Legendary Rocker, 66, Countersues Former Bandmate After Onstage AssaultNew Foto - Legendary Rocker, 66, Countersues Former Bandmate After Onstage Assault

Legendary Rocker, 66, Countersues Former Bandmate After Onstage Assaultoriginally appeared onParade. Jane's AddictionfrontmanPerry Farrellis taking legal action after former bandmateDave Navarrosued him following their onstage fight in September 2024. According to court documents, Farrell is countersuing Navarro for assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress and breach of contract. "As a founding member and creative force behind Jane's Addiction, Perry Farrell has always prioritized the band's legacy and its supporters, which is why the events of September 13th, 2024 in Boston and the resulting fallout was so devastating," Farrell's lawyer said in a statement. "Without warning or consultation and using Perry as a scapegoat, Dave Navarro and the other band members took it upon themselves to abruptly cancel the remaining tour dates—violating contracts and disregarding all professional obligations." "Perry was blindsided by not being allowed to vote and be heard, leaving him unable to plead his case to continue the tour for their fans. If that was not harmful enough, Dave Navarro then intentionally and publicly blamed Perry for the canceled tour dates effectively destroying Perry's reputation and causing him irreparable harm." the statement continued. "Despite this continued bullying perpetuated by Navarro, Perry's dedication to Jane's Addiction and the preservation of its positive impact on the music industry remains unshaken. He is actively exploring ways to address the situation and ensure accountability." Farrell's lawyer concluded. The statement and countersuit follows shortly after news broke thatNavarro was suing Farrell for $10 million following the physical altercation during a Jane's Addiction show last year. Navarro, 58, reportedly clashed with Farrell, 66, on stage during a performance at Boston's Leader Bank Pavilion. According to the complaint, the frontman punched and shoved Navarro in front of the crowd in a "brutal and unprovoked" clash, before the two were separated by bandmateEric Averyand crew members. In the aftermath of the incident, the band canceled the rest of their tour — the first in 14 years to feature all original members. Video of the incident has gone viral online, with witnessestaking to social mediato post multiple angles of the altercation. Legendary Rocker, 66, Countersues Former Bandmate After Onstage Assaultfirst appeared on Parade on Jul 17, 2025 This story was originally reported byParadeon Jul 17, 2025, where it first appeared.

Legendary Rocker, 66, Countersues Former Bandmate After Onstage Assault

Legendary Rocker, 66, Countersues Former Bandmate After Onstage Assault Legendary Rocker, 66, Countersues Former Bandmate After Onstage Assa...
Jay-Z and Beyoncé Will Compete Against Each Other at 2025 Emmy AwardsNew Foto - Jay-Z and Beyoncé Will Compete Against Each Other at 2025 Emmy Awards

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic (2) Beyoncé and Jay-Z will face off at the 2025 Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) category Beyoncé was nominated for Netflix's Christmas Game Day halftime show and Jay-Z was recognized for his role in the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show The 2025 Emmy Awards take place on Sept. 14 Jay-ZandBeyoncéare going head-to-head at this awards show — and it's not the Grammys. The "Crazy in Love" singers will face off at the2025 Emmy Awards with respective nominationsin the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) category. Beyoncé, 43, was nominated for herhalftime performance during the Netflix's Christmas Game Daybetween the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans, which is aptly listed as the Beyoncé Bowl. The 55-year-old music mogul —who makes the final decision on the Super Bowl Halftime performer with Roc Nationthrough a partnership with the NFL — received a nod for theApple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime ShowStarringKendrick Lamar. The 2025 Oscars,SNL50: The Anniversary Specialand theSNL50: The Homecoming Concertare also nominated in the same category. Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The Beyoncé Bowl, which aired on Dec. 25, 2024, marked the first time the singer performed songs from herGrammy-winning albumCowboy Carterlive. She brought out special guestsShaboozeyfor "Sweet Honey Buckiin" andPost Malonefor "Levii's Jeans" throughout the set, which also included "Blackbiird," "16 Carriages" and "Ya Ya." Brooke Sutton/Getty Beyoncé wrapped up the epic set with "Texas Hold 'Em" and was joined by daughterBlue Ivy. The mother-of-three even snuck in a lyric change paying tribute to the 13-year-old. "Then spin me in the middle, Blue, I can't read your mind," she said. Jay-Z oversaw the production forLamar's Easter-egg packed halftime performanceat Caesars Superdome on Feb. 9.SZA,Samuel L. Jackson,Serena Williamsand producerMustardmade appearances throughout the 13-minute show. Lamar, 38, performed "Squabble Up," "Peekaboo," "Luther," and "TV Off" throughout the set, along with hisGrammy-winning diss track "Not Like Us." Lamar's show had 133.5 million viewers, making it the most-viewed halftime show ever. Cindy Ord/Getty The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! The 2025 Emmy Awards take place on Sunday, Sept. 14 on CBS and will be available to stream on Paramount+. Read the original article onPeople

