Charlie Puth performs on ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2026′ (Disney/Christopher Willard)
Charlie Puth has a big year coming up: He’s singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl, releasing a new album in March and becoming a first-time dad around the same time. That’s probably why he’s currently got a pretty great outlook on life.
When asked what he’s hoping for in 2026, Charlie told ABC’s On the Red Carpet, “I‘m manifesting for people to be a bit more present, myself included, I think it’s really easy to get caught into the world of social media and we live in a very beautiful world, more beautiful than ever.”
Charlie also revealed that he’s already trying to get his child interested in music while they’re still in utero — but he’s going for a 1970s soft rock vibe rather than his own songs.
“I’ve definitely sang to the belly a couple of times and showed baby my favorite music, my favorite James Taylor songs,” he shared. He also played the baby “the really sad Dan Fogelberg [track], ‘Same Old Lang Syne,'” noting, “God, that’s a good song!”
All of it is in preparation for a time when, Charlie said, he’ll be able to celebrate the holidays surrounded by his growing musical family.
“I can’t wait to have a Christmas where there’s a bunch of kids and, you know, typical fireplace and I’m at the piano and, maybe, baby will know how to play piano too,” he told On the Red Carpet. “That would be impressive if the baby knew how to play piano at like one year old.”
Then again, there’s always the possibility of the other extreme.
“Can you imagine if they just want nothing to do with music?” Charlie laughed, before adding quickly, “And that’s okay, too!”
Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 performs on November 17, 2024 in Rome, Italy. (Roberto Panucci – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
Sum 41 may be over, but frontman Deryck Whibley is still “In Too Deep” in the music world.
In an Instagram post reflecting on 2025, Whibley shares that he began the year making a vow: “NO more guitars for a while.”
“I was planning on stepping back from music, leaving my day job, and putting everything into starting @walkingdisaster clothing,” Whibley writes. “Instead… this happened.”
By “this,” Whibley means acquiring 10 guitars over the year, including a 1959 Les Paul Standard Sunburst.
While he may not have kept his 2025 New Year’s resolution, Whibley says there is a bright side.
“The one good thing about breaking this promise is that it’s actually inspired me to play and write songs more lately!” Whibley writes.
Sum 41 concluded their farewell tour in January 2025 and played live for the last time in March upon being inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
(L-R) Ron Wood, Steve Jordan, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones perform onstage at SoFi Stadium on July 13, 2024 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Fans of The Rolling Stones are going to want to get their hands on a unique collectible that will be available for Record Store Day this spring.
Crosley Radio, a founding sponsor of Record Store Day, is set to release The Rolling Stones RSD3 Mini Turntable, a limited-edition, fully functioning turntable dedicated to the legendary band. The collectible is decorated with exclusive Rolling Stones artwork and comes with a matching storage crate that can hold up to 16 3-inch records.
The turntable also includes six 3-inch singles — “Get Off of My Cloud,” “Play With Fire,” “Heart of Stone,” “Mother’s Little Helper” “Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby Standing in the Shadow?” and “Honky Tonk Woman” –- all featuring reproductions of their original picture sleeves.
“We’re thrilled to add this Rolling Stones product to our exclusive Record Store Day releases,” said Crosley Radio President Keith Starr. “Combining Crosley’s passion for records with the band’s legendary legacy creates a collectible we know fans will be excited to spin.”
The mini turntable has regular turntable features like a headphone jack, adjustable pitch control and more, and also gives music fans the ability to stream vinyl using external speakers with a Bluetooth transmitter.
It will be available at independent record stores on April 18.
This isn’t the first mini-turntable Crosley has released for Record Store Day. In 2024, they released a Beatles mini-turntable in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the band touching down in America.
Zoe Saldaña stars as Neytiri in ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash.’ (20th Century Studios)
Happy New Year from Pandora: Avatar: Fire and Ash is the first #1 movie of 2026.
James Cameron‘s epic sci-fi sequel spends a third week on top of the box office, taking in another $40 million over the first weekend of the new year, according to Box Office Mojo. On Sunday, Walt Disney Studios announced that the threequel had passed the $1 billion mark globally.
