(WASHINGTON) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has temporarily extended an order that maintains nationwide access to the abortion pill mifepristone by mail and through telehealth visits.
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A few new guests are checking into The White Lotus.
Ben Kingsley, Max Minghella and Pekka Strang have joined the season 4 cast of the Emmy-winning HBO series. The news was announced in a post to the network’s Instagram on Monday.
“New company is on the way. #TheWhiteLotus season 4 welcomes Ben Kingsley, Max Minghella and Pekka Strang,” HBO’s post reads.
These new casting announcements come after production has already started in the French Riviera.
The star-studded season 4 cast also includes Laura Dern, Vincent Cassel, Steve Coogan, Ari Graynor, Alexander Ludwig, Chris Messina, AJ Michalka and Kumail Nanjiani. Additional cast includes Chloe Bennet, Sandra Bernhard, Heather Graham, Max Greenfield, Frida Gustavsson, Charlie Hall, Jarrad Paul, Rosie Perez, Ben Schnetzer and Laura Smet.
This new season’s plot will take place during the Cannes Film Festival, where it will follow a new group of White Lotus hotel guests and its employees over the course of a week. It is set to film in Cannes, St. Tropez and Monaco. Additionally, some filming will take place in Paris, although the main story remains along the Côte d’Azur.
The hotels that will be featured in this season of the show are the Airelles Château de la Messardière, which will be the White Lotus du Cap, and the Hôtel Martinez, which will be the White Lotus Cannes.
The White Lotus is created, written and directed by Mike White. White also executive produces alongside David Bernad and Mark Kamine.
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“Can Anybody,” the third preview track from Jo Dee Messina’s new album, Bridges, is out now. It’s the “Heads Carolina, Tails California” singer’s first new record in more than a decade. Tickets for the accompanying tour go on sale Friday, ahead of the album’s June 5 release.
Newcomer Braxton Keith will play the Whiskey Jam Welcome Party Thursday in Las Vegas, ahead of the release of his debut album, Real Damn Deal, on Friday. He’ll also perform at ACM Next Wave: Country’s Big Bash Saturday at Mandalay Bay.
You can check out The Band Loula’s music video for their new track, “Low,” on YouTube now.
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For the first time in 10 years, Anthrax is releasing a new song.
The track is called “It’s for the Kids” and is due out Friday. You can presave it now.
“It’s been more than a decade…but we’re back,” the thrash metallers tease in a Facebook post.
“It’s for the Kids” is expected to be the first preview of Anthrax’s long-in-the-works 12th studio effort, the follow-up to 2016’s For All Kings.
Anthrax will be playing select shows on Iron Maiden’s North American tour beginning in September. Megadeth will also be on the bill.
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If you like to take your chances in Vegas, it’s probably a safe bet Shania Twain will be performing during Sunday’s 61st ACMs, as well as hosting.
Why? Well, she just confirmed she has a new song.
“You can drive a hummer, in the summer,” she wrote on Instagram Monday. “You can EVEN drive the ladies, in my mercedes. BUT you can’t drive my truck. New song Dirty Rosie coming this Wednesday.”
Shania leans against the steering wheel of said ride on the cover of the track, which is included in the post.
If you’ve seen her earlier tease, you know she’s quoting the lyrics of the song, which she previewed in what seems to be a clip from the music video.
Shania’s most recent album is 2023’s Queen of Me, though she’s put out a handful of collabs since.
Tune in to see her take the stage at Sunday’s Academy of Country Music Awards, which stream live from Las Vegas on Prime Video.
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Bloc Party has premiered a new single called “Coming on Strong.”
The track marks the first fresh material from the “Helicopter” outfit in two years. It follows the 2024 track “Flirting Again.”
You can watch the “Coming on Strong” video streaming on YouTube. In the video comments, Bloc Party hints at further new music coming, teasing, “There’s more where this came from.”
The most recent Bloc Party album is 2022’s Alpha Games.
Bloc Party will be touring the U.S. starting in July while opening for Muse.
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The Michael Jackson biopic Michael has helped boost interest in the King of Pop’s catalog, helping two of his albums land in the top 10 this week.
The latest Billboard 200 chart finds Jackson’s 1982 hit Thriller at #5, while the 2003 collection, Number Ones, is at #6.
While Thriller previously topped the Billboard 200 for 37 nonconsecutive weeks, this is the first time Number Ones has landed in the top 10, which means Jackson has now had at least one new top-10 solo album in every decade from 1970 onward.
He joins Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and James Taylor as only the fifth act to land such a feat.
Jackson earned his first top-10 album with 1972’s Ben, which peaked at #5. Prior to Number Ones, the late singer’s last top-10 solo album was the 2014 compilation Xscape, which peaked at #2.
Jackson is also seeing a spike in interest in the U.K. The 2005 compilation The Essential Michael Jackson just hit #1 on the U.K. Official Albums chart for the first time in 17 years. In addition, Thriller and 1987’s Bad are both in the top 10 for the first time in 14 years, at #6 and #8, respectively.
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Aaron Paul is joining the cast of Fallout.
Prime Video has announced that the Breaking Bad star is set to join the ensemble of the hit video game series adaptation during its third season. This casting announcement was made ahead of Amazon’s annual upfront presentation on Monday.
Additionally, cast members Annabel O’Hagan and Dave Register are being upped to series regulars for season 3. They join Frances Turner, who was promoted to series regular in season 2 and remains on as a regular for season 3.
Fallout tells the story of the “haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have,” according to an official description from Prime Video. “Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.”
Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serve as the creators, executive producers and showrunners of Fallout. Paul will be reunited with executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy on this new project, with whom he previously worked with on Westworld.
Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, Kyle MacLachlan and Moisés Arias also star in the series.
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Chris Brown is expressing gratitude to those who tuned in to his new album, Brown, despite their reactions to the project.
“Just wanna say thank you to everyone who listened to this album,” he wrote on his Instagram Story over the weekend. “Been a lot of mixed reviews and I can take my audience’s criticism and opinions.”
He compared the reception to that from his last few albums, which he notes “came under the same scrutiny and it eventually grew on people.”
He reiterated, “Thank you for even taking the time out to listen.”
Chris released Brown on Friday, featuring a total of 27 tracks and appearances from NBA YoungBoy, GloRilla, Vybz Kartel, Tank, Fridayy, Leon Thomas, Bryson Tiller, Sexyy Red and Lucky Daye.
In another post, he shared that “Honey Pack,” “It’s Not You It’s Me,” “F*** and Party,” “Say Nothin'” and “Colours” are among his favorites songs on the album.
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Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry has landed a new acting gig. Deadline reports that Harry is set to play Pamela Anderson’s mother in the new comedy Maitreya.
The film centers around Anderson’s title character, who’s described as “a rising star in the New Age Healing community.” After finding out her father is dying, she decides to bring her whole family with her to a conference in India to “put her New Age healing theories to the test.”
The film is being directed by Portlandia co-creator Jonathan Krisel.
This certainly isn’t the first time Harry has flexed her acting chops. She previously appeared in such films as 1983’s Videodrome, 1988’s Hairspray, 1997’s Cop Land and 2008’s Elegy.
Harry recently made a surprise appearance on the May 2 episode of Saturday Night Live, where she introduced host and musical guest Olivia Rodrigo’s performance of the song “drop dead.”
As for Blondie, the band is expected to release a new album, High Noon, this year, although they have yet to reveal an exact release date.
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