(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Rockets 123, Wizards 118
Celtics 108, Bucks 81
Nuggets 128, Jazz 125
Clippers 114, Warriors 101
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Red Wings 4, Predators 2
Blue Jackets 5, Rangers 4
Flyers 3, Maple Leafs 2
Stars 6, Canucks 1
Hurricanes 1, Kraken 2
Avalanche 4, Kings 2
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(WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday blocked a New York state court ruling that had ordered the Empire State’s congressional map redrawn ahead of the 2026 midterms.
A state judge in New York ruled earlier this year that New York must redraw its congressional map and cease using its current one because the current map’s 11th Congressional District violates the state’s Constitution and dilutes the votes of Black and Latino voters.
U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, the Republican representing the district, had appealed the ruling initially in state court and later asked the Supreme Court to block the order, as did other Republicans.
The district currently covers Staten Island, along with several neighborhoods across the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in Brooklyn.
In a statement posted on social media, Malliotakis praised the Supreme Court’s decision, arguing that it “helps restore the public’s confidence in our judicial system and proves the challenge to our district lines was always meritless.”
“The plaintiffs in this case attempted to manipulate our state’s courts to use race as a weapon to rig our elections. That was wrong and, as demonstrated by today’s ruling, clearly unconstitutional,” Malliotakis’ post said.
In a concurring opinion, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the state court order that knocked down New York’s current map “blatantly discriminates on the basis of race” and that the court had no choice but to step in — even so close the election.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a sharply worded dissent, accused her colleagues of prematurely intervening in a state-law case, even before New York courts had fully resolved the appeals.
“By granting these applications, the Court thrusts itself into the middle of every election-law dispute around the country, even as many States redraw their congressional maps ahead of the 2026 election,” Sotomayor wrote. “It also invites parties searching for a sympathetic ear to file emergency applications directly with this Court, without even bothering to ask the state courts first.”
The ruling from SCOTUS allows appeals to play out in lower courts, but it means New York will not be redrawing its map for the 2026 election.
“This blatantly political case violated both the New York State and federal constitutions and, as Justice Alito stated, the lower court’s decision was a full-blown racial gerrymander,” New York Republican Party chair Ed Cox wrote in a statement Monday.
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Mumford & Sons’ new album, Prizefighter, has debuted in the top 10 on the Billboard 200.
The record lands at #10 with a total of 44,000 equivalent album units. It marks the “Little Lion Man” outfit’s sixth top-10 record on the Billboard 200.
As previously reported, Prizefighter debuted at #1 on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart, giving them two-straight #1 albums in their home country in less than a year, following 2025’s Rushmere.
Mumford & Sons have hit #1 on the Billboard 200 three times, with 2012’s Babel, 2015’s Wilder Mind and 2018’s Delta.
Mumford & Sons performed two songs off Prizefighter over the weekend on Saturday Night Live, including the single “Rubber Band Man” with Hozier. They’ll launch a North American tour in June.
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It may seem like time itself is crawling faster now that Metallica’s Master of Puppets is officially 40 years old.
The metal legends’ third studio effort was first released on March 3, 1986. The album continued to push the boundaries of thrash on its way to becoming one of the most seminal and influential albums in heavy metal music history, as evidenced by its octuple-Platinum RIAA certification and its induction into the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry in 2015.
Master of Puppets is centered around its epic 8 1/2-minute title track. Frontman James Hetfield’s meditation of drug addiction is intensified by fiery down-picking and dueling guitar solos.
Today, the song “Master of Puppets” is Metallica’s most-played song live, and its legacy continues to live on in new ways. In 2022, “Master of Puppets” made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 after its use in the season 4 finale of Stranger Things. Metallica’s also named their upcoming Life Burns Faster residency at the high-tech Sphere venue in Las Vegas after a lyric from “Master of Puppets.”
Along with the title track, Master of Puppets includes the ripping opener, “Battery,” and the instrumental “Orion,” which was written primarily by bassist Cliff Burton. “Orion” would turn out to be something of a swan song for the 24-year-old Burton, who was killed in a bus accident during Metallica’s tour in support of Master of Puppets in September 1986.
Burton was replaced by Jason Newsted, who was then replaced by current Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo.
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Billy Joel is the subject of this year’s Music Of concert put on by New York entrepreneur Michael Dorf.
This is Dorf’s 21st Music Of charity concert, and he tells Rolling Stone it was the rocker’s documentary, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, that finally pushed him to make the Piano Man this year’s honoree.
“I think there’s a lot of love for Billy, and a desire to hear his music,” Dorf says.
This year’s show will be held March 12 at New York’s Carnegie Hall. The lineup includes Joel’s daughter Alexa Ray Joel, Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas, Train’s Pat Monahan and others, with Joel’s eight-piece touring band serving as the house band.
“The fact that it is his band, that’s exciting for people,” Dorf says. “We sold out without a single artist mentioned who’s performing, and we got a great lineup, as people trusted. Fingers crossed, let’s see if we have any special guests.”
Of course fans would love for one of those special guests to be Joel, who canceled his 2025 tour in May after being diagnosed with a brain condition. The only time he’s performed since then was a surprise appearance with a Billy Joel cover band in Wellington, Florida, in January.
Dorf will only say that like all previous honorees, Joel has been invited to the concert.
“There’s a box for the band, and if we’re lucky and they want to jump on stage, great,” he tells the mag. “But it’s really for them as much as it is anybody.”
