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President Donald Trump‘s speech to Congress started off with some protesting.

(Updated with more details) Democrats may have been hushed in their response so far to Donald Trump’s second administration, but for a brief turn tonight at least one Democrat was not so silent as the 47th President addressed a joint session of Congress.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer President Trump told Congress Tuesday he expects “a little disturbance” as he broadens his trade war, less than a day after imposing 25% tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico. The president vowed to impose “reciprocal tariffs” on countries around the globe starting on April 2. “Whatever they tariff us, we tariff them,” he said.

Jack Dunn Al Green, a U.S. representative from Texas’ 9th congressional district, was removed from President Trump’s Tuesday night joint session of Congress after repeatedly interrupting the president’s speech.

Alanna Nash Editor’s note: Few journalists ever got to meet Carl Dean, the husband of Dolly Parton, who died Monday at age 82. He was renowned for his reclusiveness, developing a legend — probably in spite of himself — as perhaps the least-sighted but most-speculated-about spouse of any enduring superstar in the last half-century of pop culture. Even within the music industry, few had ever encountered Dean, who famously went to a BMI dinner early in Parton’s career and hated it so much he made her vow he’d never have to attend such a function with her again. But he was not Bigfoot but a real person, despite an invisibility that made him seem more myth than man to Parton’s curious public. One journalist who did meet him was veteran country music journalist Alanna Nash, who got a rare invitation into the home of the singer and her husband in the late ‘70s. Here, the author of the Colonel Tom Parker biography “The Colonel” recalls encountering an initially suspicious, eventually chatty Dean, along with getting some insight into his playful personality from one of his high school friends… In the winter of 1976-77, Country Music magazine assigned me to do a cover story on Dolly Parton for the May 1977 issue.

English Teacher have looked back on how life has changed for them since their Mercury Prize win, and shared that they would love to collaborate with Fontaines D.C.Read the interview below, or watch it in full via the video above.The Leeds band spoke to NME while at the BRIT Awards 2025 this weekend. They were nominated in the Best New Artist category alongside Ezra Collective, Myles Smith, Rachel Chinouriri and The Last Dinner Party – with the latter ultimately taking home the trophy.On the red carpet, the band looked back at how life has changed for them since they won the prestigious Mercury Prize award in 2024 – beating off competition from Beth Gibbons, CMAT, Charli XCX and more.“Life has changed in so many ways.

Brand New have announced their return with details of their first string of live shows since 2017 – see the dates below.The Long Island band have been largely inactive since frontman Jesse Lacey was accused of sexual misconduct involving a minor in 2017, with their UK tour at the time cancelled and their music removed from Spotify ‘Wrapped’ lists after two more women came forward with additional allegations.They did play a secret and intimate reunion show in December last year in Nashville’s Eastside Bowl. The performance saw the band playing new songs, prompting speculation to grow that a full-blown reunion could be on the cards for 2025.Now, the band have launched their own website, where fans can register to buy tickets for one of three shows they will be playing at the end of this month.The first show will take place in The Bomb Factory in Dallas, Texas on March 26, followed two days later by the Megacorp Pavilion in Newport, Kentucky.

Drake has settled his payola dispute against iHeartMedia for promoting Kendrick Lamar‘s ‘Not Like Us’.In November last year, Drake filed a legal dispute against Universal Music Group (UMG) and iHeartMedia over allegations that the latter had received “covert payments” from UMG to play Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ in an effort to inflate its numbers.Now, it has been reported that Drake has reached a private settlement with iHeartMedia for the legal dispute. According to a Texas court filing obtained by Rolling Stone, Drake and iHeartMedia have “reached an amicable resolution of the dispute to the satisfaction of both sides”.A rep for iHeartMedia said in a statement to Rolling Stone: “In exchange for documents that showed iHeart did nothing wrong, Drake agreed to drop his petition.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic The same appealingly anarchic, punk-scented strain of indie comedy that made cult favorites of “Repo Man” and the more recent “Dinner in America” also marks territory for “Rats!” Maxwell Nalevansky and Carl Fry’s debut feature is a sustained goof whose nonsensical progress scores higher for energy and attitude than wit, let alone substance. Truth to tell, the humor here is frequently at a pretty crass level that might induce mere eye-rolls if less deftly handled. But the writer-director duo lend it all a certain deadpan panache that’s diverting even when the material is less than inspired.

