(LONDON) — The prince and princess of Wales stepped out in their Sunday best alongside their three children during a church outing at Windsor Castle to celebrate Easter.
In their first Easter outing as the prince and princess of Wales, Prince William and Kate Middleton brought Prince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 7, and 4-year-old Prince Louis to this year’s Easter services.
The family of five color-coordinated in royal blue outfits, matching with King Charles and Queen Camilla for the celebration, which is the same color of choice for the recently released portrait of the king and queen consort ahead of coronation ceremonies next month.
Princess Kate wore a blue coat dress, a matching blue pillbox hat and a rare bold shade of red nail polish.
Princess Charlotte was dressed in a floral dress with blue tights, while Prince George matched his father Prince William in matching navy suits and ties.
Prince Louis donned powder blue shorts, typical wear for young boys in Britain, as well as navy knee socks and a blazer with a blue tie.
The family affair comes a month before the grand coronation of King Charles III on May 6. Invitations for the ceremony were recently released. It was also announced that Prince George, the second in line to the throne, will be included in the historic event as a page for the king.
(NEW YORK) — Global warming isn’t just increasing the amount of moisture in the atmosphere — it’s also capable of shifting wind patterns, which will further increase hurricane risk in the U.S., according to new research.
Heat-driven shifts in large-scale atmospheric circulation could escalate the risk of hurricanes making landfall on the Gulf Coast and southern Atlantic coast in the U.S., a study published Friday in Science Advances found.
New model-based research found that enhanced surface ocean warming in the eastern tropical Pacific could trigger large-scale shifts in upper atmosphere wind patterns, according to the study.
These shifts could help steer hurricanes closer to the Gulf Coast and lower East Coast, decreasing the vertical wind shear in those regions, which could then allow hurricanes to intensify even more and amplify risks to coastal communities, the researchers said.
“The same winds that steer storms towards the U.S. coast will also make the storms stronger near the coast, because they are lowering wind shear,” Karthik Balaguru, a climate and data scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and author of the study, told ABC News.
The model, called the Risk Analysis Framework for Tropical Cyclones and generated by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, is able to generate large ensembles of tropical cyclones and hurricanes, which then allows for robust quantification, Balaguru said. This is the first research to identify the mechanisms behind increased hurricane risk in the U.S. due to climate change, Balaguru said.
Scientists expect warming in the atmosphere and upper ocean to contribute to landfalling hurricanes becoming more destructive. Warming-induced shifts in large-scale wind patterns could also cause more storms to stall or dissipate more slowly on land.
The models found that the development of large-scale cyclonic wind patterns in the upper troposphere over the western Atlantic — due to heating in the eastern tropical Pacific — caused prevailing winds in the western Atlantic to shift westward.
That westward shift then steered hurricanes closer to the U.S. coast, increasing the frequency of landfalling hurricanes in a given year, the study found.
The new findings adds to existing research that climate change is creating stronger hurricanes that contain more moisture and as well as the U.S. Atlantic Coast becoming a “breeding ground” for rapidly intensifying hurricanes.
Future research on how global warming will affect changes in sea surface warming will be necessary to enhance the confidence of scientists to accurately predict hurricane risk in the future, Balaguru said.
“Red Flags” singer Mimi Webb toured the U.S. last year with Tate McRae, but the British artist says she’s still got a long way to go before she’s as successful in America as she is back home in England.
“That’s like a massive goal for me…as a U.K. artist, to be able to break in America, that really is like the highest honor,” she tells ABC Audio. “And I think, just for America to understand and get my music is just the dream.”
Mimi is currently on tour in the U.K. but she says the next step towards attaining her goal is to come back and do more of it in America.
“I want to go back in and hopefully get on another big tour and just kind of, y’know, go bigger and bigger and just kind of grow as an artist and learn someone else’s fan base, and try and see what they think of my music,” she explains.
In fact, Mimi already has an idea of which “big tour” she’d like to get on. But something tells us she’ll have to get in line.
