After teasing it with images of a snowflake, Kim Petras has finally revealed her new single, which is called, appropriately, “brrr.”
The industrial-tinged track also comes with a lyric video, in which Kim sings, “You should pull me up closer/Turn the heat up in your Rover/Why don’t you take it out on me/If you think you’re so cold — brrr!”
“brrr” is the follow-up to Kim’s single “If Jesus Was a Rock Star.”
On Monday, Kim will appear on Late Night with Seth Meyers. In addition to giving the debut live performance of “brr,” she’ll sit for her first late-night television interview.
It’s the start of a busy couple months for Kim: She and Sam Smith‘s number-one duet, “Unholy,” will compete for Best Group/Duo Performance at the Grammys on February 5, and the two will also perform “Unholy” at the BRIT Awards on February 11, where it’s up for Song of the Year.
Kim, Spotify’s Songwriter of the Month for January, also just received a GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Music Artist. On top of all that, she’ll headline Sydney WorldPride this March in Australia.
First came The Father, now comes The Son from writer-director Florian Zeller — the second film based on his trilogy of plays with Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby and Hugh Jackman. Jackman plays a workaholic father struggling with his deeply depressed son, looking to prevent the mistakes of his own upbringing.
“One of the beautiful things about this story is how hard it is to be objective, particularly with your own children,” Jackman tells ABC Audio. “Being able to be present is so much easier when it’s someone else’s kid, but when it’s your own, you’re so clouded in your own fears and worries and also not knowing what to do.”
It’s a personal role for Jackman, with its themes of fatherhood hitting close to home when the X-Men star’s father passed away during production. But Jackman pressed on, his father’s death adding more weight to his approach of the character.
“It was very difficult … shooting some of the very heavy scenes. I remember feeling his presence,” Jackman says. “I was a bit of a hot mess, I’ll admit, during this but I guess that’s what the character was going through, too.”
The Son explores mental illness and what happens to those in the middle of it all. “Everyone has this story somewhere. This story of a mental health journey. The pain of grief,” says Dern, who plays Jackman’s ex-wife.
Both she and co-star Kirby hope The Son inspires more dialogue on the topic.
“Don’t be afraid to look at the dark things inside yourself and be brave … so that you can begin to talk about them, heal them, share them,” Kirby says.
(WASHINGTON) — A federal judge in Florida has sanctioned former President Donald Trump and his attorney Alina Habba, ordering them to pay fines of nearly $1 million for filing what he deemed to be a frivolous lawsuit claiming that Hillary Clinton and others involved in the Russia investigation unlawfully conspired to damage Trump’s reputation.
The opinion from Judge David Middlebrooks calls Trump “a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries.”
“He is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following the advice of a lawyer. He knew full well the impact of his actions,” Middlebrooks wrote in his opinion.
“As such, I find that sanctions should be imposed upon Mr. Trump and his lead counsel, Ms. Habba,” wrote the judge.
Habba did not immediately return a request for comment from ABC News.
Trump sued Clinton, his 2016 presidential challenger, for allegedly “acting in concert” with top FBI leadership to invent what became known as the Russia investigation into interference in the 2016 election. Trump had argued that the Russia probe was “prolonged and exacerbated by the presence of a small faction of Clinton loyalists who were well-positioned within the Department of Justice.”
Judge Middlebrooks dismissed the lawsuit this past September.
Middlebrooks’ sanctions, issued late Thursday, direct Habba and Trump to pay $938,000 to 18 defendants in the case.
“A continuing pattern of misuse of the courts by Mr. Trump and his lawyers undermines the rule of law, portrays judges as partisans, and diverts resources from those who have suffered actual legal harm,” Middlebrooks wrote in his opinion.
The judge also cautioned Trump’s attorneys that they could face sanctions over their separate lawsuit targeting New York Attorney General Letitia James, who in September filed a $250 million suit against Trump and his family members for allegedly defrauding lenders and others with false and misleading financial statements.
It’s two and done for the Gossip Girl reboot on HBO Max. The streamer has canceled the show after two seasons. Showrunner Joshua Safran delivered the news via social media on Thursday, adding that the teen drama is “currently looking for another home,” while acknowledging that “in this climate, that might prove an uphill [battle].” The original Gossip Girl series, which aired from 2007-2012 on the CW, launched Blake Lively‘s career. The new series picked up eight years after the original show’s finale, where a new generation of private school teens in the ever-changing social media landscape were introduced to the surveillance of the Gossip Girl site. The season 2 finale hits HBO Max on January 26…
Tatyana Ali will be returning to one of her old stomping grounds. Peacock announced on Thursday that Ali, who played Ashley Banks on the original version of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, will join the season 2 cast of the reboot in a recurring guest star role. Ali will play Mrs. Hughes, an English literature teacher at Bel-Air middle school who “sees something special” in her former character — now played by Akira Akbar — “often giving her books from her personal collection.” We get a glimpse of her in the trailer for Bel-Air season 2, premiering February 23 on Peacock…(Trailer contains uncensored profanity.)
