Kid Cudi is excited for fans to hear what he says is the most powerful album he’s ever made. In an Instagram Live session Thursday, he boasted about the music, which he believes people will enjoy.
“I’ve never made a project this powerful before in my life. Sitting, listening to these mixes, I just know that this sh** is going to move you,” Cudi said.
“I just wanted to get on here and just let y’all know that I’m not gonna let y’all down. This is gonna be the album of the year right now, I’m not playing,” he continued, urging viewers to spread the news to everyone they know.
The lead single off Cudi’s upcoming album will drop in June and will be accompanied by a music video that he will direct.
“Im directing the video for my first single. Sh**s gonna get wild,” he tweeted.
As for other projects Cudi has in store, they include a “really cool tv gig that I’m throughly excited about” and “some movies comin this year.”
“Very big deal to me,” he said of the opportunities. “The blessings are overflowin.”
(WASHINGTON) — Amid a flurry of activity from House Republicans regarding Jan. 6, including Speaker Kevin McCarthy sharing security footage from the U.S. Capitol attack exclusively with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, a Republican-led committee has now launched a formal probe into the riot two years ago and the select committee that subsequently investigated it in the last Congress.
Georgia Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk — whom the House select committee on Jan. 6 had suggested was linked to a tour through parts of the Capitol on the day before the attack — will lead the new probe focusing on reviewing the security failures of that day and the earlier committee’s work, Loudermilk’s office confirmed to ABC News.
The House Administration Committee has also created an online portal to collect tips from the public.
“The Subcommittee on Oversight is dedicated to following the facts, not a particular political narrative. We are focused on finding out what really happened on January 6 so we can ensure it never happens again,” Loudermilk said in a statement to ABC News.
The news was first reported by CNN.
In a letter late last year, McCarthy wrote to the then-chairman of the Jan. 6 select committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., telling his panel to preserve all the evidence and records it had and said that Republicans intended to hold hearings about the security failures on Jan. 6 once they took the House.
Prior to retaking the majority, some Republicans teased for months their plans to investigate the investigators on the Jan. 6 committee, which issued a final report late last year after approximately 18 months of work, nine public hearings and hundreds of interviews.
The Jan. 6 committee also referred former President Donald Trump and others to the Justice Department for “possible prosecution … including for assisting and providing aid and comfort to an insurrection,” as described in the report.
The committee called Trump the “central cause” of the riot. He denies wrongdoing.
ABC News reported on Wednesday that Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are planning a visit with some defendants who are being held in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The U.S. Capitol Police chief, Tom Manger, wrote in a letter last year to the House Administration Committee that there is no evidence Loudermilk gave “recognizance” tours before the riot.
Iggy Pop is opening up about his life and career in a new documentary in which he sits down for a conversation with Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea.
Bitten By Flea, directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Thom Zimny, sees the two artists discussing a whole host of subjects and features exclusive footage of Iggy, Flea and producer Andrew Watt in the studio working on Iggy’s 19th solo album, Every Loser, which was released in January.
“This is a proper musicians get-together,” Iggy writes on Instagram. “On making of, making it, life itself.”
Up next for Iggy, he and The Losers have five U.S. dates confirmed in April, starting April 20 in Los Angeles, running through April 29 in Las Vegas. A complete list of dates can be found at iggypop.com.
Bono and TheEdge’s upcoming Disney+ special, Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming, has them touring Dublin with David Letterman. The U2 rockers say it was only right to invite the talk show host to come visit them in their city.
“You know, he had us on his stomping ground” for a week, Bono tells Access Hollywood, referring to their weeklong visit on The Late Show in 2009. “So it was the right thing to return the compliment and host him at home in Dublin.”
The Edge adds, “We thought a stand-up comic like Dave might be able to understand what we are about and unravel the U2 mystery.”
In the special, Bono and The Edge perform a song they wrote about Dave, which he still can’t quite believe.
“I’m still processing it because most songs written about me begin, ‘Hey dumb***,’” Letterman joked. “So this was an unusual experience.”
Bono and The Edge were also asked about how long it took for them to get used to their nicknames, and it sounds like they may still be working on that.
“Nicknames, you don’t choose them, your friends choose them and they’re not necessarily compliments, they’re often slags, as we’d say in Ireland,” Edge says, to which Bono chimed in, “It’s always uncomfortable, is what The Edge is saying, but even his mother used to call him The Edge. In fact, Mrs. Edge used to call him The Edge.”
As for whether Letterman has a nickname, Bono says it’s “Lord,” to which Letterman clarified, “Lord Dips***.”
Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming debuts March 17 on Disney+.
(SAN BERNARDINIO COUNTY, Calif.) — Twelve people have died after powerful storms hit Southern California’s San Bernardino County and cut off mountain communities. However, only one of those deaths, which was caused by a traffic accident, is so far being considered weather-related, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
“The preliminary information in the other deaths does not indicate they are weather related, but those investigations are ongoing,” the sheriff’s department said.
