Cardi B attends the 2026 Fanatics Super Bowl Party at Pier 48 on February 7, 2026 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Aaron J. Thornton/WireImage)
“Major hair. Major era.”
That’s the caption of Cardi B’s recent post on social media that accompanied the announcement of her newly launched hair care brand, Grow-Good.
The short promo clip, posted on Instagram Wednesday, starts with a throwback 2023 video of the rapper showing off her long, natural tresses.
“It took me [from] about 2016 till now to grow my hair,” Cardi says in the clip.
Throughout the rest of the video, Cardi is seen working alongside what seem to be hair professionals to develop products she says she’s proud of.
“I am very passionate about this,” Cardi says.
The rapper briefly opens up about “hating” her hair as a child.
“Now that I’m older, I grew to love it, appreciate it and it’s really a part of me now,” Cardi says.
Grow-Good Beauty’s Instagram page, which had more than 50,000 followers as of Wednesday afternoon, describes the brand as “Upgrading the classics with the latest science for booty-length certified hair.”
While Cardi did also release a website for purchasing products, there are not yet any products available.
Zayn Malik performs onstage during the ZAYN: Stairway To The Sky Tour, Jan. 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Zayn)
It looks like ZAYN’s daughter is following in her dad’s footsteps.
ZAYN shares daughter Kai with his ex Gigi Hadid. In the new episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, host Alex Cooper asked him what Kai wants to be when she grows up.
“She definitely wants to be a K-pop star. She’s big into K-pop,” ZAYN said. However, he’s not too happy about it.
“I’d like to keep her away from it, you know, but at the end of the day, if she’s happy … I’ll support her,” he said. “I would like to keep her away from some of the headache that this job entails.”
But the fact that Kai is even thinking about being a K-pop star may reflect the fact that her upbringing is a bit different from other kids.
“I’m raising her in an environment that isn’t the same as everybody’s. You know, her dad is a pop star, her mom is a model,” ZAYN said. “And certain things that she does in life might not, you know, always reflect what other people’s understanding of reality is.”
For example, when Kai lost her first tooth, he gave her 500 pounds, roughly $680, from the tooth fairy.
“Her mom gave me s*** about it,” ZAYN admitted. “And I was like, at the end of the day, I worked my a** off and like I should be able to give my kid what I want to give her, you know?”
When Alex says she agreed with Gigi on that topic, ZAYN said, “Yeah, a lot of people do,” but argued, “It’s her first tooth. … I’m going to keep that one and frame it.”
As for what he’ll do for Kai’s second tooth, he said she’ll get only five bucks.
Megan Moroney will be honored for her work to empower other women in the music industry Feb. 18 in Los Angeles.
The Sharing the Spotlight event is put on by She is the Music, which was founded by superstar Alicia Keys.
“Megan represents something so important for this moment in music—the way she builds her teams and shows up for other women is leadership,” Alicia says.
“I wouldn’t be where I am today, in my career and in life, without the support of all the incredible females around me,” Megan says. “Knowing that some of the most talented women in the business always have my back gives me the creative space to focus on my artistry and for this I’m beyond grateful.”
Megan’s being feted alongside Sylvia Rhone at the gathering, which encourages attendees to “bring another woman you want to open the door for.”
Sylvia stepped down from Epic Records in 2025, after becoming the first Black female record executive to be CEO of a major label.
Daniela “Dany” Villarreal Vélez of The Warning performing live at Sweden Rock Festival on June 05, 2025 in Norje, Sweden. (Anne-Marie Forker/Redferns)
The Warning has announced the band’s only U.S. headlining concert of 2026.
The show will take place June 11 at New York City’s Rooftop at Pier 17. Presales are open now, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. ET.
While they won’t be playing any other U.S. headlining shows for the year, The Warning will be spending plenty of time stateside while opening for Yungblud’s tour, kicking off in May.
The Warning’s most recent album is 2024’s Keep Me Fed, which includes the single “S!CK.” They put out a new song Friday called “Love to Be Loved” in collaboration with fellow Mexican musician Carín León.
James Van Der Beek arrives at the premiere of Prime Video series ‘Overcompensating’ at Hollywood Palladium on May 14, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
James Van Der Beek, the actor best known for starring in the teen TV drama Dawson’s Creek and films including Varsity Blues, has died. He was 48.
