In a potentially provocative move ahead of a major NATO summit, Estonia has accused Russia of violating its airspace for the first time via helicopter.
The Baltic state, which is a member of NATO, has also stated that current Russian military exercises simulate daily missile strikes against its territory.
The Baltic state, which is a member of NATO, has also stated that current Russian military exercises simulate daily missile strikes against its territory.
“This is an illustration of the threat. How we perceive the Russian menace… It has never been this serious before “Tuesday, the top civil servant of the Estonian defense ministry, Kusti Salm, told journalists:
Russia is engaged in a heated discussion with Lithuania, another Baltic nation and fierce critic of Vladimir Putin’s administration, over Lithuania’s decision to ban the rail transportation of some sanctioned products to the Russian region of Kaliningrad.
It also occurred only days before the chiefs of state and government of the 30-member NATO alliance convene in Madrid for a historic meeting, where they will submit plans for a dramatic reworking of their defenses in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Estonia has called the Russian ambassador to Tallinn to protest the flight route of an MI-8 border security helicopter that allegedly entered Estonian airspace for two minutes on Saturday evening without permission.
According to a statement from Estonia’s military, the event occurred in the southern Koidula region, not far from the Russian city of Pskov.
In the previous week, Mr. Salm reported “several border violations by helicopters” from Russia.
He said that one chopper had crossed the border and another had flown quite close. He stated that these helicopter events had occurred “many times in the region.”
A congressional panel heard that Trump supporters threatened election officials and their families after they refused to overturn his 2020 loss.
Rusty Bowers, the speaker of the Arizona state legislature, informed the committee investigating last year’s Capitol disturbance that the harassment continues to this day.
A Georgia voter registrar stated that she was terrified to leave her home after ex-President Donald Trump targeted her personally.
The subcommittee of the House of Representatives accuses Mr. Trump of attempting a coup.
On Tuesday, the panel held its fourth public hearing to date and heard from election officials from Arizona and Georgia. Mr. Biden defeated Mr. Trump in both states that had previously supported the Republican presidential candidate.
Mr. Bowers, the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, told the select committee, “We received more than 20,000 emails and tens of thousands of voicemails and texts, which flooded our offices and rendered us unable to function or even interact.
The witness, who campaigned for Mr. Trump in 2020, stated that threats and insults have continued, with demonstrators attempting to tarnish him as a pedophile outside his home.
“It was upsetting, it was disturbing,” Mr. Bowers added.
He recalls Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani telling him at one point, “We have lots of theories, but no evidence.”
As election workers in Fulton County, Georgia, Shaye Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, became the targets of conspiracy claims. Both women testified before the panel.
Trump and his followers circulated baseless charges of widespread voting fraud, even though Biden won the state by roughly 12,000 votes.
In taped texts, Mr. Trump referred to Ms. Moss as a “professional vote-scammer and hustler,” suggesting that the mother-daughter combination had cheated to assist Democrats.
In a video given by the committee on Tuesday, Ms. Freeman said, “I’ve lost my identity, I’ve lost my reputation, and I’ve lost my sense of security.”
“Do you know what it’s like to be singled out by the president of the United States?”
Ms. Moss stated that she had received “several death threats” and that the harassment, which included racial insults, had “turned my life upside down.”
No longer do I distribute business cards. I do not wish for anyone to know my name.”
Ms. Moss stated that she is unwilling to go anywhere, including the grocery, and has acquired approximately 60 pounds (27 kilograms) of weight.
She told the committee that Trump supporters had gone to her grandmother’s house in an attempt to “citizen-arrest” her.
Members of Congress also heard from Republican poll organizers in Georgia about their difficulty in eradicating the Trump-stoked conspiracy.
Gabriel Sterling, a top Georgia election officer, told the committee that combating election fraud allegations was “like using a shovel to empty the ocean.”
His supervisor, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, whom Mr. Trump frequently pressured to “find” the votes he needed to win the state, ran through a laundry list of changes made by the Trump campaign in legal action against the state.
“In their complaints, they claimed that 10,315 deceased persons voted,” Mr. Raffensperger stated, “but a careful investigation revealed only four cases.”
The secretary stated that further inquiry had refuted other allegations of illicit voting by minors, non-registered voters, and convicted felons.
We investigated every single accusation that was brought to our attention.