Jay-Z and Beyoncé Will Compete Against Each Other at 2025 Emmy Awards

Jay-Z and Beyoncé Will Compete Against Each Other at 2025 Emmy Awards Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic (2) Beyoncé and Jay-Z will face off at ...
Prince Harry retraces Diana's footsteps by walking through a land mine field in Angola for charityNew Foto - Prince Harry retraces Diana's footsteps by walking through a land mine field in Angola for charity

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) —Prince Harryfollowed in his late mother's footsteps on Wednesday by wearing a flak jacket and walking down a path in an active land mine field in Angola to raise awareness for a charity's work clearing explosives from old warzones. TheDuke of Sussexis in the southern African country with the Halo Trust organization, the same groupPrincess Dianaworked with when she went to Angola in January 1997, seven months before she was killed in a car crash in Paris. Diana's advocacy and the images of her walking through a minefield helped mobilize support for a land mine ban treaty that was ratified later that year. Harry walked through a land mine field near a village in Cuito Cuanavale in southern Angola, according to Halo Trust. It's not the first time he has retraced his mother's steps after traveling to Angola fora similar awareness campaignin 2019. The land mines across Angola were left behind from its 27-year civil war from 1975 to 2002. The Halo Trust says at least 60,000 people have been killed or injured by land mines since 2008. It says it has located and destroyed over 120,000 land mines and 100,000 other explosive devices in Angola since it started work in the country in 1994, but 1,000 minefields still need to be cleared. ___ More AP news on the British royals:https://apnews.com/hub/royalty

Prince Harry retraces Diana's footsteps by walking through a land mine field in Angola for charity

Prince Harry retraces Diana's footsteps by walking through a land mine field in Angola for charity CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) —Prince ...
Foreign aid food will be destroyed after Trump's USAID cuts. Here's whyNew Foto - Foreign aid food will be destroyed after Trump's USAID cuts. Here's why

Nearly 500 metric tons of food intended for foreign aid are set to expire this month after the Trump administration dismantled theU.S. Agency for International Development, according to multiple media reports. USAID was one of the first agencies thatElon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency targeted in theradical downsizing of the federal workforce.The agency was the world's biggest foreign aid agency. The State Department, which now oversees whats left of USAID, said the cuts aren't what caused the food to expire. ButReutersandThe Atlantichave reported that nearly 500 metric tons of high-energy biscuits used to fight hunger in emergencies are going to expire in July while in a warehouse in Dubai, a result of administrative changes that disrupted the processes for food to reach its destinations abroad. 'We have to try lifting ourselves':USAID workers fired months ago are still scrambling for jobs The biscuits will be destroyed once they expire, possibly by incineration, Reuters and the Atlantic reported. Secretary of StateMarco Rubiovowed in May that the U.S. would still be the world's biggest provider of food assistance while moving policies closer to national interests. In answering a question during a House Appropriations Committee meeting, he saidfood aid would not go to waste. The State Department did not comment specifically on the expiring biscuits in Dubai when asked by USA TODAY, but told Reuters they were purchased under the Biden administration "as a contingency beyond projections," resulting in their expiration. A spokesperson said that the policy is not to distribute food that is nearing its shelf life, and that standard protocol is to destroy it. The nearly 500 metric tons of expiring biscuits in Dubai are part of more than 60,000 metric tons of food stored in U.S. government warehouses around the world, according to Reuters. More than 600 metric tons of the biscuits, which are high in calories and vitamins tohelp people survive emergencies,were recently approved to go to Syria, Bangladesh and Myanmar, according to Reuters. USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, was originally a standalone agency and the world's largest foreign aid agency. As part of Trump's efforts to downsize the federal government, he set out to dismantle the agency and it has since been moved under the State Department. The archived website states the agency's mission is to "promote and demonstrate democratic values abroad, and advance a free, peaceful, and prosperous world." On July 1, the defunct agency officially stopped issuing foreign aid, Rubio said in a statement. "Moving forward, our assistance will be targeted and time limited. We will favor those nations that have demonstrated both the ability and willingness to help themselves and will target our resources to areas where they can have a multiplier effect and catalyze durable private sector, including American companies, and global investment," Rubio's"Making Foreign Aid Great Again," statement read. Contributing: Eric Lagatta,Terry Collins, USA TODAY Network Kinsey Crowley is the Trump Connect reporter for the USA TODAY Network. Reach her at kcrowley@gannett.com. Follow her on X and TikTok @kinseycrowley or Bluesky at @kinseycrowley.bsky.social. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Is the Trump administration burning food? What to know in USAID halt

