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Bruce Springsteen has DWI and reckless driving charges dropped
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Bruce Springsteen has DWI and reckless driving charges dropped
Bruce Springsteen pleaded guilty Wednesday to drinking shots of tequila as a New Jersey federal park last year, but prosecutors dropped charges of DWI and reckless driving after he was found to be well within the legal limit. During a virtual arraignment hearing on Wednesday, prosecutors said they could not meet the legal burden for the drunken driving against The Boss, 71, who's blood alcohol content was found to be .02 - well below the state's threshold of 0.8.


Daft Punk, French electronic music duo, split up after 28 years
Daft Punk, the French duo whose sci-fi aesthetic and euphoric sense of pop transformed electronic music, have split up. They announced the split with a YouTube video featuring a clip from their film Electroma, featuring an intertitle with the dates 1993-2021. Their publicist Kathryn Frazier confirmed the split to Pitchfork, but did not elaborate.
Marilyn Manson dropped by record label amid abuse allegations
Trump rips Lady Gaga, Jon Bon Jovi over support for Biden

Trump rallies show 'disregard' for 'his greatest followers'
Dave Matthews is calling out President Trump for campaign rallies featuring largely mask-free crowds amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying they show a "disregard" for the commander in chief's own supporters.

Paul McCartney to release new album recorded alone in lockdown
Paul McCartney is to release a new album made entirely alone during lockdown. McCartney III, comes out on 11 December and will become the third in a loose trilogy of releases for which he has isolated himself from collaborators, after McCartney in 1970 and McCartney II in 1980.

Spencer Davis dies aged 81
Spencer Davis, who as bandleader with the Spencer Davis Group topped the UK charts twice in the mid-60s, has died aged 81 while being treated for pneumonia in hospital.

Eddie Van Halen, legendary guitarist, dead at 65
Eddie Van Halen, the legendary guitar innovator and virtuoso who led Van Halen through five decades and three lead singers, establishing himself as one of the all-time great players in rock history, died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. He was 65.

Cardi B files for divorce from rapper Offset
Cardi B has filed for divorce from rapper husband Offset. The filing was made in Georgia, with an initial hearing set for 4 November.

Eddy Grant sues Trump campaign over use of song
Musician Eddy Grant sued President Trump's re-election campaign on Tuesday, alleging that it was infringing on his copyrights to the hit song "Electric Avenue."

DJ Erick Morillo found dead in Florida
DJ Erick Morillo has been found dead in Florida at the age of 49, police have said.

Lady Gaga dominates during unusual pandemic broadcast
Lady Gaga dominated an unusual year for the MTV Video Music awards, winning five awards in a strange and disconcerting evening.

Kanye West is breaking campaign finance law
By not filing campaign finance forms with the Federal Election Commission, West's campaign is hiding expenditures from public view.

Killer Mark David Chapman denied parole for 11th time
Mark David Chapman, who murdered John Lennon outside his New York apartment in 1980, has been denied parole for the 11th time. A parole board at Wende correctional facility near Buffalo, New York, denied Chapman’s release, though detailed reasons have not been given. He will have to wait two years before applying for parole again.

Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist, dies aged 64
The former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Jack Sherman has died at the age of 64.

Now she wants to remove her father as guardian
Britney Spears is seeking to make major changes to the court-appointed conservatorship that has controlled various aspects of her life since a public breakdown in 2008.

Two men charged in long-unsolved 2002 murder
A federal grand jury has indicted two men in the long-unsolved murder of Jam Master Jay, the pioneering DJ of Run-DMC who was killed in 2002, prosecutors said Monday.

Trump's trying to 'blatantly cheat' election
Taylor Swift on Saturday tore into President Trump, saying he is engaging in a “calculated dismantling” of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and accused him of trying to “blatantly cheat” the election.

'Our little white asses' aren't the only ones that matter
Acclaimed country singer and performer Dolly Parton voiced her support for the Black Lives Matter movement in a wide-ranging interview with Billboard.

Grammy-winning producer faces 15 counts of sexual assault
Detail, who produced Beyoncé and Jay-Z hit Drunk in Love, being held on nearly $6.3m bail for alleged crimes between 2010 and 2018.

Rapper Talib Kweli banned from Twitter
The US rapper Talib Kweli has been barred from Twitter after sending dozens of messages to a woman, Maya Moody, on the platform.

5 Crowning Achievements in ‘Black Is King’
Designed to be a re-imagination of the 2019 film The Lion King, Queen Bey looks to recreate the Black experience, mainly for young African American boys and girls on the project.

Taylor Swift Achieves Seventh No. 1 Album on Billboard 200
Taylor Swift’s Folklore flies in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, capturing the biggest week for any album since Swift’s last release, 2019’s Lover.

Ariana Grande & Lady Gaga lead nominations
MTV announced the nominations for the 2020 Video Music Awards. Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga lead with nine nominations each - including a co-nomination for video of the year for "Rain on Me" - followed by Billie Eilish and The Weeknd with six each.
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Bill Gates names the next two monster disasters
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates famously predicted an infectious virus was likely to kill millions of people across the globe five years before COVID-19 did just that. “If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war,” Gates said during a 2015 Ted Talk. “We’ve actually invested very little in a system to stop an epidemic. We’re not ready for the next epidemic,” he warned.
Alonso kehrt zu Renault zurück
Der Spanier Fernando Alonso soll übereinstimmenden Medienberichten zufolge 2021 sein Formel-1-Comeback geben. Der zweimalige Weltmeister hat bereits einen Vertrag unterschrieben und soll in der nächsten Saison wieder für Renault fahren. Der 38-Jährige würde demnach das Cockpit von Daniel Ricciardo übernehmen, der zu McLaren wechselt. Alonso wurde mit Renault 2005 und 2006 Weltmeister. Sein letztes Formel-1-Rennen hatte der Asturier beim Saisonfinale 2018 in Abu Dhabi bestritten. Seitdem war er unter anderem in der Rallye Dakar aktiv.