James Taylor tour artwork (courtesy of Shore Fire Media)
James Taylor let fans know in December that he’d be heading out on tour in 2026. Now, the details have been revealed.
The “Fire and Rain” singer has announced dates for a new 29-show U.S. tour backed by his All-Star Band. The tour will kick off April 26 in Highland, California, and include two-night stands in several cities, including Vienna, Virginia; Boston; and St. Augustine, Florida.
The tour — which also includes his previously announced summer shows at Tanglewood in Lennox, Massachusetts, on July 3 and 4 — wraps Sept. 26 in Hollywood, Florida.
Tickets for all newly announced shows go on sale Friday at 10 a.m local time.
In addition to his U.S. dates, Taylor will head overseas in 2026, launching a U.K and European tour on July 10 in Cork, Ireland. A complete schedule can be found at JamesTaylor.com.
The Wakandans take center stage in the new teaser trailer for Avengers: Doomsday.
Marvel released the fourth teaser trailer for Avengers: Doomsday on Tuesday, and it stars Letitia Wright as Shuri, the Wakandan princess who has taken on the mantle of Black Panther after the death of her brother, T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman). We see her walk through a desert and hear her speak in a voice-over.
“I’ve lost everyone that matters to me. The king has his duties. To prepare our people for the afterlife. I have mine,” Shuri says in the trailer.
We then see Tenoch Huerta Mejía in character as Namor, who first appeared in the 2022 sequel film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Finally, Shuri and M’Baku (Winston Duke) come face to face with a member of the Fantastic Four.
“King M’Baku of Wakanda,” the man says, reaching out his hand in greeting.
“Ben, uh, Yancy Street, between Broome and Grand,” Ebon Moss-Bachrach‘s Ben Grimm says in response.
The teaser ends with a black screen and text that reads, “The Wakandans and The Fantastic Four will return in Avengers: Doomsday.”
Directors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo took to Instagram to share the new teaser, where they added new insight to the last four trailers that have been released.
“What you’ve been watching for the last four weeks… are not teasers. Or trailers. They are stories. They are clues… Pay attention. #DoomsdayHasBegun,” they wrote.
This is the fourth teaser for the film. It follows previous trailers that showed off the return of Chris Evans as Steve Rogers, one that focused on Thor and another that centered on the X-Men characters Charles Xavier, Magneto and Cyclops.
Avengers: Doomsday will arrive in theaters on Dec. 18, 2026.
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If you’re one of the folks who’s trying to unravel exactly what’s going on in Megan Moroney‘s dating life, you’re gonna wanna hear the track she’s dropping on Friday.
“Wish I Didn’t” is the latest preview of her Cloud 9 album and seems likely to inspire some speculation as to who it’s about.
“You’ve got a hell of a reputation/ So here I am patiently waiting/ For that other shoe — or should I say boot — to drop,” she lip-synchs in a long social media clip. “I’ve heard all of the horror stories/ Your graveyard of girls before me/ If you play dirty — how do I say this?/ Hell hath no fury.”
“You show up & you’ve got all the right things to say/ It’s all sunshine & blue skies, but I can also make it rain. Don’t make me wish I didn’t get dressed up,” the chorus begins, just as the preview ends.
“Wish I Didn’t” is the 13th track on Cloud 9, which is set to arrive Feb. 20, and includes her two current hits, “6 Months Later” and “Beautiful Things.”
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) talks to reporters after former President Bill Clinton did not appear for a closed-door deposition in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on January 13, 2026 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
(WASHINGTON) — The chairman of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee said the panel will move forward with contempt of Congress proceedings against former President Bill Clinton after he failed to appear for a subpoenaed deposition on Tuesday as part of the panel’s investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The committee had threatened to hold the former president and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress if they did not appear for separate scheduled closed depositions set for Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.
“I think everyone knows by now, Bill Clinton did not show up. And I think it’s important to note that this subpoena was voted on in a bipartisan manner by this committee. This wasn’t something that I just issued as chairman of the committee. This was voted on by the entire committee in a unanimous vote of the House Oversight Committee to subpoena former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,” Oversight Chairman James Comer said Tuesday morning.
“We will move next week in the House Oversight Committee markup to hold former President Clinton in contempt of Congress,” Comer, a Republican, later added.
A lawyer for the Clintons, David Kendall, has not responded to requests for comment on whether Hillary Clinton will appear on Capitol Hill for her Wednesday subpoenaed deposition.
In a four-page letter posted on social media Tuesday morning, the Clintons publicly called out Comer for threatening to hold them in contempt of Congress.
