Signage outside Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is caked in snow after a blizzard struck overnight on November 27, 2019 in Bloomington, Minnesota. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
(MINNEAPOLIS) — A 47-year-old man was struck and killed by a snowplow at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, according to local officials.
The incident was reported shortly after 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at a parking lot near Terminal 2, according to Jeff Lea, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Airports Commission, which operates the airport.
That parking lot serves the in-flight catering services company LSG Sky Chefs.
Temperatures were in the upper 20s with light snow falling in the area at the time of the incident. Over 200 flights out of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul airport were delayed on Tuesday.
The victim’s identity was not immediately released.
The Minnesota State Patrol is helping with the investigation, Lea said.
The city of Minneapolis on Wednesday declared a snow emergency starting at 9 p.m., which bans certain street parking.
“These rules help plows in clearing the streets so emergency vehicles and other traffic can get around,” city officials said.
Linda McMahon, US education secretary, during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images
(WASHINGTON) — The Department of Education has moved to terminate one of former President Joe Biden’s most popular student loan forgiveness plans — impacting millions of Americans — through a proposed joint settlement with the state of Missouri on Tuesday.
The pending agreement ends the Saving on a Valuable Education or “SAVE” plan, which is home to over 7 million student loan borrowers. It marks a major victory for the Trump administration’s efforts to claw back Biden-era policies, including Biden’s numerous efforts to implement student loan debt cancellation.
Officials in the Trump administration’s Education Department, who’ve decried those policies for months, suggested that the administration is righting a wrong by ending the “deceptive scheme” of student loan forgiveness.
The Biden administration touted the plan for including $0 payments for anyone making $16 an hour or less, lowering monthly payments for millions of borrowers, and protecting borrowers from runaway interest if they are making their monthly payments.
“The law is clear: if you take out a loan, you must pay it back,” Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent said in a release from Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s department on Tuesday. “Thanks to the State of Missouri and other states fighting against this egregious federal overreach, American taxpayers can now rest assured they will no longer be forced to serve as collateral for illegal and irresponsible student loan policies.”
The Biden administration launched the SAVE Plan, which it dubbed the most affordable payment plan ever, after the Supreme Court struck down Biden’s previous signature debt relief program in 2023.
SAVE was one of several income driven repayment (IDR) plans, which calculate payment size based on income and family size, aimed at easing the repayment process as a pandemic-era pause ended.
Several Republican-led states, including Missouri, sued the Biden administration over the plan, and a federal appeals court blocked the program in 2024.
The announcement on Tuesday would mark an end to those lawsuits.
McMahon, a vocal critic of student loan forgiveness, has said the administration will no longer allow American taxpayers to take on debts that are not their own.
“The Biden Administration’s illegal SAVE Plan would have cost taxpayers, many of whom did not attend college or already repaid their student loans, more than $342 billion over ten years,” McMahon wrote in a post on X. “We will not tolerate it.”.
Her agency’s already saddled Federal Student Aid (FSA) Office will provide support to borrowers currently enrolled in selecting a new, “legal repayment plan,” the department said.
The department said borrowers will have a limited time to find a new payment plan. However, FSA’s Loan Simulator tool will estimate monthly payments, determine repayment eligibility and select a new plan that best fits those borrowers’ needs and goals, the department said.
Some student loan advocates worry the proposed agreement unleashes chaos on borrowers.
“The 7+ million borrowers enrolled in SAVE will face higher monthly loan payments — and may lose out on months of progress toward loan forgiveness,” Michele Zampini, associate vice president of federal policy & advocacy at The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) wrote in a statement.
Protect Borrowers Deputy Executive Director and Managing Counsel Persis Yu said the move strips borrowers of the most affordable repayment plan that would help millions to stay on track with their loans while keeping a roof over their head.
“This settlement is pure capitulation–it goes much further than the suit or the 8th Circuit order requires,” Yu wrote in a statement to ABC News. “The real story here is the unrelenting, right-wing push to jack up costs on working people with student debt.”
Under that bill, the plans will be replaced with two separate repayment plans: a standard repayment plan and the Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP), a new income-based repayment plan coming July 1, 2026.
Myles Smith on ABC’s ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Since he first broke out with “Stargazing” in 2024, British singer/songwriter Myles Smith has quietly become a major presence on American radio, and now he’s thanking fans in a typically British, self-deprecating way.
He reposted on his Instagram Story a fan’s roundup of his stats from the past year, showing him to be among the top 10 artists on six different U.S. airplay charts. He wrote, “This is wild. I’m so sorry for your ears America.”
In another Story, he posted a year-end 2025 airplay chart, showing his songs “Stargazing” and “Nice to Meet You” among the top 50 songs of the year on pop radio. “Excuse me what…,” he wrote. “Two of the most played songs this year in the US. And right behind my pookie at #3 and #30.”
