Dolly Parton has announced that she is canceling her previously postponed Las Vegas residency due to ongoing health issues.

In a video message Monday, the “Jolene” singer-songwriter assured fans that she’s “improving every day,” after first postponing her residency back in September, but said that she needs more time before she's ready to perform.

“The good news is I'm responding really well to meds and treatments, and I'm improving every day. Now, the bad news is that it's gonna take me a little while before I'm up to stage-performance level because some of the meds and treatments make me a little swimmy-headed, as my grandma used to say,” she said in the video.

Parton, 80, was originally scheduled to perform six shows at Caesars Palace last December.

She went on to say that her doctors have assured her “that everything is treatable” and asked fans to “Think of me like an old classic car that, once restored, can be better than ever.”

Despite her health challenges, Parton said she’s still working, making videos, recording, finishing work on her Broadway musical, and preparing for the opening of her museum and hotel in Nashville later this year. She also thanked her supporters for their concern as she navigated her first year without her late husband, Carl Dean, who died in March 2025.

“I will always love him, and I will always miss him, but you would be surprised how much your love and concern meant to me during that time,” she said.

Politico’s Jonathan Martin reported Monday on what he characterized as a quiet Republican effort to convince controversial Sen. John Fetterman to hop the political fence and join their party, laying out the possibility that Fetterman could make such a move despite his public denials.

The Pennsylvania Democrat reaffirmed to Politico that he had no interest in changing his political affiliation. For one, he says he sees himself as a possible kingmaker if Democrats manage to cinch a narrow Senate majority in the midterms.

“If we flip four seats in the Senate, who is the No. 51 for the new majority?” Fetterman asked the outlet, referring to himself.

But Politico noted that he has been spending more and more down time with Republicans in their Senate cloakroom and leadership offices, and that he has developed close friendships with a pair of GOP Senators: Dave McCormick (Pa.) and Katie Britt (Ala.), along with their respective spouses.

As Martin wrote: "This may sound like so much congressional gossip. But the higher one climbs in politics, the more personal it often becomes. That’s never been truer than in the Trump era. It may seem paradoxical given the stakes of the present — massive challenges at home and abroad and a president bent on consolidating power and punishing enemies — but I’ve witnessed the same pattern for the last decade."

President Donald Trump appears eager to pull Fetterman over. Back in March, when the senator appeared on Sean Hannity’s YouTube show, Hannity said Trump specifically told him that Fetterman would get special treatment if he decided to run as a Republican — Trump’s endorsement and a financial windfall.

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Just because it's fashion’s biggest night doesn't mean the fashion is always good. With the Met Gala now just hours away, here's a look back at some of the biggest WTF looks from the red carpet.

President Donald Trump will eventually leave office, one way or another. Toward the end of former President Barack Obama’s conversation with The New Yorker came discussion of the Iran war and how the U.S. would navigate its place in the world after the second Trump administration, which has so far taken a sledgehammer to American-led international norms.

“I do think that repairing the damage that’s been done to the international order is going to be even harder than some of the domestic repairs,” Obama told the outlet. “I think one way to think about it is that the post-WWII order was one of America’s better moments.”

Alliances like NATO and the World Bank helped make sure “the world was less violent, healthier, wealthier, more equal, more respectful of human rights.”

“Because the most powerful country in the world said, ‘We are not just going to throw our weight around for the sake of it. We’re not just going to go ahead and demand tribute and bully people. We’re going to be part of some larger consensus around how things should work,’” Obama said.

Read more at The New Yorker.

Buried in a new, lengthy profile of former President Barack Obama — specifically how he has been spending the last decade — is a quote from a friend revealing how the former president vents some of his frustrations with President Donald Trump.

Ben Rhodes, a former national security adviser in the Obama administration, told The New Yorker that Obama will sometimes fire off a late-night message over “some dumbass thing Trump did.”

“What drives him insane is the double standard: ‘What if I took a Qatari jet?’” Rhodes told the outlet. “It’s not even just sour grapes. It’s objectively insane. If Barack Obama did any of these things, he would have been obliterated on sight.”

(Trump accepted a jumbo jet from the Qatari government last year for presidential use, requiring the federal government to shell out some $400 million on security adjustments.)