Deadline reports that after several false starts, Disney is finally working a third Tron movie, with Jared Leto set to star. The film, titled Tron: Ares, would follow the groundbreaking 1982 film Tron, starring Jeff Bridges, and its 2010 sequel Tron: Legacy, which starred Bridges, Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde. Leto has been attached to the film since 2017. He’ll next be seen in Disney’s Haunted Mansion. Disney is the parent company of ABC News…
Leslie Jordan, the diminutive star of shows like Will & Grace, Call Me Kat and American Horror Story, died last year from natural causes and not from a car accident, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office has concluded.
Jordan, who was 67, died of sudden cardiac dysfunction due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, a hardening of the arteries that can restrict blood flow, according to a report by the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner. In essence, he had a heart attack that likely led to the October 24, 2022 car crash.
An autopsy didn’t find any signs of life-threatening trauma, according to the coroner’s report, which listed the cause of death as natural.
Jordan had been sober for more than two decades at the time of his death, and toxicology tests didn’t find any alcohol or drugs in his body.
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J-hope in the Box, a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the BTS rapper’s first solo album, Jack in the Box, will hit Disney+ on February 17, the streamer revealed on Thursday.
The documentary offers fans “a never-before-seen look at the creative challenges faced during the album’s preparation process, as well as front row seats to j-hope’s 2022 Lollapalooza performance and the album’s listening party,” according to Disney+.
BTS is currently on break while the group explores solo careers. It is not known when they will reassemble as a unit, but in the meantime, fans can catch the Korean superstars in a par of Disney+ specials: BTS: PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE — LA, an exclusive cinematic 4K concert film featuring BTS’ live performance at Los Angeles’ Sofi Stadium in November 2021; and IN THE SOOP: FRIENDCATION — an original travel reality show with a star-studded cast including V of BTS, who goes on a relaxing trip with The Marvels‘ Park Seo-jun and Parasite star Choi Woo-shik.
(ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky.) — One person has died and two others were injured after a Denny’s sign fell and crushed a car in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, officials said.
The sign fell and crushed an occupied car at the chain restaurant on Thursday, Elizabethtown public affairs officer Chris Denham told ABC News.
Officials received a call at around 1:30 p.m. about the incident, and the Hardin County EMS and fire department responded to the scene, he said.
Two victims were taken to Baptist Health Hardin hospital, and a 72-year-old woman with more severe injuries was taken to the University of Louisville, where she later succumbed to her injuries, Denham said.
The other victims are being treated at Baptist Health Hardin.
It’s unknown what caused the sign to fall.
The investigation is ongoing and in its early stages, Denham said.
(EVANSVILLE, Ind.) — At least one person was shot and wounded at a Walmart in southern Indiana on Thursday night when a former employee opened fire inside the store, police said.
The gunman was ultimately killed in a minuteslong shootout with police.
The incident unfolded just before 10 p.m. local time at the Walmart in the West Side neighborhood of Evansville, a riverside city about 180 miles southwest of Indianapolis. The suspect — identified as 25-year-old Ronald Ray Mosley II — allegedly walked into the store and began shooting, according to the Evansville Police Department.
Officers were quickly deployed to the scene and immediately entered the Walmart looking for the gunman, as people tried to hide or flee. It was unknown how many people were inside the store at the time and how many of them were shot at, police said.
Seven Evansville Police officers and one Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s deputy exchanged gunfire with the suspect both inside and outside the store, in multiple different areas, though the exact number of rounds was unclear, according to police.
“Multiple times he was actually shooting at officers before they were actually able to shoot him,” Sgt. Anna Gray of the Evansville Police Department said at a press conference late Thursday. “At this time, we don’t believe there are any other suspects involved in this.”
The suspect was pronounced dead inside the store. The entire incident lasted about 15 minutes and no officers were injured, according to police.
A woman with a gunshot wound was transported from the scene to a local hospital. Her condition was unknown, police said.
“A lot of people were running out, so there could be more [victims] out there,” Gray told reporters. “If someone was directly involved or injured during the incident, please either come back to the scene or call 911 and give us that information. We are looking for any other victims at this time.”
