Black Veil Brides have premiered the video for “Devil,” a track off their new The Mourning EP.
The black-and-white clip features live footage from BVB’s show in Mexico City last month. You can watch it streaming now on YouTube.
The Mourning, which also features the single “Saviour II,” dropped in October. The four-track collection follows BVB’s 2021 album, The Phantom Tomorrow, which spawned the single “Scarlet Cross.”
Black Veil has spent much of the year on the Trinity of Terror tour alongside Motionless in White and Ice Nine Kills. The third leg of the triple bill will come to a close December 12 in Seattle.
(Note Language) It’s been roughly a decade since Future made his debut. Despite his time in the industry, it appears he’s conflicted about carrying on the title of role model.
“That s***’s tough, bro,” he tells Billboard when asked if he sees himself as a role model. “I think I need to be a vessel of what not to do. In some things, I need to be a lesson on what to do. So, I think you live and learn through me and if I have to be that sacrifice, I guess so.”
What he wants more than anything is to help people be “better than me.” He also desires more power in the game, as he says it would allow him to “put other people in positions [of power].”
Future also discussed his role as a father and how that would look different if he were married. He reveals that marriage is “one of my dreams,” adding he believes he can have both that and a successful rap career. But, he wants it to come naturally. “When the time’s right, it’ll happen,” Future says.
Until then, he will continue to work on his music, specifically his 10th album.
When asked how the project is looking for him, Future says, “A lot of money. That’s a lot of damn money.”
“My main focus right now is just to do something I never done,” he continues. “One thing I never done is make a billion dollars. I ain’t done that, so I’m focused on that.”
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are set to star in the latest edition of CMT Crossroads, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
The 90-minute special, CMT Crossroads: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, will debut November 29 at 9 p.m. ET and have the two artists performing tracks from their albums Raising Sand and Raise The Roof, including “High And Lonesome,” “Can’t Let Go” and “Gone Gone Gone.” They will also team for some Led Zeppelin tracks, including “Rock and Roll” and “When The Levee Breaks.”
This isn’t the first time Plant and Krauss have appeared on CMT Crossroads. They first teamed for an episode back in 2008 after releasing Raising Sand.
The announcement comes just days after the pair earned three Grammy nominations: Best Americana Album for Raising Sand, Best American Roots Song for “High and Lonesome” and Best Country Duo/Group Performance for “Going Where The Lonely Go.”
Queen’s new The Miracle Super Deluxe Collector’s Edition box set drops Friday. In addition to two new songs, “Face It Alone” and “Too Much Love Will Kill You,” it features something really special for fans. The set includes audio from the band’s 1988 studio sessions for the album, giving listeners some insight into the band’s dynamic during recording.
“Listening to our dialogues on ‘The Miracle,’ it feels as if I am in the middle of our sessions – finding joy, finding frustration,” Queen guitarist Brian May tells Variety. “That was the intention: to invite people into our studio environment at that point in time.”
“Face it Alone” was stitched together from fragments of recordings; May says he got “emotional” the first time he heard the late Freddie Mercury on the track. “All I could hear was Freddie’s incredible vocal cords, working so splendidly and passionately….,” he shares. “Yeah, I was pretty emotion-ed up. It was, as if, he was there, and you realize, again, what an incredible talent that was. Such an amazing human being with an extraordinary instrument.”
And in news that’s bound to excite Queen fans, May hints that there’s a possibility more songs can be released based on old recordings. “It’s possible. We don’t really know until we go back in there,” he explains. “I wouldn’t have predicted that we would have had as much unreleased material around “The Miracle,” as it turned out. I’m guessing we’ll find many more hidden treasures, yeah.”
(WASHINGTON) — Congressional Republicans say they’re poised to push ahead with an investigation into President Joe Biden’s family, including his son Hunter, in the coming session — despite warnings from some in their own caucus not to pursue “hyper-partisan” oversight probes.
Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and James Comer of Kentucky, two high-ranking members expected to helm powerful committees when Republicans take control of Congress in January, outlined their plans during a press conference on Thursday, pledging to “pursue all avenues” of wrongdoing and calling investigations into the president’s family a “top priority.”
