Kanye West and Bianca Censori attend the 67th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 02, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
Ye, formerly Kanye West, is seeking forgiveness. In an ad in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, he describes how an undiagnosed frontal-lobe injury contributed to his bipolar disorder, which gradually changed the man fans once knew.
“Twenty-five years ago, I was in a car accident that broke my jaw and caused injury to the right frontal lobe of my brain,” he writes. “The focus was on the visible damage. … [T]he possibility of a frontal-lobe injury was never raised. It wasn’t properly diagnosed until 2023. That medical oversight caused serious damage to my mental health and led to my bipolar type-1 diagnosis.”
Ye admits he initially denied the diagnosis. “When you’re manic, you don’t think you’re sick. You think everyone else is overreacting,” he says. “The scariest thing about this disorder is how persuasive it is when it tells you: ‘You don’t need help.’ … I lost touch with reality. Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem.”
He reflects on the harm he caused loved ones and the Black community, which he says “held me down through all of the highs and lows” but was let down by his behavior.
During that time, he also gravitated “toward the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika,” though he stressed he is “not a Nazi or antisemite.”
A four-month manic episode in 2025 led to “psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior” and “times I didn’t want to be here anymore.”
Now, through medication, therapy, exercise and clean living, Ye says he has a “newfound, much-needed clarity” and is focusing on “positive, meaningful art.”
“I’m not asking for sympathy, or a free pass,” he says. “I write today simply to ask for your patience and understanding as I find my way home.”
The Fray Summer of Light Tour (Courtesy Live Nation)
The Fray are hitting the road this summer in support of their first new music in more than 10 years.
The “How to Save a Life” band will launch their Summer of Light tour May 11 in New Brunswick, Canada. They’ll travel across North America before wrapping things up Aug. 29 in Chicago. In between, they’ll play Vancouver, Atlanta, Boston, Montreal, LA, Austin, San Diego and more, with special guests including Dashboard Confessional and The Strumbellas. Visit TheFray.com for all tour details.
The tour comes in support of the band’s new album, A Light That Waits, due March 13. It’s their first full-length album since 2014’s Helios; in 2024, they put out an EP called The Fray Is Back. It was their first new music since the departure of original vocalist Isaac Slade in 2022. Guitarist Joe King has now taken over vocals. The title track of the album is now available to listen to.
“We could have hung it up, and I think we all contemplated that, but we have more stories about life to tell,” says guitarist DaveWelsh about their decision to create new music.
He adds, “We’ve earned a seat at the table with a lot of people, and to not do it just because you’re tired wasn’t an option. We owe it to both the life that happens in us and to the people that have listened to us and asked for more.”
A Citi presale for the tour starts Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time. You can sign up now at TheFray.com for another presale that starts Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time. The general sale begins Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
The Fray Summer of Light Tour (Courtesy Live Nation)
Dashboard Confessional will be hitting the road in the summer while opening for The Fray.
The “Hands Down” outfit will support the “How to Save a Life” band on a U.S. tour kicking off July 10 in Indianapolis. The outing wraps up Aug. 29 in Chicago.
Colony House will also be on the bill, while The Strumbellas will be opening for select Canadian dates in May.
Presales begin Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit TheFray.com.
Dashboard is also playing a run of Canadian dates with Goo Goo Dolls in March and April.
Tobias Forge of Ghost performs on a stop of the band’s Skeletour tour at MGM Grand Garden Arena on August 09, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
If you’re wondering what Ghost will do next after finishing their ongoing Skeletour, then you and Tobias Forge have something in common.
The Ghost frontman tells Canada’s Global News that the band currently has “nothing else planned” beyond the tour, which supports their latest album, 2025’s Skeletá.
“The future right now is very open,” Forge says.
Forge adds that he is currently working on recording a new project that isn’t related to Ghost.
“I actually do not know exactly what and when anything will happen,” Forge says. “That’s a good thing, because for 15 years now, we’ve been going at it non-stop where cycles have basically just sort of been stitched together.”
The Skeletour is expected to continue Wednesday in Uncasville, Connecticut, after three shows were canceled due to the weekend’s winter storm. The outing concludes Feb. 23 in Los Angeles.
Charli XCX attends ‘The Moment’ Premiere during the 2026 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2026 in Park City, Utah. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
Charli XCX was the belle of the Sundance Film Festival ball this year, appearing in three different films that premiered during the iconic event.