The hearings have attempted to establish a connection between the former president and the moves to invalidate the election.
At the hearing on Tuesday, Democratic committee chairman Bennie Thompson stated, “A handful of election officials in many crucial states stood between Donald Trump and the destruction of American democracy.”
His Republican committee assistant, Liz Cheney, stated, “We cannot allow America to become a nation of conspiracy theories and thug violence.”
Following a month-long campaign by activists, the city council voted in favor of allowing the usage of burkinis last month.
A French court has ruled that women in the city of Grenoble cannot wear full-body “burkini” swimsuits in public pools.
The judgment supersedes a decision made by the city council a month ago to permit burkinis.
Body-covering swimwear, which exposes just the face, hands, and feet, is frequently worn by Muslim women who, for religious reasons, wish to maintain their modesty.
But conservative and far-right parties criticized Grenoble’s decision, claiming it would erode France’s principle of secularism in public life.
The government of the nation contested the council’s judgment, and a lower administrative court halted the policy pending further review.
The city of Grenoble then appealed to the highest administrative court in the country, the Council of State, which affirmed the earlier court judgment.
The Council of State stated, “The new rules for the municipal swimming pools of Grenoble influence… the normal running of the public service and undermine the equal treatment of users, so compromising the neutrality of the public service.”
After the most recent verdict, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin declared that the act of Grenoble had been “definitively overturned.” He termed it a “win for… secularism and most importantly the Republic.”
The city council of Grenoble stated that its primary objective was to provide fair treatment for all users.
According to authorities, France’s public pools have rigorous dress codes for cleanliness concerns. Caps are required, and baggy swimming trunks are typically prohibited.
Supporters of the burkini assert that some women might choose to avoid public swimming pools or be pushed to do so by family members if they were not permitted to wear the body-covering garment.
Currently, there is no statewide ban in France, however, they are restricted in the majority of public pools.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally party and runner-up to Emmanuel Macron in April’s presidential elections and a strong performer in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, has stated that she intends to pass legislation prohibiting burkinis in municipal pools.
“Burkini bans are discriminatory against Muslim women.”
According to Muslim rights groups, burkini bans impede fundamental liberties and discriminate against Muslim women.
Rupert Colville, the spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, stated that the restrictions “feed religious intolerance and the stigmatization of Muslims.” The UN has demanded that France rescind the bans on the burkini that were enacted in 2016.
The United States Senate has taken the first step toward passing what has been called the most important new gun control measures in a decade.
The bipartisan bill might be signed into law next week after senators opted to accelerate its passage.
Despite being substantial, the suggestions fall well short of what many Democrats and activists have demanded in response to a run of mass shootings.
The restrictions include stricter background checks for purchasers under 21 years of age.
The bill proposes funds to encourage states to enact “red flag” laws to confiscate firearms from those deemed to be a threat. The act also contains federal funding of $15 billion (£12.2 billion) for mental health programs and school security upgrades.
And it addresses the so-called “boyfriend loophole” by prohibiting the sale of firearms to anyone convicted of domestic violence against unmarried intimate partners.
It is the first time in decades that proposed gun safety legislation has gotten bipartisan backing from senators of both parties.
The procedural Senate vote on Tuesday evening passed 64 to 34 less than two hours after the final wording was distributed.
Some 14 Republicans voted to move the bill, indicating that it may have sufficient support to pass the entire Senate.
It must also pass the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives before reaching the desk of Vice President Joe Biden.
Senator Chris Murphy, the leading Democrat in the negotiations, stated on the Senate floor that the bill “will be the most substantial piece of anti-gun violence legislation introduced by Congress in the last three decades.”
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer issued the following statement: “This bipartisan gun safety legislation will save lives and represents progress. Despite not being everything we desire, this legislation is desperately required.”
In a statement offering his support, his Republican counterpart, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, branded the plan as “a common-sense package.”
National Rifle Association (NRA) criticized the bill, stating in a statement that it “does little to truly reduce violent crime” and “may be misused to restrict legal gun purchases.”
Earlier this month, President Biden stated that the ideas were “steps in the right direction” but were still insufficient.
He has advocated for more extensive measures, such as a ban on assault rifles, which were used in the mass killings in Texas and Buffalo, or at least an increase in the age at which they can be purchased.
