Joni Mitchell made another triumphant return to the stage this weekend, headlining her first ticketed concert in over 20 years.
The show, a “Joni Jam,” took place at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington as part of Brandi Carlile’s Echoes Through the Canyon festival, and featured a host of special guests, including Carlile and her musical partners Phil Hanseroth and Tim Hanseroth, Annie Lennox, Marcus Mumford, Sarah McLachlan, Lucius’ Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig,Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith, Celisse, The Revolution’s Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman and more.
The three-hour set featured songs sung by and for Joni, including such classics as “Both Sides Now,” “Big Yellow Taxi,” “Blue” sung by McLachlan, “Lady of the Canyon” sung by Lennox, “A Case of You” with Carlile, “Summertime,” “Help Me” and more.
The show was similar to Joni’s return to the stage last summer at the Newport Folk Festival. That performance is being released as a live album, Joni Mitchell at Newport, on July 28. The album is available for preorder now.
(MIAMI) — Former President Donald Trump is expected to head to Florida midday Monday ahead of his first appearance Tuesday before a federal judge regarding the 37 counts he faces from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, sources familiar with the planning tell ABC News.
For the better part of the weekend, in addition to making two campaign trips in Georgia and North Carolina, the former president and his close allies have been working the phones in search of legal representation.
Trump is expected to head to Florida a day before his court appearance to meet with potential legal counsel for in-person interviews, the sources said.
Trump was hit with a sweeping 37-count indictment from the special counsel’s office Thursday, alleging that he willfully retained documents containing the nation’s most sensitive secrets, including nuclear programs, after he left office, showed some of them on at least two occasions and then tried to obstruct the investigation into their whereabouts.
Federal prosecutors unsealed the indictment Friday against the former president and his aide Walt Nauta in connection with his handling of government documents.
Trump denied any wrongdoing over the weekend, saying: “We did absolutely nothing wrong. Take a look at the Presidential Records Act. We did it by the book. Perfect.”
The hunt for new counsel comes after Trump’s attorneys on this case, Jim Trusty and John Rowley, resigned on Friday — just hours after Trump was informed of the indictment.
Sources told ABC News it’s unlikely Trump will have a full team set in time for Tuesday’s court appearance, but he’s expected to have attorney Todd Blanche, who is representing Trump in the Manhattan District Attorney’s probe into hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels, by his side. Attorney Chris Kise, who is based in Florida and working on other matters on behalf of the former president, is likely to also be in attendance, but plans were not solidified as of Sunday evening, sources said.
Sources described the former president throughout the last few days as having “fits of anger” over the charges brought by the special counsel, and he’s said to be particularly obsessed with the images contained within the indictment, many of which were taken by his loyal aide, Nauta. Nauta was seen Saturday right by Trump’s side during campaign events the former president had.
A spokesperson for Trump declined to comment.
A former attorney for Trump who no longer works for him said right now, Trump needs “seasoned trial attorneys” familiar with this Florida court. “He needs lawyers that will litigate the case in court and not in the case of public opinion,” the former Trump attorney told ABC News. “Others can do that. The lead defense lawyers need to be focusing on the courtroom. It’s not a TV studio.”
A shake-up of attorneys is nothing new for Trump, who changed legal counsel multiple times throughout his four years in the White House.
Over the weekend, Britney Spearswas questioning the accuracy of a British tabloid article that quoted her ex-husband Kevin Federline as saying that she was on drugs. Now, Kevin himself has taken to Instagram to call those quotes “lies.”
The story was written by journalist Daphne Barak, who claimed she had spoken to Kevin and his and Britney’s sons Sean Preston and Jayden James. In the story, Kevin was quoted as saying he was afraid Britney was on hard drugs, and that she would die of an overdose. Barak also claimed the boys had shared with her various traumatic incidents they experienced with Britney.
In his Instagram Story, Kevin writes, “It saddens our family that Daphne Barak and [the documentary’s producer] Erbil Gunasti have decided to fabricate lies and publish the heartache our family has endured, along with the trauma of our minor children.”
