Ariana Grande and Noah Wyle attend the 31st Annual Critics Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on January 04, 2026 in Santa Monica, California. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association)
Having been famous since the ’90s thanks to his role as Dr. Carter on ER, you’d think The Pitt‘s Noah Wyle wouldn’t get starstruck. But he revealed that he was practically “drooling” when he met Ariana Grande at the recent Critics Choice Awards.
On the red carpet at the season 2 premiere of The Pitt,Access Hollywood‘s Scott Evanstold Noah that Ariana was “awestruck” when they met each other at the Critics Choice Awards, which Noah scoffed at.
“Is that how it played out? I thought it was the other way around,” laughed Noah. “I thought I was drooling and telling her how I was gonna have so much street cred with my 10-year-old when I got home.”
Noah went on to say that he’d been “sort of living on cloud 9 ever since” encountering Ari. “We love her, love Wicked,” he raved. “Played the soundtrack out this year in our house. And meeting Glinda was like meeting real royalty.”
Kehlani performs on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ on November, 3, 2025. (Disney/Randy Holmes) KEHLANI
Following the success of her song “Folded,” Kehlani is working on an album that she tells Inkedis “almost finished.” Compared to her previous projects, the singer says she collaborated with more people this time around — all of which were organic connections.
“I have way more collaborations than I’ve probably ever had, and they’re all people that I really, really respect,” Kehlani teased. “The coolest thing about it is that none of the features feel like, ‘Oh, a label threw this together,’ or ‘Two people were popping right now, so we just threw it together.’”
“It was all super organic; everybody’s just loving the music that’s being made,” she added. “I have people that I adore and look up to on this project, so I’m really excited about it.”
While it’s not clear when the album will drop, it will follow the success of “Folded,” which has been covered by several artists, including JoJo, Ne-Yo, Brandy, Toni Braxton, Mario and Tank. Much like the collaborations on her upcoming album, Kehlani says the remixes came together naturally.
“This happened completely organically — I didn’t do any of this,” Kehlani said of the versions by Brandy, Braxton, Mario and Tank. She did, however, initiate the conversations with JoJo and Ne-Yo.
All of the versions were later compiled into the Homage Pack.
“It was just freaking natural, dude. I don’t know — it’s been the craziest thing ever,” Kehlani said. “Maybe ‘Folded’ never ends. Maybe the clothes never actually get folded.”
David Bowie and Iman inside Keep A Child Alive’s 5th annual Black Ball at Hammerstein Ballroom on November 13, 2008 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)
David Bowie’s wife and daughter are remembering the rock legend on what would have been his 79th birthday.
Bowie’s wife Iman, whom he married in 1992, shared a black-and-white photo of the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer on Facebook, writing, “A million feeling(s) A thousand thoughts A hundred memories…. YOU! Happy Heavenly Birthday.” In a separate Instagram post she wrote, “Happy Heavenly Birthday Your light burns so bright in all our hearts! We love and miss you.”
His 25-year-old daughter, Lexi Jones, shared a childhood photo of her and her dad on Instagram. In it she’s holding a cake with “happy birthday dad” written in frosting. She captioned the shot, “Da big 79 today. Happy birthday pops, miss ya.”
Bowie’s longtime producer Tony Visconti also remembered the rocker, noting in a Facebook post that Bowie shared a birthday with his father.
“I’m glad I was able to introduce them to each other,” he wrote. “I loved them both and I miss them like nobody’s business.”
Bowie passed away Jan. 10, 2016, two days after his 69th birthday and two days after the release of his final album, Blackstar, which he recorded while he was secretly battling liver cancer.
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Midland‘s keeping their cowboy aesthetic strong as they ride in with new music in 2026.
“Mountains in the background, hell of a view and we’ve got a brand new song to share with you,” the trio wrote on their socials. “‘Marlboro Man’ is available Jan 16th.”
The post quotes part of the song’s lyrics, as you can see in an earlier performance by Mark Wystrach, Cameron Duddy and Jess Carson.
“Mountains in the background, hell of a view/ But all I see is me missin’ you/ Just cussin’ myself for who I am/ Alone again like that damn Marlboro man,” the three sing in a previous post.
The 2017 ACM new vocal group of the year hasn’t released a new album since 2024’s Barely Blue, though they dropped a handful of tracks in 2025, including May’s “Glass Half Empty.”
People tend to a memorial for Renee Nicole Good near the site of her shooting on January 8, 2026 in Minneapolis. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
(MINNEAPOLIS) — Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother and Minneapolis resident, has been identified by officials as the woman fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
Videos of the incident where Good is seen in her maroon Honda SUV as ICE agents confronted her have gone viral and sparked outcry from people around the country who say that Good was unnecessarily killed.
