(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Baltimore 7, Toronto 4
LA Angels 1, Oakland 0
NY Yankees 9, Seattle 4
NATIONAL LEAGUE
NY Mets 5, Cincinnati 1
Chi Cubs 6, Washington 3
Arizona 3, Pittsburgh 0
San Francisco 1, San Diego 0
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Dallas 86, New York 77
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George Thorogood and the Destroyers‘ classic 1982 album Bad to the Bone, featuring the band’s signature tune of the same name, was released 40 years ago today.
The record, which was the veteran blues rockers’ fifth studio effort, only peaked at #43 on the Billboard 200, but went on to be certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of over 500,000 in the U.S. The album featured the band’s first two singles to break into the top 40 of Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, “Bad to the Bone” and a cover of The Isley Brothers‘ “Nobody but Me.”
Thorogood tells ABC Audio that when he wrote “Bad to the Bone,” “I wanted [people] to think Bo Diddley wrote it or Muddy Waters wrote it, ’cause I wanted to follow that theme. ‘Cause that’s what I grew up on.”
George says he’s recognized more for that song than anything else he’s done in his career.
“Now, when I meet people who weren’t even alive when ‘Bad to the Bone’ was out, I’ll say my name and they’ll draw a blank,” the 72-year-old rocker notes. “And I’ll go, ‘Well, you know, “Bad to the Bone.”‘ They go, ‘Oh, that’s who you are!'”
Thorogood says he was thrilled when he met his all-time guitar hero, Jeff Beck, and Beck knew who he was because of the song.
The Bad to the Bone album featured longtime Rolling Stones touring keyboardist Ian Stewart playing piano throughout the record.
Thorogood, who’s a huge Stones fan, recalls about getting to work with Stewart, “I said [to myself], ‘You got to be kidding me, George? You’ve gone beyond your dreams. You’re in the studio with Ian Stewart’…And he was fantastic.”
Here’s the Bad to the Bone album’s full track list:
“Back to Wentzville”
“Blue Highway”
“Nobody but Me”
“It’s a Sin”
“New Boogie Chillun
“Bad to the Bone”
“Miss Luann”
“As the Years Go Passing By”
“No Particular Place to Go”
“Wanted Man”
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(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) — The fourth Muslim man killed in a possible string of murders in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been identified as a 25-year-old native of Pakistan, according to police.
Naeem Hussain was found dead from a gunshot wound on Friday near Truman Street and Grand Avenue in Albuquerque’s Highland Business neighborhood, according to the Albuquerque Police Department.
Police are investigating whether the killing is connected to the shooting death of Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, 27, on Aug. 1, as well as the murder of Aftab Hussein, 41, on July 26 — both of whom are also from Pakistan.
The November 2021 murder of Mohammad Ahmadi, another Muslim man from Afghanistan who was killed outside a business he ran with his brother, could be connected, as well, police said.
A dark gray or silver Volkswagen with four doors and tinted windows is suspected of being used in the recent homicides. There is a possibility that the model of the car is a Jetta, police said.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has sent additional state police to provide support to the Albuquerque Police Department and FBI, she announced on Saturday.
“I am angered and saddened that this is happening in New Mexico, a place that prides itself on diversity of culture and thought,” Lujan Grisham said in a statement after Hussain’s death was announced. “This is not who we are.”
The community has “never gone through anything like this before,” Ahmad Assed, president of the Islamic Center of New Mexico, said during a press conference Saturday, ABC Albuquerque affiliate KOAT reported.
“This is really a surreal time for us. We’re in fear of the safety of our children, our families,” Assed said.
ABC News’ Patricio Chile and Christopher Looft contributed to this report.
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(BOSTON) — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu extended the city’s heat emergency through Tuesday as Bostonians deal with a marathon of at least 95-degree days.
“With the weather forecast now showing the high temperatures and humidity lasting through Tuesday, we’re extending the heat emergency to make sure all of our Boston residents and families are safe,” Wu said in a statement.
Boston set a new record on Monday, reaching 98 degrees, surpassing a previous high of 96 degrees from 1983, the National Weather Service tweeted.
The city has reached a high temperature of at least 95 degrees for five days straight, according to NWS Boston.
The majority of Massachusetts is under a heat advisory until 8 p.m. ET Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.
Approximately 16 cooling centers will be open to Bostonians looking to stay cool through Tuesday, the mayor’s office said in a news release.
