Open up the mosh pit: Young Thug’s Punk is finally here. The rapper’s long-teased album arrived slightly late on October 15, after some reported last-minute additions, hitting streaming at 3 a.m. ET. The album is Thugger’s second in name, but just the latest in a string of dozens if you count his mixtapes and compilations; just earlier this year, he helmed Slime Language 2, a compilation for his label Young Stoner Life. Despite its name, the 20-track Punk doesn’t stray too far from Thugger’s Atlanta trap roots, aside from some stray guitars. (Although he did debut a few album tracks live with a rock band for NPR, including Travis Barker on drums.) Like Slime Language, Punk arrives with a stacked guest list too: Future, Doja Cat, Drake, Travis Scott, A$AP Rocky, Post Malone, Gunna, and J. Cole all feature alongside a curious appearance by former fun. singer Nate Ruess and two posthumous verses from Juice WRLD and Mac Miller. Happy Slime Season to all who celebrate.

 A committee investigating the 6 January Capitol riot has said it will pursue criminal charges against former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon next week. Mr. Bannon had been summoned to testify before the congressional panel investigating the riot on Thursday. He did not appear, prompting the head of the committee to schedule a Tuesday vote to hold him in criminal contempt. If convicted, Mr. Bannon faces a fine and up to one year in prison. Democrats say he is trying to delay the probe. Mr. Bannon - a former right-wing media executive who became Mr. Trump's chief strategist - was fired from the White House in 2017 and was not in government at the time of the January riot. But he has been asked to testify regarding his communication with Mr. Trump a week before the incident - as well as his involvement in discussing plans to overturn the election results that saw Joe Biden win the White House. Mr. Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol building in Washington, DC on 6 January in...

 Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday for an infection, according to a spokesperson, but is recovering and is expected to be released from the hospital soon. "On Tuesday, President Clinton was admitted to UCI Medical Center to receive treatment for a non-COVID-related infection," Angel Ureña, spokesperson for Clinton, said in a statement Thursday. "He is on the mend, in good spirits, and is incredibly thankful to the doctors, nurses, and staff providing him with excellent care." Dr. Imran Ali, a physician fellow at Mt. Sinai Health, told ABC's World News Now his sources said Clinton "was feeling rather fatigued at a private event in California, and he went to the hospital and they did a routine checkup in the emergency department and they identified an infection of his blood." That is usually done through a blood culture, he said, adding that Clinton "probably likely had a urinary tract infection that caused the in...

The flaw exposed teachers' personal data, but cybersecurity law experts say prosecution could have a chilling effect on others who discover such vulnerabilities. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday called for a criminal investigation into a journalist who discovered a vulnerability on a state website that left the Social Security numbers of thousands of public school teachers exposed. The journalist, Josh Renaud of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, published an article Wednesday about a vulnerability in the website of the state’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Viewing the HTML source code on the site revealed teachers’ names and their Social Security numbers, Renaud wrote, and he contacted three teachers to verify that the numbers were authentic. Renaud also delayed publication of his findings until after website administrators were able to ensure the numbers were no longer publicly visible, regarded as standard good practice in cybersecurity reporting. But Parson s...