Buttery Valentine: Machine Gun Kelly picks BTS as his ideal wedding boy band

Buttery Valentine: Machine Gun Kelly picks BTS as his ideal wedding boy band
Buttery Valentine: Machine Gun Kelly picks BTS as his ideal wedding boy band
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Machine Gun Kelly‘s hoping his wedding bells will be accompanied by the sounds of BTS.

In an interview on Ellen, the “Bloody Valentine” rocker picked the K-pop superstars after host Ellen DeGeneres asked him which boy band he’d want to perform at his upcoming nuptials to Megan Fox.

“Which boy band am I gonna know the most songs of? For sure *NSYNC,” Kelly answered. “But which band do I surprisingly know all these facts about? BTS.”

“I met them at the Billboard Awards, they were, like, stoked to meet me,” he added. “I think I have a better chance of getting BTS to come.”

Maybe BTS could play a mash-up of one of their songs with Kelly’s music: say, “Buttery Valentine”?

Kelly and Fox got engaged this past January.

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“Thank you for being a light through our darkness”: Turpin siblings attend Garth Brooks’ show in San Diego

“Thank you for being a light through our darkness”: Turpin siblings attend Garth Brooks’ show in San Diego
“Thank you for being a light through our darkness”: Turpin siblings attend Garth Brooks’ show in San Diego
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Garth Brooks had two special guests in the audience during his show at Petco Park. 

Jennifer and Jordan Turpin, two of the 13 children who lived in the “House of Horrors” that made national headlines a few years ago, attended Garth’s show over the weekend, where they got to meet the superstar and his wife, Trisha Yearwood

Both women took to Instagram to share their experience, with Jennifer sharing how Garth’s music was a saving grace while living under the abuse of parents David and Louise Turpin. “I had a Garth Brooks DVD collection while living through hell. When D & L were gone, I’d sneak and play it on our television. Thank you @garthbrooks for being a light through our darkness,” Jennifer shared alongside a photo of her posing with the star couple inside the stadium. 

Jordan also shared a photo with Garth and Trisha, all smiles as she wrapped Garth in a hug. “I had so much fun today! I love you Garth, amazing show tonight! Thank you so much!” she writes. “God bless!”

In 2018, Jordan managed to escape from the family’s house in California and called 9-1-1 to report years of abuse from her parents that included imprisonment, beatings and severe malnourishment. In 2019, David and Louise were sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole after 25 years. 

Garth re-launched his Stadium Tour at Petco Park in San Diego on Saturday after postponing the tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Check out new lyric video for Keith Richards solo song “999,” from his 1992 album, ‘Main Offender’

Check out new lyric video for Keith Richards solo song “999,” from his 1992 album, ‘Main Offender’
Check out new lyric video for Keith Richards solo song “999,” from his 1992 album, ‘Main Offender’
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A new lyric video for “999,” the lead track off Keith Richards‘ 1992 sophomore solo effort Main Offender, has premiered at the Rolling Stones guitarist’s official YouTube channel in advance of the March 18 release of the album’s 30th anniversary reissue.

The clip features archival footage of Richards performing with his solo backing band The X-Pensive Winos, with whom he recorded Main Offender. Keith co-wrote the song with two key Winos members — drummer Steve Jordan and guitarist Waddy Wachtel.

Richards also has posted a recent video clip of him playing a segment of “999” solo on an acoustic guitar at his social media pages.

As previously reported, the Main Offender reissue will be available in multiple formats and configurations, including a limited-edition super-deluxe box set featuring remastered CD and vinyl versions of the album, as well as a bonus live album on CD and two LPs.

The live album featured in the box set, titled Winos Live in London ’92, features Keith and his band playing select songs from Main Offender and Richards’ 1988 solo debut album, Talk Is Cheap, as well as renditions of The Stones’ “Gimme Shelter,” “Before They Make Me Run” and “Happy.”

