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The best thing about the push-to-pass controversy in Long Beach is that the rules have changed and drivers won’t have to wonder if they should try to break the rules. Because that’s what it really came down to — whether a driver had to try to break the spirit of the rule while also avoiding violating the rule. Push-to-pass gives a driver an extra 50 horsepower. Drivers get 150-200 seconds of it for a road-course or street-course race. The rule has been that it is supposed to be disabled on their vehicles on all restarts (except if the restart comes with two laps or one lap left in the race) and then enabled once a driver gets to the alternate start-finish line after the restart (so typically almost a full lap). INDYCAR software enables and disables the system. At St. Petersburg in 2024, the Penske cars had it enabled on restarts. INDYCAR found that Team Penske had manipulated the system, allowing push-to-pass to be enabled on restarts and both Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin used it to a competitive advantage. Newgarden, who had won the race, and McLaughlin were disqualified. At that time, there was the question about why drivers would push the button for the boost if they knew it shouldn’t have been enabled? And in a wider view, do drivers push the button just to see if it works? Well, we got at least some of that answer this week. At Long Beach, an INDYCAR software malfunctioned and did not disable the push-to-pass for the lone restart in the race. Of the 25 drivers, 12 used it. Considering the rules didn’t prohibit pushing the button, it is hard to blame those drivers. What’s the harm in pushing it to see if it works, to see if there was a malfunction in the INDYCAR system or INDYCAR simply activated it earlier than it should have been activated? Now there is harm. The rules have changed. Previously the rule stated: “[Restarts] will have the Push to Pass system disabled and will be enabled for a given Car once that Car reaches the alternate Start/Finish line.” INDYCAR re-wrote the rulebook to add this: “It is the sole responsibility of the Competitors to ensure that Push to Pass is not utilized during any period where prohibited. Any successful utilization of the Push to Pass during such periods, regardless of INDYCAR signal status, is prohibited and subject to penalty.” Pretty clear. Push the button when you’re not supposed to and if it works, you will be penalized. If this had been in the rulebook since the beginning, there would have been clear indication of if the drivers themselves intentionally broke a rule or not. Is this vindication for the Penske drivers? A little in the sense that if anyone thought that no driver pushed the button just to see if it would work, that was proved otherwise. But Penske still had a system that overrode the INDYCAR software designed to disable the system, so those penalties were certainly just. There is no exoneration. Should the drivers who did use it and Long Beach have faced penalties? No. INDYCAR made the right call, as it was the league’s software error that enabled the system. INDYCAR should be glad that there was only one driver who actually made a pass using it, so there weren’t a bunch of questionable results. INDYCAR also did the right thing in releasing the names of drivers and how long they used it. That now keeps anyone from wondering who used it and who didn’t. It is interesting that both Alex Palou (who used it) and Will Power (who didn’t use it) both said that there should be no penalties a week prior to the list being released. Palou would obviously say he wouldn’t want penalties, but Power had no reason to not give his true feelings considering no Andretti Global driver used the system. Whether the fact that drivers can now use the system on all restarts is a good thing will be determined by the quality of the racing. It certainly doesn’t hurt to try, especially because it makes the rule much more simple and drivers don’t have to worry about violating push-to-pass on every restart. Sometimes life is messy, and this has been a messy path. Hopefully, the mess is behind INDYCAR on this one.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
Las Vegas is about to go country for the 61st Annual ACM Awards!
The highly anticipated show returns to Sin City on Sunday, May 17, and the days leading up to it are packed with can’t-miss events for fans.
If you’re heading to Vegas for the big night, here’s everything happening around town.
Whiskey Jam Welcome Party
Kicking things off on Thursday, May 14, is the Whiskey Jam Welcome Party at Ole Red Las Vegas. Running from 8–11 p.m., the FREE event is open to fans and will feature performances by Avery Anna, The Band Perry, Jenna Paulette, and Caroline Jones, with more artists to be announced.
ACM Lifting Lives Country on the Green: Riley Green & Friends
On Friday, May 15, fans can head to Topgolf Las Vegas for ACM Lifting Lives Country on the Green: Riley Green & Friends. The event benefits ACM Lifting Lives, the philanthropic arm of the Academy of Country Music, which works to improve lives through the power of music. The lineup includes Avery Anna, Lauren Alaina, Rodney Atkins, Randy Houser, and headliner Riley Green. Tickets are available now.
ACM Next Wave: Country’s Beach Bash
Saturday, May 16 brings even more star power with ACM Next Wave: Country’s Beach Bash at Mandalay Bay Beach. Headlined by 2025 ACM Triple Crown Award recipient and 14-time ACM Award winner Keith Urban, the show will also feature Flatland Cavalry, Ashley Cooke, Dasha, Braxton Keith, and Tucker Wetmore. Fans can also catch Opry NextStage Live with members of the Class of 2026, including Willow Avalon, Graham Barham, Tyler Braden, Alexandra Kay, Vincent Mason, Emily Ann Roberts, and Hudson Westbrook. Tickets are available now.
