On these dates, the band will perform the landmark record in its entirety, giving fans another opportunity to experience the album front to back in a live setting. The newly revealed shows will also see Knoll rejoining the tour. Get those dates below and get your tickets here.
“It’s no secret that we’re passionate about Foundations of Burden,” wrote Pallbearer. “Revisiting the record last year was invigorating, and presenting it all on stage as the year culminated was such a blast for us. We are so pleased announce many more of these performances in 2026, including a reprise of appearances alongside the funereal chaos apparitions in Knoll.”
Reflecting on the album’s original creation, Pallbearer bassist and vocalist Joseph D. Rowland recalled the chaotic and exhausting circumstances surrounding its recording: “During the writing and preparation for Foundations, everything was ephemeral and we were practically feral.
“We had no real practice space, we barely had a single working computer between the four of us. Our demos of the record consisted of something barely discernible from white noise. Nevertheless, we knew we were working towards building a set of songs we were deeply enthusiastic about.”
Rowland explained that constant file corruption, budget limitations, and exhaustion forced the band to sacrifice nuance in the original mix — something that lingered in their minds for years. “Since the time that we finally committed the original version of Foundations to print, we knew it would be a sonic space we would eventually revisit.
“Its form did not unfold according to the original version as the numerous file corruptions, delays, and exhausted studio budget compounded into a final feverish push to finish the mix. We were relieved to get those massive and difficult mixes turned into finished songs just in time, but not without a nagging thought; we had to sacrifice much of the nuance we had spent so much time crafting.”
He continued: “In the time since then, we have played most of the songs from Foundations more times than we can count, and they remain some of our favorites.
“The songs have grown with us. And while we hold a deep love and attachment to what we created in 2014, we also gained a fuller understanding of how we would want to re-present them if we had a chance. After years of discussion, listening and learning, we found ourselves in the position to fulfill that vision.”
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2/19 Oklahoma City, OK Resonant Head 2/20 Tulsa, OK Vanguard 2/21 Springfield, MO Regency Live 2/22 Fayetteville, AR George’s Majestic 3/5 St Louis, MO Off Broadway 3/6 Columbia, MO Rose Music Hall 3/7 Kansas City, MO recordBar 3/27 Little Rock, AR White Water Tavern
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4/8 Louisville, KY Zanzabar 4/10 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop (no Knoll) 4/11 Buffalo, NY Rec Room 4/12 Brattleboro, VT Stone Church 4/14 Portland, ME Oxbow 4/15 Portsmouth, NH Press Room 4/17 Braintree, MA Hopsmokerfest (no Knoll) 4/18 Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere (no Knoll) 4/19 Baltimore, MD Ottobar 4/20 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts (no Knoll) 4/21 Norfolk, VA The Annex 4/22 Raleigh, NC Kings 4/23 Knoxville, TN Pilot Light
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NFC West rivals collide for the third time in the 2025 NFL season as the Los Angeles Rams head to the Pacific Northwest to face the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday, Jan. 25. These teams played two thrilling games during the regular season, but this game is for all the marbles, as the winner advances to Super Bowl LX and the loser goes home. At DraftKings Sportsbook, the Seahawks are the +145 favorite to win the Super Bowl while the Rams are right behind them at +230. It’s safe to say the winner of this game is expected to go on to win the NFL championship.
Here’s a look at what fans and bettors need to know for Sunday’s NFC Championship Game between the Rams and Seahawks, including the latest odds, model picks, injury reports and weather conditions. All odds are from DraftKings.
Rams at Seahawks (6:30 p.m. ET)
Spread: Seahawks -2.5
Money line: Rams +130, Seahawks -155
Total: 46.5 (Over -115, Under -105)
At one point this season, the Rams were 9-2 and on their way to the No. 1 seed in the NFC. Los Angeles would lose a road game at Carolina, part of a five-game stretch where the team lost three games. One of those losses was an overtime game against the Seahawks in which the Rams blew a 16-point lead. That result ultimately cost them the top seed and gave Seattle homefield advantage for the playoffs. Matthew Stafford is trying to cap off his MVP-level season with another Super Bowl win and will be playing in his second NFC title game, while head coach Sean McVay is appearing in his third. The Rams got Davante Adams back from a hamstring injury for the playoffs but he has not been able to find the end zone despite leading the league in touchdown receptions. McVay said he expects Byron Young and Emmanuel Forbes Jr., two starters on L.A.’s defense, to be fine for the championship game after both suffered injuries in the win over the Bears. The Rams won the Wild Card game against the Panthers 34-31 and then outlasted Chicago 20-17 in overtime to make the NFC title game.
