Megan Moroney’s ‘Blue Christmas …duh’ (Sony Music Nashville/Columbia Records)
Megan Moroney‘s top yuletide moments involve a classic movie, a sweet treat and a saltwater crustacean.
“I think my favorite Christmas tradition is Christmas Eve, my whole family and I, my dad makes us watch It’s a Wonderful Life, the black-and-white version, every single year,” she says. “And he makes chocolate chip cookies.”
“And then on Christmas Day, we have lobster,” she adds.
For lots of Megan Moroney fans, listening to her Christmas EP, which came out in 2024, is a new tradition. The three-track Blue Christmas …duh features her cover of the Elvis Presley classic, plus two originals, “Christmas Morning” and “All I Want for Christmas Is a Cowboy,” which she performed on this year’s CMA Country Christmas special.
If you missed the ABC special, you can now stream it on Hulu.
Andy Grammer attends ‘The Drop: Andy Grammer’ at GRAMMY Museum L.A. Live on October 30, 2024 in Los Angeles ( Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Honey, I’m good … at fashion? Andy Grammer has officially launched his new clothing line, Kindtagious.
Andy explained on Instagram that the name of the clothing line comes from the concept that “kindness is contagious” and shared why he felt inspired to branch out in this direction.
“Let me start by saying I am by no means a fashion designer (we hired way better people than me to design), and if this were a fashion brand solely about style I wouldn’t trust myself to make it, nor would I even be interested in doing it,” he wrote.
Instead, Andy said he’s pursuing the project because he feels “unreasonably passionate about … spreading kindness,” “creating moments of connection” and “inspiring kindness in large groups, one on one, through music, concerts, honestly in any way I can.”
He added that he owns three hats, and he always reaches for the one that says “treat people with kindness.” “This is the team I want to be a part of,” he noted. “It’s what I want to represent to the world.”
Reflecting on buying “status” brands in school to be cool, Andy admitted, “I don’t know that wearing Kindtagious clothing will get you status … [S]tatus and kindness are like oil and water. Maybe this whole idea is doomed from the start, but we’re gonna try anyway.”
He wrapped up his announcement, saying, “My most likely misguided foray into the fashion world officially begins today … if you like any of these clothes or not, go out of your way to be kind to someone today. The world needs more of it.”
You can order Kindtagious cothing now, including hats, tees, sweats and other items.
Brent Smith of Shinedown performs at The Grand Ole Opry on October 10, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Mickey Bernal/Getty Images)
Shinedown has shared a mini documentary chronicling the band’s debut performance at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry in October.
The video, titled “The Road to Opry,” features footage of Brent Smith and company rehearsing for the gig and touring the famed venue ahead of the show.
Reflecting on the performance following its conclusion, bassist Eric Bass shares, “There are things in life that you never knew you needed to have happen. Tonight, that was exactly what this was.”
Shinedown’s Grand Ole Opry set included performances of the songs “A Symptom of Being Human” and “Three Six Five,” along with the live debut of the single “Searchlight.” The band was introduced to the stage by Carrie Underwood.
“Searchlight” and “Three Six Five” are two of the four new singles Shinedown released in 2025, along with “Dance, Kid, Dance” and “Killing Fields.” Shinedown’s most recent album is 2022’s Planet Zero.
Snoop Dogg attends the 2025 BET Awards at Peacock Theater on June 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET)
Snoop Dogg’s Doggyland is expanding beyond the internet. The rapper has announced a new children’s book inspired by the “Affirmation Song” from his YouTube series Doggyland: Kids Songs & Nursery Rhymes.
Titled Snoop Dogg’s Doggyland: Affirmations Song, the book will feature positive affirmations from the original 2022 track.
“Doggyland’s been killing it with our music and our videos, so it only made sense to bring the magic to the world of books,” Snoop tells People.
The book will be released on Feb. 24, 2026, through Little Bee Books — a partnership Snoop says feels like the ideal match for the project. “They understand what Doggyland is all about — how to bring our fun and engaging methods of learning to kids in a whole new way,” he explains. “You know when you got the buzz from the bee and the woof from the dog that these books are going to make noise.”
Affirmations Song will be the first installment in a nine-book series that will span board books, sound books and activity books. Like the show, the series will spotlight the upbeat songs and life lessons taught by beloved characters such as Bow Wizzle, Woofee, Yap Yap, Chow Wow and Barks-A-Locks.
The remaining eight books are scheduled for release between spring 2026 and fall 2027.