While Kevin admits that he allowed Barak and Gunasti into his home “because we trusted them,” he notes that they “severed ties back in March for many reasons we choose not to go into here.”
“It is very distressing that she continues to harass our family,” he continued, adding that when he and his family spoke with Barak and Gunasti, it was “done in respectful way with love & compassion for Britney and the Spears family.” He calls the article “lies and attempts to exploit minors as click bait,” calling it “repulsive.”
Meanwhile, People reports that Britney’s attorney Mathew Rosengart sent a letter to The Daily Mail pointing out its “false and defamatory statements…in particular regarding” the drug accusations.
Rosengart also writes that he’s learned that Barak tried to contact Britney under false pretenses. He calls for the Mail to “immediately delete and retract that false and defamatory story.”
Samuel L. Jackson lost out on a Tony Award Sunday night, and he wasn’t afraid to let people know he wasn’t pleased.
The 74-year-old was nominated for August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, but when Brandon Uranowitz‘ name was called as the winner in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for his role in Leopoldstadt, Sam remained stone-faced.After a few beats, he slowly clapped.
And it wasn’t lost on viewers, either. “Imagine pretending to think that Brandon Uranowitz did a better job at acting in ANY role than Samuel L.Jackson playing in an August DAMN Wilson play! Well, the Tony Awards did just that,” one opined.
For his part, Jackson threw an elbow later in the evening when presenting the award for Best Play, introducing himself as “Samuel L. ‘it’s an honor to be nominated’ Jackson.'”
It brings to mind Jackson’s reaction to his controversial loss at the 1994 Oscars to Martin Landau in the Best Supporting Actor category.
Jackson, nominated for Pulp Fiction, was caught on camera mouthing, “S***” when Landau’s name was called for Ed Wood.
Years later, Jackson would win an honorary Oscar, but the loss still grates him. To the Sunday Timeslast year, he admitted, “I should have won that one.”
(DAVENPORT, Iowa) — Demolition is underway Monday at the site of the Davenport, Iowa, apartment building that partially collapsed last month, claiming three lives.
Parts of the six-story building crumbled on May 28, sending residents fleeing for safety.
Eight people were rescued in the first 24 hours after the collapse. On May 29, officials said there was no credible information that anyone was missing and the city would move forward with plans to begin demolishing the remaining structure the next day.
But that night, rescuers found a ninth person alive inside and pulled her out of a fourth-story window.
On May 30, the city’s demolition plans were put on hold as officials announced that five residents were still unaccounted for.
On June 1, officials announced that three residents remained missing: Ryan Hitchcock, 51; Daniel Prien, 60; and Branden Colvin, 42. Their bodies were recovered in the days that followed.
Actress Naomi Watts took to Instagram over the weekend to share sweet wedding photos with actor Billy Crudup, shortly after confirming the couple’s marriage on Saturday.
In the first photo posted to Watts’ Instagram on Saturday, the couple posed together in wedding attire on the steps of a building.
Crudup, known for his roles in Almost Famous, Watchmen, and Spotlight, wore a navy suit. Watts, who rose to fame in David Lynch’s award-winning film Mulholland Drive and has since starred in several popular movies and television series, wore a white, laced dress and a strappy nude-gold heel.
The two met while filming the Netflix drama series Gypsy and began dating in 2017.
Watts and Crudup, both 54, share three children together from previous marriages.
(NEW YORK) — Ariana Sutton was a dance instructor and mom of three whom friends describe as “warm” and “upbeat,” and who loved being a mom, according to her husband Tyler Sutton.
On May 22, Ariana Sutton, 36, gave birth to newborn twins Everly Irene and Rowan Stephen, who joined the couple’s older daughter, 4-year-old Melody.
Just nine days later, on May 31, Ariana Sutton died by suicide.
Now Tyler Sutton is speaking out to call for change when it comes to the condition that he said led to his wife’s death, postpartum depression.
