Patti Smith performs onstage at the London Palladium during the ‘Horses’ – 50th Anniversary Tour on October 12, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Jim Dyson/Getty Images)
Patti Smith, The E Street Band and the Doors will be honored at the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music’s fourth annual American Music Honors.
This year’s other honorees include Dionne Warwick and Dr. Dre, with the event also including a posthumous tribute to The Band.
“The artists we’re honoring this year didn’t just shape popular music—they helped define it,” Robert Santelli, founding executive director of the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, said in a statement. “Their work reflects the creativity, risk-taking, and cultural exchange that sit at the heart of American music, and it’s a privilege to celebrate their legacies.”
The fourth annual American Music Honors will be held April 18 at the Pollak Theatre on the campus of Monmouth University in Long Branch, New Jersey. It will feature Stevie Van Zandt’s Disciples of Soul as the evening’s house band, with Springsteen presenting Warwick and Smith with their honors.
Other presenters include Van Zandt for the Doors, producer Jimmy Iovine for Dr. Dre and Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau for The E Street Band.
The American Music Honors launched in 2023, with Van Zandt, Darlene Love, Sam & Dave’s Sam Moore and Steve Earle honored. Other past honorees include John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Dion DiMucci, Mavis Staples, John Fogerty, Smokey Robinson, Tom Morello, Emmylou Harris and Joe Ely.
Ballots arrive at the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operation Center on election night on November 5, 2024 in Fairburn, Georgia. Megan Varner/Getty Images
(WASHINGTON) — Federal authorities are expected to unseal the affidavit they filed in support of their search of a Fulton County, Georgia, election office last month, after a federal judge ordered the document be unsealed by the end of the day Tuesday.
FBI agents on Jan. 28 seized 700 boxes containing ballots and other materials associated with the 2020 election from the county’s Elections Hub and Operations Center after obtaining a search warrant. President Donald Trump has repeatedly made baseless claims that there was voter fraud in the 2020 election, specifically in Georgia, that contributed to his election loss.
U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee, a Trump nominee, on Sunday ordered the government to unseal the affidavit that was filed in support of the search warrant, subject to “the redaction of the names of non-governmental witnesses.”
In his ruling, Boulee noted that the government did not oppose the unsealing of the affidavit, which could provide more information on the search and the investigation that lead to it.
The ruling came after Fulton County Chairman Robb Pitts filed a motion seeking the unsealing of the affidavit, as well as the return of the election documents that were seized.
Pitts said in a statement he was “pleased” with the judge’s ruling.
“Fulton County will continue to pursue every legal option to seek the return of election records and to defend our elections from possible takeover,” Pitts said. “Even in the midst of this unprecedented legal action, we will not allow our staff to be deterred or distracted from preparations for the 2026 election, which will be once again free, fair, transparent and legally compliant.”
While the judge on Sunday ordered the release of the affidavit that was the basis for the search warrant, the warrant itself authorized the FBI to search for “All physical ballots from the 2020 General Election” in addition to tabulator tapes from voting machines and 2020 voter rolls, according to a copy of the warrant that was obtained by ABC Atlanta affiliate WSB following the raid.
The warrant said the material “constitutes evidence of the commission of a criminal offense.”
The warrant listed possible violations of two statutes — one which requires election records to be retained for a certain amount of time, and another which outlines criminal penalties for people, including election officials, who intimidate voters or to knowingly procure false votes or false voter registrations.
Cardi B and Stefon Diggs celebrate after Game Four of the Eastern Conference Second Round NBA Playoffs between the Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on May 12, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
Cardi B and Stefon Diggs no more?
That’s the question many fans are asking after the couple seemed to unfollow each other on social media.
Speculation of a breakup between the music superstar and the football powerhouse began on Monday, a day after Diggs’ New England Patriots fell to the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl. Eagle-eyed fans noticed they were no longer friends on Instagram.
Although neither Cardi nor Diggs had addressed the rumors as of Tuesday morning, comments poured in on their Instagram accounts.
“Dang why u and Stefon unfollow each other?” one fan wrote on a recent post of Cardi’s. “I hope yall didn’t break up because of the game.”
Over on Diggs’ page someone said, “I was here for Cardi, if she leaves I’m leaving too, bye.”
The couple went public with their relationship in May 2025 during an appearance at a New York Knicks basketball game. Cardi then took to social media in June with a now-deleted picture of her and Diggs sitting on a yacht.
“Chapter 5 ……Hello Chapter six,” Cardi had captioned the post, according to People.
The pair welcomed a son in November 2025. The new baby is Cardi’s fourth child; she shares three with rapper Offset, from whom she filed divorce in August 2024. Diggs has two daughters from previous relationships.
