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Jimmy Buffet’s ashes smuggled into 2024 Rock Hall induction, says Kenny Chesney

Jimmy Buffett of Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band performs during KAABOO Del Mar music festival on September 16, 2016 in Del Mar, California. (Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)Jimmy Buffett was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2024 in the Musical Excellence category, and even though he passed away in 2023, it turns out he was still able to attend the ceremony.Kenny Chesney and James Taylor performed in honor of Buffett at the induction. In a […]

todayDecember 3, 2025

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Foreigner’s Lou Gramm to release new solo album

Foreigner's Lou Gramm at the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction (Disney/Michael Le Brecht) IIFormer Foreigner frontman Lou Gramm has revealed that he has a new solo album coming out next year.The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer made the revelation during an appearance on the Kyle Meredith with... podcast, sharing that he worked on it with former Foreigner bassist Bruce Turgon. Gramm said, "He helped me write songs for my upcoming solo album, which is being released in March."Gramm said […]

todayDecember 3, 2025

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Lenny Kravitz’s Sunday Night Basketball intro previewed

Lenny Kravitz on Jimmy Kimmel Live!/(ABC/Randy Holmes)Lenny Kravitz fans are getting their first look at his upcoming intro to NBC’s Sunday Night Basketball programming.The network is teasing the new NBA season with an ad on Instagram that features the "Are You Gonna Go My Way" rocker performing in front of a crowd, mixed with NBA highlights."I have been a fan of basketball and the NBA since I was a kid," Kravitz said when his participation in the intro was announced in October. […]

todayDecember 3, 2025

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On This Day, Dec. 3, 1979: Tragedy strikes The Who concert

On This Day, Dec. 3, 1979 ...Tragedy struck The Who’s concert at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati when 11 fans were trampled to death while trying to get into the venue.With “festival seating" in place, fans at the front of the line were crushed as those in the back mistook the band’s soundcheck for the start of the show and tried to push their way in.Twenty six additional fans were injured.The Who was not aware of what happened, so the show went […]

todayDecember 3, 2025

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US pauses all pending green card applications from 19 ‘countries of concern’

Entrance to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) offices at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan. Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The United States has paused all pending immigration applications from 19 "countries of concern," meaning that even applicants with pending green card applications will be subject to a pause and review, following the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C.A memo from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services posted on Tuesday says that anyone from a country on the […]

todayDecember 3, 2025

National News

DOJ charges former Navy petty officer, 4 others for alleged roles in ‘monstrous’ online extortion group

The U.S. Department of Justice is seen on September 26, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Samuel Corum/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department has indicted a former Navy petty officer and four others for allegedly leading an online extortion group that authorities say later helped spawn the global extremist network known as "764," which the FBI now describes as "modern day terrorism" for its sadistic and violent tormenting of teens online.An indictment unsealed Tuesday alleges that the earlier group, calling themselves "Greggy's Cult," engaged in […]

todayDecember 3, 2025

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BBC picks up series about The Beatles’ Hamburg days

English rock band the Beatles at the BBC television studios in London before leaving for a concert tour of Germany, and afterwards Japan, 16th June 1966. From left to right, they are Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)As if four upcoming Beatles biopics aren’t enough, the BBC is ready to give fans more.The network has picked up a new drama series, Hamburg Days, which will focus on The Beatles' early days as […]

todayDecember 3, 2025

National News

Arctic blast invades the Midwest, Northeast: Latest forecast

Low Temperatures - Thursday Map (ABC News)(NEW YORK) -- The Northeast is bracing for its coldest temperatures of the season as an arctic blast hits the Midwest and then moves east.On Thursday morning, the temperature is forecast to plunge to 5 degrees in Chicago; minus 4 degrees in Minneapolis; minus 1 degree in Green Bay, Wisconsin; and 8 degrees in Kansas City, Missouri.On Friday, the temperature could fall to 1 degree in Chicago, 8 degrees in Detroit, 10 degrees in Pittsburgh, 14 in […]

todayDecember 3, 2025

National News

Waymo driverless taxi takes passengers into apparent police standoff

A Waymo self-driving car (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)(LOS ANGELES) - A Waymo driverless taxi drove a passenger into an apparent police standoff in downtown Los Angeles last week, according to a video posted online Monday. The Waymo taxi came across a street blocked by police vehicles early Friday before turning into an area that was not blocked off where other vehicles were also traveling, according to a Waymo spokesperson. Officers were conducting a high-risk felony arrest after a stolen vehicle pursuit […]

todayDecember 3, 2025

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