AJR performs on ABC’s ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
AJR‘s latest hit, “The Big Goodbye,” sounds very different from the other songs on their What No One’s Thinking EP. For one thing, it starts with a very unusual sample of a group called The Fortunairs Barbershop Quartet singing a song called “The Auctioneer.” AJR’s Jack Met tells ABC Audio that they wrote the song because they really wanted to use that sample.
“We were sitting on this sample for like five years, ‘The Auctioneer’ sample,” he says. “And we didn’t really know how to make a song out of it. We tried to make this kind of happy party song. We made this, like, really weird song with a weird concept.”
When those didn’t work, Jack says, they decided to embrace the EP’s overall vibe.
“And then we said, ‘This is an emotional EP, probably our most emotional body of work,'” Jack notes. “We said, ‘Let’s try to put some emotion into this.'”
What they ended up with is a song that covers the “mixed feelings” that come with “leaving home and leaving your hometown,” Jack says.
“The best day of your life is you going off and living your dream, and then the mixed feelings about leaving your friends and family behind,” he explains. “And they’re gonna kind of go off and do their own thing together, and go get married, while you’re sort of off alone, achieving your dream. There’s sort of that complexity there. So that was the mindset behind ‘The Big Goodbye.'”
You can hear AJR perform “The Big Goodbye” on their upcoming album, Live from the Hollywood Bowl. You might also hear them sing it when they perform on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2026, airing Dec. 31 on ABC.
Artwork for The Speaker Wars holiday single ‘Brighten the Corner’ (Frontiers Music SRL)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch and his new band The Speaker Wars are getting into the holiday spirit with the release of a new Christmas song.
The band — made up of Lynch, singer-songwriter Jon Christopher Davis, Jay Michael Smith on guitar, Brian Patterson on bass, Steve Ritter on percussion and Jay Brown on keyboards — has just released the holiday song “Brighten the Corner.”
“The Speaker Wars are wishing y’all a soulful, joyful and peaceful holiday season,” says Lynch.
The Speaker Wars released their self-titled debut album in May. For the holidays, fans who purchase the album through the band’s web store will get the Christas single, along with a Christmas card signed by Lynch, as an extra bonus, while supplies last.
Josh Hutcherson attends the Los Angeles premiere of A24’s ‘Marty Supreme’ at Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Dec. 8, 2025, in Beverly Hills, California. (Savion Washington/FilmMagic via Getty Images)
Josh Hutcherson is opening up about the rejection he experienced after starring in The Hunger Games.
The actor, who portrayed Peeta Mellark in the four TheHunger Games films, recently spoke about how his success at a young age impacted him later in life while guesting on the Dinner’s On Me podcast.
“I just only knew success,” Hutcherson said. “From the age [of] 9 to like 24 and then kind of post-Hunger Games world.”
Hutcherson said The Hunger Games “set things up” for him.
“The industry’s so g****** tricky. They set you up in this way where they’re like, ‘You’ve arrived.’ You now are working with Jennifer Lawrence and Philip Seymour Hoffman. And you’re in this movie, it makes billions of dollars. You’re the second lead of the film. Like, what do you want? The kingdom is yours. And it’s not at all.”
The actor said that while his rise to fame may have been fast, the fall was just as quick.
“As quickly as they’re excited to get you into that spotlight, they want to not give you anything else. In a way it’s very complicated,” Hutcherson said. “So I tasted my kind of first feeling of disappointment, failure, rejection … probably when I was like 24 or so.”
He may star in the Five Nights at Freddy’s films and the new HBO series I Love LA, but Hutcherson said his work slate was not busy for a long time.
“It was just like a string of no one calling, not getting any offers, auditioning but not getting cast,” Hutcherson said. “Of course, there are things that you don’t get cast in, but I had only known that the chances are, if I was auditioning, [I] was going to book it. That is just not the reality at all.”
Twenty One Pilots at 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. (Disney/Cristian Lopez)
Twenty One Pilots have premiered a new live video for the song “RAWFEAR.”
The performance was recorded during the “Stressed Out” duo’s intimate concert at the 1,500-capacity Bellwether in Los Angeles in October.
“Near the end of tour we had the opportunity to play a small show in LA with just a handful of friends,” Twenty One Pilots say in an Instagram post. “Here is our performance of RAWFEAR from that night.”
You can watch the “RAWFEAR” live video on YouTube.
“RAWFEAR” is a track off Twenty One Pilots’ new album, Breach, which was released in September. Breach also includes the singles “The Contract” and “City Walls.”
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during an event at Mount Airy Casino Resort on December 9, 2025 in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania. Trump discussed his administration’s economic agenda and its efforts to lower the cost of living. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
(MOUNT POCONO, Pa.) — The West Virginia National Guard member who survived being shot in the head during an attack last month in Washington, D.C., is making “amazing” progress and is even able to stand up, according to President Donald Trump.