The suspect had a criminal history and used to work at Walmart. He and the wounded victim may have been coworkers at one time, according to police.
“This is a tragic incident. We can’t imagine what the witnesses and employees and customers inside went through,” Officer Taylor Merriss of the Evansville Police Department said at a press conference early Friday. “But without the bravery and professionalism of our department, there could’ve been a lot more lives lost last night.”
The shooting remains under investigation. In addition to collecting evidence from the scene and interviewing witnesses, investigators are reviewing footage from the responding officers’ body-worn cameras as well as from the Walmart’s security cameras, according to police.
Walmart told ABC News in a statement late Thursday that it “is shocked by the senseless violence that occurred at our Evansville store.”
“As we learn more, we’ll do everything we can to support our associates as they cope with this tragedy,” the company added. “We’re thankful for the local first responders and will continue working with law enforcement through the course of their investigation.”
ABC News’ Peter Charalambous, Ahmad Hemingway and Cherise Rudy contributed to this report.
(NEW YORK) — T-Mobile says they discovered a “bad actor” was taking information through a single application, according to an SEC filing by the company this week.
“The preliminary result from our investigation indicates that the bad actor(s) obtained data from this API for approximately 37 million current postpaid and prepaid customer accounts, though many of these accounts did not include the full data set,” the SEC filing dated Jan. 19 says.
The wireless giant is facing the second major breach in as many years. They said the activity started on Nov. 25 and they notified the proper agencies when they discovered the hack on Jan. 5, 2023.
“We are continuing to diligently investigate the unauthorized activity,” T-Mobile said. “In addition, we have notified certain federal agencies about the incident, and we are concurrently working with law enforcement. Additionally, we have begun notifying customers whose information may have been obtained by the bad actor in accordance with applicable state and federal requirements.”
The company said they were able to trace the identity of the activity and stop it.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has previously warned of major hacks occurring on or around holidays — and it would appear this started around Thanksgiving.
The company says the most sensitive customer data wasn’t taken but some personal information was.
“The API abused by the bad actor does not provide access to any customer payment card information (PCI), social security numbers/tax IDs, driver’s license or other government ID numbers, passwords/PINs or other financial account information, so none of this information was exposed. Rather, the impacted API is only able to provide a limited set of customer account data, including name, billing address, email, phone number, date of birth, T-Mobile account number and information such as the number of lines on the account and plan features.”
After the first hack, the company says they went through extensive cybersecurity measures.
(WASHINGTON) — The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that last week’s computer system outage, which caused thousands of flight delays across the United States and a temporary grounding of the nation’s airspace, appears to have been the result of “unintentionally deleted files.”
“A preliminary FAA review of last week’s outage of the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system determined that contract personnel unintentionally deleted files while working to correct synchronization between the live primary database and a backup database,” the FAA said in a statement. “The agency has so far found no evidence of a cyber-attack or malicious intent. The FAA continues to investigate the circumstances surrounding the outage.”
“The FAA made the necessary repairs to the system and has taken steps to make the NOTAM system more resilient,” the FAA added. “The agency is acting quickly to adopt any other lessons learned in our efforts to ensure the continuing robustness of the nation’s air traffic control system.”
The FAA’s NOTAM system is critical to flight operations — it keeps pilots informed of essential information that’s needed before takeoff, such as runway conditions at destination airports, weather en route and even real-time safety alerts during flight. Notably, the system is overdue for replacement.
When the FAA first reported an issue with the NOTAM system late in the night on Jan. 10, it led to a “cascading” series of IT failures culminating in the nationwide disruption the next morning, a senior official briefed on the matter official told ABC News. By mid-day, there were more than 7,300 flight delays and 1,100 cancellations, according to tracking website Flight Aware.
The official compared the NOTAM system outage to the crisis that crippled Southwest Airlines over the winter holidays: antiquated software overdue for replacement inside a critical IT network. If one thing goes down, the system can become paralyzed.
The issue apparently occurred during routine scheduled systems maintenance, a senior official briefed on the internal review told ABC News. An engineer “replaced one file with another,” the official said, not realizing the mistake was being made. As the NOTAM system began showing problems and ultimately failed, FAA staff feverishly tried to figure out what had gone wrong. Engineers and IT teams are now working to keep the system from crashing again, while also trying to figure out if there are any similar systems that could fail without redundancies.
Congressional hearings on the matter are expected in the coming weeks, as is a possible speed-up of system replacement.
Several airlines, including American, Delta and United, are waiving fees to rebook flights due to last week’s disruption.
ABC News’ Amanda Maile, Josh Margolin and Sam Sweeney contributed to this report.