“He’s frustrated," Rhodes said of Obama.

While Obama greeted the first Trump administration with optimism and faith in the nation’s democratic guardrails, he seems to acknowledge that the second Trump administration is a different beast altogether, even while he spends time providing encouragement to young Democratic leaders hoping to follow in his footsteps.

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President Donald Trump told Fox News that Iran will be "blown off the face of the Earth" if its forces target U.S. ships in the Strait of Hormuz as they carry out "Project Freedom," the American effort to guide commercial vessels through the passageway.

The threat strikes a similar tone to remarks Trump made last month when he vowed that “a whole civilization will die” if Iran didn't reopen the strait.

Trump made his new comments to Fox News' Trey Yingst on Monday, adding that the U.S. is building up its arsenal of weapons in the region.

“We have more weapons and ammunition at a much higher grade than we had before," Trump said. “We have the best equipment. We have stuff all over the world. We have these bases all over the world. They’re all stocked up with equipment. We can use all of that stuff, and we will, if we need it.”

One of the largest anti-abortion organizations in the country is revolting against President Donald Trump, claiming he hasn't done enough to push the cause forward.

“Trump is the problem. The president is the problem,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, told The Wall Street Journal.

Despite Trump being the self-proclaimed "most pro-life president in history," Dannenfelser and other anti-choice advocates are deeply disappointed in his lack of movement on the issue following the repeal of federal abortion protections in 2022.

SBA Pro-Life America wants "action at the national level," Dannenfelser said, instead of the current system post-Roe v. Wade where states can enact their own abortion laws. The organization is planning to spend $160 million in the midterms and the 2028 presidential primary, WSJ reported.

The chasm between anti-abortion groups and Trump has been building since the president distanced himself from the subject area, reportedly because it wasn't politically popular. A chorus of anti-abortion organizations, including SBA Pro-Life, called for FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to step down amid reports that the FDA was slow-walking a safety review of the main abortion drug mifepristone until after midterms.

Although Trump himself has been quiet on abortion, the attacks on care have continued. Most recently, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals -- an uber conservative court with many far-right judges appointed by Trump -- temporarily banned the mailing of mifepristone, the most sweeping blow to abortion access since the fall of Roe. The Supreme Court temporarily blocked the ban, reinstating mail access to mifepristone, but the case is ongoing.

Head here to read the full Wall Street Journal piece.

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch pressed the importance of independent judges who are “not bound down by politics” while discussing a new children’s book that he co-authored about the Declaration of Independence.

Speaking on Fox News on Monday, the Conservative justice said he penned his new book, “Heroes Of 1776,” after feeling unsatisfied with the current level of history and civic education in the U.S.

“One of the things that the framers of the Declaration of Independence really wanted was independent judges to interpret and apply the law, who were not bound down by politics,” he said. ”They fought a revolution against a king who had taken control of the judiciary himself, and so an originalist tries to be faithful to the original, written word of the Constitution and apply it.”

Gorsuch, who considers himself an originalist, went on to say that the “terms” of the Constitution cannot be changed by the Supreme Court’s nine justices. “That’s not our job.”

His book is scheduled for release Tuesday.

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Britney Spears avoided jail time after pleading guilty through her lawyer to a lesser charge in her California DUI case, the Associated Press reported.

Former President Joe Biden has endorsed Dan Koh in a crowded Democratic primary to replace Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton, who is running for Senate.

Koh's campaign released a video Monday showing the former president praise Koh, who served as a White House aide during Biden's presidency.

"You did a heck of a job for my administration. You really did. You're a tough fighter for standing up for people in the country. People needed help when they — when things happened, and you were always there," Biden says in the video.

Koh is one of seven running for the seat in the Massachusetts Democratic primary, which will be held on Sept. 1.

He's got a hefty slate of endorsements, including from former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

Koh worked for HuffPost in administrative roles before entering politics.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) pointedly blamed Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for the downfall of Spirit Airlines while likening her in a disturbing social media post to the slaughter of O.J. Simpson’s second wife, Nicole Brown.