Savannah Guthrie and mother Nancy Guthrie on Thursday, June 15, 2023. (Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)
(TUCSON, Ariz.) — ABC News has confirmed that law enforcement will imminently release an image of a potential suspect in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie.
Guthrie was taken from her home in Tucson, Arizona, on Sunday, Feb. 1, according to authorities. A Monday ransom deadline by persons claiming to be Guthrie’s abductors passed as the search for her continues.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
Nick Jonas, ‘Sunday Best Deluxe’ (Republic Records)
Nick Jonas is a busy guy.
The singer just released the deluxe version of his new album, Sunday Best, featuring two new songs and a live version of the single “Gut Punch.” Nick wrote one of the new songs, “London Foolishly,” when he was 17 and performed it on a livestream once, but had never released it. He posted on Instagram the original footage of himself playing the song.
“Staying true to the underlying theme throughout Sunday Best of connecting with your inner child, it felt right to revisit it now and give it a proper recording,” he said. “A gentle reminder that rediscovering the things a younger version of you was passionate about can be both comforting and a lot of fun.”
The other new song on the album is “While You’re Gone.”
Meanwhile, Nick’s just booked a new movie role: Variety reports that he’ll star in an action thriller called Bodyman; filming is expected to start in June. The film takes place during Christmas, when a billionaire reveals that, instead of leaving his private military company to his children, he’s going to to leave it to his bodyguard, played by Nick.
Variety quotes Nick as saying, “I’ve been developing this project for a while and I’m excited to see it come to fruition.”
Interestingly, Variety also says that Nick has “a tour planned for this summer.” So far, that hasn’t been officially announced.
Bailey Zimmerman’s Different Night Same Rodeo Tour (Live Nation)
The kickoff of Bailey Zimmerman’s Different Night Same Rodeo Tour is a little more than a week away, and he’s buckling down to get ready.
“I can’t believe my first Arena tour starts in 10 days,” he wrote from a plane on Monday as he returned to Nashville. “I’m so freakin pumped but at the same time I’m so nervous because this means so much to me and I wanna kill it for y’all.”
“that’s why I’m headed into rehearsals tomorrow for a week straight and I’m not sleeping until this show is one of the best shows y’all have ever seen,” he continued. “nothing is more important to me right now than giving yall everything i got this year.”
“New tour… New stage… ARENAS BABY,” he closed, adding the fire emoji. “WHAT SHOW ARE YALL COMING TO?!”
Bailey opens the tour Feb. 19 in Estero, Florida, and is set to play 30 dates before he wraps June 20 in Canada.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on December 29, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
(LONDON and TEL AVIV) — The Israeli government adopted a series of significant, bureaucratically complex measures that would allow Israelis and Jews abroad to more easily purchase and build on contested land in the West Bank, consolidating Israeli control in the area that would potentially serve as the heartland for a future Palestinian state.
The measures, which were approved over the weekend, are likely to be challenged in the Israeli Supreme Court. But they represent the most far-reaching attempts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government to advance a de-facto annexation of the West Bank.
The Palestinian Authority, the governing body for Palestinians that already has only limited powers in the West Bank, described the moves as an “unprecedented escalation” and “illegal,” views echoed by regional Arab states.
U.S. President Donald Trump has previously said the U.S. opposes attempts by Israel to annex the West Bank, a long-held dream of some settler groups and far-right ministers who now hold powerful positions in Netanyahu’s government.
The newly adopted measures are expected to deepen Israeli civil — as opposed to military — control of new areas within the West Bank, including key religious sites in Hebron, and are designed to make it easier for Israelis to buy land in the territory.
Israel’s Security Cabinet, headed by Netanyahu, approved on Sunday a series of new measures that would lift a ban on the sale of land to private Israeli Jews, transfer construction authority at religious and sensitive sites in the city of Hebron to the Israeli government, and declassify land registry records.
The United Nations condemned the measures, with a spokesperson for the secretary-general saying in a statement that “all Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and their associated regime and infrastructure, have no legal validity and are in flagrant violation of international law, including relevant United Nations resolutions.”
The measures would allow the Israeli government to operate under the guise of civilian issues in Palestinian areas A and B for the first time, which contravenes the Oslo Accords. Under the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority is the sole authority responsible for civilian matters in Area A and B. Israel, in contrast, has full Israeli civil and security control over Area C, which represents about 60% of the West Bank.
Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right, pro-settlement finance minister, hailed the move as an “historic day for settlement for Judea and Samaria,” as parts of the West Bank are known in Hebrew.