Beyond their interest in Hunter Biden’s overseas business endeavors, which are already the subject of a Justice Department investigation, the lawmakers said their primary focus is finding out whether his father, President Biden, was more involved in those dealings than previously known.
“We’re not trying to prove Hunter Biden is a bad actor. He is,” Comer said. “Our investigation is of Joe Biden.”
But several voices from within their own party have balked at the prospect of targeting the president’s family, calling it a distraction from the issues voters care about and a political miscalculation that could exacerbate growing tensions within the party after a lackluster midterm performance. Republicans had hoped to comfortably win control of the House, but instead they appear poised to take control with a razor-thin margin.
Barbara Comstock, a former Republican congresswoman from Virginia, said pursuing Hunter Biden and others is a losing strategy, and would signal to voters that the party has failed to learn its lessons.
“When voters deliver such a dramatic rebuke, where expectations of a ‘red wave’ fail to come through, it’s time for humility and introspection,” said Comstock, an ABC News contributor. “And rabid oversight of Hunter Biden is not at all the message Republicans should take away from the midterms.”
Some new arrivals in Washington echoed that sentiment.
“If parts of our party want to go into these investigations, that’s their prerogative,” said Rep.-elect George Santos, R-N.Y., during an interview on Fox News this week. “I don’t want to waste my time in Washington engaging in hyper-partisan issues, I want to deliver results.”
On Thursday, Jordan, who is expected to take over the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, the current ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, accused president’s son of committing a bevy of crimes, including tax evasion, wire fraud, and human trafficking, without providing evidence. They said they “would love” to speak with Hunter Biden, but did not announce plans to issue a subpoena.
Comer said his Oversight panel would focus on obtaining over 150 Suspicious Activities Reports, or SARs, pertaining to Hunter Biden from the Treasury Department. SARs are reports filed by financial institutions to flag questionable banking transactions, but do not amount to crimes.
As part of their efforts to more closely connect President Biden to his son’s business efforts, Republicans shared a copy of an email Hunter Biden purportedly wrote to a building manager seeking a spare set of keys to a new office for his “business partners” — a list that included his father’s name.
Several of the claims leveled by Republicans on Thursday have been publicly known for years, dating back to a Senate report published ahead of the 2020 election. That report, penned by Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., found Hunter Biden’s overseas work “awkward” and “problematic,” but identified no wrongdoing.
DOJ investigators are examining whether Hunter Biden paid adequate taxes on millions of dollars of personal income, including money he made during business pursuits in China and Ukraine. Hunter Biden has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, ethically or criminally, but has acknowledged that his family ties likely bolstered his career. He has not been charged with any crimes.
A Democratic spokesperson for the current Oversight Committee called the probe a “desperate attempt to return Trump to power,” following former President Donald Trump’s announcement on Tuesday that he is again running for president in 2024.
“Today’s press conference rehashed the same tired, partisan talking points Republicans have been using for years, ignoring the clear message Americans sent that they want real solutions — not partisan bickering,” the spokesperson said.
A lawyer for Hunter Biden declined to comment on Thursday’s press conference.
Nils Lofgren is having a hard time juggling his gigs. The guitarist is, of course, a member of Bruce Springsteen’sE Street Band, but he’s also part of Neil Young’s Crazy Horse, and that has left him with a scheduling problem.
Bruce has already announced a tour for 2023, and Neil just released the new Crazy Horse album World Record, but despite how hard he tried, Nils won’t be able to support both, should Neil decide to tour on his record.
“Every time I call Neil’s manager and Bruce’s manager, I say, ‘Guys, I’m a half a century in. I paid some dues,’” Lofgren tells Rolling Stone. “‘Can you just let me create the schedules for Bruce and Neil for the next couple years, please?’ And they always tell me to get lost.”
He adds that since Bruce started planning his tour before the Neil album happened, he had to commit to The Boss. “I can’t get them to let me make the schedule. And so, sadly, I’m doing that tour,” he says. “I talked to Neil about it. It bums me out, but I can’t be in two places at once.”
Neil has talked about Promise of the Real’s Micah Nelson as a fill in for Lofgren, and while he says that band is “fabulous,” Lofgren admits, “It bums me out talking about being replaced for a tour.”