Along with her own movie The Moment, which has her playing a heightened version of herself, Charli appears in the film The Gallerist as an art world influencer and in the movie I Want Your Sex as the pre-med student girlfriend of the main character.
Alongside a carousel of photos from her weekend in Park City, Utah, Charli wrote, “sundance 2026!!!!! that was funnnnn …i feel so incredibly grateful to have been a part of 3 films at this festival, each helmed by a director with a potent vision: cathy yan, aidan zamiri and gregg araki i love you so much!!!! im so proud of what we each made together!!”
She said of her three movies, “i love these films with all my heart!!!!!! thank you @sundanceorg for championing these f****** fabulous filmmakers. i love movies.”
In February, Charli’s soundtrack for the new film Wuthering Heights will be released.
A newly obtained cellphone video shows the moments before Renee Good was fatally shot in her car in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, 2026. (Obtained by ABC News)
(NEW YORK) — In the days after federal officers shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, there has been little polling on how Americans are reacting to the issue. But surveys fielded after Minneapolis woman Renee Good was shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Jan. 7 found most Americans saying the event was an inappropriate use of force and most voters saying her killing was unjustified.
Polling through the first half of January has found Americans largely at odds with the Trump administration on immigration, with just over half saying ICE enforcement actions were making cities less safe and nearly half saying they do not trust the government at all to carry out a fair and thorough investigation of Good’s shooting.
That is in addition to majorities disapproving of how ICE is enforcing immigration laws, how President Donald Trump is handling immigration and how Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has handled her job.
More polling underscores those findings.
A New York Times/Siena poll released Friday found 61% of voters saying the tactics used by ICE had “gone too far.” That included over 9 in 10 Democrats, about 7 in 10 independents and roughly 2 in 10 Republicans. Just 26% of voters overall said ICE’s tactics were “about right” and 11% said they had not gone far enough.
The poll also found roughly half of voters in support of Trump’s deportations and his handling of the border with Mexico.
Just 36% of voters approved of how ICE was handling its job; 63% disapproved.
A Wall Street Journal poll published last week found 54% saying deploying ICE to U.S. cities has “gone too far” and 52% of voters disapproving of how Trump is handling immigration.
Both polls were conducted after Good, a mother of three, was killed by an ICE agent on Jan. 7, but before Pretti, an ICU nurse, was killed by federal agents over the weekend.
The New York Times/Siena poll was conducted Jan. 12-17 among 1,625 registered voters nationwide and has a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percentage points.
The Wall Street Journal poll was conducted Jan. 8-13 among 1,500 registered voters nationwide and has a margin of error of +/- 2.5 percentage points.
Three minutes and two seconds before the first shot is fired, Alex Pretti holds a phone before a federal officer on Nicollet Ave in Minnesota. (Obtained by ABC News)
(WASHINGTON) — With just days until a partial government shutdown, the shootings in Minneapolis have left Senate Democrats and Republicans in a standoff over how to advance a package of bills necessary to fund the government.
Democrats have made their position clear: Republicans should agree to separate the bill that funds the Department of Homeland Security from a package that includes five other government funding bills so that changes to the DHS bill aimed at reining in Immigration and Customs Enforcement can be made without affecting the other agencies that still need to be funded.
There were Democratic calls to separate the DHS funding following the deaths of Renee Good, a mother of three who was fatally shot by an immigration enforcement officer in Minneapolis earlier this month, and became more urgent after the death of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, who was fatally shot by a federal agent over the weekend.
“The appalling murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis must lead Republicans to join Democrats in overhauling ICE and CBP to protect the public. People should be safe from abuse by their own government,” Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement Sunday night. “Senate Republicans must work with Democrats to advance the other five funding bills while we work to rewrite the DHS bill. This is best course of action, and the American people are on our side.”
But for now, Republicans have said they plan to push forward with the six-bill package, keeping DHS funding tied to the other funding bills.
“Government funding expires at the end of the week, and Republicans are determined to not have another government shutdown. We will move forward as planned and hope Democrats can find a path forward to join us,” a GOP aide told ABC News.
There will be a partial government shutdown — one that results in closures for only specific agencies where funding has lapsed — on Friday night going into Saturday morning if Congress does not approve of the remaining funding bills.
