For fans of the Yellowstone prequel series 1923, New York City’s Paley Center for Media is offering a chance to get up close to some of the costumes that bring the show to life.
The center is showcasing wardrobe pieces worn by Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford, Brandon Sklenar, Julia Schlaepfer and others from the acclaimed Taylor Sheridan drama.
The organizers tease, “From the rich details and authenticity of the fashion of the era, the exhibit is a must-see for anyone who appreciates the magic of costume design, and the art of storytelling.” The even kicks off Wednesday, April 5, and runs through to Sunday, May 28, at The Paley Museum in New York City.
(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump’s indictment in New York is historic: never before has a former president been indicted for an alleged crime.
The closest would have been former President Richard Nixon, who was on the cusp of being indicted by a federal grand jury on four criminal counts for his role in the 1970s Watergate scandal. His resignation and pardon by President Gerald Ford spared both Nixon and the nation from enduring a potential criminal federal presidential trial.
Now Trump’s indictment by a grand jury in Manhattan on 34 felonies pertaining to an alleged scheme to catch and kill disparaging stories ahead of the 2016 election has opened up many questions including the role and scope of Secret Service protection, including whether it would extend to him if he were convicted and incarcerated.
Trump has entered a not guilty plea and he and his legal team have vehemently denied the allegations.
Protection of the president by the Secret Service began in 1901 after three presidents — Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield and William McKinley — were assassinated. Former presidents began receiving protection around 1958 under the Former Presidents Act, which mandated lifetime protection of former presidents of the United States who have not been removed from office solely pursuant to Article II of the Constitution.
At the time there were two living former presidents: Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman. But it was President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a former World War II general who led the Allies effort to beat the Axis powers, who was the first to receive this benefit.
The basis of Secret Service protection is “threat-based” and most current and former presidents receive thousands of threats while in and outside of office.
Under 18 USC 3056, the United States Secret Service is mandated by federal law to provide protection for the sitting president and their family, the vice president and their family, as well as a list of others including former president’s and first ladies and their children under 16 “for their lifetimes, except that protection of a spouse shall terminate in the event of remarriage.”
Although the law is clear, some have conflated the Secret Service protective mission with some type of an allegiance to an individual. Others have misinterpreted that steps the Secret Service may take to implement their protective methodology as making requests on behalf of a protected person. Neither is the Secret Service’s role and the law and mission are clear — to provide protection as a singular focus.
Congress, however, has changed the law regarding protection over the years and specifically for former presidents. In 1994, a legal change limited post-presidential protection to 10 years for presidents inaugurated after Jan. 1, 1997, which was signed into law by then President Bill Clinton. This meant that any president after Clinton would only receive protection for 10 years.
On Jan. 10, 2013, President Barack Obama signed the Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012 which reinstated lifetime Secret Service protection for former President George W. Bush, who had a myriad of terrorist threats aimed at him post 9/11. Obama, who had ordered the mission against Osama Bin Laden, had also received threats. They and all subsequent presidents would get lifetime protection.
By law, only the sitting president, vice president, president-elect and vice president-elect cannot decline protection. Everyone else on the list, including former presidents are able to decline protection, if they choose to do so. Nothing in the statue, as written, forces someone who receives Secret Service protection to lose that protection under any circumstance other than death or, in the case of a former first lady, remarriage.
As such, the question about how protection would work if a former President were to go to jail has a clear answer.
Simply, the law mandates it and the Secret Service would have to provide protection, even in jail, as only the protectee may end it.
Congress could change the law but, historically, the only ex-president with Secret Service protection to ever end it was former President Nixon, who left the White House in 1974 and ended his protection in 1985.
Donald J. Mihalek is an ABC News contributor, retired senior Secret Service agent and regional field training instructor who served during two presidential transitions. He was also a police officer and served in the U.S. Coast Guard.
Johnny Depp‘s first film project following his 2022 defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard is headed to the Cannes Film Festival.
As reported, Depp played King Louis XV for French director Maïwenn’s based-on-real-life love story Jeanne du Barry.
The French language film will debut at the festival on July 16 — the same day it hits movie theaters in France, according to Deadline.
According to the trade, Maïwenn plays the eponymous main character in the film about the courtesan who worked her way into the king’s court and his heart, while keeping her position in the world’s oldest profession a secret.