The last significant federal gun control legislation was passed in 1994, prohibiting the production of assault rifles and large-capacity ammunition clips for civilian use, but it lapsed a decade later.
The United States has the greatest rate of firearm-related mortality among developed nations. However, the United States is also a nation where the Second Amendment’s protection of the freedom to “keep and bear arms” is highly valued.
Republicans have impeded previous Democratic initiatives to enhance gun control measures in the United States.
After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut, in which 20 children and six adults were killed, attempts to tighten gun control regulations in the United States failed to get enough votes in Congress.
The Senate, or upper body of Congress, is now divided, with 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans, and legislation requires 60 votes to overcome the filibuster or strategic delay.
Ten of the twenty senators who developed the framework for the additional measures are Republicans, indicating that the plans had the necessary support to move forward.
Ukrainian soldiers defending the practically deserted city of Lysychansk in the east are preparing for further Russian assaults, while exhausted forces engaged in a grinding war of attrition struggle to maintain morale.
The frontline of the battle is now being waged in the woods and on the streets of Donbas, the former industrial powerhouse that Vladimir Putin has sworn to “liberate.”
Nevertheless, according to Global Security Editor Rohit Kachroo, the Ukrainian opposition remains defiant in the face of attack, even though some soldiers are fighting with obsolete weaponry.
There are reports of the Ukrainian military launching rockets at locations from which they believe Ukrainian towns are being assaulted.
As the strikes intensified, many people ran, and Rohit Kachroo noticed a residential structure struck only a few hundred meters away from where he and his team were standing.
The eerie calm was broken by explosions nearby.
Those who have remained in Lysychansk despite the continual fear of harm have retreated underground, where it is always nighttime.
Valentina did not leave her small family since she did not want to be a burden.
“I’ve lived my entire life here, so why should I leave?” she asked.
“The grandmothers are in prayer. We fear because we are human; we experience fear.”
Capturing Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk would grant Russia nearly all of Luhansk oblast, one of the two Donbas regions.
Since the invasion began in February, the seasons have changed twice.
Some Ukrainian soldiers are growing fatigued as they miss their families, even though many are still willing to defend their country.
A plane carrying 126 people caught fire after it was forced to make an emergency landing at Miami International Airport due to malfunctioning front landing gear.
The jet is captured on film skidding on its belly and slamming into its nose before coming to a rest and catching fire on its left wing.
Tuesday, when arriving from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, the Red Air jet skidded along the runway, tore through a communications tower, and landed on the grass.
Images and videos published on social media showed an MD-82 aircraft with a shattered nose and a fire under its left wing.
Passengers were observed exiting the aircraft by walking along with the right-wing and sprinting to safety.
Three individuals were transported to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries.
The jet looked to have landed next to a runway, and it and the surrounding area were sprayed with white chemicals by firefighters, according to images broadcast on news.
“I truly believed I was going to die,” Paola Garcia told CBS Miami. “An elderly man was standing next to me, and I was hugging him. It was dreadful.
“As we were being jostled from side to side, the windows began to shatter, and then everything was OK. Then people start running and running, and I jump and start running because there was a fire and everything.”
Airport officials stated in a tweet that the apparent cause of the fire was the collapse of the aircraft’s nose landing gear.
On Twitter, the National Transportation Safety Board announced that a team would examine the fire.
According to a report by BuzzFeed News, leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings reveals that Chinese-based workers of the popular video-sharing app routinely accessed the US customer data.
The tapes, which were taken between September 2021 and January 2022, contain 14 statements from nine TikTok personnel who gathered to discuss ‘Project Texas,’ the classified effort to prevent Chinese engineers from obtaining the data.
According to BuzzFeed News, one of the audio tapes features a TikTok director referring to a ByteDance programmer as a “Master Admin” who “has access to everything.”
Shortly after the bombshell story was published, TikTok issued its statement stating that “100% of US user traffic is being routed to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure” rather than being kept in its data centers in the United States and Singapore.
A representative for TikTok wrote in an email to DailyMail.com: ‘As we’ve openly announced, we’ve recruited world-class internal and external security experts to assist us in bolstering our data security measures.
Given the complexity of data security concerns, this is a common industry practice. In May, we established a new internal department, U.S. Data Security (USDS), whose leadership is based in the United States, to give a higher degree of attention and oversight to U.S. data security.
