Jelly Roll has teamed up with ABC News Studios for his new documentary, Jelly Roll: Save Me.
Set to premiere on Hulu on May 30, the documentary will chronicle Jelly Roll’s journey from incarcerated teen and adult to music superstar and country singer.
It’ll feature exclusive, never-before-seen footage and interviews with the Nashville native and those close to him, as well as peeks into how Jelly Roll balances his philanthropic efforts with tour life, including a visit to the juvenile detention facility where he was incarcerated.
Additionally, viewers will follow Jelly Roll as he readies and performs for fans on the biggest tour date of his career at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.
Jelly Roll: Save Me streams Tuesday, May 30, on Hulu.
Jelly Roll’s debut country album, Whitsitt Chapel, arrives June 2, and is available for preorder and presave now.
His current single, “NEED A FAVOR,” is in the top 20 and rising on the country charts.
Offset played the role of a prince when he attended the LA premiere of The Little Mermaid on Monday. He escorted his dates, daughters Kulture and Kalea, whose dresses complemented his black-and-white ensemble.
“Mermaid premiere with my princesses,” he wrote on Instagram alongside snaps from a photo shoot. While on a red carpet, he expressed the importance of bringing his daughters to see the film.
“First off, my daughters are very excited to see someone that looks like them as [Ariel],” he told HSN. “It’s a special moment in history and it’s iconic and it’s a sister vibe so let’s get it!”
Kelly Rowland, Tia Mowry, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Marsai Martin, Kyla Pratt and Trevor Jackson also attended the premiere, as did Chlöe, star Halle Bailey‘s sister.
“To know that all of those beautiful girls will be able to see proper representation, whether you’re Black or white or anything like that, you’ll be able to look at my sister and say, ‘I can be anything I want to be no matter what the world tells me is acceptable,'” Chlöe told ET. “There could not be a more perfect Ariel.”
The Little Mermaid premieres in theaters on May 26.
Richard E. Cavazos circa 1982 as commanding general of the U.S. Army Forces Command. — U.S. Army
(FORT CAVAZOS, Texas) — The U.S. Army base formerly known as Fort Hood in central Texas was officially changed to Fort Cavazos on Tuesday during a ceremony at the III Armored Corps Headquarters in honor of the first Latino four-star general in the Army, Gen. Richard Edward Cavazos.
Cavazos retired from the Army after 33 years of service in 1984, and died in 2017.
“General Cavazos was known around the Army as a battle proven warrior,” Lt. Gen. Sean Bernabe, Commanding General of III Armored Corps, said at the ceremony. “A soldier’s soldier, as a master trainer, as a military innovator, as a mentor and as a humble servant leader.”
“We are proud to be renaming Fort Hood as Fort Cavazos in recognition of an outstanding American hero, a veteran of the Korea and Vietnam wars and the first Hispanic to reach the rank of four-star general in our Army. General Cavazos’ combat proven leadership, his moral character and his loyalty to his Soldiers and their families made him the fearless yet respected and influential leader that he was during the time he served, and beyond,” Bernabe said. “We are ready and excited to be part of such a momentous part of history, while we honor a leader who we all admire.”
Bernabe explained how Cavazos led his company in Korea through a heavy barrage and assaults on the enemy position three times, as they destroyed vital enemy equipment and personnel. Cavazos remained alone on the enemy outpost to search for missing men while exposed to heavy hostile fire. He located five men who had been wounded in the action and evacuated them one at a time.
After becoming a lieutenant colonel, Cavazos deployed to Vietnam in 1967 where he led the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, according to a statement from the Army. After his service in Vietnam, he was awarded a second Distinguished Service Cross.
The rename of the Army installation is part of a campaign to change the names of nine U.S. Army installations, as recommended by the Naming Commission’s panel to erase symbols that commemorate the Confederate States of America, according to a statement from the Army.
“Let his name and all that it represents inspire us all every single day to live up to his legacy,” Bernabe said.
(NEW YORK) — Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, is seeking the dismissal of a $500 million lawsuit by the former president that accuses Cohen of breach of fiduciary duty.
In a new court filing, Cohen said Trump failed to state a claim.
