Carrie Underwood‘s oldest son is just one of the dudes now.
Isaiah Fisher celebrated his eighth birthday on Monday, and his famous mom shared some photos from his celebration.
“Isaiah wanted a @dudeperfect cake and taco night for his birthday!” she captioned the photo of a panda with basketball in hand against a blue cake with a football, baseball and soccer ball on top.
If you’re not familiar with Dude Perfect, it’s a popular YouTube channel built on trick shots and good-natured competition.
“I can’t believe he is 8! Where does the time go?” Carrie continued. “Thanks @iveycakestore for another delicious creation!”
If you’ve kept up with Carrie, you probably know that Ivey Cake is the Brentwood, Tennessee, bakery opened by her friend, who has typically made all the delights for her boys’ parties.
Wednesday night, Carrie’s back to work as her Denim & Rhinestones Tour stops by Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.
Kings of Leon got some famous friends to help announce a pair of concerts at the Racecourse Ground in Wales.
News of the shows was broken by none other than Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. You may recall that the actors are the owners of the Wrexham A.F.C. soccer team, which plays at Racecourse Ground.
In a video of the announcement, Reynolds introduces a “traditional Welsh song,” which turns out to be KoL’s “Use Somebody.”
“I know what you’re thinking,” McElhenney says. “That’s Kings of Leon, not a traditional Welsh song.”
The shows take place May 27 and 28. For ticket info, visit KingsofLeon.com.
Kings of Leon released their latest album, When You See Yourself, in 2021.
(NEW YORK) — Airlines around the world are changing flight schedules for thousands of upcoming summer flights.
If you’ve already booked a flight for May, June, July or August, there is a chance your departure time or day of travel has changed.
Airlines publish schedules about a year out from departure and as the flight date gets closer, airlines often need to change the departure time or scrap the flight altogether. Since travel rebounded following COVID-19 lockdowns, airlines have struggled to accurately predict demand.
Before the pandemic, airlines used historical data and trends to make flight schedules. As travel trends and days of travel have radically shifted in the post-lockdown era, it has become much more difficult to accurately predict exactly where and when travelers will want to go.
“For flights 100 plus days in advance, airlines are using new tools and more up-to-date information to help them schedule flights as efficiently as possible. They are looking at the future demand curves — the volume of passengers purchasing certain flights — to help them understand where the demand is, where passengers want to go,” Jeff Pelletier, managing director of Airline Data Inc. explained to ABC News. “Higher-demand destinations may see increases in flight frequency or larger aircraft that are being reallocated from other destinations that may be seeing softer demand.”
Oftentimes, the schedule change might only be a few minutes, but in many cases it could be hours. In the most extreme situations, your flight could change to a new day. That extreme scenario is rare and will likely only happen on a foreign carrier with limited flights or a low-cost carrier that doesn’t service a particular city every day.
American Airlines has changed or cut roughly 60,000 flights between May 1 and Sept. 1, the most of all the major carriers, according to Airline Data Inc.
“By doing this, they are aiming to provide the ‘right number’ of seats at a price that is as attractive as possible to the traveling public. This is to try and avoid selling out flights completely in high-demand markets and sending out half-empty planes in low demand markets,” Pelletier said.
Flight changes can work to the advantage of passengers. If an airline makes a significant change to your flight and you find a more convenient flight like a nonstop on the same airline, you can usually switch to the better flight free of charge.
Experts recommend downloading your airline’s app and regularly checking your itinerary to see if anything has changed. Oftentimes, airlines will notify passengers of changes, though not all the time.
Taylor Swift made history again when 10 of her albums began simultaneously charting on the Billboard200. She now joins a handful of legendary artists who accomplished the feat.
Taylor’s Midnights is currently her highest-charting effort at #3, followed by Folklore in 28th place. The remaining albums are charting as follows: Lover at #41, 1989 at #50, Red (Taylor’s Version) at #56, Lover: Live from Paris at #58, Reputation at #100, Evermore at #103, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) at #172 and Speak Now at #192.
Taylor is now the second female artist to send 10 albums onto the Billboard 200 at the same time. Whitney Houston was the first woman to do it back in 2012, but the accomplishment came about a month after her untimely death.
Only three other artists have charted 10 or more albums at the same time: The Beatles, David Bowie and Prince. The Purple One had been the last artist to join the club, but just like Whitney, the achievement came shortly after his death in 2016.
The same can be said for David Bowie, who charted 10 albums after his passing in January 2016.
Taylor has some ways to go before eclipsing the record for having the most albums chart at the same time. Prince has held the title since 19 of his albums hit the Billboard 200 on May 14, 2016.
Def Leppard is currently on the next leg of their joint world tour with Mötley Crüe, and their guitarist, Phil Collen, seems to be having a blast with them.
“It’s great. We’ve known ’em for years,” Collen shares in an interview with Radioacktiva Colombia. “It’s like being at school with all of your best friends. It’s really fun. We’ve got this airplane that all of us are on there. And it’s great.”
Collen says the fact that both bands are still rocking “means more as you get older.” He explains, “There’s this thing being young … but there’s something about really doing it still later on that makes you — I don’t know — appreciate it more.”
The Mötley Crüe/Def Leppard tour hits Lima, Peru, on Tuesday.
Rian Johnson seems to have revived the whodunit genre with his two Knives Out films, most recently with last year’s Glass Onion. He wrote and directed the latest Benoit Blanc mystery and was honored with a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at this year’s Academy Awards.
As he makes the rounds in the awards circuit, Johnson tells ABC Audio there’s really only one celebrity he has been starstruck by.
