One of the biggest hits Adult Swim ever had, Genndy Tartakovsky‘s Emmy-winning, prehistoric animated seriesPrimal, will not be going extinct.
The adult animation network announced a third season of Primal is now underway, with Tartakovsky — a veteran of Hotel Transylvania, Samurai Jack and the Star Wars: The Clone Wars “microseries” — at the helm.
The show centers on Spear, a caveman at the dawn of evolution, and Fang, the nearly extinct dinosaur he befriends. The series was the winner of five Emmys, including a trophy for Outstanding Animated Program.
The second season of the series reached nearly 4 million viewers on Adult Swim last year, the company notes, and is the sixth most popular Adult Swim title of all time in the States. Outside of the U.S., the series is the second most popular.
In the announcement, Tartakovsky called his show “a contagious disease that I don’t ever want to cure,” noting, “Every episode flows out like an unstoppable force beyond my control. Prepare yourselves ‘Primal’ fans…!”
This week is packed with releases. Here’s some of the latest to drop:
Coi Leray, “Run It Up” — Released a week before her new album, COI, the track finds her calling the shots and making her desires in the bedroom known.
Doja Cat, “Attention” — The star’s delivered for fans of her rapping while addressing some of her haters. She rocks a leather jacket in the video when she’s not busy dancing in her birthday suit.
Gunna, “Back to the Moon” — Off his new album, A Gift & A Curse, the song hears Gunna decrying snitching allegations; the video sees him smoking on the moon.
Saucy Santana and Flo Milli, “Whole Family” — The song samples The Sugarhill Gang‘s 1981 classic “Apache” and finds them taking shots at their detractors’ entire families. In the video, Santana and Flo get cute in the salon before a night out in the streets.
Pharrell Williams and Voices Of Fire, “JOY (Unspeakable)” — Pharrell teams up with his uncle’s choir for the new song. “Working with Pharrell is always an amazing experience that not only inspires you, but drives you to dig deep within yourself for the best you have to offer,” Bishop Ezekiel Williams said. He said the creation of the song was a moment of destiny.
Jorja Smith, “Little Things (Remix)” — Jorja tapped DJ Nia Archives for the remix, a sped-up version that is club-ready. It’s accompanied by a visual that sees both ladies jamming behind turntables and in front of a backdrop.
It’s time to spoil the special men in your life with the best home-cooked meal they’ve ever had this Father’s Day weekend.
Pioneer Woman has put together a list of the 75 best recipes of meals that fathers, grandfathers, sons, brothers or any special man in your life would enjoy. The list includes dishes such as Cast Iron Pizza, Beef Enchiladas, Brisket Tacos, Cowboy Caviar, Pizza Casserole, Bacon Cheeseburger and Bacon-Wrapped Filets.
Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde‘s breakup must have been really amicable. The actress subtly showed her support for her ex by liking an Instagram post from his sister, Gemma. The post featured clips of Harry performing “Treat People With Kindness” and One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful” at London’s Wembley Stadium, with the caption, “Good GRIEF this show is fun — so proud of you @harrystyles and what a privilege to see you experience this much joy doing what you love.”
Justin Bieber is supporting wife Hailey‘s latest business venture. The singer helped her promote the new product from her Rhodes skin care line, posing for pictures on Instagram holding their new Glazing Milk. The photos show Justin in a hat and upside down sunglasses while holding the products. It featured the caption “JB + HB ♡ glazing milk.”
Lorde celebrated the six-year anniversary of her album Melodrama and shared some advice Taylor Swift gave her when it wasn’t as big a hit as her previous release, Pure Heroine. Lorde shared a series of throwback photos on her Instagram Story, including a text exchange with Taylor reading, “You will always be imagined in my mind in a rowboat with Annie Lennox floating down a river of cool cerebral ethereal dreams but don’t-f***-with-me vibes all around you,” adding, “And I don’t think first week record sales singularly define a legacy.” Lorde replied, “I love you so much for this.”
Ed Sheeran continues to dominate Billboard’s Adult Pop Airplay chart. Sheeran’s latest single, “Eyes Closed,” tops the chart this week, his eighth #1, extending his record as the male artist with the most #1 singles on that chart. Shawn Mendes is just behind him with six. Overall, Maroon5 is the leader with 15.
(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — Six people were found dead, including three children, at a Tennessee home in an apparent murder-suicide.
