Nate Smith’s Long Live Country Rock & Roll Tour (Live Nation)
Nate Smith has already marked off a milestone after kicking off his Long Live Country Rock & Roll Tour March 26 at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa.
His March 28 date at Billy Bob’s Texas in Fort Worth brought in his highest ticket sales ever for a show in his career so far.
The trek picks back up Thursday in Wallingford, Connecticut. Josh Ross, Brandon Wisham and Just Jayne join Nate at different points on the 23-date tour, which includes a June 17-18 stop at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium.
Meanwhile, Nate’s the latest guest on Billboard‘s Takes Us Out series, where the music magazine meets up with an artist at one of their favorite spots. Nate picked Great White in Los Angeles for a chat that includes the story of his latest hit, “After Midnight” with Tyler Hubbard.
Sir Paul McCartney performs at The O2 Arena during his ‘Got Back’ world tour on December 18, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Jim Dyson/Getty Images)
After performing two shows at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles over the weekend, Paul McCartney headlined a special concert for Apple employees. The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer performed a concert Tuesday at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, as part of Apple’s 50th anniversary celebration.
Fan-shot footage from the concert has been showing up on YouTube and social media, including performances of “Let It Be,” “Live and Let Die” and “Hey Jude.”
According to setlist.fm, like his two Fonda Theatre shows, McCartney’s set included Beatles tunes “Help!,” “Got To Get You Into My Life,” “I’ve Just Seen a Face,” “Love Me Do,” “Blackbird,” “Get Back,” “Lady Madonna” and “Now and Then.” He also performed Wings tracks like “Band on the Run” and “Let ‘Em In,” and solo songs “My Valentine,” “Maybe I’m Amazed,” “Coming Up” and “Every Night.”
McCartney ended the night with a trio of Beatles songs, “Golden Slumbers,” “Carry That Weight” and “The End.”
The shows came just days after McCartney announced his new solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, which drops May 29.
Megan Thee Stallion makes her Broadway debut in Moulin Rouge! The Musical at Al Hirschfeld Theatre on March 24, 2026, in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
Megan Thee Stallion was hospitalized Tuesday night after becoming “very ill” during her Broadway performance as Zidler in Moulin Rouge! The Musical.
A statement shared with ABC News on behalf of her spokesperson read, “During Tuesday night’s production, Megan started feeling very ill and was promptly transported to a local hospital, where her symptoms are currently being evaluated.”
The statement added, “We will share additional updates as more information becomes available.”
Megan will not be performing in Wednesday night’s show, according to a prompt that appears on the show’s website before purchasing tickets.
Breakfast Club morning show host Loren Lorosa posted on X that she was in attendance at Tuesday night’s show when Megan became ill.
“Announcement just came on in the theatre .. they have removed Meg Thee Stallion from the show as Zidler for the rest of the night,” Lorosa wrote at the time.
She added that Megan was eventually replaced by “a black male actor” and that the show continued.
Megan kicked off her eight-week run as Zidler in late March, with plans to conclude the role on May 17.
Last week, the “Savage” rapper took to social media to share clips from her Broadway debut, writing, “So grateful for this incredible cast&crew&everyone who worked so hard to make opening night a success!!”
King Charles III speaks on March 27, 2026 in Oxford, England. (Kate Green/Getty Images)
(LONDON) — King Charles III will address a joint meeting of Congress on April 28 as part of his upcoming state visit to the U.S., according to a joint statement issued by Congressional leaders on Tuesday.
The address, the statement said, “celebrates the 250th anniversary of American independence and the enduring special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom.”
The statement was issued by House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
“This year, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of its independence. As we celebrate this historic milestone and recommit ourselves to the principles upon which our nation was founded, we also recognize that the American experiment endures in no small part because of the British tradition from which it sprang,” the statement said.
“We believe an address to Congress will provide a unique opportunity to share your vision for the future of our special relationship and reaffirm our alliance at this pivotal time in history,” it added.
Johnson posted about the invitation on X, noting the U.S. and U.K. “share one of the most consequential partnerships in history.”
President Donald Trump said that the state visit will take place from April 27 until April 30.
Preparations for the visit come at a tense moment between the Trump administration and NATO, of which Britain is a member, over the reluctance of allies in the intergovernmental military alliance to join the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war in Iran. On Wednesday, Trump said in an interview that he is considering pulling the U.S. out of NATO.
In a press conference on Wednesday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the U.K. is fully committed to NATO and that he isn’t going to change his position on the war.
“I have to act in our national interests,” Starmer told reporters. “This is not our war,” he continued, noting “a good deal of pressure on me to change my position in relation to joining the war. I’m not going to change my position on the war.”
