Måneskin‘s new single, “The Loneliest,” will soon be a little less lonely.
An official video for the track is set to premiere Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube. Prior to the debut, the Italian rockers will be hosting an online Q&A beginning at 12:30 p.m. ET.
Måneskin has also tweeted a preview of the video, featuring frontman Damiano David floating underwater before a quick series of cuts showing him and his bandmates standing in the rain.
The song “The Loneliest” dropped last Friday. It’s the first new, original tune from Måneskin to follow their single “Supermodel,” which was released in May.
Måneskin will launch their first-ever North American headlining tour Halloween night in Seattle.
You can tell it’s October because that’s when artists start releasing holiday albums. Lindsey Stirling‘s new Christmas album, Snow Waltz, is out now, but she says that in order to ease fans into the idea of Christmas, she’s also acknowledging Halloween on the album.
Snow Waltz is Lindsey’s first new Christmas album since Warmer in the Winter came out in 2017. She tells ABC Audio, “Oh my gosh, finally I’ve got new Christmas music to tour and to create with and make music videos with, and it’s just been so fun to have a new set.”
Lindsey says she wrote the album’s title track “specifically to kind of tie into spooky season,” noting, “It’s a familiar place for people because The Nightmare Before Christmas was such a popular franchise. Danny Elfman‘s music in general has that, like, kind of spooky-but-magical feeling to it. And so I kind of went in that direction.”
“I think it’s going to be really great for fans to be able to, like, tiptoe into the holidays without feeling like we haven’t skipped Halloween and Thanksgiving,” she laughs.
Lindsey’s used to going all out for Halloween — she even puts up a Halloween tree every year.
“Often I have a Christmas tree up because I’m filming content with it, so then I was like, ‘Well, I don’t want to take it down because Christmas is around the corner,'” she explains. “So I just started making it a Halloween tree. And yeah, every year I take a trip to Dollar Tree and get new things to add to it.”
Lindsey starts rehearsing for her Christmas tour shortly, then hits the road, so she never actually takes down the Halloween tree — she just changes it back into a Christmas tree.
The inaugural David Bowie World Fan Convention was held in June in Liverpool, England, and now details have been revealed about the 2023 installment of the gathering.
The two-day Bowie celebration will take place June 17-18 in New York City and feature a variety of guest speakers, including musicians and other collaborators who worked with the late rock legend.
Among those set to participate in the event are Bowie’s frequent co-producer and good friend Tony Visconti; his longtime pianist Mike Garson; and guitarist Carlos Alomar, who played on 11 of David’s albums and co-wrote Bowie’s first U.S. #1 hit, “Fame.”
Other Bowie collaborators who will take part include bassists George Murray and Carmine Rojas; guitarist Kevin Armstrong; multiple instrumentalist and Earthling co-producer Mark Plati; and performance artist Joey Arias, who, along with late New Wave singer Klaus Nomi, joined David during his memorable 1979 Saturday Night Live appearance.
More participants will be announced at a later date.
The convention will feature a variety of Q&A sessions, meet-and-greets and live performances. The celebration’s first day will culminate with a party dubbed the Bowie Ball, where attendees are encouraged to don costumes and makeup honoring the rock icon’s various looks and eras. The bash will feature a music performance, DJs, best-dressed competitions and Bowie-themed drinks.
The Live With Kelly & Ryan host took to his Instagram Stories on Tuesday to reveal that he tested positive “a few days ago.”
“I don’t know how I avoided it for so long but unfortunately I tested positive for COVID-19 a few days ago and I’m currently in quarantine,” he revealed.
“While I’m feeling the usual symptoms, I hope to make a quick recovery,” Seacrest continued, before asking his followers for television recommendations.
“I’ll be in bed watching tv this week so please let me know if you have any recommendations (especially for any foodie shows!),” he concluded.
Blake Shelton, who’s been with The Voice since its inception, has announced that season 23 will be his last. The winningest coach in Voice history, members of his team have been crowned the show’s champ eight times.
Though the latest season of NBC’s The Voice just started, plans have already been announced for next season — which will feature some new faces, plus the return of a familiar one.
This season of The Voice features a coach who got their start on the TV show The X Factor: Camila Cabello. The upcoming spring season — number 23 — will feature a coach who got his start on the U.K. version of that same show: Niall Horan, formerly of One Direction.
“I’m excited to be joining this season of The Voice as a coach,” Niall says in a statement. “I’m looking forward to meeting and mentoring the new crop of talent while we battle it out with the other teams!” Fingers crossed that Niall’s old pal Harry Styles will pop by to be an advisor at some point in the season.
Meanwhile, Kelly Clarkson is returning to the show, after taking this season off. Her most recent appearance, on season 21, resulted in a win with Girl Named Tom. “I am so excited to be back with my Voice family!” Kelly says in a statement. “Let’s do this, Team Kelly!”