Bet on the Rams to defeat the Seahawks in the NFC Championship Game at DraftKings, where new users can get $300 in bonus bets if their first bet of $5 or more wins:
Seattle had a much easier path to the NFC Championship game, demolishing the San Francisco 49ers from the jump. Rashid Shaheed took the opening kickoff to the house and the Seahawks never looked back. They’ll have fond memories of their overtime win against the Rams in Week 16, part of a seven-game winning streak. The Seahawks could’ve swept the Rams in the regular season but Jason Myers missed what would’ve been a game-winning field goal in a 21-19 L.A. win in Week 11. Sam Darnold, who battled an oblique injury in the win over San Francisco, threw four interceptions in that contest and has had problems against the Rams in recent games. It was L.A. who sacked Darnold nine times in last year’s playoff game when the quarterback was with the Vikings, ultimately pushing him out of Minnesota. The Seahawks won’t be complaining much, as Darnold steered an offense which was tied for seventh in yards per game and ranked third in points per game. However, Seattle’s calling card is defense. Head coach Mike Macdonald has built one of the best defensive units in the league, and that alone could carry Seattle to the Super Bowl. The Seahawks were the best scoring defense in the league and did bottle up the Rams successfully once, but also surrendered 37 points in the second matchup. The Seahawks will be without running back Zach Charbonnet for the rest of the year but could be getting some reinforcements on the offensive line with Josh Jones and Charles Cross both potentially being able to suit up.
Temperatures in Seattle are expected to be in the mid 40s at kickoff and there’s no precipitation in the area, which likely gives the Rams a slight edge. Los Angeles struggled to deal with the elements in Carolina and Chicago in these playoffs. The SportsLine Projection Model, which simulates every game 10,000 times, sees the Seahawks covering the 2.5-point spread in 58% of simulations, good for an “A” grade. The model has Seattle winning outright in 62% of simulations and Under hits in 55% of simulations.
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TAOS COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – Tuesday night Taos County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to reports of an unresponsive man in the area of Romero Lane in Llano Quemado, just south of Taos. When deputies arrived they found Abraham Fernandez, 53, dead at the scene. Detectives learned Fernandez and his brother, Isaac, were in the area to do a […]
Ryan Coogler’s vampire tale leads the pack of contenders for the 98th Academy Awards with 16 total nominations, including best picture, setting a record for the most in Oscar history.
“Sinners” crushed the previous record of 14 nominations held by “All About Eve” (1950), “Titanic” (1997) and “La La Land” (2016).
Coogler received nominations for best director and best screenplay. Michael B. Jordan, who stars in a dual role as twin brothers who open up a “juke joint” in the Mississippi Delta in the early 1930s, nabbed a best lead actor nod. Delroy Lindo and Wunmi Mosaku are up for their supporting performances.
The film was also recognized for achievement in cinematography, visual effects, sound, production design, editing, casting, costume design, song, score, andmakeup and hairstyling.
“Sinners” was widely expected to dominate the list of nominees after impressing critics and dazzling audiences alike. It was last year’s seventh-highest-grossing title at the North American box office, raking in nearly $280 million. It pulled in another $88 million abroad for a worldwide gross of $368 million.
Warner Bros., the studio that distributed “Sinners,” likewise put up impressive numbers Thursday, notching 13 nominations for Paul Thomas Anderson’s seriocomic thriller “One Battle After Another” and a best supporting actress nod for Amy Madigan’s gleefully deranged performance in the horror film “Weapons.”
Coogler and Jordan are frequent collaborators, dating back to the director’s feature debut, “Fruitvale Station,” in 2013. Jordan starred in Coogler’s “Creed,” a reboot of the “Rocky” franchise, and he played a key supporting role in Coogler’s culture-conquering Marvel epic “Black Panther.”
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the voting body behind the Oscars, traditionally shies away from recognizing horror films, but that appears to be changing. “The Substance,” a gross-out body-horror satire starring Demi Moore, landed a best picture nomination last year. “Sinners” continues the trend.
