Metallica on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (ABC/Randy Holmes)
Metallica has announced a donation of $125,000 through the band’s All Within My Hands charity foundation toward flood relief efforts in Hawaii.
“Hawaii is facing the worst flooding it’s seen in more than two decades, leaving the islands suffering an estimated US$1B in damage statewide,” reads a statement from All Within My Hands. “The subtropical weather systems—called kona lows near Hawaii—siphoned moisture from the tropics, fueling slow-moving thunderstorms with torrential, destructive rains. The soil became saturated, and the rivers surged to record levels as the rains continued.”
“So far, hundreds of homes in O’ahu have sustained damage, in addition to millions of dollars in damage to farms across the island,” the statement continues. “As many as 115,000 O’ahu residents faced power outages in the storm’s aftermath. While the heaviest rains have passed, flash floods remain possible in the coming days.”
Among the people affected by the floods is actor and Hawaii native Jason Momoa, who’s been assisting with local organizations.
“AWMH is proud to join Jason and the many organizations and individuals working to provide critical relief and recovery assistance to the islands,” the foundation says.
Gordon Cormier as Aang in ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ season 2. (Netflix)
The release date for Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2 has arrived.
Netflix has announced that season 2 of the live-action reimagining of the popular Nickelodeon animated series will release on June 25. The streaming service also released a behind-the-scenes video showing off the cast on the set of season 2.
Stars Gordon Cormier (Aang), Kiawentiio (Katara), Ian Ousley (Sokka), Dallas Liu (Zuko), Elizabeth Yu (Azula) and Miyako (Toph) talk about how excited they are for fans to see the new season of the show.
Season 2 follows the young Avatar Aang as he learns to master the four elements and restore balance to a world that’s threatened by the Fire Nation.
“After a bittersweet victory saving the Northern Water Tribe from the invading Fire Nation, Avatar Aang, Katara and Sokka regroup and set off on a mission to convince the elusive Earth King to aid in their battle against fearsome Fire Lord Ozai,” according to the new season’s official logline.
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Maria Zhang and Daniel Dae Kim also star in the upcoming season.
After the success of season 1, Avatar: The Last Airbender was renewed for two seasons, which were filmed back to back.
Netflix revealed that season 3 finished production on Nov. 10.
Smashing Pumpkins and Simple Minds are among the artists set to play the Darker Waves Festival, which mostly focuses on ’80s and ’90s alternative music.
Smashing Pumpkins and Morrissey will headline the festival, taking place Nov. 14 at Huntington Beach City Beach in Huntington Beach, California.
The lineup, which is made up of 35 artists across three stages, also includes Buzzcocks, Marky Ramone, Soft Cell, Adam Ant, Gary Numan, The Motels, Missing Persons, Modern English, Silversun Pickups and Spacehog.
A presale begins Thursday at 10 a.m. PT. Tickets will go on sale to the general public an hour later at 11 a.m. PT.
Simple Minds, Adam Ant and Soft Cell are among the artists set to play the Darker Waves Festival, taking place Nov. 14 at Huntington Beach City Beach in Huntington Beach, California.
The festival, which mostly focuses on ’80s and ’90s alternative music, will be headlined by Smashing Pumpkins and Morrissey, and feature 35 artists across three stages. Other artists on the bill include Gary Numan, The Motels, Missing Persons, Modern English, Marky Ramone, Silversun Pickups, Buzzcocks and Spacehog.
A presale begins Thursday at 10 a.m. PT. Tickets will go on sale to the general public an hour later at 11 a.m. PT.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media onboard Air Force One on March 29, 2026. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared more than 950 points on Tuesday after President Donald Trump appeared to suggest the U.S. may end the Iran war without reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
In a post on social media, Trump indicated that the task of reopening the strait may fall to other countries, urging them to “go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT.”
The Dow jumped 970 points, or 2.1%, by early afternoon, while the S&P 500 climbed 2.4%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq increased 3.4%.
