Lil Baby has released the music video for his song “The World Is Yours To Take,” a track off the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ Official Soundtrack.
The video, a partnership with Budweiser, captures Lil Baby walking through the World Cup stadiums, as well as highlights from the tournament between France and Argentina, which ended Sunday with the latter’s victory.
“I’m excited to make history with Budweiser and close out the 2022 FIFA World Cup with this unforgettable video,” Lil Baby said. “Working with Director X and the amazing people from around the globe, we’re celebrating what it means to bring the world together and inspire people to chase those dreams.”
“The World Is Yours To Take,” which samples Tears For Fears’ 1985 hit “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” dropped back in September. It was featured in Budweiser’s campaign content surrounding the World Cup.
“My new track with Budweiser for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Official Soundtrack is a special one for me. It’s about the journey we’ve all been on over the last few years and celebrating what’s next,” Lil Baby said soon after the song’s release. “When I started in music in 2017, I went all in on a dream that brought me to where I am now, and that’s what I want fans to feel when they hear the song. I hope it makes you feel like you’re walking out onto the pitch at the World Cup, making moves toward your own dreams, whatever that means to you.”
Lil Baby also performed at the Bud World Cup zone earlier this month as part of his deal with Budweiser.
(NEW YORK) — The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for nine people who were aboard a capsized boat off the coast of Florida.
The Coast Guard was alerted to the accident after a good Samaritan rescued a survivor near Lake Worth, Florida, who reported that he and nine others set sail from Cuba on Dec. 10, the Coast Guard’s Southeast branch tweeted Monday morning.
#BreakingNews@USCG crews are searching for 9 people in the water after a good Sam rescued a person Sunday, at approx 3:30 p.m. off Lake Worth Beach. The survivor reported he and 9 others left Cuba on Dec. 10, & the vessel capsized early Sunday morning. #SAR@USEmbCubapic.twitter.com/jKbaZlU9Dd
Pink Floyd gave their fans an early Christmas present this weekend. Rolling Stonereports that without much fanfare, the band released 18 concert recordings from their Dark Side of the Moon era to streaming services, along with some alternative tracks from the album.
The newly released concerts took place between January and December 1972. The recordings include a four-night stand at London’s Rainbow Theater, which took place February 17 to 20, 1972. There are also three U.S. shows, in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
This isn’t the first time Pink Floyd has quietly released a set of live concerts to streaming services. Last year they uploaded 12 unreleased concerts, all recorded between 1970 and 1972, without any previous warning. In both that instance and this latest one, it appears the release is the band’s way of extending their copyright to the recordings.
Amber Heard announced Monday that she and her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, have settled their high-profile defamation case.
“After a great deal of deliberation I have made a very difficult decision to settle the defamation case brought against me by my ex-husband in Virginia,” she wrote in an Instagram post.
She went on to say, “It’s important for me to say that I never chose this. I defended my truth and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed.”
A jury sided with Depp in the lengthy defamation trial between him and Heard in June. The jury awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. Heard was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages and no punitive damages. Virginia law states that punitive damages are capped at $350,000, so Depp will receive a total of $10.35 million.
In their respective testimonies during the trial, both Heard and Depp claimed the other abused them. The former couple, who met while filming 2011’s The Rum Diary and were married from 2015 to 2017, denied the other’s claims of abuse.
Heard filed a notice of appeal on July 21, with Depp filing a notice of appeal the following day.
In her note Monday, Heard touched on the impact of the media in the defamation case with her former spouse: “The vilification I have faced on social media is an amplified version of the ways in which women are re-victimised [sic] when they come forward.”
She also said of the settlement, “I have made no admission. This is not an act of concession. There are no restrictions or gags with respect to my voice moving forward.”
In her post, Heard also said she “lost faith in the American legal system” for how her case was handled.
The feature detailed a truly absurd stunt Tom Cruise pulls off in the movie: a motorcycle jump off a cliff in Norway, leading to a BASE (buildings, antenna, spans and earth) jump hundreds of feet below.
The actor is shown gleefully being put through his paces by writer-director Christopher McQuarrie, skydiving trainers and other stunt people. “I have to try to keep myself from smiling,” the daredevil superstar admits as he’s about to skydive in preparation for the stunt.
And speaking of skydiving, Cruise also filmed a special thank you to fans for making Top Gun: Maverick the number one movie of the year — and his career.
He shot the message high in the air over South Africa while shooting another scene from the two upcoming M:I movies, which are being filmed mostly concurrently. Cruise begins the message in a helicopter, before continuing WHILE free-falling.
“Thank you for supporting Top Gun: Maverick and thank you for allowing us to entertain you, it truly is the honor of a lifetime. Very lucky,” the literally falling star says.
Cruise notes that he’s running out of altitude to actually film what he needs to for the film, so he ends by saying — ironically — “You have a very safe and happy holiday,” before concluding with, “We’ll see you at the movies.”
(WASHINGTON) — After months of political drama, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol holds its final public act Monday afternoon.
The meeting — the panel’s tenth televised one this year — is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. Eastern.
The most important business at hand: the committee’s decision on criminal referrals.
Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., tasked a subcommittee to make recommendations on criminal referrals and to explore enforcement options for the five Republican lawmakers who ignored subpoenas to testify: Reps. Kevin McCarthy, Andy Biggs, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry and Mo Brooks.
Sources familiar told ABC News the committee is preparing to urge the Department of Justice to prosecute former President Donald Trump for obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Another criminal charge under discussion is insurrection, the sources said.
Thompson has said to expect “five or six” categories of referrals, which means there could be referrals to several different entities such as the Justice Department or the House Committee on Ethics.