Megan Moroney is set to release her new album Cloud 9 on February 20th, showcasing her vocal talents — but I stumbled upon a certain hidden talent that the star rarely talks about.
Did you know that the “6 Months Later” singer could actually sit down and go through all of your personal paperwork and bank statements and file your 2025 tax return for you?
I asked Moroney, who went to University of Georgia and majored in accounting, if her accounting chops were still as sharp as they once were in college.
“I don’t know if I’m still good at it,” she responded with a smile.
But could she get the job done and file them for you?
Moroney says “Yeah, I could, probably.” She explained that although she majored in accounting, she really wasn’t sure that was what she actually wanted to do for the rest of her life.
Moroney said “Once I got to the age where it’s like ‘Oh shoot, you’re about to have to get a job, girl,’ I thought I was going to be an accountant, so that’s what I went to school for.”
What Did Megan Moroney Want to Be When She Was a Child?
Megan Moroney says “I probably didn’t even think about it, honestly. I mean baby me wanted to be a princess or something.”
Is Megan Moroney Touring in 2026?
Yes. Moroney will hit the road to promote her soon-to-be-released album, Cloud 9. Her tour kicks off on May 29 in Columbus, Oh and ends on Oct 1 in Belfast, UK.
Lets take a look at some of Moroney’s best vocal work to-date.
The 10 Best Megan Moroney Songs
With a sharp pen and even sharper observational skills, Megan Moroney has recorded some of the very most relatable lyrics in country music during her years in the spotlight to date.
Moroney’s breakout hit was “Tennessee Orange,” a song about flipping football teams (however hesitantly) to align with a love interest. That song has held up — it’s in our list of her Top 10 songs — but it’s just scratching the surface of this singer’s songwriting capabilities.
Keep reading for Taste of Country’s list of the best sad, smart and laugh-out-loud funny Megan Moroney songs.
With Gonzaga down double-digits to underdog Seattle on Jan. 2, the veteran did not waver. He helped the Bulldogs claw back in the second half, making a game-saving block on the perimeter to force overtime before finishing with 19 points.
“It’s crazy, I’ve never had a guy like that that can just challenge a shot and block it,” Gonzaga coach Mark Few said about the 6-foot-7 forward following the win. “You don’t see very many perimeter blocked shots.”
Grant-Foster developed that resilience over the course of an eight-year college basketball career complicated by a heart condition that led to two collapses — and cost him nearly two entire seasons.
By the time he turns 26 in March, Grant-Foster will have suited up for five different schools. His journey has included two seasons at Indian Hills Community College, one at Kansas — his dream program, where he saw limited play (8.1 minutes per game) — then a fraction of one at DePaul, where he played just a half-game before his first collapse in 2021. After collapsing a second time three months later — and missing the 2022-23 season — Grant-Foster secured clearance from his doctors at the Mayo Clinic and made his way back to the court for two seasons at Grand Canyon.
Grant-Foster needed NCAA approval for one more year at Gonzaga, though. Having spent nearly two years fighting for another opportunity to play the sport he loves, a courtroom battle with the NCAA did not scare him. After it denied his eligibility waiver request, a judge granted him a preliminary injunction, allowing him to play this season.
“If you know my story,” Grant-Foster said. “you know I didn’t ask for any of this to happen.”
In a controversial era that has allowed former G League players, NBA draft picks and international pros to secure eligibility, the question about who deserves second chances — for a player who has already had several of them — was at the center of Grant-Foster’s push for a final season. He was fighting for a starting spot on a No. 8 Gonzaga squad with realistic Final Four aspirations (Grant-Foster is third in scoring with 11.3 points per game).
“As I told him before, sometimes you have to sit, be patient and just wait on your time,” said Kim Mitchell, a parental figure to Grant-Foster in high school. “When you’re patient, things should work. Most of the time, it’ll work out in your favor.”
Since his childhood, Grant-Foster never slowed down.
When a young Grant-Foster got tired of running around his house in Kansas City, Kansas, he asked his mother and father to sign him up for a local sports team. When they didn’t match his urgency, he walked to the park himself and brought them the paperwork.
“He kept bugging us to get him on the team,” said Talisha Grant, his mother. “We didn’t move fast enough, so he went and found a team on his own.”
