Ahead of launching her massive Celebration Tour, Madonna has a special release coming in June for Pride Month.
Finally Enough Love: The Rainbow Editionis a special rainbow-vinyl version of her 2022 dance remix collection, which celebrates her 50 number-one singles on Billboard’s Dance/Club chart. It was originally released in June 2022 in a variety of different formats, including a limited edition six-LP set on red and black vinyl, which sold out in three days.
This new edition, due out June 23, features all 50 tracks over six LPs, each one a different color of the rainbow. It’ll set you back $199.98.
When Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones was first released, it debuted at number eight on the Billboard album chart, making her the first artist to have a top-10 album in the U.S. in the last five consecutive decades, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Madonna’s Celebration Tour starts July 15 in Vancouver.
With his final Late Late Show airing Thursday evening, James Corden is looking back.
To Deadline, the English Tony winner turned American talk show host said, “The nature of our show is we really want to go out with a bang. We want to go out in the same manner that we came in.”
He quipped, “It’s like my theory about on-set catering; people only really remember the first and last day’s food. That might apply to talk shows as well.”
The “way [they] came in” was a debut episode that featured Tom Hanks recapping his entire filmography, in the first installment of what became a recurring bit, as well as appearances from Chris Rock and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Officially, Harry Styles and Will Ferrell will be the final guests on The Late Late Show, which will be preceded on CBS by a Carpool Karaoke special that will air at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
That said, it’s safe to say there will be some celebrity surprises in store.
Corden said to the trade about the show’s Emmy-winning, eight-year run, “I can’t believe that this was ever anything that I got to do and I felt that the whole way.”
He adds, “I have nothing but love and gratitude for all of it. I’m from High Wycombe. The frame of my face doesn’t look like one that should be hosting [a] television show in any way, and if it was, it would probably be late-night sports.”
Corden summed it up by saying, “The overwhelming thing I feel is I don’t know what I’ve done to deserve such memories.”
(ANTIOCH TOWNSHIP, Ill.) — An Illinois man using a leaf blower on his property was shot and killed by his own neighbor this month, becoming the latest in a string of high-profile shooting victims targeted while doing everyday tasks.
According to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, William Martys was found dead in his Antioch Township driveway around 7:35 p.m. on April 12 with a gunshot wound to his head. He was declared dead at a local hospital.
After an investigation, authorities on Tuesday arrested Martys’ 79-year-old neighbor, Ettore Lacchei, who they say approached Martys and began arguing with him. During the dispute, Lacchei shot and killed Martys.
“Our condolences go out to the family and friends of William Martys, who was senselessly murdered,” said Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg. “The members of the sheriff’s office are relentless when it comes to seeking justice for victims. The members of our Criminal Investigations Division have been working around the clock to bring Mr. Martys’ murderer to justice, and I am happy Mr. Martys’ family can begin the closure and healing process.”
Lacchei is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and is being held without bond in the county jail.
In a press release, the sheriff’s department said that Lacchei had “various perceived grievances” with Martys.”
A neighbor of both men confirmed that history to ABC affiliate WLS, claiming that Lacchei had pulled a gun on Martys at least once before.
“No one deserves anything like that and it’s just kind of crazy to think that someone can just break like that over just a simple argument that can be fixed just talking,” said neighbor JR McCarty.
Investigators found the likely murder weapon near Lacchei’s property line, the sheriff’s office said.
Martys’ daughter, Jacquelyn Martys, told the Washington Post that the family had no comment on her father’s death.
“We are trying to deal with the tremendous loss,” she said.
(SPRING VALLEY, Miss.) — A detainee who escaped from a Mississippi jail along with three other men nearly a week ago has been detained in Texas, authorities said Thursday.
The breach occurred at the Raymond Detention Center Saturday night, when four detainees escaped through the roof of the Hinds County jail, according to the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office.
A Hinds County public works pickup truck that was reported stolen amid the breach was found abandoned Sunday afternoon in Spring Valley, Texas, in the Houston area, authorities said.
