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Big Country is currently touring across 3 countries and has 42 upcoming concerts.

Their next tour date is at Queens Hall Edinburgh in Edinburgh, after that they'll be at Barnoldswick Music & Arts Centre in Barnoldswick.

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Cyprus Avenue

Dolans Warehouse

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Princess Pavilion

Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre

O2 Academy Bournemouth

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Kendal Brewery Arts Centre

Old Fire Station

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Big Country And The Other 80's Bands Were Outstanding ! But The Venue "The Microsoft Theater" Sucks As A Place To Enjoy A Concert ! The Sound Acoustics Are Good But The Seating Stinks To High Heaven. 90% Of The Theater Is Orchestra Seating (On The Floor) You Pretty Much Have To Stand For 95% Of The Concert Or Watch The Bands On The TV Screens If You Can See Them (You Might As Well Be At Home) Microsoft Theater Is A Place To See A Stage Play, Not A Concert. Anyone With Mobility Issues Do Not Go Here To Enjoy A Concert Unless You Can Stand For Long Periods Of Time.

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Well, I wasn't expecting that!

Fact is, I expected the audience to be of a certain age, and to bob their heads and sing along politely. Because, well, this is a band from the 80s. And I was at least partially right. Plenty of folks in their 40s and 50s. As am I. The band, too. That said, I've been to a bunch of shows by punk bands from the 90s recently with equally ageing audiences, and you couldn't cattle-prod the punters into starting a mosh pit. So what I really wasn't expecting was that the crowd watching Big Country would turn into the biggest, greatest mosh pit I've seen in years. It was glorious. Big Country fans are hardcore.

The band was great. The set-list, not bad. My only complaint is that the encore was...well, strange. They went off stage, we cheered and chanted and they came back...and played a song that clearly only about a third of the audience was familiar with. I thought, "Well, obviously they're going to do a couple of songs, because it would be crazy to end the night on this song that isn't one of their big ones." But no. Strangely, they then turned up the lights, did a long band introduction (is it still an introduction if it's at the end?) and trooped off the stage. Odd, and disappointing.

But other than that, a hell of a show! Just play 13 Valleys next time, boys. ;)

The band has lost none of the enthusiasm for gigging over the years. They put on a full throttle performance and included the big hits performed faithfuly to the originals.

Quite honestly I would highly recommend seeing Big Country, I had not seen them as the original line up so cannot make any comparison but my friends had seen them back in the day and they all enjoyed seeing this current line up.

So don't hesitate and go and enjoy the upcoming Big Country gigs. I'll deffinately be looking out for them in future.

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'The Crossing' 40th Anniversary Tour (1983-2023).

Big Country celebrate their iconic 1983 debut LP 'The Crossing' 40 years on from release along with very special guests Nine Below Zero.

Big Country broke massively worldwide with the release of the album’s classic singles 'Fields Of Fire', 'Chance' and signature song 'In A Big Country', which went on to become massive worldwide hits, selling over 2 million copies and driving ‘The Crossing’ to 3 prestigious Grammy nominations in the USA. The album reached #3 in the UK; overseas, it hit #4 in Canada and #18 in the US.

Formed in 1981 by guitar playing founder members, Stuart Adamson and Bruce Watson, both native of the band’s hometown Dunfermline. Initially driven by a shared vision of widescreen guitar melody, harmony and lyric, the classic Big Country sound was further enhanced later that summer by the arrival of drummer Mark Brzezicki and bass player Tony Butler.

Big Country are Bruce Watson (guitars/vocals); Mark Brzezicki (drums, vocals); Jamie Watson (guitars/vocals), Simon Hough (vocals/guitar) and Gil Allan (bass).

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We found tickets to the 50 biggest country concert tours in 2024.

If you identify as a “little bit country,” 2024 is going to be quite a bit of fun.

Based on our findings, many of the most notable names in boot scoot are pounding the pavement all year long.

