Lindsey Stirling shared some secrets of her “Sleepwalking” music video, revealing the snow machine used in the shot was broken, so she was being blasted in the face with snow! “It was like a blizzard,” she revealed on TikTok. But, like a pro, she kept her eyes open even though they were being “annihilated” by snowflakes!
Harry Styles‘ debut single, “Sign of the Times,” has crossed 1 billion views on YouTube! The 2017 hit song is his first music video to enter YouTube’s billion views club.
Speaking of YouTube views, Ava Max “can’t believe” her song “My Head & My Heart” passed 100 million views. She shared a throwback snap from the set on her Instagram Stories and promised “so much more is coming.”
Christina Aguilera shared how she flies in style — with her whole crew! She shared a TikTok video of her team lip-syncing “Vanity” while partying in the aisle with the flight attendants. “Flying to the UK like…,” she captioned it.
Justin Bieber shared a sneak peek of what mornings with wife Hailey Bieber look like in an adorable new snap. The slightly blurry photo is of the two snuggling on their bed as their pet dog, Oscar, crashes the photo. “GOOD MORNING FROM THE BIEBER FAMILY,” he captioned the Instagram post.
Nick Jonas shouted out wife Priyanka Chopra, who is working with UNICEF in Poland to help Ukrainian refugees. “I’m always inspired by @priyankachopra and her heart and love for others,” he wrote in an Instagram Story.
Michael Bublé jumped on the TikTok trend and released the sped-up version of his song “Sway,” which has blown up on the video sharing service. Michael released his version of “Sway” in 2004 as part of his debut album.
Lil Nas X says Beyoncé’s new album, Renaissance, is having a major impact on him. He said on an Instagram Story, “This Beyoncé album kinda changing my life somehow. unironically.” He praised the “intention” put into the album and raved, “She really deserves every single flower thrown at her.”
Lizzo is on Hot Ones Thursday and, based on the TikTok teaser, she did not like eating super hot sauces – because she flips host Sean Evans the bird. Another teaser sees Lizzo revealing she has acid reflux!
Harry Styles‘ debut single, “Sign of the Times,” has crossed 1 billion views on YouTube! The 2017 hit song is his first music video to enter YouTube’s billion views club.
Halsey gave their fans FOMO by sharing a video of their trip to Universal Studios Japan, which included a stop at Super Nintendo World and Harry Potter World. They also filled up on butterbeer and super cute foods.
Nick Jonas shouted out wife Priyanka Chopra, who is working with UNICEF in Poland to help Ukrainian refugees. “I’m always inspired by @priyankachopra and her heart and love for others,” he wrote in an Instagram Story.
Fans think Ariana Grande honored ex Mac Miller with her new R.E.M. Beauty launch. She has a lip oil called “Pickin Petals,” which reflects a lyric from their collab “The Way.” Miller died in 2018 from an accidental overdose.
Jackson Wang teased his upcoming album MAGIC MAN, arriving September 9. “It’s a bit of rock, a bit of grunge, a bit of pop. It’s a mixture of everything,” he told People. “A lot of [the album] is inspired by the process of me just trying to understand myself.”
Selena Gomez will not suck in her gut while on vacation. She shared a TikTok of her lounging in a bathing suit and lip-syncing that she is letting her tummy stick out because it’s a “real stomach.”
(NOTE LANGUAGE) A joint album with Kodak Black and French Montana is on the way. The former announced the news on Tuesday via Instagram Live.
“Me and French Montana gon’ f****** around and drop an album soon,” Kodak said. “My album — Spotify, make sure you playlist that shit. I mean, f*** everybody. Playlist my shit. My s*** be top rope. Me and French Montana s*** top rope, too.”
While no further details were disclosed about the Kodak x French joint project, Kodak did announce he has another collaborative album in the works. In a clip from the Live shared by HotNewHipHop, he revealed that he’s been working with Lil Uzi Vert.
“Lil Uzi [Vert], we be on some shit man,” he said in the video. “We might drop an EP soon.”
Kodak has history with French, as the two previously collaborated on “Lockjaw” and “Mopstick.” He has yet to release music with Lil Uzi, but it’s evident they are in good standing with one another.
Just last week, Lil Uzi Vert sent words of encouragement Kodak’s way after learning he’d been arrested for possession of drugs, which were allegedly prescribed to help him recover from a recent shooting, XXL reported.