“It takes a very strong person to ask for help,” Tyler Sutton told ” Good Morning America.” “If we could just make it the norm asking for help, instead of [women] feeling shame for not being able to do it themselves, because this is a real thing. It is very, very real, very powerful, very dangerous, and shouldn’t be faced [alone].”
Tyler Sutton, a police officer in Massachusetts, said his wife did not experience mental health issues prior to giving birth to their first child.
After delivering Melody in 2018, he said his wife experienced a “very serious case” of postpartum depression, which can be an intense and sometimes longer-lasting depression that occurs after having a baby, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“We weren’t that familiar with it, so we were very much in the dark, both of us,” Tyler Sutton said, referring to postpartum depression. “As it got worse, we didn’t have any organizations to reach out to. We didn’t have anything lined up because we didn’t know what we were dealing with.”
Tyler Sutton said he noticed changes in his wife’s personality, but since he didn’t know much about the condition, his first instinct was “just to chalk it up to being a new mom.” Then, he said he saw in his wife a problem that needed professional, medical help.
“I came home [from work] one morning and I just couldn’t recognize the person sitting in front of me,” he said. “So we dropped my daughter off with her grandmother and got her to the hospital where they said it was postpartum depression.”
Tyler Sutton said that after two different hospitalizations, Ariana Sutton began to return to her old self thanks to the right combination of medications and a mental health professional.
“Thinking back on it … we dropped the ball many times and we fumbled a lot and were just lucky enough to pick it back up, when it shouldn’t be that way,” he said. “It shouldn’t have it shouldn’t have taken us that long to get her home the first time.”
When the Suttons decided to grow their family again, Tyler Sutton said it was a decision that was made very thoughtfully, and was the reason they waited four years after Melody’s birth.
“When we finally got pregnant with the twins, we came up with a plan,” he said. “We got a team together — a psychiatrist that we had known for four years and a therapist that she continued to speak with for all those four years, because she was always in fear that it would return.”
After a healthy pregnancy, Ariana Sutton went into labor with the twins around three weeks before a planned induction. While she was discharged from the hospital a few days after giving birth, the twins remained in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit.
Tyler Sutton said the twins’ premature birth was a “big trigger” for Ariana Sutton, whom he said began to suffer from postpartum depression much sooner than she had after the birth of their first child.
“What happened to her over the span of a few weeks happened this time around within a couple of days,” Tyler Sutton said. “And even though we had a plan in place, there was no way for us to predict that this would happen so quickly and so suddenly. It just came out of nowhere and we weren’t ready.”
Raising awareness of postpartum depression
Tyler Sutton said that, following his wife’s death, he now plans to spend the rest of his life raising awareness about postpartum depression, a condition that affects as many as 1 in 8 women who give birth, according to the CDC.
He said he wants to create change as a legacy to Ariana Sutton and their children, noting, “Hopefully by the time they’re old enough to have children, there’ll be a better system put in place for them.”
Describing how he wants their kids to remember their mother, he added, “Postpartum depression was not really something that defined her, it was something that happened to her that can be avoided, that we just couldn’t get a hold of in time.”
Symptoms of postpartum depression include withdrawing from loved ones, crying more than usual, feeling worried or overly anxious, feeling anger, doubting your ability to take care of your baby and thinking about harming yourself or your baby, according to the CDC. The symptoms may last for weeks or months after giving birth, and are more intense and longer lasting than the “baby blues” that women may experience after giving birth.
Although a history of depression may increase the risk of postpartum depression, there is no single test that can diagnose postpartum depression, or predict whether or not a woman will suffer from it. It’s often up to women or their partners and family members to seek seek professional medical help if they are struggling after giving birth.
Part of the change Tyler Sutton said he wants to see is in how health care providers talk to expectant people about postpartum depression.
“If there was something that I could start right now, [it would be to] ask the medical community just to make a small change to their routine, and add one more line to their checklist of things to do when they meet with people,” he said. “When a pregnant person comes into their office for the first time and they’re very excited and they start to talk to them about the future and appointments and ways to prepare and things to look out for, at the very end, they should say, ‘We are going to be talking periodically about postpartum depression and the severity and different things you can do about it to prepare for the possibility.'”