We’re talking old guard legends like George Strait , Willie Nelson , Lynyrd Skynyrd and Garth Brooks as well as up and coming icons like Morgan Wallen , Zach Bryan , Luke Combs and Tyler Childers .

Plus, if you ask us, any year that promises Southern Fried rockers Chris Stapleton , Jason Isbell and Nathaniel Rateliff on tour will surely be a good time.

Alright, no more line dancing around it.

Here are the 50 biggest country concert tours that just might be coming to a city near you in 2024.

Timeless Legends

George strait.

Feat. Chris Stapleton and Little Big Town. Runs May 4 through Dec. 7.

Kenny Chesney’s ‘Sun Goes Down Tour’

Feat. Zac Brown Band, Megan Moroney and Uncle Kracker on select dates. Runs April 20 through Aug. 25.

Willie Nelson

Runs Feb. 7 through May 11.

Tim McGraw’s ‘Standing Room Only Tour’

Feat. Carly Pearce Runs Feb. 3 through June 29.

Hank Williams Jr.’s ’45 Years of Family Tradition Tour’

Feat. Whiskey Myers, Neal McCoy, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Charley Crockett, Marty Stuart and Old Crow Medicine Show on select dates. Runs April 5 through Sept. 14.

Bonnie Raitt’s ‘Just Like That…Tour’

Runs April 26 through June 29.

Blake Shelton’s ‘Back To The Honky Tonk Tour’

Feat. Dustin Lynch and Emily Ann Roberts. Runs Feb. 22 through May 4.

Dwight Yoakam

Runs Feb. 7 through May 10.

Lucinda Williams’ ‘Don’t Tell Anybody The Secrets Tour’

Runs Jan. 18 through Feb. 3.

Clint Black’s ‘Celebrating 35 Years of ‘Killin’ Time’ Tour’

Runs Jan. 31 through June 26.

Roseanne Cash

Runs Jan. 15 through Feb. 27.

Randy Rogers Band

Runs Jan. 5 through March 2.

Lyle Lovett

Runs Jan. 19 through March 21.

Travis Tritt’s ‘Solo Acoustic Tour’

Runs March 1 through July 20.

New School Icons

Morgan wallen’s ‘one night at a time tour’.

Feat. Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson, Bailey Zimmerman, Jon Pardi, Nate Smith, Bryan Martin, Lauren Watkins and Ella Langley on select dates. Runs April 4 through Aug. 9.

Zach Bryan’s ‘The Quittin Time Tour’

Feat. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Sheryl Crow, Sierra Ferrell, the Middle East, Matt Maeson and Levi Turner on select dates. Runs Feb. 9 through Dec. 19.

Luke Combs’ ‘Growing Up and Getting Old Tour’

Feat. The Avett Brothers, Cody Jinks, Charles Wesley Godwin, Hailey Whitters, The Wilder Blue, Jordan Davis, Mitchell Tenpenny, Drew Parker and Colby Acuff. Runs April 12 through Aug. 16.

Tyler Childers’ ‘Mule Pull Tour’

Feat. S.G. Goodman, Wynonna, Shovels & Rope, Allison Russell and Sylvan Esso on select dates. Runs Feb. 21 through Aug. 24.

Kane Brown’s ‘In The Air Tour’

Feat. Tyler Hubbard, Jon Pardi, Chris Young, Bailey Zimmerman, Cole Swindell, Parmalee, Locash and Raelynn on select dates. Runs March 28 through Sept. 14.

Thomas Rhett

Runs March 8 through Aug. 13.

Sam Hunt’s ‘Outskirts Tour’

Featuring Brett Young and Lily Rose. Runs Feb. 22 through April 13.

Runs April 26 through Aug. 21.

Cody Johnson’s ‘The Leather Tour’

Feat. Justin Moore, Chris Janson and Dillon Carmichael on select dates. Runs Jan. 19 through Sept. 21.