(SAN JOSE DEL CABO, Mexico) — An American woman’s death in Mexico is being investigated as a femicide, a form of gender-based violence, according to the Baja California Sur Attorney General’s Office.
The family of Shanquella Robinson, 25, of Charlotte, North Carolina, is desperate for answers after she died while vacationing with friends in Mexico last month.
Robinson went to San Jose del Cabo, a resort city on the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, with six friends on Oct. 28. They stayed at a rental villa in Fundadores, an exclusive gated community with vacation homes and a private beach club, Robinson’s parents told Charlotte ABC affiliate WSOC-TV in a recent interview.
The next day, Robinson’s parents got a frantic telephone call from their daughter’s friends saying she had died.
“They said she wasn’t feeling well, that it was alcohol poisoning,” Robinson’s mother, Sallamondra Robinson, told WSOC-TV.
However, the Mexican Secretariat of Health’s autopsy report and death certificate for Robinson, obtained by ABC News, lists her cause of death as “severe spinal cord injury and atlas luxation,” with no mention of alcohol. The document also states that the approximate time between injury and death was 15 minutes, while a box asking whether the death was “accidental or violent” was ticked “yes.”
According to the document, which was dated Nov. 4, Robinson was found unconscious in the living room of a residence on Padre Kino Avenue, near Fundadores Beach Club, in San Jose del Cabo on the afternoon of Oct. 29.
The Fundadores Beach Club did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment on Thursday.
Robinson’s parents described their late daughter as a hardworking business owner who had a “great heart.”
“It’s like a nightmare. I can’t even sleep,” Robinson’s father, Bernard Robinson, told WSOC-TV. “I just want some truth because this doesn’t add up right.”
In recent days, a video — not verified by ABC News — has surfaced online purportedly showing a woman attacking Robinson. Speaking to WSOC-TV, Robinson’s mother identified the people in the footage as the friends who accompanied her daughter to Mexico and said she believes it was taken during the trip. In the video, someone can be heard asking if Robinson “could at least fight back.” It’s unclear when and where the video was taken.
“It was never a fight. She didn’t fight. They attacked her,” Sallamondra Robinson told WSOC-TV. “She did not deserve to be treated like that.”
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City told ABC News on Wednesday that its staff “are aware of Shanquella Robinson’s death and are providing consular services to her family.”
A spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s field office in Charlotte, North Carolina, told ABC News on Thursday that the agency has been in contact with Robinson’s family.
As the mystery deepens and questions remain, the State Attorney General’s Office of Baja California Sur released a statement Wednesday saying it is continuing to investigate Robinson’s death.
The office said it received a call on Oct. 29 at approximately 6:15 p.m. local time from a “public security member” who reported the death of a foreign woman in a room of a house in the Fundadores Beach Club area in San Jose del Cabo. Investigators were sent to the scene and are still collecting “more evidence to achieve the accurate clarification of the events, without ruling out any hypothesis,” according to the office.
ABC News’ Will Gretsky contributed to this report.
(NEW YORK) — Polish officials granted Ukrainian investigators access on Thursday to the site of the missile strike that hit a Polish village and killed two people earlier in the week.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday disputed a claim by Poland that Tuesday’s missile strike came from Ukrainian air defenses. Polish President Andrzej Duda earlier had called the incident a “tragic accident.”
“I have no doubt that it was not our rocket,” Zelenskyy told reporters. He said Ukraine should be a party to the investigation over the strike.
But U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in an on-camera briefing Wednesday said there’s “nothing that contradicts President Duda’s preliminary assessment that this explosion was most likely the result of a Ukrainian air defense missile that unfortunately landed in Poland.”
After arriving at the White House early Thursday morning, President Joe Biden was asked for his reaction to Zelenskyy denying that the missile that landed in Poland was Ukrainian. “That’s not the evidence,” Biden responded.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken evaded questions from reporters about the disconnect between Ukraine and Western powers on the origin of the missile, saying he couldn’t get ahead of the investigation and that officials are still gathering information. Blinken also said allies are in regular contact with Ukraine and are sharing the information they have.