The super deluxe collection also features an LP version Main Offender pressed on smoke-colored vinyl; an 88-page, leather-bound book offering rare photos and Keith’s handwritten lyrics; and collectibles including a guitar pick, a bumper sticker and posters.

You can pre-order the reissue now.

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Six teens charged with murder in drive-by shooting outside Iowa high school

Six teens charged with murder in drive-by shooting outside Iowa high school
Six teens charged with murder in drive-by shooting outside Iowa high school
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(DES MOINES, Iowa) — Six teenagers have been arrested on murder charges stemming from a drive-by shooting Monday outside a Des Moines, Iowa, high school that left a 15-year-old boy dead and critically injured two female students, police said on Tuesday.

The teenager who was fatally shot is believed to have been the intended target, the Des Moines Police Department said in a statement Tuesday.

Most of the suspects were arrested within an hour of the shooting and all were in custody in several hours, police said.

“While this incident occurred outside of a school, it could have occurred in any one of our neighborhoods. The school is where the suspects found their target,” police said in the statement.

The two wounded teenage girls remained in a hospital Tuesday with life-threatening injuries, police said.

The names of the suspects and the victims were not released.

In addition to first-degree murder, the suspects were charged with two counts each of attempted murder, authorities said.

Overnight, homicide detectives executed multiple residential and vehicle search warrants, and recovered multiple firearms, police said.

The shooting unfolded Monday afternoon outside East High School. The two injured girls were both students at the school, while the slain boy was not, police said.

The motive for the shooting remains under investigation.

“Unfortunately, what happened here … is just another pointless tragedy in our community, people using firearms to settle their differences,” Des Moines Police Chief Dana Wingert said Monday.

The high school was immediately on lockdown Monday afternoon, but Des Moines Public School District tweeted students were being dismissed on time after police and the school district gave an all-clear.

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COVID-19 infections linked to brain damage, studies find

COVID-19 infections linked to brain damage, studies find
COVID-19 infections linked to brain damage, studies find
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(NEW YORK) — Two studies published Monday show how COVID-19 infection is associated with higher rates of brain tissue abnormalities.

These effects were subtle and it’s possible many of the people who experience them will heal on their own without medical intervention. But these findings could help explain the cognitive decline experienced by some COVID-19 survivors.

Because the studies evaluated patients who became sick with COVID-19 before vaccines were widely available, it’s not clear if this tissue damage happens among vaccinated people. Experts are hopeful vaccines would offer some protection against neurological damage, as they do help reduce the risk of other types of tissue damage.

The first study, published Monday in the journal Nature, looked at more than 400 people ages 51 to 81 who tested positive for COVID-19 from the U.K. Biobank study, comparing MRI scans taken prior to infection against those taken an average of five months after infection.

Researchers from the University of Oxford found that even people with mild COVID-19 symptoms had signs of slightly reduced brain size and subtle tissue damage — especially in the region of the brain associated with sense of smell.

“The fact that this study demonstrates a loss in brain volume over several months is concerning and could imply accelerated brain aging,” said Dr. Leah Croll, a vascular neurology fellow at New York University Langone Health.

Added Croll, “We need more time to understand what this actually means for patients. There is not enough meaningful clinical data here to know if the imaging findings truly match up with changes in cognitive functioning.”

The second study, published in Neurology, found evidence of damaged neurons and glial cells, which are fundamental cells in the brain.

Researchers from Northwestern Medicine studied 64 people, some of whom had been hospitalized with COVID-19, and others who hadn’t been hospitalized but later experienced long-haul symptoms.

They didn’t use MRIs, but rather looked for biomarkers, or molecular signatures, of brain damage.

“There were two markers of brain damage, or rather a marker of direct damage to nerve cells and another marker that indicates there is increased inflammation in the central nervous system or brain itself,” said Dr. Barbara Hanson, a researcher at the Northwestern Medicine Neurology COVID-19 research lab.