Elvis Presley’s life and legacy will once again be celebrated at Graceland this summer, with Elvis Week set to go down August 9-17 in Memphis, Tennessee.
This year marks the 46th year of Elvis’ passing. Elvis Week will once again include a candlelight vigil at Graceland’s Front Gate on August 15, which will be streamed online for fans. Elvis Week will also include an August 15 celebration of Elvis’ daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, who passed away in January.
There will be anniversary celebrations of two classic Elvis TV specials: On August 14, the 55th anniversary of the 1968 NBC comeback special will be marked with an enhanced screening, while the Aloha From Hawaii 50th Anniversary Concert will take place August 16. Both celebrations will feature a live band, special guests and more at the Graceland Soundstage.
Tickets, as well as a complete lineup of Elvis Week guests and activities, can be found at ElvisWeek.com.
(WINONA, Minn.) — A Minnesota mother of two has been missing for nearly a week under “suspicious” circumstances, said police, who are investigating whether foul play is involved.
Madeline Kingsbury, 26, was last seen Friday morning, police said. She and her children’s father dropped the children off at a day care shortly after 8 a.m. before returning to her home in Winona, according to Winona Police Chief Tom Williams. The children’s father told police he left the house in Kingsbury’s van around 10 a.m., but when he returned later that day, Kingsbury was not there, Williams said at a press conference Wednesday.
Kingsbury did not show up for work that day. She also did not respond to “numerous” calls and messages from friends and family and failed to pick up her children from day care that afternoon, which is “extremely out of character for her,” police said.
“We believe Maddi’s disappearance is involuntary, suspicious and we are all concerned for her safety,” said Williams.
There is no indication Kingsbury left home on foot or in another vehicle, and her cellphone, wallet and ID were found in the house, Williams said.
Investigators obtained surveillance video showing a van matching the description of Kingsbury’s leaving and returning to the area of her home between 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Williams said. Authorities said they could not share information at this time on who was driving it.
“Based on the investigation, we know that the children were dropped off at the day care and that the van returned home,” said Williams, adding that “the investigation is still open and ongoing as to what happened upon returning home.”
Williams asked residents in surrounding areas to check their home cameras for signs of a dark blue minivan “driving by or stopping.” The Winona Police Department has also requested that residents of Winona and nearby Wilson Township and Hillsdale Township search their property “for anything suspicious that may help find Madeline.”
Authorities said they have not identified any suspects or persons of interest.
Kingsbury’s family announced Wednesday they are offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to her whereabouts.
“Please help us find Madeline,” her sister, Megan Kingsbury, said during emotional comments at the press conference. “Her children need their mother. We need our daughter, our sister, our aunt and our best friend back.”
Her sister described Kingsbury as a “hard-working and dedicated mother” who works for the Mayo Clinic and is a graduate student.
Her children — a 2-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl — are safe, the police chief said.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is assisting in the investigation.
“We are very hopeful we will find her,” Williams said.
Police described Kingsbury as 5-foot-4 and weighing 135 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes. Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or the Winona Police Department at 507-457-6288.
Mott the Hoople and David Bowie are forever linked thanks to the 1972 classic “All The Young Dudes,” which Bowie wrote for the band. But it turns out the relationship between the artists didn’t last beyond the collaboration.
“David was a different kettle of fish,” Mott the Hoople’s Ian Hunter tells Classic Rock magazine. “David was great all the time I knew him, but he wasn’t a guy I would have hung out with.”
Hunter says it was “nothing personal,” and they “got on fine in the studio” and even hung out a few times. “But I don’t make mates easy. I never did,” he says. “And when I do make a mate, it’s for life. He was a friend like lots of people you meet along the way.”
Bowie, who was a fan of the band, reportedly offered them a song after hearing they considered breaking up after their 1971 album Brain Capers didn’t perform well. Hunter is still a little surprised by the tune they got.
“It’s a great song,” he says. “God knows why he gave it to us. I’ve said that many times, but really, if I’d’ve had that song I wouldn’t have given it to anybody.”
Hunter describes Bowie as determined and ambitious, which he wasn’t, noting, “I just wanted to play rock ’n’ roll because it excited me.”
“But generous to a tee, lovely with the band,” he says of Bowie. “I mean, he gave us ‘Dudes.’ I’ve got nothing but praise for David.”