“Our beloved James David Van Der Beek passed peacefully this morning. He met his final days with courage, faith, and grace,” reads a note posted on Van Der Beek’s Instagram page. “There is much to share regarding his wishes, love for humanity and the sacredness of time. Those days will come. For now we ask for peaceful privacy as we grieve our loving husband, father, son, brother, and friend.”
Van Der Beek revealed in a November 2024 Instagram post that he’d been diagnosed with cancer, stating that despite the diagnosis he was “in a good place and feeling strong.”
Later that month, the actor further revealed to People that he was battling Stage 3 colorectal cancer. Van Der Beek shared that he received the diagnosis after a colonoscopy.
In December 2024, Van Der Beek joined Good Morning America to discuss his mindset and emotional state during his ongoing battle with the disease.
“And thus began the full-time job of having cancer, signing up for all the various medical portals and getting on the phone with insurance and creating appointments. … I was not prepared for just how much of a full-time job that it really is,” Van Der Beek said.
“I’m going to make changes that I never would have made otherwise, that I’m going to look back on in 30 years and say, ‘Thank gGod this happened.’ So, what can I do right now in order to make that the case? And that’s how it was, about 90 percent of the time,” he went on. “But 10 percent of the time, I was a sobbing, terrified mess, which I feel like is a pretty good percentage.”
Born March 8, 1977, in Cheshire, Connecticut, Van Der Beek began acting while in middle school and made his professional debut at age 16 in a 1993 off-Broadway production in New York City. He continued to appear in various amateur and professional productions throughout high school and while attending New Jersey’s Drew University.
It was while he was a student at Drew in 1998 that Van Der Beek auditioned for and won the title role of Dawson Leery in The WB network’s new show Dawson’s Creek. Van Der Beek dropped out of Drew University to star in the show for the whole of its six-year run, opposite fellow cast members and future stars Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams and Joshua Jackson.
“That was when life was at its craziest,” Van Der Beek said about his time on the hit show in a 2020 interview with Good Morning America. “At 20 years old I got stupidly lucky and found myself in a zeitgeist, cultural phenomenon TV show, and I was suddenly famous.”
Van Der Beek also admitted his sudden stardom was difficult to handle. “My reaction to fame was to run away from it,” he said, though looking back he said he would tell his younger self to “relax, be grateful, enjoy it.”
Despite having already begun a small film career with roles in films like the 1996 romantic drama I Love You, I Love You Not, which also starred Claire Danes, Julia Stiles and Jude Law, Van Der Beek’s Dawson’s Creek fame earned him the headlining role in the 1999 coming-of-age sports drama Varsity Blues. Van Der Beek’s character of Jonathan “Mox” Moxon, the backup quarterback on a small-town Texas high school football team, remains the film performance for which he’s best remembered. It also earned him the best breakout male performance award at the 1999 MTV Movie Awards.
“It was a movie I really, really cared about, it was a role I really cared about,” Van Der Beek told Good Morning America. “It was a role I really had to fight for. I had to fight for that role, nobody wanted me for that role initially.”
The success of Varsity Blues led to roles in other films, including 2000’s horror film send-up Scary Movie, in which Van Der Beek made a cameo appearance as his Dawson’s Creek character, the 2001 Western Texas Rangers and the 2002 dark comedy Rules of Attraction. Later film roles included the 2009 thriller Formosa Betrayed, 2013’s Labor Day with Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin, and the 2019 comedy Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.
Yet Van Der Beek remained a larger small-screen presence, appearing on dozens of hit TV shows over the years in starring or guest roles, including How I Met Your Mother, Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23, One Tree Hill,Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, CSI: Cyber and Modern Family, as well as providing the voice of Boris Hauntley on the Disney animated children’s series Vampirina. Van Der Beek also placed fifth on season 28 of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars in 2019. In 2025, he was announced as a recurring character on the Legally Blonde prequel series Elle.
In September 2025, the cast of Dawson’s Creekreunited for a one-night-only live reading of the show’s pilot episode to raise money for the nonprofit F Cancer and for Van Der Beek. A stomach virus prevented him from attending in person — Tony winner Lin-Manuel Miranda stepped into the role of Dawson Leery in Van Der Beek’s place — but he shared a video message in which he thanked those who attended and shared his disappointment for not being unable to “stand on that stage and thank every soul in the theater for showing up for me, and against cancer, when I needed it most.”
