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United States Navy Band Commodores to perform free concert at Lake Geneva Middle School
Peter C. Wilson, Superintendent | Lake Geneva SchoolsPeter C. Wilson, Superintendent | Lake Geneva Schools The United States Navy Band Commodores jazz ensemble is scheduled to perform a free concert at Lake Geneva Middle School on November 1,...
U.S. experts urge dialogue, cooperation in U.S.-China ties
By Yang Shilong, Shi Chun (Xinhua) 13:12, October 16, 2025 People attend the annual Gala Dinner of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (NCUSCR) in New York, the United States, on Oct. 14, 2025. Speakers at the annual gala of the...

Swarm Warning: U.S. Faces A New Kind of Air War
After decades of air dominance and an almost unchallenged hold over precision-strike capabilities, the United States now faces an era in which the balance has shifted. According to a new report from the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS),...

Is YouTube Down in U.S.? Check 7 Best YouTube Alternatives!
Is YouTube Down? YouTube is the world’s largest video-sharing platform. It faced a widespread outage not only in the United States but globally on October 15. 2025 YouTube Outage impacted millions of users across major regions including the U.S.,...

The Things that Bedevil U.S. Cyber Power
Cyber operations have become a defining feature of modern conflict, a front line that shapes the contours of global power competition. Yet despite daily headlines about Chinese hackers breaching defense contractors, Russian ransomware crippling...

What are the charges against Darius McCrary? Actor denied bail after fugitive arrest while crossing into the U.S. from Mexico
Family Matters star Darius McCrary was denied bail when he appeared in front of a San Diego court on October 15, 2025, 10 days after he was arrested on re-entry into the US from Mexico on an out-of-state felony warrant. According to TMZ, McCrary's...

GOP newcomer raises $650K as U.S. House races in Michigan heat up
Washington — Republican political newcomer Robert Lulgjuraj raised more money than any other first-time GOP candidate in the country last quarter as part of his bid to win a competitive suburban Detroit congressional seat, according to his...

Hermès Opens 43rd U.S. Store in Nashville’s Wedgewood-Houston District
Hermès has landed in Music City. The French luxury house on Thursday will open its first store in Nashville. The two-story unit is located in the up-and-coming Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood in a red brick building that formerly housed a hosiery...

Jacob Light: U.S. Chamber of Commerce C0-100 Honoree
At the 2025 U.S. Chamber of Commerce CO-100 Awards, ASBN caught up with Jacob Light, owner of ModernTone Studios, whose passion for music has evolved into a thriving business and community hub. Light shares how his company’s mission to bring music...

Jazz singer, pianist Diana Krall to perform in Evansville
EVANSVILLE — Multi-platinum jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall will perform at Evansville's Victory Theatre early next year, the venue announced Tuesday. Krall, 60, will bring her act to Evansville as part of a 29-city U.S. tour Feb. 3 after...

Orchestra to Perform Autumn Concert
The Pacific Chamber Orchestra’s autumn concert at the Bankhead Theater in Livermore on Sunday, Oct. 19, will include well-known compositions by Mozart, Ravel and Tchaikovsky, before closing with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. The concert will also...

The Irony of Electoral Democracy and the Winner-Takes-All Syndrome: A Comparative Reflection on the United States and Ghana
Abstract Democracy is ideally predicated on the equitable representation of the people’s will. Yet, in practice, especially under majoritarian electoral systems, vast swathes of the electorate may find themselves effectively excluded from...
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Time Machine: D’Angelo Shocks Bonnaroo 2012 With First U.S. Show In 12 Years At Questlove SuperJam [Watch]
In the summer of 2012, D’Angelo, who succumbed to cancer at age 51 on Tuesday, was beginning to emerge from a decade-plus in self-imposed exile from the public eye. While he had performed a handful of shows in Europe earlier in the year and was...

The Canadian Brass returns to the home of their first U.S. performance
ZANESVILLE, Ohio – The Zanesville Concert Association (ZCA) is proud to bring a globe trotting act to the Secrest Auditorium. Canadian Brass is set to take the stage this Sunday at 3 p.m. on the same stage where they made their first U.S. concert...

Chamber Music’s Autumn Series
The Brooklyn Rider String Quartet will kick off Bridgehampton Chamber Music's fall festival with music by ranging form Haydn and Beethoven to Bob Dylan. Bridgehampton Chamber Music will stage three programs in three months for its autumn series:...

This Week in Music: Previews for Concerts from October 16-20, 2025
originally published: 10/16/2025 Here is a look at shows taking place from October 16-20, 2025 along with our featured listings and a look at some upcoming shows. New Jersey Stage offers previews of concerts throughout the Garden State as well as...
ZeXzy Releases Ambitious Debut Album, ‘Every Sound’
Nigerian-born, U.S.-based artist ZeXzy today releases his highly anticipated debut full-length studio album, Every Sound. The ambitious 28-track project, released via Maple Grove Entertainment, is a boundary-defying exploration of musical...

‘Christina Aguilera: Christmas in Paris’ Is Coming to Theaters – Here’s What We Know
Christina Aguilera recently shot a Christmas concert that will be heading to theaters in the U.S. This morning (Oct. 15), the pop icon revealed the release dates for her Christina Aguilera: Christmas in Paris special. Christina Aguilera is...

Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ makes history by selling 4 million copies
That’s show business for you! Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” has officially sold 4.002 million equivalent album units — which includes album sales and streaming activity — in its first week in the U.S. That is the...

West Palm’s Norton Museum to host the country's largest Rembrandt exhibition
A rare art experience featuring the work of legendary Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn will bring the Dutch Golden Age to West Palm Beach. It's billed as the largest exhibition of privately held Dutch 17th-century paintings ever organized in the...