(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) — When California’s Pajaro River flooded around midnight on March 11, breaching a levee, the neighboring area was urged to evacuate — with many leaving around 1 a.m. carrying only the clothes on their backs, according to some of those forced to flee.
It was “the worst case scenario,” Luis Alejo, chair of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, wrote in a tweet.
Nonprofits and the state government have stepped in to assist residents, but advocates say they have growing concerns that Pajaro is being overlooked and that many of the local immigrant families may be left behind because some of them don’t have legal status in the country — though California government officials insist otherwise, saying that their aid isn’t tied to immigration laws.
Pajaro is an unincorporated community that sits about 90 miles south of San Francisco. It is 92% Hispanic and slightly more than 18% of the 3,000 residents live under the poverty line, according to one estimate.
“I see my grandfather in a lot of these older workers. It hurts me when people fail to recognize their hard work, their humility,” said Ray Cancino, CEO of Community Bridges, a nonprofit that is helping the flood victims.
More than 330 residents are still receiving emergency shelter services as of this week, according to a statement from Monterey County Second District Supervisor Glenn Church, and more than 521 households have been served at the local assistance center.
“The County of Monterey will provide whatever assistance we can to individuals in Monterey County impacted by these terrible winter storms regardless of immigration status. In addition to any County resources, we are working with several non-profit groups that are supporting relief efforts for those with or without documentation,” a spokesman for Monterey County’s government, Nicholas Pasculli, said in a statement to ABC News. He also pointed to the state’s services for disaster victims, regardless of immigration status.
But Cancino, with the nonprofit, said the situation still raised concerns. He said that many migrants in Pajaro don’t have legal status, though situations vary and some are in the U.S. lawfully, and that complicates how much the Federal Emergency Management Agency can help them.
“There isn’t enough philanthropic opportunity for us to take care of them,” he told ABC News.
Community leader Sergio Villaron said that he is especially worried about his neighbors who are field and farm workers. With the fields flooded, Villaron said that many of them are not going to be able to work.
“That’s how they feed their families, and if they don’t have that, it’s gonna be hard times for them,” Villaron said.
A FEMA flyer said that non-monetary aid such as medical care or shelter is available to all who face disasters, no matter their immigration status, Villaron said, but he does not know if he and everyone else in his community can apply or where to start the process. (FEMA did not respond to a request for comment for this story.)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has requested a major disaster declaration as a result of the floods. In a press release, he said that the state would support “undocumented workers and communities ineligible for FEMA individual assistance due to immigration status.”
A spokesperson for Newsom said that the state has provided $15 million through local levee assistance and other support to fund the Pajaro River Flood Risk Management Project, which would cover up to 100% of the non-federal costs for the management of the levees.
Cancino believes the majority of evacuated people in Pajaro will likely not be eligible for certain aid from FEMA because of their immigration status, and those that may qualify are the children of laborers.
He said support is crucial while Community Bridges and other nonprofits work to provide housing to the victims.
“Their landlord is going to take probably 18 to 24 months to get their funding from FEMA, to get people to fix things to get it out of habitable and during that time, there’s not gonna be any affordability available anywhere in this county,” Cancino said.
Nonprofits in the area have raised $1.2 million in cash for flood victims and more in supplies, he said, but it is “absolutely not” enough to cover all of the damages.
Newsom said in a news conference last month that $42 million was available for United Way, the international nonprofit network. But the United Way of Monterey County Director Katy Castagna said in a statement to ABC News that the correct amount for local assistance is around $300,000 and the money was from a COVID-19 relief fund, not for the flooding.
“Regarding the overall financial situation, we know it is dire for the whole community of Pajaro,” Castagna said. “A number of community-based organizations and philanthropic partners are collaborating to provide basic needs for those in the shelters, staying in cars and motels. Damage assessments have not been done and we anticipate recovery will take years.”
Amid the struggle to rebuild, Villaron said that the community thinks a lot like him: Stay positive and keep moving forward.
(MADISON, Wis) — Wisconsin’s high-stakes Supreme Court race culminated Tuesday in a victory for the liberal candidate and a fiery, bitter concession speech by the conservative contender that underscored the acrimony by the end of their contest — the most expensive such election in history.
Dan Kelly, a former justice on the high court who was running for a return, lambasted Justice-elect Janet Protasiewicz for discussing her personal views on policies and issues expected to come before the state Supreme Court, including her support for abortion rights and criticism of Republican-drawn legislative maps.