Dan and Shay’s ‘The Heartbreak On The Map Tour’

Feat. Ben Rector and Hailley Whitters on select dates. Runs Feb. 29 through April 13.

Billy Strings

Runs Feb. 1 through June 23.

Lainey Wilson’s ‘Country’s Cool Again Tour’

Feat. Jackson Dean, Ian Munsick and Zach Top. Runs March 2 through Nov. 16.

Cole Swindell’s ‘Win The Night Tour’

Feat. Dylan Scott, Jon Langston, Lily Rose, Mackenzie Carpenter, Meghan Patrick and Restless Road on select dates. Runs April 20 through July 27.

Runs Feb. 13 through July 22.

Riley Green’s ‘Ain’t My Last Rodeo Tour’

Feat. Tracy Lawrence Ella Langley on select dates. Runs Feb. 8 through Sept. 21.

Bailey Zimmerman’s ‘Religiously. The Tour’

Feat. Josh Ross. Runs Feb. 1 through Aug. 31.

Parker McCollum’s ‘Burn It Down Tour’

Feat. Corey Kent, Larry Fleet, George Birge, and Catie Offerman on select dates. Runs Jan. 18 through Aug. 31.

Scotty McCreery’s ‘Cab In A Solo Tour’

Feat. Anne Wilson, Greylan James and Noah Hicks on select dates. Runs Jan. 26 through May 17.

Dustin Lynch’s ‘Killed The Cowboy Tour’

Feat. Skeez. Runs April 2 through May 18.

Brothers Osborne’s ‘Might As Well Be Us Tour’

Feat. Stephen Wilson Jr., The Cadillac Three, Zach Top, Jackson Dean, Madeline Edwards and Caylee Hammack on select dates. Runs March 28 through July 19.

Southern Fried Rockers

Lynyrd skynyrd and zz top’s ‘sharp dressed simple man tour’.

Featuring Black Stone Cherry and The Outlaws. Runs March 8 through Sept. 22.

Chris Stapleton’s ‘All American Road Show’

Featuring Willie Nelson & Family, Sheryl Crow, Lainey Wilson, Elle King and Turnpike Troubadours on select dates. Runs March 1 through Aug. 24.

Kid Rock and Jason Aldean’s ‘Rock The Country Tour’

Featuring Lynyrd Skynyrd, Miranda Lambert, Hank Williams Jr., Koe Wetzel, Brantley Gilbert and many more on select dates. Runs April 5 through July 26.

Hootie and the Blowfish’s ‘Summer Camp with Trucks Tour’

Feat. Collective Soul and Edwin McCain . Runs May 30 through Sept. 28.

Jason Aldean’s ‘Highway Desperado Tour’

Feat. Hailey Whitters, Lauren Alaina, Chase Matthew, Austin Snell and Dee Jay Silver on select dates. Runs April 5 through Oct. 5.

Jason Isbell’s ‘Live 2024 Tour’

Feat. Turnpike Troubadours, Aimee Mann, Palehound and Amanda Shires on select dates. Runs Jan. 17 through Aug. 10.

Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats

Feat. City and Colour on select dates. Runs Jan. 28 through April 6.

Marshall Tucker Band’s ‘Live On Cloud 9 Tour’

Feat. Jefferson Starship. Runs Jan. 25 through Nov. 9.

Oliver Anthony’s ‘Out Of The Woods Tour’

Runs Feb. 21 through Sept. 13.

Turnpike Troubadours

Feat. Cody Jinks and Trampled By Turtles on select dates. Runs Jan. 19 through Aug. 8.

Steve Earle

Runs Jan. 22 through March 12.

Las Vegas residencies

Shania twain’s ‘come on over residency’.

Bakkt Theater at Planet Hollywood Runs May 10 through Dec. 14.

Garth Brooks’ ‘Plus One Residency’

Caesar’s Palace Colosseum Runs April 18 through Dec. 22.

Carrie Underwood’s ‘Reflection: The Las Vegas Residency’

Resorts World Theatre Runs March 6 through Oct. 26.