Residents will have some reprieve on Wednesday when temperatures are expected to drop to 76 degrees, the NWS said.
Millions of people in the Northeast experienced high temperatures over the weekend, as temperatures in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Hartford, Connecticut, were in the 90s, according to AccuWeather.
Officials said that two heat deaths had been reported in the Northeast over the last two weeks, one in New York City and one in Philadelphia. Authorities have warned residents of the danger of more fatalities.
For more information on staying safe in the heat, click here.
ABC News’ Kyla Guilfoil and Max Golembo contributed to this report.
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(WASHINGTON) — Two House Democrats — from New Jersey and Minnesota — are appealing to members of their own party in Wyoming to “consider” changing their affiliations ahead of the state’s contentious Republican primary on Aug. 16 in order to back incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney.
In separate advertisements from an organization called Wyomingites Defending Freedom And Democracy, Reps. Tom Malinowski and Dean Phillips asked Wyoming Democrats to “consider temporarily switching parties” in order to vote for Cheney, one of Donald Trump’s most vocal critics, over Cheney’s Trump-backed opponent.
“Liz Cheney and I don’t agree on everything, but we’re on the same side today, fighting for our country,” Malinowski said in his ad.
“Wyoming Democrats can put country over party too, by registering to vote for her in the Republican primary,” he said. “I hope you do.”
In his ad, Phillips said: “Principle must always come before politics. And nobody has shown more honor, integrity and courage than [Cheney].” He also asked Wyoming Democrats to switch their political parties for Aug. 16.
Cheney, a three-term Republican congresswoman — as well as the vice chair of the House Jan. 6 committee and former No. 3 House Republican — faces a serious challenge to hold Wyoming’s only congressional district against Harriet Hageman.
Cheney’s intense criticism of Trump’s election denial and behavior around Jan. 6 earned her the scorn of the GOP base as well as some Republican colleagues, who booted her from House leadership.
Wyomingites Defending Freedom And Democracy has spent $26,698 on ads over the last week, according to Facebook analytics, beginning to run the ones with Malinowski and Phillips over the weekend.
On their website, the group has links available for Wyoming Democrats to complete voter registration applications and change forms, along with information on how to submit that to relevant county clerk offices no later than 14 days before the primary election.
Wyoming voters can also change party affiliations at polling locations on the day of the primary or general election or when requesting an absentee ballot, the website notes. Wyoming law allows voters to switch their party affiliations back for future elections.
Malinowski, the Democratic incumbent of New Jersey’s recently redrawn 7th Congressional District, is vulnerable himself to a GOP victory in the seat he flipped blue in 2018.
Moderate Democrat Phillips separately made news last week for saying that he would not support President Joe Biden in 2024 in hopes of a “new generation” of leadership.
The new campaign to get voters to switch parties may have begun to work — at least for a few thousand registered Democrats over the past month, according to the state.
In July, 43,285 Democrats were registered to vote in Wyoming, with 200,579 registered Republicans and 34,925 unaffiliated. In August, 39,753 Democrats were registered in the state, with 207,674 registered Republicans and 33,769 unaffiliated, Wyoming elections data shows.
Still, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis earlier this year, Cheney has only a small chance of switching enough Democrats to make up for any Republican deficit — simply given how many Republicans are in the state.
Cheney and her defenders have been actively campaigning on a “pro-democracy” message, attempting to pit her and her anti-Trump minority faction of the Republican party against the former president.
Cheney released a new ad herselfon Thursday in which her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, came out in support of his daughter’s reelection campaign.
“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our Republic than Donald Trump,” Vice President Cheney said. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him.”
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(WASHINGTON) — Multiple sources confirm to ABC News that former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was raided by FBI agents on Monday.
The sources told ABC News that the search began at around 10 a.m.
The former president put out a statement Monday evening saying federal investigators were there and that they had even gotten into his safe.
Trump was not there at the time of the search.
Sources tell ABC News that the search of Mar-a-Lago was related to the 15 boxes of documents that Trump took to Mar-a-Lago when he departed the White House — some of which the National Archives has said were marked classified.
In January, Trump handed over the documents to the National Archives, and attorneys for Trump said they were searching for any more records they may have.
Law enforcement sources told ABC News the FBI activities at Trump’s compound are court authorized.
The FBI and Justice Department declined to comment.