Van Der Beek was married twice. He’s survived by his wife, film producer Kimberly Van Der Beek, and their six children.
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters while aboard Air Force One, February 6, 2026 en route to Palm Beach, Florida. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — After Tuesday night’s embarrassing defeat for Speaker Mike Johnson at the hands of rebellious Republicans, the House is set to vote Wednesday evening on a Democratic-led resolution to rescind President Donald Trump’s tariffs imposed on Canada — which could result in a major rebuke of the president’s trade policies.
The legislation, led by the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Gregory Meeks, would force House lawmakers to go on the record for the first time on Trump’s tariffs and trade policy.
The measure seeks to end the emergency declaration Trump used to justify his Canada tariffs.
Even if the tariff vote clears the GOP-led House, Trump is likely to veto the measure. It’s unclear how the largely symbolic vote will fall given Speaker Johnson’s razor-thin majority.
Johnson argued on Fox Business Wednesday morning that Congress should not be getting in the way of Trump’s tariffs.
“I think it’s a big mistake. I don’t think we need to go down the road of trying to limit the president’s power while he is in the midst of negotiating America first trade agreements,” Johnson said, adding that tariffs have “done great for the economy.”
He pointed to the tariff case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court — arguing that Congress should allow that process to play out.
House Republican leaders have fought for a year to block such a tariff vote from hitting the House floor, but the failed rule vote Tuesday night opened the door to full House votes on overturning the president’s tariffs.
Three Republicans — Reps. Kevin Kiley, Don Bacon and Thomas Massie — bucked their own party to defeat the procedural effort that failed by a vote of 214-217.
Bacon posted on X Wednesday, “Congress has Article One Constitutional responsibilities on tariffs. We cannot & should not outsource our responsibilities. As an old fashioned Conservative I know tariffs are a tax on American consumers. I know some disagree. But this debate and vote should occur in the House.”
Even if the House passes the resolution the matter would need to go back to the Senate.
Last October, the Senate voted on similar resolutions to cancel some of Trump’s tariffs.
At the time, some Senate Republicans joined Democrats to rebuke the president’s trade policy.
Poll workers place a sign outside a polling station for the New Jersey Primary at a firehouse in Hoboken, N.J., June 4, 2024. (Gary Hershorn/ABC News)
(WASHINGTON) — Amid President Donald Trump’s repeated unsubstantiated accusations of rigged voting and calls to nationalize elections, an updated version of the GOP’s signature piece of election reform — now called the SAVE America Act — is set to reach the House floor for a showdown vote later Wednesday.
The original, called the SAVE Act, was sponsored by Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy, passed out of the House in April, but has stalled in the Senate since — attracting intense pushback from Democrats, who say the bill would damage voting accessibility and discriminate against low-income voters who are unable to get government ID.
Trump and top Republicans have argued the revised bill is necessary to protect the country’s election process before the 2026 midterm elections in November.
“America’s Elections are Rigged, Stolen, and a Laughingstock all over the World,” Trump wrote on social media. “We are either going to fix them, or we won’t have a Country any longer. I am asking all Republicans to fight for the following: SAVE AMERICA ACT!”
There has been no credible evidence of widespread fraud or substantiated claims of U.S. elections being rigged.
What is the SAVE America Act?
Republican lawmakers tout the SAVE America Act as the next step in securing what they call “election integrity.” The bill would restrict mail-in ballots, require photo ID at polling places and mandate states obtain proof of citizenship before registering a person to vote in a federal election.
Citizenship documents include:
A valid United States passport
A Real ID
A birth certificate
United States military ID card, together with a record of service showing that the applicant’s place of birth was in the United States
Federal, state or tribal government ID card showing the applicants place of birth
A driver’s license without a Real ID stamp would not be accepted as proof of citizenship.
This process would include mail voter registration applications, requiring people to provide documented proof to an appropriate election official before being approved.
The bill would also require states to scrub noncitizens from their current voter records and create programs to identify individuals who are not U.S. citizens by using data from various state agencies, the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security.
On Election Day, voters would be expected to bring a valid photo ID which they would be required to present before getting access to the ballot box. If an ID does not have a photo, a voter would have to prove U.S. citizenship or provide the last four digits of the voter’s Social Security number.