Grant-Foster loved to challenge his friends in marathon video game battles and late-night shootarounds. It never mattered when or where. At any moment, he could ask you to drop to the floor for a race to 25 pushups. That tenacity bled into the gym, where he blossomed into the No. 1 junior college player in America after two years at Indian Hills Community College — and, eventually, worthy of a scholarship from Kansas.
Almost from the start, it wasn’t a fit. He saw limited time, averaging just 3.1 points in Lawrence. After one tough game with the Jayhawks, a frustrated Grant-Foster kept walking through the parking lot even as his mother called his name. He seemed almost in a daze.
“He was confused most of the time and the system just wasn’t a good fit for him,” Reese Holliday, Grant-Foster’s mentor and trainer, said about his stint at Kansas. “That’s really all it came down to. I just said, ‘Next time, this next decision, we’ve got to go somewhere where we know what we’re getting,’ which led to DePaul.”
The Blue Demons offered Grant-Foster a chance to start over and restore his confidence. After a summer working out with the squad, he felt like himself again before the 2021-22 season.
Only 20 minutes into his debut, everything changed.
Grant-Foster had just made a go-ahead 3-pointer in the season opener against Coppin State. When he headed for the locker room at halftime, he collapsed in the tunnel. The school’s medical team surrounded him as he briefly regained consciousness, while he asked what the fuss was all about and why everyone was standing around him instead of preparing for the second half. Then he lost consciousness again.
DePaul’s medical staffers began CPR so intense Grant-Foster later complained about severe pain from the compressions. It took three rounds of shocks from an automated external defibrillator before he was resuscitated.
“Essentially, in cardiac arrest, you lose a pulse and your heart stops beating,” said Michael Sommer, the DePaul trainer who performed CPR on Grant-Foster. “So you don’t have much time to do CPR, keep the heart pumping and try your best to restore life. You’re trying to keep him alive.”
Grant-Foster had no recollection of the collapse.
“When I woke up, it was like I didn’t know what was going on,” he said. “I felt normal and everything. I just remember waking up, everybody was around me and then I had to get into an ambulance and go to the hospital.”
After a 10-day stint between two Chicago hospitals, Grant-Foster learned he had scarring on his heart from a genetic condition called arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy and needed an implanted defibrillator. Doctors framed the stakes with sobering advice: Pick up a set of golf clubs instead because the chance of playing basketball again didn’t seem like a reality.
“My son heard that and that was probably the first time in a long time that I saw tears drop out of his eyes,” Talisha Grant said. “There was this wail that came from my son that I had never heard before that I’m not going to forget.”
The defibrillator didn’t prevent another incident, though. It didn’t help that, according to those around him, Tyon did not always heed doctors’ warnings such as other young athletes recovering from injuries, but continued to push the limits, still challenging others to push-up contests.
Three months after his first incident, while recovering at home in Kansas City, Grant-Foster collapsed again while playing pickup with former Jayhawks teammate and now Denver Nuggets guard Christian Braun. Grant-Foster would need another surgery to have more scarring removed.
DePaul refused to clear him after the second collapse, offering support if he wanted to be a coach or have another role with the program, but casting doubt on his playing future.
Grant-Foster was once again preparing for life without basketball.
In his time off the court, he turned to movies such as “Training Day,” “Pursuit of Happyness” and “King Arthur” for inspiration on overcoming adversity. They also were distractions and stories that ended with good guys winning. He spent those months hoping he would get a chance to win again, too.
That chance came on March 30, 2023 — more than a year after his second collapse — when Grant-Foster finished a Zoom call with his new team of doctors at the Mayo Clinic. They gave him the news he had been waiting for: the green light to resume his career.
As soon as the call ended, Grant-Foster grabbed his shoes and shorts and headed toward the gym.
He had to make sure he would be OK on the court again.
“I prayed and I ran, and I just didn’t think about it,” he said about those first moments back on the floor. “Whenever I got tired, I took a break, but whenever I had to do sprints, I would run hard — as hard as I could — just because if you think about certain things, you’re going to hold yourself back. You’re never going to get into that shape you’ve got to get into. If your heart rate isn’t getting up, how is it going to get there when you need it to? So I just didn’t think about it.”
Grand Canyon head coach Bryce Drew understood the risk.
