With a shot of a baby’s onesie, on which was written “coming soon…” Lindsay Lohan announced to 12.4 million Instagram followers Tuesday that she’s expecting.
“We are blessed and excited!” the Mean Girls star wrote, speaking for herself and her financier husband Bader Shammos, who she tagged in the post, which also included praying hands emoji, a baby, and a baby bottle.
ABC Audio has also confirmed the good news through the 36-year-old’s publicist.
The couple were engaged in November of 2021, and she announced on social media they tied the knot in July. “I am stunned that this is my husband,” she said in a now-deleted post. “My life and my everything. every woman should feel like this everyday.”
Ellie Goulding is readying the release of her new album, Higher than Heaven, out April 7, but the singer revealed she’s been working on a classical album on the side.
“I have made a classical album in the past couple of years, a few friends, we just have to finish it,” she told Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe. “I’m kind of moving towards that. I think that would be fun.”
Unfortunately, that was all the information Ellie was willing to share.
Elsewhere in the interview, the singer opened up about the added pressure social media puts on artists, especially when it comes to making a big splash.
“There is a lot of waiting around for an artist to … make something viral. I would say it’s different now. You have more control, but you are also like, ‘What the hell is going on?'” she explained, adding, “There’s so many different ways of now putting your music out there.”
She also notes the way artists present themselves to fans has changed, which leads to questions like, “Am I giving away too much or am I not giving enough?”
“People are just desperate for information … They want to know you, they want to know every single thing that goes into a song. They now want to know a song before it even comes out, even gets played on the radio for the first time,” Ellie continued.
The singer added TikTok has further broken down the mystique of artists. “The videos that my label make and management make just don’t often get the same attention as me just coming home late night dancing in my kitchen,” she said. “I feel like the mysterious thing is just gone. No one can do that anymore.”
Her new song “Miracle” with Calvin Harris is out now.
Guns N’ Roses areset to headline the 2023 Aftershock festival, taking place October 5-8 in Sacramento, California.
GNR will close the festival Sunday night, with Queens of the Stone Age and Rancid also on the bill. The four-day lineup also includes such artists as Megadeth, The Cult, Tool, Korn, Incubus and Godsmack.
Tickets are on sale now. For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit AftershockFestival.com.
Spiritbox will no longer be playing on Falling in Reverse‘s upcoming Popular Monstour.
In a statement posted to Twitter, the Canadian metallers write, “We have withdrawn from the 6 shows we were scheduled to perform on the Popular Monstour.”
The statement comes a week after the Popular Monstour was announced. FiR is headlining, and the bill also includes Underoath, Ice Nine Kills and Crown the Empire.
Falling in Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke has faced many controversies over the years, including supporting Crown the Empire guitarist Brandon Hoover amid allegations of abuse against him. Crown the Empire has denied the allegations, and issued a cease and desist to the accuser.
The Popular Monstour — which is named after Falling in Reverse’s 2019 single “Popular Monster” — kicks off in June.
(NEW YORK) — Russian fighter jets collided with the rear propeller of an unmanned U.S. military drone on Tuesday, forcing the U.S. to bring down the drone into the waters.
U.S. European Command labeled the incident as “dangerous” and said it could “lead to miscalculation and unintended escalation.”
“At approximately 7:03 AM (CET), one of the Russian Su-27 aircraft struck the propeller of the MQ-9, causing U.S. forces to have to bring the MQ-9 down in international waters,” U.S. European Command said in a statement.
“Several times before the collision, the Su-27s dumped fuel on and flew in front of the MQ-9 in a reckless, environmentally unsound and unprofessional manner,” it added.
EUCOM said the incident “demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional.”
The incident is apparently the latest in what EUCOM labeled a “a pattern of dangerous actions by Russian pilots while interacting with U.S. and Allied aircraft over international airspace, including over the Black Sea.”
And it stressed that “These aggressive actions by Russian aircrew are dangerous and could lead to miscalculation and unintended escalation.”
“Our MQ-9 aircraft was conducting routine operations in international airspace when it was intercepted and hit by a Russian aircraft, resulting in a crash and complete loss of the MQ-9,” said U.S. Air Force Gen. James B. Hecker, commander, U.S. Air Forces Europe and Air Forces Africa. “In fact, this unsafe and unprofessional act by the Russians nearly caused both aircraft to crash.”
“U.S. and Allied aircraft will continue to operate in international airspace and we call on the Russians to conduct themselves professionally and safely,” Hecker added.
(WASHINGTON) — Embattled Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., on Tuesday filed a new statement of candidacy to the Federal Election Commission, indicating he’s running for reelection — a move that will allow him to continue to raise campaign funds.
The new filing is in response to a letter from the FEC last month asking Santos to clarify if he’s running again in 2024, in order for him to continue raising money through his principal campaign committee, Devolder-Santos for Congress.
Campaign finance experts say it’s common for newly elected members of Congress to immediately declare candidacy again for a new election cycle in order to continue raising money, and that it doesn’t necessarily mean that they will for certain run again the following year.
But the new statement of candidacy from Santos is notable because of the unique situation the embattled freshman congressman is in, experts have said.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
The first round of performers for the 2023 CMT Music Awards has been revealed.
Blake Shelton, Carly Pearce, Cody Johnson, Keith Urban, co-host Kelsea Ballerini and Lainey Wilson are slated to perform, alongside earlier-announced superstars Carrie Underwood, co-host Kane Brown and his wife, Katelyn Brown.