“The establishment of this organization is part of our continued effort and dedication to reinforce our data protection policies and practices, further secure our users, and instill trust in our systems and controls.”
The tapes obtained by BuzzFeed News and reported by Emily Baker-White center on concerns expressed by former President Donald Trump during his time in office.
Trump signed an executive order in August of 2020 that would ban TikTok and the Chinese messaging app WeChat in the United States.
The order noted that TikTok’s “data collecting threatens to give the Chinese Communist Party access to the private and confidential information of American citizens.”
The previous year, President Joe Biden rescinded Trump’s executive orders and issued a new order that rescinded the unimplemented ban on TikTok and demanded ‘an evidence-based review to address the vulnerabilities posed by internet services controlled by foreign corporations.
TikTok has acknowledged that user data access has been an issue.
In a blog post published in 2020, TikTok’s Chief Information Security Officer Roland Cloutier stated: ‘Our goal is to minimize data access between geographies so that, for instance, staff in the APAC region, including China, have extremely limited access to user data from the EU and US.’
According to BuzzFeed News, Project Texas will eventually prevent substantial volumes of user data from traveling to China, but the recordings indicate it has been difficult to identify these conduits.
During one of the sessions captured on tape, personnel discuss the flow of data between TikTok and ByteDance’s internal tools, including those used for content control and monetization.
Moreover, a number of the audio snippets demonstrate that the workers in charge of these technologies are unable to identify the gaps through which data is transmitted to China.
TikTok’s move to store data on Oracle does note that the app will continue to use its datacenters in Virginia and Singapore to back up information as it works to ‘completely pivot’ to depending on Oracle in the United States, according to a TikTok blog post.
Officials have reported that at least 280 people have been killed and hundreds more injured as a result of a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in southeastern Afghanistan.
Homes have been devastated in the province of Paktika, and it is thought that dozens of people are buried beneath the wreckage.
According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake struck approximately 27 miles (44km) from the city of Khost, near the country’s border with Pakistan, at a depth of 31.6 miles (51km).
The state-run news agency of Afghanistan, Bakhtar, reported at least 280 deaths.
According to Salahuddin Ayubi, an official from the ministry of the interior, 255 people were murdered and more than 500 were injured in the province of Paktika.
He stated that at least 25 people had been killed and 90 brought to the hospital in the province of Khost.
“The death toll is expected to climb, as several of the settlements are located in isolated mountainous locations, and it will take some time to gather information,” he added.
A video from the Paktika province near the Pakistani border showed victims being loaded into helicopters for evacuation.
Bakhtar shared photographs of ruined stone homes and injured individuals receiving medical care in hospitals.
Its director-general, Abdul Wahid Rayan, stated on Twitter that 90 homes were demolished in the province of Paktika and that dozens of people are thought to be buried beneath the wreckage.
“A massive earthquake hit four districts in the province of Paktika, killing and injuring hundreds of our compatriots and damaging dozens of homes,” tweeted Bilal Karimi, a Taliban government deputy spokesman.
“We urge all relief organizations to send teams to the area promptly to avert a worsening disaster.”
It follows the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August of last year and the withdrawal of Western forces led by the United States after two decades of conflict.
Its already fragile, assistance-dependent economy has been hammered by Western sanctions on its banking sector and billions of dollars in aid reductions.
The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) tweeted that around 119 million people in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India felt tremors over a range of approximately 500 kilometers (310 miles).
They stretched to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, according to witness accounts posted on the EMSC website and Twitter.
“Strong and prolonged jolts,” a Kabul-based witness noted on the EMSC website. Another witness from Peshawar in northeastern Pakistan stated, “It was robust.”
In Pakistan, there were no early reports of damage or casualties.
Sheen, who also appeared in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 war drama Apocalypse Now, stated that he lacked “insight” before making the decision.
The actor continues, “Sometimes you get persuaded when you lack the wisdom or fortitude to stand up for what you believe in, and you pay for it later.”
The hero of the critically acclaimed White House drama The West Wing, in which he portrayed President Jed Bartlet, stated that he never legally changed his name and rather adopted it as a stage name.
Ramon Estevez is his true name.
“Ramon Estevez is still on my birth certificate,” he told Closer Weekly in an interview.
“I never legally changed my name. My name appears on my marriage license, passport, and driver’s license”.
