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Lady Gaga Extends ‘Mayhem Ball’ Tour With 2026 North American Dates

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2 months ago

September 9, 2025

Lady Gaga Extends ‘Mayhem Ball’ Tour With 2026 North American Dates

Two days after her four big wins at the 2025 MTV VMAs, Lady Gaga has announced a second North American leg of her “Mayhem Ball” tour. The new dates, which follow jaunts in Europe, Australia and Japan, launch on Valentine’s Day, 2026 (February 14), with two nights at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, AZ, and continue across the continent, with return engagements at New York’s Madison Square Garden and Los Angeles’ Forum.

Variety‘s Chris Willman called the show “the quintessential large-scale tour of the year (or at least go down as caught up in a tie with Beyonce’s),” adding that “Gaga is in the best, most enviable position she’s ever been in — doing stuff that rates with the things fans consider their favorites, and completely avoiding the schadenfreude that ought to be afflicting anyone 17 years into her superstardom.”

Produced by Gaga and Michael Polansky, the tour features direction by Ben Dalgleish (Human Person), creative direction by Gaga, Polansky, Goebel and Human Person, choreography by Goebel, and costumes styled by Hunter Clem, Gaga’s sister Natali Germanotta (Topo Studio) and Hardstyle.

Last week the singer released a new song and video called “The Dead Dance,” featured in the Netflix series “Wednesday,” with a video directed by the show’s Tim Burton.

TICKETS: Tickets for the second North American leg will be available starting Wednesday, September 10 with various presales:

CITI PRESALE: Citi is the official card of the Lady Gaga North American tour dates. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Wednesday, September 10 at 12pm local time until Friday, September 12 at 11am local time through the Citi Entertainment program.

• VERIZON PRESALE: Verizon will offer customers an exclusive presale for the Lady Gaga ‘The Mayhem Ball’ tour in the U.S. The presale for select shows runs from Thursday, September 11 at 12pm local time until Friday, September 12 at 11am local time.

• VIP: The tour will also offer a variety of different VIP packages for fans to take their concert experience to the next level. Packages vary but include premium tickets, invitation to the pre-show VIP hospitality lounge, limited edition merch item & more.

• THE MAYHEM BALL NORTH AMERICA 2026 DATES – JUST ADDED

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• Sat Feb 14 — Glendale, AZ — Desert Diamond Arena

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• Sun Feb 15 — Glendale, AZ — Desert Diamond Arena

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• Wed Feb 18 — Los Angeles, CA — Kia Forum

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• Thu Feb 19 — Los Angeles, CA — Kia Forum

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• Sat Feb 28 — Fort Worth, TX — Dickies Arena

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• Sun Mar 01 — Fort Worth, TX — Dickies Arena

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• Wed Mar 04 — Atlanta, GA — State Farm Arena

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• Thu Mar 05 — Atlanta, GA — State Farm Arena

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• Sun Mar 08 — Austin, TX — Moody Center

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• Mon Mar 09 — Austin, TX — Moody Center

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• Fri Mar 13 — Miami, FL — Kaseya Center*

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• Thu Mar 19 — New York, NY — Madison Square Garden

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• Fri Mar 20 — New York, NY — Madison Square Garden

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• Mon Mar 23 — Washington, DC — Capital One Arena

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• Tue Mar 24 — Washington, DC — Capital One Arena

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• Sun Mar 29 — Boston, MA — TD Garden

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• Mon Mar 30 — Boston, MA — TD Garden

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• Thu Apr 02 — Montreal, QC — Bell Centre

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• Fri Apr 03 — Montreal, QC — Bell Centre

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• Thu Apr 09 — Saint Paul, MN — Grand Casino Arena

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• Fri Apr 10 — Saint Paul, MN — Grand Casino Arena

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• *Rescheduled Date

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• THE MAYHEM BALL REMAINING NORTH AMERICA 2025 DATES

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• Wed Sep 10 — Toronto, ON — Scotiabank Arena

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• Thu Sep 11 — Toronto, ON — Scotiabank Arena

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• Sat Sep 13 — Toronto, ON — Scotiabank Arena

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• Mon Sep 15 — Chicago, IL — United Center

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• Wed Sep 17 — Chicago, IL — United Center

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• Thu Sep 18 — Chicago, IL — United Center

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• THE MAYHEM BALL EUROPE/UK 2025 DATES

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• Mon Sep 29 – London, UK – The O2