Another Disney billion-dollar grosser, Zootopia 2, remained at #2, bringing in another $19 million, while Sydney Sweeney‘s The Housemaid rose to #3, earning just under $15 million.
Timothée Chalamet‘s ping pong drama Marty Supreme was #4, taking in $12.6 million. Having grossed $56 million in North America so far, it’s among the best-performing movies ever released by independent studio A24, known for films like The Brutalist, Moonlight, Everything Everywhere All at Once and Uncut Gems.
Here are the top 10 films at the box office:
1. Avatar: Fire and Ash — $40 million 2. Zooptopia 2 — $19 million 3. The Housemaid –– $14.9 million 4. Marty Supreme — $12.6 million 5. Anaconda — $10 million 6. The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants — $8.2 million 7. David — $8 million 8. Song Sung Blue — $5.8 million 9. Wicked: For Good — $3.2 million 10. Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 — $2.7 million
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Crosses dedicated to the 21 victims of the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary are placed in front of the school on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024 in Uvalde. (Aaron E. Martinez/Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)
(CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas) — Nearly four years after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in a Texas elementary school, a jury is set to decide whether a police officer should be held criminally responsible in connection with one of the worst school shootings in American history.
Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of former Uvalde school police officer Adrian Gonzales, charged with allegedly placing more than two dozen children in “imminent danger” by failing to respond to the crisis as it unfolded.
Prosecutors allege that Gonzales, one of the first of nearly 400 officers to respond to the rampage, failed to engage the shooter despite knowing his location, having time to respond and being trained to handle active shooters. It ultimately took 77 minutes for law enforcement to mount a counter-assault that would kill the gunman.
Ever since the shooting tore apart Uvalde on May 24, 2022, families of the victims have been seeking accountability and answers. Many have argued their children might have been saved had police confronted the gunman more quickly.
The trial, being staged 200 miles from Uvalde in Corpus Christi, marks an exceedingly rare instance of prosecutors seeking to convict a member of law enforcement for a response to a school shooting.
Prosecutors in June 2024 charged both Gonzales and Uvalde schools Police Chief Pete Arredondo — the on-site commander on the day of the shooting — with multiple counts of endangerment and abandonment of a child.
Gonzales and Arredondo are the only officers charged. Both have pleaded not guilty.
Investigations have determined that Salvador Ramos, 18, acted alone in carrying out the massacre. He was killed on-site at Robb Elementary School.
Gonzales was charged with 29 felony counts, one for each of the 19 fourth-graders who died in the shooting and 10 students who survived in classroom 112.
According to the indictment, he “failed to engage, distract or delay the shooter” after hearing the gunshots and learning about the shooter’s location.
Arredondo was charged with 10 felony counts for allegedly endangering the 10 survivors by delaying the law enforcement response and not following active shooter protocols.
Arredondo and Gonzales were charged at the same time, but Gonzales will be facing trial first and alone.
Arredondo’s case has been delayed indefinitely by an ongoing federal lawsuit filed after the U.S. Border Patrol refused repeated efforts by Uvalde prosecutors to interview Border Patrol agents who responded to the shooting, including two who were in the tactical unit responsible for killing the gunman at the school.
Each count carries a maximum of two years in prison, though judges and juries in Texas have broad discretion in imposing sentences, according to Sandra Guerra Thompson, a criminal law professor at the University of Houston Law Center.
“There’s a lot of different ways that this could go,” she said. “All the children who were so horrifically killed that would seem to motivate a longer sentence for anyone who is found to have some fault.”
Ahead of trial, prosecutors issued at least 75 subpoenas to potential witnesses, including police officers, teachers, and families of victims, according to court filings.
More than 20 members of the elite Texas Rangers, 16 members of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, and multiple physicians from nearby hospitals have received subpoenas, according to court filings.
In the attempt to make their case against Gonzales, prosecutors turned to a child endangerment law more commonly used to prosecute negligent parents or caretakers responsible for things like leaving a child in a hot car or without supervision at a beach. The law has rarely been used against police officers, experts noted, because of the difficulty in proving they had a legal obligation to the children.