The study found evidence of brain inflammation that correlated with symptoms of anxiety reported by COVID-19 long-hauler patients.

Researchers hope the finding will bring some relief to COVID long-haulers, who often express frustration that their neuropsychiatric symptoms are dismissed.

According to Hanson, about a third of people with COVID-19 develop some form of long-COVID symptoms — many of them neurological symptoms like decreased memory, headache and dizziness.

Hanson predicted that COVID-19-related neurological symptoms could become even more prevalent in the decade to come.

But two years into the pandemic, it’s not clear yet if people will grapple with lifelong symptoms, or if they will eventually heal, experts said.

“It’s too soon for us to know if this damage will last or if people can recover from it over time,” Croll said.

Dr. Pooja Sharma is a family medicine resident at Emory University in Atlanta. Sony Salzman is the coordinating producer of ABC’s Medical Unit.

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“We need you to win again NOW”: 50 Cent wants Mo’Nique back on top

“We need you to win again NOW”: 50 Cent wants Mo’Nique back on top
“We need you to win again NOW”: 50 Cent wants Mo’Nique back on top
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(NOTE LANGUAGE) Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent, has posted a series of Instagram photos and videos to his Instagram, rallying for actress, comedian Mo’Nique to be given another chance in Hollywood.

“I Gotta get @therealmoworldwide back in pocket, we only suppose to cancel s*** that ain’t good for the culture. we need you to WIN again now MONIQUE,” one of 50’s posts read.

Mo’Nique, born Monique Hicks, is said to have been blacklisted by Hollywood starting in 2009, when she refused to promote her film Precious without pay. She then spoke out against streaming giant Netflix, citing unequal pay as compared to other comedians for comedy specials.

50 Cent also posted a mashup video of Power, the Starz show he executive produces, and the movie Precious, in an effort to put Mo’Nique “back on top,” and get her back to work in Hollywood.

“All in Favor of @therealmoworldwide being back on Top, Say make it happen 50 ! STOP F****** AROUND,” 50 posted.

In the comments, fans agreed with the rapper and encouraged him to “make it happen.”

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Ed Sheeran takes the stand in ongoing “Shape of You” copyright case

Ed Sheeran takes the stand in ongoing “Shape of You” copyright case
Ed Sheeran takes the stand in ongoing “Shape of You” copyright case
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Ed Sheeran defended himself in London’s High Court on Tuesday in an attempt to prove he didn’t plagiarize his 2017 smash hit “Shape of You.” He is being sued by singer Sami Chokri, who claims Ed sampled his 2015 song “Oh Why” in his “Oh I, oh I” hook.

The BBC reports the Grammy winner attempted to show how common the two-note melody is by singing “No Diggity” by Blackstreet and “Feeling Good” by Nina Simone during his cross-examination. “If you put them all in the same key, they’ll sound the same,” he explained. When pressed if his song was similar to Chokri’s, Ed remarked, “Fundamentally, yes, they are based around the pentatonic scale [and] they both have vowels in them.”

Andrew Sutcliffe QC, who is representing Chokri and his co-writer, Ross O’Donoghue, grilled Ed on the similarities of “Oh Why” and the “Oh, I” hook. The lawyer asked, “It sounds as though you were singing, ‘Oh Why,’ doesn’t it?”

“The lyric is, ‘Oh, I’m in love with your body,'” Ed countered, “‘Oh why I’m in love with your body’ doesn’t make sense.”

He also fended off being called an “obsessive music squirrel” by Sutcliffe and replied, “I’m a music fan, I like music, I listen to music.”

The outlet reports Ed became visibly agitated when the lawyer played an unreleased song to the court and the singer demanded, “That’s a song I wrote last January. How did you get that? I want to know how you got that.” It was later explained the song was on “Shape of You” co-writer Steve Mac‘s personal laptop and the lawyer accessed the wrong file to play the music.