“Everybody know Kodak Jus got shot I seen this Nigga with his scripts Idk why he going thru this shit still Mannn Wtf going on down there In Broward?” Uzi tweeted. “@KodakBlack1k you blessed tho fam you will threw any situation that’s put in front of you.”
(REYKJAVIK, Iceland) — An Icelandic volcano has come back to life after a series of nearby earthquakes rumbled it awake, the Icelandic Met Office reported Wednesday.
On Wednesday morning a 4.6 earthquake was recorded on the eastern side of the Fagradalsfjall volcano, prompting further concerns of volcanic action. An hour later, it began erupting.
According to IMO, a volcanic fissure eruption about 100 to 200 meters long left new magma over a field of lava established by eruptions in the area last year.
The IMO has urged people not to go near the volcano, which is about 20 miles south of the country’s capital, Reykjavik, and its nearby Keflavík Airport. According to its statement, the volcanic gas in the area can be hazardous.
However, the IMO said that it does not believe the eruption will cancel any flights or move into the city.
The IMO has recorded over 3,000 earthquakes in the last week. The most intense was a 5.4 earthquake recorded on July 31 northeast of Grindavík.
Last year, a six-month eruption from Fagradalsfjall broke an 80- year dormancy of volcanic eruptions in the area.
Tourists flocked to the site from March to September 2021 to see the lava bubble and belch. Now, almost a year later, the same volcano is active.
IMO said it saw the signs that brought last year’s eruption revive.
“There are indications that the deformation and seismicity is declining and this was precursory to the eruption which started on 19th March 2021,” the IMO said in a statement on Tuesday. “Considering all of the above, the likelihood of an eruption at Fagradalsfjall within the coming days is considered to be substantial.”
A day later, the office has confirmed the reawakening of the visual phenomenon.
Harry Styles helped a man pull off an epic proposal at his concert in Lisbon, Portugal.
A video shared by a concertgoer shows Harry stopping between songs to ask a man in the crowd about a sign he’s holding up that purportedly asks for help with a proposal. The man, named Carl, then asks if he can sing two lines to his girlfriend, Marianne.
The Grammy winner soon asks the man how long the two have been dating and, upon learning that they have been a couple for “a little over a year,” he asks the crowd if he should help out Carl.
Harry then declares over the crowd’s screams, “Yeah, all right,” and hands off his microphone. Another video taken by a concertgoer shows the “Adore You” singer sprinting across the stage and stopping dead in his tracks when he hears Carl belting out an Elvis Presley hit. Harry seems to be shocked and impressed.
Turns out, Carl has some serious pipes, and he flexed them while singing “Can’t Help Falling In Love” to his sweetheart, who joins him in a duet. Pretty soon, Harry encourages the entire stadium joins in.
Carl then takes out a ring, sinks to one knee and pops the question. Marianna said, “Yes!”
Harry was touched by the moment and congratulated the couple before continuing on with his show.
(BALTIMORE) — Survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic Church leaders rallied in front of Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh’s office, calling for the release of preliminary findings of an investigation into the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Teresa Lancaster said she was interviewed four years ago upon the launch of the investigation. She told investigators she was abused at Archbishop Keough High School, but she has yet to be given any answers.
“It’s hard not to see any action,” she said, according to the Baltimore Sun. “I would like to hear something, please.”
Jean Wehner, who says she was also abused while a student at Archbishop Keough High School, said that without any updates over the past four years, survivors who spoke with investigators are finding themselves “in an old familiar place where the silence turns to fear.”
“The fear is that we told the secret and that the disclosure will bring harm to us and our loved ones, or that we are not believed, or that we’ve been duped,” she told the Baltimore Sun.
The school, which merged with Seton High School and was renamed Seton Keough in 1988, closed its doors in June 2017.
Lancaster and Wehner were both featured in “The Keepers,” a popular Netflix docuseries released in 2017 that explored the 1969 murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik and its suspected link to her knowledge of sexual abuse of minors within the church.
Frosh, who is not running for re-election, is set to leave office in January 2023 and survivors are urging him to share the findings before his term comes to a close.
A spokesperson for Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh’s office told ABC News in a statement on Wednesday that while the AG’s office cannot comment on ongoing investigations, they can confirm that they have conducted hundreds of interviews and reviewed thousands of documents.
“We have made significant progress in the investigation and expect to make an announcement in the coming months,” the spokesperson said.
The investigation into the abuse of children in Baltimore became public in 2018 after Archbishop William E. Lori informed priests and deacons that the archdiocese has been cooperating with the AG’s office in an “investigation of records related to the sexual abuse of children,” according to a statement released by Lori in September of that year.
