YouTube has announced some new updates to its “Promote” in-stream boosting option, while it’s also trying out a new AI-powered image-to-video option, which could give you another way to create Shorts clips. First, on YouTube Promote. YouTube’s rolling out a new update for Promote, its boost option for YouTube clips, which will enable creators to…
Timothy Busfield New Sex Abuse Claim 25 Years In Making Published January 14, 2026 5:52 PM PST The new allegation of sexual abuse against the embattled Timothy Busfield is from an alleged incident that happened a quarter century ago … TMZ has learned. Here’s the deal … prosecutors in New Mexico revealed Wednesday a new…
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was born in Compton, California, in 1987, and was still a baby when his hometown became synonymous with gangsta rap with the 1989 release of N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton. So it might feel preordained that Duckworth, who would record at first as K-Dot and then as Kendrick Lamar, would eventually sign to…
Ain’t It Funny Viral stand-up comedian and Emmy-nominated writer Josh Johnson relates hip-hop to hilarity.Interview: Joey EchevarriaEditor’s Note: This story appears in the Fall 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands now and available for sale on the XXL website. As a prominent writer, stand-up comic and all-around entertainer, Josh Johnson finds many similarities between hip-hop culture and…
Gracie Abrams will make her acting debut as the lead character in writer/director Halina Reijn’s next film Please, which will be released by A24. No plot details have yet been revealed about the movie, which follows Reijn’s acclaimed efforts Bodies Bodies Bodies and Babygirl, the latter of which starred Nicole Kidman. A24 has also acquired the rights…
Julia Arista clutched her son’s belongings as she made funeral arrangements 47 days after the Stockton mass shooting that claimed four lives, including her 21-year-old son, Susano Archuleta. Despite a $130,000 reward and ongoing investigation, no arrests have been made in the November 29, 2025, attack that shocked the California community. Arista visited her son…
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NEED TO KNOW Attorneys for Michael Jackson’s estate executors filed documents in court saying they’re owed $115,000 in costs and attorney’s fees The costs are connected to their anti-SLAPP motion filed and granted last year They have been locked in legal battle with Jackson’s daughter Paris Jackson The legal battle over Michael Jackson’s estate continues…
Elon Musk’s X remains locked in an ideological battle over whether users should be able to create non-consensual nudes via its in-built Grok AI chatbot, with X users maintaining that they should be allowed to do whatever they like, and that X is only being targeted because it allows free speech. So, to be clear,…
Keanu Reeves’ girlfriend, Alexandra Grant, had a night to remember with the actor in New York City. “Last Monday, after the run of Waiting for Godot, Keanu invited me on a date in New York City… ⛸️⛸️⛸️⛸️⛸️,” Grant, 52, wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, January 13. “…and we just want to give a shout out…
KXLLSWXTCH has built a career on emotional extremity, but EYESORE feels different. The Anaheim, California artist has never been interested in smoothing out the rough edges of his inner world, yet this album leans fully into the feeling of being out of place, of standing out when you would rather disappear. Rather than framing alienation…