One of the escaped detainees, 51-year-old Jerry Raynes, was captured on surveillance footage at a service station Sunday morning in Spring Valley, according to the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office.
Raynes has since been captured in Spring Valley and will be held facing extradition back to Mississippi, the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.
Raynes had been in the Raymond Detention Center since January 2022 after being charged with auto theft and business burglary and has a history of escaping pretrial detention facilities, according to Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones.
He and three other men were discovered missing from the jail early Sunday following a headcount, according to Jones. The men were pretrial detainees, meaning they were being held in prison while awaiting trial.
One of the escaped detainees — 22-year-old Dylan Arrington — was killed in a shootout with deputies at a residence in Leake County Wednesday morning, according to Jones. Arrington had barricaded himself inside the home, which somehow became engulfed in flames during the standoff, Jones said.
While on the loose, Arrington was believed to be involved in a fatal carjacking in Jackson on Monday. The victim — identified as the Rev. Anthony Watts — was believed to have pulled over to help after someone crashed a motorcycle before he was fatally shot, authorities said.
Arrington had been in the detention center since April 13 after being charged with auto theft and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, according to the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office.
The other escaped detainees were identified by the sheriff’s office as Casey Grayson, 24, who had been detained since mid-February and was charged with the sale of a controlled substance and grand larceny, and Corey Harrison, 22, who was charged with receiving stolen property and had been detained since April 7.
Their whereabouts are currently unknown, Jones said Wednesday, while noting that most of the detainees were believed to be in the central Mississippi area following their escape. It was unconfirmed if Raynes had traveled to Texas alone, Jones previously said.
ABC News’ Will McDuffie contributed to this report.
Get ready to spruce up your spring with the Spring collection from Miranda Lambert‘s Wanda June Home line.
While not launching until mid-May, the Walmart home-goods line shared a preview of what fans can expect on Instagram. The video post featured glimpses of the upcoming “Bless Your Heart” and “Hello Darlin'” doormats, among others.
Sneak a peek of the upcoming Spring collection on Wanda June Home’s Instagram and shop the available items at Walmart.
This September, Amy Winehouse would have turned 40. Her parents are marking that milestone by releasing Amy Winehouse: In Her Words, a collection of lyrics, journal entries, photos, mementos and more.
The contents of the book will “trace her creative evolution growing up in North London to global superstardom,” according to publisher Harper Collins, and “will show fans, music aficionados, and pop culture fanatics Winehouse’s incredible writing process and creative mind.”
The book is “a visual celebration of the singer’s life and reflects her sense of fun, emanates her strong spirit, and unfolds her inspiring development into an award-winning and chart-topping singer and lyricist,” according to Harper Collins.
After recording her landmark album Back to Black and becoming the first British female artist ever to win five Grammys, Amy died of alcohol poisoning in July 2011. Her music has subsequently inspired everyone from Adele, Alessia Cara and Billie Eilish to Sam Smith and Bruno Mars.
(WASHINGTON) — Flanked by two pint-sized “Secret Service agents,” President Joe Biden took to the South Lawn on Thursday afternoon to greet kids at the White House for “Take Your Child to Work Day” and answered various questions from children of the press and White House staff.
Kid “reporters” inquired about his favorite color and ice cream, what he had for breakfast (bacon, egg and cheese on a croissant) and his accomplishments during his administration, to name a few.
At one point, though, the president seemed to have some trouble answering what was the last country he visited — which was his beloved Ireland less than two weeks ago.
“I’m trying to think where the last place I was. It’s hard to keep track,” he said, noting he’s met with 89 heads of state so far.
A child shouted, “Ireland!” to remind him, to which Biden replied, “Yeah, you’re right, Ireland.”
Still, Biden appeared to enjoy the event, walking across the crowd to take questions from all sides.
Asked what it’s like being president, Biden said, “It’s probably the greatest honor anyone in America can have bestowed on them,” and said the best parts of the job are meeting different people and living in the White House.