61st Annual ACM Awards
The weekend wraps with the main event: the 61st Annual ACM Awards, hosted by Shania Twain. This year’s show will feature performances from Blake Shelton, Carter Faith, Dan + Shay, Ella Langley, Jordan Davis, Kane Brown, The Red Clay Strays, Thomas Rhett, Zach Top, Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson, Riley Green, Kacey Musgraves, Little Big Town, and Miranda Lambert. Early winners Avery Anna (New Female Artist of the Year) and Tucker Wetmore (New Male Artist of the Year) are also set to perform.
The ACM Awards will stream live exclusively on Prime Video to a global audience across 240+ countries and territories on Sunday, May 17 at 8 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. CT / 5 p.m. PT from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Blake Shelton Live in Las Vegas
And if that’s not enough country music for one weekend, Blake Shelton will also be in town with his “Live in Las Vegas” residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, with shows scheduled for May 13, 15, and 16, perfectly timed with ACM Awards week. Tickets are available HERE.
If you can’t make it to Las Vegas, stay tuned to Country Now for updates. We’ll be sharing videos from events all week across our social media channels.
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Psychologist-turned-self-help guru Jordan Peterson has made a career out of advising men on how to overcome setbacks.
And now, the famed media figure is grappling with some major difficulties of his own.
Back in 2019, Peterson’s wife was diagnosed with kidney cancer. He was so distraught by the news that he developed an addiction to Klonopin, a benzodiazepine drug.
Years after being hospitalized for withdrawal, Peterson has once again stepped away from the spotlight due to health issues related to his addiction.
And Tammy says it’s unclear if or when he will return to public life.
“Dr. Peterson is at home with family and helpful companions… he is not talking about going back to work yet,” Tammy Peterson told the New York Post this week, adding that he “feels as if he’s in another realm of pain.”
“His mornings are brutally painful and discouraging for him. Later, much later in the day, he sometimes feels some relief,” she continued, adding:
“The damage done from psych medications from over six years ago takes patience, time, and loving attention.”
In the years since Peterson began struggling with addiction and withdrawal, Tammy has become an outspoken critic of benzo medications, warning that they “should only be used in lifesaving cases.”
“There are many testimonials written by people who have suffered from psych medication damage… The medical industry will have to face this evidence and take steps to protect the public from harm,” she recently told the Post.
“I was in excruciating pain for two years, like pain on levels that I didn’t know was possible,” he said.
The Daily Mail reported that family friend Jonathan Pageau described Peterson as “overwhelmed with pain and discomfort” after only brief periods of conversation.
Peterson has dealt with a wide array of health issues in recent years, and many have suggested that he would do well to stop counseling young men (and suggesting bizarre diets), when he appears to have so many difficulties in his own life.
“I think what’s happened to Peterson is awful and I wish him the best, but it really does show that maybe he should have been a little less judgmental of people who are dealt a bad hand in life and not hectored them quite so aggressively about personal responsibility,” journalist Nathan Robinson wrote on X (formerly Twitter) this week.
That’s certainly valid criticism, and the harsh tone of Peterson’s “advice” was a topic of frequent criticism even before he became ill.
But like so many others who might take issue with some of his views, we wish Dr. Peterson and his family well as they face these new challenges together.
Jordan Peterson Steps Away From Spotlight Amid Severe Drug Withdrawal was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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Monday night’s charity ball may have been the most controversial Met Gala in many years.
Not everyone participated in the boycott, however.
Rihanna was spectacularly dressed in a gem-encrusted work of art. She was a work of art, as always.
But a pair of videos from the event appears to show serious tensions with A$AP Rocky. Are they okay?
Trouble in paradise?
A tweeted video showed A$AP speaking amicably with a couple of women at the Met Gala.
Rihanna was being interviewed at the time.
However, the beloved singer — just a few feet away from her man — appeared distracted.
Distracted and displeased.
Most believe that A$AP’s friendly chat with these other women had disturbed her.
oh so this is why they were arguing- pic.twitter.com/sb3R7DDUrZ
— welp. (@YSLONIKA) May 6, 2026
As you can see, RiRi’s smile brightened as she spoke to the reporter.
Perhaps the discussion was a welcome interruption of her unhappy thoughts.
It is also possible that she was simply putting on a smile out of politeness, instead of staring vacantly ahead.
However, something appeared to be on her mind.
We’d normally say that people are reading too much into one video. But there’s more.
