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Suspect arrested in Ohio warehouse mass shooting that killed 1, injured 5

Authorities confirmed that the suspect in the shooting at an Ohio warehouse that killed one person and wounded five was arrested Wednesday morning.  The suspect, Bruce Reginald Foster III, was arrested at a home in nearby Columbus on Wednesday morning. Foster was turned over to police in New Albany (about 15 miles northeast of downtown Columbus) where the shooting took place Tuesday night around 10:30 p.m. at the KDC/One cosmetics facility, where authorities say the suspect worked. (per CNN).

Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Deville said:  “Normally what we prefer to do is have people come out and surrender to us. He refused to come out. Our guys did have to make entry.”

New Albany Police Chief Greg Jones said during a Wednesday morning press conference the motive for the mass shooting was unknown, and there were no reports of any kind of confrontation or dispute that would have prompted the shooting.  Foster had been at work “for some time” before the shooting, which happened about 10:30 p.m., Jones said.

Police added that those injured had been taken to a local hospital, and family members of those involved were still being notified.  Jones said 150 workers were evacuated from the warehouse after the shooting, many of whom did not know what had happened until authorities ushered them into a neighboring, secure building.

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President Trump signs executive order to ban transgender women from women’s sports

President Trump signed an executive order to ban transgender girls and women from competing on sports teams that match their gender identity. The measure, according to White House officials, is called the “No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order.” Trump said from a podium at the White House, with dozens of women and girls standing behind him: “With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over.”  

Wednesday’s order — titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” — coincides with National Girls and Women in Sports Day, and will involve how his administration will interpret Title IX, the law best known for its role in pursuing gender equity in athletics and preventing sexual harassment on campuses.  The order mandates that Title IX, the federal law banning sex discrimination in schools, be interpreted as prohibiting the participation of transgender girls and women in female sports. Those not in compliance jeopardize any federal funding they receive and could face legal action, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt adding at Wednesday’s press briefing: “The policy of this administration is that there are only two sexes — male and female. Pretty simple.”

The White House official said transgender female athletes can compete on co-ed or male teams, and have argued that transgender girls and women athletes have biological advantages that are unfair and unsafe for other girls and women: “This is about preserving women’s sports for women, and that if you are not a woman, you should absolutely have opportunities in sports, but the burden should not always be on women to accommodate that.”

The executive order follows a Republican measure that passed the House last month, known as the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,” which would amend Title IX to recognize a person’s “sex” as “based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” Schools that allow “a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls” risk losing federal funding.

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The War And Treaty shares the single ‘Save Me’

The War And Treaty is dropping new music from their upcoming fifth studio album with the single “Save Me.”

The new track, from the duo of Michael and Tanya Trotter, is the sixth preview from their upcoming LP titled Plus One, a collection of 18 songs set for release on February 14th – Valentine’s Day.

Michael shared in an interview: “What you’re hearing on this record are the different styles of our love. Sometimes our love sounds like the sacredness of gospel. Sometimes it’s the passionate lovemaking of R&B. Sometimes it’s like the emergency of a soul song. Sometimes it’s the storytelling of a country song, three chords and the truth. Sometimes our love feels jazzy. And sometimes it’s the story of the blues, it’s heartbreak and pain. It’s all us.”

Tanya adds: “I was very mindful of this, once we started getting recognition. My mother was a first-generation American from Panama. Michael served his country. For us to be able to do this and be acknowledged by these longstanding organizations, who were not welcoming to people that look like us, is absolutely astonishing. I’m totally in the moment, understanding what is happening. Tomorrow is not promised. We have children, and we want to leave this legacy for them.” 

Listen to “Save Me” – here.
Plus One is available to pre-order and pre-save – HERE.

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Kristen Bell returning to host the 2025 Screen Awards Guild Awards

Kristen Bell will host the 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Feb. 23, streaming live (8 p.m. ET/ 5 PT) from the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles on Netflix.

The Screen Actors Guild posted on social media: “Everybody wants this 🤩 Announcing the 31st Annual SAG Awards Host, Kristen Bell. Join us on February 23, 2025 8PM ET / 5PM PT, streaming live on Netflix. ✨ #SAGAwards”

Bell, who last hosted the SAG Awards in 2018, said in a statement issued by the guild: “Thrilled to be hosting the SAG Awards again this year. I’m honored to be asked back and can’t wait to share the evening with my fellow actors, doing what we do best … celebrating ourselves.🙂

For the full list of SAG Award nominees, head HERE.

