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(SAN FRANCISCO) — An individual with two guns was “neutralized” near the San Francisco International Airport’s Bay Area Rapid Transit entrance, temporarily delaying BART service Thursday morning, officials said.
When officers responded to the airport’s international terminal in front of the BART station entrance, they tried to de-escalate the situation, but the suspect kept showing “threatening behavior,” airport spokesperson Doug Yakel said.
Police “engaged non-lethal measures,” but the gunman “continued to advance, at which time SFPD officers fired shots to neutralize the threat,” Yakel said.
ABC San Francisco station KGO reported that the suspect has died.
One bystander suffered minor injuries and has been treated and released, he noted.
The incident didn’t impact any airport operations, Yakel said. BART service to the airport was temporarily suspended and has since resumed.
“The entire incident happened in the terminal. It didn’t happen at BART. It was near the entrance of our station but not at our station,” a BART spokesperson said.
Kelsea Ballerini continues to find success with her third album, kelsea: The project has officially notched RIAA Gold certification, with over 500,000 units sold.
She put out that project, and its introspective, reimagined version, ballerini, in 2020. The track list includes her current single, a duet with Kenny Chesney called “half of my hometown,” which is currently approaching country radio’s Top 5.
Meanwhile, it’s been a year of new experiences and ventures for the singer. She put out her first-ever book of poetry, Feel Your Way Through, in late 2021.
Next up, she’s staying in the literary world for a while, as she co-stars in the audio book of Dolly Parton’s upcoming novel, Run Rose Run. She plays the role of protagonist AnnieLee Keyes. You can hear Kelsea’s voice when the audio book — as well as its written component — arrives on March 7.
Nathaniel Rateliff and Patti Smith will be performing at the 2022 Tibet House US virtual benefit concert, taking place on March 3.
The bill also includes Phish‘s Trey Anastasio, Laurie Anderson, and country artists Jason Isbell and Margo Price, as well as actor Keanu Reeves, who you may remember played bass in the ’90s alt rock band Dogstar.
Additionally, Iggy Pop and New Order‘s Bernard Sumner will be providing “special greetings” during the event.
Influential composer Philip Glass is the event’s artistic director.
Now in its 35th year, the annual concert raises money for Tibet House US, a non-profit organization that works to preserve Tibetan culture. It’s usually held in-person at New York City’s Carnegie Hall, but is taking place online for the second straight year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
You can watch the 2022 Tibet House US concert via the streaming platform Mandolin. For more info, visit Mandolin.com.
It’s been over two years since The Chainsmokers put out new music and, after bowing out of social media in 2020 to give their new album their full attention, they confirmed the news fans have been dying to hear… TCS4 is done.
“It’s finally done now. Thank you for giving us time to rediscover ourselves, our music, and our love for why we do this. The truth is, we could have only made this album now. And we can’t wait to share it with you,” Alex Pall and Drew Taggart wrote in a joint statement on Thursday.
The message came in a multi-part chain that saw the Grammy winners explaining why they took their time developing their fourth studio album, which they admit they “wish we could have made… four years ago.”
As for why the group retreated from the public eye in 2019, they said they “felt a little bit lost” at the time. “We decided we needed to take some time to reflect and rediscover what made us most excited about this project,” they shared in a follow up tweet. “We escaped to Hawaii with some friends and gave ourselves permission to not create anything at all if we didn’t want to.”
The Chainsmokers say they lasted four days before they felt the urge to make music and produced a song fans will hear “soon.” They said the track made them fall back in love with music, adding, “We hadn’t felt that way since the beginning of our career” and that they created “the backbone of this album” while in Hawaii.
They said they then spent the next two years “picking apart every song” and making “them the absolute best they could possibly be.” An announcement regarding the album’s name and release date is forthcoming.
Disturbed and Breaking Benjamin are headlining the 2022 Upheaval Festival, taking place July 15-16 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Other artists on the bill include Three Days Grace, Theory, Nothing More, Starset, Nita Strauss, Avatar, Ayron Jones, Escape the Fate, Fire from the Gods, All Good Things and Butcher Babies.
For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit UpheavalFest.com.
The inaugural Upheaval Festival took place in 2021 after being postponed from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Headliners included Rob Zombie and Korn.
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While some people started the new year with a new romance, others may have experienced the opposite — and one company has quite the job offer for those brokenhearted individuals.