“This didn’t turn out the way that we were looking for, and I think there are a couple of reasons for it and I think we need to address them head on. And it brings me no joy to say this. I wish that in a circumstance like this I would be able to concede to a worthy opponent. But I do not have a worthy opponent to which I can concede,” Kelly said Tuesday night.
“This was the most deeply deceitful, dishonorable despicable campaign I have ever seen run for the courts,” he said. “It was truly beneath contempt. Now I say this not because we did not prevail — I do not say this because of the rancid slanders that were launched against me, although that was bad enough. But that is not my concern. My concern is the damage done to the institution of the courts.”
The rhetoric reflected the repercussions of the race, with Protasiewicz’s win flipping the court from a 4-3 conservative majority to one that liberals will control by a 4-3 margin until at least 2025. It’s the first time liberal-aligned judges will be in the majority in 15 years.
Among the issues the court is anticipated to take up are an 1849 law that bans nearly all abortions and challenge to the legislative maps, which Republicans drew after 2010 and which are widely seen as gerrymandered despite Wisconsin’s status as a swing state.
Republicans had knocked Protasiewicz throughout the campaign for discussing her beliefs on issues she could soon decide on, though it appears the attacks were insufficient to prevent Kelly’s 11-point loss, which is almost identical to his margin of defeat when he lost his seat on the court in 2020.
Kelly had stayed away from commenting as directly on those issues, but he won endorsements from anti-abortion groups and previously worked for the state GOP in private practice.
Protasiewicz’s campaign, meanwhile, said it was important to communicate with voters what her views are and rejected the premise that such comments forecasted how she would rule form the bench.
“She’s been very clear that these are her personal values: She believes in democracy, she believes in access to health care. But that’s not saying how she’s going to vote on these if they’re before the court. We have no idea of knowing who will bring those challenges to the court, what will be made,” campaign spokesperson Sam Roecker told ABC News on Monday.
“She has made no promises to rule one way or the other on any case before the court. But I think part of this as she’s here on the campaign trail is that voters expect to know some of the values of who they’re voting for,” Roecker said then. “This is a big election. There’s a lot at stake.”
Still, Kelly pulled no punches, casting his defeat in nearly apocalyptic terms for his state’s future.
“I respect the decision that the people of Wisconsin have made. But I think this does not end well. Now as I look forward, I hope, I hope it does end well. This has been a beautiful, beautiful life here in Wisconsin with all of you,” he said Tuesday. “And I wish, Wisconsin, the best of luck because I think it’s going to need it.”
(WARREN, Mich.) — A Michigan man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a grocery store clerk with a 4-pound frozen fish during a dispute, prosecutors said.
The incident occurred Sunday around 7:13 p.m. local time at a grocery store in Warren, in the Detroit metro area, Macomb County prosecutors said.
After the fish counter clerk informed the man that the counter had closed at 7 p.m. due to the Ramadan holiday, the suspect allegedly “became angry and argued with the clerk,” the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release on Wednesday.
“The suspect then allegedly assaulted the clerk on the head with a 4-pound frozen hilsa fish,” a type of herring, the prosecutor’s office said.
Local police arrested the suspect and the victim was transported to the hospital, prosecutors said. The Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office did not have an update on the victim’s condition as of Wednesday.
The suspect — identified by prosecutors as MD Jobul Hussain, 60 — was charged with one count of aggravated assault, a misdemeanor. He was arraigned on Monday in Warren District Court and has posted a $5,000 bond, online court records show. A pretrial hearing has been scheduled for April 27, according to court records.
“I never thought I’d have to say this, but if you assault someone with a fish in our county you will be prosecuted,” Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido said in a statement. “A frozen fish is dangerous if you use it to hit someone on the head.”
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(NEW YORK) — Just days after a new report revealed antisemitic incidents reached an all-time high in 2022, a new ad campaign calling on non-Jewish people to condemn such discrimination crossed millions of Americans’ TV screens.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found antisemitic incidents increased by more than 30% in 2022 compared to 2021, according to a report published last month. The anti-hate and anti-bias advocacy group counted 3,697 antisemitic incidents in 2022 — the highest total since the ADL began tabulating those incidents in 1979, according to group’s March report. Those incidents mark a 36% increase from the 2,717 incidents the organization tabulated during the previous year, which was at the time a historic high. Reported incidents range from harassment to vandalism and assaults on individuals.
