(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Cavaliers 111, Bulls 127
Grizzlies 116, Timberwolves 110
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Kings 2, Panthers 3
Mammoth 4, Red Wings 1
Jets 0, Blues 1
Hurricanes 4, Predators 1
Devils 2, Golden Knights 1
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(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump said during his presidential address on Wednesday night that his administration is “bringing our economy back from the brink of ruin,” claiming that he has brought prices down across the board.
“I am bringing those high prices down and bringing them down very fast,” Trump said from the White House’s Diplomatic Room, adding, “Let’s look at the facts.”
He made sweeping claims about prices — from gasoline and groceries to airfare and hotel flights — comparing the current price to that of former President Joe Biden’s administration.
But according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the president’s claims in some cases appeared to be exaggerated, false or unverifiable.
BLS is set to release updated numbers on Thursday providing an updated look at consumer prices — the first inflation report since the end of the government shutdown.
The president said that under Biden, gasoline prices rose 30 to 50%, hotel rates rose 37% and airfares rose 31%.
“Now, under our leadership, they are all coming down and coming down fast. Democrat politicians also sent the cost of groceries soaring, but we are solving that, too,” Trump claimed.
Trump claimed that egg prices are down 82% since March and that “everything else is falling rapidly.”
ABC News has compiled fact checks on some of Trump’s claims.
Gas prices
It’s true that gas prices hit an all-time high in June 2022 under Biden, with an average price of $5.016 per gallon, per AAA.
According to AAA, the new average is $2.998. That would be an almost 50% decrease from the highest point under the Biden administration.
But when you compare gas prices to where they were just a year ago, Sept. 2025 to Sept. 2024, the latest CPI report puts gas down just .5%.
Airfare
Airline fares were up 3.2% in September under the Trump administration compared to a year earlier, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Hotel rates
Hotel room rates are down .8% and car rental prices are down 5.0% over the past year, per BLS data.
Groceries
The average price of a dozen grade A eggs was $3.49 as of September, down from an all-time high of $6.23 in March — a 43% decrease, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
It’s important to note, also, that egg prices were heavily affected by the avian flu.
Overall, meat prices have gone up 8.5% in the past year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Beef prices are at a record high — up 14.7% in the past year.
Notably, Trump also doesn’t mention coffee. Coffee is up 18.9%, according to BLS data from September, the most recent available. The price of coffee has risen in part due to the president’s tariffs on places like Brazil — although last month the White House began exempting coffee from his tariffs.
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Brad Paisley hadn’t exactly planned to put out a Christmas album in 2025, but thanks largely to Hallmark Channel, we now have Snow Globe Town.
Once plans were made for Hallmark’s A Grand Ole Opry Christmas movie, that unwittingly set things in motion for Brad’s new yuletide collection.
“They had already asked about being a part of this Opry movie, and I said, ‘Sure,'” Brad recalls. “And then they’d asked if I would write a song, and then asked if I’d write three songs, and then they asked if, like, if I had anything else, and it went from cutting a few songs for this Hallmark thing to writing a bunch. And the next thing you know, we had 16 tracks.”
His previous holiday collection, Brad Paisley Christmas, came out in 2006.
You can check out Brad’s Monday appearance promoting Snow Globe Town on Late Night with Seth Meyers, including his performance of “That Crazy Elf (On the Shelf),” on YouTube.
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Sure, we all love a good bop, but more substantial songs — the kind built around characters and narratives — can be just as compelling. Researchers at UC Berkeley have released a study ranking Billboard hits from the past 60 years based on their storytelling, and a Taylor Swift song made the top 10.
The research team analyzed the lyrics of more than 1,000 hit songs to identify which “narrative storytelling elements” they contained. Using those findings, they trained an algorithm to score thousands of tracks on their level of storytelling or “narrativity.” In total, more than 5,000 pop songs that appeared on Billboard Hot 100 year-end lists between 1960 and 2024 were examined.
Landing at #6 on the list was Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault),” the tale of heartbreak that topped the Billboard Hot 100 upon its release. Other songs in the top 10 included rapper Ice Cube‘s 1993 hit “It Was a Good Day,” Tone Loc‘s 1989 banger “Wild Thing” and Craig David’s 2001 2-step classic “Fill Me In.”
The top 10 also featured Harry Chapin‘s 1972 classic “Taxi” and Jeannie C. Riley‘s 1968 hit “Harper Valley PTA,” a song so compelling it inspired both a film and television series. Coming in at #2 was Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 song “Ode to Billie Joe,” which also inspired a movie adaptation.
Taking the top spot was Vicki Lawrence‘s 1973 Southern gothic murder ballad “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia,” which later became a huge country hit for Reba McEntire in 1991.
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Metallica is teasing a collaboration with the Haight Street Art Center in the band’s hometown of San Francisco.
The metal legends have shared a Facebook post featuring a mash-up of Metallica and Haight Street Art Center’s logos alongside the date fall 2026.
“Coming Next Fall…,” the caption reads.
Along with unveiling a possible Metallica art exhibition, the band’s 2026 plans include another European leg of their ongoing M72 world tour, which kicks off in May.
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In addition to releasing their latest album, The Clearing, Wolf Alice celebrated the 10th anniversary of their 2015 debut album, My Love Is Cool, in 2025. If you’ve been a Wolf Alice fan since they first broke out with the single “Moaning Lisa Smile,” then you know they’ve pushed their sound in many different directions over the past decade.