There was more apparent conflict after the gala
The day after the Met Gala, TMZ reported that she and A$AP had been caught on camera after the Met Gala.
More and more celebrities are using Sprinter busses (like Real Housewives), in part to preserve their dresses and increase their comfort.
As you can see below, RiRi and her man appeared to be having an emotional discussion in theirs.
We are not privy to what they were discussing. It is always possible that people are misreading what’s going on.
But even before the video of the singer giving side-eye to her overly friendly man, people suspected that there were tensions at play.
Just for the record, we haven’t seen any other indications of tensions between the two.
In fact, a witness told TMZ that they seemed happy during most of the night.
Also, they have been dating since 2020 — if not earlier.
The couple also shares three young children.
Maybe there’s something more going on. Perhaps it really was just about A$AP being a little too friendly for his partner’s tastes. Or, you know, maybe this was nothing, and people only noticed because it’s Rihanna.
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky: FIGHTING at the Met Gala? was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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Tennessee Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a proposed congressional map that slices into the state’s majority-Black district and will likely secure them an all-GOP federal delegation.
The redraw comes as Republican-led Southern states scramble to enact new maps in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court ruling that weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and opened the door to states blowing up blue districts drawn to protect the voting power of racial minorities.
Tennessee’s new map aims to draw the state’s lone Democratic congressional representative — Rep. Steve Cohen — out of his Memphis-area seat by splitting up majority-Black Shelby County. It also divides Maury County, likely delivering a more favorable district to Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), who is onthe Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s target list.
The plan is supported by Republican leadership in both chambers of the Tennessee General Assembly and is expected to pass Thursday.
“The Supreme Court has opined that redistricting, like the judicial system, should be color-blind,” said Tenesseee House Speaker Cameron Sexton in a social media post. “The decision indicated states can redistrict based off partisan politics. Today, Tennessee joins other red and blue states in redrawing their congressional maps.”
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, called the state assembly into a special session on Friday following the Supreme Court ruling. The assembly adopted a set of rules limiting public comment in an attempt to expedite the new map.
“House Republicans remain well-positioned to re-elect our incumbents, compete aggressively across the map, and grow the majority in November,” National Republican Congressional Committee spokesperson Reilly Richardson said in a statement.
Andrew Howard contributed reporting.
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This sounds like it’s for the best.
Last summer, aspiring lawyer Kim Kardashian took the California Bar exam.
Months later, she and the rest of the world learned that she failed.
Kim is in no rush to retake it. In fact, she doesn’t plan to try again all year.
Better luck next time?
TMZ reports that, after last year’s failed attempt to pass the California Bar exam, Kim is taking a break.
Her next chance to take the grueling legal test that gatekeeps who is allowed to be a practicing attorney in the nation’s most populous state was February 2026.
However, she reportedly skipped that test-taking session.
The next chance — one of two opportunities that aspiring attorneys have each year to take the exam — will be this July.
According to the report, Kim plans to skip that, too.
Kim’s next potential bite at the apple will be in 2027.
She will actually be able to take her time deciding, as registration for the February 2027 exam will be in early January.
It’s unclear if Kim will actually take the exam at that point. We know from her own words that failing her first attempt at the Bar “broke” her confidence.
(Only about forty-to-seventhy percent of people pass the Bar on their first try. It is normal to attempt it multiple times.)
It took Kim four tries before she passed the “baby Bar” exam. This could follow the same pattern.
It’s okay to give up sometimes!
At the risk of sounding just … incredibly mean … we have to point out that Kim could always drop this ambition.
She is a successful businesswoman. For better or for worse, she’s also one of the most influential people on the planet.
Kim has also dipped her toes into acting, though admittedly All’s Fair was pretty widely panned despite a spectacular cast.
Oh, and she was also born into a rich family. One could argue that she was a success from birth.
We get that she likes to throw her resources behind good causes, that she wants to walk in the footsteps of her late father, and that (some dread) she may have political aspirations. But she doesn’t have to be an attorney, right?
Kim may also have sabotaged her own attempt to prepare for the Bar Exam by just being embarrassingly gullible.
Last year, we learned that she has been using Chat GPT for legal advice. This is a notoriously bad idea, and has seen buffoons who try it in court reprimanded by judges for turning in slop instead of real filings.
Now, Kim wasn’t using slop nonsense in court. She was using it to study, which just points to an apparent lack of understanding of what LLMs are.
This is a woman who voluntarily drives a Cybertruck sometimes (gross!) and believes that the moon landing was fake, so … would you want her representing you in court?
Paying your legal bills, absolutely. Representing you? Like we said … maybe she doesn’t need to retake the Bar exam.
Kim Kardashian Skipped Retaking Bar Exam After Failing It (And Maybe That’s a Good … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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