A series of snowstorms brought unprecedented snow to California late February into early March. San Bernardino County declared a local emergency on Feb. 27 “after residents of mountain communities found themselves trapped at home or unable to reach home due to several feet of snow that fell over the weekend,” officials said at the time.
On Feb. 23, the National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for the San Bernardino Mountains, the first in more than three decades. The weather service initially forecast a snowfall of about 5 feet at elevations as low as 5,000 feet.
Crews have removed more than 7.2 million cubic yards of snow from highways in San Bernardino County, which equals nearly 2,270 Olympic-size swimming pools, according to the governor’s office.
“We continue to support our allied agencies who made great progress overnight on utility restoration. Last night deputies responded to several well checks; residents were safe, supplied, & declined evacuation. Deputies continue responding to calls & assisting residents,” the sheriff’s department said Wednesday.
Residents have told horror stories about being stuck, snowed in at homes with no way in or out.
Christine Foster, who lives in the San Bernardino Mountains, told ABC News on Monday that she and her 76-year-old father have been hunkered down, unable to get out of their home for 14 days with food running low.
“You can’t even shovel the stuff. It’s just rock hard ice. Shovels just easily break,” Foster said in a telephone interview from her home in Lake Arrowhead.
The storm left about 600 elementary and middle school students from Orange County’s Irvine Unified School District stranded for a weekend, after they were unable to return from a school trip.
More rain and snow are headed toward California Thursday and Friday when a major storm hits the state. An atmospheric river will slam the San Francisco area with heavy rain and dump another 5 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
(SAN BERNARDINIO COUNTY, Calif.) — Twelve people have died after powerful storms hit Southern California’s San Bernardino County and cut off mountain communities. However, only one of those deaths, which was caused by a traffic accident, is so far being considered weather-related, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
“The preliminary information in the other deaths does not indicate they are weather related, but those investigations are ongoing,” the sheriff’s department said.
A series of snowstorms brought unprecedented snow to California late February into early March. San Bernardino County declared a local emergency on Feb. 27 “after residents of mountain communities found themselves trapped at home or unable to reach home due to several feet of snow that fell over the weekend,” officials said at the time.
On Feb. 23, the National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for the San Bernardino Mountains, the first in more than three decades. The weather service initially forecast a snowfall of about 5 feet at elevations as low as 5,000 feet.
Crews have removed more than 7.2 million cubic yards of snow from highways in San Bernardino County, which equals nearly 2,270 Olympic-size swimming pools, according to the governor’s office.
“We continue to support our allied agencies who made great progress overnight on utility restoration. Last night deputies responded to several well checks; residents were safe, supplied, & declined evacuation. Deputies continue responding to calls & assisting residents,” the sheriff’s department said Wednesday.
Residents have told horror stories about being stuck, snowed in at homes with no way in or out.
Christine Foster, who lives in the San Bernardino Mountains, told ABC News on Monday that she and her 76-year-old father have been hunkered down, unable to get out of their home for 14 days with food running low.
“You can’t even shovel the stuff. It’s just rock hard ice. Shovels just easily break,” Foster said in a telephone interview from her home in Lake Arrowhead.
The storm left about 600 elementary and middle school students from Orange County’s Irvine Unified School District stranded for a weekend, after they were unable to return from a school trip.
More rain and snow are headed toward California Thursday and Friday when a major storm hits the state. An atmospheric river will slam the San Francisco area with heavy rain and dump another 5 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
With the 95th annual Academy Awards on Sunday night, Screen Junkies‘ Honest Trailers have taken on all 10 Best Pictures nominees, “since you probably only saw Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar 2.”
Epic Voice Guy opens by calling the Oscars “the show that’s only worth watching to see what goes horribly wrong,” complete with Crash‘s win, the Moonlight mix-up and that Oscars slap.
Tár features “a bunch of classical musical talk that will go over your head,” while The Fabelmans is introduced as “a stirring look at the life of great American director Steven Spielberg, that’s a little self-indulgent, but if anyone deserves it, it’s director Steven Spielberg.”
Triangle of Sadness is called “2022’s fourth high-profile attempt to hurt the 1%’s feelings,” and Baz Luhrmann‘s Elvis tweaks lead Austin Butler as “the true story of one young man’s rise from obscurity and the fateful decision he was never fully able to leave behind: doing the Elvis voice.”
Top Gun: Maverick is “a sequel to an action movie that audiences actually like, so it has zero chance of winning Best Picture.”
Avatar: The Way of Water features “James Cameron … reunited with his favorite co-star, water.”
Women Talking is called “a film that truly delivers on the promise of its title,” and the “cozy sweatered conflict” of Banshees of Inishirin comes from “Martin McDonagh, a director so famously Irish he was born and raised in London … but still makes Irishness his whole thing, like if Boston was a person.”
All Quiet on the Western Front is described as an “epic prequel to World War II,” and Everything Everywhere all At Once is called “the decade’s best film about the Multiverse, and that’s saying something, ’cause [Marvel Studios president] Kevin Feige has been trying his best, OK?”