“The critical issue here is whether the individual has a duty to act,” said Thompson, the law professor in Houston.
According to Houston-based defense attorney Nicole DeBorde Hochglaube, prosecutors will need to establish that Gonzales had a legal duty — not just a moral obligation — to intervene and that he failed to follow his training for active shooter scenarios.
“The jury is going to have the nasty task of looking through some horrible things to determine if he had the duty to act,” she said, referencing evidence such as body camera footage and frantic 911 calls from the shooting.
Legal experts who spoke with ABC News noted that Gonzales’ role as a responding officer — not the commander or case agent at the scene — could make it tough to convince the jury the man’s conduct amounted to a crime.
If prosecutors can secure a conviction, it would mark the first time that a police officer has been held accountable for how they carried out their duties at a mass shooting to which they responded.
Prosecutors rarely attempt to charge police officers who have responded to mass shootings, according to Phil Stinson, a professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, who maintains a database of police officers who have been arrested. Of the 25,000 arrests since 2005 included in the database, Stinson identified only two prosecutions similar to those against Gonzales and Arredondo.
Defense attorneys for Gonzales have argued he is being unfairly scapegoated for a crime he didn’t commit and that he did all he could to save and rescue children who were in imminent danger.
“Those precious souls were stolen by a monster that day, but that monster was not Adrian [Gonazales],” defense attorney Nico LaHood told ABC affiliate KSAT in San Antonio. “He was there, he was present. He was going into danger. And so the narrative of the government is something we’re going to contest highly, and that’s going to be the point of contention before this jury.”
Court filings shed little light on the case Gonzales’ lawyers will mount, though attorneys have signaled plans to use drone footage from Robb Elementary to assist them.
“The factual circumstances of this case intricately entail the timing and spatial proximity of the actors and events unfolding at Robb Elementary school on the day of the murders,” attorneys wrote in a court filing.
31st annual Critics Choice Awards logo (Critics Choice Association)
The 31st annual Critics Choice Awards took place Sunday night, hosted by Chelsea Handler. The show aired across E! and USA networks. Here’s the list of winners:
Film categories
Best picture One Battle After Another
Best actor Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Best actress Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Best supporting actor Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Best supporting actress Amy Madigan, Weapons
Best young actor/actress Miles Caton, Sinners
Best director Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Best original screenplay Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Best adapted screenplay Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Best cinematography Adolpho Veloso, Train Dreams
Best production design Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau, Frankenstein
Best editing Stephen Mirrione, F1
Best costume design Kate Hawley, Frankenstein
Best hair and makeup Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey, Frankenstein
Best visual effects Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett, Avatar: Fire and Ash
Best animated feature KPop Demon Hunters
Best comedy The Naked Gun
Best foreign language film The Secret Agent
Best song “Golden,” Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, Ido, 24 and Teddy, KPop Demon Hunters
Best score Ludwig Göransson, Sinners
Best casting and ensemble Francine Maisler, Sinners
Best stunt design Wade Eastwood, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
Best sound Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta, Gareth John, F1
TV categories
Best drama series The Pitt
Best actor in a drama series Noah Wyle, The Pitt
Best actress in a drama series Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus
Best supporting actor in a drama series Tramell Tillman, Severance
Best supporting actress in a drama series Katherine LaNasa, The Pitt
Best comedy series The Studio
Best actor in a comedy series Seth Rogen, The Studio
Best actress in a comedy series Jean Smart, Hacks
Best supporting actor in a comedy series Ike Barinholtz, The Studio
Best supporting actress in a comedy series Janelle James, Abbott Elementary
Best limited series Adolescence
Best movie made for television Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Best actor in a limited series or movie made for television Stephen Graham, Adolescence
Best actress in a limited series or movie made for television Sarah Snook, All Her Fault
Best supporting actor in a limited series or movie made for television Owen Cooper, Adolescence
Best supporting actress in a limited series or movie made for television Erin Doherty, Adolescence
Best foreign language series Squid Game
Best animated series South Park
Best talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Best comedy special SNL50: The Anniversary Special
Best variety series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
31st annual Critics Choice Awards logo (Critics Choice Association)
The 31st annual Critics Choice Awards took place Sunday night, hosted by Chelsea Handler. The show aired across E! and USA networks. Here’s the list of winners:
Film categories
Best picture One Battle After Another
Best actor Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Best actress Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Best supporting actor Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Best supporting actress Amy Madigan, Weapons