Another new face for season 23 will be Chance the Rapper, the Grammy-winning star who’s also known for his charity work. “I’m thrilled to join The Voice as a coach for the next season,” Chance says. “I’m excited to help other artists get to the next level and make the most of this life-changing experience. Get ready for #teamchance.”
(NEW YORK) — More evidence of polio has been detected in New York City wastewater, according to the state Department of Health.
So far, only one case of polio has been identified, in a previously healthy 20-year-old man from Rockland County who developed paralysis in his legs, local officials said.
As of Oct. 7, 70 wastewater samples have detected, including 63 samples genetically linked to the Rockland County patient, according to health department data.
Of the 63 samples, 37 were collected in Rockland County, 16 in Orange County, eight in Sullivan County, one in Nassau County, and one in New York City from Brooklyn “and a small, adjacent part of Queens County.”
The New York City sample was collected in August, the health department said.
State health officials said most adults do not need the polio vaccine or a booster because they were already fully vaccinated as children.
However, they have stressed the importance of getting vaccinated against or staying up to date with the immunization schedule. Among unvaccinated people, polio can lead to permanent paralysis in the arms and/or legs and even death.
“These findings put an alarming exclamation point on what we have already observed: unvaccinated people are at a real and unnecessary risk” State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett and City Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan said in a joint statement. “We have seen more New Yorkers getting vaccinated.”
The statement continued, “But these latest results are a searing reminder that there is no time to waste, especially for young children, who must be brought up to date with vaccinations right away. Paralysis changes life forever. Fortunately, the response is simple: get vaccinated against polio.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the polio vaccine protects 99% of children who get all recommended doses from severe disease from poliovirus.
The NYSDOH said between July 21 — when the case of polio was announced — and Oct. 2, more than 28,000 polio vaccine doses have been administered to children aged 18 and younger, in Nassau, Orange, Rockland and Sullivan counties.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul extended the state of emergency declared in response to the polio case and said it will remain until at least Nov. 8 as health officials continue to try and boost polio vaccination rates.
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(NEW YORK) — Maternal care is becoming increasingly difficult to access in the United States, according to a report released Tuesday by the March of Dimes, a nonprofit organization focused on improving the health of pregnant people and babies.
More than a quarter of counties in the U.S., 36%, have no obstetric hospitals or birth centers and no obstetric providers, such as obstetricians, gynecologists and certified midwives or nurse midwives, according to the report, which describes those areas as “maternity care deserts.”
That figure is an increase from 2020, and means that more than 2 million women of childbearing age — ages 15 to 44 — in the U.S. live in maternity care deserts, the report found.
Nearly 7 million women live in areas with little to no access to maternity care, mostly in the South and Midwest, according to the report.
“We know that lack of access to crucial maternal care is a driving factor for the poor outcomes that we see for moms in this country, for high mortality rates,” Dr. Zsakeba Henderson, March of Dimes’ interim chief medical and health officer, told “Good Morning America.” “And we know that the United States continues to be one of the most dangerous industrialized nations to give birth in.”
Describing the increase in so-called maternity care deserts in the U.S., Henderson added, “This problem is worsening. It’s not getting better.”
Around 700 women die each year in the U.S. due to complications of pregnancy or delivery, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
During the coronavirus pandemic, maternal mortality rates in the U.S. climbed 33%, with Black and Hispanic women dying at much higher rates than white women, according to research published by the University of Maryland and Boston University .
Black, Hispanic and Native American women are also disproportionately impacted by the lack of access to maternal care, March of Dimes researchers found.
According to the report, in 2020, 1 in 4 Native American babies and 1 in 6 Black babies are born in areas with no or limited access to maternity care services.
“Communities of color are disproportionately impacted by this crisis,” said Henderson. “And we know that it’s not just an issue of access but an issue of quality.”
The reason why more women have less access to maternity care in 2022 stems from a variety of factors, including hospital closures and COVID-19, according to the report.
Hospital closures can be attributed to everything from staffing difficulties to low birth volumes that make maternal care not profitable enough to remain open to higher proportions of patients on Medicaid, which can lead to greater financial vulnerability for hospitals, according to Henderson.
The impact of a lack of maternity care is felt most in rural areas, where more than 60% of the nation’s maternity care deserts exist and where it’s estimated that only 7% of obstetric providers practice, according to the report.
The data on maternal care was collected prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June that overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S.
Henderson said she is concerned that new state restrictions on abortion care could lead to an even larger gap of maternal care access in rural areas.
“Research has shown that there’s a high likelihood that these restrictions may not only increase the rate of unsafe abortions that may impact maternal and infant death rates but may also impact the number and quality of providers that are available to provide other maternity services,” she said. “We are definitely particularly sensitive to the impact that it will have on the populations that we know are already vulnerable and have been underserved and are already impacted by poor outcomes.”
Henderson said that while the problem of lack of access to maternity care in the U.S. is daunting, it’s not unsolvable.
