House Speaker Mike Johnson has suggested an 82-year-old country singer should have been picked as the Super Bowl halftime performer over Bad Bunny. MAGA mouthpieces have whipped themselves into a frenzy over the Puerto Rican superstar being selected for next year’s Super Bowl, following his criticism of ICE. “I didn’t even know who Bad Bunny was, but it sounds like a terrible decision, in my view,” Johnson told a reporter on Tuesday when asked to comment on the choice of performer. “It sounds like he’s not someone who appeals to a broader audience.” Bad Bunny, 31, is one of the most successful musical artists on the planet and has accumulated over 107 billion streams on Spotify. “There’s so many eyes on the Super Bowl-a lot of young, impressionable children,” Johnson added. “And, in my view, you would have Lee Greenwood or role models doing that. Not somebody like this.” Greenwood, famous for his 1984 hit “God Bless the U.S.A.,” appeared with Donald Trump at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service and was a key identity throughout Trump’s 2024 campaign stops. Johnson, 53, is not alone in his dismissal of Bad Bunny. Trump told Newsmax on Monday, “I never heard of him, I don’t know who he is, I don’t know why they’re doing it, it’s crazy… I think it’s absolutely ridiculous.”
An 84-year-old climber has died after falling 25 feet despite medics reaching him while he was still alive. A team from the Baraboo Area Fire and E.M.S. District responded to a call in Devil’s Lake State Park, Wisconsin, at 11:30 a.m., officials said. The man had been out with a group of climbers over the weekend. His identity has not been made public, The New York Times reports. Responders reached the man using a technique called a high-angle rope rescue, which lowers them down steep rock faces into hard-to-reach areas. Baraboo Area Fire assistant chief Mark Willer said, “Our medics made access to him, but before we could get anything set up, he went pulseless.” It is the fifth time this year the department has been called out to climbers in the 10,000-acre state park. Willer said climbers “are historically the safest people out there.” The park attracts around 2.5 million visitors annually. The man died in an area called West Bluff, on a “moderate to difficult route” that traverses dense woods and steep drop-offs, according to the park’s website.
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A group of tourists who were chased by an angry elephant while on a canoe safari in Botswana have spoken of the terrifying ordeal. Video footage from earlier this year captured the creature stampeding after the tourist boat and almost capsizing it when they drifted too close to its young. “The first thought that came to my mind was, ‘This is the end of me,’” passenger Jeff Melvin told ABC News. “We kept telling them that they were kind of getting a little annoyed at our presence,” he recalled. “And then just in the blink of an eye, things kind of changed.” Fellow passenger Larry Unrein said the group did not initially see the elephant calves, which were hidden behind a patch of tall grass. After chasing the canoe, the elephant rammed it with its tusks, trampling on a female passenger as she tumbled into the crocodile-infested water. Guides said the woman was lucky to be alive. “I thought for sure I was dead,” Unrein said. “And then once I was safe, it was just jubilation. I was very happy to be alive.”
Kiss co-founder Ace Frehley, 74, has scrapped the remaining shows of his tour. The former guitarist of the legendary hard rock group was hospitalized in late September after a minor fall in his studio, forcing him to pull out of his concert in Lancaster, California “against his wishes.” On Monday, a post on his Instagram announced, “Due to some ongoing medical issues, Ace has made the difficult decision to cancel the remainder of his 2025 dates.” Dubbed The Spaceman, Frehley was slated to perform at several shows in October and November, including in Saint Charles, Missouri, and in Westland, Michigan, according to Ticketmaster. The musician has spent much of 2025 touring in support of his 2024 solo album 10,000 Volts. In August, President Donald Trump named Kiss as one of his 2025 Kennedy Center honorees. Frehley, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, and Peter Criss, who founded Kiss in 1973, all expressed appreciation for the honor to TMZ. Stanley and Simmons have been highly critical of Trump in the past, but Frehley had referred to himself as a Trump supporter in 2020, according to TMZ. Frehley remained with Kiss until his departure in 1982.
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Dolly Parton’s sister begged fans to pray for the star as she is dealing with undisclosed health issues. Parton, 79, canceled six shows from her Vegas residency due to health problems last month. Freida Parton shared on Facebook that her sister “hasn’t been feeling her best lately,” asking fans to pray for her. “And with all the prayers being lifted for her, I know in my heart she’s going to be just fine,” she said as she ended her heartfelt post. Fans flooded comments with prayers and well-wishes for the iconic artist. Fans speculated Parton’s health was on the decline when she postponed her Vegas residency from December to September of next year because she needed to tend to her “health challenges” and undergo procedures. “I wanted the fans and public to hear from me directly,” she wrote in her Instagram post. She joked she was not taking her “usual trip to see [her] plastic surgeon.” Parton assured fans that she is not retiring, claiming, “God hasn’t said anything about stopping yet.”