Alanis Morissette just announced an eight-show Las Vegas residency set to take place at the 4,100-seat Colosseum at Caesars Palace from October 15 through Nov. 2.At all concerts, the seven-time Grammy winner will likely deliver classic tracks from 1995’s “Jagged Little Pill,” 1998’s “Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie” and more.

The Dublin International Film Festival came to an end at the weekend after one of its most varied programs yet. Guests visiting the event included deep-dive documentary-maker Alexandre O. Philippe, attending with his Texas Chain Saw Massacre meditation Chain Reactions; director Jason Buxton, there with his acclaimed Ben Foster-starring thriller Sharp Corner, soon to be released by Vertical; Albert Serra, supporting his surprise San Sebastian winner Afternoons of Solitude; Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, honored by a curated retrospective; and British ’60s pop-culture icon Twiggy, subject of Sadie Frost’s film of the same name. From closer to home, director Lorcan Finnegan and writer Thomas Martin brought their cult Cannes hit The Surfer, and the UK’s Polly Steele came with Four Letters of Love starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan.

Willie Nelson just announced he’s bringing his annual ‘Fourth of July Picnic’ to Texas’ capital city along with Bob Dylan, The Avett Brothers, The Mavericks, Asleep at the Wheel and Tami Neilson.The festivities will go down at the Germania Insurance Amphitheater starting at 3:30 p.m.“I’m 92 years old and I’ll be there so you have no excuse,” Nelson said in a statement. “I look forward to bringing back my annual 4th of July Picnic to the city I love and sharing this special event with all my Austin fans.”In the event you have a legitimate excuse and can’t make it to the Lone Star State this July 4, there will be plenty of other opportunities to catch the durable Red Headed Stranger live this year.Starting May 13, Nelson, Dylan and a score of other iconic acts like Billy Strings, Wilco, Sheryl Crow and more will travel all over the country on their tenth annual ‘Outlaw Music Festival Tour.’For those in the Tri-state area, that includes stops at Long Island’s Jones Beach Theater on Friday, Aug. 1.

Blake Shelton is hitting the road with his Friends & Heroes Tour this year.

Bring Me The Horizon have announced their 2025 North America ‘Ascension’ arena tour set to kick off this autumn.The Sheffield metal pioneers will be embarking on their newly announced North American arena tour with a gig on September 23 at the Lenovo Center in Raleigh, NC. From there, the band will make stops in cities such as Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix, and more.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 3 of “The White Lotus,” now streaming on Max. For a tight-knit group of women like Kate (Leslie Bibb), Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) and Laurie (Carrie Coon), taking a trip to Thailand is the perfect opportunity to escape reality for a little while and unplug. But in classic Mike White and “The White Lotus” fashion, the world around them always seeps its way back into the interpersonal dynamics of the characters. It’s in the “in-between spaces” of the seemingly meaningless conversations, Bibb tells Variety, that the true comparisons and insecurities arise among these three long-time friends.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic If at first you don’t succeed — and if, in fact, at first you misfire badly enough that it starts a national conversation — try, try again. After a healthy seven-month interval, in this case. Since singing what turned out to be a notorious version of the National Anthem at a high-profile ballgame last July, country singer Ingrid Andress has stayed quietly out of sight, offering an apology and then refraining from subsequent statements or appearances.

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Trae Crowder on Friday announced that his sophomore stand-up special, Trash Daddy, will premiere on YouTube via 800 Pound Gorilla on March 13.

substance. Dennis Quaid, who starred in the 2025 Oscar-nominated film “The Substance” with Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, is confident that Moore will win big at the Academy Awards on Sunday. “I knew it like my second day working on that movie.

Obergefell v. Hodges, in which the court struck down all existing state-level same-sex marriage bans.

Pilar Del Rey, a veteran character actor who appeared with James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor in Giant and guested on dozens of classic TV series, died February 23 of natural causes in Los Angeles. She was 95. A family spokesperson confirmed the news to Deadline.

Holly Willoughby has been turning heads with her stylish wardrobe on Celebrity Bear Hunt, which despite being filmed in the Costa Rica jungle last year, managed to nail plenty of this spring's top trends. One standout piece that's got fans talking is Holly's chic brown suede mini skirt with fringe details.