Since the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran began on Feb. 28, Trump has voiced mixed messages about the expected duration of the war. On several occasions, markets have climbed after traders interpreted comments from Trump as a potential off-ramp from the Middle East conflict.
The war prompted Iranian closure of the strait, a maritime trading route that facilitates the transport of about one-fifth of the global oil supply. A potential U.S. exit from the war without ensuring that the strait is open could leave uncertain the path to a resumption of normal tanker traffic and a resulting remedy for the current global oil shortage.
Global oil prices surged more than 5% on Tuesday, exceeding $118 a barrel, just shy of its highest price since 2022.
Gas prices in the United States topped $4 per gallon on average Tuesday, underscoring the link between rising oil prices and strained consumers.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Milly Alcock as Supergirl/Kara Zor-El in ‘Supergirl.’ (Warner Bros. Pictures)
It’s a bird … it’s a plane … it’s the Supergirlofficial trailer.
Warner Bros. Pictures released the full-length trailer for the upcoming superhero film on Tuesday.
Milly Alcock stars as the titular Supergirl/Kara Zor-El in the second film in the new DC Universe. Craig Gillespie directs the superhero film about Clark Kent’s cousin from a script written by Ana Nogueira.
The movie follows what happens “when an unexpected and ruthless adversary strikes too close to home,” according to its official synopsis. “Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, reluctantly joins forces with an unlikely companion on an epic, interstellar journey of vengeance and justice.”
The trailer opens to a video message that Kara receives from her cousin Superman.
“Hey, I was just touching base to see when you think you might be coming back. You know, I’m just worried that you’re not gonna find your stride here if you keep going off-world all the time, Kara,” Clark Kent says. “I’m worried you’re not going to find your people.”
“Yeah, well, that’s the thing, Clark. I have no people,” she says in return.
The trailer then follows the relationship between Kara and her pet dog, Krypto, establishing that he is her most important connection. That’s until Krypto is poisoned by henchmen of the film’s villain, Krem of the Yellow Hills. She discovers she must give him the antidote within three days, or she’ll lose him forever.
“You cannot give up on me,” Supergirl tells her beloved dog.
Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham and Jason Momoa also star in the movie.
Still from ‘Masters of the Universe.’ (Amazon MGM Studios)
A new trailer for the upcoming movie Masters of the Universe is out now and gives a closer look at Jared Leto as Skeletor.
The Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman plays the main villain in the live-action adaptation of the famed Mattel franchise. While Skeletor was silent in the previously released teaser, we hear him speak a few lines in the trailer, including warning He-Man, “You may have the power, but you’re too scared to use it.”
“Trust me, I know how to use it,” He-Man, played by Nicholas Galitzine, replies.
Hopefully at one point in the film Leto’s Skeletor will declare, “Until we meet again!”
We’ll find out when Masters of the Universe premieres in theaters on June 5.
Ghislaine Maxwell attends VIP Evening of Conversation for Women’s Brain Health Initiative on October 18, 2016 in New York City. (Jimi Celeste/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — As federal investigators built a case against Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, they discovered emails they believed suggested that she was arranging young women to have sex with then Prince Andrew, according to a new review of documents released earlier this year by the Department of Justice.
A search warrant application signed just days before Maxwell’s 2020 arrest identified at least three instances when Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Maxwell appeared to discuss arrangements for young women, including ahead of his official state visit to Peru in 2002.
“As for girls well I leave that entirely to you,” said an email believed to have been sent by Mountbatten-Windsor to Maxwell in Feb. 2002, signed “Masses of love A”
In another email identified by the FBI, Mountbatten-Windsor asked Maxwell about helping him find “some new inappropriate friends,” according to the search warrant affidavit.
“I am up here at Balmoral Summer Camp for the Royal Family,” Mountbatten-Windsor wrote in August 2001. “Have you found me some new inappropriate friends?”
Months later ahead of his official visit to Peru, Maxwell shared with Mountbatten-Windsor an email in which she asked an acquaintance in Peru to help find him people who are “intelligent pretty fun” and can be “to be friendly and discreet.”