Luke Bryan’s ‘Vegas Residency’

Resorts World Theatre Runs Jan. 3-6.

Miranda Lambert’s ‘Velvet Rodeo: The Las Vegas Residency’

Bakkt Theater at Planet Hollywood Runs March 20 through July 26.

Who else is on the road? Check out our list of the 50 biggest concert tours in 2024 here to find out.

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Country music legend says his heart is full after ending tour in front of nearly 200,000 fans

• Published: Aug. 28, 2024, 5:30 a.m.

Kenny Chesney performs at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. Photo by Jill Trunnell

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Kenny Chesney said he needed a couple of days to process it all.

The country music legend closed out another long, successful tour over the weekend with a three-show slate at Gilette Stadium.

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He packed the house, performing in front of more than 180,000 people across the three-day finale. And, he said, that was pretty awesome, and also … a little sad.

“So a bittersweet goodbye to the 2024 #SunGoesDownTour,” he wrote on X. “I’m a touch tired for sure. But my heat and soul is so full from all the faces we saw this year. The energy, the laughter, and all the music will live within me forever.”

Chesney said he needed to take the time before posting just to make sure the Gilette Stadium slate “wasn’t an illusion or a dream.”

“The ringing in my ears tells me it really happened, that it was real,” he wrote. “I’ve never felt so much love and raw energy at once, and it kept growing after each night.”

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Turns out, the tour closing dates also have a special meaning to Chesney because of the relationship he forged with New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft nearly 20 years ago that helped make it all possible.

It all began with Chesney and Kraft taking a bit of gamble that resulted in them forging a close bond, according to a story from MassLive’s Ronnie Ramos.

The first step came in 2005 when Chesney booked Gilette Stadium for a show. Per MassLive , playing such a big venue was uncommon back then, and Kraft told the site he was “grateful” that Chesney had the confidence to do it. And so, Kraft said, he invited Chesney to lunch.

“How many stadium or team owners take the time to come down and have a meal, ask about your friends or your family?” Chesney said.

Chesney’s career was already rolling strong, but as the weekend numbers show, the relationship served a springboard to bigger things. And it also became about more than business. MassLive’s story highlighted that, and dove into how Chesney and Kraft now consider one another family.

“He’s an extended member of our family,” Kraft said. “He’s a very special human being. Very empathetic.”

Kraft’s support has not been lost on Chesney.

“Mr. Kraft heard something in me or felt something vibrating with the fans, and he went for it, too,” Chesney told MassLive. “He embraced us so completely in those first years. He took us — me, my band, my road family, even the fans — on as something he believed in. That means a lot. The caring Mr. Kraft has shown us has been incredible.

“Mr. Kraft told my father several years ago, and it meant so much to my dad, that we were family,” Chesney told the site. “People don’t just do that or say that. But it’s very, very true. And it goes for Mr. Kraft, his son, and his entire organization have made us feel so welcome and part of their family for years.”

To read more about Chesney and Kraft’s relationship and how it helped springboard his career into the big, tour closing slate, check out MassLive’s story here.

With the dust settled on the monster weekend at Gilette, Chesney thanked Zac Brown Band, Uncle Kracker and Megan Moroney for performing on tour. And he delivered a message to his fans.

“I love all of you and thank you,” he said. “I’m going to go jump in the ocean now. See ya when I see ya.”

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Fact-checking warnings from Democrats about Project 2025 and Donald Trump

This fact check originally appeared on PolitiFact .

Project 2025 has a starring role in this week’s Democratic National Convention.

And it was front and center on Night 1.

WATCH: Hauling large copy of Project 2025, Michigan state Sen. McMorrow speaks at 2024 DNC

“This is Project 2025,” Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak, said as she laid a hardbound copy of the 900-page document on the lectern. “Over the next four nights, you are going to hear a lot about what is in this 900-page document. Why? Because this is the Republican blueprint for a second Trump term.”