“Despite everything that needs to be done to help our country, you are on the cusp of bringing Congress to a halt to pursue a rarely used process literally designed to result in our imprisonment. This is not the way out of America’s ills, and we will forcefully defend ourselves,” the letter states.
The Clintons contend in the letter that Comer’s approach to the committee’s work on the Epstein investigation has “prevented progress in discovering the facts about the government’s role” and that the chairman has “done nothing” to force the Justice Department to comply with its disclosure obligations required by Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed late last year.
“We have tried to give you the little information that we have,” the Clintons wrote. “We’ve done so because Mr. Epstein’s crimes were horrific. If the Government didn’t do all it could to investigate and prosecute these crimes, for whatever reason, that should be the focus of your work — to learn why and to prevent that from happening ever again. There is no evidence that you are doing so.”
For months, Republicans on the committee have been demanding that the Clintons provide testimony to lawmakers, citing the former president’s travels on Epstein’s private aircraft in the early 2000s and the Clinton “family’s past relationship” with Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell. The panel initially issued subpoenas for the Clintons on Aug. 5 to appear in October.
Kendall has continued to argue that the couple has no information relevant to the committee’s investigation of the federal government’s handling of investigations into Epstein and Maxwell, and should not be required to appear for in-person testimony. Kendall has contended that the Clintons should be permitted to provide the limited information they have to the committee in writing.
“There is simply no reasonable justification for compelling a former President and Secretary of State to appear personally, given that their time and roles in government had no connection to the matter at hand,” Kendall wrote in one of the letters sent to the committee in October of last year. He argued that the committee should excuse the Clintons, as the committee had done for five former attorneys general who were each excused after certifying to the committee that they had no relevant knowledge.
Bill Clinton has not been accused of wrongdoing and denies having any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes. No Epstein survivor or associate has ever made a public allegation of wrongdoing or inappropriate behavior by the former president in connection with his prior relationship with Epstein.
Former Secretary of State Clinton “has no personal knowledge of Epstein or Maxwell’s criminal activities, never flew on his aircraft, never visited his island, and cannot recall ever speaking to Epstein. She has no personal knowledge of Maxwell’s activities with Epstein,” Kendall wrote. “President Clinton’s contact with Epstein ended two decades ago, and given what came to light much after, he has expressed regret for even that limited association,” an Oct. 6 letter to the committee says.
Comer wrote in a letter to Kendall in October that the committee is “skeptical” that the Clintons have only limited information and stated it was up to the committee, not the Clintons, to make determinations of the value of the information.
“[T]he Committee believes that it should be provided in a deposition setting, where the Committee can best assess its breadth and value,” Comer wrote.
Last month, in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Justice Department released several photographs of former President Clinton apparently taken during his international travels with Epstein and Maxwell from 2002 to 2003, although the released photographs contained no information identifying when or where they were taken. Following that disclosure, a spokesperson for the two-term Democratic president argued that the Trump administration released those images to shield the Trump White House “from what comes next, or from what they’ll try to hide forever.”
“So, they can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be,” Clinton’s spokesperson Angel Ureña wrote on X Dec. 22.
Ureña did not respond to an email inquiry from ABC News on Monday.
What is contempt of Congress?
The House of Representatives can hold an individual “in contempt” if that person refuses to testify or comply with a subpoena. The contempt authority is considered an implied power of Congress.
“Congress’s contempt power is the means by which Congress responds to certain acts that in its view obstruct the legislative process. Contempt may be used either to coerce compliance, to punish the contemnor, and/or to remove the obstruction,” according to a report from the Congressional Research Service.
Any person summoned as a congressional witness who refuses to comply can face a misdemeanor charge that carries a fine of up to $100,000 and up to a year in prison if that person is eventually found guilty.
What would the process look like?
To hold someone in contempt of Congress, the Oversight Committee would first mark up and then vote to advance the contempt resolution. Once the committee approves the resolution, which is expected given the GOP majority, the resolution now could go to a vote in the full House.
A simple majority is needed to clear a contempt resolution on the floor. Notably, it does not require passage in the Senate.
The resolution, if passed, would direct the speaker of the House to refer the case to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia — under the Department of Justice — for possible criminal prosecution.
History of contempt
Congress has held Cabinet officials in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a House subpoena, including Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in 2019 and then-Attorney General Eric Holder in 2012. The DOJ never prosecuted them even though the House voted to hold them in contempt.