“Some sight seeing some 2 legged sight seeing (read intelligent pretty fun and from good families) and he will be very happy. I know I can rely on you to show him a wonderful time and that you will only introduce him to friends that you can trust and rely on to be friendly and discreet and fun,” Maxwell wrote in March 2002.
“Got it I will ring him today if I can. Love you A,” an email associated with Mountbatten-Windsor responded.
According to a search application released earlier this year by the Department of Justice, the FBI believed those emails showed Andrew and Maxwell “discussing her attempts to arrange for young females to engage in sex acts” with him. The messages were cited as part of an application to get a judge’s permission to search dozens of electronic devices seized from Epstein’s residences.
Neither the palace nor a representative for the former Prince Andrew responded to a request for comment from ABC News.
Mountbatten-Windsor has long denied any wrongdoing, and Maxwell — who was convicted on sex trafficking charges in 2021 — was never charged with arranging women for Mountbatten-Windsor. As part of that prosecution, investigators unsuccessfully sought to interview Mountbatten-Windsor in 2020.
“To date, Prince Andrew has provided zero cooperation,” former U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said in January 2020.
The disclosure of the new documents come as police in the United Kingdom are renewing their scrutiny of Mountbatten-Windsor. In an interview with ABC News earlier this month, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said his office was seeking unredacted materials related to Epstein from the Department of Justice.
“There’s a whole range of suggested sexual allegations and those are being assessed at the moment to see whether any of them do actually merit a criminal investigation,” Rowley said.
(COMAL COUNTY, Texas) — A 15-year-old boy allegedly shot a teacher at his Texas high school before dying from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.
The teen used a .357 revolver he brought from home in Monday morning’s shooting at Hill Country College Preparatory High School in Comal County, about 30 miles north of San Antonio, the Comal County Sheriff’s Office said.
A injured teacher, a female, was taken to a San Antonio hospital in an unknown condition, the sheriff’s office said. She remains in the hospital on Tuesday, authorities said.
“The situation was contained very, very quickly,” and there’s no ongoing threat, the sheriff’s department said. The school was placed on lockdown and the approximately 250 students were evacuated to be reunited with their parents, authorities said.
While the motive remains under investigation, it appears the suspect “may have been experiencing academic challenges, including failing several classes,” the sheriff’s office said.
Electronic devices were taken from the teen’s home to try “to learn more about the student’s actions and possible motive,” the sheriff’s office said.
Hill Country College Preparatory High School is closed on Tuesday and counselors will be available to students, Principal Julie Wiley said.
“Our hearts are with everyone impacted, especially that teacher, their family, and our school community,” Wiley said in a statement. “We know this has been a difficult day. I want to personally thank our local law enforcement officers, amazing staff, and district administrators for their swift response, professionalism and care of our students.”
Gorillaz performs at the Pulse of Gaia Festival, at the Universidad Autonoma on September 20, 2025, in Madrid, Spain. (A. Perez Meca/Europa Press via Getty Images)
After a planned collaboration with Netflix fell through, Gorillaz is ruling out the possibility for a future movie.
“If we’d done a movie 25 years ago, fine but the idea of doing a movie now … no interest in it whatsoever,” artist Jamie Hewlett, who created the animated band alongside frontman Damon Albarn, tells The Zane Lowe Show on Apple Music. “It’s not an interesting idea, it’s not an original idea.”
“We had this moment with Netflix where we were literally told you can do whatever you want and we’re going to give you as much money, and we’re like, ‘OK, great,'” Hewlett continues. “We had some brilliant ideas but it was just moving so slow and the guy we were working with just left, and they said, ‘Don’t worry we’ll find someone else.’ And it’s like, OK, there’s going to be another year of conversations before this starts again. So we pulled out.”
Albarn says that the experience felt like “hanging around for what seemed an eternity.”
While a movie didn’t materialize, Hewlett said Gorillaz spent that time creating a new album, 2023’s Cracker Island.
Gorillaz has since put out another record, The Mountain, which dropped in February. And while we may never get a full-length Gorillaz movie, they did put out a short film to accompany three songs off The Mountain.