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, has warned Americans about “Trump’s Project 2025” agenda — even though former President Donald Trump doesn’t claim the conservative presidential transition document.

“Donald Trump wants to take our country backward,” Harris said July 23 in Milwaukee. “He and his extreme Project 2025 agenda will weaken the middle class. Like, we know we got to take this seriously, and can you believe they put that thing in writing?”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Harris’ running mate, has joined in on the talking point.

“Don’t believe (Trump) when he’s playing dumb about this Project 2025. He knows exactly what it’ll do,” Walz said Aug. 9 in Glendale, Arizona.

Trump’s campaign has worked to build distance from the project, which the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, led with contributions from dozens of conservative groups.

Much of the plan calls for extensive executive-branch overhauls and draws on both long-standing conservative principles, such as tax cuts, and more recent culture war issues. It lays out recommendations for disbanding the Commerce and Education departments, eliminating certain climate protections and consolidating more power to the president.

Project 2025 offers a sweeping vision for a Republican-led executive branch, and some of its policies mirror Trump’s 2024 agenda, But Harris and her presidential campaign have at times gone too far in describing what the project calls for and how closely the plans overlap with Trump’s campaign.

PolitiFact researched Harris’ warnings about how the plan would affect reproductive rights, federal entitlement programs and education, just as we did for President Joe Biden’s Project 2025 rhetoric. Here’s what the project does and doesn’t call for, and how it squares with Trump’s positions.

Are Trump and Project 2025 connected?

To distance himself from Project 2025 amid the Democratic attacks, Trump wrote on Truth Social that he “knows nothing” about it and has “no idea” who is in charge of it. (CNN identified at least 140 former advisers from the Trump administration who have been involved.)

The Heritage Foundation sought contributions from more than 100 conservative organizations for its policy vision for the next Republican presidency, which was published in 2023.

Project 2025 is now winding down some of its policy operations, and director Paul Dans, a former Trump administration official, is stepping down, The Washington Post reported July 30. Trump campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita denounced the document.

WATCH: A look at the Project 2025 plan to reshape government and Trump’s links to its authors

However, Project 2025 contributors include a number of high-ranking officials from Trump’s first administration, including former White House adviser Peter Navarro and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson.

A recently released recording of Russell Vought, a Project 2025 author and the former director of Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, showed Vought saying Trump’s “very supportive of what we do.” He said Trump was only distancing himself because Democrats were making a bogeyman out of the document.

Project 2025 wouldn’t ban abortion outright, but would curtail access

The Harris campaign shared a graphic on X that claimed “Trump’s Project 2025 plan for workers” would “go after birth control and ban abortion nationwide.”

The plan doesn’t call to ban abortion nationwide, though its recommendations could curtail some contraceptives and limit abortion access.

What’s known about Trump’s abortion agenda neither lines up with Harris’ description nor Project 2025’s wish list.

Project 2025 says the Department of Health and Human Services Department should “return to being known as the Department of Life by explicitly rejecting the notion that abortion is health care.”

It recommends that the Food and Drug Administration reverse its 2000 approval of mifepristone, the first pill taken in a two-drug regimen for a medication abortion. Medication is the most common form of abortion in the U.S. — accounting for around 63 percent in 2023.

If mifepristone were to remain approved, Project 2025 recommends new rules, such as cutting its use from 10 weeks into pregnancy to seven. It would have to be provided to patients in person — part of the group’s efforts to limit access to the drug by mail. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a legal challenge to mifepristone’s FDA approval over procedural grounds.

WATCH: Trump’s plans for health care and reproductive rights if he returns to White House The manual also calls for the Justice Department to enforce the 1873 Comstock Act on mifepristone, which bans the mailing of “obscene” materials. Abortion access supporters fear that a strict interpretation of the law could go further to ban mailing the materials used in procedural abortions, such as surgical instruments and equipment.