Drew had watched his brother, Scott, the head coach at Baylor, wade through situations involving multiple players with heart issues. Former Final Four hero Jared Butler had been diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in high school. Former Baylor standouts Isaiah Austin and King McClure, now an ESPN analyst, had dealt with career-altering heart issues, too.
Those experiences prepared Bryce Drew for a pitch from a former assistant, Jamall Walker, who knew Grant-Foster from their circles in Kansas City and praised his potential. Drew was willing to offer him a second chance.
After Grand Canyon worked with Grant-Foster’s doctors at the Mayo Clinic to get him ready to play, he showcased all of the potential he had never had an opportunity to display. A full 726 days after his first and only game at DePaul, Grant-Foster scored 30 points for Grand Canyon in a season-opening win over Southeast Missouri State.
“By that first game, we didn’t quite know what to expect,” said Walker, a former Grand Canyon assistant. “And then he shot out like a cannon. I think he scored 20 points in the first half, and I think he shocked himself. He was doing high-fives with the people in the stands.”
He scored 25 or more points in 10 games that season, earning 2023-24 Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year honors. He led No. 12-seeded Grand Canyon to its first NCAA tournament victory with 22 points in an upset of No. 5 Saint Mary’s in the first round.
He was hindered by an ankle injury in his second season but still managed to help the Lopes reach the NCAA tournament for the fourth time in program history.
When Gonzaga began recruiting him, it was impossible not to listen. Grant-Foster had always dreamed of playing in the NBA, and Few had produced a dozen first-round picks.
“That’s the level that I want to be at,” Grant-Foster said about his commitment to Gonzaga. “And Coach Few has been around that. He’s coached players that have been there.”
Gonzaga’s team physicians worked with Grant-Foster’s cardiologist to prepare him for a final season. “The medical collaboration started long before he showed up on campus,” said Josh Therrien, a team trainer.
Still, Grant-Foster would need another year of eligibility — and the NCAA denied the request the team made on his behalf. He found himself in yet another fight for his future nearly four years after he first collapsed. This time, he had the support of a coach who believed he could be the player needed for the program’s first national title.
“It’s just been a really tough deal. He’s an incredible guy. He’s got an incredible story,” Few said. “I’ve now been coaching college for 31 years. I know it’s a hard situation for the NCAA with all of these waivers that happen to be out there. But I’ve never seen one as unique as this. He literally died. His heart stopped, not once but twice when he was on the floor. They’re just wrong on this one.”
Gonzaga builds camaraderie with trips to local sushi and steakhouse outlets. This season, they’ve also focused on developing chemistry with their new teammate Grant-Foster.
For months, those meals were their only way to connect with Grant-Foster, who was barred from practice after the NCAA denied his waiver request and before his lawyer sued for an injunction.
The years before molded him into a resilient competitor, though. He had heard the word “no” when he didn’t qualify to play Division I basketball after high school. He heard it again after he collapsed — twice — and nearly lost the ability to play his favorite sport. He refused to accept it from the NCAA, too.
In October, Grant-Foster stood in a courtroom and smiled as Spokane County Judge Marla Polin granted him an injunction to play, with Few sitting a few rows back.
“I wasn’t really clear on everything,” Grant-Foster said. “So at first I asked my lawyer when the judge was speaking, ‘Is this good?’ He was like, ‘It’s really good.’ And then once she said the verdict and everything, I was just like, ‘Thank you. I appreciate you.’ Because it was a long process.”
After the verdict, he and Few drove back to campus for an exhibition game against Western Oregon. During the car ride, Grant-Foster sent his mentor Holliday a text message: “We’re green.”
At the arena, Few scrapped his pregame speech to allow Grant-Foster to enjoy the moment with his teammates.
“It was pure joy,” Gonzaga star Graham Ike said. “Just to have our brother join us and be able to come out with us just after everything that he had been through, especially through the court situation and his heart situation, as well.”
When he ran onto the court for the first time, the building erupted.
Grant-Foster had played college basketball at Kansas and DePaul during the height of the COVID pandemic, so it was the first time he had ever experienced a real crowd — and the thousands gathered were all cheering for him.
“It’s the resilience that he’s had,” said Tarrance Crump, a former DePaul assistant. “How he bounced back and stayed the course.”
