda responded “60 percent,” adding, “The other 40 percent of me is still there in the Philippines.”
(WASHINGTON) — A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction blocking further construction of the White House ballroom.
Judge Richard Leon wrote that President Donald Trump can’t build the ballroom without authorization from Congress, and that “no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have.”
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a news briefing at the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, March 30, 2026, in Washington. Alex Wong/Getty Images
(WASHINGTON) — As oil and gas prices soar amid Iran’s stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump and his top officials now appear to be suggesting it’s not the U.S.’s problem to solve.
Trump on Tuesday again lashed out at allies for not getting involved in the conflict, and told them: “Go get your own oil!”
“All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT,” the president wrote in a post on his social media platform.
“You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us,” Trump added.
Trump reiterated that sentiment in a phone call with ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl later Tuesday.
“I’m going to let the countries that want to buy oil, they can — they can police it themselves. Why should I do it for them? They weren’t there for me,” Trump told ABC’s Karl of the Strait of Hormuz.
The statements appear to be a far cry from Trump’s threat to Iran from just days ago. On March 21, he wrote on social media that if Iran didn’t “FULLY OPEN” the strait in 48 hours, the U.S. would hit the country’s power plants. That deadline was extended twice after Trump said that negotiations were ongoing.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday echoed Trump in calling on countries around the world to “be prepared to step up.”
“It’s not just the United States Navy. Last time I checked, there was supposed to be a big, bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that as well,” Hegseth said, referring to the United Kingdom’s naval forces.
“President Trump’s been willing to do the heavy lifting on behalf of the free world to address this threat of Iran,” Hegseth said. “It’s not just our problem set going forward, even though we have done the lion’s share of preparation to ensure that that strait will be open, which is an outcome the president has been very clear on.”
Prior to the war, more than 100 ships were passing through the Strait of Hormuz each day, according to data from U.N. Trade and Development. Now, just a handful of ships are estimated to be passing through on a daily basis amid Tehran’s chokehold.
The result has been a record monthly spike in oil and gas prices. In the U.S., the average cost of a gallon of gas topped $4 on Tuesday for the first time since August 2022.
Yet, Trump administration officials have notably declined to list reopening the strait as a key objective of Operation Epic Fury.
“The objectives of Operation Epic Fury are as follows: destroying the Iranian navy; destroying their ballistic missiles; dismantling their defense industrial infrastructure that produces those weapons that have long threatened the United States and our allies; and then, of course, preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during Monday’s press briefing.
Leavitt was pressed by a reporter whether Trump can declare victory over Iran if passage through the strait remains as hampered as it is now.
“The full reopening of the strait is something the administration is working towards, but the core objectives of the operation have been clearly defined for the American people by the commander in chief,” Leavitt replied.
Trump has said he long predicted Iran would use the strait as a weapon, and that he knew oil prices would go up if the U.S. attacked Iran. He has faced criticism for not vocalizing a clear strategy for reopening the waterway, where roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil supply is caught in the crosshairs of the conflict.
Trump earlier this month issued a public request to U.S partners in Europe and Asia to help the U.S. secure the strait. Those countries largely rebuffed his call to send warships and other kinds of assistance. Some made clear this is not their war, while others have said they would get involved in the strait — but only once hostilities end.
The cold shoulder prompted Trump to change his tune and declare, “We don’t need any help, actually.”
Trump then ramped up threats to attack Tehran’s power and desalination plants if Iran doesn’t reopen the strait.
“If for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately ‘Open for Business,’ we will conclude our lovely ‘stay’ in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!),” Trump posted Monday.
Trump has paused attacks on Iran until April 6 citing ongoing negotiations with new Iranian leadership, though Tehran has publicly denied any direct talks and has pushed back on a 15-point peace plan presented by the U.S. through intermediaries.
Amid his renewed call on Tuesday for other nations to step up, Trump told CBS News he is not “yet” pulling U.S. assets from the Strait of Hormuz, but “at some point I will.”
Later, in an interview with the New York Post, Trump said he believed the strait would “automatically open” when the U.S. exits the conflict.
“I don’t think about it, to be honest,” Trump told the New York Post. “My sole function was to make sure that they don’t have a nuclear weapon. They’re not going to have a nuclear weapon. When we leave, the strait will automatically open.”
Barry Manilow, ‘What A Time.’ (STILETTO Entertainment)
Barry Manilow may be 83 years old, but he’s aware of what’s going on in today’s music — and he just doesn’t get it. He even tried to write songs like one of today’s biggest pop stars, but couldn’t pull it off.
Speaking to The Times of London, Barry, who’s going to release what he says is his final album in June, said, “The truth is that for this record I really studied what’s going on out there — artists like Billie Eilish.”
He explained, “I tried to write like her but I just couldn’t because I’m used to verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, ending — but pop music now just sounds like run-on sentences. Where is the chorus? Hook?”
“Song after song is like that, so I went back to what I know and people will either think I haven’t listened to pop radio in 40 years or they’ll say, ‘Thank God! Something to hang my ears on!’” he added.
Asked to address why he thinks pop music doesn’t sound like it used to, Barry offered this explanation: “I don’t mean this negatively, but it feels like songs now are not written by bona fide musicians.”
“They feel written by young people, who know a couple of chords, and some new songs are really good,” he continued. “But the stars of pop nowadays are studio engineers and the last thing you pay attention to in a modern record are the lyrics or melody. The rhythm and grooves are delicious. But songwriters? I don’t think they’re there any more.”
Barry’s new album, What a Time, is out June 5. It features his most recent hit, “Once Before I Go.”