The organization collects data through reports from victims, which ADL staff work to verify, as well as details from law enforcement and the media.
“There is no one single reason why antisemitic incidents are on the rise. But there are several trends, including the emboldening of extremists and hate groups, in part due to the political discourse,” Emily Snider, an Antisemitic Incident Specialist at the ADL’s Center on Extremism, told ABC News.
Some organizations announced they were taking action following the report’s release. On March 27, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, donning a blue lapel pin on his blazer, announced the The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism’s “Stand Up to Jewish Hate” campaign, slated to air on national television.
“This little blue square represents the Jewish population in the United States — 2.4%,” said Kraft, pointing to the pin. “But we’re the victims of 55% of the hate crimes in this country.”
“Let the Jewish community know they are not fighting alone,” one online video states.
Biden administration officials have also spoken about the importance of protecting Jewish institutions and other faith communities. On March 23, the Department of Homeland Security rolled out PreventionResourceFinder.gov, a website that provides resources to prevent “targeted violence and terrorism.”
Antisemitism serves as a “connective tissue” that brings together different hate and extremist groups, Susan Corke, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), told ABC News.
When asked whether the SPLC has tracked a similar rise in antisemitic incidents, Corke said that while the SPLC does not track specific events, statistics from the ADL along with other data from the SPLC show “that there’s been a shift to more public spectacle, that there’s more hateful incidents that are intersecting people in their daily lives.”
Those incidents include “flyering,” defined as hate groups distributing flyers with antisemitic propaganda. One such incident occurred in October 2022, when antisemitic flyers faulting Jewish people for health, social and racial issues were distributed in Beverly Hills, California.
“My family was forced to flee our homeland when I was a year old because of antisemitism and violence, so to see some of the same ideas, Jewish conspiracy theories, pop up at our home it’s really terrifying,” Sam Yebri, a Jewish refugee from Iran, told ABC News after the incident.
Another public spectacle of antisemitism: graffiti on Jewish institutions. In October, Ben and Esther’s Vegan Jewish Deli in Portland, Oregon, was vandalized with a swastika.
“As a Jew, it’s something that I’ve dealt with my whole life,” Justin King, the deli’s owner, told ABC station KATU. “My childhood synagogue was shot up in Miami, and to this day they still have the shotgun holes in the stained glass windows.”
“This type of action needs to upset people. And if it didn’t, I would have to question where I am living,” King told KATU.
Corke noted that hate crimes are often underreported, as police departments are not required to report hate crimes to the federal government. She noted the rise in hate crimes against one group is often indicative of discrimination on the rise more broadly, such as the increased harassment against Asian Americans since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“When we see rises in hate crimes or hate incidents, among any particular group of people, you tend to see that across all the categories,” Snider said.
Snider said there could also be some overlap between the perpetrators of antisemitic and anti-Asian American crimes, including within organized white supremacist groups.
The rise of antisemitic incidents requires the appropriate attention to be fully understood, Snider and Corke said.
“I don’t think it’s ever too much work to shine light on hate. … And we do need media, and politicians, and school officials, and also our entire society to shine light when hate happens in order to hopefully effect the change,” Snider told ABC News.
Corke called for “a different kind of awareness” that places these incidents in a broader context.
“Because when there’s a hate crime, there’s expressions of concern and then it dies down. I think what people are failing to understand, that this is a more organized and longer-term, campaign, movement, by the far right to undermine democracy in America,” she said.
“[We should be] recognizing that a hate crime is more than just that one crime, but it really harms the whole community and is intentional to create this larger fear in society,” she added.
But even amid the concerning trends, Snider said that the Jewish community in America should use the ADL’s report as a renewed wakeup call — while still remaining proud of its identity.
“Our communities are strong. We’re strong. We’re resilient. I wish we didn’t have to be resilient, but we are. And I hope that the Jewish community continues to take these incidents seriously, continues to firm up security at their institutions,” Snider said. “But always, always, always, it’s important to remain firmly proud, proud to be Jewish, and feel empowered to express your Jewish identity authentically, however that looks like for you.”
ABC News’ Luke Barr and Kendall Ross contributed to this report.