Now, the Bulldogs have a player who could be one of the reasons they cut down the nets in April. He was averaging 11.3 points, 5.0 rebounds and 1.2 blocks heading into Wednesday’s game against Pepperdine. He’s rated as an “excellent” defender on Synergy Sports, contributing to the best defense Few has had at Gonzaga in five years.
“He can get downhill super easy, he can shoot the ball,” said Braden Huff, a junior forward currently sidelined with a knee injury. “He’s a three-level scorer, and then defensively, he’s blocking shots, just disrupting things on that end, so he does a bunch for us, and his energy day in, day out is huge.”
For those who have experienced Grant-Foster’s journey, every moment he’s on the court feels surreal.
For the 25-year-old who has lived it, this conclusion always seemed possible.
He never lost hope.
“I feel like some people don’t really understand how uncontrollable the circumstances were for me. It’s not just a regular injury where you can rehab back from this,” Grant-Foster said. “So when sometimes I see people judging me like, ‘Oh, he’s older’ and all of this, but you really just don’t know what I had to go through to even get back to playing basketball again.”
The Oscar nominees were announced on Thursday.Lewis Pullman and “Color Purple” Oscar-nominee Danielle Brooks read the list of the lucky industry professionals nominated for Hollywood’s biggest night.The Academy Awards, with host Conan O’Brien, will air on March 15.This story is still being updated with the full results.Best actress in a supporting roleElle Fanning, “Sentimental Value”Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, “Sentimental Value”Amy Madigan, “Weapons”Wunmi Mosaku, “Sinners”Teyana Taylor, “One Battle After Another”Best adapted screenplay“Bugonia”“Frankenstein”“Hamnet”“One Battle After Another”“Train Dreams”Best original screenplay“Blue Moon”“It Was Just an Accident”“Marty Supreme”“Sentimental Value”“Sinners”Best actor in a supporting roleBenicio Del Toro, “One Battle After Another”Jacob Elordi, “Frankenstein”Delroy Lindo, “Sinners”Sean Penn, “One Battle After Another”Stellan Skarsgard, “Sentimental Value”Best castingNina Gold and Lucy Amos, “Hamnet”Jennifer Venditti, “Marty Supreme”Cassandra Kulukundis, “One Battle After Another”Gabriel Domingues, “The Secret Agent”Francine Maisler, “Sinners”Best actress in a leading roleJessie Buckley, “Hamnet”Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”Kate Hudson, “Song Sung Blue”Renate Reinsve, “Sentimental Value”Emma Stone, “Bugonia”Best actor in a leading roleTimothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another”Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners”Wagner Moura, “The Secret Agent”Best original song“Dear Me” from “Diane Warren: Relentless”“Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters”“I Lied to You” from “Sinners”Sweet Dreams of Joy from “Viva Verdi!”“Train Dreams” from “Train Dreams”Best directorChloé Zhao, “Hamnet”Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another”Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”Best picture“Bugonia”“F1”“Frankenstein”“Hamnet”“Marty Supreme”“One Battle After Another”“The Secret Agent”“Sentimental Value”“Sinners”“Train Dreams”
LOS ANGELES —
The Oscar nominees were announced on Thursday.
Lewis Pullman and “Color Purple” Oscar-nominee Danielle Brooks read the list of the lucky industry professionals nominated for Hollywood’s biggest night.
The Academy Awards, with host Conan O’Brien, will air on March 15.
This story is still being updated with the full results.
President Trump stepped back on Wednesday from his insistence that the United States needs to “own” Greenland to ensure U.S. national security.
After talks with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, he dropped his threat to impose tariffs against eight of America’s closest allies and then said the framework of a plan to resolve his administration’s standoff with Europe had been reached.
Mr. Trump called it an “ultimate long-term deal” on Greenland, saying it’s “really fantastic for the USA, gets everything we wanted, including especially real national security and international security.”
But he offered few details. Here’s what we know about where negotiations stand:
In his speech, Mr. Trump took U.S. military intervention to seize control of Greenland off the table.
Mr. Trump then met with Rutte and, afterward, said they had come up with “the framework of a future deal.”
Mr. Trump took his threat to impose 10% tariffs on all imports from eight European allies off the table.
Rutte told Reuters the framework deal agreed with Mr. Trump would require NATO to step up on Arctic security, but that Greenland’s mineral resources had not been discussed.
