Darlene Love sings the National Anthem before the 2026 Big East Men’s Tournament – Quarterfinal game between the St. John’s Red Storm and the Providence Friars at Madison Square Garden on March 12, 2026 in New York City. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
A documentary about the life of Rock & Roll of Famer Darlene Love is in the works from TPH Entertainment, actress Taraji P. Henson’s production company.
Darlene Love: I Know Where I’ve Been tells the story of the singer’s six-decade career against the backdrop of the racism she faced throughout her career, as well as the civil rights movement. The story will be told “in her own words and through her own eyes,” according to a press release.
Among those interviewed in the documentary are Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt, Cher, Dionne Warwick, Nancy Sinatra, Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman. Love famously performed her signature hit “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” annually on Late Night with David Letterman from 1986 to 1993, and then on The Late Show with David Letterman annually from 1993 to 2014.
Love began as a backup singer for artists ranging from Sam Cooke to Frank Sinatra to The Beach Boys. When she began working with producer Phil Spector, he released many of the records she sang on under different names, including the #1 hit “He’s a Rebel” credited to The Crystals. As a result, Love’s voice was famous, but she wasn’t. The 2013 documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, about backup singers, shed light on her contributions.
Love was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. She’s also had an acting career, including playing Trish Murtaugh, the wife of Danny Glover’s character, in the four Lethal Weapon movies.
Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze perform on stage during their ‘Trixies’ album launch March 11, 2026 in London, England. (Photo by Jim Dyson/Getty Images)
Squeeze is set to hit the road this summer on a North American tour.
The “Tempted” band has announced dates for a new tour, featuring special guests Adam Ant, Haircut 100 and Leon Tilbrook, son of Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook.
The tour kicks off Aug. 16 in Nashville and features stops in Atlanta, New York, Boston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and more before wrapping Sept. 27 in Detroit.
An artist presale is set to begin Wednesday, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
The tour follows the March release of Squeeze’s new album, Trixies, which featured some of the first songs Squeeze’s Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook ever wrote together. They were written by the duo back in 1974 when they were teens and recording was beyond their skill set.
Alan Jackson will perform at the 2026 National Memorial Day Concert from the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
Jamey Johnson, an eight-year member of the Marine Corps Reserve, is also set to sing from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, along with Mickey Guyton.
The 37-year tradition will air live on Sunday, May 24, at 8 p.m. ET on PBS, American Forces Network and YouTube. The 90-minute show will be hosted by Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise.
Alan’s appearance will take place a little more than a month before the star-studded, sold-out conclusion of his touring career on June 27 at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium.
Lajon Witherspoon of Sevendust performs onstage during the Sick New World music festival at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds on May 13, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Greg Doherty/Getty Images)
Sevendust and Theory of a Deadman have announced a co-headlining tour.
The joint trek, dubbed The Dead/Seven tour, launches Aug. 7 in Duluth, Minnesota, and concludes Sept. 29 in Bozeman, Montana. Return to Dust will also be on the bill.
“We are beyond pumped to hit the road with one of the most beloved rock bands and friends Sevendust,” Theory frontman Tyler Connolly says in a statement. “Playing shows with them going back to 2002 man this tour is gonna crush! Cannot wait to play some new tracks and some old ones too. Excited for rockers Return to Dust to join us as well.”
“Man, hearing Tyler say that takes me back. We’ve been throwing down together for a long time, and it’s always been nothing but love and high energy,” adds Sevendust’s Lajon Witherspoon. “Theory of a Deadman always brings it, so we already know this tour is going to be something special. We’re beyond excited to get out there, share the stage again, and give the fans moments you can’t recreate anywhere else. Our friends in Return to Dust will be there too. Much respect to those guys, and we’re ready to crush this thing together.”
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Sevendust.com or TheoryOfficial.com.
Sevendust put out a new album called One on Friday, while Theory dropped a new single called “Barricade” in April.
Richard Butler performs with the Psychedelic Furs at Columbia Theater on November 8, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. (Martyn Goodacre/Redferns)
The Psychedelic Furs have announced a U.S. tour alongside Living Colour.
The “Pretty in Pink” and “Cult of Personality” bands will hit the road together starting July 31 in Park City, Utah. The trek will conclude Sept. 6 in Miami Beach, Florida.
Presales begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
Paul McCartney, ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’ (MPL/Capitol Records)
Paul McCartney will let fans hear one of the most eagerly anticipated tracks on his new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, on Friday.
That’s the day he’s releasing “Home to Us,” which features his old bandmate Ringo Starr on vocals and drums. You can hear a snippet of the song, minus the vocals, on McCartney’s Instagram.