Lori added, “Based on my conversations with people throughout the Archdiocese…it is clear that we are a Church in crisis and that crisis is one of trust. It is my hope and prayer that this independent review and other acts of transparency by the Archdiocese will bring about greater trust in the Church among those who are understandably skeptical about the Church’s handling of allegations of abuse.”
The Maryland investigation became public after a two-year probe in Pennsylvania ended with a bombshell grand jury report released in August 2018, accusing hundreds of Roman Catholic priests of assaulting children.
So far, no indictments have been announced in Maryland.
Members of “Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests” (SNAP), who joined Lancaster and Wehner at the rally on Tuesday, called on the AG to hold abusers accountable, while Maryland SNAP director David Lorenz questioned why the Maryland investigation has taken so long.
“We have perpetrators walking the streets of Maryland, preying on children in Maryland, and the [Office of the Attorney General] is sitting on this information. Why is that?” said Lorenz, according to ABC affiliate station in Baltimore, WMAR.
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is still testing positive for COVID-19 four days into his rebound infection, White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor reported Wednesday.
Biden “continues to feel well,” O’Connor said, noting the exam was conducted after the president completed a light workout.
“He is still experiencing an occasional cough, but less frequently than yesterday. He remains fever-free and in good spirits,” O’Connor wrote. Biden’s temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation also remain normal.
O’Connor said Wednesday that Biden will continue to follow strict isolation measures, but it’s not clear if he will go beyond the recommendations laid out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — as the White House vowed to do the first time he tested positive.
Biden initially tested positive for the virus on July 21, and emerged from isolation after completing a five-day course of Paxlovid and testing negative. But on July 30 he tested positive again in what O’Connor called “rebound positivity” — referring to a relapse of COVID-19 some patients experience after taking the antiviral treatment.
The White House said after Biden’s initial diagnosis that he would end isolation only after testing negative on an antigen test. The CDC recommends that an individual stop isolating after five days if they are fever-free and symptoms are improving. It doesn’t suggest testing within 90 days of a positive case unless new symptoms develop.
For Biden’s rebound case, the White House has said the president would again isolate for five full days, but it hasn’t said if he would end isolation only after testing negative.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told ABC News’ Ben Gittleson on Wednesday she couldn’t say if that would be the case.
“I would have to check to see exactly what the CDC guidance is, but we are gonna follow CDC guidance,” she said.
When asked if the White House wants the CDC to urge Americans to test to end isolation, too — and if they want the public to use the president’s behavior as a model — Jean-Pierre said they’ll “leave it to the experts.”
“That is for the experts and they follow the science which changes on this,” she said. “You know, this is COVID, as we know, once-in-a-generation pandemic, so we leave it to them to make that decision.”
Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah on the set of “Ms. Marvel”/Marvel Studios
Hollywood is still buzzing about a big-screen project, but for all the wrong reasons: Warner Bros.’ sudden move to shelve its Batgirl film.
In an Instagram post, Ms. Marvel veterans Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah broke their silence about the studio’s decision to not only keep the HBO Max-bound film from theaters, but to lock it up entirely.
“We are saddened and shocked by the news. We still can’t believe it,” the pair began.
It had been reported the movie was far enough along to test for audiences — and it wasn’t going well, according to the New York Post, with one source calling Batgirl “irredeemable.”
“While the film was far from finished, we wish that fans all over the world would have had the opportunity to see and embrace the final film themselves,” the filmmakers continued.
The pair thanked the HBO Max project’s cast and crew, who did a “tremendous job” and “worked so hard to bring Batgirl to life,” adding “it was a dream to work with Michael Keaton (Batman/Bruce Wayne) JK Simmons (Commissioner Gordon), Brendan Fraser (Firefly), Jacob Scipio, Corey Johnson, and Rebecca Front.”
The directors heaped praise on “the great” Leslie Grace, who they insist “portrayed Batgirl with so much passion, dedication, and humanity.”
The filmmakers closed by saying, “In any case, as huge fans of Batman since we were little kids, it was a privilege and an honor to have been a part of the DCEU, even if it was for a brief moment. Batgirl For Life.”
For her part, Grace hasn’t made any public comments about the shocker, though she just might have hinted at it: She posted an Instagram Story of a guy on a scooter happily singing Taylor Swift‘s “Shake It Off,” captioning it “vibes.”