Martin Sheen and his son
Sheen, who also appeared in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 war drama Apocalypse Now, stated that he lacked “insight” before making the decision.
He told the magazine, “Sometimes you are persuaded when you lack the wisdom or fortitude to stand up for what you believe in, and you pay for it later”.
Nevertheless, I can only speak for myself.
His son, the actor Emilio Estevez, who starred in The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire, and The Outsiders, did not follow in his father’s footsteps.
Sheen said: “The only impact I had on Emilio was preserving his name.
“When he first began his career, his agent advised him to alter his name to Sheen, but he refused. And I praise God that he didn’t”.
Sheen is also the father of Two and a Half Men actor Charlie Sheen, whose birth name is Carlos Estevez and who is 56 years old.
Regarding his time on The West Wing, Sheen revealed that he receives messages from “people who are just finding it”.
He continued, “Many young people were motivated to enter public life as a result”.
Sheen’s father did not want him to enter the entertainment industry.
He stated, “You couldn’t blame him.” “My parents were both immigrants. My father was Spanish, while my mother was Irish. My real name is Ramon Estevez.
“My father was pragmatic. Most of his adult life was spent as a factory worker, and he wanted me to attend college to increase my prospects of earning a better livelihood than he did. We had some extremely, extremely traumatic confrontations about that”.
Beyoncé sings “I’m on that new vibration” in her new single Break My Soul. “I am constructing my foundation.”
With its deep grooves, soaring melodies, and insistent four-four beats, her new sound has its roots in the diva house movement of the 1990s.
She even shares writing credits with the composers of the timeless house classic Show Me Love for Robin S, Allen George, and Fred McFarlane.
Strangely, Break My Soul does not sample or paraphrase their music. It utilizes the same bass sound, which is preset on the renowned Korg M1 keyboard. However, Beyoncé has always acknowledged the black artists who have influenced her.
It is extremely Beyoncé to send a few royalty checks to the creators of Show Me Love (or to their family in the case of McFarlane, who died in 2016).
Part of the solution is the epidemic, as was almost to be expected. Drake and Beyoncé, like Lady Gaga and Dua Lipa before them, are praising the healing power of dance in an unrecognizable world.
Beyoncé murmurs in her lowest range, alluding to the Great Resignation, “I just quit my job…they work me so damn hard.” A significant sample of New Orleans bounce singer Big Freedia asks listeners to “free the stress” and “relax your mind” before the song’s climactic conclusion, which features a gospel choir.
Beyoncé stated in a recent interview regarding her next album, “After a year of isolation and injustice, I believe we are all ready to leave, explore, love, and laugh again.” “I see a renaissance on the horizon, and I want to contribute to its growth in every manner possible.”
Drake’s record focuses more on relationships (surprise, he’s a bit depressed about them), but he pledges to “throw a party for my day ones” while boasting, “I’m a night owl, this is a different model.
There are many genres from which Drizzy and Queen Bey could have selected music to accompany their dancefloor antics. However, both parties are savvy enough to recognize the cultural significance of the house.
It originated in a Chicago venue called The Warehouse, which was initially a members-only club frequented nearly exclusively by black and Latino gay males.
Last year, home pioneer Jesse Saunders reminisced, “It was in no way intended for straight individuals.” “We are discussing the 1970s. You have no place in Chicago if you are young, Black, Latino, and LGBT, because Chicago is one of the most segregated cities in the US, if not the world. No club wants you as a member. No one wants you to party. Therefore, they constructed their own, but just for homosexual males and not lesbians.”
Frankie Knuckles, the club’s star DJ, would use a reel-to-reel tape to produce loops and “pause button remixes” of his favorite disco songs, extending their duration.
In 1983, he purchased a drum machine to improve his mixes, and the combination of its stripped-down, relentless beats and parts of cult disco hits characterized the house sound.
The eroticism of the song was “Bob Stanley noted in his book Yeah Yeah Yeah: A History of pop music, “That drive to orgasm was evident in the ebbs, flows, and jump cuts between gloomy chords and uplifting piano breaks.
This music, unlike disco, was created by clubgoers for other clubgoers.
In the late 1980s, house music emerged from underground clubs and climbed the pop charts, aided by singers such as Inner City, the Pet Shop Boys, and Madonna, whose 1990 house song “Vogue” became a worldwide number one.