He continued, “And every time they come in for an appointment, every time they go to see someone, every time they go in for an ultrasound, someone should be sitting there saying, ‘How are you feeling? Have you been feeling anxious or anything like that? We ask because we need you to be aware of the possibility of postpartum depression. You may not think it can happen to you, but you may not know until it’s too late, so let’s talk about it.'”
Tyler Sutton said he would also recommend that pregnant people be given the name and number of a social worker that they can save in their phone, and be encouraged to meet with a therapist during pregnancy so they have an established relationship to turn to in an emergency.
“When it was happening to us, we had no numbers. We had no names. We had no one to reach out to,” he said. “We just continuously had to rush to the hospital, sit in a waiting room and then sit in another room until finally someone came and said, ‘Yeah, you need to get her a therapist,’ and then I would have to take my phone out and start searching.”
According to the CDC, around 1 in 5 women surveyed in the U.S. were not asked about depression during a prenatal visit, and 1 in 8 were not asked during a postpartum visit. In addition, over half of pregnant women with depression do not receive treatment.
The CDC notes that the type of mental health care pregnant and postpartum women receive can depend on where they live. The agency says states should utilize programs that can help screen and treat women for depression, and calls on healthcare providers to “ask every pregnant and postpartum woman about symptoms of depression,” and know local resources for help.
Tyler Sutton said that as he mourns his wife, he is comforted by the fact that her story may end up helping other families, saying, “It gives me hope that that somewhere, someone will get the help that they need that they wouldn’t have a few days ago.”
He said that by speaking out himself, he also hopes it encourages more women to describe their own experiences with postpartum depression so more people know the signs.
He recalled that Ariana Sutton once described her experience with postpartum depression to him as if a “tiny person had taken up refuge in her head and would drown out all the positive things that people were trying to get through to her.”
“At the end of the day, I witnessed it from a viewer’s perspective, even though I was there firsthand. It can only take the conversation so far,” Tyler Sutton said. “If [Ariana] was here, she’d do a much better job describing what she what she was feeling. She was very articulate about everything, but unfortunately she’s not here to do that.”
For families coping with postpartum depression, Postpartum Support International offers a free and confidential helpline via call and text at 1-800-944-4PPD (4773). If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org. Free, confidential help is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You are not on your own.
A tanker fire caused part of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia to collapse, June 11, 2023. — WPVI
(PHILADELPHIA) — Repairs on Interstate 95 are expected to take “months” after an elevated section collapsed in Philadelphia on Sunday morning when a tanker truck carrying flammable cargo caught fire, officials said.
“With regards to the complete rebuild of I-95 roadway, we expect it to take some number of months,” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro told a press conference on Sunday evening, adding that he plans to issue a disaster declaration to “expedite this process” and “immediately draw down federal funds.”
Shapiro said he had spoken directly to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg who assured him there would be “absolutely no delay” in getting federal funds to safely and swiftly rebuild the “critical roadway.”
In the meantime, officials are looking at “interim solutions to connect both sides of I-95 to get traffic through the area,” according to Shapiro. All lanes between the exits for Philadelphia’s Woodhaven Road and Aramingo Avenue are closed in both directions indefinitely, local ABC station WPVI reported.
The northbound side of the affected segment “completely collapsed,” while the southbound lanes are “not structurally sound to carry any traffic,” Shapiro said. One vehicle remains trapped beneath the collapsed roadway, according to the governor.
“We are still working to identify any individual or individuals who may have been caught in the fire and the collapse,” he said, before later clarifying that no one on I-95 at the time was injured or killed in the incident.
I-95 is one of the busiest travel corridors in the United States and serves as the main north-south highway on the East Coast. An average of more than 160,000 vehicles travel across the impacted section in Philadelphia every day, according to a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
President Joe Biden has been briefed on the collapse and his administration is in communication with Shapiro as well as Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Federal Highway Administrator Shailen Bhatt will travel to Philadelphia on Monday to offer federal support and assistance.