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Hulu renews ‘Tell Me Lies’ for Season 3

Hulu has renewed the hit series Tell Me Lies for a third season, sharing on social media“couldn’t keep you waiting any longer. #tellmelies is returning for season 3 on @hulu.”

Showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer confirmed the news on her Instagram, including a screenshot of a media report about the renewal, along with a TikTok video of an iconic scene from The Godfather with Al Pacino saying, “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in,” suggesting Oppenheimer will be back to write more scripts for Season 3.

Inspired by Carola Lovering’s 2018 novel, the show follows the relationship of Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen DeMarco (Jackson White) and how it impacts everyone around them over the course of eight years. The cast also includes Cat Missal, Spencer House, Sonia Mena, Branden Cook, Alicia Crowder and Tom Ellis.

“Tell Me Lies” debuted in 2022, with Season 2 premiering in September of this year and wrapping its run on Oct. 16. No return date or episode count for Season 3 have been announced yet.

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Pearl Jam, Kacey Musgraves, Lil Wayne w/ The Roots set for 2025 New Orleans Jazz Fest

The 2025 New Orleans Jazz & Hertiage Festival announced its music lineup for 2025, with Pearl Jam, Kacey Musgraves, Lil Wayne with the Roots, Luke Combs, and Dave Matthews Band among this year’s headliners.

This year’s festival is set to take place from April 24 to May 4 at the Fair Grounds, with additional artists set to perform including: Haim, Lenny Kravitz, Santana, John Fogerty, Burna Boy, Cage the Elephant, and My Morning Jacket.

The festival is split into two four-day-long weekends, with the first weekend (April 24-27) featuring Dave Matthews Band, Lil Wayne & the Roots, Musgraves, Fogerty, Burna Boy, Haim, Harry Connick Jr., Goose, Gladys Knight, Cheap Trick, Babyface, Diana Krall, Irma Thomas, the Revivalists, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, PJ Morton, Youssou N’Dour, and Big Freedia, with dozens more.

The May 1-4 weekend will feature headliners Pearl Jam, Luke Combs, Kravitz, Santana, Cage the Elephant, Laufey, Bryson Tiller, Patti LaBelle, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, My Morning Jacket, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Banda MS, Kamasi Washington, the Wailers featuring Julian Marley, Ledisi Sings Nina, Galactic featuring Jelly Joseph, the Radiators, Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives, Morris Day and the Time, Dumpstaphunk, and many more.

Head to the New Orleans Jazz & Hertiage Festival website for ticket information.

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China retaliates against Trump with new tariffs on U.S. products

China struck back at the United States on Tuesday by announcing tariffs on select American goods, as they rolled out a series of retaliatory measures to counteract the 10% U.S. tariffs on all Chinese goods that went into effect on Tuesday.

The move came as the deadline passed for Trump’s 10% tariffs on Chinese goods imported into the United States. In the days since Trump’s announcement, China had said the tariffs on their exports amounted to a serious violation of World Trade Organization rules, with officials adding that the tariffs were “of a bad nature.” The Beijing’s commerce officials said Tuesday that The U.S. tariffs were “typical unilateralism and trade protectionism. The U.S. practice seriously undermines the rules-based multilateral trading system, undermines the foundation of economic and trade cooperation between China and the United States and disrupts the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain.”

China announced a series of measures including its own levies of 10% to 15% on some U.S. products, with some U.S. goods imported into China subject to tariffs of up to 15%. Chinese officials said they would on Feb. 10 impose a 15% tariff on U.S. coal and liquefied natural gas, along with a 10% tariff on other products, including crude oil, agricultural machinery and pickup trucks. The Chinese announcement came minutes after the U.S. tariff took effect at 12:01 a.m. ET.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said earlier in the week that Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to talk in “the next couple days,” though it was unclear whether that discussion would happen prior to the Chinese tariffs going into effect next week.

Trump on Feb. 1 announced tariffs against the United States’ three largest trading partners — China, Mexico, and Canada — saying he would put in place 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, along with 10% tariffs on those from China. Trump and the leaders of Canada and Mexico announced on Monday that Trump’s administration had paused plans for both North American trading partners for a month.