Additional performers and presenters will be unveiled in the coming weeks.
The 2023 CMT Music Awards air live on CBS on April 2 at 8 p.m. ET. Livestreaming and on-demand streaming is also available on Paramount+.
View the full list of nominees and vote for your favorite artists now at the 2023 CMT Music Awards voting page.
Paramount Pictures has released the first poster for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, and perhaps not surprisingly, it highlights one of Tom Cruise‘s most death-defying stunts.
Cruise is shown in mid-free fall from a mountain, tailing his motorcycle, from which he sped off the precipice in Norway.
The motorcycle gag lead to a BASE jump from that height, a stunt the filmmakers say was the most dangerous Cruise ever performed.
Dead Reckoning – Part One stars Cruise, as well as returning M:I players Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Czerny and Vanessa Kirby, and series newcomers Esai Morales, Guardians of the Galaxy vet Pom Klementieff and her fellow Marvel movie star Hayley Atwell.
Dead Reckoning Part One, the seventh adventure in the blockbuster franchise, opens July 14. Part Two debuts in July 2024.
(WILMINGTON, N.C.) — The Environmental Protection Agency proposed its first-ever rule to reduce the prevalence of PFAS chemicals in drinking water Tuesday, taking the first step to require cities to test for the so-called “forever chemicals.”
“Today, I am thrilled to announce that EPA is taking yet another bold step to protect public health. I’m so proud to announce that EPA is proposing the first ever national standard to protect communities from PFAS in drinking water. This is something that communities like Wilmington have been demanding for years. And today we’re finally answering those calls,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said at the announcement in Wilmington, North Carolina.
The type of chemicals known as PFAS, short for per- and poly-fluorolalkyl substances, have become ubiquitous in modern life, used in everything from household products like nonstick pans, waterproof clothing and furniture to industrial uses like military-grade firefighting foam and manufacturing. They’re often nicknamed “forever chemicals” because they can stay in the environment or in the human body for a long time once they’re introduced.
The proposed EPA rule will regulate two of the oldest these chemicals — PFOA and PFOS — as well as a mixture of four other chemicals in this category including GenX, which has been detected in the Cape Fear River in North Carolina.
“It’s the resilient and durable qualities that make these chemicals so useful in everyday life. But it’s also what makes them particularly harmful to people in the environment,” Regan said Tuesday. “What began as a so-called miracle groundbreaking technology meant for practicality and convenience, quickly devolved into one of the most pressing environmental and public health concerns in the modern world.”
Long-term exposure to certain types of PFAS, which can accumulate in the body over time, “have been linked to serious illnesses, including cancer, liver damage and high cholesterol,” according to Regan.
PFOA and PFOS will be limited at a maximum level of four parts per trillion, meaning any water system that identifies levels above that would need to notify residents and take actions to get levels at least down to at least that level. The EPA previously recommended that anything above 70 parts per trillion is considered unsafe, but it lowered that health advisory level last year.
There hasn’t been national testing to determine how many Americans have this level of the chemicals in their water, but the EPA estimates that 3,400-6,300 water systems serving 70-94 million people use water that contains PFAS levels above what will be allowed under this rule.
The agency says the rule will prevent thousands of deaths and reduce tens of thousands of illnesses attributable to PFAS if fully implemented.
The American Chemistry Council, a trade group that represents the industry that makes these chemicals, says it supports drinking water limits on PFOS and PFOA but disagrees with the science EPA used to decide on the maximum limits.
“PFOA and PFOS were phased out of production by our members more than eight years ago. We support restrictions on their use globally, and we support drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS based on the best available science,” ACC said in a statement. “However, we have serious concerns with the underlying science used to develop these proposed MCLs and have previously challenged the EPA based on the process used to develop that science.”
Many advocates and experts applauded EPA’s rule as a critically important step but said they still want to see the agency regulate all 12,000 chemicals in the PFAS category and hold the companies who make the chemicals and caused PFAS pollution accountable.
“EPA’s groundbreaking proposal to regulate six PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ for the first time is crucially important. We have a five-alarm fire. Setting strong standards will help ensure the fundamental right of every family to have safe water flowing from their kitchen tap. We must crack down on PFAS polluters. They should be required to halt further pollution, clean up the contamination they’ve already caused, and pay to treat PFAS-contaminated drinking water,” Erik Olson, senior strategic director for health at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement.
Regan said the Biden administration has also made $9 billion available as a “shot in the harm” to help public water systems start to address this issue.
The EPA rule will be published for public comment and could be revised. Regan said he plans to finalize it by the end of this year.
Brian May officially has a new title. The Queen guitarist was at Buckingham Palace Tuesday to be knighted by King Charles.
Peoplereports May was made a Knight Bachelor during the investiture ceremony, receiving his honor “for his services to music and his charity work.” May shared a photo from the ceremony on Instagram, which shows King Charles laying a sword on his shoulder, with May commenting, “No words.”
“I’m happy and grateful to receive this honor,” the 75-year-old May shared back in January when he first made the 2023 New Year’s Honours List, the first from King Charles. “I will regard the knighthood not so much as a reward, but more as a charge — a commission — for me to continue to fight for justice — to be a voice for those who have no voice.” He added, “I will endeavor to be worthy — to be that Knight in Shining Armor.”
May was previously made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005.