The extent of the criminal referrals, and who will be targeted, will be made clear on Monday as the committee is expected to release a separate, shorter report on the matter. Any referrals would be a largely symbolic move, though, as it’s ultimately up to federal prosecutors whether to pursue charges.
On Sunday evening, a select committee aide provided a short statement about the committee’s coming actions.
“Following the business meeting, the Select Committee is expected to release certain materials, including an executive summary of the report, details on referrals, and additional information about witnesses who have appeared before the committee,” the aide said.
The eventual complete report will be hundreds of pages long and is likely to closely follow the themes of each of the panel’s hearings.
Those included Trump’s pressure campaigns on Justice Department officials, local election officials and on former Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election.
The panel also heard testimony from White House insiders who described Trump’s desire to join his supporters at the Capitol and his resistance to pleas from his advisers to quickly condemn the rioters.
The committee recapped its major findings during its last hearing on Oct. 13, just weeks before the midterm elections, but may do so again on Monday.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., recently said the committee’s comprehensive report will paint a “fulsome picture” of events surrounding the Capitol attack.
“This is all about telling the American people about what happened and leaving with them the opportunity to say, democracies can have bad days, but how we come back from those bad days is how we’ll be defined,” Kinzinger told ABC’s This Week.
The House select committee, formed in July 2021 after an effort to create an independent commission was ultimately blocked by Republicans, will expire at year’s end. But the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigations will continue despite the congressional committee being disbanded.
Debbie Gibson was still in her teens when she hit it big in the ’80s, and while some young stars ran into problems because of their early fame, that didn’t happen for Gibson — and she credits her parents for that.
“I’m very lucky because I had my mom and my dad,” she tells the New York Post’s Page Six, noting that her mom was her manager at the beginning of her career and “literally threw her body in front of anybody that was out to cause me any kind of harm.”
“It didn’t always get her brownie points but got her a lot of respect, and it protected me,” Gibson shares. “So, I’m really lucky that I had protective parents that didn’t want anything from me but for me to turn out sane and happy and healthy.”
Of course, supportive parents weren’t necessarily something Britney Spears had, and Gibson says she can understand why Brit seems to be acting out now that she’s finally free of her conservatorship and her father’s control.
Referring to Brit’s naked Instagram photos, Gibson says, “It’s very easy to kind of mock her social media posts. But I see somebody who is joyful and just dying to get out of that bubble.” She adds, “She’s a natural performer, so if she has to perform in her living room, on social media, that’s what she’s going to do. … But I hope she finds her stage again.”
A woman broke into Robert De Niro’s Upper East Side Manhattan townhouse early Monday morning and began snagging Christmas presents from under the tree, according to police.
Shanice Aviles, 30, was arrested on burglary charges after she was spotted entering De Niro’s E 65 Street home at 2:45 a.m.
ABC News has learned police were following Aviles because she was wanted in connection with six other burglaries. Police sources described her as a recidivist who had just been arrested December 8.
Early this morning, police saw her entering a townhouse on E 65 Street. When she did not come out, police entered the home and saw her taking presents from under the Christmas tree and putting them into a bag.
Hearing the commotion, De Niro came down the stairs. Police did not know it was his house until he appeared. There was no interaction between the actor and the alleged thief, police said.
(NEW YORK) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is warning that the city is expected to receive over 1,000 asylum-seekers each week, with Title 42 set to be lifted on Wednesday.
Although he does not say what authority has warned of the incoming surge of migrants, he said that NYC would see more people entering the shelter system as early as Sunday.
“The flow of asylum-seekers to New York City has slowed in recent months, but the tool that the federal government has used to manage those coming over the border is set to expire this week, and we have been told in no uncertain terms that, beginning today, we should expect an influx of buses coming from the border and that more than 1,000 additional asylum-seekers will arrive in New York City every week,” Adams said in a statement.
Title 42 is a clause of the 1944 Public Health Services Law that “allows the government to prevent the introduction of individuals during certain public health emergencies,” Olga Byrne, the immigration director at the International Rescue Committee, told ABC News last week.
Adams has called on the state and federal government for funding to help house asylum-seekers, saying that NYC has managed the flow and influx of seekers “entirely on its own.”
Since April, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has bused over 14,000 migrants from the Texas-Mexico border to Democrat-led cities across the country, including NYC, citing a need to secure the border after claiming the Biden administration isn’t doing so.
In September, Adams called for “coordination” with the federal government and Republican governors over the busing and flying of migrants to the city, saying that NYC’s system was “nearing its breaking point.”
“We are in urgent need for help, and it’s time for our state and federal partners to act — especially those in Congress who refuse to provide the financial resources or issue temporary work authorizations necessary for these individuals to live properly,” Adams said in a press release Sunday.
The mayor also warned that the shelter system is currently full and are “nearly out of money, staff, and space.”
“Truth be told, if corrective measures are not taken soon, we may very well be forced to cut or curtail programs New Yorkers rely on and the pathway to house thousands more is uncertain,” Adams said.
(TORONTO) — Five people are dead after a gunman opened fire on Sunday at a condo building in a suburb near Toronto, police said on Monday.
Another victim was injured in the shooting in Vaughan, a city north of Toronto, according to York Regional Police.
“We offer our sincere condolences to the victims and their families,” Chief MacSween said at the scene, according to a statement released Monday.
Officers arriving at the scene had an “interaction” with the alleged gunman, who was shot and killed at the condo building, police said.
“Residents of the building who had been evacuated are now able to return to their homes,” York police said on Twitter. “We thank you for your patience and understanding while we worked to ensure safety and preserve evidence.”
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