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FBI agents file suit to block DOJ from providing list of employees who investigated Jan. 6 cases

An anonymous group of FBI agents who assisted on the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol have filed a lawsuit in an effort to block the Justice Department’s plans to review the FBI’s workforce and scrutinize agents who may have worked on the sensitive investigations. The nine agents are suing the Justice Department and its interim head, Acting Attorney General James McHenry, in a class action lawsuit on behalf of all affected FBI agents. They are asking a federal judge to prevent the public release of the names of the agents who could face scrutiny.

According to a memo reviewed by CBS News, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll to compile a list of all current and former FBI employees who were assigned “at any time” to the Jan. 6 investigation “to determine whether any additional personnel actions are necessary.”

More than 1,000 FBI agents across the country on Sunday were asked to complete questionnaires about their involvement in the Jan. 6 and Trump probes as part of a Justice Department evaluation of the workforce.   There is no indication yet about what actions the Justice Department may take against anyone on the compiled lists and so far, a handful of senior career officials have been fired, while rank-and-file agents remain on the job.

According to the class-action lawsuit, filed Tuesday afternoon in D.C. federal court: “Plaintiffs are employees of the FBI who worked on Jan. 6 and/or Mar-a-Lago cases, and who have been informed that they are likely to be terminated in the very near future (the week of February 3-9, 2025) for such activity. They intend to represent a class of at least 6,000 current and former FBI agents and employees who participated in some manner in the investigation and prosecution of crimes and abuses of power by Donald Trump, or by those acting at his behest.”

The lawsuit seeks to enjoin the DOJ from “aggregation, storage, reporting, publication or dissemination of any list or compilation of information that would identify FBI agents and other personnel, and tie them directly to Jan. 6 and Mar-a-Lago case activities,” referring to the Capitol attack and the probe into President Trump’s retention of classified documents after leaving the White House in 2021.

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Beyoncé reveals dates for newly-announced ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour

Beyoncé has shared the dates for her highly anticipated Cowboy Carter Tour, coming just after her record-breaking night at the 2025 Grammys.

Beyoncé announced the tour dates on Instagram, writing, “SHE COMING.”  The 22-stop tour kicks off April 28 with four nights in Los Angeles, with other stops including Chicago and New Jersey before she heads to London for four nights, followed by Paris. She then returns to the U.S. for shows in Houston, Washington, D.C. (with her first of two nights landing on July 4 for an Independence Day event), and Atlanta

Beyoncé was already the most-awarded Grammy artist in history (which she set in 2023 with her album Renaissance), and this past Sunday extended her record after winning three awards, bringing her total number of Grammy wins to 35. The superstar artist finally won the coveted ‘Album of the Year’ Grammy for Cowboy Carter, after having previously been nominated for he albums I Am…Sasha Fierce, Beyoncé, Lemonade and Renaissance.. Beyoncé also became the first Black woman to win the best country album Grammy for Cowboy Carter at this year’s ceremony.

Tickets go on sale to the general public Feb. 14 at 12 p.m. The BeyHive presale begins Feb. 11 at 12 p.m., with the artist presale on Feb. 13 at 12 p.m.. Fans can sign up for presale information and find all tour information on Beyoncé’s official website.

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Beyoncé reveals dates for newly-announced ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour

Beyoncé has shared the dates for her highly anticipated Cowboy Carter Tour, coming just after her record-breaking night at the 2025 Grammys.

Beyoncé announced the tour dates on Instagram, writing, “SHE COMING.”  The 22-stop tour kicks off April 28 with four nights in Los Angeles, with other stops including Chicago and New Jersey before she heads to London for four nights, followed by Paris. She then returns to the U.S. for shows in Houston, Washington, D.C. (with her first of two nights landing on July 4 for an Independence Day event), and Atlanta

Beyoncé was already the most-awarded Grammy artist in history (which she set in 2023 with her album Renaissance), and this past Sunday extended her record after winning three awards, bringing her total number of Grammy wins to 35. The superstar artist finally won the coveted ‘Album of the Year’ Grammy for Cowboy Carter, after having previously been nominated for he albums I Am…Sasha Fierce, Beyoncé, Lemonade and Renaissance.. Beyoncé also became the first Black woman to win the best country album Grammy for Cowboy Carter at this year’s ceremony.

Tickets go on sale to the general public Feb. 14 at 12 p.m. The BeyHive presale begins Feb. 11 at 12 p.m., with the artist presale on Feb. 13 at 12 p.m.. Fans can sign up for presale information and find all tour information on Beyoncé’s official website.

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