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Giuseppe Maffia/NurPhoto via Getty Images R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe has contributed a track to a new Earth Day compilation, currently available on Bandcamp. The EarthPercent x Earth Day '23 Compilation Album features over 60 tunes that are either new, exclusive or previously unreleased. They can be downloaded individually or as a whole album from April 20 to May 6, with Stipe contributing the song "Give Me A Hand," featuring folk singer Gaeylynn Lee. Other artists on the compilation […]

Scott Kowalchyk/CBS This year's Tribeca Film Festival will feature documentaries about Alicia Keys, Tierra Whack and the late Biz Markie. According to the festival website, All Up in the Biz, directed by Sacha Jenkins, highlights the mark Biz Markie made on hip-hop via a combination of rare clips, reenactments, playful animation and interviews with the likes of Nick Cannon, Fat Joe, Big Daddy Kane, Doug E Fresh, Dapper Dan and Darryl “DMC” McDaniel of Run-DMC. Sponsored by Indeed, the documentary, part of Expressions of Black Freedom programming, spans […]

(NEW YORK) -- Earlier this week, a federal judge in Colorado temporarily exempted a Catholic healthcare clinic from having to follow the state's recent ban on abortion pill "reversal" treatment. Gov. Jared Polis signed the ban as part of a series of bills Friday, becoming the first state in the U.S. to ban use of the treatment and furthering enshrining abortion access in Colorado. However, Bella Health + Wellness, an […]

(NEW YORK) -- New York City is among the most densely populated coastal communities in the world preparing for an inevitable rise in sea levels, which scientists said will amplify flooding crises from events such as thunderstorms, high tides and hurricanes. Sea levels in New York City are expected to rise between 8 inches and 30 inches by the 2050s and as much as 15 inches to 75 inches by […]

(LAS VEGAS) -- The Colorado River, one of the most important river systems in the country, is drying up at an alarming rate. The issues surrounding depleting water levels along the Colorado River basin have become as heated as the arid climate contributing to the moisture-sapping megadrought persisting in the region for decades. Despite an extremely wet winter that eased the effects of the longstanding drought, regional officials and environmental […]

ABC Stars who served as celebrity ambassadors for the now-discredited crypto exchange FTX could be on the hook legally for billions of dollars -- and it turns out Taylor Swift narrowly avoided the same fate. In the latest episode of The Scoop podcast, attorney Adam Moskowitz talks about how he's suing stars like Shaquille O'Neal, Tom Brady and Larry David in a class action lawsuit.  The suit contends that, by promoting FTX, the stars were were promoting the sale of unregistered securities, which […]

Roswell Records/RCA Records After a week of teasing, Foo Fighters have announced a new album. The record is titled But Here We Are, and drops June 2. You can listen to lead single "Rescued" now via digital outlets. But Here We Are is the follow-up to 2021's Medicine at Midnight, and, more notably, the first Foo Fighters record since the unexpected death of drummer Taylor Hawkins in March 2022. A […]

(NEW YORK) -- The settlement agreement between Fox and Dominion Voting Systems amounted to a warning shot for other media companies that may spread falsehoods, CEO of Dominion Voting Systems John Poulos said on Wednesday in an exclusive ABC News interview, his first since the settlement. "I think that it's a big step forward in democracy if our system can send a signal that if media companies lie -- whoever […]

Todd Owyoung/NBC Jonas Brothers stopped by NBC's The Tonight Show on Tuesday to tackle a new segment called "Musical Stairs." Noting that a stairwell at 30 Rock, where The Tonight Show is taped, has great acoustics, host Jimmy Fallon thought it would be fun to do some kind of musical performance there. So, on Tuesday, the Brothers -- featuring Joe Jonas and Nick Jonas trading lead vocals and Kevin Jonas playing acoustic guitar -- were joined by members of Fallon's house band The Roots for a stripped-down […]