“President Zelenskyy has been in touch with the Polish president himself to clarify the facts. The chair of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council said that Ukraine is pursuing a comprehensive analysis of what happened. So we also have among all of us–Ukraine, Poland, the United States, our NATO allies, G7 Partners–a commitment to follow the facts,” Blinken told reporters Thursday.
According to a Polish official, Duda sees “no obstacles” for Ukrainian observers to take part in an investigation into the causes of the missile blast. The decision will ultimately depend on the agreement with other members of the NATO alliance, said Jacek Siewiera, the head of the Polish National Security Office, in an interview on radio RMF FM Thursday.
The missile caused an explosion Tuesday about 10 miles from the Polish-Ukrainian border, in the farming village of Przewodow, killing the owner of a granary that was struck and a tractor driver who was transferring maize and corn to the facility, according to Poland’s Law and Justice Ministry.
In response to the incident, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Tuesday called an urgent meeting with the Polish Committee of the Council of Ministers for National Security and Defense Affairs. Duda said the NATO ally also strengthened the readiness of the Polish armed forces, including air defenses.
The Polish foreign minister also summoned the Russian envoy to explain the explosion near the Ukrainian border.
The incident came on the same day Russian forces fired 90 missiles into Ukraine, affecting power systems, enterprises and residential buildings, according to Zelenskyy.
Russia denied responsibility for the missiles that landed in Poland. After Polish authorities released images from the site, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed the wreckage was elements of an S-300 anti-aircraft guided missile, which it claimed is used by the Ukrainian Air Force.
Duda said that it was probably a Russian-made S-300 missile, but that there is no evidence that it was a missile launched by the Russians.
Russia claimed that its precision strikes were carried out on targets within Ukrainian territory and at a distance no closer than 35 km from the Ukrainian-Polish border.
The U.S. has experts on the ground assisting with the Polish-led investigation, Austin said Wednesday.
There is a debris field in Poland and other forms of data are going to be available from various technical means. Officials are expected to have confirmed data as to the point of origin, point of impact and what the angle of the weapon system was the flight trajectory “shortly,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told reporters Wednesday.
After he was briefed on the incident, President Joe Biden spoke with Duda and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday.
Biden expressed “deep condolences for the loss of life in Eastern Poland” and offered “full U.S. support for and assistance with Poland’s investigation,” the White House said in a statement.
Hours after the explosion, the White House held an emergency roundtable meeting with G-7 and NATO world leaders in Bali, Indonesia regarding the explosion in Poland. Biden met with leaders of Germany, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, the Netherlands, the U.K. and the EU.
After the meeting, Biden told reporters it is “unlikely” that the missile that hit Poland was fired from Russia and said leaders would support the investigation into what happened.
“I’m going to make sure we find out exactly what happened,” Biden said.
Biden also said that recent Russian missile attacks on Ukraine have been “totally unconscionable” and were a point of discussion at the meeting. The White House also condemned the attacks on Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure, calling them “barbaric.”
Russia called Biden’s response “reserved and far more professional reaction” compared to other countries.
However, Austin and the White House blamed Russia on Wednesday for the ongoing conflict.
“Whatever the final conclusions may be, the world knows that Russia bears ultimate responsibility for this incident, which launched another barrage of missiles against Ukraine specifically intended to target Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure,” Austin said.
ABC News’ Tom Soufi Burridge, Luis Martinez, Will Gretsky and Ben Gittleson contributed to this report.
Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sally Field and Rita Moreno star in the official trailer for 80 for Brady as four best friends who travel to Houston to see their favorite football player — you guessed it, Tom Brady — play in Super Bowl 51.
The Super Bowl, which took place in 2017, saw the famed quarterback lead the New England Patriots to a comeback win over the Atlanta Falcons after trailing 28-3.
In the trailer, Fonda, Tomlin, Field and Moreno’s characters decide to set out on their adventure, which is filled with hilarious hijinks. There are also some celebrity cameos, including Billy Porter, Guy Fieri and Rob Gronkowski.
Highlights from the trailer show Fonda making out with Harry Hamlin in a closet and later running into Gronk in the locker room; Tomlin doing the dab; Field entering a hot wings-eating contest; Moreno drinking something that results in everyone looking like Fieri; and all the ladies dancing with Porter.
Brady, who now plays for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, appears in and is a producer on the Kyle Marvin-directed film, which is based on a true story.