“You know, for me, even like the Miley Cyrus tour would be just such a dream come true,” says Mimi. “I’m also a huge fan of Miley Cyrus. I just love the kinda like country twang on her vocals. And it’s just like, she’s not just an American artist: There’s something also a lot more soulful and deep there.”
“So yeah, that would be like a really big dream to be able to do her tour or something!” she laughs.
Of course, Miley has yet to announce any sort of tour for her Endless Summer Vacation album. If she does, it’ll likely be a hot ticket, thanks to the success of “Flowers.”
On Friday, fans were blessed with Never Enough, Daniel Caesar‘s first album since Case Study 01. He came up with the title after repeatedly saying the phrase, as well as a coincidental moment he experienced when abroad.
“I’d been saying it a lot,” he tells Variety of the album’s name. “And then one day … I was on a boat ranting about something never being enough. Then this other boat just floated by, and it was called Never Enough. That was an interesting name for a boat.”
“I was in the south of France … and I started talking with the people on the boat and found that they were from [my hometown of] Toronto,” he continues. “I was so far away from home and met a family from Toronto on this boat. It just felt like a synchronicity moment.”
Never Enough marks Daniel’s third studio album. It sees him take on more of a producer role, which he says he’d “been itching to do.” “I’m still stepping into it. I still needed guidance; I still needed people around that I trusted to bounce ideas off of,” he adds. He says it was initially daunting to produce alongside Raphael Saadiq, but notes the singer is the kind of person who “makes you feel comfortable.”
After a nearly four-year hiatus, Daniel says he’s learned that “it’s never over ‘til it’s over.”
“During COVID, it kind of felt like the world had moved on. If I’m not doing COVID radio or getting on Instagram Live … you feel like the world is going to move on, and then you don’t have a platform anymore,” he says. “If every time you make something, you put your all into it, and people like it, there’ll be someone there to listen when you come back around.”
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band are currently on their North American tour, and it certainly sounds like E Streeter StevenVan Zandt is loving it.
“This tour is really interesting, and different from what we’ve done for the past 40 years,” he tells USA Today, noting that unlike previous concerts where the set changes every night, this one has a theme and “is more like a Broadway show.”
He says, “It combines a theme of mortality with a proof of vitality. This show is a hurricane from beginning to end.”
Little Steven has toured with Springsteen for a long time and has performed a lot of his songs. So, what are some of his favorite ones to play live? “A lot of my favorites we don’t play,” he says, listing off cuts like “Restless Nights” and “Loose Ends” from the 1998 compilation Tracks, and “The Little Things (My Baby Does)” and “Gotta Get That Feeling” from 2010’s The Promise.
“But I love the show we’re doing,” Van Zandt says. “The guy has not written a song that I don’t enjoy.”
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band still have a couple of shows left for this leg of the tour. They play Long Island, New York, on Tuesday, April 11, before wrapping things up on Friday, April 14, at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. They then go to Europe and the U.K. before returning to the States in August. A complete list of dates can be found at BruceSpringsteen.net.
Let’s go, Mario! The Super Mario Bros. Movie topped the box office delivering an estimated $146.4 million domestically in its three-day opening weekend and $204.6 million in its first five days.
The impressive debut makes the animated adventure film the biggest opening of 2023 with a $377.6 million worldwide tally. It also broke records for the biggest animated film surpassing Frozen 2’s record of$358 million and became the top-grossing video game adaptation ever over Warcraft‘s $210 million.
Super Mario Bros., which featured characters voiced by Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black, Seth Rogan, Keegan-Michael Key, Charlie Day, and more, also now stands as the highest-grossing debut for an Illumination film and the second-biggest debut ever for an animated title over Finding Dory.
Remaining in second at the box office was John Wick: Chapter 4. The Keanu Reeves-led movie added another $14 million to its tally, bringing its total to $147 since opening three weeks ago.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves dropped to the third slot in its second week of release with $14.5 million, while Mat Damon’s Air came in fourth with $14 million.
Scream VI rounded out the top five, adding $3.3 million to its total.