The plan proposes withholding federal money from states that don’t report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention how many abortions take place within their borders. The plan also would prohibit abortion providers, such as Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid funds. It also calls for the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that the training of medical professionals, including doctors and nurses, omits abortion training.

The document says some forms of emergency contraception — particularly Ella, a pill that can be taken within five days of unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy — should be excluded from no-cost coverage. The Affordable Care Act requires most private health insurers to cover recommended preventive services, which involves a range of birth control methods, including emergency contraception.

Trump has recently said states should decide abortion regulations and that he wouldn’t block access to contraceptives. Trump said during his June 27 debate with Biden that he wouldn’t ban mifepristone after the Supreme Court “approved” it. But the court rejected the lawsuit based on standing, not the case’s merits. He has not weighed in on the Comstock Act or said whether he supports it being used to block abortion medication, or other kinds of abortions.

Project 2025 doesn’t call for cutting Social Security, but proposes some changes to Medicare

“When you read (Project 2025),” Harris told a crowd July 23 in Wisconsin, “you will see, Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security and Medicare.”

The Project 2025 document does not call for Social Security cuts. None of its 10 references to Social Security addresses plans for cutting the program.

Harris also misleads about Trump’s Social Security views.

In his earlier campaigns and before he was a politician, Trump said about a half-dozen times that he’s open to major overhauls of Social Security, including cuts and privatization. More recently, in a March 2024 CNBC interview, Trump said of entitlement programs such as Social Security, “There’s a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting.” However, he quickly walked that statement back, and his CNBC comment stands at odds with essentially everything else Trump has said during the 2024 presidential campaign.

Trump’s campaign website says that not “a single penny” should be cut from Social Security. We rated Harris’ claim that Trump intends to cut Social Security Mostly False.

Project 2025 does propose changes to Medicare, including making Medicare Advantage, the private insurance offering in Medicare, the “default” enrollment option. Unlike Original Medicare, Medicare Advantage plans have provider networks and can also require prior authorization, meaning that the plan can approve or deny certain services. Original Medicare plans don’t have prior authorization requirements.

The manual also calls for repealing health policies enacted under Biden, such as the Inflation Reduction Act. The law enabled Medicare to negotiate with drugmakers for the first time in history, and recently resulted in an agreement with drug companies to lower the prices of 10 expensive prescriptions for Medicare enrollees.

Trump, however, has said repeatedly during the 2024 presidential campaign that he will not cut Medicare.

Project 2025 would eliminate the Education Department, which Trump supports

The Harris campaign said Project 2025 would “eliminate the U.S. Department of Education” — and that’s accurate. Project 2025 says federal education policy “should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.” The plan scales back the federal government’s role in education policy and devolves the functions that remain to other agencies.

Aside from eliminating the department, the project also proposes scrapping the Biden administration’s Title IX revision, which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. It also would let states opt out of federal education programs and calls for passing a federal parents’ bill of rights similar to ones passed in some Republican-led state legislatures.

Republicans, including Trump, have pledged to close the department, which gained its status in 1979 within Democratic President Jimmy Carter’s presidential Cabinet.

In one of his Agenda 47 policy videos, Trump promised to close the department and “to send all education work and needs back to the states.” Eliminating the department would have to go through Congress.

What Project 2025, Trump would do on overtime pay

In the graphic, the Harris campaign says Project 2025 allows “employers to stop paying workers for overtime work.”

The plan doesn’t call for banning overtime wages. It recommends changes to some Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, regulations and to overtime rules. Some changes, if enacted, could result in some people losing overtime protections, experts told us.

The document proposes that the Labor Department maintain an overtime threshold “that does not punish businesses in lower-cost regions (e.g., the southeast United States).” This threshold is the amount of money executive, administrative or professional employees need to make for an employer to exempt them from overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

In 2019, the Trump’s administration finalized a rule that expanded overtime pay eligibility to most salaried workers earning less than about $35,568, which it said made about 1.3 million more workers eligible for overtime pay. The Trump-era threshold is high enough to cover most line workers in lower-cost regions, Project 2025 said.