FinanceBuzz is looking for their new DJ of Heartache, who will be tasked to indulge in sad, breakup tunes for 24 hours. In return, they’re offering a $1,100 salary. So, what’s the minimum requirement? All applicants must be freshly single.
“Breakups are never easy, and they can be costly! We’ll pay the hired DJ of Heartache $1,100 to listen to some of the most infamous heartbreak hits, then categorize them into 5 new playlists to become the soundtrack of every breakup phase,” the job posting reads. “We’re looking to ease both the emotional and monetary pain for one heartbroken soul.”
Among the 24-hours worth of “infamous heartbreak hits” are tracks from both Adele and Taylor Swift.
FinanceBuzz explains they arrived at the $1,100 salary because, statistically, that’s how much a person typically spends before getting back on their feet. “Since it’s clear relationship splits have a breakup bill… we’ll help cover the costs associated with their breakup,” they generously offer.
The playlists the so-called DJ of Heartbreak must create will reflect the five stages of breakup — which borrows elements of the five stages of grief: denial, anger, relapse, depression and acceptance. Adds FinanceBuzz of the latter stage, “We like to call it moving on!”
The company will accept applications on its website until midnight EST on January 31. Those interested in applying must be over the age of 18 and be a U.S. resident. They will pick their lucky new employee on February 2.
The latest hearing in Britney Spears‘ ongoing legal woes lasted for three hours after attorneys for her and her father, Jamie Spears, engaged in a shouting match. Although Britney is free of her 13-year conservatorship, a few lingering issues still need attention.
Wednesday’s hearing focused on whether Britney is financially responsible for her father’s legal fees and if Jamie Spears is guilty of bugging her room and phone — as reported by the New York Times.
Varietyreports that Britney’s lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, sparred with Alex Weingarten, who represents her father, and in one particular heated exchange, shouted “Lies!” after Attorney Weingarten accused him of weaving “preposterous” and “nonsensical” stories — such as the alleged eavesdropping — to vilify his client.
Weingarten said of those surveillance claims, “Virtually everything that is alleged is demonstratively false or taken out of context.” Britney’s lawyer fired back that he uncovered “strong evidence” that could prove Jamie Spears engaged in “very intense and potentially illegal” surveillance of his daughter.
Jamie’s lawyer dismissed the allegations and requested Judge Brenda Penny set a hearing to unseal all the records pertaining to the conservatorship, which would include Britney’s medical records, because he says it’ll exonerate his client.
Rosengart objected and Judge Penny did not set a hearing date. She did, however, reject Weingarten’s request for Britney’s estate to set aside a certain amount of money to ensure all legal fees are paid in full. Weingarten also remarked the conservatorship was enacted because “Ms. Spears was irresponsible with her finances.”
“Let’s not go down that road,” was Judge Penny’s response.
The next hearing, set for March 16, will determine if Britney has to pay the attorney fees for her mother, Lynne Spears. The next major hearing is set for July 27.
Congratulations are in order for The Weeknd, who just made Billboard history! His new album, Dawn FM, is currently the number one album in the world even though it has yet to have a physical release. Currently, it is only available on digital platforms.
According to a press release, Dawn FM also places 24 of The Weeknd’s songs on the Global 200, which breaks the all-time record for the most songs charted by a male solo artist. The accolades don’t stop there — the “Save Your Tears” singer has another album — aside from Dawn FM — charting on the Billboard 200 top 10. His The Highlights has risen to number six while Dawn hovers in second, giving him the rare honor of having two studio efforts atop the prestigious chart.
Dawn is also making major waves in the streaming world after fans listened to it over 500 million times across Spotify, Apple Music and other services. His “Sacrifice” track went to number one on Spotify and Apple Music notes it is currently charting in over 130 countries.
Considering this album was a surprise and The Weeknd has yet to release physical copies of his new record, it stands to go to number one on the Billboard 200 once it hits the shelf — which would follow his 2020 effort After Hours.
Jimi Hendrix‘s estate has filed a lawsuit against the heirs of the two other original members of The Jimi Hendrix Experience — bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell — after those parties threatened to sue Jimi’s estate for millions of pounds in alleged unpaid royalties, Billboard reports.