According to Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, Good was allegedly “attempting to run over our law enforcement officers” with her car when an ICE officer fatally shot her.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have disputed the federal government’s claims surrounding what led up to the shooting, saying video of the incident shows the agent’s actions were not self-defense.
Information about Good, along with messages of sympathy, has been pouring out since the shooting.
Good was a 2020 graduate from Old Dominion University in Virginia, according to the school’s president, Brian Hemphill, who said it is “with great sadness that Old Dominion University mourns the loss of one of our own.”
She graduated from the College of Arts and Letters with a degree in English, according to Hemphill.
“May Renee’s life be a reminder of what unites us: freedom, love, and peace,” he said in a statement. “My hope is for compassion, healing, and reflection at a time that is becoming one of the darkest and most uncertain periods in our nation’s history.”
Gov. Tim Walz said that Good is survived by a 6-year-old child and a wife, saying he offers his “deepest sympathies” to her family “on an unimaginable tragedy.”
Good was also the mother of two other children, but a relative told the Minneapolis Star Tribune they believed the kids “lived with her extended family.”
DHS, along with President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, has called the agent’s actions “self-defense” and said he followed ICE training.
Noem said during a press conference on Wednesday that Good was using her car as a “deadly weapon” and said it was an “act of domestic terrorism.”
Minneapolis police said preliminary information indicates that she was in her car and blocking the road.
“At some point, a federal law enforcement officer approached her on foot, and the vehicle began to drive off,” police said. “At least two shots were fired … the vehicle then crashed on the side of the roadway.”
“There is nothing to indicate that this woman was the target of any law enforcement investigation or activity,” police added.
Good had gunshot wounds to the head and was transported to an area hospital, where she died, according to city officials.
Following the shooting, a large crowd gathered in the area, which is less than a mile from where George Floyd was killed in May 2020.
Gov. Walz said he has issued a “warning order” to prepare the Minnesota National Guard, saying there are soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed “if necessary,” while urging “peaceful resistance.”
Brent Smith of Shinedown performs in concert during Rocklahoma at Rockin’ Red Dirt Ranch on August 31, 2025 in Pryor, Oklahoma. (Gary Miller/Getty Images)
Shinedown is gearing up for a busy year in 2026.
The “Second Chance” rockers have shared a video on Facebook in which frontman Brent Smith teases, “You should probably start thinking about what you wanna do this year come around May, where you’re gonna be in June, July, August, September, probably October and definitely November.”
When Smith says “August,” he takes an extra beat to look at the camera, perhaps suggesting that something particularly exciting in Shinedown world will be happening that month.
“Just saying, maybe start checking your calendars, ’cause we’re getting ready to start some announcements,” Smith adds.
As for what those announcements might be, Shinedown has been working on a new album to follow 2022’s Planet Zero. And, of course, with a new album often comes new tour dates.
Shinedown released four new singles in 2025: “Dance, Kid, Dance,” “Three Six Five,” “Killing Fields” and “Searchlight.” In December, they teased something called “Hundred % Human” alongside the caption, “Coming Soon.”
Madonna is seen departing the Dolce & Gabbana after party on Sept. 21, 2024 in Milan, Italy. (Rachpoot/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
Madonna embraces her Italian heritage in a new recording she’s created especially for a new Dolce & Gabbana fragrance campaign.
Madonna stars in the new campaign for two new scents that are joining the fashion house’s The One fragrance line. The ad is soundtracked by the Queen of Pop’s new version of “La Bambola,” a 1968 Italian pop classic by Patty Pravo. The title of the song translates to “The Doll.” According to Dolce & Gabbana, it marks the first time Madonna has sung in Italian. The song is now available on streaming services.
Gianluca Toniolo, the COO of Dolce & Gabbana Beauty, told WWD, “We picked a celebrity that has always been very close to Dolce & Gabbana and its history; she’s been part of this brand’s legacy.” He added, “When you look for a talent to embody the concept of being ‘The One,’ well, that’s what she’s been doing for 30 years.”
In the ad, Madonna is being romanced by one man while a younger man looks on with envy. Madonna is seen sketching the young man in the nude; later, when she and the first man are embracing on a bed, the young man comes in, takes off his shirt and stands in front of the bed, as if he’s planning to join them. Lingerie, a blindfold and fire are also part of the steamy video.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks as U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) looks on during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on January 08, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — Ahead of Thursday’s vote on a three-year extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, Democrats are boasting that several Republicans are expected to defy their leadership team.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries expressed pride in the “bipartisan coalition” created ahead of Thursday’s vote on a three-year extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies after nine Republicans crossed the aisle Wednesday night to set up passage in the House.
