Wage War has announced a U.S. tour in support of the band’s latest album, Manic.
The headlining outing, which will also feature nothing,nowhere. and Spite on the bill, will run from April 11 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to May 20 in Atlanta.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit WageWarBand.com.
Manic was released in 2021, and includes the singles “Circle the Drain” and “Godspeed.”
Last year, Wage War toured with Slipknot, Three Days Grace and A Day to Remember.
(NEW YORK) — An Indiana man was arrested after his 4-year-old son was captured on security camera footage playing with a loaded gun in their apartment complex’s hallway alone, police said.
Shane Osborne, 45, was initially charged with neglect of a dependent following the incident on Saturday, according to the Beech Grove Police Department. Police determined that the child was holding a Smith & Wesson handgun that was loaded with 15 rounds in the magazine, but did not have a round chambered, according to the police report.
Police responded to the apartment complex in Beech Grove Saturday evening after a neighbor called 911 reporting that a young boy “wearing only a diaper had a chrome handgun and was pointing it at people,” according to the police report.
When officers knocked on the family’s apartment door, the child answered, police said. Osborne reportedly told police he was ill and had not realized his son had left the apartment, according to the police report. He “advised there was not a firearm in the home, nor did [his son] have any toy guns,” and later added that he had no guns due to a past felony conviction, according to the report.
Osborne assisted police in a “cursory search” of the apartment, which yielded no gun in plain view, and the officers left, according to the police report.
A neighbor then flagged the officers down as they were leaving the building and showed them security camera footage of the incident in which the child could be seen “walking around the upstairs landing of the apartment with a silver and black handgun,” according to the report.
The Beech Grove Police Department released the footage, which shows the child playing unsupervised in the common hallway with a handgun, pointing it at neighbors’ doors and himself, before going back into his apartment.
The officers returned to the apartment to conduct another search, during which Osborne reportedly told police that he does not have a firearm, but that a relative may have left one in the apartment, according to the police report. When an officer asked the child where he put his “pew pew,” the boy led them to a roll-top desk that contained the handgun, according to the report.
Osborne “did not know the weapon was in the apartment at this time, nor that [his son] knew where it was,” according to the report.
Osborne was arrested for neglect of a dependent and his son was transported to his mother’s home, police said. Final charges will be determined by the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office. The Marion County Department of Child Services was notified about the incident and will also investigate, police said.
Osborne is scheduled to appear in court Thursday afternoon. It is unclear if he has an attorney.
The arrest “gained national attention” after it was captured on the television show “On Patrol: Live,” which the Beech Grove Police Department appears in, according to Beech Grove deputy chief of administration Robert Mercuri.
‘There’s a baby with a gun’
Nicole Summers told ABC News she called 911 after her 16-year-old son saw the child with the gun.
“When my son went to go back out, when he opened the door, he just slowly closed it and said, ‘Everybody get out of the living room, there’s a baby with a gun,'” she said.
Summers said she looked out her door and saw the boy pointing the gun toward her from the top of the stairs.
“He kind of leaned down, and that’s when he pointed the gun at me and said, ‘Look what I got’ and kind of laugh,” said Summers, who said she deals frequently with firearms in her job at a local pawn shop and knew the child was holding a real gun.
Summers said she was aware of the child holding the gun for at least five minutes and believes that he thought it was a toy.
“He is a kid, he didn’t have any clue, the severity of what he was doing,” she said. “No clue that he could have very easily taken his life or somebody else’s.”
Days later, Summers said she is haunted by what happened and questions whether she should have intervened more.
“In hindsight you think, you know, should I have just gone in the hallway? I mean, [he] was 4, I could have easily taken it,” she said. “But what if there was one in the chamber?”
Beech Grove Mayor Dennis Buckley said he was “mortified” by the incident and is “so thankful that no one was hurt, especially the young child.”