Best young actor/actress Miles Caton, Sinners
Best director Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Best original screenplay Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Best adapted screenplay Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Best cinematography Adolpho Veloso, Train Dreams
Best production design Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau, Frankenstein
Best editing Stephen Mirrione, F1
Best costume design Kate Hawley, Frankenstein
Best hair and makeup Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey, Frankenstein
Best visual effects Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett, Avatar: Fire and Ash
Best animated feature KPop Demon Hunters
Best comedy The Naked Gun
Best foreign language film The Secret Agent
Best song “Golden,” Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, Ido, 24 and Teddy, KPop Demon Hunters
Best score Ludwig Göransson, Sinners
Best casting and ensemble Francine Maisler, Sinners
Best stunt design Wade Eastwood, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
Best sound Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta, Gareth John, F1
TV categories
Best drama series The Pitt
Best actor in a drama series Noah Wyle, The Pitt
Best actress in a drama series Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus
Best supporting actor in a drama series Tramell Tillman, Severance
Best supporting actress in a drama series Katherine LaNasa, The Pitt
Best comedy series The Studio
Best actor in a comedy series Seth Rogen, The Studio
Best actress in a comedy series Jean Smart, Hacks
Best supporting actor in a comedy series Ike Barinholtz, The Studio
Best supporting actress in a comedy series Janelle James, Abbott Elementary
Best limited series Adolescence
Best movie made for television Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Best actor in a limited series or movie made for television Stephen Graham, Adolescence
Best actress in a limited series or movie made for television Sarah Snook, All Her Fault
Best supporting actor in a limited series or movie made for television Owen Cooper, Adolescence
Best supporting actress in a limited series or movie made for television Erin Doherty, Adolescence
Best foreign language series Squid Game
Best animated series South Park
Best talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Best comedy special SNL50: The Anniversary Special
Best variety series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
31st annual Critics Choice Awards logo (Critics Choice Association)
The 31st annual Critics Choice Awards took place Sunday night, hosted by Chelsea Handler. The show aired across E! and USA networks. Here’s the list of winners:
Film categories
Best picture One Battle After Another
Best actor Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Best actress Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Best supporting actor Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Best supporting actress Amy Madigan, Weapons
Best young actor/actress Miles Caton, Sinners
Best director Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Best original screenplay Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Best adapted screenplay Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Best cinematography Adolpho Veloso, Train Dreams
Best production design Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau, Frankenstein
Best editing Stephen Mirrione, F1
Best costume design Kate Hawley, Frankenstein
Best hair and makeup Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey, Frankenstein
Best visual effects Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett, Avatar: Fire and Ash
Best animated feature KPop Demon Hunters
Best comedy The Naked Gun
Best foreign language film The Secret Agent
Best song “Golden,” Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, Ido, 24 and Teddy, KPop Demon Hunters
Best score Ludwig Göransson, Sinners
Best casting and ensemble Francine Maisler, Sinners
Best stunt design Wade Eastwood, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
Best sound Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta, Gareth John, F1
TV categories
Best drama series The Pitt
Best actor in a drama series Noah Wyle, The Pitt
Best actress in a drama series Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus
Best supporting actor in a drama series Tramell Tillman, Severance
Best supporting actress in a drama series Katherine LaNasa, The Pitt
Best comedy series The Studio
Best actor in a comedy series Seth Rogen, The Studio
Best actress in a comedy series Jean Smart, Hacks
Best supporting actor in a comedy series Ike Barinholtz, The Studio
Best supporting actress in a comedy series Janelle James, Abbott Elementary
Best limited series Adolescence
Best movie made for television Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Best actor in a limited series or movie made for television Stephen Graham, Adolescence
Best actress in a limited series or movie made for television Sarah Snook, All Her Fault
Best supporting actor in a limited series or movie made for television Owen Cooper, Adolescence
Best supporting actress in a limited series or movie made for television Erin Doherty, Adolescence
Best foreign language series Squid Game
Best animated series South Park
Best talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Best comedy special SNL50: The Anniversary Special
Best variety series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
After their record label confirmed that March 20 would mark the group’s “comeback,” BTS announced on Sunday that that date would bring a new album from the K-pop superstars, who’ve been on hiatus for several years.
