Alan Jackson receives CMAs lifetime achievement award, thanks wife of 42 years: 'Lived the American dream'
Alan Jackson received the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 CMAs. Carrie Underwood, Dierks Bentley, Jon Pardi, and Lainey Wilson paid tribute to Jackson during the show.
foxnews.comCMA Awards: Luke Bryan, Peyton Manning team up as hosts, Carrie Underwood to perform and what else to know
The CMA Awards are Wednesday night, with Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning hosting, and some great performers, including Kelly Clarkson. Here's everything you need to know about the CMAs.
foxnews.comWoman says Weinstein sexually assaulted her in 1991 and 2008
A woman testified Monday that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her in a hotel room during the Toronto Film Festival in 1991, then did it again when she went to confront him in the same hotel during the same festival 17 years later. Kelly Sipherd told a Los Angeles jury that she was a 24-year-old aspiring actor at the 1991 festival and didn't know who Weinstein was before she met him at a party.
news.yahoo.comJimmy Buffett looks at 50 years after his 1st Key West gig
A profane phone call and Jimmy Buffett’s inability to keep his daily planner organized 50 years ago in Miami set in motion events that changed the music world. Those events made the singer-songwriter one of the most beloved entertainers in America. And one of the wealthiest, with a net worth around $600 million.
GOP donor pays $1M to deploy South Dakota national guard
In a story June 30, 2021, about a billionaire Republican donor who is paying $1 million to help defray the cost of deploying the South Dakota National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of the spokesman for South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem.
No cigar: Interstellar object is cookie-shaped planet shard
This 2018 illustration provided by William Hartmann and Michael Belton shows a depiction of the Oumuamua interstellar object as a pancake-shaped disk. A study published in March 2021 says the mystery object is likely a remnant of a Pluto-like world and shaped like a cookie. A new study says the mystery object is likely a remnant of a Pluto-like world and shaped like a cookie. Those are the rough proportions of one wafer of an Oreo cookie, Desch noted. By the time the object starts leaving our solar system around 2040, the width-to-thickness ratio will have dropped to 10-to-1, according to Desch.
How can you grieve without a funeral? As coronavirus restrictions become more strict, families make heartbreaking choices
Glenn died on March 15 and his funeral is in limbo because of coronavirus restrictions. Many directors refused to hold funeral services in chapels or offered to only do small graveside burials limited to 10 people. This is a whole new terrain, said Amy Cunningham, a Brooklyn-based funeral director who runs Fitting Tribute Funeral Services. The CDC advised funeral directors and those who touch the bodies of people who died from the coronavirus to wear protective equipment, including disposable gloves. Glenn Wilson of Marysville, Wash., died on March 15, but his funeral was in limbo because of restrictions to combat the coronavirus.
latimes.comKevin Spacey groping case at risk of dismissal if accuser doesn't testify
Spacey's defense lawyer Alan Jackson on Monday seized on the accuser's Fifth Amendment claim to demand that the case be tossed out by Nantucket District Court Judge Thomas Barrett. He then refused to testify further, citing the Fifth Amendment. The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from having to incriminate themselves. Still, if the accuser decides to continue to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights, there are other ways for the prosecution to proceed with the case. While being granted immunity would allow the accuser to testify, his testimony could be seriously undercut by cross-examination by Spacey's lawyer.
cnbc.comKevin Spacey judge questions case's future after accuser takes the Fifth
Actor Kevin Spacey attends his arraignment for sexual assault charges at Nantucket District Court on Jan. 7, 2019, in Nantucket, Mass. But after he stepped down, the accuser asserted his Fifth Amendment rights, meaning his testimony would be stricken from the record. It wasn't immediately clear what the accuser's intentions were in invoking the Fifth Amendment. The father told Jackson he felt his questions went "way too far," prompting the judge to threaten to hold the father in contempt. Unruh, a former Boston news anchor, also took the stand Monday, waiving her Fifth Amendment rights.
cbsnews.comKevin Spacey groping accuser invokes Fifth Amendment; judge bars testimony
Kevin Spacey attends the Build Series to discuss his new play 'Clarence Darrow' at Build Studio on May 24, 2017 in New York City. Additionally, Spacey's defense attorney, Alan Jackson, said that the accuser's mother, Heather Unruh, may have been watching live coverage of her son's testimony on TV. The video had been filmed more than a year after the alleged incident with Spacey, she said. The civil suit against the 59-year-old Spacey was filed on June 26 in Nantucket Superior Court. The accuser's suit sought unspecified damages for "severe and permanent mental distress and emotional injuries."
cnbc.comAlan Jackson: Timid about fame
Country superstar Alan Jackson has sold more than 60 million albums, and his latest, "Angels and Alcohol," comes a quarter-century after he first topped the charts. Correspondent Lee Cowan pays a visit to the always-entertaining singer, and learns Jackson still isn't comfortable with performing before a crowd.
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