“I appreciate the quick action taken by the Beech Grove Police Department to secure the small child and the gun in question,” Buckley said in a statement to ABC Indianapolis affiliate WRTV. “I ask that the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office work tirelessly to secure charges and a conviction against the responsible parties, with maximum penalties. Society shouldn’t accept anything less.”
(WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department considered but decided against sending FBI agents to President Joe Biden’s Delaware home to monitor his attorneys’ search for classified documents, two sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
The detail was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Both the president’s attorneys and the Justice Department agreed to instead have Biden’s lawyers conduct the searches for classified documents, according to the sources.
It was something both sides agreed to, sources said, in part because Biden and his attorneys were cooperating with the Justice Department.
In three separate searches, Biden’s lawyers found classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, and post-vice presidential office in Washington, D.C., according to the White House.
The revelation of classified documents found at Biden’s home led Attorney General Merrick Garland to last week appoint a special counsel to review Biden’s handling of classified materials while out of office.
The Justice Department and the FBI are declining to comment on the discussions.
The mixture of incomplete and shifting statements out of the White House in the weeklong span since the story broke has drawn parallels to the torrent of increasingly damning details that emerged immediately following the search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August.
Due to the ongoing nature of a criminal investigation, the Justice Department and special counsel’s office won’t comment on the distinctions between the two matters, citing longstanding department policy.
No evidence, so far, to support Biden search, experts say
But legal experts, including former federal prosecutors reached by ABC News, say at least so far, that for Biden there doesn’t appear to be evidence that would justify the dramatic and unprecedented step of the FBI seeking a search warrant on the current president’s private residence.
To do so, as they did for Trump, prosecutors would have to persuade a federal judge that there’s probable cause that by conducting a search they would find evidence of a crime or multiple crimes.
Cooperation is a critical difference
At their core, experts say, the primary difference still between the two cases as they currently stand is the “full cooperation” currently being promised by Biden’s attorneys and widespread allegations of obstruction against Trump and his legal team dating back to as early as last spring.
“[In Biden’s case] it has to do with somebody coming forward and self-reporting, ‘we found these few documents,’ they turn them over,” former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said in an interview with ABC News. “If Trump had done the same, there would have been no grand jury there probably would have been no search warrant and probably would have avoided a potential criminal problem.”
In the case of the search of Mar-a-Lago, ABC News reporting, in addition to a redacted affidavit made public by the Justice Department, shows, in still-limited detail, what investigators presented in order to secure signoff on the historic search. It included an extensive track record of months of back-and-forth between Trump’s attorneys, their repeated resistance to handing back the documents, a Trump attorney signing a sworn statement in response to a grand jury subpoena that all docs had been returned after which DOJ built evidence through witnesses and other means that that was false.
“Prosecutors had reason to believe that, despite prior declarations made by Trump attorneys that all classified materials had been turned over, the former president was still maintaining custody of classified materials that could not be accounted for,” former federal prosecutor Joseph Moreno told ABC News. “It seems those concerns were borne out when the raid by the FBI on Mar-a-Lago in August in fact did turn up additional classified documents.”
At one point, DOJ even made a visit to Mar-a-Lago where prosecutors said they were “explicitly prohibited” from opening or looking inside of any boxes in a storage room where later, during the FBI’s search, dozens of classified records were found.
While there is no way to completely rule out the possibility of a court-authorized search of Biden’s properties sometime in the future, such a decision typically only comes once prosecutors believe they have exhausted all other options to get the evidence they need.
“The only reason why Trump’s place got searched was because of the obstruction and the lying,” said attorney Mark Zaid, who specializes in national security and security clearance law. “There could be people who end up getting into trouble [in the case of potential mishandling of Biden’s records]. It’s very easy to be potentially criminally liable for mishandling of classified information … but mishandling of classified information is not grounds for the FBI to raid someone’s house, certainly not a president, former or current.”
A voluntary search?