The album, their fifth full-length release, will drop at midnight ET. It includes 14 tracks, and is described as “driven by each member’s honest introspection.” The album “defines the group on its own terms,” according to a press release.
BTS will also hit the road for a world tour in support of the album, with details being announced Jan.14 at midnight KST. It’ll be their first major tour since 2022.
The group took a collective hiatus so that all the members could complete mandatory military service in their home country of South Korea. During that time, all of the group’s members released solo projects.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks with ABC News while appearing on This Week, Jan. 4, 2026. (ABC News)
(NEW YORK) — In the wake of the dramatic capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, and the “large scale strike” by the U.S. on the country, questions abound about how the U.S. might run a country of 31 million people.
President Donald Trump stunned and alarmed many by announcing not only Maduro’s ouster, but saying that the U.S. would “run” the country temporarily, a statement that drew sharp criticism from some Democratic lawmakers and others about a new and complex foreign entanglement.
Retired Marine Corps colonel and former State Department official Steve Ganyard, an ABC News contributor, told “Good Morning America” that American involvement could go on for a “very long time.”
“The trick here will be to not disturb the underlying structure of Venezuelan society … to find somebody that will come in, provide just enough stability to lead to what hopefully will be free and fair elections,” Ganyard said.
Ganyard also said the U.S. military force that is in place is not equipped “to put boots on the ground,” if the interim government does not go along with American interests. “Those options at this point are very, very limited,” he said.
Trump expressed skepticism about not only Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, but also other leaders in the country, due to their connection to Maduro.
The Venezuelan Supreme Court on Saturday directed the country’s vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, to assume the presidency, citing the “exceptional situation created by the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro Moros.”
In an address on Saturday, Rodriguez called for Maduro’s “immediate release.”
“The people must go to the streets, the armed forces must deploy across the country, and all institutions must activate — to defend what we are, as sons and daughters of Simon Bolivar,” she said during the address, in Spanish.
The statements appeared to be at odds with the characterization of her position by President Trump, who indicated that in a call with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Rodriguez said “she’s essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again.”
“She had a long conversation with Marco, and she said, “We’ll do whatever you need.” She, I think she was quite gracious, but she really doesn’t have a choice. We’re going to have this done right,” Trump said during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday.
Rubio, for his part, reserved judgment about Rodriguez’s comments. “We’re going to make decisions based on their actions and their deeds in the days and weeks to come,” he said in an interview with The New York Times.
ABC News has reached out to the State Department for comment.
During an appearance Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Rubio said that the administration was not recognizing Rodríguez as the current legitimate leader in Venezuela.
“We don’t believe that this regime in place is legitimate via an election,” Rubio said.
The implications of Trump’s pronouncement that the U.S. was going to “run” Venezuela were not immediately clear.
The president suggested during his press conference Saturday that some of his Cabinet officials could undertake the task in coordination with a team of people in Venezuela. He also did not rule out “boots on the ground” from the American military.
“We can’t take a chance of letting somebody else run it and just take over what he left, left off, so we’re making that decision now,” Trump said. “We’ll be involved in it very much. And we want to do liberty for the people.”
Trump also said that the opposition leader, Machado, does not have the “respect” needed to run the country. Political analysts interviewed by ABC News rejected Trump’s assessment of Machado.
A U.S. official said the Trump administration would engage diplomatically with the remainder of the Venezuelan government, engage with oil executives to rebuild the infrastructure, that the American military would remain at the ready, that the oil embargo would remain in place and the administration would continue to dismantle cartels. Beyond that, the plan was not immediately clear.
On “This Week” Sunday, when pressed on whether the U.S. was in charge of Venezuela right now, Rubio said that what the U.S. was “running” was the “direction” of the situation.
“What we are running is the direction that this is going to move moving forward. And that is we have leverage,” Rubio added.