(SCRANTON, Kan.) — Officials in Scranton, Kansas, suspect heat played a role in the death of a 2-year-old, who died after being found unresponsive in a car Sunday afternoon.
It would mark the 14th hot car death this year, based on data from Kids and Cars Safety, a national nonprofit that tracks hot car deaths and aims to prevent vehicle-related risks to children and pets.
Osage County Sheriff Chris Wells said the child apparently “got into the car” by themself and had not been left in there by an adult, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported.
Details on the child’s name and gender have not yet been released.
Every year, approximately 38 children die from being left in a hot car, according to Kids and Cars Safety, with 87% of them age 3 and under.
As the U.S. copes with more heat waves this summer and temperatures in the Midwest, South and West continue to soar into the triple digits, there is a concern for parents about hot car deaths. One parent, Peter Hansen, opened up about the issue on social media.
“I have severe anxiety about leaving our kids in a hot car on accident,” Hansen, a father of three in Chicago, wrote in a LinkedIn post. “It’s 100 degrees in Chicago today and the heat is intense across the country. Working from home has me multitasking more than usual, which can distract me from the kids some days, especially if driving on a work call. This is simply a post to make sure your kids are not left in your car in this heat.”
The 40-year-old told “Good Morning America” an episode with two of his three kids one morning gave him a scare and prompted him to reflect on the dangers of hot cars and how easily things can go wrong.
“We got doughnuts and came back in the house,” Hansen recalled. “It’s still 7 in the morning — it wasn’t 100 degrees yet — but five minutes later, I was in the house and my 4-year-old walked through the door five minutes later, she’s like, ‘Daddy, you forgot me.’ And it was like, I swear I saw her get out of the car … but I was like, ‘Oh my gosh.’ It really terrified me that I thought both of them got out of the car together like they normally do.”
Why do hot car deaths happen?
Amber Rollins, a director at Kids and Cars Safety, said the issue is often misunderstood and even dismissed by many parents and caregivers.
“I think the No. 1 misconception is that this will never happen to me and that it only happens to bad parents and nothing could be further from the truth,” Rollins told “GMA.” “I’ve worked with families that this has happened to for 16 years and they are engineers, school teachers, principals, nurses, doctors, you name it. It’s the type of people that I aspire to be as a parent, the kind that read every safety book about the most expensive car seat and strapped him in so tight and covered every outlet. That’s the kind of person this is happening to.”
According to Rollins, hot car deaths have also been trending upwards for the last three decades, with an exception during the last two years of the pandemic when more families stayed at home.
“In the ’90s, we realized children were being killed by overpowered airbags and children are still safer riding in the back seat. We moved them to the back seat because that’s where they’re the safest. However, now they’re out of sight of the driver,” Rollins explained. “So they’re in the back seat, they’re rear-facing now until age 3 or even longer, depending on the size of the child. And that car seat looks the same for the driver whether there’s a baby in there or not.”
“This is not like parents didn’t just all of a sudden overnight become neglectful and irresponsible,” she added. “This is an unintended consequence of moving them to the back seat.”
How to prevent hot car deaths
Multiple solutions have been proposed to avert a hot car death before they occur. Among the high-tech options include carbon dioxide detection, lidar or light detection and ranging technology, car alarm systems, car camera systems and car seats with weight sensors, each with its own pros and cons.
A new idea, called “Cabin Awareness,” from Toyota would use radar technology, powered in part by a car’s battery, to notify drivers who have left a Toyota vehicle that a child or a pet remained inside the car.
Brian Kursar, chief technology officer for Toyota Connected North America and Toyota Motor North America, has led the “Cabin Awareness” project since its inception in 2018 and said the project is moving now toward a testing phase with May Mobility, a Michigan-based company that develops autonomous technology, including vehicles.
“The ‘Cabin Awareness’ concept uses millimeter-wave radar to detect micro-movements and so micro-movements really are the things that a camera can’t see. So it’s also able to understand breathing, heartbeat, and ultimately provides us a solution to something that we’ve not been able to really touch, which is the ability to understand life in a vehicle,” Kursar explained to “GMA,” adding that radar could “see through things like cloth” and go beyond a camera’s line of sight.
Toyota’s “Cabin Awareness” could link up to a driver’s cell phone, a smart device – such as smart lights, a smart speaker, or smart TV – inside their home, or possibly other Toyota vehicles in an environment such as a parking lot and ultimately, contact emergency services when other alerts go unanswered.
“Based on our algorithms, we’re able to understand where in the vehicle that movement is coming from. And then we’re able to now take a number of options to escalate, to let the customer know that there is life potentially at risk in a vehicle,” Kursar said.