The Biden administration raised that threshold to $43,888 beginning July 1, and that will rise to $58,656 on Jan. 1, 2025. That would grant overtime eligibility to about 4 million workers, the Labor Department said.

It’s unclear how many workers Project 2025’s proposal to return to the Trump-era overtime threshold in some parts of the country would affect, but experts said some would presumably lose the right to overtime wages.

Other overtime proposals in Project 2025’s plan include allowing some workers to choose to accumulate paid time off instead of overtime pay, or to work more hours in one week and fewer in the next, rather than receive overtime.

Trump’s past with overtime pay is complicated. In 2016, the Obama administration said it would raise the overtime to salaried workers earning less than $47,476 a year, about double the exemption level set in 2004 of $23,660 a year.

But when a judge blocked the Obama rule, the Trump administration didn’t challenge the court ruling. Instead it set its own overtime threshold, which raised the amount, but by less than Obama.

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After CMT Music Awards, Little Big Town and Sugarland announce tour, including Oklahoma show

After literally lighting up the stage at Sunday's CMT Music Awards in a collaborative performance with the duo Sugarland , multiplatinum country band Little Big Town confirmed Monday morning the details of their 25th anniversary tour, including an Oklahoma concert.

Grammy-winning quartet Little Big Town — Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet and Jimi Westbrook — will take Sugarland along as special guests for their "Take Me Home" U.S. tour, kicking off Oct. 24 at Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, South Carolina.

Also featuring support from the Georgia sister trio The Castellows , the autumn tour will include an Oklahoma stop Nov. 23 at the BOK Center in Tulsa .

Little Big Town and Sugarland cover a classic Phil Collins' song during the 2024 CMT Music Awards

Little Big Town's upcoming tour shares the name of the classic pop song the band and fellow Grammy winners Sugarland performed during the 2024 CMT Music Awards, which aired live from the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, on Sunday on CBS.

In a world-premiere moment, Little Big Town and Sugarland performed their rendition of “Take Me Home," originally written and released by Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Phil Collins in 1985, in a circle of flashing laser lights.

Little Big Town revealed their plans to tour with Sugarland — Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, whose latest album as a duo, "Bigger," came out in 2018 — on the red carpet ahead of the awards show.

Before Sunday night, Little Big Town and Sugarland last performed on the CMT Music Awards stage together 15 years ago, when they were joined by Jake Owen for a rousing rendition of “Life In A Northern Town" on the 2008 show.

The two groups boast a combined 44 CMT Music Awards nominations and eight wins, so they have a long history with the fan-voted awards program.

Four-time CMT Music Awards winners Little Big Town hosted the show in 2018 and 2019. Their previous performances on the show include collaborating with Jamey Johnson on “Macon” in 2010, premiering their summertime anthem “Pontoon” in 2012, covering Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” with Keith Urban in 2013, getting covered in paint for the debut of their hit “Day Drinking” in 2014, collaborating with Pharrell Williams on “One Dance” in 2016, and debuting their song “Hell Yeah” in 2022.Previously on the show, four-time CMT Music Awards winners Sugarland gave a surprise performance with the B-52s of “Love Shack” in 2009, offered up a moving performance of “Stand Up” that called attention to American Red Cross Tornado Relief efforts and made their triumphant return as a duo after a five-year hiatus with their hit single “Babe” in 2018.

Plus, Nettles was honored with the inaugural CMT Equal Play Award at the 2020 CMT Music Awards in recognition for her passionate advocacy and support of women in the music industry, LGBTQ+ community and other underrepresented groups.

When can fans get tickets to Little Big Town's 25th anniversary tour?

Fans will hear the newly released collaborative single live this fall on the "Take Me Home" U.S. tour, produced by Live Nation and Sandbox Live.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, April 12. Tulsa tickets and information are available at https://www.bokcenter.com .