Along with ID requirements, Trump has called for restrictions on voting by mail, disallowing mail-in voting except for instances of illness, disability, military or travel.
Several high-ranking Republican leaders allege the bill would stop instances of noncitizens voting in elections, an issue they argue has damaged the credibility of election results.
Noncitizens are already prohibited from voting in federal and state elections, though some cities allow noncitizens to vote on some local elections.
“A number of states deliberately don’t want to check whether or not somebody’s here legally when they register, and then they mandate in some states that they can’t show picture ID. That’s a recipe for voter fraud,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said during an interview on Fox News. “…one person, one vote only matters if you’re having these protections like the SAVE America Act.”
Experts have long insisted that noncitizen voting is a rare problem. Voter roll audits before the 2024 elections in Georgia found only 20 registered noncitizens out of 8.2 million registered voters statewide. Nine of those actually cast a ballot.
The president has suggested noncitizen voting has allowed Democrats to win elections when they otherwise shouldn’t have, including unfounded claims that Joe Biden did not win the 2020 election.
“We need fair elections. We need elections where people aren’t able to cheat. And we’re going to do that, I’m going to do that, I’m going to get it done,” Trump said.
Why the controversy?
Implementing voter ID is not a novel idea in the United States. The National Conference of State Legislatures tracks 36 states that require voters to show some sort of identification at the polls.
Sentiment over voter ID is also recorded as mostly positive, with a Pew Research Center poll citing 83% of the 3,554 Americans surveyed as in favor of requiring all voters to show government issued photo IDs before voting.
In that same survey, 58% of respondents said they were in favor of maintaining mail-in voting.
Still, key Democrats on Capitol Hill have been strongly opposed to the bill, arguing it makes voting more difficult and less accessible.
“Our elections are key to our democracy. The SAVE Act would make it harder for registered, legal voters to vote,” California Democrat Rep. Mike Thomson said. “At a time when the president is talking about nationalizing elections, we must protect our democracy and every voter’s choice.”
Though the bill made it through the House with a 220-208 vote, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that the bill would be “dead on arrival” in the Senate.
“The Republicans’ SAVE Act reads more like a how-to guide for voter suppression. It goes against the very foundations of our democracy,” Schumer said. “Mark my words: This will not pass the Senate.”
Others, such as Democrat Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA), argue Republicans are deliberately timing the change in voter rules before consequential midterm elections.
“Republicans will stop at nothing to interfere with the 2026 midterms — including leveraging ICE to gain access to sensitive voter information or pass their anti-democratic SAVE Act,” Padilla said. “We’re not going to let them get away with their attempts to suppress the right to vote.”
In the Senate, the bill would need to garner support from some Democrats in order to overcome a 60-vote threshold to advance over an expected Democratic filibuster.
Miley Cyrus performs on ABC’s ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Now that Bad Bunny has sung his way into Super Bowl history, who could the next halftime show performer be? According to one sports book, there’s a clear favorite.
Bovada has set odds on a slew of top artists taking the stage in 2027, and Miley Cyrus is the favorite at 3 to 1. Next is Cardi B at 4.25 to 1, followed by Taylor Swift at 4.75 to 1.
Others farther down on the list in terms of odds include Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Harry Styles, Morgan Wallen, Metallica, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Sabrina Carpenter, Queen, Ed Sheeran, Adele and Tate McRae. The longest odds? Dolly Parton at 40 to 1.
The site has also set odds on a couple of artists who’ve already headlined the Super Bowl: Lady Gaga is at 12 to 1, while Bruno Mars is at 28 to 1.
Bovada notes that in the past 10 years, seven out of 10 Super Bowl halftime acts have been male, so the odds are better for a female headliner next year.
“The Denim Darling,” the brand’s homepage reads, as it rolls out its campaign “introducing the award-winning country music star in her favorite AE looks.”
Ella also debuted the partnership with an Instagram video in which she’s modeling its fashions.
“When I started out playing gigs I was 18,” she says in the ad, set to the title track of her upcoming album. “There wasn’t a day or a time I don’t remember where this wasn’t the plan. Country music is storytelling. And then you do it with a little bit of twang.”
“It’s cool to be from such a small place and get to do such massive things,” she adds.
The Hope Hull, Alabama, native currently tops both the Billboard Hot 100 and Country Airplay charts with “Choosin’ Texas,” the lead single from Dandelion, which drops April 10.