Some experts have raised the possibility that Biden’s team could offer to have the FBI conduct a voluntary search of his properties to ensure there’s no remaining classified records, giving them the full kind of access that Trump prohibited.
“It is possible sure they could and it might make sense for the [FBI] to have some folks go in or [the Archives] to do some searching,” Zaid said. “The problem is where would they find anything? That’s where we just don’t have the ability to ask questions.”
Akerman said such a proposal would typically be a nonstarter for defense attorneys.
“I never heard of a situation where the FBI goes in and just does a search because somebody self-reports,” Akerman said. “Normally, even in a criminal case, what you normally do in the first instance unless you have some reason to believe that somebody is lying to you or is going to destroy records or in doing something untoward as you had with the Trump situation, you just give a grand jury subpoena.”
And the idea of a voluntary search would also not likely have great value to prosecutors, Akerman said.
“If somebody knows ahead of time, what’s the point if they’re really going to hide something?” he said. “They would have moved it off premises or gone somewhere else with it. The whole idea of the search warrant is to catch somebody by surprise because you’ve got probable cause that a crime was committed and evidence of the crime exists in that location.”
In the case of Mar-a-Lago, prosecutors identified three such crimes they believed they’d find evidence of at Mar-a-Lago, obstruction of justice, the Espionage Act and unauthorized possession or concealment of government docs. They laid out — after months of investigation and witness interviews — the evidence that a judge agreed with them said would likely be present in Mar-a-Lago and even in specific areas of the club.
This is not to say that similar facts won’t develop in the coming weeks or months to justify a search of one or more of Biden’s residences.
But in the Justice Department the decision to search Trump’s residence was seen as a true last resort move after months and months of a complete breakdown in trust that continues to this day. Indeed, sources have told ABC Newss the government has been fighting in closed court proceedings in recent weeks to have Trump verify he still doesn’t possess classified records.
“There could come a time [in the Biden investigation] when somebody thinks someone is lying and that would cause a huge, huge problem for sure, obviously,” Zaid said. “But I anticipate we’re not going to get there, at least at this stage.”
For now, experts say the next likely steps for special counsel Robert Hur in his newly launched investigation will probably be in line with basic investigative steps taken early on after the Justice Department was alerted to classified documents that were present at Mar-a-Lago early last year.
“What they’re gonna do is, they’re gonna go in, they’re gonna question people and interview people who were present in that office in Washington,” Akerman said. “They’re going to interview people who were responsible for putting the documents in the storage area in Biden’s home. They’re going to interview all those people and they’re going to find out how that happened and how it got there.”
(NEW YORK) — Moderna’s respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, vaccine for older adults was about 84% effective at preventing serious illness, according to data from a late-stage trial published Tuesday.
Adult patients in the clinical trial appeared to tolerate the vaccine well and there were no safety concerns identified, the data showed.
The company said it will ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approval in the first half of 2023.
Pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and GSK have also announced promising results for their respective RSV vaccines in older adults. The FDA is expected to decide whether or not to approve both vaccines in May 2023.
There is currently no approved RSV vaccine for any age group, but pharmaceutical companies — including Moderna, Pfizer and GSK — have seen promising results in late-stage trials.
Cases of RSV began appearing earlier than usual this year across the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, peaking in early November before turning down.
Symptoms can include fever, coughing, runny nose, sneezing, wheezing and a decrease in appetite, per the CDC.
RSV leads to mild illness in most people but can cause severe illness in some young children and older adults.
The CDC says older adults aged 65 and above are at high risk for severe infection from RSV, particularly those with chronic lung or heart conditions and weakened immune systems.
Each year, between 60,000 and 120,000 older adults are hospitalized and between 6,000 to 10,000 die due to RSV infection, according to data from the CDC.