The House held Peter Navarro, a former top trade adviser in the Trump administration, in contempt of Congress in 2022 for defying a subpoena to provide records and testimony to the now-defunct House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Navarro was sentenced to jail time.
Steve Bannon, a Trump ally, was also held in contempt of Congress in 2022 for not complying with the Jan. 6 select committee. Bannon was also sentenced to prison time.
The GOP-led House voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress in 2024 over the DOJ failing to provide audio of then-President Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur. The DOJ did not prosecute the case, but the audio was released.
Geese perform onstage during Artist for Aid benefit concert at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026 in Los Angeles , CA. (Ronaldo Bolaños / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Geese have announced a new live album, Live at Third Man Records.
The set was recorded in June at Jack White‘s Third Man Records store in Nashville and featured performances of songs from Geese’s then-upcoming album, Getting Killed.
Geese – Live at Third Man Records is due out on vinyl Feb. 27 and is available to preorder now.
In other Geese happenings, the band will perform on Saturday Night Live for the first time on Jan. 24.
Getting Killed, which includes the single “Cobra,” is out now.
(L-R) Oteil Burbridge, John Mayer and Bob Weir of Dead and Company perform at Shoreline Amphitheatre on July 30, 2016 in Mountain View, California. (Photo by John Medina/WireImage)
Dead & Company bassist Oteil Burbridge is the latest musician to pay tribute to Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir, who died on Saturday at age 78.
“I can’t think of anyone that needed to play live music any more than Bob. It went past devotion, past dedication, past obsession. It seemed to me more like self identification,” Burbridge wrote on Instagram. “I think he felt it is what and who he was. I also cannot think of anyone who played more live shows. We could depend on it like the sun coming up.”
He then went on to thank Weir from bringing him into Dead & Company.
“There are no words that could ever encompass the last ten years we shared together. I’m so blessed to have been a part of it all,” Burbridge offered. “And thank you for being so generous with your time and sharing yourself with so many of us younger musicians.”
“It does my heart good to see so many pictures of you with so many musicians that weren’t in the Grateful Dead. Thank you for including us,” he added. “There is no higher form of musical grace.”
Burbridge suggested that one way fans can honor Bob “would be to fully live our life.”
“This life is such a gift, such a golden opportunity,” he wrote. “Please don’t let someone else define it. Let it proceed by it’s own design. Follow that inner voice and go for broke!”
He concluded by recalling a friend who said it was sad that Weir was only 78 when he died. “I told him I thought Bob packed at least 146 years into it,” Burbrigde noted.
(L-R) Oteil Burbridge, John Mayer and Bob Weir of Dead and Company perform at Shoreline Amphitheatre on July 30, 2016 in Mountain View, California. (Photo by John Medina/WireImage)
Dead & Company bassist Oteil Burbridge is the latest musician to pay tribute to Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir, who died on Saturday at age 78.
“I can’t think of anyone that needed to play live music any more than Bob. It went past devotion, past dedication, past obsession. It seemed to me more like self identification,” Burbridge wrote on Instagram. “I think he felt it is what and who he was. I also cannot think of anyone who played more live shows. We could depend on it like the sun coming up.”
He then went on to thank Weir from bringing him into Dead & Company.
“There are no words that could ever encompass the last ten years we shared together. I’m so blessed to have been a part of it all,” Burbridge offered. “And thank you for being so generous with your time and sharing yourself with so many of us younger musicians.”
“It does my heart good to see so many pictures of you with so many musicians that weren’t in the Grateful Dead. Thank you for including us,” he added. “There is no higher form of musical grace.”
Burbridge suggested that one way fans can honor Bob “would be to fully live our life.”
“This life is such a gift, such a golden opportunity,” he wrote. “Please don’t let someone else define it. Let it proceed by it’s own design. Follow that inner voice and go for broke!”
He concluded by recalling a friend who said it was sad that Weir was only 78 when he died. “I told him I thought Bob packed at least 146 years into it,” Burbrigde noted.
A memorial dedicated to the 19 children and two adults murdered on May 24, 2022 during a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School is seen on January 06, 2026 in Uvalde, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Editor’s note: Some of the testimony described below is extremely graphic.
(UVALDE, Texas) — Robb Elementary School teacher Elsa Avila was taking photos of her fourth-graders with their science projects on May 24, 2022, when she said a young girl noticed something was wrong — that other students was running to their classroom and screaming.
Avila testified that her students immediately hid, as they had during lockdown training.
“We heard loud, loud shots in the hallway,” Avila said on Tuesday at the trial of former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer Adrian Gonzales. “They knew that it was, you know, a real thing.”