A team of specialists from the National Transportation Safety Board, in coordination with the Pennsylvania State Police, will also be on site Monday to begin the on-scene portion of their safety investigation into the incident. A preliminary report will be available in two to three weeks, according to the NTSB.
ABC News’ Victoria Arancio, Matt Foster and Amanda Maile contributed to this report.
(PARK CITY, Utah) — A Utah woman who is accused of poisoning her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl is scheduled to appear in court Monday for a detention hearing.
Kouri Richins, 33, was arrested in May and charged with aggravated murder and multiple counts of drug possession in connection with the death of her husband, Eric Richins, 39, who was found dead at the foot of their bed last year, according to the probable cause statement in the charging document. The mom of three authored a children’s book on grief in the wake of her husband’s death.
Ahead of the detention hearing in Park City, Richins’ attorneys argued in recent court filings that the realtor should be eligible for bail because there is “no substantial evidence to support the charges.”
Prosecutors allege that Eric Richins was poisoned by a lethal dose of fentanyl on the night of March 3, 2022, according to the charging document.
Kouri Richins allegedly told police following his death that they were celebrating her closing on a house for her business that night and she “made Eric a Moscow Mule in the kitchen and brought it to their bedroom where Eric consumed it while sitting in bed,” according to the probable cause statement.
She allegedly said she went to sleep with one of their children who was having a night terror and returned to her and her husband’s bedroom around 3 a.m., where she found him “cold to the touch,” according to the charging document.
An autopsy determined that Eric Richins died from a fentanyl overdose, and that the level of fentanyl in his system was five times the lethal dosage, according to the charging document. The medical examiner indicated the fentanyl was “illicit fentanyl,” not medical grade, and that it was likely ingested orally, according to the charging document.
Detectives obtained a search warrant for their residence following the toxicology report, including for electronics, and alleged that a search of Kouri Richins’ phone uncovered “several communications” with an acquaintance of hers who had various drug counts, according to the initial charging document. The acquaintance reportedly told authorities they sold Kouri Richins fentanyl pills six days before Eric Richins was found dead, prosecutors allege.
Kouri Richins’ lawyers argued in the new filings that law enforcement never found fentanyl in their family home, and that there are “inconsistencies” in witness statements from someone reported to have been present at the alleged drug deal, including regarding dates and payments of the alleged pill transactions, between the initial and amended charging documents.
Regarding the alleged fatal poisoning, her lawyers said Kouri Richins made her husband a drink that he “consumed two sips of” and that he continued to use his phone for more than two hours. They stated that Kouri Richins had slept in one of her children’s rooms because their child was having a nightmare and when she woke up around 3 a.m. she discovered her husband “cold and not breathing” and called 911, the filings stated.
Her lawyers also addressed various financial dealings involving the couple that were detailed in the amended charging document.
Among them, prosecutors alleged that “unknown to Eric Richins,” Kouri Richins allegedly purchased four life insurance policies on her husband’s life between 2015 and 2017 amounting to nearly $2 million in death benefits. Kouri Richins’ lawyers refuted the allegations that she took out life insurance policies without her husband’s knowledge, arguing in new court filings that he would have known about them.
Her lawyers also responded to claims in the amended charging document that Eric Richins “broke out in hives” after eating a sandwich his wife had prepared for him on Valentine’s Day last year and reportedly used an EpiPen. Her lawyers argued that their nanny did not witness him acting ill or use an EpiPen.
A judge issued a partial gag order earlier this month, limiting what the prosecutors and defense can discuss, amid national interest in the case.
A month prior to her arrest, Kouri Richins appeared on a Good Things Utah segment on Salt Lake City ABC affiliate KTVX to promote her new children’s book on processing grief. In the segment, Kouri Richins said her husband of nine years died “unexpectedly” and that his death “completely took us all by shock.”