“Today’s results represent an important step forward in preventing lower respiratory disease due to RSV in adults 60 years of age and older,” Stéphane Bancel, Moderna’s CEO, said in a statement. “These data are encouraging and represent the second demonstration of positive phase 3 trial results from our mRNA infectious disease vaccine platform after Spikevax, our COVID-19 vaccine.”
Bancel said full results will be published at an upcoming infectious disease medical conference but did not specify which one.
This is not the first time researchers have attempted to develop an RSV vaccine.
In the late 1960s, a vaccine was produced in which the virus was inactivated with formalin, a chemical that kills viruses. The shot was given to children in Washington, D.C., but 80% of those immunized became sick and two children died, according to a journal article published in Nature.
Studies found that the vaccine did not generate enough antibodies to fight off the virus and instead triggered an overactive immune system response.
Due to overwhelming demand, 300 more theaters will be showing Billie Eilish‘s Live at the O2 movie, which airs one night only on January 27. Tickets are available on the movie’s website.
Pitbull has a new song out this Friday called “Right Or Wrong” that features AYYBO and ero808. He shared a teaser to Instagram that shows his head replaced by a disco ball. “Get ready to be hypnotized!” he warned.
Speaking of Pitbull, he’ll join Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, Missy Elliott and others for Usher’s Lovers & Friends Festival in Las Vegas on May 6. Tickets go on sale this Friday, January 20, on the event’s official website.
Jennifer Lopez claims she was supposed to take part in that now infamous VMAs kiss with Madonna — not Christina Aguilera. She told E! Newsshe was invited to perform at the 2003 VMAs with Madge and Britney Spears, but she was busy shooting a movie, “So they got Christina to do it.”
Kelly Clarkson guest stars on Tuesday’s episode of The Rookie on ABC at 8 p.m. ET. She shared a teaser of her boarding a hospital elevator and dealing with the major annoyance of going nowhere because the cast keeps jumping in before the doors fully close.
Gavin DeGraw shared a video of him performing a duet of “Follow Through” with country singer Kelsea Ballerini. Posting to Instagram, he wrote, “Duet vibes. We should do this more.” Kelsea wrote back, “Yes, we’ve only been talking about it for years! let’s do it.”
Dua Lipa is again fanning theories she’s giving acting a go by sharing a photo of her with Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. She shared the image as part of her “24hrs in Madrid” montage on Instagram.
Jennifer Lopez claims she was supposed to take part in that now infamous VMAs kiss with Madonna — not Christina Aguilera. She told E! News she was invited to perform at the 2003 VMAs with Madge and Britney Spears, but she was busy shooting a movie, “So they got Christina to do it.”
Speaking of Christina, she will be joining Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey, En Vogue, Blackstreet and other throwback artists for Usher‘s Lovers & Friends Festival in Las Vegas on May 6. Tickets go on sale this Friday, January 20, on the event’s official website.
Kelly Clarkson guest stars on Tuesday’s episode of The Rookie on ABC at 8 p.m. ET. She shared a teaser of her boarding a hospital elevator with balloons and flowers — and dealing with the major annoyance of going nowhere because the cast keeps jumping into the elevator before the doors fully close.
Gavin DeGraw shared a video of him performing a duet of “Follow Through” with country singer Kelsea Ballerini. Posting it to Instagram, he wrote, “Duet vibes. We should do this more.” Kelsea wrote back, “Yes, we’ve only been talking about it for years! let’s do it.”
Dua Lipa is again fanning theories she’s giving acting a go by sharing a photo of her with Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. She shared the image as part of her “24hrs in Madrid” montage on Instagram.
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday continued to avoid answering reporters’ questions on the ongoing classified document drama as the White House faces questions of transparency about what it’s told the American public as opposed to the Justice Department.
Face-to-face with reporters at an Oval Office meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte earlier in the day, Biden appeared to smile as a reporter shouted whether he would commit to speaking with the special counsel named to look into the case. Biden has not yet offered a public reaction since Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Robert Hur last week to investigate the potential mishandling of classified documents.