80 for Brady touches down in theaters Feb. 3, 2023.
(NEW YORK) — Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg testified Thursday that it was his decision alone to commit tax fraud by paying no taxes on the fringe benefits he received from the Trump Organization.
Weisselberg, who in August pleaded guilty to skirting nearly $2 million in income taxes, is testifying as part of a plea deal with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office in the trial of former President Donald Trump’s namesake real estate company on tax fraud charges.
The Trump Organization is accused of paying the rent on Weisselberg’s Manhattan apartment, the leases on cars for himself and his wife, garage expenses, tuition for his grandchildren, furniture for his house in Florida, and other personal expenses — all without the required taxes being paid.
“You were entrusted to account for these things properly,” the company’s defense attorney, Alan Futerfas, asked Weisselberg. “No one gave you permission to commit tax fraud?”
“Correct,” Weisselberg replied.
“And your decision not to pay taxes was solely to benefit Allen Weisselberg?” Futerfas asked.
“Correct,” Weisselberg answered.
“Were you aware, aside from you, of anyone else knowing you failed to report the value of these rental payments on your tax returns?” asked Futerfas.
“No,” replied Weisselberg.
“This decision not to report was yours and solely to benefit you?” Futerfas asked.
“That’s correct,” Weisselberg answered.
Prosecutors believe Weisselberg’s conduct implicates the company because his position as chief financial officer meant he was entrusted to act on the Trump Organization’s behalf.
One day in 2012, Weisselberg testified, Trump was in his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower with Weisselberg when Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. walked in with checks to sign for Weisselberg’s children’s school tuition.
Weisselberg said that Trump chuckled, turned to Weisselberg, and said, “I may as well pay for your grandkids too.”
Trump began signing three checks per year for each of Weisselberg’s two grandchildren to attend Columbia Grammar School at a total annual cost of about $100,000, Weisselberg said. The jury saw images of some of the checks.
“I said, ‘I’m going to pay you back for this,'” Weisselberg testified.
Weisselberg said he paid back Trump by instructing company controller Jeff McConney to reduce his salary and bonus by the same amount as the tuition payments and his rent, car leases and other personal expenses the Trump Organization was paying. In 2015, that amount was more than $195,395, according to a spreadsheet displayed for the jury.
“I paid back the entity that paid my salary,” said Weisselberg.
“You didn’t tell Mr. Trump you were reducing your compensation, did you?” Futerfas asked.
“I never did,” Weisselberg responded.
By reducing his salary, prosecutor Susan Hoffinger said the company benefited because it was able to save on payroll taxes.
“Did you know the Trump Payroll Corporation was falsifying your W2?” Hoffinger asked.
“I knew my payroll reporting was incorrect, yes,” replied Weisselberg, who conceded that the practice saved the company money.
Weisselberg testified that the company stopped paying personal expenses for him and other executives in 2017 as part of a “cleanup process” when Donald Trump was elected president.
Prosecutors have suggested that the company knew the practice was wrong but allowed it to continue until Trump’s campaign and presidency brought new scrutiny.
“We were going through an entire cleanup process of the company to make sure that since Mr. Trump is now president that everything was being done properly,” Weisselberg said.
Once the Trump Organization stopped paying his rent, his car leases, his grandchildren’s tuition and other personal expenses, Weisselberg said he asked for a $200,000 raise to cover the costs.
Weisselberg said he is still being paid $640,000 a year and is expecting a $500,000 bonus at the end of the year despite pleading guilty to 15 criminal charges and no longer working in the office as chief financial officer, according to his testimony.
“This was about saving you money?” Futerfas asked Weisselberg about the perks he received.
“It was my own personal greed that led to this, yes,” Weisselberg responded.
“Did you conspire with any member of the Trump family?” asked Futerfas.
“No,” replied Weisselberg.
“Do you believe the owners of the company relied on you to do the right thing?” Futerfas asked.
“Yes,” Weisselberg answered.
“Did you honor the trust that was placed in you?” Futerfas asked.
“I did not,” Weisselberg replied. He appeared to get emotional as the cross-examination pressed on.
“Are you embarrassed about what you did?” asked Futerfas.
