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Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th US President, marking a remarkable return to the White House after previously holding the office as the 45th president.

President-elect Donald Trump is busy preparing to enter the White House for the second time. The GOP will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States during a ceremony at the Capitol Building in Washington, DC.

The best laid plans for Donald Trump‘s inauguration — the pomp and circumstance of the outdoor Capitol swearing in ceremony followed by a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue — have been stymied by Mother Nature.

“Macho Man” song was played at a Mar-a-Lago event and backing Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, they are reporting for duty — and here’s why.The disco group addressed the backlash on social media this week after it was revealed they will be one of the several performers at Trump’s “MAGA Victory” rally at Capital One Arena in downtown Washington on Sunday.“We know this wont (sic) make some of you happy to hear however we believe that music is to be performed without regard to politics,” Willis wrote in a Facebook post on Feb. 13.“Our song Y.M.C.A.

Angelique Jackson Tyler Perry’s “The Six Triple Eight” is not only his most-watched Netflix movie to date — with 52.4 million views over its first four weeks on the streamer — but the historical drama has also boosted viewership for his other films on the service. Netflix tells Variety that eyeballs on Perry’s four other Netflix films (2024’s “Mea Culpa,” 2022’s “A Jazzman’s Blues,” 2022’s “A Madea Homecoming” and 2020’s “A Fall from Grace”) increased by more than 45% since “The Six Triple Eight” began streaming on Dec.

Remember the so-called “wedding of the century” in Paris? The event a year or so back that purportedly cost a whopping $59 million?!

Sometimes the answer is right in front of you if you just know where to look.Case in point: As you walk down the north side of U Street in Northwest D.C., the space that houses D.C.’s newest gay bar features a small, unassuming storefront — blink, and you’ll miss it. A “Lucky Pollo Peruvian Chicken” logo consisting of LED lights, with a cartoon chicken wearing a leather cap and boots, serves as an “Easter egg” to those in the know — the rare external clue that more than what meets the eye lies beneath the exterior of the takeout chicken eatery.Once inside the restaurant, which, despite being under construction, is already equipped with an ATM and three tablets mounted to the wall, and where late-night revelers will eventually place their orders, your eyes inevitably drift to the right, almost by instinct, as you survey the space.

Gladiator II, Ridley Scott’s critically acclaimed follow-up to his Best Picture Oscar-winning Gladiator, is bound for streaming, set to premiere on Paramount+ in the U.S. and Canada on January 21.

at Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again Rally in Washington, DC, he’ll also mark nearly a decade of friendship with the president-elect. The news that Rock — born Robert James Ritchie — would be performing at the concert on the eve of Trump’s inauguration was not surprising. The “Cowboy” musician, 54, has been one of Trump’s most effusive and at times rabid supporters since the reality TV star-turned-politician won the presidential election in 2016.Before the Republican primaries had even kicked off that year, Rock voiced his support for the former “Apprentice” host, 78.

Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, is set to return to office as the 47th president. His inauguration ceremony in Washington on Monday will take place on the same Capitol steps where he first took the oath of office eight years ago.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor President Biden, on the eve of leaving office, is punting the issue of the U.S. government’s enforcement of the law requiring TikTok‘s Chinese parent to sell its stake in the app or face a nationwide ban to President-elect Donald Trump. TikTok is at risk of being effectively banned in the U.S.

Portishead‘s Beth Gibbons has announced her first North American solo tour which is set to commence this Spring.The 11-date run will Kick off at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennesee on the weekend of March 27. From there, Gibbons will make her way across the US with stops in cites such as Philadelphia, Washington D.C., New York, Boston, Toronto, Chicago and more before wrapping up the tour with a set at this year’s edition of Coachella.Bill Ryder Jones will be serving as opening support on all of Gibbons’ solo show dates.

selected Attorney General Ashley Moody to succeed U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, should Rubio be confirmed as Secretary of State.

TikTok CEO Shou Chew is scheduled attend Donald Trump‘s presidential inauguration on Monday, a source familiar with the plans confirmed.