“We’re always just trying to challenge ourselves and keep our attention span and have fun,” frontwoman Ellie Rowsell tells ABC Audio. “We don’t really stick to one thing religiously, really.”
Defining exactly what kind of music she plays has never really interested Rowsell, even before she knew what Wolf Alice would become.
“I remember once when I told my boyfriend when I was at school it could maybe be fun to be in a band,” Rowsell shares. “He was like, ‘What kind of band? You have to figure out what kind of band you wanna be in before you make a band.’ And I was like, ‘S***, OK.'”
She laughs, “And if I’d kept that advice, I would never have started a band, because I still don’t really know.”
And while Wolf Alice continues to explore beyond the grungy, ’90s alt-rock roots of “Moaning Lisa Smile,” one thing does remain: their love for The Simpsons. “Moaning Lisa Smile” was inspired by the character Lisa Simpson and is named after the season 1 episode “Moaning Lisa,” which is still Rowsell’s favorite Simpsons episode.
“Especially the old Simpsons just gets it right with just the right amount of life lesson,” Rowsell says.
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Pharrell Williams, Brandy and Kirk Franklin will be recognized for their musical contributions at the 2026 Black Music Collective’s Recording Academy Honors, taking place on Jan. 29.
Pharrell will be honored with the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award for his achievements in music, his influence on the culture, his charitable work and his “entrepreneurial innovation,” according to Billboard. Brandy is set to receive the Black Music Icon Award for shaping the industry with her inspirational artistry, service and innovation, as is Kirk, who couldn’t be honored in 2025 due to the LA wildfires.
“Pharrell, Brandy and Kirk are true visionaries and masters of their craft,” Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said in a statement. “Each has built a legacy that transcends genre, defies convention and shapes culture.”
“Their artistry continues to inspire generations of artists around the world,” he continued. “I’m thrilled to join the Black Music Collective in honoring three of music’s brightest stars in January and celebrating their immeasurable contributions to the industry.”
Produced by Adam Blackstone for a fourth year, the Recording Academy Honors will take place in Los Angeles. The 68th annual Grammy Awards will follow three days later.
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The first-ever video for George Harrison’s “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)” was just released, directed by Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard. And it turns out he may not have gotten the gig if it wasn’t for some of his Hollywood friends.
Wolfhard explains how he got the job in a new interview with Vulture, revealing he was first introduced to George Harrison’s son, Dhani Harrison, through his Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire co-star Paul Rudd. He was then invited to visit George Harrison’s widow, Olivia Harrison, at her home, Friar Park. A year later he was talking music with Fred Armisen at a Hollywood party, which led Armisen to think of him for the job.
“I got a random text from Fred after a few days and he was like, ‘Hey, the George Harrison estate is trying to figure out a director for “Give Me Love,” but they haven’t found anyone yet. I threw your name in the hat.’ I was shocked,” Wolfhard says. “It was flattering enough that he even mentioned me. Then it was a coincidence that I already knew Dhani.”
Wolfhard says he’s been a George Harrison fan since he was introduced to his music by his mom when he was 6, noting he “wouldn’t have pursued performing at a young age in the same way” if it wasn’t for the rock legend. Wolfhard says the fact that The Beatles dabbled in more than just music “was a huge inspiration to me.”
“You don’t have to just be one thing,” he says. “George is a perfect example of that, who accomplished so much as a solo artist and as a person after the Beatles.”
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Leonardo DiCaprio doesn’t have an opinion on whether or not Rose could have made more room on the door for Jack. That’s because he’s not very familiar with the film Titanic.
While in conversation with Jennifer Lawrence for an installment of Variety‘s Actors on Actors, DiCaprio, who starred in James Cameron‘s 1997 film, said he has never rewatched it.
“Have you rewatched Titanic?” Lawrence asks, to which DiCaprio responds, “No. I haven’t seen it in forever.”
Lawrence tells him he should consider giving it a go.
“Oh, you should. I bet you could watch it now, it’s so good,” she says.
DiCaprio deflects by telling Lawrence he doesn’t really watch his own films, and then he asks her if she does.
“No,” Lawrence says. “I’ve never made something like Titanic, if I did I would watch it. Once I was really drunk, I put on American Hustle. I was like, ‘I wonder if I’m good at acting?’ I put it on, and I don’t remember what the answer is.”
Elsewhere in the conversation, Lawrence spoke about how she once accidentally took an Ambien thinking it was a different pill while on the set of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
“It was a dance scene with Philip Seymour Hoffman on the second Hunger Games movie. I was hallucinating,” Lawrence said. “Elizabeth Banks got really annoyed with me. Maybe she didn’t know that I was on an Ambien.”
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He’s know for singing about a “Seven Nation Army,” and now Jack White is set to play in one particular nation for the first time.
White has announced his debut performance in Kazakhstan, taking place in August 2026 at the Park Live Almaty festival.
The festival lineup also includes Gorillaz. For more info, visit Park.live.
White played much closer to home, in his actual hometown, on Thanksgiving Day for a halftime performance during a Detroit Lions game. The set included renditions of “Seven Nation Army” and White’s solo song “That’s How I’m Feeling,” as well as a collaborative performance with Eminem.
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