Tulsa ticket prices range from $29.50 to $399.50.

Various ticket pre-sales for the "Take Me Home Tour" will run throughout the week, ahead of the general sale. For information, go to https://www.littlebigtown.com/take-me-home .

A variety of VIP packages and experiences will be available for the tour, including premium tickets, an interactive Little Big Town coffee book, limited edition and autographed tour poster and more. For more information, go to vipnation.com .

Members of the Kennedy family denounce RFK Jr.'s decision to endorse Trump

WASHINGTON — Multiple members of the Kennedy family denounced Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to endorse former President Donald Trump, calling the move a "betrayal."

"We want an America filled with hope and bound together by a shared vision of a brighter future, a future defined by individual freedom, economic promise and national pride," said a statement signed by five of the former independent presidential candidate's siblings.

"We believe in Harris and Walz," the statement continued. "Our brother Bobby's decision to endorse Trump today is a betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear. It is a sad ending to a sad story."

The statement includes signatures from Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Courtney Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Chris Kennedy and Rory Kennedy.

Joe Kennedy III, a grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, reacted to the statement, sharing it on X and writing that it was "well said."

Separately, the former candidate's cousin Jack Schlossberg said that he has "never been less surprised in my life."

"Been saying it for over a year — RFKjr is for sale, works for Trump. Bedfellows and loving it," he posted to X. "Kamala Harris is for the people — the easiest decision of all time just got easier."

Schlossberg is the grandson of former President John F. Kennedy.

Many members of the Kennedy family have been publicly critical of the independent's presidential bid, instead vocalizing their support for first President Joe Biden and now Harris.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Friday that he would withdraw from the presidential race and back Trump. However, he said that he would only remove his name from the ballot in "about 10 battleground states where my presence would be a spoiler." He encouraged voters in states where he remains on the ballot to still support him.

"These are the principled causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, and now to throw my support to President Trump," he said during his Friday remarks. "The causes were: Free speech, the war in Ukraine, and the war on our children."

Harris campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon said in a statement that the Harris campaign is for "any American out there who is tired of Donald Trump and looking for a new way forward."

"Even if we do not agree on every issue, Kamala Harris knows there is more that unites us than divides us: respect for our rights, public safety, protecting our freedoms, and opportunity for all," she said in a bid to attract Kennedy supporters.

Megan Lebowitz is a politics reporter for NBC News.

Hurricane Hone moves south of Hawaii's Big Island as Category 1 storm

Hone is moving westerly at 12 mph and is about 105 miles south of Hilo, Hawaii.

Hurricane Hone was moving late Saturday south of the Big Island of Hawaii as a weak Category 1 storm, with winds of 75 mph.

The storm was expected to remain at about the same status, walking the tight line between tropical storm and hurricane on Sunday and into Monday. Hurricanes have winds of 74 mph or greater.

Hone is moving westerly at 12 mph and is currently 105 miles south of Hilo, Hawaii, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Hurricane force winds were only extending about 15 miles from the eye of the storm, meaning the Big Island is only experiencing tropical storm conditions, and is only expected to. Tropical storm force winds were extending up to 125 miles.

A Tropical Storm Warning had been issued as Hone approached Hawaii. That warning remained in effect for Hawaii County at about 11 p.m. on Saturday, weather officials said.

MORE: Hawaii on alert for Tropical Storm Hone, extreme heat travels across country

While the storm isn't expected to make a direct hit on the islands, it is still close enough to deliver some potentially dangerous impacts. Tropical Storm conditions are likely occurring on the Big Island overnight and early Sunday, especially at higher terrains and through passes.

About 6 to 12 inches of rainfall are expected on the Big Island -- especially near the windward and southeast-facing slopes -- and there is a Flash Flood Watch there. For the smaller islands, about 2 to 4 inches of rain are expected.

Life-threatening surf and rip currents are also impacting Hawaii.

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