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The paragliding crash that killed the record-breaking skydiver in July was caused by human error, officials said. Felix Baumgartner, 56, the self-proclaimed “God of the Skies” who in 2012 became the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound, died July 17 along Italy’s Adriatic coast. Witnesses said the flight over Porto Sant’Elpidio appeared normal before Baumgartner started spinning out of control and crashed near the swimming pool at the Clube del Sole Le Mimose beachside resort. Prosecutor Raffaele Iannella reported that no issues were found with the paraglider and said the crash was caused by human error. “He fell into a spiral… he was unable to do the maneuver that he should have done to exit,” Iannella said. Before his death, Baumgartner revealed that he was not fearful of completing his stunts because he had done his “homework.” “I hate it if someone calls me a thrillseeker… I am not. I like the whole planning,” he said before his iconic 2012 jump. Iannella will now request a judge’s approval to close the case.
The NFL has fined Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones $250,000 for flipping off fans, according to TMZ. The billionaire, 82, gave fans the middle finger near the end of a Cowboys game on Sunday and was reportedly handed the bill on Tuesday. But Jones claims the incident at MetLife Stadium was an accident. “That was unfortunate,” Jones said. “That was inadvertent on my part. It was right after we made our last touchdown.” The Cowboys beat the New York Jets 37-22, and Jones said the gesture was meant to be a positive one for the Cowboys’ excited fans. “If you want to call it accidental, you can call it accidental. It got straightened around pretty quick, but the intention was thumbs up and pointing at our fans because everyone was jumping up and down excited,” he said. Jones is worth over $20 billion, according to Forbes, so the fine isn’t even 0.01% of the oil magnate’s wealth.
Ann Everton, a member of the rock band Darsombra, was killed in a car crash on the way to the group’s first gig of its U.S. and Canada tour. Everton, 43, was pronounced dead at the scene of a collision involving multiple cars on Oct. 3 in upstate New York after crashing into a trooper’s cruiser on the way to Montreal. Her bandmate and husband, Brian Daniloski, was also involved in the accident and was treated at a hospital for his injuries, in addition to the trooper. The involved police car was conducting a traffic stop with its blue lights on, according to New York State Police. The Maryland-based rock star was “an incredibly warm and generous soul—and a true artist,” said her brother-in-law, Jon Garrett, in an Instagram post. “Ann was truly one of a kind, and she will be deeply missed,” he added. Garrett also said that a GoFundMe has been created for Daniloski, the other half of the band that’s described as “trans-apocalyptic galaxy rock.” The fundraiser, which is to support Daniloski after the “van has been totaled and a significant amount of money has been lost,” has raised over $44,000 of its $50,000 goal.
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A woman has been dragged into a river by a crocodile that then took off with her half-eaten remains in its jaws. Soudamini Mahala, believed to be in her late 50s, had been washing in the Kharasrota River in Odisha, India, on Monday when the beast lunged at her. The Times of India reports the killer was a saltwater crocodile, the world’s largest reptile, capable of growing to 20 feet in length. Cops said villagers scrambled to save her, but there was nothing they could do. Authorities have now retrieved her remains, but not before the croc paraded them through the water. Eyewitnesses captured the horror on camera. “The woman was taking a bath in the Kharasrota river around 4 p.m. on Monday. A crocodile dragged her into the high stream of the river. Villagers present on the riverbank tried to chase the reptile but failed to rescue her,” police said, according to The Daily Mail. The Times reports assistant conservator, Santosh Kumar Pati, said: “We have seized the body and sent it to the government hospital in Jajpur for an autopsy. The forest department will soon provide a compensation of Rs 10 lakh ($11,200) to the family members.”
NBA superstar LeBron James is facing backlash after hyping an announcement as a major sequel to his bombshell 2010 decision to join the Miami Heat. The Lakers star, whose headline-grabbing 2010 announcement “The Decision” revealed his decision to leave his home state’s Cleveland Cavaliers, had fans speculating that he was retiring when he teased “The Second Decision.” Instead, the basketball legend was attempting to generate buzz for a Hennessy advertisement. One person wrote that James “gaslit everyone.” Another posted on X that his son and his friends are “going to be so disappointed” when learning what James’ video was really about. “They’re going to be so disappointed it was just an ad for something they’re waaaaay too young [to buy],” they wrote. Molly Morrison, a Bleacher Report employee, said that some fans, including herself, speculated it would be an advertisement for Amazon’s Prime Day “only for it to be a different ad.” In James’ video, a man asks the athlete, “LeBron, fans want to know where you’re taking your talents this year. What’s your decision?” After pretending to struggle to answer, he announces his new partnership.