Foreign aid food will be destroyed after Trump's USAID cuts. Here's why

Foreign aid food will be destroyed after Trump's USAID cuts. Here's why Nearly 500 metric tons of food intended for foreign aid are ...
Camp Mystic leader may not have seen urgent alert before Texas flood, family spokesman saysNew Foto - Camp Mystic leader may not have seen urgent alert before Texas flood, family spokesman says

The leader of Camp Mystic had been tracking the weather beforethe deadly Texas floods, but it is now unclear whether he saw an urgent warning from the National Weather Service that had triggered an emergency alert to phones in the area, a spokesman for camp's operators said Wednesday. Richard "Dick" Eastland, the owner of Camp Mystic, began taking action after more than 2 inches of rain had fallen in the area along the Guadalupe River, said Jeff Carr, a spokesman for the family and the camp. He said Eastland had a "home weather station" and was monitoring the rain on July 4. But after initially portraying to the media this week that Eastland got the weather alerts about a flash flood, Carr told The Associated Press that critical moment in the timeline of the tragedy isn't as clear as the family and staff first thought. No one in the family or camp staff, Carr said, could now say whether Eastland got the alert at 1:14 a.m. "It was assumed that just because he had a cellphone on and shortly after that alert, he was calling his family on the walkie-talkies saying, 'Hey, we got two inches in the last hour. We need to get the canoes up. We got things to do,' " Carr said. The new account by the family comes as Camp Mystic staff has come under scrutiny of their actions, what preventive measures were taken and the camp's emergency plan leading up to a during the catastrophic flood that has killed at least 132 people. The flash-flood warning that the National Weather Service issued at 1:14 a.m. on July 4 for Kerr County triggered an emergency alerts to broadcast outlets, weather radios and mobile phones. It warned of "a dangerous and life-threatening situation." The weather service extended the warning at 3:35 a.m. and escalated it to flash-flood emergency at 4:03 a.m. Eastland died while trying to rescue girls and was found in his Tahoe that was swept away by the floodwaters, Carr said. Even without a storm, the cellphone coverage at Camp Mystic is spotty at best, so campers and staff turn on their Wi-Fi, Carr said. He called ridiculous criticism that Eastland waited too long before beginning to evacuate the campers, which he said appears to have begun sometime between 2 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. "Communication was a huge deficiency," Carr said. "This community was hamstrung, nobody could communicate. The first responder, the first rescue personnel that showed up was a game warden." According to Carr, Eastland and others started evacuating girls from cabins nearest the overflowing river and moved them to the camp's two-story recreation hall. Of the 10 cabins closest to the river, the recreation hall is the furthest at 865 feet (264 meters) with the closest cabin about 315 feet (96 meters), according to an Associated Press analysis of aerial imagery. To reach Senior Hill, which was on higher ground , they would have had to cross an overflowing creek, Carr said. At times the young campers were climbing hills in bare feet, he said. Some of the camp's buildings — which flooded — were in what the Federal Emergency Management Agency considered a 100-year flood plain. But in response to an appeal, FEMA in 2013amended the county's flood map to remove 15 of the camp's buildings from the hazard area. Carr said there were "legitimate" reasons for filing appeals and suggested that the maps may not always be accurate. Just before daybreak on the Fourth of July,destructive, fast-moving watersrose 26 feet (8 meters) on the Guadalupe River, washing away homes and vehicles. Crews in helicopters, boats and drones have been searching for victims. Officials say97 people in the Kerrville areamay still be missing. ___ Associated Press writer Christopher Keller contributed to this report from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Camp Mystic leader may not have seen urgent alert before Texas flood, family spokesman says