(LANSING, Mich.) — The Michigan legislature has voted to repeal a nearly century-old law criminalizing abortion.
The Michigan Senate passed HB 4006 on Wednesday, which revokes the 1931 ban on abortion, less than a week after it passed the state House on March 2.
The bill, which is just a single sentence, now heads to the desk of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who is expected to sign it into law.
Specifically, the bill repeals Section 750.14, which makes it a felony — punishable by up to four years in prison and/or a fine of up to $5,000 — to administer drugs that induce a miscarriage unless the mother’s life is in danger.
It also repeals Section 750.15, which makes it a misdemeanor to advertise, publish, or sell “any pills, powder, drugs or combination of drugs” that can cause an abortion.
The bills were passed in both chambers largely on party lines, with the vote passing in the Senate 20-18 and 58-50 in the House last week, with two Republicans joining all 56 Democrats.
“Today’s repeal of this antiquated law is a victory for millions of Michigan residents who, like myself, value bodily integrity and personal freedom,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement. “The people of this state can rest assured that their elected officials will not sit idly by in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned, and will fight to ensure that residents’ health, safety, and wellbeing is safeguarded from harmful legislation.”
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer, there was confusion over whether the 1931 law went back into effect.
However, a state judge ruled in September that the ban is unconstitutional, barring any state prosecutors from enforcing it.
Whitmer’s office did not reply to ABC News’ request for comment.
Anti-abortion groups criticized the passing of the legislation and described the repeal of the 1931 law as “radical.”
“Today’s reckless vote takes us down an increasingly dangerous path, and Michiganders are watching,” Barbara Listing, president of Right to Life of Michigan said in statement. “This sweeping removal of common-sense health and safety protections that have been in place for decades further demonstrates the radical pro-abortion stance to which the majority of our elected officials have come to subscribe.”
The statement continued, “This position puts viable human life and women’s health second to an increasingly radical agenda that knows no boundaries.”
The repeal comes not long after Michigan voters said yes to a constitutional amendment that would add protections for reproductive rights in the November 2022 election.
The amendment defines reproductive freedom as “the right to make and effectuate decisions about all matters relating to pregnancy, including but not limited to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion care, miscarriage management and infertility care.”
(FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz.) — Former Navajo Nation President Peterson Zah, who made his mark on Native American education at his reservation and Arizona State University, has died at the age of 85.
Zah was the first elected president in 1990 on the nation’s largest tribal reservation, the Navajo Nation, and had been ill for some time, according to his family. Zah died Tuesday at the Tséhootsooí Medical Center in Fort Defiance, Arizona.
“The Navajo Nation lost one of its iconic leaders last night, Dr. Peterson Zah,” Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said in a joint statement by the Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President and Navajo Nation Office of the Speaker. “He was the first president of the Navajo Nation, and he was a good champion even in Washington, D.C., in the 90s and the 80s.”
The late leader was born in December 1937 in Low Mountain, a section of the reservation, and attended Phoenix Indian School, a boarding school. He later went to community college and on a basketball scholarship, attended Arizona State University with a major in education where he later returned. He worked as the special adviser to the university’s president on American Indian Affairs for 15 years.
Zah also served as the chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1983 to 1987 before becoming the president from 1991 to 1995.
During his time as chairman, he established the Navajo Nation’s Permanent Trust Fund in 1985 after winning a court battle with Kerr McGee. The court case established the tribe’s authority to tax companies who extracted minerals from the reservation leading to all coal, pipeline, oil, and gas leases being negotiated with increased payment.
He was the 2008 recipient of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Servant Leadership Award and received an honorary doctoral degree from Arizona State University, Colorado College and The College of Santa Fe. Although Zah never held an elected position before being chairman, he exemplified what leadership meant, according to those who were guided by him.
“Shida’í, Mr. Zah, molded our people to think as a nation, and, despite his age and health, he never quit in his mission to see us become who we ought to,” Carl Roeseel Slator, Navajo Nation council delegate, said in a statement. “We are stronger because of his leadership, compassion, intelligence, and gift for elevating the ordinary deliberations of our society into echoes of our future.”
As previously reported, Florence Welch seemed to tease fans earlier this week with the suggestion that she’d covered the classic No Doubt hit “Just a Girl.” Well, the wait for it is over, because the song is out now.
Florence + The Machine’s take on the classic track is featured in the just-released trailer for season 2 of Showtime’s Yellowjackets. Their version is very much Florence + The Machine, giving the song a haunting vibe that slowly builds.
“I’m such a huge fan of Yellowjackets and this era of music, and this song especially had a huge impact on me growing up, so I was thrilled to be asked to interpret it in a ‘deeply unsettling’ way for the show,” says Welch. “We tried to really add some horror elements to this iconic song to fit the tone of the show. And as someone whose first musical love was pop punk and Gwen Stefani it was a dream job.”