But Starr’s voice isn’t the only one you’ll hear on the track: Backing vocals were provided by Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde and Sharleen Spiteri from the band Texas.
McCartney says in a statement, “This song [was] done totally with Ringo in mind. In writing the song, I’m talking about where we came from. In common with a lot of people, you come from nothing and you build yourself up.”
He adds, referring to his and Starr’s rough Liverpool upbringing, “Even though it was crazy, it was home to us.”
McCartney said after he sent the song to Starr, the drummer sent him back a version in which he’d sung a few lines in the chorus. “I thought, maybe he doesn’t like it. I rang him and he said he thought I only wanted him to sing one or two lines, and I said I’d love to hear him sing the whole thing,” McCartney recalled.
“So we took my first line, Ringo’s second line, and then we had a duet. We’d never done that before.”
McCartney said Hynde and Spiteri were recruited because, “I had the idea it would be nice to hear girls.”
McCartney’s new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, will be released May 29. It’s his first solo album since 2020’s McCartney III.
A24 has released the first trailer for Tony, the upcoming biographical drama about famed chef, Kitchen Confidential author and legendary Parts Unknown culinary travel host Anthony Bourdain.
Dominic Sessa stars in the film as a 19-year-old Bourdain, who “travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life,” according to A24.
The teaser was released Tuesday. In it, a young Bourdain — “Tony” — is seen navigating a tumultuous career, losing out on a writing fellowship only to find himself working in the kitchen of a small seafood restaurant alongside fellow employees Dimitri (Stavros Halkias), Sal (Leo Woodall) and Tyrone (Michael Jibrin).
Their boss, restaurant owner Ciro (Antonio Banderas), pushes Tony to better himself. The trailer shows the pair working together to create simple, elegant plates of lobster, oysters and more, culminating with Ciro handing Tony a white chef’s coat.
“What’s this?” Tony asks.
“That’s for you,” Ciro responds.
Tony is directed by Matt Johnson, with a script by Johnson, Matthew Miller, Todd Bartels and Lou Howe.
Additional cast members include Emilia Jones, Dagmara Dominczyk, Rich Sommer, Caroline Portu and Monica Raymund.
The real-life Bourdain, a former executive chef at Manhattan’s Brasserie Les Halles, bestselling author, and Food Network and CNN travel host, died in June 2018 at age 61, leaving behind a daughter, Ariane Bourdain.
Cover art for Chris Brown’s ‘Fallin” (Courtesy of RCA Records)
Leon Thomas and Tank aren’t the only features on Chris Brown’s upcoming album, Brown. A video posted on his social media reveals the other artists who will be on the project.
Mirroring the old-school blues club vibe of his recently released “Fallin'” music video, the black-and-white clip opens with a marquee reading, “House of Brown, A Night of Soul R&B and Timeless Classics,” before panning to the stage, where Brown is introduced.
It then unveils the lineup: Leon, Tank, Vybz Kartel, Bryson Tiller, NBA YoungBoy, GloRilla, Fridayy, Sexyy Red and Lucky Daye, each styled in blues music-inspired outfits and hairstyles.
“So sit back, relax and enjoy the show,” a voice-over concludes, as audience members are seen clapping.
Demolition of the East Wing of the White House, during construction on the new ballroom extension of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — Senate Republicans are aiming to secure $1 billion in funding for security-related aspects of the White House ballroom project as part of a broader, roughly $70 billion funding package for immigration enforcement, which they aim to pass with little-to-no support from Democrats.
Republicans began unveiling aspects of their reconciliation package late Monday night. Included within the bill is a $1 billion allocation to the Secret Service for “the purposes of security adjustments and upgrades … relating to the East Wing Modernization Project, including above-ground and below-ground security features.”
The funding can only be used for security-related aspects of the project, according to the bill text.
The Trump administration has previously said it aims to raise $400 million in private donations to pay for the ballroom, and has said it will cost the taxpayer nothing.
President Donald Trump said in October that the ballroom would be “paid for 100% by me and some friends of mine,” referencing donors.
“The government is paying absolutely nothing,” Trump said.
Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that they have titled “The Stop Ballroom Bribery Act” to regulate the project and impose restrictions on donations.
A group of GOP senators led by Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced separate legislation that would provide $400 million in funding. The senators on that bill say their proposal is to offset the cost of the ballroom by using customs fees. Because it is not in a reconciliation bill, it will almost certainly fail to pass if it even gets a vote on the Senate floor.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul put forward a separate bill that would authorize the ballroom but not fund it. He attempted to pass that by unanimous consent last week and it failed.
