PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP via Getty ImagesMadonna capped her Celebration Tour with a free show at the iconic Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on May 4, and set a record while doing it.According to Madonna s team, the Queen of Pop s show drew 1.6 million fans, setting a new record for the largest audience ever for a stand-alone concert by any artist in history. The previous record of 1.5 million fans had been set by the Rolling Stones in 2006.You can see footage of Madonna s performance of "Music" on her Instagram; it was the only time she performed the song during the tour. During the performance, she was joined by Pabllo Vittar, a Brazilian drag queen and singer."Blame it on Rio Thank you Brazil!!!" she wrote. It was her first time performing in the country since 2012.Other than "Music," Madonna s set list hewed closely to the one she s been performing since the tour kicked off in October of 2023. During "Vogue," the segment of the show where Mado
Ramiro Sanches/Getty Images(PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil) Severe flooding in Brazil has left 75 people dead, 103 individuals unaccounted for and multiple families standing on their rooftops hoping to be rescued, authorities said Sunday.The dire situation comes as heavy rain continues to downpour on Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil s southernmost state, according to officials.The Guaíba River, in the capital city of Porto Alegre, reached a high record level of 17.4 feet, putting the city s 1.4 million residents in a situation of unprecedented crisis, officials said.The Rio Grande do Sul s governor s office told ABC News, thus far, 75 people have died in the flooding, 103 individuals remain missing, 839, 000 houses in the area have no water and 421, 000 houses have no power.So far, 707, 000 people have been impacted by the ongoing flooding and more than 105,000 people have been evacuated in total, according to the governor s office, which notes, at least 20,000 people have lost their homes.Authoriti
Al Seib/ Los Angeles Times(SANTA CRUZ, Ca.) The captain of a scuba dive boat that caught fire off the California coast in 2019, killing 34 people, was sentenced to four years in federal prison on Thursday, according to ABC Los Angeles station KABC.The sentence also included three years of supervised release, KABC reported.A federal jury found Jerry Boylan, 70, of Santa Barbara, guilty of seaman s manslaughter in November 2023 in connection with the deadly boat fire.Boylan was the captain of the Conception, a 75-foot boat that caught fire while it was docked at Platt s Harbor near Santa Cruz Island during a scuba diving excursion in the early morning hours on Sept. 2, 2019, while passengers and crew members were sleeping. One crew member and 33 passengers died, while Boylan and four other crew members jumped overboard and survived.The judge issued the sentence after hearing more than a dozen victim impact statements.A federal grand jury initially indicted Boylan on 34 counts of miscon
Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images(PHOENIX, Az.) Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs on Thursday signed repeal legislation of a long dormant, near-total abortion ban that was recently revived by the state Supreme Court, stirring widespread controversy and debate.Hobbs signature will reverse the pending reactivation of the restrictive abortion law that dates to 1864 but it won t do so immediately.Instead, the ban, which was ruled last month to be enforceable by the Arizona Supreme Court in light of the U.S. Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade in 2022, cannot be struck down by the new repeal law until 90 days after the Arizona Legislature adjourns its session by the end of June.However, the Civil War-era law, which bans nearly all abortions with exception only for a woman whose life is in danger, is on track to take effect on June 27, Arizona s attorney general has said.Hobbs, a Democrat, told ABC News earlier this week she was "hopeful" the legislat