When Avila briefly stood up to instruct her students to make sure everyone was “safe and out of sight,” she said she felt a piercing pain on her left side.
“I felt the burning pain,” she said. “I put my hand on my side and I saw blood. When I took my hand away, I saw blood. So, I knew that I had been shot.”
As she recounted her injury, Avila banged her hands on the witness stand — the wood ringing from her Rosary ring — to describe the sounds she heard.
“I fell to the floor, and we kept hearing the shots,” she said.
Avila said she was lying on the floor in intense pain and “trying so hard to keep it in.”
She said her students tried to comfort her while they sheltered in place.
“They were hugging each other. They were helping each other stay quiet. Some of them were tapping me. They were telling me, ‘Miss, Miss. We love you. We love you. You’re going to be OK, you’re going to be OK,'” she testified.
Avila’s harrowing testimony comes on the second week of Gonzales’ trial. Prosecutors allege Gonzales, who is charged with child endangerment, did not follow his training and endangered the 19 students who died and an additional 10 surviving students.
Gonzales has pleaded not guilty and his lawyers argue he is being unfairly blamed for a broader law-enforcement failure that day. It took 77 minutes before law enforcement mounted a counterassault to end the May 2022 rampage.
Avila maintained her composure throughout most of her testimony, though she broke down in tears when she described what she felt in those moments.
“I was in so much pain towards the end there, my body was going into shock, and my legs were already starting to shake. My whole body was starting to shake,” she said. “I kept praying, you know, God, please don’t let me die.”
During a brief cross examination, Avila testified about hearing officers trying to negotiate with the gunman.
“I heard a voice saying, you know, ‘Sir, we need you to stop, we don’t want anyone else to get hurt,'” she said.
Avila testified that, even when officers broke through her classroom windows to begin rescuing students, some students wanted to stay with her due to her injury.
Former fourth-grade teacher Arnulfo Reyes also testified on Monday and Tuesday, recounting in excruciating detail the moments when gunman Salvador Ramos shot and wounded him and shot and killed all 11 children in his classroom.
Reyes said he fell to the ground after he was struck by gunfire. Then, the shooter “came around and he shot the kids,” Reyes testified, maintaining his composure.
After the first series of gunshots, Reyes testified that a student in a nearby classroom mistook Ramos for police.
“A student from that classroom said, ‘Officer, come in here. We’re in here,'” Reyes testified. “And I heard he walked over there, and I heard more shooting.”
As Reyes lay on the ground bleeding from wounds to his arm and back, he said the shooter returned to his classroom and noticed he was still alive.
“He came and he tried to taunt me. He got some of my blood and splashed it on my face,” he said.
During cross-examination, defense lawyer Nico LaHood tried to deflect some blame from Gonzales, suggesting Reyes was at least partially at fault for leaving his classroom door unlocked the morning of the shooting.
Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (ABC/Randy Holmes)
Foo Fighters are headlining the 2026 BottleRock Napa Valley festival, taking place May 22-24 in Napa, California.
The bill also includes Lorde, LCD Soundsystem, sombr, Papa Roach, Mt. Joy, Slightly Stoopid, Rilo Kiley, AJR, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Bush, Matt Maeson, Tom Morello, almost monday, Good Neighbours, The Warning and Chevy Metal.
Tickets go on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. PT. For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit BottleRockNapaValley.com.
Foo Fighters are also headlining Florida’s Welcome to Rockville festival in May before launching a full U.S. stadium tour in August.
Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus perform on NBC’s ‘Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party,’ December, 2022 (Vijat Mohindra/NBC via Getty Images)
On Friday you can hear Miley Cyrus singing with a close, personal friend of hers: her godmother, Dolly Parton.
Miley is just one of several female artists who’ll be joining Dolly on a new rendition of the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s 1977 hit “Light of a Clear Blue Morning,” along with country icon and actress Reba McEntire, country superstar Lainey Wilson, and hip-hop icon and actress Queen Latifah.
Dolly announced the collab on her socials, adding that all the proceeds from the song and its video will go to pediatric cancer research at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville.
Dolly has already rerecorded the song twice, in 1992 for the soundtrack of her movie Straight Talk and again in 2003 for her album For God and Country.
Miley and Dolly have performed and recorded together multiple times over the years. Most recently, Miley joined the country icon, who she calls “Aunt Dolly,” on a new version of “Wrecking Ball,” which appeared on Dolly’s 2023 album, Rockstar.