“I hope today there will be more Republicans joining this leader,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, gesturing towards Jeffries at a news conference Thursday.
Jeffries called the vote “an opportunity to take a meaningful step forward to lower the high cost of living for everyday Americans, particularly as it relates to health care, but it’s a battle that we will continue to wage on behalf of the American people.”
Wednesday’s procedural vote passed by a 221-205 margin. Nine Republicans — Reps. Mike Lawler and Nick LaLota of New York, Rob Bresnahan, Ryan Mackenzie and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Maria Salazar of Florida, David Valadao of California, Thomas Kean of New Jersey, and Max Miller of Ohio — voted with Democrats to pass it.
The subsidies, which expired at the end of 2025, were enhanced during the COVID-19 pandemic to increase the amount of financial assistance to those who were already eligible and to expand eligibility to more people.
A tangible path forward that sends legislation through Senate to the Resolute Desk to address the expired subsidies remains in question.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that there’s “no appetite” in the upper chamber for an extension and pointed instead to ongoing bipartisan talks between senators and House members.
“We’ve had that vote, as you know, already,” Thune said. “But we’ll see what happens from the working group, and if they can come up with something that has reforms. And we’ll go from there.
The Senate last month rejected a three-year extension of the subsidies when the measure fell short of the 60-vote threshold, though four Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Josh Hawley of Missouri, and Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan of Alaska — all crossed the aisle in support of the measure.
An estimated 22 million of the 24 million ACA marketplace enrollees are currently receiving enhanced premium tax credits to lower their monthly premiums, and many are seeing their premiums soar in 2026.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill would increase the federal deficit by about $80.6 billion over the next decade.
If the measure is enacted, the number of people with health insurance would increase by 100,000 people in 2026, 3 million in 2027, 4 million in 2028 and 1.1 million in 2029, relative to current law, the CBO reported.
According to the CBO, the 4 million increase in 2028 would result from changes in several types of coverage: 6.2 million more people would be enrolled through ACA health insurance marketplaces; 400,000 million more people enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program; 500,000 fewer people would purchase nongroup coverage outside the marketplaces; and 2.1 million fewer people would have employment-based coverage.
President Donald Trump has publicly expressed his opposition to extending the enhanced subsidies.
“I’d like not to be able to do it. I’d like to see us get right into this. I don’t know why we have to extend — this can be done rapidly if the Democrats would come along,” Trump said on Dec. 18 in the Oval Office.
After Speaker Mike Johnson resisted pressure to allow a vote on the subsidies late last year, a quartet of House Republicans — Fitzpatrick, Lawler, Bresnahan and Mackenzie — banded together before the holiday break and signed on to a Democratic discharge petition to force a vote on an ACA extension, much to the chagrin of GOP leaders.
ABC News’ Allison Pecorin contributed to this report.
A gas pump is seen in a vehicle on November 26, 2025 in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted the opportunity for U.S. companies to extract and sell oil from Venezuela, which holds the largest oil reserves in the world.
“We’re going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground,” Trump said on Saturday, just hours after a U.S. military attack removed Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro.
Venezuelan oil, however, will likely provide little relief for gas prices paid by Americans over the coming months, analysts told ABC News. They cited the relatively small amount of oil at stake in the near term and the glut of crude already flooding global markets.
A more substantial amount of oil could be accessed over the coming years, leading to a potentially noticeable decline in prices at the pump, they added. But that outcome remains uncertain, since oil companies face significant political and logistical hurdles in Venezuela, while wider market conditions could shift in the meantime.
“I would not expect to see a sharp drop because of this event,” Richard Joswick, head of near-term oil analysis at S&P Global Commodity Insights, told ABC News.
Oil executives are set to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday to discuss investments in Venezuela, a White House official confirmed to ABC News.
Venezuela boasts the biggest proven oil reserve of any country, amounting to roughly 303 billion barrels or about 17% of the world’s reserves, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, or EIA, a federal agency.
For decades, however, the nation has struggled to match those holdings with similarly stratospheric output due to lackluster infrastructure and government mismanagement.
Venezuela exported about 749,000 barrels per day last year, totaling less than 1% of global supply, according to data and analytics company Kpler.