“I got to meet James Cameron. Very quickly, very briefly,” Johnson says. “He was so kind, and we had a nice little talk. He’s somebody whose work I’ve just admired, obviously, my entire life and means a lot to me.”
Though their interaction was short, Johnson says he looks forward to the day when he can sit and listen to all the wisdom Cameron would care to share — preferably Luke and Yoda on Dagobah style, à la The Empire Strikes Back.
“If there’s a Yoda that I would love to sit at the feet at for a few hours, I think it’s Cameron,” Johnson says.
And while Johnson says there’s much to love about Cameron’s work, there’s one thing that stands out.
“Cameron’s secret weapon is he knows his story,” Johnson says. “It’s not about the technical element, it’s about the fact that he’s staying on story and telling the story incredibly clearly even through the action scenes in his movies.”
Just in case there happens to be any doubt about how much of a fan he is — yes, Johnson says he did watch Cameron’s recent Masterclass, where the Avatar director teaches filmmaking for over three hours.
“I watched his Masterclass that he just did,” Johnson says. “That’s how big of a fan [I am]. I’m like, ‘I’ll watch that whole thing.’ It’s so good.”
(NEW YORK) — JP Morgan Chase faced new accusations from Charlie Javice, the young entrepreneur behind the student financial aid startup Frank, which the bank acquired in a $175 million transaction chief executive Jamie Dimon has since called “a huge mistake.”
Javice fired back on Monday, formally denying the bank’s fraud allegations and accusing JP Morgan of trying “to shift the blame for a failed and now-regretted acquisition to someone they view as an easy target: its young female founder.”
JP Morgan sued Javice in December alleging she “decided to lie” about how many customers Frank actually had and how successful it actually was in order to convince the bank to pay such a high price.
According to the lawsuit, Javice claimed more than 4.25 million students had created accounts to apply for federal student aid using Frank’s application tool. When the bank sought proof, the lawsuit claimed Javice fabricated a list of fake customers who did not actually exist.
“In reality, Frank was nearly 4 million short of its representations to JPMC,” the complaint said.
Javice has denied fabricating customer lists of knowingly submitting material false information. In her counterclaim, she called it “implausible” JP Morgan was led to believe Frank had 4.25 million registered users when its website publicly claimed the company had helped more than 350,000 people access financial aid.
The counterclaim also alleges that due diligence materials and readily available valuation data show the sophisticated bank could not have been misled about the value of the business.
“No one wanted to be held accountable,” Javice’s counterclaim filing said. “They needed someone else to point the finger at. And they found that person in Ms. Javice: an outsider whose youth and lack of institutional longevity made her an easy target.”
The counterclaim also alleges that, after changes in student aid rules made the business less viable, JP Morgan initiated pretextual investigations into her conduct and wrongly used false claims to terminate her for cause on the eve of the date on which she was due a significant payment under the terms of the acquisition deal.
Questioned about the Frank deal during an earnings call last month JP Morgan’s chief, Jamie Dimon, conceded it was “a huge mistake” but declined to elaborate during the ongoing lawsuit.
“I’ll tell you the lessons learned here when this thing is out of litigation,” Dimon said on the call.
JP Morgan accused Javice of enlisting a data science professor to fabricate a customer account list, an allegation she denied.
“JPMC cannot prove its outlandish claims, and Ms. Javice is confident she will prevail in this litigation. In the meantime, however, JPMC has compromised her reputation and wrongfully withheld $20 million in retention payments and approximately $7.9 million in an equity hold out from the Merger Agreement,” her filing said.
Def Leppard is currently on the next leg of their joint world tour with Mötley Crüe, and their guitarist, Phil Collen, seems to be having a blast with them.
“It’s great. We’ve known ’em for years,” Collen shares in an interview with Radioacktiva Colombia. “It’s like being at school with all of your best friends. It’s really fun. We’ve got this airplane that all of us are on there. And it’s great.”
Collen says the fact that both bands are still rocking “means more as you get older.” He explains, “There’s this thing being young … but there’s something about really doing it still later on that makes you — I don’t know — appreciate it more.”
The Mötley Crüe/Def Leppard tour hits Lima, Peru, on Tuesday.
(WASHINGTON) — U.S. officials are expected to brief top congressional leaders on Tuesday about documents with classified markings that were in the possession of former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden, and former Vice President Mike Pence.
The closed-door briefing to the so-called “Gang of Eight” — the top Republicans and Democrats currently in congressional leadership — is expected to provide more information on the nature of the documents, but officials are not expected to provide the documents themselves to congressional leaders, sources told ABC News.
The Senate Intelligence Committee had been pushing for a briefing from Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines about classified documents since the August search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
Committee Chair Sen. Mark Warner and Ranking Member Sen. Marco Rubio have said the news of documents found at both Biden’s office and home, in addition to Pence’s Indiana home, increased the urgency for the briefing. And those on the intelligence panels, in particular, have been demanding access for weeks to the specific documents.
The briefing is expected to take place at 4 p.m. and it’s unclear whether any of the lawmakers will speak afterward.
U2 released their third studio album War, produced by Steve Lillywhite. The album, which is considered the band’s first overtly political record, featured two future U2 classics, “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and “New Year’s Day,” which became the band’s first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
The album became the band’s first U.K. number one, knocking Michael Jackson’sThriller out of the top spot. In the U.S., it peaked at 12 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and went on to become the band’s first album to be certified Gold by the RIAA.
A remastered version of the album was released in July of 2008, including a deluxe version that featured a bonus CD made up of B-sides, live tracks and rarities.