A NATO spokesperson said Rutte’s meeting with Mr. Trump was “very productive,” and the framework the president referred to would focus on collective allied efforts to ensure Arctic security.
The NATO spokesperson also said negotiations between the U.S., Denmark and Greenland would continue, to ensure that neither Russia or China get a military or economic foothold in Greenland.
U.K. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said the new framework could include a new NATO “Arctic Sentry” security partnership.
“I’m actually more hopeful today than I have been for over a year,” Mikkel Runge Olesen, a foreign policy senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, told CBS News on Thursday.
Olesen said it seemed that, after Mr. Trump’s meeting with Rutte, things were “moving away from that deadlock where Trump wanted something that it was completely impossible for Denmark and Greenland to give willingly, right, to something where it might become a more classical negotiation about base rights, about authority, about ground rules for a likely increased American presence agreement.”
President Trump attends a bilateral meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (C-L) alongside U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting, Jan. 21, 2026, in Davos, Switzerland.
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In a statement released early Thursday, Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen appeared to support Rutte and the outcome of his meeting with Mr. Trump, stressing that she had spoken with the NATO leader both before and after his meeting with the U.S. president.
“NATO is fully aware of the position of the Kingdom of Denmark. We can negotiate on everything political; security, investments, economy. But we cannot negotiate on our sovereignty,” Frederiksen said. “I have been informed that this has not been the case either.”
“The Kingdom of Denmark wishes to continue to engage in a constructive dialogue with allies on how we can strengthen security in the Arctic, including the U.S.’s Golden Dome, provided that this is done with respect for our territorial integrity,” Frederiksen said, referring to Mr. Trump’s plan for a new national missile defense system.
Aaja Chenmitz, a Greenlandic lawmaker in Denmark’s parliament, told the BBC on Thursday, however, that, “NATO in no case has the right to negotiate on anything without us, Greenland. Nothing about us without us.”
In an interview with Fox News that broadcast on Thursday, Mr. Trump said the deal with America’s NATO allies would see “a piece of” the Golden Dome system located in Greenland.
“And it’s a very important part, because it’s, everything comes over Greenland, if the bad guys start shooting, it comes over Greenland,” he said. “So, we knock it down … it’s pretty infallible.”
Finland’s Prime Minister, Petteri Orpo, told CBS News that he also thought Rutte had done, “a really good job in sort of de-escalating things. Many of us were working together with American senators and the U.S. administration to do that. But of course, it’s not over. We still have a process going on, Danes, Greenlanders, and Americans negotiating on the status of Greenland.”
There’s “no need to escalate the situation any further. Now it’s just good to bring down the temperature,” Orpo said.
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper offered a little more detail on what might have been agreed between Mr. Trump and his NATO partners, telling the BBC on Thursday that the U.K. had proposed working “through NATO on a new Arctic Sentry, which is similar to what we already have through NATO — a Baltic Sentry and an Eastern Sentry,” referring to existing regional security partnerships among NATO allies.
“Those are really combined operations programs that draw together NATO countries to work on a shared threat,” Cooper said. “So what we have proposed is to do an Arctic sentry through NATO as well. What my understanding is from the discussions we’ve had with the NATO general secretary, who has set out some of the points that he was talking about yesterday, is that this is now going to be a focus of work through NATO with different Arctic countries coming together and supported by other NATO countries on how we do that shared security.”
While Mr. Trump has framed Arctic security concerns as a key driver of his push to acquire Greenland — specifically claiming Russia and China would take over the island if the U.S. didn’t — he has also repeatedly cited the Danish territory’s yet-to-be exploited mineral resources as a priority.
Asked if the tentative deal reached on Wednesday included any mention of those resources, Cooper said she was “not aware of any discussions on that at all.”
Olesen, the Danish analyst, said he expected the long-standing defense agreement between the United States, Denmark and Greenland to be the starting point for negotiations.
“This could indeed end in something that will be an update of the defense agreement, perhaps a little bit more than that will be needed. Perhaps we will see some negotiations about rare earth metals. Perhaps we will see some sort of negotiation about limiting Chinese and Russian influence agreements, something like that. But that in negotiation, for the first time in a long while, a negotiated settlement does seem to be within reach,” Olesen said.