He said the changes would “fundamentally change the legal and civil reality.” He boasted that it would end the prospects for a potential Palestinian State.
Netanyahu has vowed that a Palestinian state “will not be established,” even as Western countries, including France, Canada and the United Kingdom, have moved to recognize a Palestinian state.
The office of the Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, issued a statement condemning the measures as “dangerous decisions” designed to “deepen attempts to annex the occupied West Bank.”
The president’s office said the move was a “blatant violation” of the Oslo Accords, which divided the West Bank into Areas A, B and C, adding that the move represents an “unprecedented escalation targeting the Palestinian presence and its national and historical rights throughout the Palestinian territory.”
Abbas’ office described the move as illegal and called for the U.S. and the European Union to intervene.
A joint statement by the foreign ministers of eight Muslim countries condemned the new measures.
The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, Indonesia, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates said in a statement posted on social media that they collectively “condemned in the strongest terms the illegal Israeli decisions and measures aimed at imposing unlawful Israeli sovereignty, entrenching settlement activity, and enforcing a new legal and administrative reality in the occupied West Bank, thereby accelerating attempts at its illegal annexation and the displacement of the Palestinian people.”
“They reaffirmed that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territories,” the statement added.
According to Peace Now, an Israeli settlement watchdog and activist nongovernmental organization, the measures adopted over the weekend would effectively mean that Israeli authorities can now carry out legal demolitions of Palestinian property in Areas A and B, which comprise around 40% of the West Bank and which under the Oslo accords have been governed by the Palestinian Authority.
While the Israeli military could operate in those areas as the occupying power, the “government is now seeking to ignore its international commitments and begin administrative operations inside areas of the Palestinian Authority. Under the Oslo Accords, Israel has operated militarily in PA areas since the early 2000s,” the watchdog said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on December 29, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
(LONDON and TEL AVIV) — The Israeli government adopted a series of significant, bureaucratically complex measures that would allow Israelis and Jews abroad to more easily purchase and build on contested land in the West Bank, consolidating Israeli control in the area that would potentially serve as the heartland for a future Palestinian state.
The measures, which were approved over the weekend, are likely to be challenged in the Israeli Supreme Court. But they represent the most far-reaching attempts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government to advance a de-facto annexation of the West Bank.
The Palestinian Authority, the governing body for Palestinians that already has only limited powers in the West Bank, described the moves as an “unprecedented escalation” and “illegal,” views echoed by regional Arab states.
U.S. President Donald Trump has previously said the U.S. opposes attempts by Israel to annex the West Bank, a long-held dream of some settler groups and far-right ministers who now hold powerful positions in Netanyahu’s government.
The newly adopted measures are expected to deepen Israeli civil — as opposed to military — control of new areas within the West Bank, including key religious sites in Hebron, and are designed to make it easier for Israelis to buy land in the territory.
Israel’s Security Cabinet, headed by Netanyahu, approved on Sunday a series of new measures that would lift a ban on the sale of land to private Israeli Jews, transfer construction authority at religious and sensitive sites in the city of Hebron to the Israeli government, and declassify land registry records.
The United Nations condemned the measures, with a spokesperson for the secretary-general saying in a statement that “all Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and their associated regime and infrastructure, have no legal validity and are in flagrant violation of international law, including relevant United Nations resolutions.”
The measures would allow the Israeli government to operate under the guise of civilian issues in Palestinian areas A and B for the first time, which contravenes the Oslo Accords. Under the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority is the sole authority responsible for civilian matters in Area A and B. Israel, in contrast, has full Israeli civil and security control over Area C, which represents about 60% of the West Bank.
Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right, pro-settlement finance minister, hailed the move as an “historic day for settlement for Judea and Samaria,” as parts of the West Bank are known in Hebrew.
He said the changes would “fundamentally change the legal and civil reality.” He boasted that it would end the prospects for a potential Palestinian State.
Netanyahu has vowed that a Palestinian state “will not be established,” even as Western countries, including France, Canada and the United Kingdom, have moved to recognize a Palestinian state.
The office of the Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, issued a statement condemning the measures as “dangerous decisions” designed to “deepen attempts to annex the occupied West Bank.”
The president’s office said the move was a “blatant violation” of the Oslo Accords, which divided the West Bank into Areas A, B and C, adding that the move represents an “unprecedented escalation targeting the Palestinian presence and its national and historical rights throughout the Palestinian territory.”
Abbas’ office described the move as illegal and called for the U.S. and the European Union to intervene.
A joint statement by the foreign ministers of eight Muslim countries condemned the new measures.