The case is ongoing.

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Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russia claims it will not send in conscripted soldiers

Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russia claims it will not send in conscripted soldiers
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russia claims it will not send in conscripted soldiers
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(NEW YORK) — Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are putting up “stiff resistance,” according to U.S. officials.

The attack began Feb. 24, when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation.”

Russian forces moving from neighboring Belarus toward Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, don’t appear to have advanced closer to the city since coming within about 20 miles, although smaller advanced groups have been fighting gun battles with Ukrainian forces inside the capital since at least Friday.

Russia has been met by sanctions from the United States, Canada and countries throughout Europe, targeting the Russian economy as well as Putin himself.

Here’s how the news is developing. All times Eastern:

Mar 08, 10:21 am
Russian Defense Ministry claims Kyiv is ‘against’ evacuation of Ukrainians to Russia

Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed Tuesday that Ukrainian authorities are “categorically against” evacuating residents of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Mariupol to Russia.

“The authorities in Kyiv are continuing to categorically reject all main routes of evacuation from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Mariupol to the territory of the Russian Federation,” Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, said at a briefing.

The Russian Defense Ministry claimed the Ukrainians only confirmed one of the 10 evacuation routes Russia proposed. The confirmed route is from the city of Sumy, through Poltava and to the border with Poland, Mizintsev said.

Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed more than 2.5 million Ukrainians asked to be evacuated to Russia.

“Following the past day, 2,541,367 appeals from individual Ukrainian citizens, as well as foreigners made via various communication channels requesting to save and evacuate them from 1,917 settlements in Ukraine have already been processed in our database,” Mizintsev said.

The Russian Defense Ministry also claimed checkpoints in Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Moldova and Romania “were virtually ill prepared” to receive Ukrainian refugees.

“People are forced to leave their cars and walk on foot carrying their heavy bags. Lines are up to 40 kilometers long, and the crossing time is over two days,” Mizintsev said.

-ABC News’ Anastasia Bagaeva

Mar 08, 10:06 am
Vatican secretary of state speaks with Russia foreign minister

Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, spoke on the phone with the Russian foreign minister to convey Pope Francis’ “deep concern about the ongoing war in Ukraine.”

Parolin reiterated the pope’s “call for an end to armed attacks, for the securing of humanitarian corridors for civilians and rescuers, and for the replacement of gun violence with negotiation.”

The pope announced Sunday that he has dispatched two cardinals to Poland and Hungry. Cardinal Konrad Krajewski traveled to the Polish-Ukraine border to visit refugees and volunteers in shelters and homes, while Cardinal Michael Czerny will arrive in Hungry on Tuesday to visit reception centers for migrants arriving from Ukraine.

-ABC News’ Phoebe Natanson

Mar 08, 10:06 am
Vatican secretary of state speaks with Russia foreign minister

Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, spoke on the phone with the Russian foreign minister to convey Pope Francis’ “deep concern about the ongoing war in Ukraine.”

Parolin reiterated the pope’s “call for an end to armed attacks, for the securing of humanitarian corridors for civilians and rescuers, and for the replacement of gun violence with negotiation.”

The pope announced Sunday that he has dispatched two cardinals to Poland and Hungry. Cardinal Konrad Krajewski traveled to the Polish-Ukraine border to visit refugees and volunteers in shelters and homes, while Cardinal Michael Czerny will arrive in Hungry on Tuesday to visit reception centers for migrants arriving from Ukraine.

-ABC News’ Phoebe Natanson

Mar 08, 9:02 am
US says Russia seems to be observing cease-fire but unclear for how long

While the United States welcomes Russia’s declaration of a temporary cease-fire in several besieged areas of Ukraine, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said Tuesday it remains unclear exactly how long Russian forces will hold fire.

“We think this is obviously a welcome step that the cease-fire seems to be being observed by the Russians. They don’t exactly have a good track record in that regard. So it’s welcome to see people are able to get out,” Kirby told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in an interview on Good Morning America.