Advancing any government funding bills this week will require the support of at least seven Democrats. If the DHS bill is not decoupled form the other bills — which fund things such as the Departments of Defense, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and more — it seems unlikely that Democrats will furnish the necessary votes to allow any of those bills to proceed.
A Democratic source confirms that Democrats have been in touch with the White House about funding in light of the Minneapolis shootings.
“Republicans and the White House have reached out, but have not yet raised any realistic solutions,” the Senate Democratic leadership aide told ABC News Monday morning.
The House is on recess for the entire week, making modifications to any of the bills ahead of the Friday deadline nearly impossible.
There are a number of agencies and programs that could be affected if Congress does not act by the deadline on Jan. 30. Air traffic controllers and military personnel could go without pay, and the IRS and USPS will also be affected.
The DHS bill that the House approved last week would keep funding for ICE roughly flat from the year prior through September 2026, although ICE is receiving separate funding from the already-passed “Big Beautiful Bill.” It also funds other agencies like the Transportation Security Administration and the Coast Guard.
If lawmakers do cause a shutdown of DHS, it won’t have an immediate impact on ICE operations.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, warned in a statement last week that the “Homeland Security funding bill is more than just ICE.”
“If we allow a lapse in funding, TSA agents will be forced to work without pay, FEMA assistance could be delayed, and the U.S. Coast Guard will be adversely affected. All while ICE continues functioning without any change in their operations due to $75 billion it received in the One Big Beautiful Bill. A continuing resolution will jettison the guardrails we have secured while ceding authority to President Trump, Stephen Miller, and Secretary Noem.”
Thomas Dolby performs on stage at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on August 22, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by C Brandon/Redferns)
Eighties pop star Thomas Dolby, best known for his hits “Hyperactive!” and “She Blinded Me With Science,” has announced a U.S. tour hitting the Northeast and Midwest.
Although he often tours solo, for these shows Dolby will be backed by a band that will include David Bowie’s longtime bassist and vocalist Gail Ann Dorsey, who will also open the show with a solo set.
According to a press release, the Dolby shows will “bring his unusual journey to life, blending songs, stories and musical reminiscences from the 1980s.”
The tour consists of seven shows, kicking off April 14 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, followed by an April 15 show in New York City. The trek will also hit Kingston, New York; Lansing, Michigan; Indianapolis; and Chicago. It wraps April 21 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday. A complete list of dates can be found at ThomasDolby.com.
James Cameron and Billie Eilish on the set of ‘BILLIE EILISH – HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE IN 3D)’ (Henry Hwu)
Billie Eilish fans will now have to wait a few more months to see her upcoming concert movie.
James Cameron, who directed the film with Billie, announced on Instagram Monday that the release of HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE IN 3D), originally scheduled to arrive in theaters on March 20, has been pushed back to May 8.
“We’re refining the cut; dialing in cool, new 3D tech; adding some special behind-the-scenes we know you’ll love,” he wrote. Billie reposted the news on her Instagram Story, adding, “promise it will be worth the wait.”
The movie was filmed during Billie’s most recent tour, which concluded last year. She wrote on Instagram in November, “This has been one of my favorite tours everrrrrr and being able to capture it and co-direct this film with @jamescameronofficial has truly been a dream come true.”
In an interview with WSJ. Magazine for its Innovator Issue, Billie said of the film, “I haven’t seen anything, really, like it, and I’m just kind of blown away at every step of the process.”
She added that one reason she was excited about the project was that she never gets to watch her own concerts — at least, not in high quality — and this will give her an opportunity to do so.
“If you do something amazing, like a f****** backflip, and nobody’s filmed it, I can’t ever really have proof that I did it,” she said. “So it’ll be nice to have that.”
Demonstrators against the ongoing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deployment march during a protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. (Jaida Grey Eagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
(MINNEAPOLIS) — A federal judge heard arguments Monday on the state of Minnesota’s request for a temporary restraining order to halt the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation in the state.
The hearing came two days after the death of 37-year-old Alex Pretti in what was the second shooting of a U.S. citizen this month by federal immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis.
An attorney representing the state said in Monday’s hearing that the enforcement action, dubbed “Operation Metro Surge,” is the nation’s single largest escalation of immigration enforcement, despite Minnesota not having the largest number of non-citizens with criminal convictions.