“Nailed it,” Lee posted online Monday with a meme that labeled Simpson as Warren and Brown as Spirit Airlines. In 1994, Brown was found brutally stabbed to death outside of the Los Angeles home she shared with her two children.

The image was shared by Lee about an hour after he accused Warren in a separate post of having “destroyed” Spirit Airlines because she voiced support against the company merging with JetBlue two years ago.

Lee seemingly has a penchant for comparing outside events to the OJ Simpson murder trial. He referenced it last month while reacting to the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and while reacting to “climate alarmism” in 2025, and also while musing about the 2023 Chinese spy balloon incident.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortion is provided across the nation.

The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito temporarily allows women seeking abortions to obtain the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor.

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. showed off a bird he "rescued" in a post on X, with the caption, "Starling rescue today at Dulles Airport."

The post offered no other explanation, but Kennedy has a history of absurd interactions with animals. There was the time he dumped a bear in Central Park, and more recently, it was revealed that he once cut off the genitals of a dead raccoon to "study them later." He also once sawed off the head of a dead whale and threw it on top of his minivan and drove it to New York.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is picking sides in three heavily contested Democratic primary battles.

On Monday, the group added California Assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains, Pennsylvania firefighters' union leader Bob Brooks and Maine State Sen. Joe Baldacci to its "Red To Blue" program, which sends signals to donors and outside groups that they are the preferred candidates of Democratic leadership. All three are in contested primaries in swing seats.

"These latest additions to our Red to Blue program represent the strength of our people-first message and the broad appeal of our top-tier candidates,” said Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.), the chair of the DCCC. “These candidates will win because they are authentic, independent-minded leaders who are rooted in their communities."

Bains, seen as one of the most moderate Democrats in the California legislature, is running against Randy Villegas, a more progressive candidate who has the backing of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Only one of them can advance to the general election to battle incumbent GOP Rep. David Valadao in a Central Valley district that narrowly voted for President Donald Trump.

Baldacci is facing state auditor Matt Dunlap, another progressive, in the race to replace retiring Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) in Congress. The state's 2nd District is largely rural and voted for Trump by large margins, and the winner will face former GOP Gov. Paul LePage in the general election.

And Brooks, who has the endorsements of both Sanders and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, is battling a trio of other candidates for the right to challenge GOP Rep. Ryan McKenzie in a swing district in the state's Lehigh Valley.

The DCCC is also supporting former journalist Marlene Galán-Woods in Arizona's 1st District, Army veteran Jessica Killin in Colorado's 5th District, Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie in Pennsylvania's 1st District, Tejano music icon Bobby Pulido in Texas' 15th District and former sheriff's deputy Johnny Garcia in Texas' 35th District.

It’s the first Monday in May, meaning it’s “fashion’s biggest night out.”  The 2026 Met Gala kicks off this evening in New York City, bringing some of the year’s most high-profile fashion statements.

This year’s celebrity-packed fundraiser, which benefits the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has a dress code of “Fashion is Art.”

Guests are encouraged to “express their own relationship to fashion as an embodied art form and celebrate the countless depictions of the dressed body throughout art history.”

A livestream of the event can be viewed through Vogue’s digital platforms, including YouTube and TikTok. The red carpet livestream starts at 6 p.m. EST.

The exhibition and benefit are sponsored by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, who are serving as honorary chairs. The couple is expected to attend the star-studded event, which has already drawn protests in the city over their involvement.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is hospitalized in critical but stable condition, his spokesperson said Sunday, days after the Republican hoarsely told his talk show audience that his voice was “a little under the weather.”

The spokesperson, Ted Goodman, didn’t say what sent Giuliani, 81, to the hospital, how long he’s been there or what his prognosis is.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has tightened security – and grown increasingly isolated – amid assassination fears, according to a Financial Times report, which cited anonymous sources who know him and a source close to European intelligence services.

The Kremlin's concerns about an assassination attempt via drone have spiked, fueled by Ukraine's military capabilities and the U.S.'s capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, sources told the FT.

Putin is allowing fewer visits and has dialed up his time in bunkers as a result. He's also been hyper-focused on Russia's war with Ukraine, becoming more detached from other domestic issues.

The Kremlin did not immediately respond to The FT's request for comment.

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