“But,” Kirby added, “that cease-fire’s going to expire in a number of hours and so it’s yet to be seen how much more violent the shelling and the bombardments are going to get.”

While Ukraine has continued to call on NATO to establish a no-fly zone over the country — something Washington has already ruled out — along with more help from the U.S., Kirby said there are other steps being taken.

“We are accelerating and expediting the shipment of arms and materiel to Ukraine. In fact, another shipments arrived in eastern Europe just overnight and they will be sent in to Ukraine in the coming hours and days, and there’s more coming,” Kirby said. “And it’s not just the United States. Fourteen other nations are also providing security assistance to Ukraine to help them fight.”

But on the potential of the U.S. replacing Polish fighter jets, should Poland send theirs to Ukraine, Kirby said it was a “possibility” but was non-committal.

“We’re not going to stand in the way of another sovereign nation if they want to provide aircraft to the Ukrainian Air Force. Now that’s certainly their decision and we respect that,” he said. “This issue of whether we backfill it with American jets — we’re looking at that as a possibility here, but there’s an awful lot of logistical and financial issues that have to be dealt with on how that would happen. No decision has been made yet.”

When asked about the risk of a wider war if that happens, Kirby said: “That’s a possibility that we’re always looking at.”

“That’s certainly in the back of everybody’s mind, not just the United States but in NATO nations as well. You don’t want to escalate this conflict any bigger and any worse than it already is. You’re talking about Russia, a nuclear armed power. The consequences for escalating this conflict could be devastating, not just for the people of Ukraine but for the European continent,” he said.

Mar 08, 8:40 am
US to ban Russian oil imports, source says

The White House is expected to announce a ban on U.S. imports of Russian oil as soon as Tuesday, a source familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Mar 08, 8:26 am
Child died from dehydration in besieged Mariupol, Zelenskyy says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that a child has died from dehydration in the besieged port city of Mariupol.

“Russia is for sure to blame for the deaths of people from airstrikes and in the blocked cities,” Zelenskyy said in a televised address. “But the responsibility is also on those who during these 13 days can’t make a decision in their offices in the West, an obviously necessary decision. Those who don’t secure Ukrainian sky from Russian murderers, who didn’t save our cities from airstrikes, these bombs and missiles, although they can.”

“We have been hearing promises about support for 13 days that the jets are about to arrive,” he added. “We have heard promises about securing humanitarian corridors. They didn’t work. We don’t have time to wait. People in Mariupol don’t have time to wait.”

Zelenskyy said trucks carrying humanitarian aid have been sent to Mariupol. He accused the International Committee of the Red Cross of “forbidding the use of its emblem on our cars,” but did not give further details. Videos posted to social media on Tuesday purportedly show vehicles heading to Mariupol from other Ukrainian cities bearing signs with a red cross, but it’s not clear who pasted them there.

“The drivers are heroes who understand they can be killed by Russian troops,” Zelenskyy said. “If you kill those people, the whole world will be the witness.”

Mar 08, 7:33 am
One million children among those who have fled Ukraine: UNICEF

Out of the more than two million people who have been forced to flee Ukraine since Russian forces invaded on Feb. 24, half of them are children, according to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF).

UNICEF spokesperson James Elder called it a “dark historical first.”

Mar 08, 7:15 am
Shell pledges to stop buying Russian oil and gas

Energy giant Shell announced Tuesday plans to withdraw from its involvement in all Russian hydrocarbons, including crude oil and natural gas, amid Russia’s unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine.

“As an immediate first step, the company will stop all spot purchases of Russian crude oil. It will also shut its service stations, aviation fuels and lubricants operations in Russia,” Shell said in a statement.

Shell will immediately stop buying Russian crude oil on the spot market and not renew term contracts. The company will also change its crude oil supply chain to remove Russian volumes, but said “this could take weeks to complete and will lead to reduced throughput at some of our refineries.”