In a social media post on Tuesday, Trump said Venezuela would hand over 30 to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S., which in turn would sell them at their market price. The resulting funds — as much as $2.8 billion at current prices — will “benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States,” Trump said.
Trump has not provided details about the timing of such sales.
The plan proposed Tuesday would likely have little or no effect on U.S. gasoline prices, analysts told ABC News. The amount of oil stipulated by Trump is relatively small, making up the equivalent of between one-third and half of the oil consumed worldwide in a single day, according to data compiled by the EIA.
“Short term, I don’t think we’ll see much of an impact,” Tucker Balch, a finance professor at Emory University, told ABC News. “It’s not a lot of oil right now.”
Even more, oil prices are hovering near their lowest levels since 2021, meaning it will prove difficult to bring prices down further anytime soon, analysts added. Low oil prices stem from a glut of oil alongside relatively slow global economic growth, which has constricted demand for fossil fuels.
“There’s an oversupply and weak demand. More crude won’t make a big difference in the overall price,” Ramanan Krishnamoorti, a professor of petroleum engineering at the University of Houston, told ABC News.
After the military operation, Trump outlined a long-term role for U.S. oil companies in Venezuela, saying the firms would spend money to improve the nation’s infrastructure and output.
“We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies — the biggest anywhere in the world — go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure,” Trump said during a press conference on Saturday at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
A U.S.-led effort to extract and sell the massive Venezuelan oil reserves could inject a substantial amount of oil into global markets and noticeably reduce gasoline prices, some analysts said.
Venezuelan oil production topped out at 3.5 million barrels per day in the 1990s, Kpler said. A return to that output would amount to about 4% of global oil supply, S&P’s Joswick, adding that the influx could push down gasoline prices.
“Prices are set on the margin and small imbalances in volume can lead to large shifts in prices,” Joswick said.
A long-term venture would encounter challenges, however, some analysts said.
The infrastructure necessary to ramp up oil production would require tens of billions of dollars of investment over several years, while oil companies involved in the effort would face political risks, according to analysts.
Chevron is currently the only U.S. oil firm operating in Venezuela, as part of a joint venture with the country’s state-owned oil outfit.
ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips stopped doing business in Venezuela in 2007, after former President Hugo Chavez nationalized the sector. Citing the unlawful seizure of assets belonging to the two oil giants, the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment ordered Venezuela to pay the firms billions of dollars. Venezuela has only paid a small share of the debt it owes to ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips.
The policy approach in Venezuela is uncertain over the coming years, while the same goes for the U.S. as a presidential election approaches in 2028, Krishnamoorti said.
“It’s unlikely the oil companies are going to take the bait to go after some significantly difficult oil to produce in a very uncertain U.S. policy and global policy situation,” Krishnamoorti added.
Joswick noted, however, that possible success in accessing Venezuelan oil over the next few years could be a “big incentive for the continuation of similar policies.”
While touting potential U.S. oil interests in Venezuela, the Trump administration has described the operation as a law enforcement function rather than a military attack.
Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are among six defendants named in a four-count superseding indictment that accused them of conspiring with violent, dangerous drug traffickers for the last 25 years. Maduro was indicted on related charges in 2020. He has long denied all the allegations, and he pleaded not guilty on Monday. Flores also pleaded not guilty.
So far, the major oil firms have yet to speak publicly about Trump’s plans.
In a previous statement to ABC News, ConocoPhillips said the firm is keeping tabs on the ongoing situation.
“ConocoPhillips is monitoring developments in Venezuela and their potential implications for global energy supply and stability. It would be premature to speculate on any future business activities or investments,” the company said.
Chevron said it continues to focus on its current operations.
“Chevron remains focused on the safety and wellbeing of our employees, as well as the integrity of our assets. We continue to operate in full compliance with all relevant laws and regulations,” it said in a statement.
ExxonMobil did not respond to a request for comment.
We’re only a week into 2026, and Old Dominion‘s already been back in the studio.
Just for fun, someone decided to “see what time the band shows up” for a 10 a.m. call time and capture it for social media.
Geoff Sprung wins the timeliest award, clocking in at 9:45, sporting overalls. Brad Tursi arrived at 9:57, ready to use his new camera. Mathew Ramsey and Trevor Rosen came in together at 9:58, both partaking in some sort of caffeine.
Only drummer Whit Sellers came in late at 10:10, without “a worry,” according to the video.
OD’s sixth album, Barbara, came out in August and features their current top-30 hit, “Making Good Time.”
The band plays their first date of the new year Jan. 13 at Rocky Mountain Ski Fest in Avon, Colorado.