Marion County deputies and Jasper police officers responded to reports of shots fired around 9 p.m. local time on Thursday, only to find the home was set on fire, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
Once firefighters put out the flames, police found the remains of three adults and three children inside the home.
A seventh person who had sustained gunshot wounds in the incident was found alive and was transported to the hospital, according to officials.
The individual believed to be responsible for the deaths was among those found dead, according to officials.
The remains of all six people were taken to Nashville for autopsies, according to officials.
Marion County Sheriff Bo Burnett said it was a domestic situation in a single-family home.
“This is probably one of the worst things I’ve seen,” Burnett said in an interview with Chattanooga ABC affiliate WTVC.
“There was children involved and that’s just terrible, a tragic loss of life,” he added.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s special agents are investigating the deaths. Officials said there is no concern for public safety.
Jamie and Claire face unrelenting changes together when Outlander returns to Starz for its seventh season on Friday, June 16.
The cast dished to ABC Audio about the penultimate season of the popular show, which, Sophie Skelton says, they all assumed would be their last.
“I think the general consensus was that (season) 7 was going to be the last one,” Skelton said. “It’s just a bonus really, that we’re getting eight. And yeah, hopefully it just means that we get one last chance to sort of do these characters justice and tie up the beautiful stories.”
Sam Heughan says he has mixed emotions about the show’s story coming to its eventual end.
“We’re definitely really excited for the season. It’s a huge one. There’s a lot going on and there’s a lot more for the fans to look forward to,” Heughan said. “So, definitely mixed emotions. But yeah, plenty to look forward to before the end.”
And although they’re still promoting season 7, Caitriona Balfe is ready to get to work on that final season, where she will direct an episode.
“It’s something that I wanted to do for a while,” Balfe said. “To get the opportunity to work on this show with people that I love and respect and admire, it’s a real, real treat. So yeah, excited. Slightly nervous, but excited.”
With that excitement also comes some sadness. Balfe, like Heughan, says she has complicated feelings about the series coming to a close.
“The magnitude of what we’ve done and what’s going to be finishing, I think weighs heavily,” Balfe said. “It’s been such an amazing journey and it’s going to be really hard to just sort of let go of it.”
Neil Young has added more shows to his Coastal Tour. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has added two more dates to the trek.
After his July 13 concert at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles sold out, Young added a second date at the same venue, this time on July 10. He’s also added a new city to the tour, with a July 24 show at Outdoor Arena at Harveys in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
The Coastal Tour, featuring special guest Chris Pierce, is set to kick off with a four-night stand at Los Angeles’ John Anson Ford Theatre on July 1, 2, 4 and 5. Young has said the tour will focus on songs he hasn’t played live before.
The tour will be Young’s first since before the pandemic. A complete list of dates and ticket information can be found at neilyoungarchives.com.
(WASHINGTON) — At the center of Donald Trump’s historic federal indictment is the Espionage Act, under which prosecutors have charged the former president with illegally keeping government information after leaving the White House and then refusing to give it back.
Trump pleaded not guilty during an appearance in court on Tuesday in Miami.
On social media, he called his indictment a “DARK DAY” for the country and insisted in a speech on Tuesday that he “did everything right” and “I had every right to have these documents,” an argument which has been disputed by outside legal experts.
What is the Espionage Act? How it’s used in Trump’s indictment
The vast majority of charges in the 37-count indictment against Trump were brought via the Espionage Act, a century-old law that, among other things, broadly outlines the type of information that is so sensitive to U.S. security that it becomes a crime to mishandle.
The Espionage Act predates the modern American system regulating the spread of the federal government’s secrets and does not use the term “classified information.”
Instead, the law makes reference to material known as “national defense information.”
U.S. courts have worked to define what qualifies as national defense information under the Espionage Act, but the exact parameters remain in question.
Signed into law in 1917, after the U.S. entered World War I, the act was aimed at cracking down on disloyal wartime activities.
Trump is specifically charged with 31 violations of Section 793(e) of the Espionage Act.
That section makes it illegal for anyone who has “unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over” national defense information — such as documents, blueprints, photos, plans and more — and who “has reason to believe [the information] could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation” then either shares it with unauthorized people or “willfully retains the same and fails” to return it.