“This suit combines the worst of Mr. Trump’s vindictive impulses,” Cohen’s attorneys, Benjamin Brodsky and Danya Perry, said in the motion to dismiss. “The Complaint, frivolous and scattershot, is an abusive act of pure retaliation and witness intimidation, albeit a ham-fisted one.”
Trump filed his lawsuit in a Florida federal court last month, accusing Cohen of “an onslaught of fiduciary and contractual breaches” through numerous “inflammatory and false statements” about Trump in books, in his podcast and in media appearances.
Cohen’s attorneys noted that the timing of the lawsuit coincided with Trump’s indictment on criminal charges that was based, in large part, on grand jury testimony by Cohen.
“This timing is no coincidence,” Cohen’s motion said. “The [Manhattan DA’s] indictment relates to the hush money payment scheme between Mr. Trump, Mr. Cohen, and others to influence the 2016 presidential election by paying off an adult film star so that she would not publicize her affair with Mr. Trump. This is the same scheme to which Mr. Cohen had pleaded guilty, and Mr. Trump is well aware that Mr. Cohen is an important government witness against him in the pending criminal matter.”
“The Complaint in this case is yet another brazen and indeed unlawful attempt to silence a key witness against Mr. Trump. And, once again, Mr. Trump’s campaign of retaliation should be shut down,” Cohen’s attorneys said.
Becky G‘s been a star for a minute, but believe it or not, she’s never had her own headlining tour — until now.
The singer will launch her trek, the MI CASA, TU CASA Tour, September 14 in Boston and is set to wrap up in Phoenix on October 14. Tickets go on sale May 12 at 10 a.m. local time via iambeckyg.com.
“I’m so excited to go out on the road for my first ever headlining tour and to see all my beautiful fans and supporters across the country in these intimate settings,” says Becky in a statement. “It’s going to be so special and I can’t wait for everyone to see what we have planned!”
It’s been a big year for Becky, so far: She just won four Latin American Music Awards, including Song of the Year for her Karol G collab “MAMIII.” She also received the Billboard Women in Music Impact Award and performed on the Coachella main stage.
After months of Dolly Parton talking about it, we finally have details about her new rock record, Rockstar. Itfeatures collaborations with a whole host of A-list artists, including Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Steven Tyler, Steve Perry, Sting, Stevie Nicks, Richie Sambora, Elton John and Peter Frampton.
“I’m so excited to finally present my first Rock and Roll album Rockstar!” Dolly, who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022, shares. “I am very honored and privileged to have worked with some of the greatest iconic singers and musicians of all time and to be able to sing all the iconic songs throughout the album was a joy beyond measure.”
The 30-track album includes nine original tracks, as well as 21 covers, including such classics as “Let It Be” with McCartney and Starr, as well as Frampton and Mick Fleetwood; “Every Breath You Take” with Sting; “Open Arms” with Perry; “Free Bird” with Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Ronnie Van Zant and the late Gary Rossington, as well as former member Artimus Pyle;“Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me” with Elton; and “Stairway to Heaven” with Lizzo.
Rockstar will be released November 17 as a four-LP or two-CD set. It is available for preorder now.
Here’s the track list for Rockstar:
“Rockstar” (special guest Richie Sambora)
“World on Fire”
“Every Breath You Take” (feat. Sting)
“Open Arms” (feat. Steve Perry)
“Magic Man” (feat. Ann Wilson with special guest Howard Leese)
“Long As I Can See The Light” (feat. John Fogerty)
“Either Or” (feat. Kid Rock)
“I Want You Back” (feat. Steven Tyler with special guest Warren Haynes)
“What Has Rock And Roll Ever Done For You” (feat. Stevie Nicks with special guest Waddy Wachtel)
“Purple Rain”
“Baby, I Love Your Way” (feat. Peter Frampton)
“I Hate Myself For Loving You” (feat. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts)
“Night Moves” (feat. Chris Stapleton)
“Wrecking Ball” (feat. Miley Cyrus)
“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (feat. Pink & Brandi Carlile)
“On Loving You” (feat. Kevin Cronin)
“Heart Of Glass” (feat. Debbie Harry)
“Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me” (feat. Elton John)
“Tried To Rock And Roll Me” (feat. Melissa Etheridge)
“Stairway To Heaven” (feat. Lizzo & Sasha Flute)
“We Are The Champions”
“Bygones” (feat. Rob Halford with special guests Nikki Sixx & John 5)
“My Blue Tears” (feat. Simon Le Bon)
“What’s Up?” (feat. Linda Perry)
“You’re No Good” (feat. Emmylou Harris & Sheryl Crow)
“Heartbreaker” (feat. Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo)
“Bittersweet” (feat. Michael McDonald)
“I Dreamed About Elvis” (feat. Ronnie McDowell with special guest The Jordanaires)
“Let It Be” (feat. Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr with special guests Peter Frampton & Mick Fleetwood)
“Free Bird” (feat. Ronnie Van Zant with special guests Gary Rossington, Artimus Pyle and The Artimus Pyle Band)
(NEW YORK) — This past winter skiers rejoiced at the plethora of snow that fell as a result of several rounds of atmospheric rivers that pummeled the western U.S. with an onslaught of additional precipitation.
