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On This Day, Jan. 16, 1988: George Harrison hit #1 with ‘Got My Mind Set On You’

On This Day, Jan. 16, 1988 ...George Harrison hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Got My Mind Set On You,” a cover of a 1962 track originally recorded by James Ray.The recording was produced by ELO’s Jeff Lynne, who also played bass and keyboards on the song. It appeared on Harrison’s 11th studio album, Cloud Nine, which was the final solo album to be released during Harrison's lifetime.“Got My Mind Set On You” would be Harrison’s third and final #1 […]

todayJanuary 16, 2025

Music News

Alex Lifeson says there are no plans to resurrect Rush

Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Comedy CentralWhile Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson are still close, and still play music together, fans shouldn’t hold out hope that they’ll resurrect the band.In a new interview with Classic Rock magazine, Lifeson reveals he and Lee enjoy jamming together, but that doesn’t mean we’ll see Rush again."It’s good to jam with friends as you get older,” Lifeson shares. “I need to play. Once a week I go to Ged’s – it’s in the calendar […]

todayJanuary 16, 2025

National News

Elapses size of San Francisco: LA fires carve mark on history

Jon Putman/Anadolu via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County on Thursday, the blazes were already rewriting the record books.Over the last nine days, seven fires have broken out across the nation's second-largest metropolitan region, ravaging a combined area bigger than the 40 square miles that comprise the city of San Francisco and nearly twice the size of Manhattan, New York. An eighth fire ignited Monday night near Oxnard in neighboring Ventura County, but […]

todayJanuary 16, 2025

National News

What to know about REAL ID

Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Planning to travel by air in the U.S. later this year? A regular driver's license may not cut it.Travelers flying through U.S. airports will soon need to show TSA agents a REAL ID-compliant driver's license, a passport or another form of REAL ID-compliant identification if they want to pass through the security screening.In an announcement this week, the TSA said it's sticking with a May 7, 2025, deadline to start enforcing REAL ID […]

todayJanuary 16, 2025

National News

Mother of Navy SEAL recruit who died after completing ‘hell week’ demands answers about son’s death

Regina Mullen, mother of, Kyle, a Navy SEAL that died in February 2022/ABC News(NEW YORK) --The mother of a Navy SEAL recruit who died after completing "hell week" training has told ABC News that the cases against the men she blames for her son's death were dismissed by the Navy and she says she hasn't been told why.In February 2022, 24-year-old Kyle Mullen died after successfully endured the 120-hour week of brutal training that’s designed to push Navy SEAL candidates […]

todayJanuary 16, 2025

National News

Trump’s inauguration will be coldest in decades

Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday is forecast to be the coldest in 40 years.An arctic front will pass by Washington, D.C., on Sunday night and winds will pick up out of the northwest, ushering in arctic air.Monday's temperature will be at its highest -- about 25 degrees -- when the clock strikes Inauguration Day at midnight. Throughout the course of the day, the temperature will slowly fall.When Trump is sworn in at noon, the temperature […]

todayJanuary 16, 2025

National News

House Democrats urge Garland to ‘take all necessary steps’ to release Jack Smith’s report on Trump classified docs case

Jefferson Siegel-Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are urging outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland to "take all necessary steps" to release special counsel Jack Smith's report on Donald Trump's handling of classified documents -- and they're encouraging him to drop the remaining charges against the president-elect's former co-defendants in order to do so.U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who earlier this week allowed the Justice Department to release the first volume of Smith's report, which covers his election […]

todayJanuary 16, 2025

Sports News

3 Stanley Cup championship rings stolen from home of Pittsburgh Penguins star Evgeni Malkin

kali9/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Three Stanley Cup championship rings have been stolen from the home of Pittsburgh Penguins star forward Evgeni Malkin during yet another burglary in a series of thefts from high-profile professional athletes, authorities said.The missing rings were reported at 8:30 p.m. last Saturday, according to a statement from the Allegheny County Police Department on Wednesday.“At 8:30 pm on January 11, Sewickley Heights Police requested the assistance of the Allegheny County Police Department’s General Investigations Unit for a […]

todayJanuary 16, 2025

Music News

Watch Timothée Chalamet and Monica Barbaro perform Bob Dylan’s ‘It Ain’t Me Babe’

Courtesy of Searchlight PicturesThe Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is filled with musical performances, and now one of them has been shared online.Searchlight Pictures has released a clip of Timothée Chalamet as Dylan and Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez performing the track “It Ain’t Me Babe” at the Newport Folk Festival.The beginning of the clip gives us a peek at the often rocky relationship between Baez and Dylan, with Baez telling Dylan to "pick something appropriate" to sing for the crowd, […]

todayJanuary 16, 2025

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