CNN announced additional new White House team members to cover the Donald Trump administration.

Whoopi Goldberg has defended Carrie Underwood after the singer received backlash for agreeing to perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration.Trump will be sworn in as President in Washington, DC on January 20 2025, and Grammy-winning Underwood is set to take the stage as the musical guest. A spokesperson confirmed to Axios that she will be on the lineup performing ‘America the Beautiful’.“I love our country and am honored to have been asked to sing at the Inauguration and to be a small part of this historic event,” Underwood said in a statement Monday, according to the Associated Press.

Drake is suing Universal Music Group (UMG) for releasing Kendrick Lamar‘s diss track ‘Not Like Us‘ last year – where Drake and his peers were described as “certified paedophiles” who should “be registered and placed on neighbourhood watch”.The lawsuit, filed in a New York federal court today (January 15), called the release and promotion of the track, where Lamar alleged Drake “likes ‘em young”, an example of valuing “corporate greed over the safety and wellbeing of its artists”.As The Guardian reports, the lawsuit alleges that UMG “approved, published and launched a campaign to create a viral hit out of a rap track” that was “intended to convey the specific, unmistakable, and false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile, and to suggest that the public should resort to vigilante justice in response”.The suit also draws attention to the artwork for ‘Not Like Us’, which features a picture of Drake’s Toronto house with markers used to identify the homes of registered sex offenders. It then mentions a shooting which occurred outside the rapper’s house two days after the track was released, calling it “the 2024 equivalent of ‘Pizzagate'”.Lawyer Michael J Gottlieb is representing Drake in this case.

New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is the Big Easy’s premier annual celebration.Set to take place this year from April 24 through May 4 at the New Orleans Fairgrounds, this year’s two-week extravaganza is bringing in heavy hitters like grunge icons Pearl Jam, recent Rock Hall of Fame inductees Dave Matthews Band, country stalwart Luke Combs, ’90s mainstay Lenny Kravitz and an exciting Lil Wayne and The Roots collab.They’ll be joined on the genre-hopping lineup — the NOJaHF doesn’t exactly stick to “just jazz” — by Kacey Musgraves, Santana, John Fogerty, Burna Boy and HAIM.Personally, we’re most excited to see Joan Jett, Big Freedia, My Morning Jacket, Kamasi Washington and Better Than Ezra.In total, over 100 artists are on the bill; according to the festival poster “hundreds more” will also be performing.If you’d like to attend, single and multi-day passes can be picked up as soon as today.For more information, our team has everything you need to know and more about the 2025 New Orleans Jazz Festival below.A complete list of all single and multi-day New Orleans Jazz Festival weekend one ticket options can be found below.For those that can’t make it out to weekend one, here are all the weekend two single and multi-day passes you can grab as soon as today.Each and every year, the New Orleans Jazz Festival goes way above and beyond the call of duty when curating their expansive lineups.To give you an idea of all the exciting artists they’ve booked this year, take a look at their cheery poster here:A post shared by New Orleans Jazz Fest (@jazzfest)Related: Best festival outfits to stand out in a crowdQuite a few of this year’s biggest outdoor jamborees have already unveiled their lineup announcements.To make sure your

recently went on , from the Skinny Confidential, which is a beauty company, and spoke about the not-quite-pals she lost after her father was elected the first time nine years ago. (Please note .)“I definitely had some acquaintances who, you know, their politics diverged wildly from [those] of my [father],” she said during the conversation, per , adding that those people “took things personally or got overly emotional.”Ivanka Trump, who moved her family to Washington, DC, so that she and her husband could work for her dad in the White House during his first term, also noted that she was thankful for the friends who stuck by her, noting that politics can create divisions in families.

Harris Dickinson is opening up about working with Nicole Kidman!

SNUB: “Wicked” misses out on best film In what is probably the most surprising snub of the day, Jon M. Chu’s musical adaptation failed to earn a nomination for best film. It was likely pushed out by another musical — Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” — which, given its international connections, could have resonated more with U.K.