The extra snow led to record visitation for ski resorts in several regions in the U.S., according to a report by the National Ski Areas Association. Historically, fluctuations in skier visit numbers could be correlated with snowfall, with more snow generally leading to more skier visits, the report states.
The snow in the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest contributed to the season’s strong numbers, the association said. Average area snowfall at national ski areas was 224 inches, a 30% increase over the 10-year average of 173 inches, according to the report. Some regions in the West have gotten more than 200% more snowpack than average, and several inches of snow were dumped in the San Gabriel Mountains and the San Bernardino County Mountains in California just last week. In Utah, some ski resorts hit 500 inches by the end of January.
There were 64.7 million skier visits — defined as every time a person uses a lift ticket or pass at a ski area — in the U.S. over the 2022-2023 winter season — a 6.6% increase over last year, according to the report. In addition, there were 481 operating ski resorts this season, compared to 473 last season.
In addition, the average length of the 2022-2023 ski season was also six days longer compared to last season — a total of 116 days.
The Rocky Mountain region reported a record-high season for the second year in a row with 27.9 million visitors, while the Pacific Northwest region also finished with its best year on record, totaling about 4.5 million visits. The Pacific Southwest also saw a season-over-season increase and had its third best year on record.
The association emphasized the numbers in the report are preliminary, as many ski resorts in the West have extended their seasons well into the spring.
The same could not be said for many ski resorts in the East, which experienced a record-mild winter. New York City did not see any measurable snow until the end of January — just half an inch of accumulation — while the Niagara Falls boat tours opened the earliest it ever has in a season due to minimal ice cover over Lake Erie.
While the Northeast had an increase in visitors from last year, the Southeast and Midwest reported small decreases in skier visits compared to 2021-22.
Several ski resorts in the East were forced to close early. The Cockaigne Resort in upstate New York closed in February, after getting just 35 to 37 inches of snow this past winter, according to its website.
Paoli Peaks, a ski resort in Orange County, Indiana, shuttered early in February after only getting 13 inches on the season, about half its normal accumulation, while Ober Mountain in Tennessee had less than half of its typical 40-inch base at the end of its season, which also closed early.
Even more resorts in the East experienced temporary closures during warm spells in the middle of winter.
Skier visits are a key performance indicator for the ski industry, with two consecutive seasons of record visitation signaling that the U.S. ski industry is healthy and that the demand for outdoor recreation is strong, according to the association.
Growing options of season passes and frequency products and an increased desire to get outside — especially among lapsed skiers who have returned to the slopes since the pandemic — also contributed to the record ski season, the report states.
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Scarlett Johansson revealed to Variety that she and her fellow Avenger Chris Evans assembled at the home of their superhero ally Jeremy Renner as he recovered from his near-fatal snowplow accident.
The April visit was kept private, but she and longtime friend Evans told the trade about it in her new cover article.
“I was honestly so f****** happy to see him,” Scarlett said. “I didn’t know if I was ever going to see him again.”
ScarJo’s Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow and Renner’s Clint Barton/Hawkeye shared a special bond in the Marvel movies and it transferred offscreen, too.
She added, “To not only see him again but to see him thriving and in such an amazing space, mentally. He’s a very spiritual person in general and a very soulful person. And you can see that in his work. … He has such a depth to him. And I just was so happy to see that he is full of life and light, and he’s also hilarious. We laughed a lot.”