The Hendrix estate, along with the Sony Music label, filed a suit in a New York City court on Tuesday asking that the court rule they owe no money to Redding’s and Mitchell’s estates.
In documents obtained by Billboard, the Hendrix estate and Sony explain they launched their action after the Redding and Mitchell estates sent them a cease-and-desist letter in December in which they threatened to file a lawsuit in a British court demanding millions of pounds in unpaid royalties dating back to 1973.
Hendrix’s estate and Sony maintain that Redding and Mitchell had signed away rights to Hendrix’s royalties in exchange for a monetary settlement during legal proceedings that followed the guitar legend’s death in 1970.
However, in the December letter, reps for the Redding and Mitchell estates claimed that the agreements Noel and Mitch signed weren’t enforceable.
“For almost half a century, there has never been any claim by defendants or their successors…concerning the copyright ownership, exploitation of these recordings by plaintiffs, or payments of royalties,” the Hendrix estate and Sony wrote in their suit.
The plaintiffs aren’t seeking any monetary damages in the lawsuit; rather, they want the court to declare that they haven’t done anything wrong.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience formed in 1966. Redding left the group in 1969, while Mitchell continued to play with the band until Jimi’s death in September 1970 at age 27. Noel passed away in 2003 at the age of 52, while Mitchell died in 2008 at age 62.
(WASHINGTON) — One day after President Joe Biden appeared to cast doubt on whether the midterm election results will be legitimate without the passage of a new voting rights law, his vice president and press secretary worked to dispel any mistrust in the integrity of the vote.
“Speaking of voting rights legislation, if this isn’t passed, do you still believe the upcoming election will be fairly conducted and its results will be legitimate?” a reporter asked Biden Wednesday at a lengthy press conference marking the end of his first year in office.
“Well, it all depends on whether or not we’re able to make the case to the American people that some of this is being set up to try to alter the outcome of the election,” Biden said.
“I’m not saying it’s not going to be legit, it’s the increase in the prospect of being illegitimate is in direct proportion to us not being able to get these, these reforms passed,” Biden told another reporter who followed up on his assertion that the integrity of the results “depends” on passing voting rights legislation.
Early Thursday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki tweeted, refuting the notion Biden believes there’s a possibility the election results will be questionable.
“Lets be clear: @potus was not casting doubt on the legitimacy of the 2022 election. He was making the opposite point: In 2020, a record number of voters turned out in the face of a pandemic, and election officials made sure they could vote and have those votes counted,” she said.
“He was explaining that the results would be illegitimate if states do what the former president asked them to do after the 2020 election: toss out ballots and overturn results after the fact. The Big Lie is putting our democracy at risk. We’re fighting to protect it.”
Lets be clear: @potus was not casting doubt on the legitimacy of the 2022 election. He was making the opposite point: In 2020, a record number of voters turned out in the face of a pandemic, and election officials made sure they could vote and have those votes counted.
Psaki also appeared on Fox News, saying directly that Biden “was not making a prediction” about the legitimacy of the results.
“I talked to the president a lot about this and he is not predicting that the 2022 elections would be illegitimate,” Psaki said on “America’s Newsroom.” “… The point he was making the former president asked seven or more states to overturn the outcome of the election. Now obviously if there is an effort to do that we have to fight against it. That’s what our commitment is to doing, but he was not making a prediction. He has confidence in the American people and do everything we can to protect people’s rights.”
But a major Biden ally, Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., whose support for Biden in the critical primary state of South Carolina changed the trajectory of the 2020 primary, expressed agreement on the idea that the 2022 results could be questionable in a CNN interview Thursday.
“Are you concerned that without these voting rights bills the election results won’t be legitimate?” CNN’s Kasie Hunt asked Clyburn.
“I’m absolutely concerned about that,” Clyburn said.
Vice President Kamala Harris, appearing on all three broadcast network morning shows Thursday to dispel confusion over several comments from the press conference, argued the attention should remain on protecting the right to vote, dismissing questions surrounding election integrity.
“Let’s not conflate issues. What we are looking, and the topic of so much debate last night, was that we as America cannot afford to allow this blatant erosion of our democracy, and in particular, the right of all Americans who are eligible to vote to have access to the ballot unfettered. That is the topic of the conversation. Let’s not be distracted by the political gamesmanship,” Harris said on NBC’s “Today” program.