This bill text comes as Republicans have increasingly called for the construction of the ballroom following the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner last month. They say a secure facility is necessary for the president and Cabinet members to gather with large groups on the White House grounds.
The White House said Tuesday that “Congress has rightly recognized the need for these funds.”
“Due in part to the recent assassination attempt on President Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the proposal would provide the United States Secret Service with the resources they need to fully and completely harden the White House complex, in addition to the many other critical missions for the USSS,” White House spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement. “As President Trump has repeatedly said, the White House must be a safe and secure complex that generations of future presidents and visitors to the People’s house can enjoy.”
In a statement to ABC News on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said the bill does “does not fund ballroom construction,” but “provides funds for Secret Service enhancements that will ensure all presidents, their families and their staffs are adequately protected.”
The ballroom has been the target of a lawsuit filed late last year by historic preservationists, with a federal judge finding it to be illegal without the approval of lawmakers.
In a filing in the case last month, the Trump administration said that the security enhancements to the East Wing project would include “missile resistant steel columns, Military-grade venting, drone-proof ceilings and bullet, ballistic, and blast proof glass,” all aimed at forming a “fortified structural buffer” to protect not only the ballroom, but also the main White House residence and the offices in the West Wing.
That April 27 Justice Department filing, which read in part like a social media post written in the president’s own voice, also said the upgrades would include “bomb shelters, a state of the art hospital and medical facilities, Top Secret military installations, structures, and equipment, protective partitioning, and other features.”
District Judge Richard Leon ruled in late March that building the ballroom without congressional authorization violated the law. While Leon carved out an exception for work that would be necessary to ensure the “safety and security of the White House,” he later clarified his decision to allow for “below-ground construction” on the project, as well as anything above ground that would be “strictly necessary” to secure and protect that work.
Leon’s injunction has been administratively stayed by a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, pending oral argument at a hearing set for next month. The appeals court’s order means that, for now, work on both the ballroom and the project’s security-related features can continue.
For weeks, Republicans have been working to put forward a funding package in response to political gridlock that left Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Border Patrol without their regular annual appropriations. Though these agencies received funding through the previously passed One Big Beautiful Bill, Republicans say more funding is needed, and they’re looking to secure $26 billion for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and $38 billion for ICE in this just-released bill.
Republicans are aiming to pass the funding using a budgeting tool called reconciliation, which, if successful, would allow Republicans to send this funding to Trump’s desk without the support of a single Democrat and without the possibility of a filibuster. But there are rules governing this process, and it’s not yet clear whether the Senate parliamentarian, who must determine whether items in a reconciliation package are “substantive to the budget,” will green light the ballroom security funding or other items in the bill.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that Republicans are “on a different planet” than American families with their spending priorities.
“Republicans looked at families drowning in bills and decided what they really needed was more raids and a Trump ballroom,” Schumer wrote in a post on X Tuesday.
The Fulton County court in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023 (Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
(FULTON COUNTY, Ga.) — The Department of Justice last month demanded the names and contact information for every election worker in Fulton County, Georgia, involved in the 2020 election, according to court filings disclosed this week.
The Fulton County Board of Registrations and Elections is now asking a federal court in Atlanta to quash the grand jury subpoena from federal agents, which requested the names, addresses, phone numbers and emails for any staff member who worked the 2020 election.
“Its purpose is to target, harass, and punish the President’s perceived political opponents; it is grossly overbroad and untethered to any reasonable need; it cannot yield any evidence that could result in a criminal prosecution,” lawyers for the Fulton County officials said in the motion filed Monday with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
The subpoena appears to escalate the Trump administration’s pressure on Fulton County amid an ongoing federal investigation into purported irregulates in the 2020 election.
Driven in part by Trump allies who unsuccessfully sought to use debunked theories to overturn the election, federal agents in January seized all the ballots and records from the 2020 election.
For months, Fulton County officials have urged a federal judge to order the records be returned, though that judge has not yet issued a ruling.
DOJ attorneys have insisted that the search was based on evidence of potential misconduct and accused Fulton County officials of speculating about “some kind of grand conspiracy.”
In the motion filed on Monday, lawyers for Fulton County called the recent subpoena the “latest effort to target and harass the President’s perceived political enemies.” They argue that the statute of limitations for any alleged crime has run out and that the investigation lacks a legitimate basis.
“Grand juries do not exist to conduct roving inquiries untethered to a prosecutable criminal case,” the motion said.
Robb Pitts, the chairman of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, described the subpoena as an “outrageous federal overreach designed to intimidate and to chill participation in elections” in a statement.
The DOJ did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment.