Evans added there were, “No tears at all. A lot of laughs and smiles and hugs. Leave it to Jeremy to take something this potentially tragic and turn it into something so inspiring.”
Renner suffered more than 30 broken bones and blunt trauma injuries when he was pulled under the vehicle in an attempt to stop it from sliding into his nephew near his home outside Reno, Nevada.
His recovery has been called miraculous.
Johansson tells the trade she and the others on the still-active Avengers text chain — including Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth and Robert Downey Jr. — rallied for their fallen comrade.
“We’re like, ‘OK, you beat us all. That’s it. You won,'” she says, adding of his recovery, “That’s like real superhero stuff. It’s unbelievable.”
(WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Tuesday announced the dismantling of a global network of computers infected by malware that Russia’s state security services have allegedly used for nearly 20 years to steal secrets from the U.S. and NATO allies.
The operation — code named “MEDUSA” — aimed to neutralize the so-called “Snake” malware used by a unit within the Russian FSB known as “Turla,” which experts consider to be one of the most sophisticated cyber espionage groups in the world.
DOJ and other global partners identified the Snake malware in computer systems in at least 50 countries. The Turla group used the malware to target NATO member states, financial sectors, journalists and other targets of the Russian government dating back as early as 2004, officials said.
Channeling more Greek mythology, the FBI says it recently created a tool officials dubbed “PERSEUS” to effectively neutralize the Snake malware after receiving authorization from a judge in Brooklyn to secure remote access to infected computers.
The PERSEUS software “establishes communication sessions with the Snake malware implant on a particular computer, and issues commands that causes the Snake implant to disable itself without affecting the host computer or legitimate applications on the computer,” according to DOJ.
The Snake malware was previously assessed by the U.S. intelligence community to be “one of the most sophisticated malware sets used by the Russian intelligence services” to target ministries of foreign affairs and ministries of defense in NATO-allied countries, officials added.
The FBI began deploying the PERSEUS tool against infected computers yesterday and they were able to confirm that Turla’s access to many of the computers had been disrupted, an FBI official told reporters Tuesday morning.
The bureau says it notified all victims whose computer systems were accessed as part of the MEDUSA operation, and the United States and Five Eyes partners have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory with detailed technical information on the malware so cybersecurity experts can detect whether other networks may have been infected.
There’s an ongoing risk to some of those targeted, officials said, because after gaining access to networks, the Turla group is known to use a “keylogger” tool that steals account passwords and other authentication credentials.
(WASHINGTON) — Officer Dan Rocha of the Everett, Washington Police Department responded to a call for a suspect moving guns from one car to another, according to body camera footage released by the Everett Police Department.
Rocha approaches the suspect and, after a few brief minutes of conversation, tells him to wait until his partner gets to the scene. A struggle ensues, and the suspect shoots and kills Rocha and then flees the scene.
Police caught the suspect two miles down the road, and he was later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. Rocha was a four-year veteran of the police force.
“Officer Dan Rocha was dedicated to keeping Everett safe,” Rep. Rick Larsen, D- Wash., said in a statement last year. “On the day he passed, he was doing the job he loved – serving and protecting his community. I know the women and men of the Everett Police Department will continue to carry on Officer Rocha’s legacy by upholding the Department’s commitment to service, integrity, professionalism and honor.”
Rocha was one of the 60 law enforcement officers that died in the line of duty during a felony in 2022, according to FBI statistics released this week.
That number, however, is down 18% from the previous year.
In total, there were 118 officers killed in the line of duty in 2022 – 60 were killed during a felony and 58 were killed accidentally, according to the FBI. 2021 saw one of the highest years for officer line-of-duty deaths with 73.
“The five- and 10-year comparisons show an increase of three felonious deaths when compared with the 2018 figure (57 officers) and an increase of 33 deaths when compared with 2013 data (27 officers),” the report said.
Of the 60 officers that died in 2022, 49 were killed with a gun. The average age of the officers who were feloniously killed was 39. The officers had served in law enforcement for an average of seven years at the time of their deaths.
Ten of the identified suspects in the officers’ deaths had prior criminal arrests, and two were under judicial supervision at the time of the incidents, according to the FBI report.
At this point in 2023, 20 law enforcement officers have been fatally wounded and eight have died in accidents, federal data shows.
