Trump said he scrapped plans to send the National Guard into San Francisco after calls from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff. Mayor Daniel Lurie confirmed the plan was canceled.

SHEESH. Chris Stapleton fans know that the Kentucky native has a set of pipes that can set a room on fire, and his talent is among the best of our generation. Chris Stapleton was a talented songwriter since the early days of his career, penning many number-one country hits that we know and love today, but he did not break out onto the scene as a solo artist until 2015. In May of 2015, Chris Stapleton released his debut record, Traveller, which would go on to redefine the genre of country music as we know it today. It initially charted at #2 on the country charts but sold only 27,000 copies… not exactly a smashing debut for the superstar we now know Chris to be. BUT November rolled around, and Stapleton took the stage alongside Justin Timberlake at the CMA Awards. Chris Stapleton became an overnight sensation, and that performance goes down in history as the moment that ended the bro country era of country music. Stapleton is now an 11x Grammy Award-winning artist, 19x CMA Award-winning artist, with 8 Male Vocalist of the Year honors to his name, and a 15x ACM Award recipient. At last year’s CMA Awards, Luke Combs’ reaction to the announcement that it was his 8th Male Vocalist of the Year award was the most appropriate reaction I’ve ever seen on live television. Luke Combs’ reaction to Chris Stapleton winning Male Vocalist of the Year was ICONIC #CMAwards pic.twitter.com/CC7ShJXLe6 — Jaxie Pidgeon (@JaxiePidgeon) November 21, 2024 Stapleton is now a mainstay in country music, blending country and honky tonk roots with soulful lyrical delivery. In fact, Stapleton has soul unlike many other artists in the genre. Don’t believe me? Take a seat and listen up. Back in 2019, 4 years after Traveller took off, Stapleton teamed up with the Atlanta-founded soul-pop group The Shadowboxers to lay down some classic soul music. That night on stage, the three blew the roof off a performance of James Brown’s “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World.” “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World” is a James Brown classic. The tune highlighting the advancements men have made in society was penned by James Brown and Betty Jean Newsome and recorded in New York in 1966. The lyrics, while initially seeming to be a man-power song, take a turn during the chorus to highlight that without a powerful woman in the mix, the world is nothing. “This is a man’s worldBut it wouldn’t be nothing, nothingWithout a woman or a girlOh, oh, how a man needs a womanMan got to have a womanHe needs a woman or a girlHe needs a womanMan make everything he canBut a woman makes a better man…” The small venue knew what was about to go down after the opening horn intro, and as soon as Stapleton belted out the first notes, hoots and hollers filled the room. Stapleton blows the absolute roof off the place while delivering the lyrics, keeping a raspy grit in his vocals that adds another layer of depth to his worlds. The whole time Stapleton is at the microphone, the band is taken aback in awe of his talent. You can tell they are doing their best to focus on playing, but it feels as if they wish they were in the audience experiencing the greatness of this performance with the concertgoers. I’m confident that James Brown himself would give this cover a standing ovation. Check it out: The post WATCH: Chris Stapleton Blows The Roof Off With “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World” Cover In 2019 first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

President Trump gave a perfect answer to a reporter asking why he doesn’t go to Congress to get a declaration of war for his attacks on the drug cartels, when Congress would . . .

State officials said a Texas man was arrested for making death threats against Jewish conservative media figures who live in Florida.

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner for mayor of New York City, sought to play it safe in the final debate of the race, avoiding contentious issues and pledging to keep the police commissioner. Andrew M. Cuomo, who is running as an independent, and Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate, repeatedly attacked Mr. Mamdani and accused him of being inexperienced and evasive. The candidates had tense arguments over how to build housing, combat antisemitism, stand up to President Trump and navigate immigration raids.

Andrew Cuomo was the winner of the final New York City mayoral election debate — passing with flying colors as front-runner Zohran Mamdani barely made the grade, a Post panel of political experts said. Mamdani, the lefty Democratic nominee, was left sweating on stage Wednesday night as he took big hits from independent hopeful Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, making a poor showing with less than two weeks before the election. “Cuomo won the debate,” Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist University Institute for Public Opinion, said of the 90-minute slugfest hosted by Spectrum NY1.