The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, Indonesia, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates said in a statement posted on social media that they collectively “condemned in the strongest terms the illegal Israeli decisions and measures aimed at imposing unlawful Israeli sovereignty, entrenching settlement activity, and enforcing a new legal and administrative reality in the occupied West Bank, thereby accelerating attempts at its illegal annexation and the displacement of the Palestinian people.”
“They reaffirmed that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territories,” the statement added.
According to Peace Now, an Israeli settlement watchdog and activist nongovernmental organization, the measures adopted over the weekend would effectively mean that Israeli authorities can now carry out legal demolitions of Palestinian property in Areas A and B, which comprise around 40% of the West Bank and which under the Oslo accords have been governed by the Palestinian Authority.
While the Israeli military could operate in those areas as the occupying power, the “government is now seeking to ignore its international commitments and begin administrative operations inside areas of the Palestinian Authority. Under the Oslo Accords, Israel has operated militarily in PA areas since the early 2000s,” the watchdog said.
‘Peaches!’ album artwork. (Easy Eye Sound/Warner Records)
The Black Keys have announced a tour in support of their upcoming album, Peaches!
The U.S. dates span from April 24 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Oct. 11 in Portland, Maine. Presales begin Thursday at 10 a.m. local time, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
“Venues made for dancing. Cities we’ve been wanting to see for a long time,” the “Lonely Boy” duo says.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit TheBlackKeys.com.
Peaches!, the follow-up to 2025’s No Rain, No Flowers, drops May 1. Lead single “You Got to Lose” is out now.
U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) (R) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) hold a press conference on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding at the U.S. Capitol on February 04, 2026 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
(WASHINGTON) — With just a few days until a Friday deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security, Republican and Democratic lawmakers still appear to be at an impasse on how to move forward with Democrats’ demands for new restrictions on President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats delivered proposed legislative text that reflects their 10-item list of demands to Republican leadership over the weekend. The GOP presented a counterproposal, which Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said they rejected Monday night.
Details of the GOP counteroffer have not been made public, but according to Democrats, it didn’t include “details” or “legislative text.”
“The initial GOP response is both incomplete and insufficient in terms of addressing the concerns Americans have about ICE’s lawless conduct. Democrats await additional detail and text,” Schumer and Jeffries said in the statement.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune would not provide details on the GOP offer when asked by reporters on Tuesday.
“I think both sides are right now trying — other than it sounds like the Democrats up here are talking about it — are trying to keep the conversations moving forward and not litigating that in public,” Thune said.
The negotiations are coming as another partial government shutdown looms. If a DHS funding solution is not reached and passed in both chambers by the end of the day Friday, DHS would then shut down.
The TSA, Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Secret Service, CISA and FEMA would be impacted even though lawmakers’ focus is on Immigration and Customs Enforcement reform. ICE operations would not be impacted after it received $75 billion in separate funding from the already-passed “Big Beautiful Bill.”
In a letter last week to Republican leaders, Jeffries and Schumer laid out 10 key demands from Democrats on DHS funding, including calling for judicial warrants before agents can enter private property, a ban on ICE agents wearing face masks, requiring the use of body cameras and new laws for use-of-force standards.
Schumer has called Democrats’ demands “exceedingly reasonable.”
“We are asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow. Why should ICE be different, especially when they have such a record of brutality?” Schumer said.
The funding fight over DHS erupted in the aftermath of the death of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, who was killed in a shooting involving federal law enforcement in Minneapolis on Jan. 24. Renee Good, a mother of three, was fatally shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.
Earlier Monday, Thune said on the Senate floor that Democrats engaged in “meaningful talks” with the White House on a path forward for funding DHS over the weekend.
“Democrats have made their demands known in detail. Some of them are positive starting points for further discussions; others are non-staters and unnecessarily tie the hands of law enforcement,” Thune said on the Senate floor.
But Thune said Republicans, in conjunction with the White House, will seek demands of their own.
“I expect that the Trump administration, with the full backing of congressional Republicans, will continue to resist any effort to make it harder for law enforcement to detain and deport dangerous illegal aliens, which is what many of the Democrats demands would do, and I expect that the administration — again with the backing of Republicans here in Congress — will insist on reforms of its own,” Thune said.
As negotiations continue behind the scenes, Thune said on Monday that lawmakers will likely need more time to complete their work. He urged Democrats to support a stopgap funding proposal to keep the lights on at DHS while they continue discussions on ICE reform.
“We are just a few days away from the deadline that Democrats chose,” Thune said. “And it’s very possible we won’t have our work finished by then. If Democrats are serious about finding a solution there, they may need to find more time to bring these efforts to a productive conclusion.”