Frequently, the origins of the music in black and gay areas are forgotten. But Beyoncé makes it explicit in Break My Soul, augmenting her traditional theme of self-empowerment with a rap from Big Freedia, who has been a staunch advocate for LGBTQ+ rights after encountering homophobia early in her career.
“Being LGBT, we were not treated equally,” she told Billboard magazine last year. “We were laboring for pennies. Over time, things started to shift, but at first, it was difficult. It was not very tolerant.
People were shocked to discover that there were gay performers performing bounce music in New Orleans and causing the girls to tremble all over.
By constructing a bridge to black and LGBT subcultures and releasing their music during Pride month, Beyoncé and Drake are doing more than simply stealing ideas from their record collections.
And if their new albums inspire people to listen to Cece Rogers’ Someday, Marshall Jefferson’s Move Your Body, or The Nightwriters’ Let The Music Use You, then that can only be a good thing.
Blac Chyna sued the Kardashian family for $108m (£77m) for slander earlier in 2022, but she lost and was given no damages. The second trial against her ex-boyfriend Rob Kardashian was scheduled to commence, but an agreement was reached at the last minute.
Chyna had accused her ex-boyfriend Rob Kardashian of releasing nude images of her in a harmful manner in 2017 after their relationship ended.
According to court documents seen by the PA news agency, the parties have now notified the judge that they have settled. Jury selection had been scheduled to begin on Monday in preparation for a trial, but the parties have now informed the judge that they have settled.
It follows Chyna and the Kardashians’ defamation trial from earlier in 2022.
Chyna, whose legal name is Angela White, claimed that Rob Kardashian’s mother Kris Jenner, and three of his famous sisters, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, and Kylie Jenner, defamed her as violent and unstable, and allegedly convinced producers and executives to cancel her reality show, Rob & Chyna.
Chyna had demanded $108m (£77m) in damages, but the Kardashians, whom all testified at the trial, won the case and she received no compensation.
Although jurors determined that the Kardashians acted in bad faith when discussing the couple’s problems with Rob & Chyna’s producers and executives from the E! network, they also determined that this had no significant impact on Chyna’s contract or the destiny of the show.
Rob Kardashian, who has a child with Chyna, was not a defendant in that trial, but he and the Kardashian women also testified.
Chyna initially filed a single case against the entire Kardashian family, but the judge ordered that Rob Kardashian’s allegations, which included assault allegations, should be tried separately.
After the verdict in the first trial, attorneys for the Kardashian and Jenner families “expressed gratitude” to the jury and praised Judge Gregory Alarcon’s “calm hand.”
“The jury has sent Ms. White and her counsel a clear message – I hope they are listening,” the attorneys said in a statement. Justice has triumphed.
Rob and Kris Kardashian were expected to be the only witnesses at the second trial, had it occurred.
Tom Mann was left distraught after his fiancée Danielle Hampson passed away unexpectedly on their wedding day.
Mann, who competed on the show in 2014 with the band Stereo Kicks, broke the awful news on Instagram.
Mann shared a photo of Hampson with the couple’s eight-month-old son, Bowie, and said that she had died early Saturday morning.
“The happiest day of our lives ended in irreparable sadness.
“I feel as though I have wept an ocean. We never made it to the altar, exchanged vows, or danced our first dance, but I want you to know, Danielle, that you were my entire world and the best thing that ever happened to me.
The musician vowed to wear his wedding ring as a symbol of his “unconditional love” for his fiancée, adding that he would muster the fortitude to raise their child.
“I won’t detract from the father you’ve already been, but I swear I’ll do everything I can to raise Bowie the way we’ve always desired,” he stated.
“I assure you he will recognize how remarkable his mother was. I promise to make you so incredibly proud.”
“The most gorgeous individual within and without. The most extraordinary spirit. “We have lost such a remarkable individual,” Mann said.
“Without you, my dearest Dani, the brightest light in any room, my world is nothing but darkness. I shall always miss you.”
Friends from the music industry went to pay their respects, and Lewis Capaldi remarked, “Love you, brother.”
Ellie Goulding wrote, “I’m constantly thinking of you… You are extremely powerful. Always available to you. Love you xxxx”
The singer Gabrielle Aplin commented, “Oh Tom, I am so heartbroken for you and your family. I am so sorry. Sending you and your son a tremendous amount of love and strength xxx”