White House difficulty dealing with the perception problem continued as press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, again, struggled at the podium when confronted with reporters’ questions in the first press briefing since news broke that Biden aides found five more classified documents — which Jean-Pierre did not mention at Friday’s briefing.
The documents were discovered on Thursday, according to the White House, which did not disclose the find until Saturday.
“On Friday, you stood here, though, and were asked about these documents, by our count, some 18 times,” said ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Cecilia Vega. “At that point, the president’s lawyers had found these five additional pages of classified document — so did you not know, on Friday, that those documents had been found when you were at the podium, or are you being directed by someone to not be forthcoming?”
“I have been forthcoming from this podium,” Jean-Pierre replied, before later admitting that she “did not know” about the additional pages. “I had the information that you all had at the time.”
Jean-Pierre has, so far, referred all questions to the Justice Department.
“I’m just going to continue to be prudent here. I’m going to let this ongoing review that is happening — this legal process that is happening — let that process continue under the special counsel. We’re not — I’m not — going to comment from here,” Jean-Pierre said Tuesday.
“Look, guys, you guys can ask me this 100 times, 200 times, if you wish. I’m going to keep saying the same thing,” she added later on. “I hear your question. It’s been asked. It’s been answered. It’s been noted.”
Jean-Pierre told reporters that Biden’s mood has been “very clear,” despite reports he has been frustrated by how much this situation has overshadowed his agenda.
“The president has confidence — I can tell you this that the president and his team rightfully took action when they learned that the documents existed,” she insisted.
To help deal with the public relations problem, the White House counsel’s office spokesperson, Ian Sams, held his first on the record briefing call with reporters Tuesday afternoon to take questions on the matter ahead of Jean-Pierre’s briefing — but revealed very little new information.
For the first time, Sams explained why Biden’s personal lawyers were cleaning out his office at the Penn Biden Center in the first place, saying “trusted aides” were involved since “this is the president of the United States, and these are personal materials.”
Sams also faced questions about why the White House did not disclose the discovery of five additional pages until news broke on Saturday morning and offered one justification for withholding information on the investigation to the public. He said releasing incomplete information could do a disservice to the public — and appeared to acknowledge more materials could be discovered.
“The investigation may uncover additional information,” Sams said. “It may reveal additional facts…But when you are releasing impartial or periodic information … you run the risk that the public isn’t served by incomplete information at times. And so we understand that there’s a tension here and we’ve been trying to balance that tension while being totally cooperative with the Justice Department.”
“On Saturday, the president’s personal attorneys, the White House counsel’s office, we released additional statements. We thought it was important to address information that we had put out previously in the week, but we also wanted to make sure that you all had a fulsome explanation of the process so far,” Sams said, not acknowledging the host of additional questions Saturday’s statement dredged up.
While Sams, nor any of the president’s lawyers, have appeared at a White House press briefing, he has released statements taking on Republicans’ attacks.
“House Republicans have no credibility,” he said in a statement on Monday. “Their demands should be met with skepticism and they should face questions themselves about why they are politicizing this issue and admitting they actually do not care about the underlying classified material.”
“As President Biden has said repeatedly, he takes classified information seriously, which is why he immediately directed his team to ensure the documents were sent back to the government. President Biden is doing the right thing and is cooperating fully with a thorough review, but House Republicans are playing politics in a shamelessly hypocritical attempt to attack President Biden,” Sams added.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday afternoon punched back at the White House and said Democrats were the hypocrites.
“They found out President Biden had these documents, not under lock, but a simple push of a button that could open a garage door … prior to an election, they kept it secret,” the top House Republican told reporters on Capitol Hill. “And no time did he get raided by the FBI. At no time did they come forward and say who was there could actually see these documents that are sitting in the garage behind a corvette.”
McCarthy said House Republicans plan to look into both Trump and Biden’s special counsel investigations. This comes after House Oversight chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., requested visitor logs and communications from the Biden White House but said investigating Trump’s handling of classified documents was not a priority.