In 2023, Congress passed legislation requiring any presidential decision to leave NATO to have two-thirds approval in the Senate or be authorized through an act of Congress.
Luigi Mangione appears for a suppression of evidence hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan Criminal Court on December 16, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — A federal judge in New York on Wednesday pushed back Luigi Mangione’s federal trial from September to October, giving an additional month’s separation between his state and federal trials.
U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett said the federal trial jury selection will begin Oct. 5, with the presentation of evidence beginning Oct. 26.
“Whether we like it or not, we are somewhat at the mercy of events in the state case,” Garnett said, noting Mangione’s state trial is scheduled for June 8.
“What is happening at 100 Centre [the state courthouse] inevitably affects how we structure things here so the defendant can get a fair trial,” Garnett said.
Mangione pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges after he was arrested for allegedly gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan in December 2024.
Mangione, 27, faces the possibility of life in prison if he’s convicted in either case. Garnett previously threw out the federal charges that carry the possibility of the death penalty and the judge overseeing the state prosecution, Gregory Carro, previously tossed out an enhancement to the state murder charges that said Mangione’s alleged conduct amounted to terrorism.
Stephen Malkmus of Pavement performs live on stage during the C6 Fest at Parque Ibirapuera on May 19, 2024 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Mauricio Santana/Getty Images)
With all the streaming services nowadays, you may feel paralyzed by choice in trying to figure out what to watch. Luckily, Pavement is here to help.
The “Cut Your Hair” outfit has announced Pavements+, described in a press release as “the world’s first subscription service dedicated almost entirely to Pavement-related content.”
“Yes. Just Pavement,” the release continues. “Pavements+ will exclusively stream the critically adored, structurally perplexing, semi-meta-cinematic opus Pavements — the film about the band that may or may not be about the idea of the band — that will also include additional bonus content never before seen by human eyes.”
You can also expect “new bonus features, archival footage, rehearsal fragments, unexplained silences, and at least one camera accidentally left rolling for 47 minutes.”
“We noticed there were too many streaming services,” says guitarist Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg. “So we made another one.”
You may notice that the date is April 1. While Pavements+ may or may not be an April Fools’ joke, you can watch the Pavements movie via Pavement’s website and the platform Altavod.
Pavements will also be returning to select arthouse theaters on April 18 in celebration of Record Store Day. You can also catch Pavement live on tour starting in July.
Shakira’s Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran Tour U.S. arena dates (Live Nation)
If you weren’t going to be able to make it to Madrid, Spain, to see Shakira during her residency there in September and October, there’s good news: you can see her close to home starting in June.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee has just announced a series of U.S. arena shows, kicking off June 13 with two shows at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California. The tour will also visit Dallas, Atlanta, Miami, Boston, Brooklyn and several other cities before wrapping up July 25 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The concerts will give fans a chance to see Shakira in a more intimate setting, since all the previous dates on the tour have been in stadiums.
CITI and Verizon presales for the dates start Friday. You can sign up now for the artist presale, which takes place April 7; tickets go on sale to the general public April 9 at 10 a.m. local time at Shakira.com. VIP packages will also be available via VIPNation.com.
All the dates are part of Shakira’s ongoing Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Women No Longer Cry) World Tour, which started in February 2025.
On May 2, Shakira will perform on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach. Her residency in Spain starts Sept. 18 and runs for 11 shows through October. It will take place in a purpose-built stadium and feature immersive fan experiences, similar to Adele’s residency in Munich, Germany, in 2024.
(WASHINGTON) — Solicitor General D. John Sauer got a somewhat frosty reception from at least two key Supreme Court Justices — Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch — as oral arguments in the Supreme Court’s landmark birthright citizenship case got underway Wednesday.
President Donald Trump arrived at the Supreme Court Wednesday morning, making him the first sitting president to attend the high court’s arguments.
Trump is asking the justices to uphold his Day 1 executive order eliminating birthright citizenship under a novel interpretation of the 14th Amendment and requiring parents to prove their own legal status before citizenship is granted to their children.
Roberts noted that the Trump administration is relying on “very quirky” arguments, saying they are using “narrow exceptions” to claim that a much broader class of people should be ineligible for birthright citizenship.
“You know, children of ambassadors, children of enemies during a hostile invasion, children on warships, and then you expand it to the whole class of illegal aliens here in the country. I’m not quite sure how you can get to that big group from such tiny and sort of idiosyncratic examples,” said Roberts.
Gorsuch also remarked that the Trump administration seems to be relying on outdated “Roman law sources” and court precedents that do not work in their favor.
“I’m not sure how much you want to rely on Wong Kim Ark,” Gorsuch remarked about the landmark 1898 case that enshrined birthright citizenship.