“We see this as an opportunity not just to contact the customer. You can give the system a list of contacts such as grandma, right, such as your neighbor, right, and these are additional folks that can start helping to resolve this problem with the vehicle,” Kursar added. “Maybe we can now do a vehicle-to-vehicle ping to say, if you’re within proximity of a child or an adult at risk in a car, now you have this almost community outreach where people in their cars, they turn on their cars, and it says, [someone in] a green Sienna within your proximity, may be at risk for heat exhaustion.”
For now, “Cabin Awareness” is not available in Toyota vehicles just yet and the timeline for a potential rollout will depend on testing results.
In the meantime, Kids and Cars Safety’s Rollins recommends several solutions that parents can keep in mind and adopt this summer.
Adopt the “look before you lock” habit.
“We want to use that habit system to prevent it from happening,” Rollins said. “No matter what, even if the child is not with you, open the back door and check the back seat. Every single time you leave the car.”
“It takes two seconds,” she continued. “And it’s a great way to make sure you’re never forgetting anything, including your children or inanimate objects that aren’t as important but make that a 100% habit.”
In addition to being left in a car, a child or pet can gain access to a car when they’re unlocked, so Rollins also emphasized the importance of utilizing car door locks. “You want to keep your car locked 100% of the time, even if you don’t have children. Little ones can get into neighbors’ cars. It happens all the time. You want to keep keys and remote openers out of reach of children 100% of the time and childproof your home.”
“You want to check the inside trunk and floorboards of all vehicles in the area immediately, even if they’re locked,” Rollins added. “A lot of times, kiddos will get in and they try to get out and they push the lock button. And so people don’t think they’re in there if it’s locked, but they definitely can be.”
Use a visual reminder.
Rollins suggests keeping a physical object, like a diaper bag, in the front seat or playing a kid’s song to remember that you’re traveling with your child. “If you’re not a diaper bag person 100% of the time, create a reminder object in your car. So throw a stuffed animal in the car seat. And then anytime you put the child in the car seat, that stuffed animal comes up to the front seat with you as your visual cue that the baby is with you,” Rollins said.
Enlist the help of others.
“If you take your child to daycare or anyone, a family member that watches them, whoever it is, you want to make a policy with them. They would call you immediately if your child didn’t show up as scheduled and I mean immediately,” said Rollins. “That one phone call could have been the difference between life or death for hundreds of children.”
Make kids aware of the hazards of a hot car.
“Talk to your kids about how dangerous it is to get into a car without a grown-up and talk to them about never allowing a grown-up to leave them in the car,” Rollins said.
Use stick-on door alarms.
Inexpensive door alarms can be more accessible for parents than full-fledged home security systems in the short term and peel-and-stick options are sold online and in stores.
(ELKHART COUNTY, Ind.) — Indiana Rep. Jackie Walorski and three others were killed Wednesday afternoon in a car crash, according to authorities.
Walorski, 58, was traveling southbound on SR 19 in an SUV with two other people when a car traveling northbound crossed the dividing line and slammed head on into the SUV. All three people in the SUV were killed.
The Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office identified the victims as Walorski; Zachery Potts, 27; and Emma Thomson, 28.
The driver of the other vehicle, Edith Schmucker, 58, was also killed in the crash.
Thomson was Walorski’s communications director and Potts was previously Walorski’s campaign manager and was currently a district director in Indiana for the House of Representatives.
GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Twitter shared a statement — “with a heavy heart” — that he said was from Walorski’s office.
“Jackie was killed in a car accident this afternoon. She has returned home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Please keep her family in your thoughts and prayers. We will have no further comment at this time,” the statement read.
According to the statement, Walorski’s husband was notified of her death by the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office in Indiana.
A former state lawmaker, Walorski had represented Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District since 2013.
According to her House biography, she and her husband “previously spent four years as missionaries in Romania, where they started and ran a foundation to provide food and medical supplies to impoverished children there. Jackie also worked as a television news reporter in South Bend and as a development director for colleges and universities in Indiana.”
Walorski’s Republican colleague Adam Kinzinger, of Illinois, mourned her death in a brief tweet Wednesday.
“My heart is heavy, and i don’t have the words. But all I can say is prayers for her family,” he wrote. “She was a good and honorable public servant.”
The Elkhart County Coroner’s Office and the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office continue to investigate the crash.
ABC News’ Davone Morales contributed to this report.