(NEW YORK) — With former President Donald Trump now formally charged on criminal charges, a majority of Americans (53%) believe he intentionally did something illegal, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll.
An additional 11% say he acted wrongly but not intentionally. Only 20% believe Trump did not do anything wrong, and 16% say they don’t know, per the ABC News/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel.
As part of the Tuesday charges against the former president, Manhattan prosecutors alleged that Trump engaged in a “scheme” to boost his election chances during the 2016 presidential race through a string of hush money payments made by others to boost his campaign, and then “repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records” to conceal that criminal conduct.
A “statement of facts” paired with the 34-count indictment alleges that Trump discussed the scheme while he was in the Oval Office and made reimbursement payments to his lawyer for a year while in office.
Trump pleaded not guilty to all 34 felony counts and has long denied any wrongdoing.
Democrats are largely convinced of Trump’s culpability, with 87% saying he intentionally did something illegal, and a majority of independents (57%) agree.
Of note, the former president is enjoying weaker-than-usual support from his own partisans with only a plurality of Republicans (45%) thinking Trump did nothing wrong, and the rest of the party split among the belief he intentionally did something illegal (19%), he was wrong but it was unintentional (18%) or they simply do not know (17%).
ABC News/Ipsos asked nearly identical questions of the American public in polling conducted last week immediately following the historic indictment and once again after the charges were made public and Trump was formally arraigned.
Between the weeks, some modest but clear trends have emerged.
The announcement of formal charges has nudged public opinion slightly against Trump, particularly among independent voters. As of April 1, exactly half of the public said the charges against Trump were either very or somewhat serious, and 36% said they were not. Now, after the indictment has been unsealed and the public has heard Trump’s condemnation of the investigation, 52% find the charges very or somewhat serious, and 39% deem the charges not too serious or not serious at all.
But either way, more Americans are making up their minds — while 14% of the public did not know how they felt about the severity of the charges as of April 1, that figure has shrunk to 8%.
Independents had an 11-point point shift in their views of the severity of the views, the polling showed. Last week, 43% of independents found the charges very or somewhat serious. This group, a critical voting bloc for the once-again presidential candidate, has swung against him, as 54% now say the same.
More Americans believe this week that Trump should have been charged with a crime, with 50% saying he should have been, 33% saying he should not, and 17% not knowing. Roughly the same percentages say that the charges are politically motivated, with 50% saying they are, 36% saying they aren’t, and 13% not knowing.
Slightly more Americans (48%) also believe Trump should suspend his bid for the White House, compared to the 43% who suggested so in the last ABC News/Ipsos poll. Again, independents were most likely to shift on this question, going from 41% saying he should suspend his campaign on April 1 to 52% now.
Views of Trump overall have taken a hit too, with only 25% thinking favorably of him, down 10 points since right before the last presidential election. In comparison, President Joe Biden’s favorability rating currently stands at 34%, according to the poll.
In a speech at his Mar-a-Lago estate Tuesday night, Trump claimed the “fake case” was brought “only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election” and said it should be “dropped immediately.”
Joe Tacopina, a Trump attorney, said the indictment “shows that the rule of law died in this country.”
“While everyone is not above the law, no one’s below it either,” Tacopina said. “And if this man’s name was not Donald J. Trump, there is no scenario we’d all be here today.”
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in a press conference claimed Trump and his associates engaged in a “catch-and-kill scheme.”
“These are felony crimes in New York state, no matter who you are,” Bragg said. “We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct.
This ABC News/Ipsos poll was conducted using Ipsos Public Affairs’ KnowledgePanel® April 6-7, 2023, in English and Spanish, among a random national sample of 566 adults. Results have a margin of sampling error of 4.4 points, including the design effect. Partisan divisions are 26-25-40 percent, Democrats-Republicans-independents. See the poll’s topline results and details on the methodology here.
(ORLANDO, Fla.) — Three people and one suspect are dead after a suspected domestic violence incident turned deadly in Orlando, Florida, early Sunday morning, according to Orlando Police Chief Eric Smith.