Breland’s new single, “In My Truck,” is out now. It samples 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” and is his first new solo track since 2024’s “Icing.”
Mitchell Tenpenny and Meghan Patrick revealed they’re expecting their first child, a daughter, on social media Tuesday.
Clint Black kicks off his Killin’ Time: My Life and Music book tour May 17 in Bay Shore, New York, and wraps May 23 in Nashville. His autobiography arrives May 19.
Kid Rock performs on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 18, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)
The Army has launched a formal investigation and suspended the pilots involved in the flyby of two Apache attack helicopters near Kid Rock’s Nashville, Tennessee, home over the weekend, an Army spokesman said Tuesday.
The four crewmembers have been suspended from flight duties “while the Army reviews the circumstances surrounding the mission, including compliance with relevant FAA regulations, aviation safety protocol, and approval requirements,” Army spokesman Maj. Montrell Russell said.
Each helicopter seats a pilot and a copilot/gunner.
On Saturday, Kid Rock posted on his social media two videos of him pointing to and saluting two helicopters flying low and hovering adjacent to his swimming pool.
Both helicopters are part of the 101st Airborne Division, based out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, roughly 60 miles north of Nashville, Maj. Jonathon Bless, a division spokesperson, said Monday.
The two helicopters had also been spotted flying over the No Kings protest in Nashville on Saturday, but a statement from the 101st said the helicopters were on a training mission near Nashville and the timing was coincidental.
The rock star and conservative activist has emerged as one of President Donald Trump’s most visible celebrity allies, regularly appearing at Trump campaign events.
Asked Monday about the incident by Nashville ABC affiliate WKRN, Kid Rock responded, “I think it will be alright — my buddy’s the commander in chief.”
On Monday, the Army announced that it was undertaking an administrative review of the incident, essentially a first-look at the facts that would determine whether a formal investigation should be launched.
“Army aviators must adhere to strict safety standards, professionalism, and established flight regulations,” Bless said in a statement. “An administrative review is underway to assess the mission and verify compliance with regulations and airspace requirements. Appropriate action will be taken if any violations are found.”
Kid Cudi performs onstage during Sziget Festival on August 8, 2025, in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Mario Skraban/Getty Images)
Kid Cudi is making his way back to your screens, this time for a digital series titled Big Bro With Kid Cudi.
He stars in the weekly series, which finds him chatting with his celebrity friends about their respective journeys.
“This is where I invite my favorite people in culture and entertainment to come kick it,” he explains in a description with the trailer. “We put you on to dope s***, hype each other up, and tap into the real journey behind our biggest successes. It’s laughs, it’s untold stories, it’s those late night convos that hit different.”
Big Bro With Kid Cudi, a partnership with Wave Sports & Entertainment, is set to premiere April 1, and that’s no April Fools’ joke. New episodes will drop every Wednesday on podcast platforms, and behind-the-scenes footage will air on an extension of the show set to release on PDF Spaces by Adobe Acrobat, another partner of the show, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“This show f**** hard,” Cudi tells THR. “Real hard. Get with it, baby!” He also designed the show’s set, and served as a producer and the artist behind the theme song.
Big Bro With Kid Cudi marks Cudi’s latest on-screen project. In addition to his music videos, he’s appeared in Trap, Happy Gilmore 2 and voiced the character Jabari in the film Entergalactic.
He also recently launched a Twitch channel, on which he’s livestreamed several times and documented the making of his EP HAVE U BN 2 HEAVEN @ NITE?
Cudi is set to kick off his Road Ragers tour in April.
Justin Bieber performs on the 68th GRAMMY Awards, Feb. 1, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Justin Bieber skipped Canada’s Juno Awards Sunday to play an intimate, fans-only show at LA’s The Roxy Theatre. On Tuesday, the “Daisies” singer posted footage of the show on his Instagram.
One post sees a shirtless Justin, wearing a wool hat, singing “Better Man” from his album SWAG II while smoking what looks like a blunt. A second post is a montage of scenes from the concert, featuring snippets of Justin singing songs from both SWAG and SWAG II, including “Daisies,” “Walking Away,” “Go Baby,” “Yukon,” “Everything Hallelujah” and “Speed Demon.”
“This is a little sneak preview into Coachella, which is gonna be so much fun,” Justin tells the crowd. He captioned the montage, “see you all soon.”
According to Setlist.fm, Justin only performed songs from SWAG and SWAG II, but it’s not clear if he plans to do the same at Coachella.
The exclusive concert was Justin’s first full show in nearly four years; he had to cancel his Justice tour in 2022 due to health issues. Since then, he’s only done a handful of one-off performances at special events.
Dan + Shay’s new single, “Say So,” will finally arrive Thursday at 11 p.m. CT.
Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney acknowledged they’ve been away for a while in a handwritten letter posted on their socials.
The duo reiterated what they told ABC Audio at the CMA Awards in November: Their absence isn’t the sign of a breakup, but instead their friendship is stronger than ever after spending most of the year in the studio together.
“That has been so life-giving,” they say in the note. They go on to reveal they haven’t spent this much time working on new music since their debut album in 2013, Where It All Began.
“We’ve had what we feel is the most inspired burst of creativity in our entire career, and we wanted to capture every bit of it,” they go on to say.
They also tease their return to touring, adding they’ve “missed seeing everyone on the road” and “That changes soon. Stay tuned.”
Though they put out “Long Live Christmas” in November and their It’s Officially Christmas double album in 2024, their last studio album was Bigger Houses, which came out in September 2023.