Camp Mystic leader may not have seen urgent alert before Texas flood, family spokesman says The leader of Camp Mystic had been tracking the ...
Over 900 former DOJ employees urge Senate to reject Bove appeals court nominationNew Foto - Over 900 former DOJ employees urge Senate to reject Bove appeals court nomination

More than 900 former Justice Department employees sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday urging lawmakers to vote down the nomination of Emil Bove, the controversial top DOJ official who formerly served as President Donald Trump's defense attorney, to a seat on the powerful Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. "We are all alarmed by DOJ leadership's recent deviations from constitutional principles and institutional guardrails. We also share a grave concern over the senseless attacks on the dedicated career employees who are the backbone of the Department," the employees wrote in their letter. "Emil Bove has been a leader in this assault." The letter was organized by Justice Connection, a group that has sought to provide legal support for DOJ employees fired or otherwise targeted by the Trump administration. It comes just one day before Bove's nomination is set to be voted out of the Judiciary Committee on Thursday, where Republican members appear to be unanimous in their approval of him being confirmed for the lifetime appointment on the appeals court that oversees districts in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Bove has repeatedly drawn criticism from Democrats in the opening six months of Trump's presidency for cultivating a reputation as one of President Trump's chief enforcers at DOJ. He has fired scores of one-time career officials at Main Justice and the FBI, including prosecutors who worked on former special counsel Jack Smith's investigations of Trump as well as the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. Bove also was at the center of the department's controversial decision to drop the federal corruption case against New York Democratic Mayor Eric Adams, which led to the resignations of multiple prosecutors who argued the effort appeared to be a 'quid pro quo' to secure Adams' cooperation with the Trump administration's immigration enforcement actions. Adams and Bove have both denied any such 'quid pro quo' arrangement, but in agreeing to drop the charges the federal judge overseeing Adams' case dinged the Justice Department writing, "Everything here smacks of a bargain." "Mr. Bove's trampling over institutional norms in this case, and in others, sent shockwaves through the ranks -- cratering morale, triggering mass departures, and eroding the effectiveness of DOJ's vital work," the more than 900 prosecutors wrote of Bove's actions. "Prosecutorial authority carries profound consequences on individuals' lives and the integrity of our public institutions; wielding it without impartiality is a flagrant abuse of that power." More recently, however, Bove's actions have come under scruitny as the subject of a whistleblower complaint by fired DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni, who has accused Bove and other top DOJ officials of repeatedly discussing how they could potentially disobey court orders that seek to restrict the Trump Administration's immigration actions. Reuveni's complaint alleged that in one meeting Bove suggested saying 'f--- you' to courts who may try to block deportations under the 'Alien Enemies Act.' During his confirmation hearing, Bove disputed much of Reuveni's complaint -- though he only said he could "not recall" using such an expletive to describe their response to a court order. "Each one of the undersigned would testify, under oath, that we have never -- and would never -- tell a Justice Department attorney to consider defying a court order," the letter said. "Moreover, the Justice Department's later defiance of judicial mandates in the cases where Mr. Bove previewed doing so further suggests that disregarding court orders was Mr. Bove's intent all along." Republicans on the committee rushed to Bove's defense in the wake of the whistleblower complaint, and accused Reuveni of partnering with Democrats in seeking to tank Bove's nomination by filing it with the committee just 24 hours before he was set to appear publicly before them. Responding to the letter Wednesday, DOJ official Brian Nieves attacked Justice Connection as a "political hit squad masquerading as a support network" and said "they certainly don't speak for DOJ." "They speak for a bitter faction angry they no longer call the shots," said Nieves, a deputy chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. "Their attacks on Emil Bove are dishonest, coordinated, and disgraceful."

Over 900 former DOJ employees urge Senate to reject Bove appeals court nomination

Over 900 former DOJ employees urge Senate to reject Bove appeals court nomination More than 900 former Justice Department employees sent a l...

 

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