Officers received calls for a domestic violence incident and arrived at a home near Parramore Avenue and Grand Street at around 2:28 a.m. Sunday. Once they arrived, they heard shots fired inside the home, Chief Smith said in a press conference.
The suspect, who was armed, later walked out of the home and started firing at responding officers, the chief said. Police then returned fire, and the suspect later died in police custody, he said.
Three people had been shot inside the home, officers said. One victim, who was a child, was transported to a hospital, but later succumbed to their injuries, said Smith. The other two victims, who were adults, also died by gunfire, he said. Their names and ages have not been released at this time.
The two officers who responded were not injured, and will be placed on administrative leave, as is protocol with officer-involved shootings, the Orlando Police Department said in a statement.
(NEW YORK) — With the trial of John Carter, who’s been charged in the cold case murder of his fiancee, Katelyn Markham, scheduled to begin in the summer of 2024, the victim’s father said he hoped a conviction would close a dark chapter in his life.
“That has been a huge and very hard time of my life for 12 years,” David Markham told ABC News. “The relief that I think I am going to feel will be so welcomed and grateful.”
Carter, who is now 35, reported Katelyn’s disappearance to police in Ohio in 2011. Her remains were found in rural Indiana two years later. Carter’s trial is expected to begin next summer, with an opening date scheduled for June 24, 2024.
In an interview days after her disappearance, Carter told ABC Cincinnati affiliate WCPO-TV he hoped to see Katelyn again.
“I’m terrified, I’m absolutely terrified,” he said at the time. “I just want to find Katelyn and celebrate her birthday with her.”
Butler County Prosecutor Michael Gmoser included in court documents a typed poem that his office said was found in Carter’s home.
“Deep down I love her. You want to kill her,” it said in part. “But I love her. She must die. I can’t kill her. Yes you can. No. Yes.”
Gmoser and his team took over the cold case two years ago and said they were able to gather enough information through interviews and documents to lead to Carter’s arrest.
Markham said he was blindsided when notified by the prosecution that Carter’s arrest was imminent.
“I had no indication that they were going to arrest him,” Markham said.
A few minutes later, he found out Carter was in police custody, he said. His phone started buzzing with messages from reporters, friends and family, he said.
“It took me a few hours to kind of let it sink in,” Markham said. “The biggest feeling was relief and it’s about time.”
Carter’s defense attorney, Chris Pagan, did not respond to ABC News’ request to comment.
Carter posted a $1 million bond, but was still being held in Butler County Jail as of Friday, according to the Sheriff’s office.
He is expected to wear a GPS monitor as he awaits his trial under Honorary Judge Daniel E. Haughey, according to Butler County Clerk online records.
A support rally for Katelyn was held at Creekside Park in Fairfield on Saturday with family and friends attending as they continue to honor her and hope for closure in this cold case.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Pittsburgh 1, Chicago White Sox 0
Texas 8, Chicago Cubs 2
San Francisco 3, Kansas City 1
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 4, Detroit 1
Tampa Bay 11, Oakland 0
NY Yankees 5, Baltimore 3
Houston 5, Minnesota 1
Cleveland 7, Seattle 6
Toronto 12, LA Angels 11
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 6, Philadelphia 4
Miami 7, NY Mets 2
Milwaukee 6, St. Louis 1
Colorado 7, Washington 6
Arizona 11, LA Dodgers 6
San Diego 10, Atlanta 2
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Toronto 121, Milwaukee 105
Boston 120, Atlanta 114
Charlotte 106, Cleveland 95
Chicago 103, Detroit 81
Houston 114, Washington 109
Philadelphia 134, Brooklyn 105
Miami 123, Orlando 110
Indiana 141, New York 136
San Antonio 138, Dallas 117
Oklahoma City 115, Memphis 100
Golden State 157, Portland 101
Denver 109, Sacramento 95
LA Lakers 128, Utah 117
LA Clippers 119, Phoenix 114
Minnesota 113, New Orleans 108