Justice Elena Kagan similarly voices concerns about the sources cited by the Trump administration.
“You’re using some pretty obscure sources to get to this concept,” she said.
Justice Samuel Alito initiated a discussion on “illegal immigration” by noting that it was “something that was basically unknown” at the time when the 14th amendment was adopted in the 1860s.
“What we’re dealing with here is something that was basically unknown at the time when the 14th Amendment was adopted, which is illegal immigration,” Alito said. “So how do we deal with that situation when we have a general rule?”
Sauer responded by agreeing with Alito, saying that “illegal immigration did not exist [then],” and “the problem of temporary visitors didn’t exist.”
Sauer pointed to “commentators” from 1881 to 1922 who, he claimed, were “uniformly saying the children of temporary visitors are not included.” He argued that this logic “naturally extends” to those who enter the country illegally.
Justice Elena Kagan challenged Sauer’s argument on immigration, saying his arguments in his brief did not focus on “illegal immigration.”
“Most of your brief is about people who are just temporarily in the country where there was quite clearly an experience of an understanding that there were going to be temporary inhabitants,” Kagan said. “And your whole theory of the case is built on that group.”
“You don’t get to talking about undocumented persons until quite later, and at much lesser … I think it’s like 10 pages to three pages or something like that,” she said.
Sauer began his arguments by arguing that the longstanding understanding of the 14th Amendment is incorrect.
“The citizenship clause was adopted just after the Civil War to grant citizenship to the newly freed slaves and their children whose allegiance to the United States had been established by generations of domicile. Here, it did not grant citizenship to the children of temporary visitors or illegal aliens who have no such allegiance,” he said.
In his opening statements, Sauer laid out one of the Trump administration’s key arguments about why birthright citizenship should not be extended to the children of undocumented immigrants, claiming that if it remains “unrestricted” it will continue to be a “pull factor for illegal immigration” and would “reward” immigrants who violate immigration laws.
“It has spawned a sprawling industry of birth tourism as uncounted thousands of foreigners from potentially hostile nations have flocked to give birth in the United States in recent decades, creating a whole generation of American citizens abroad with no meaningful ties to the United States,” Sauer said.
In a statement this morning, ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero addressed Trump’s attendance at the proceedings, saying he will “watch the ACLU school him in the meaning of the Constitution and birthright citizenship.”
“Any effort to distract from the gravity and importance of this case will not succeed. The Supreme Court is up to the task of interpreting and defending the Constitution even under the glare of a sitting president a couple dozen feet away from them,” he said.
Although the proceedings should provide a sense of how interested the judges are in Trump’s reinterpretation of the 14th Amendment, a ruling in the case isn’t expected until the end of June.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
US President Donald Trump departs the North Portico of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is attending oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, a historic first for a sitting president, as the justices consider his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.
“I’m going,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday.
No cameras are allowed inside the courtroom. Trump’s motorcade was seen arriving outside the building on Wednesday morning.
Trump previously floated attending arguments last year when the court took up his global tariff policy, but ultimately he did not attend.
Trump has repeatedly attacked the Supreme Court in the wake of the ruling invalidating most of his tariffs, including two justices he appointed, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett.
“I love a few of them, I don’t like some others,” Trump said on Tuesday when asked which justices he would be listening for most closely.
Solicitor General John Sauer is arguing for the government, asking the justices to uphold Trump’s Day 1 executive order eliminating birthright citizenship under a novel interpretation of the 14th Amendment and requiring parents to prove their own legal status before citizenship is granted to their children.
Lower courts have struck down Trump’s executive order.
American Civil Liberties Union Legal Director Cecillia Wang is arguing on behalf of the class of plaintiffs.
ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero addressed Trump’s attendance, saying he will “watch the ACLU school him in the meaning of the Constitution and birthright citizenship.”
“Any effort to distract from the gravity and importance of this case will not succeed. The Supreme Court is up to the task of interpreting and defending the Constitution even under the glare of a sitting president a couple dozen feet away from them,” he said.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Tom Morello at 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. (Disney/Jennifer Pottheiser)
Tom Morello and The Offspring have dropped off the lineup for Sonic Temple 2026, the festival announced.
Chevelle and Pop Evil have joined the bill as replacements.
Sonic Temple 2026 takes place May 14-17 in Columbus, Ohio. It’ll be headlined by My Chemical Romance, Shinedown, Bring Me the Horizon and Tool.
Morello previously announced he was postponing a run of solo dates so that he could join Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band for The Boss’ U.S. tour, which launched Tuesday in Minneapolis. The Rage Against the Machine guitarist joined Springsteen for performances of songs including “Badlands,” “Born in the U.S.A.” and a cover of Prince’s “Purple Rain.”