In addition, Shell will shut its service stations, aviation fuels and lubricants operations in Russia, and will start a phased withdrawal from Russian petroleum products, pipeline gas and liquefied natural gas.

The company apologized for buying Russian oil last week.

“We are acutely aware that our decision last week to purchase a cargo of Russian crude oil to be refined into products like petrol and diesel — despite being made with security of supplies at the forefront of our thinking — was not the right one and we are sorry,” Shell CEO Ben van Beurden said in a statement. “As we have already said, we will commit profits from the limited, remaining amounts of Russian oil we will process to a dedicated fund. We will work with aid partners and humanitarian agencies over the coming days and weeks to determine where the monies from this fund are best placed to alleviate the terrible consequences that this war is having on the people of Ukraine.”

Mar 08, 6:49 am
Two children among at least 21 killed by Russian airstrike in Sumy: Ukrainian officials

At least 21 civilians, including two children, were killed by a Russian airstrike in Ukraine’s northeastern city of Sumy on Monday night, according to the regional prosecutor’s office.

The strike hit a residential area of Sumy, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, which the regional prosecutor’s office said was still on the scene searching for victims Tuesday.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk called on Russian forces to maintain the agreed upon temporary cease-fire in Sumy and four other Ukrainian cities to allow civilians to evacuate Tuesday. She said Russian authorities have confirmed to the International Committee of the Red Cross that one evacuation route out of Sumy will be open, but Ukrainian officials are awaiting confirmation on the other routes they submitted.

Mar 08, 6:19 am
Over two million refugees have fled Ukraine: UNHCR

More than two million people have been forced to flee Ukraine since Russian forces invaded on Feb. 24, according to the latest figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Over 1.2 million of the refugees from Ukraine are in neighboring Poland, UNHCR figures show.

“Today the outflow of refugees from Ukraine reaches two million people. Two million,” U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said Tuesday in a post on his official Twitter account.

Mar 08, 5:36 am
Russia declares temporary cease-fire for humanitarian corridors in five Ukrainian cities

Russia declared Tuesday a temporary cease-fire in five besieged cities of Ukraine, including the capital, to let civilians leave.

“For safe evacuation of civilians from populated areas, a cease-fire is declared and humanitarian corridors are opening from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Mariupol from 10:00 a.m. today,” Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a press briefing.

All five cities except Kyiv had sustained brutal, indiscriminate bombardment in recent days.

It’s the fourth attempt to hold fire and allow civilians to escape the onslaught since Russian forces invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. Russian and Ukrainian negotiators have been holding talks in recent days, and the Russian delegation has previously agreed to a temporary cease-fire and opening of humanitarian corridors in parts of Ukraine. But Russia has violated its own cease-fire and shelled evacuation points, while falsely accusing Ukraine of using people as human shields.

The hard-hit cities of Kharkiv and Mariupol were reported to be quiet Tuesday morning, with a local official telling ABC News that the center of Mariupol, a strategic port in the southeast, is not being shelled for the first time in days.

Ukraine said Russia has agreed this time to allow civilians to evacuate not only to Russia but also to other parts of Ukraine. Columns of buses and trucks with humanitarian aid are currently headed to Sumy, Mariupol and possibly other cities.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Russia has confirmed to the International Committee of the Red Cross that one route out of Sumy will be open. Vereshchuk said she hopes Russia will confirm routes for the other cities and also for the eastern city of Volnovakha. She warned Ukraine has information that Russia may have plans to disrupt the evacuations by leading civilians out of the agreed safe routes, in order to claim that Ukraine is not observing the agreement.

Petro Andrushenko, advisor to the mayor of Mariupol, said the city plans to evacuate people as long as Russian forces do not fire. A column of 60 buses and nine trucks of medical aid and food are headed to Mariupol now, and the hope is that at least 4,000 people can be evacuated via the buses plus an unknown number of private cars that will join the convoy, according to Andrushenko.