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Måneskin has announced a new video series giving you a behind-the-scenes look at the band’s life On the Road.
The first episode will premiere this Wednesday, August 10, on YouTube and will follow the Italian rockers’ recent run of summer festival sets, which included a set at Lollapalooza last month.
“Don’t sleep on this ’cause you will laugh,” Måneskin teases. “A lot lot.”
Meanwhile, Måneskin is preparing to launch the band’s first North American tour, kicking off Halloween night in Seattle.
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Joe Walsh will visit The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for a weeklong musical residency this week.
The longtime Eagles guitarist will be sitting in with the CBS talk show’s house band, Stay Human, on all four new episodes airing this week, starting with Monday night’s program and running through Thursday.
Walsh posted a message about the residency on his social media sites that reads, “It’s going to be a rockin week full of surprises — can’t wait — see you tonight!!!”
Walsh’s Colbert residency follows weeklong musical appearances on the show by James Taylor last week and St. Vincent the week before.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airs weeknights on CBS at 11:35 p.m. ET.
Meanwhile, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s other upcoming plans include a new two-week Canadian leg of the Eagles’ Hotel California Tour, which kicks off September 9 in Toronto, and the recently announced 2022 edition of his annual VetsAid benefit concert, which is scheduled for November 13 in Columbus, Ohio.
As previously reported, this year’s VetsAid show will feature a reunion of Walsh’s pre-Eagles band, the James Gang, as well as performances by Dave Grohl, Nine Inch Nails, The Breeders and The Black Keys.
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The entertainment world is mourning the loss of Australian pop legend and actress Olivia Newton-John, who died Monday morning after a long battle with cancer.
John Travolta, who famously starred opposite Olivia in the 1978 film adaptation of the hit Broadway music Grease, posted a heartfelt message paying tribute to her on his Instagram page.
“My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so much better,” Travolta writes. “Your impact was incredible. I love you so much. We will see you down the road and we will all be together again. Yours from the first moment I saw you and forever! Your Danny, your John!”
Newton-John played Sandy Olsson in Grease, while Travolta portrayed her high school love interest, Danny Zuko. The film’s chart-topping soundtrack yielded three smash hits, including the duets “You’re the One That I Want” and “Summer Nights,” which peaked at #1 and #5, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100. Olivia also scored a #3 solo hit with the Grease tune “Hopelessly Devoted to You.”
Newton-John and Travolta also co-starred in the 1983 romantic comedy Two of a Kind.
Tributes to Olivia continue to pour in from a variety of celebrities. Here are a few:
Cyndi Lauper: “I’m so sorry to hear the news about #OliviaNewtonJohn. She was such a nice person and a radiant bright light. She will be missed.”
Brian Wilson: “Sad news about Olivia Newton John passing.”
Richard Marx: “My heart is broken. Rest now, sweet friend. You were as kind and loving a person as there’s ever been. I’ll miss you every day.”
Melissa Etheridge: “Journey well, dear friend. She was one of the first to reach out to me after my cancer diagnosis. What a beautiful woman and special talent. Hard to know what to say. She will be missed.”
Dionne Warwick: “Another angelic voice has been added to the Heavenly Choir. Not only was Olivia a dear friend, but one of the nicest people I had the pleasure of recording and performing with. I will most definitely miss her. She now Rests in the Arms of the Heavenly Father.”
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John Travolta is mourning the loss of his Grease co-star Olivia Newton-John, who died Monday at the age of 73.
“My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so much better. Your impact was incredible,” he wrote on Instagram alongside an old photo of Newton-John. “I love you so much.”
The two starred in the iconic 1978 movie musical as Sandy and Danny, cementing themselves as one of Hollywood’s most beloved onscreen couples.
“We will see you down the road and we will all be together again,” Travolta, 68, continued. “Yours from the first moment I saw you and forever! Your Danny, your John!”
Newton-John’s death was announced via a statement from her husband, John Easterling, and shared to her verified social media pages. In it, Easterling noted that Newton-John “passed away peacefully” at her ranch in Southern California surrounded by family and friends.
“Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer,” Easterling said in the statement, pointing to the work she did through her Olivia Newton-John Foundation after first being diagnosed in the early ’90s.
The actress and singer battled a recurrence of breast cancer in 2013 and again in 2017, which metastasized to the sacrum and progressed to stage 4.
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