“My concern is how there’s such a discrepancy in how former President Trump was treated, by raiding Mar-a-Lago, getting security camera, taking pictures of documents on the floor, going through Melania’s closet, versus Joe Biden, your personal lawyers who don’t have security clearance, they can go through, they can just keep looking and keep looking and determine whatever is there,” Comer said Sunday on CNN.
Some outstanding questions
There are still several outstanding questions the White House has not answered.
One primary question is why wasn’t the DOJ investigation wasn’t made public until two months after the first documents were found. Another is what prompted the president’s personal lawyers to go back to his Wilmington Home on Jan. 11, after document discoveries in November, before the midterms, and in December.
Reporters have also asked Biden whether he will agree to sit down for an interview with the special counsel but, so far, have no answers.
Finally, the question as to what exactly is in the classified documents has not been answered by the White House.
ABC News’ Molly Nagle and Lalee Ibssa contributed to this report.
(WINDSOR, Va.) — A Black soldier in uniform who was pepper-sprayed in his car by Virginia police officers during a traffic stop has been awarded less than $4,000 in a million-dollar lawsuit against the two officers.
The jury awarded 2nd Lt. Caron Nazario a total of $3,685 in the lawsuit against Windsor, Virginia, police officers Joe Gutierrez and Daniel Crocker.
The officers faced four counts: assault, battery, false imprisonment and illegal search.
Gutierrez was ordered to pay $2,685 in damages, no malice, under liability for assault. He was cleared of all other charges.
Crocker was liable for an illegal search, no malice. He was ordered to pay $1,000 in damages. He was cleared of all other charges.
Nazario’s lawyer, Tom Roberts, said it was a “sad day” and that the verdicts fail to send the message to other police officers that “this conduct is unacceptable.”
“It is open season on citizens in Virginia and across the county,” Roberts said in a statement. “Citizens will not rest assured that scenes like this are not repeated with impunity.
The officers pulled over Nazario on the evening of Dec. 5, 2020. Body-camera footage showed Gutierrez pepper spray Nazario when he would not get out of the car.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Taylor Swift had a memorable reaction when she found out “Anti-Hero” scored another week atop the Billboard Hot 100, thus becoming her longest-running #1 song.
Taking to her Instagram Story, the hitmaker wrote in all capital letters, “What on earth. I love you guys.” She reposted the official Billboard announcement that crowned her record-making song.
The singer also sent love to fellow artist SZA, who recently released her new #1 album SOS. Rumors had sparked that she and Taylor were locked in a bitter rivalry after SOS knocked Midnights to second place on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
SZA was first to shut down the feud rumors by tweeting out earlier this month, “I don’t have beef w ANYONE especially not Taylor lmao I genuinely loved her album and the writing!”
It was Taylor’s turn to prove there was no ax to grind. She wrote in an Instagram Story, “PS – Been listening to @SZA’s album nonstop. Absolutely adore her music. So much love and respect for her!!”
Keith Emerson in 1977; Ed Perlstein/Redferns/Getty Images
A new book dedicated to the late ELP keyboardist Keith Emerson has just been released. The book, Emerson: The Official Illustrated Story, features never-before-seen photos of the rocker from the private Emerson family archives, along with live performance photographs and more.
The book also features new interviews with Keith’s friends and family sharing their favorite memories of him. There are also interviews with fellow artists, such as ex-ELP member Carl Palmer, Rick Wakeman, ex-Doobie Brothers guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter and many others.
The book has been released in two versions, the Classic and the Signature, the latter of which is signed by author Chris Welch and Keith’s son Aaron Emerson. It features a CD of an unheard Emerson interview, an exclusive art print portrait of Keith and sheet music for a song called “Quatermass Boogie Woogie,” the first piece Emerson composed at just 12 years old.