Congress has tweaked the broader Section 793 multiple times, but since 1917, “the bulk of the text has remained the same,” according to nonpartisan congressional researchers.
Despite the law’s name — and despite what some Trump defenders, including GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, have suggested — Trump is not accused of spying on the U.S. — but rather of holding onto and not returning potentially damaging government information.
The other six charges Trump faces are not under the Espionage Act and include conspiring to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document or record, concealing a document in a federal investigation, scheming to conceal and making false statements and representations.
Espionage Act ‘not a weaponization’ here: Experts
Separate from Trump’s case, the Espionage Act has been criticized by some civil liberties advocates.
The American Civil Liberties Union has called the law overly broad, unfair and unconstitutional as it applies to information disclosed for the public.
Skeptics of the Espionage Act’s expansive language have also challenged how it makes no exception for whistleblowers — people who may share sensitive information in order to expose wrongdoing. Leakers like former National Security Agency contractors Reality Winner and Edward Snowden were both charged under the Espionage Act. (Winner agreed to a plea deal; Snowden now lives in Russia and has never been prosecuted.)
But Trump’s case is different because he was previously empowered to share government information as he saw fit, experts said.
“I think Trump is a completely distinct case,” Ben Wizner, the ACLU’s director for speech, privacy and technology, told ABC News. “He was president for four years. He had the ability and opportunity during that time to make public anything that he wanted to make public and could have done so if he thought it was in the public interest.”
Republicans have echoed Trump’s claims that the Biden administration has “weaponized” the Department of Justice, but outside law and policy experts said they did not share that concern, based on what prosecutors have disclosed.
“This looks like a case where there are a lot of receipts based on actual hard evidence and that is not a weaponization,” ABC News contributor and former FBI Special Agent Asha Rangappa said Tuesday. “And I don’t think that it is even controversial or debatable that this really presented a threat to our national security.”
Special counsel Jack Smith, who was named to oversee the DOJ investigations of Trump after Trump launched his 2024 White House campaign, said on Friday that “this indictment was voted by a grand jury of citizens in the Southern District of Florida, and I invite everyone to read it in full to understand the scope and the gravity of the crimes charged.”
George Washington University Law School professor Stephen Saltzburg told ABC News that the U.S. has a history of carefully prosecuting Espionage Act cases.
“We don’t get many of these [Espionage Act] cases,” Saltzburg said. “And when we do get cases, it’s generally because there’s outrageous behavior.”
(WASHINGTON) — Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who became infamous for leaking the Pentagon Papers to news outlets in 1971, has died, according to his family. He was 92 years old.
Ellsberg died Friday of pancreatic cancer, which he was diagnosed with in February, his family said.
Ellsberg worked as an analyst for the RAND Corporation in the late 1950s and early ’60s, before working in the Pentagon and in the State Department, for which he traveled to South Vietnam for two years. He rejoined RAND in the late 1960s and worked on secret documents about the Vietnam War for the U.S. government. Those documents would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers.
The Harvard graduate and former Marine would eventually become sympathetic to the antiwar movement in the U.S. against involvement in Vietnam.
After attempting to call attention to the classified documents — which showed the U.S. did not believe it could win the war in Vietnam despite claims to the contrary from the administration — among politicians, Ellsberg eventually passed the documents to The New York Times, which published them on the front page in June 1971.
“Daniel was a seeker of truth and a patriotic truth-teller, an antiwar activist, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, a dear friend to many, and an inspiration to countless more,” Ellsberg’s wife, Patricia, and three children — Mary, Robert and Michael — said in a statement. “He will be dearly missed by all of us.”
The government sued The New York Times to stop publishing of the Pentagon Papers, but the U.S. Supreme Court would eventually rule in favor of the Times and the publication would resume. Ellsberg would leak the documents to The Washington Post days before the Supreme Court ruling.
The leak by Ellsberg would eventually set in motion the downfall of President Richard Nixon. The leak was the impetus for the White House to set up the so-called “White House plumbers,” who would try to discredit Ellsberg and eventually take part in the Watergate break-in.
The story was retold in the HBO miniseries “White House Plumbers,” which aired just weeks before Ellsberg’s death. The opening episode features stars Woody Harrelson, as E. Howard Hunt, and Justin Theroux, as G. Gordon Liddy, breaking into Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office — as actually happened on Sept. 3, 1971.
Ellsberg was survived by his wife and three children as well as five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