For the past two years, the March of Dimes has operated mobile health units in different states to bring care to people in low-access areas and has started a venture philanthropy initiative to invest money in early-stage companies working to bring maternal care to more people.
The organization is also focusing on policy through its so-called Mamagenda that calls on lawmakers to pass legislation to improve maternal care, according to Henderson.
“We are supporting making sure that all women have quality, affordable health insurance and health care,” she said. “Providing preventive and supportive care for women during and after pregnancy, which includes extending Medicaid postpartum coverage to 12 months and expanding access to midwifery and doula care, these are proven solutions that we know will help address this crisis.”
(NEW YORK) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed legislation Tuesday establishing how the city will make Times Square a gun-free zone even as the state law underpinning the policy was overturned in federal court.
Adams said the 56 million tourists predicted to visit New York City this year should not have to “live in fear” as they walk through Times Sqaure, often deemed the “crossroads of the world.”
“We will not allow them to live in fear or distrust that someone is walking around with a gun ready to harm them.”
Adams, who owns three guns, said the designation of Times Square as a sensitive location was not intended to punish lawful gun owners. Rather, he and other city leaders said it is untenable to have so many guns in a place as densely packed as Times Square.
“It is plain good old common sense that no one should have a gun in Times Square,” said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who joined the mayor for the bill signing.
The law defines the boundaries of the Times Square sensitive location and authorizes the NYPD to implement it.
Last week, a federal judge in Syracuse struck down portions of the state’s new gun law, including the part that designates all of Times Square as off limits to conceal carry.
The state plans to appeal the ruling and has sought to keep the law in effect while the appeal is heard and until it is decided
“We just have to wait and see what happens,” said Steven Lewis of the city’s law department.
(NEW YORK) — A New York City psychiatrist who pleaded guilty to plotting the murder-by-sledgehammer death of her child’s father was sentenced Tuesday to 11 years in state prison, but not before a dramatic moment in court in which Pamela Buchbinder tried to take back her plea, claiming she was maced by guards and got a contact high on the prison bus from people smoking K2.
The judge pressed ahead with sentencing and imposed the prearranged prison term of 11 years followed by five years of supervised release. Buchbinder has already served 5 years in prison.
Buchbinder, 52, admitted to burglary and attempted assault charges for manipulating her 19-year-old cousin, Jacob Nolan, to kill Michael Weiss at Weiss’s home office in November of 2012. The plot followed a custody battle over their then- 5-year-old child.
Weiss spoke in court before Buchbinder’s sentencing about his ongoing struggles.
“While I am grateful that this day has arrived, it has not brought me the sense of relief, or the feeling of closure that I had hoped it would. Although it has been almost 10 years since I was attacked, I still struggle with the emotional and physical scars of what happened to me on November 12, 2012,” Weiss said.
Buchbinder, who was a practicing psychiatrist, was called an evil genius in court, a label her attorney rejected.
“I don’t know her to be evil or a genius — just statements that were opportunistic,” defense attorney Eric Franz said.
Buchbinder accompanied Nolan to Home Depot on West 23rd Street the night before the November 2012, attack and paid cash for a 10-pound sledgehammer. Buchbinder also gave her cousin a kitchen knife to use in the attack.
Buchbinder drew a map for Nolan and instructed him how to enter Weiss’s building. Once inside, Nolan swung a sledgehammer repeatedly at Weiss and stabbed him repeatedly.
“I still find it difficult to understand how any of this could have happened, and I struggle to comprehend the type of hatred that would lead someone to plan such a deliberate, personal and brutal attack,” Weiss said.
In 2016, Nolan was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 9 ½ years in New York state prison.
(WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to avoid intervening in the government’s ongoing documents dispute with Donald Trump, asserting that the former president is not entitled to have the court put the materials before an independent arbiter.
Trump had asked the court to put more than 100 documents with classification markings back in the hands of the special master appointed to review the materials seized from Mar-a-Lago.
The DOJ said in their latest filing that Trump “has no plausible claims of ownership or privilege in the documents bearing classification markings” and said that he has never represented in court that he declassified any of the documents — “much less supported such a representation with competent evidence.”
A federal appeals court last month excluded those documents from the special master’s review and restored the government’s access to them as federal prosecutors decide whether any criminal charges are warranted.
“Most notably, applicant has not even attempted to explain how he is irreparably injured by the court of appeals’ partial stay, which simply prevents disclosure of the documents bearing classification markings in the special-master review during the pendency of the government’s expedited appeal,” the DOJ’s Tuesday filing stated.
The department said Trump “has no basis to demand special master review” of any classified documents.
Trump’s application was made to the Supreme Court’s Clarence Thomas, the justice for the 11th Circuit. Thomas could rule on his own or refer the matter to the full court.
In the next 48 hours, the Trump team will file a reply to the DOJ’s brief. Then the court could act at any time, though it has not yet shown any indication that it sees this issue as an “emergency” in the way that Trump does.