About his favorite ice cream, Biden said he “may be among the dullest presidents of the world because I’m known for two things: My Ray-Ban sunglasses and chocolate chip ice cream.”
Asked who were his biggest inspirations, Biden said politically it was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. but for personal inspiration, his parents.
He said his favorite movie of the year was “Top Gun: Maverick.”
Biden wasn’t the only one at the White House facing questions from a flurry of kids.
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre held a briefing for children of the White House press corps earlier in the day, where she took questions on a wide range of topics from artificial intelligence and climate change to some of Biden’s favorite things.
Matthew Anderson, son of ABC News White House Correspondent Karen Travers, asked Jean-Pierre what the U.S. is doing to support Ukraine in its war with Russia.
“For the past year, we have been one of the leading countries, the US, in sending Ukraine security assistance, whether it’s ammunition, whatever is needed for them to fight this war that they’re dealing with in Ukraine…Also economic assistance and humanitarian assistance,” she said. “What we’re seeing in Ukraine are the Ukrainian people really fighting very bravely. And so we are incredibly proud of them.”
Following up, Anderson pushed Jean-Pierre on how long Biden wants to continue supporting Ukraine like this.
“As long as it takes. But we don’t know, we don’t have a time on when the war is going to end. We always say the war can end today, easily, if Russia decides to move on out and stop the war that they started, this aggression that they started,” she said. “Seriously, Russia can end this today.”
Later on the South Lawn, Biden thanked all the children for skipping school to make the trip, offering a special thanks to the mini-Secret Service agents for leading him outside.
“Take Our Kids to Work Day” is sponsored by the Take Our Daughters And Sons to Work Foundation. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the annual event, held on the fourth Thursday in April, intended to encourage learning and help children explore what is possible in their futures.
(WASHINGTON) — The Chinese cyber threat is “unparalleled” by any other national security challenge seen by the U.S. government, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
China, seemingly gearing up to invade Taiwan within years or even months, poses the most significant threat to the United States more broadly, Wray said during Thursday testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee.
“They’ve got a bigger hacking program than every other major nation,” Wray said.
“There’s no country that presents a more significant threat to our innovation, our ideas, our economic security, our national security than Chinese government. And that’s why we’ve grown the number of investigations into threats from China about 1300%,” he added.
The Chinese government has taken steps to intimidate expatriates who speak out against the country’s domestic crackdowns on civil liberties and aggressive international posture. Last week, the FBI arrested two men for operating an illegal Chinese police station in New York, which DOJ says was set up to harass dissidents in the United States.
“It’s frankly outrageous,” he said. “The Chinese government would think that they could set up shop here on our soil, and conduct uncoordinated unsanctioned illegal law enforcement operations, and unfortunately, it fits in with a pattern of the Chinese government trying to basically run willy-nilly disregard for the rule of law and threaten, harass, stalk surveil dissidents.”
China has been ramping up its technological abilities in recent months, a national push memorably encapsulated by a Chinese spy balloon traversing U.S. soil in February.
But China, the director said, is just the tip of the cyber iceberg.
“China is not the only challenge in cyberspace. Not even close,” he said, noting the department is investigating over 100 different ransomware variants.
“So, in addition to China countries like Russia, Iran, and North Korea, and it is getting more and more challenging to discern where the nation state threat ends, and the cybercriminal threat again,” he continued.
Wray said the “unbelievably dangerous” nature of the dark web could imperil individuals via coordinated criminal activity such as drug trafficking.
“[It’s] everything from certainly things like fentanyl, as we already talked about, but also all the way over to stolen credentials to log into somebody’s network, or you can hire a hitman,” he said. “I mean we’ve even had WMD type products, if you will, being marketed on the dark net. So, it really is a kind of soup-to-nuts, a place of just unbelievably dangerous criminal activity.”
The director said the FBI is focused on combatting the “threat” of gangs and cartels moving fentanyl through the U.S. and said the FBI is investigating some of the top brass of the cartels in Mexico.
“We’re now pursuing investigations against transnational organized criminal groups in all 56 FBI field offices and have more than 300, close to 400, now active investigations into cartel leadership,” he said.