While giving a speech Tuesday night in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, Trump shared an update on the condition of 24-year-old U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, who was critically wounded during the broad daylight Thanksgiving Eve shooting just blocks from the White Hous
“Today, I got a call that he is up from bed. Do you believe that? He got up from bed. He got up,” Trump said to loud applause.
Trump said he has been in close contact with Wolfe’s parents, Melody and Jason Wolfe, since the shooting, and has met with them in the Oval Office.
During the speech, Trump called Wolfe’s mother, “The most positive person I’ve ever seen.”
“The night that he was so badly hit, and the doctors gave him almost no chance, I called their hospital room and spoke to her, and she said, ‘Sir, he’ll be fine,'” Trump said.
Trump’s update on Wolfe came just days after the West Virginia National Guard posted a Facebook video of Melody Wolfe, West Virginia National Guard Maj. Gen. Jim Seward and Andrew Wolfe’s wife, Leslie, reporting on the wounded Guardsman’s “remarkable improvement.”
In the video posted Dec. 6, Melody Wolfe said her son is coming off sedation and that he has been “very active” as doctors have scaled back on his pain medication.
“He’s coming along well, surpassing expectations,” Melody Wolfe said. “Just all the prayers that you’ve given, they’re working and we’re seeing that miracle happen in that hospital bed right now.”
On Nov. 26, Wolfe and 20-year-old Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom were “ambushed” while conducting “high visibility patrols” in the nation’s capital, authorities said.
Becktrom, who was shot in the head from behind, was killed.
The suspected gunman, 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal of Bellingham, Washington, was taken into custody after he was shot by a fellow National Guard member, authorities said.
Lakanwal was charged with one count of murder, two counts of assault with the intent to kill, and one count of possession of a firearm during a crime of violence. He pleaded not guilty to the charges through a court-appointed attorney last week during an arraignment from his hospital bed.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a bilateral meeting between President Donald Trump and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House, November 18, 2025, in Washington. Win McNamee/Getty Images
(WASHINGTON) — There’s a new serif in town!
The Calibri font is going the way of the typewriter at the State Department after Secretary of State Marco Rubio inked a memo mandating that the agency use only Times New Roman for official communications – and size 14 to boot, according to a department official.
The new directive, which was sent to all diplomats, is the latest action by the Trump administration to roll back diversity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The change is effective immediately, according to the directive.
Two years ago, Rubio’s predecessor, Antony Blinken, switched the State Department font to Calibri, on the recommendation of the State Department’s office of diversity and inclusion, in part to assist individuals with certain visual disabilities, such as low vision and dyslexia.
“Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department’s official correspondence,” Rubio wrote in an “action request,” first obtained by Reuters and The New York Times.
The Times New Roman typeface “aligns with the President’s One Voice for America’s Foreign Relations directive, underscoring the Department’s responsibility to present a unified, professional voice in all communications,” according to the State Department official, who said Times New Roman is considered more “formal and professional.”
“To restore decorum and professionalism to the Department’s written work products and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility] program, the Department is returning to Times New Roman as its standard typeface,” Rubio wrote in the memo.
Rubio noted that Times New Roman had been the department’s official typeface for nearly 20 years, until the 2023 change.
State Department employees are expected to use Times New Roman for internal memoranda, papers prepared for principals, or documents shared externally, because the State Department leadership believes “consistent formatting strengthens credibility and supports a unified Department identity,” according to the directive.
Serif typefaces, which include Times New Roman, remain the standard in courts, legislatures and across federal agencies where the permanence and authority of the written record are paramount, the directive said.
“Aligning the Department’s practice with this standard ensures our communications reflect the same dignity, consistency, and formality expected in official government correspondence,” the State Department official said.
Molly Eagan, the CEO of VISIONS, a nonprofit that advocates for services to help the visually impaired, said in a statement to ABC News that font choices are crucial to accessibility.
“The State Department’s decision to move away from Calibri may seem minor, but for many people with vision impairment (myself included), readability is not a small detail – it’s essential. Calibri and other sans-serif fonts are widely recommended because they are easier to read for people with visual impairments,” Eagan said.
“At VISIONS, a nonprofit serving people who are blind or visually impaired across New York for nearly a century, we see every day how simple choices – like font, spacing, contrast, and layout – directly affect whether information is truly usable. This change is a reminder of why accessibility should remain a core consideration in all public communication,” Eagan added.
ABC News’ Ivan Pereira contributed to this report.