Myles’ “pookie” is his friend Alex Warren, whose song “Ordinary” came in at #2. He posted a picture of them together on his Instagram Story with that nickname in the caption.
“It’s pretty wild to think me, from Luton [England], is annoying the a** off you guys on radio [from] the other side of the planet,” he wrote. “I genuinely love ya’ll. my anxiety has been pretty high and confidence pretty low recently. So thanks for the lift x.”
These milestones come just a few days after Myles celebrated the fact that “Stargazing” had reached 1 billion streams. He wrote on Instagram, “It’s crazy looking back at the last few years and everything that has happened.”
“I couldn’t be more grateful for every single one of you making this life possible for me. It’s ironic to think that, where i grew up, stargazing isn’t the easiest thing, but somehow u help me find my way.”
If you haven’t checked out Lainey Wilson‘s exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, she’s doing all she can to make sure you come by to see it — and that includes a special performance in the CMA Theater in early 2026.
The CMA and ACM entertainer of the year will play a special writers round Jan. 13 at 4 p.m. CT with frequent co-writers Trannie Anderson and Dallas Wilson. The show’s included with museum admission, you just need to reserve a ticket.
Known as the Heart Wranglers, the three have written hits like “Heart Like a Truck,” “Somewhere Over Laredo,” “Wildflowers and Wild Horses” and “Whirlwind,” as well as nine more songs included on Lainey’s albums.
If you can’t make it to the special show, Lainey Wilson: Tough as Nails continues its run at the Hall of Fame through June 2026.
Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne speak onstage during the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Sharon Osbourne has given her first interview since husband Ozzy Osbourne‘s death, speaking with Piers Morgan on his Uncensored YouTube show.
During the hourlong talk, Sharon retells her last conversation with Ozzy prior to his passing on July 22.
“The night before he passed, it was like 4:30, and he said, ‘Wake up,'” Sharon recalls. “He said, ‘Kiss me,’ and then he said, ‘Hug me tight.'”
“He used to get up early and he would say, ‘I’ve got to go down and work out,'” Sharon continues. “He went downstairs, worked out for about 20 minutes, and passed away.”
Sharon says she found out Ozzy had died upon hearing “screaming in the house.”
“I ran downstairs and there he was,” Sharon says. “They were trying to resuscitate him, and I’m like, ‘Don’t. Leave him. You can’t. He’s gone.’ I knew instantly he’s gone.”
Ozzy died just over two weeks after he reunited with his original Black Sabbath bandmates at the Back to the Beginning concert on July 5. It was announced ahead of time that the show would mark the final live performance by Ozzy, who’d been dealing with a number of health issues in recent years.
Sharon tells Morgan that Ozzy’s doctors told him, “If you do this show, that’s it. You’re not going to get through it.”
“He said, ‘I’m doing it. I want to do it and I’m doing it,'” Sharon says. “He just wanted it so bad to say thank you to everyone. And I think he honestly did know that he was done. It was his time.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Sharon shares that Ozzy had kept a journal every day and that some of them might get published.
Beyoncé attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Disney’s ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ at Dolby Theatre on December 09, 2024, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
Music superstar Beyoncé, actress Nicole Kidman and tennis legend Venus Williams have been named co-chairs of the 2026 Met Gala, alongside Anna Wintour, Vogue announced Wednesday.
Beyoncé is returning to “fashion’s biggest night out” after a decade. The Cowboy Carter singer and songwriter last attended the Met Gala in 2016, when Taylor Swift and Idris Elba co-chaired the gala alongside Wintour and Jony Ive, the former chief design officer for Apple who now runs design firm LoveFrom.
Next year’s gala is set to take place on May 4, 2026.
Following this year’s theme of “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” next year’s Met Gala will embody the theme of “Costume Art.”
The annual Met Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Met Costume Institute in New York City. The institute’s corresponding Costume Art spring exhibition will open after the gala on May 10, 2026, and will run until Jan. 10, 2027.
Musicians Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley at Walt Grace Vintage on January 27, 2018 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Mark Weiss/Getty Images)
KISS’ Gene Simmons is apologizing for comments he made about the death of his bandmate Ace Frehley.
In a recent interview with the New York Post, Simmons blamed Frehley’s death on his own “bad decisions.”
“He refused [advice] from people that cared about him – including yours truly – to try to change his lifestyle,” Simmons said. “In and out of bad decisions. Falling down the stairs — I’m not a doctor — doesn’t kill you. There may have been other issues, and it breaks my heart.”
He added, “The saddest thing – you reap what you shall sow, unfortunately.”
Simmons is regretting his comments and has posted an apology on X.