Wray, who called on Mexico to “help us with this problem,” also touched on migration, saying he anticipates that the FBI’s DNA collections will increase by at least 30,000 with the lifting of pandemic-era Title 42 expedited processing of migrants. For some populations who are arrested along the U.S.-Mexico border, the FBI collects DNA and is required to do so by law for some who are arrested.
When Wray was asked about the politicization of the FBI, just one day after the House narrowly passed a 22% reduction in funding for the bureau, he emphasized that there are no political appointees, except for himself, in the FBI.
“I’ve put in place all kinds of new policies, procedures, training, systems, enhancements, all to reinforce that sort of top line message,” he said. “We’re going to follow the facts wherever they lead, no matter who likes it.”
Wray said that a decrease in funding for the FBI would mean more violent criminals on the street and “hundreds more predators on the loose and hundreds more kids left at their mercy.”
Pete Davidson, his real-life mom, Amy, and his TV mom, Edie Falco, from his upcoming series Bupkis are featured in a new Mother’s Day issue of Good Housekeeping.
In fact, one of the covers has “Good” scratched out, with “Bad” in its place.
Both of Pete’s moms shared their favorite Mother’s Day memories, with Amy enthusing that Pete once “outdid himself” and made her an entire croquembouche, a tower of cream puffs. “It was … how I knew my little boy had something special, if this was what he could pull off when he focused his love and energy.”
Davidson said, “Mother’s Day is an important holiday in my household. We’re a close family, and growing up, my sister and I always tried to make things special, although I wasn’t always good at it. I’m pretty sure I bought her the same Britney Spears perfume eight years in a row.”
Amy added, “I never wore it, but I always appreciated it.”
Falco expressed, “When my kids were very little, they decided to have my breakfast waiting for me when I came downstairs in the morning. It was dinosaur oatmeal … Now, they were little, so … they also didn’t quite know the difference between the salt and the sugar, so it wasn’t the best cup of coffee I ever tasted, but they won some serious points for adorableness.”
Amy also said getting to appear on the Mother’s Day episode of Saturday Night Live every year during Pete’s run was her favorite gift, adding, “I got to meet Benedict Cumberbatch! And Jack White! We talked for over an hour. We’re friends now.”
Pete replied, “No, you’re not. And that wasn’t Jack White.”
Whoever it was, they all apparently played miniature golf together, according to Amy.
When she was 14, GAYLE went to see Taylor Swift on her Reputation tour. Now 18, she’s opening for Taylor on her Eras Tour — and getting advice from her, too.
GAYLE tells Teen Vogue that she first met Taylor in 2022 at a Nashville event, and Taylor asked her if she toured. When GAYLE said yes, Taylor asked her, “Are you touring next year?”
“I’m like, ‘Yeah, I am.’ She’s like, ‘That’s amazing. Do you open up for people?’” GAYLE continued. “I don’t know why my dumb a** said this, but I was like, ‘I open up for people who ask me to open up for them.’ She was like, ‘I’ll call you.’ I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to die.'”
Now, in addition to the great exposure she’s getting from opening for Taylor, GAYLE also gets to pick the superstar’s brain about her experiences, especially regarding internet hate. After GAYLE’s song “abcdefu” blew up, there was huge backlash from people who didn’t think she deserved it.
“People couldn’t understand the possibility of me having the success I’ve had,” GAYLE recalls. “Like, I had to have had this big machine [behind me], or be a nepotism baby, or my parents have to be billionaires.” She even wrote a song about it called “Everybody Hates Me.”
But GAYLE says Taylor convinced her it was no big deal, and advised her to make the music she wants to make, deal with the response and try to grow artistically.
“She’s like, ‘Baby child. Come on. What controversy could you have had for the five minutes you’ve been making music?’ And that’s true,” says GAYLE, adding, “It was really, really nice for her to say, when I’ve told her my biggest, deepest worries, she’s like, ‘You’re right. And it’s fine.’”