Money raised from the concert benefits music education programs. Previous concerts celebrated the music of Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, R.E.M., Paul McCartney, Van Morrison and The Who.
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The West Coast premiere of Boots Riley’s new movie, I Love Boosters, will take place in Oakland, California, as part of the 69th San Francisco International Film Festival in April. The new project has been named the Centerpiece film for this year’s festival, used to showcase culturally significant films.
Held at Oakland’s historic Grand Lake Theatre, the first screening is set for April 28 at 6:30 p.m. PT, followed by a moderated conversation. A second screening will begin at 9:30 p.m. PT after a moderated introduction. Tickets are currently available to SFFILM members, but will go on sale to the general public on Wednesday.
“I’m hyped as hell to bring I Love Boosters to SFFILM since they were the first organization to recognize me as a filmmaker and to support me in my filmmaking journey,” Boots Riley said in statement. “It’s going to be extra special to premiere in my hometown at Grand Lake Theater [where] I’ve been going to since I was a kid. This film is my best work and it’s going to be special to see this movie, which is set in the Bay Area, play here.”
The movie will premiere March 12 during opening night of the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival. It’s about a crew of professional shoplifters who choose a cutthroat fashion maven as their next target. Keke Palmer, LaKeith Stanfield, Don Cheadle and more star in the film.
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HBO’s newest miniseries finds Jason Bateman, Linda Cardellini and David Harbour in a love triangle gone wrong.
DTF: St. Louis, which premiered its first episode on Sunday, finds three adults who have middle-age malaise stuck in a love triangle that leads to one of them dying.
At the end of the premiere, viewers discover that person is Harbour’s Floyd Smernitch. Even though he meets his demise, the rest of the season takes place over a nonlinear timeline and Harbour continues as a main character throughout it all. He told ABC Audio all about what it was like to work with Bateman and Cardellini on the new dark comedy.
“These are two actors that I’ve admired for years and years, and I got to do some of the best scenes of my whole career, some of the most intimate work I’ve ever done, with these people,” Harbour said. “The scripts were very unexpected — the twists and turns, the way people react to things, who these people are. Floyd is a character that I deeply love. I find him just tragic and wonderful and weird and beautiful. And so it was just like a joy every day to come to work.”
Floyd works as an American Sign Language interpreter. Harbour said he had to learn how to sign ASL for the role.
“It’s hard, especially because you want to do it justice, because it’s its own … language, it’s own form of expression [and] it’s so deeply intrinsic to who Floyd is as a person.”
As the season continues, Harbour says viewers will discover why ASL is so important to Floyd.
“There is this moment when you really understand what ASL means to Floyd,” Harbour said. “And so, in that way, you can see that it’s something that I had to really invest in.”
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Stop of us if you’ve heard this perhaps 21 times before, but Shinedown is once again sitting at the top of the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.
Brent Smith and company’s single “Searchlight” has hit #1 on the ranking, giving them a total of 22 Mainstream Rock Airplay leaders.
The ascension of “Searchlight” extends Shinedown’s previously set record for the most number ones in the history of Mainstream Rock Airplay, which first launched in 1981. Three Days Grace sits in second place, with 20.
“Searchlight” appears on Shinedown’s upcoming album, EI8HT, due out May 29. It also includes the singles “Three Six Five,” “Dance, Kid, Dance” and “Killing Fields.”
Shinedown will launch a U.S. tour in May.
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Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” has just set another Billboard chart record. The song has now spent 33 weeks in the top three of the Billboard Hot 100, the most time ever spent in that region of the chart. The previous record of 32 weeks was held by Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Ten of those 33 weeks were spent at #1.
In other Alex Warren news, he’s apparently mortified by what he said to a certain superstar he met at the BRIT Awards Saturday. He wrote on Instagram, “can someone please train me before I see @harrystyles again? ‘I didn’t know you had moves like that’ should NOT have been the first words out of my mouth when I met him.”
And speaking of Harry Styles, you’ll be able to watch his sit-down interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe on Wednesday. In an advance clip, Harry tells Zane that because many of his friends are married with kids, he doesn’t have anyone to go to clubs with.
“Silent Treatment” singer Freya Skye will be returning to the franchise where she got her start. Disney+ and Disney Channel have greenlit season 5 of Zombies, and Freya will return as Nova, opposite Malachi Barton’s Victor. Filming starts this spring in New Zealand. Disney is the parent company of ABC News.
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Jay-Z has added to his list of collectibles, releasing his song “N**** What, N**** Who (Originator 99)” featuring Big Jaz and Amil on 12-inch vinyl. It includes the clean and explicit versions of The Black Album single “Dirt Off Your Shoulder,” as well as a few songs from his discography.
“N**** What, N**** Who (Originator 99),” which was produced by Timbaland and appeared on Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life, is now available on streaming services as well.
Links to the vinyl and streaming options are on Hov’s new website page, jayz30.com, which fans think teases his potential return for the 30th anniversary of his debut album, Reasonable Doubt.
Other hints include the recent release of Reasonable Doubt‘s single “Dead Presidents” on DSPs; the change on streaming platforms from Jay-Z to JAŸ-Z — which was used early in his career; and the shirt he wore at this year’s Super Bowl. The shirt read, “The Game needs me,” a lyric from Jay’s song “Izzo (H.O.V.A.),” on which he rapped, “Can’t leave rap alone, the game needs me/ Haters want me clapped in chrome, it ain’t easy.”
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