“Yet the federal government has sent an unprecedented force of thousands of masked agents armed with assault rifles to spread through our region in roving patrols that are racially profiling and inflicting violence on people,” argued state attorney Lindsey Middlecamp.
Brian Carter, another state attorney, argued that there’s a lack of precedent because “the conduct [from the federal government] is so outrageously unlawful we’ve never seen it before.”
“In the 250 years of this nation’s history, we have never seen a federal government attack states based on personal animosity,” Carter argued.
“Well, we’ve seen the federal government take very robust responses to states that aren’t yielding to federal authority,” U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez interrupted.
“Absolutely, but that’s based on the rule of law,” Carter responded.
When Judge Menendez asked what exactly the state wants her to do, Carter said, “End Operation Metro Surge.”
“The whole Operation Metro Surge is an illegal means to an illegal end, so just ending the whole thing is the appropriate remedy there,” Carter said.
“You understand the federal government has a lot of power in this area, so I’m trying to figure out what principle you’re asking me to apply that will sort out legal federal law enforcement from this 10th Amendment argument,” Judge Menendez said.
An attorney representing the federal government called the state’s request to end Operation Metro Surge “staggering.”
“The effect of their requested relief would be essentially removing the officers whom the president has concluded should be there to enforce federal immigration law,” said attorney Brantley Mayers. “It’s pretty staggering.”
Mayers argued that the requested relief should be subject to “a heightened standard.”
“They’re challenging one law enforcement initiative,” replied Judge Menendez. “They’re not challenging the enforcement of immigration law writ large.”
Mayers said that if the judge issues an order to end Operation Metro Surge, it “would be very difficult to implement.”
“If it’s difficult to implement, does that mean I can do nothing?” Judge Menendez asked.
Mayers responded by saying such an order would create a “very difficult separation of powers problem.”
The judge also said she is “grappling” with the alleged illegalities identified by the state, pointing to other lawsuits filed in Minnesota.
“Isn’t the answer to the flood of illegality to fight each illegal act?” Judge Menendez asked, noting that the conduct of federal agents is already the subject of separate litigation.
Menendez also questioned how she should draw the line between legitimate federal pressure and illegal coercion.
“How do I decide when a law enforcement response crosses the line from a legitimate response to one that violates the 10th Amendment?” she asked.
Carter argued that there are “4,000 masked, armed federal agents engaged in systemic, pervasive, and illegal violent behavior” that is “so far out on the other side of the line.”
“We’ve got retaliation, we’ve got racial profiling, we’ve got warrantless entries into homes,” Carter said.
Middlecamp said that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s letter to Gov. Tim Walz Saturday in which she sought information about the state’s voter rolls and records on Medicaid and Food and Nutrition Service programs as a condition for ICE agents pulling back on enforcement, “can only be described as a ransom note.”
“President Trump himself took to social media last night to reaffirm those very purposes. Their message is clear,” Middlecamp said. “Minnesota can either change its laws and policies or suffer an invasion of masked armed forces. This is precisely the type of coercion and commandeering that violates the 10th Amendment.”
Middlecamp argued there has been “excessive force and unsupported detentions and arrests of legal observers” and said that DHS agents have been collecting photos and license plates of observers so they can confront them.
“Even though they are not charged with a crime or reasonably suspected of a crime, there has been indiscriminate use of chemical irritants,” she said.
The attorney argued that Operation Metro Surge is having “clear impacts on the sovereign interest to create and protect public safety, public health, and public education.”
Sara Lathrop, an attorney for the city of Minneapolis, said the weekend’s shooting “demonstrated in a terrifying way that the current situation is absolutely untenable.”
“The relief we need needs to be ordered now to take down the temperature,” Lathrop said.
In response, Judge Menendez said that “not all crises have a fix from a district court injunction.”
Carter, the state attorney, wrapped up arguments by saying the state came to the court to “protect its sovereignty.”
“The state of Minnesota comes here today to protect its sovereignty, to stop the harm to its sovereign rights under the Constitution that sets states up as independent sovereigns,” Carter said. “If we can’t come to the court and vindicate those rights, where else does a state go?”
Judge Menendez did not issue an order immediately following the hearing.
“I do not intend in any way for the depth of my analysis or whatever time I take to write to be seen as a belief that this is unimportant,” she said. “It’s because it’s extremely important that I’m doing everything I can to get it right,” the judge said.