“On reflection, I was wrong for using the words I used. I humbly apologize,” he wrote. “My hand to God i didn’t intended to hurt Ace or his legacy but upon rereading my words, I see how it hurt everyone. Again, I apologize. I’ve always loved Ace. Always.”
Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes performs on day 3 of the 2025 Shaky Knees Music Festival at Piedmont Park on September 21, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Scott Legato/WireImage)
We said, “hey, what’s going on?” How about a new 4 Non Blondes album?
The reunited “What’s Up?” outfit will release the long-awaited sophomore follow-up to their 1992 debut, Bigger, Better, Faster, More!, in 2026. Frontwoman Linda Perry will also put out a new solo album in the coming year.
4 Non Blondes first split up in 1994. They reunited for a one-off performance in 2014 and again for a run of shows in 2025.
“I put my feelers out into the universe,” Perry says of the current reunion. “Playing some songs with 4 Non Blondes just seemed like a fun thing to do, in a way it hadn’t before now.”
“I’ve been behind the scenes for far too long,” Perry continues. “I want to step out to be the artist I am. I’m just open to all the possibilities that I’ve created around me. I manifest things all the time.”
Despite only really being active for less than five years, the music of 4 Non Blondes continues to endure, especially the single “What’s Up?” The track had an especially big year in 2025 thanks to a viral TikTok mashup with the Nicki Minaj song “Beez in the Trap.” Celebrities including Madonna, Jennifer Lopez and Paramore‘s Hayley Williams have taken part in the trend.
4 Non Blondes will wrap up 2025 with a performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2026, airing Dec. 31 on ABC.
The surviving members of Led Zeppelin – Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones – reunited for their first concert together in 19 years, the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert at London’s O2 Arena. They were backed by Jason Bonham, son of their late drummer, John Bonnham.
The band headlined the show with a 16-song set that included such songs as “Ramble On,” “Stairway to Heaven,” “The Song Remains The Same,” “Kashmir,” “Whole Lotta Love” and “Rock and Roll.”
It was the third time they reunited since their breakup in 1980 and the last time that the surviving members performed together on stage.
Celebration Day, a concert film documenting the performance, was released in October 2012; highlights aired on the BBC that December.
View of the Cour Napoleon, a historic courtyard in the Louvre Museum and the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, France on November 12th, 2025. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
(PARIS and LONDON) — Nobody was monitoring the live feed.
As masked men hacked a hole in a window at the Louvre Museum in Paris in October, a security camera inside the gallery was picking up the spot where they were working, Noel Corbin, the head of France’s inspectorate general of culture told the country’s Senate at a hearing on Wednesday.
As men clambered into the world-famous museum, nobody was actively monitoring that specific feed, legislators were told. And, even as the robbers collected their loot — allegedly stealing French crown jewels worth some $102 million — the security staff at a bank of screens weren’t yet focused on the camera catching the robbery, Corbin said.
The camera’s zoom wasn’t “activated” until 9:38 a.m., about four minutes after the robbery began, the Senate was told. By then, the blink-and-you-miss-it robbery was all but over.
The Senate was told on Wednesday that there had been “insufficient screens” in the security guard’s control room to simultaneously view images from all the cameras in the museum.
While the live video feed from one the Apollo Gallery appeared to have been transmitted during the robbery, it wasn’t immediately clear why it wasn’t among those being monitored remotely by a live person. Another camera near the scene wasn’t working that day, Corbin said.
The latest details on apparent faults in security at the world’s most-visited museum came as the French government and law enforcement sought through a sprawling investigation to understand how those alleged lapses in procedure and equipment may have worked in favor of the robbers.
The robbery suspects fled on motorbikes, police said at the time of the heist. At least seven people have since been arrested, five of whom have been formally charged in connection to the heist, French officials said. But the irreplaceable jewels taken during the Sunday morning heist have not yet been recovered.
The Senate on Wednesday heard new details on what appeared to have happened during the heist, including that there had been “insufficient screens.” That lack of screens had been highlighted in a security audit carried out earlier in the year, one of five such audits that had been carried out in the last decade, the watchdog said.
One of those audits, the one carried out in 2019 by a private auditor, had specifically focused on the Apollo Gallery, the watchdog said, adding that another in 2015 had focused on the museum’s computer systems.
The Senate was told that the findings of those audits included details about security cameras, some of which were described as “obsolete.” It was not immediately clear if the camera faced at the window in the Apollo Gallery was characterized as such.
As the robbery unfolded, the Senate heard on Wednesday, members of a private Securitas security team arrived outside the museum quickly enough that they may have stopped the robbers from lighting their vehicle — a moving ladder — on fire, thus apparently saving crucial evidence that’s led to arrests.
But if they had arrived at least 30 seconds earlier they could have stopped the robbers from escaping, the Senate was told, with the watchdog adding that a quicker viewing of the live feed from the internal security camera might have made the difference.