“If Russia doesn’t break it, we plan to evacuate people,” Andrushenko told ABC News via telephone Tuesday morning.

Mar 08, 2:05 am
World Bank approves $723 million in emergency support for Ukraine

The World Bank said its board approved a package of loans and guarantees for Ukraine totaling $723 million.

The funding will help the Ukrainian government pay for government services, “including wages for hospital workers, pensions for the elderly, and social programs for the vulnerable,” the bank said in a statement on Monday.

The bank said it’s preparing an additional $3 billion in support for Ukraine and neighboring countries, which have taken in more than 1.7 million refugees since the Russian invasion began.

“The World Bank Group is taking quick action to support Ukraine and its people in the face of the violence and extreme disruption caused by the Russian invasion,” World Bank President David Malpass said in a statement. “The World Bank Group stands with the people of Ukraine and the region. This is the first of many steps we are taking to help.”

The funding announced on Monday includes $350 million in supplemental loans, along with guarantees totaling $139 million from the Netherlands and Sweden, the bank said. Grant financing totaling $134 million will come from the United Kingdom, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania and Iceland. Japan is providing $100 million in additional financing, the bank said.

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After two-and-a-half years wait, Mariah Carey will finally be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

After two-and-a-half years wait, Mariah Carey will finally be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
After two-and-a-half years wait, Mariah Carey will finally be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
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Way back in December 2019, Mariah Carey found out that she was going to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.  But now, after two postponements, she’ll finally be able to accept the honor this June.

The Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala will take place June 16 in New York City, Billboard reports. It was originally scheduled for June 11, 2020, and then bumped to June 10, 2021.

In addition to Mariah, the other inductees include Eurythmics Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, The Neptunes’ Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, members of The Isley Brothers, and veteran rocker Steve Miller.

As Billboard notes, four of this year’s honorees or inductees are over the age of 80, but luckily, none of them passed away while waiting for their awards.

The writer who’ll receive the Hal David Starlight Award, which honors songwriters “at the apex of their career,” hasn’t been announced yet. The most recent winners were Halsey, Sara Bareilles, Ed Sheeran and Nick Jonas.

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Juno Temple turns to Twitter to dress her ‘Ted Lasso’ character for the series’ next season

Juno Temple turns to Twitter to dress her ‘Ted Lasso’ character for the series’ next season
Juno Temple turns to Twitter to dress her ‘Ted Lasso’ character for the series’ next season
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Emmy-nominated Ted Lasso star Juno Temple is putting her Twitter followers to work, helping her choose outfits for her sassy character Keeley Jones to wear in the Apple TV+ series’ third season.

The British actress joined the platform in January, and shortly thereafter put out the following pitch: “Stoked to see what amazing, twinkly beautiful clothing Keeley wears in the next series. Any suggestions?”

Her followers got back to her almost immediately, with more than a few posting ideas as to what would look great on Keeley, and a few budding designers — or spouses of designers — shooting their shot. “I’d love to send you some pieces,” one guy pitched of his wife’s handmade wares. 

Last month, Temple had her followers point her toward “new female-owned, emerging brands,” noting that a goal was to “highlight as many emerging young artists as possible” with her character’s wardrobe.

The actress posted the same day, “So stoked looking through all these designers, thank you darlings!!” adding, “If you have any suggestions for fun, glittery makeup and hair brands for Keeley, would love to hear those as well!”

Fashion has apparently been top of mind for Temple, who recently Instagrammed glam photos of the shimmery gold Versace ensemble she wore last month at the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards, as well as various accessories.

On the red carpet, she told E! that she’d wanted to go to design school before acting came calling. “Versace chainmail has been something I’ve been fantasized since I was 14 years old,” she said, exclaiming that she felt “like Cinderella” in the gown. 

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