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• Tue Sep 30 – London, UK – The O2

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• Thu Oct 02 – London, UK – The O2

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• Sat Oct 04 – London, UK – The O2

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• Tue Oct 07 – Manchester, UK – Co-op Live

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• Wed Oct 08 – Manchester, UK – Co-op Live

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• Sun Oct 12 – Stockholm, Sweden – Avicii Arena

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• Mon Oct 13 – Stockholm, Sweden – Avicii Arena

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• Wed Oct 15 – Stockholm, Sweden – Avicii Arena

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• Sun Oct 19 – Milan, Italy – Unipol Forum

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• Mon Oct 20 – Milan, Italy – Unipol Forum

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• Tue Oct 28 – Barcelona, Spain – Palau Sant Jordi

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• Wed Oct 29 – Barcelona, Spain – Palau Sant Jordi

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• Fri Oct 31 – Barcelona, Spain – Palau Sant Jordi

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• Tue Nov 04 – Berlin, Germany – Uber Arena

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• Wed Nov 05 – Berlin, Germany – Uber Arena

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• Sun Nov 09 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome

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• Tue Nov 11 – Antwerp, Belgium – Sportpaleis Arena

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• Thu Nov 13 – Lyon, France – LDLC Arena

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• Fri Nov 14 – Lyon, France – LDLC Arena

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• Mon Nov 17 – Paris, France – Accor Arena

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• Tue Nov 18 – Paris, France – Accor Arena

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• Thu Nov 20 – Paris, France – Accor Arena

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• Sat Nov 22 – Paris, France – Accor Arena

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• THE MAYHEM BALL AUSTRALIA 2025 DATES

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• Fri Dec 05 – Melbourne, AU – Marvel Stadium

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• Sat Dec 06 – Melbourne, AU – Marvel Stadium

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• Tue Dec 09 – Brisbane, AU – Suncorp Stadium

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• Fri Dec 12 – Sydney, AU – Accor Stadium

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• Sat Dec 13 – Sydney, AU – Accor Stadium

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• THE MAYHEM BALL JAPAN 2026 DATES

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• Wed Jan 21 – Osaka, Japan – Osaka Dome

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• Thu Jan 22 – Osaka, Japan – Osaka Dome

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• Sun Jan 25 – Tokyo, Japan – Tokyo Dome

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• Mon Jan 26 – Tokyo, Japan – Tokyo Dome

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• Thu Jan 29 – Tokyo, Japan – Tokyo Dome

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• Fri Jan 30 – Tokyo, Japan – Tokyo Dome

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Fact check: Has Marine Le Pen’s appeal been denied?

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37 minutes ago

November 10, 2025

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Fact check: Has Marine Le Pen’s appeal been denied?

Misleading posts circulating on X claim that an appeal lodged by French far-right leader Marine Le Pen against a conviction barring her from running in the 2027 presidential election has been rejected.

In March, Judge Bénédicte de Perthuis sentenced Le Pen to a five-year ban on holding public office, effective immediately, after finding she was “at the heart” of a scheme to embezzle European parliamentary funds.

The Paris Criminal Court also handed down a four-year prison sentence — two years suspended and two to be served with an electronic bracelet — along with a €100,000 fine. Le Pen has described the verdict as a “political witch-hunt” and declared she would exhaust all legal avenues to overturn it.

One widely shared post, which has amassed more than 600,000 views, claims that her appeal has already been denied, that the “French people are outraged”, and that the “EU is behind” the rejection.

But where does Le Pen actually stand, and do any of the post’s claims hold weight?

Has Le Pen’s appeal been rejected?

Essentially, to try and overturn her presidential ban as quickly as possible, Le Pen launched two separate challenges along French administrative and criminal paths.

On 15 October, the Council of State — France’s highest administrative court — rejected a legal challenge made by Le Pen against the country’s electoral rules.

It’s this administrative challenge that the post is likely referring to. As it happened weeks ago, it’s not breaking news, and it’s also separate from the appeal against her criminal conviction, which hasn’t been heard yet.

The administrative challenge concerned Le Pen’s removal from the electoral list in the Pas-de-Calais department, where she is an MP.

“Since she’s hit a wall in the criminal courts, Le Pen tried a side route: taking her case to the administrative courts,” Camille Aynès, constitutional law expert at the University of Paris Nanterre, told The Cube.

“Why go that way? Not really to win back her council seat. The real goal was strategic — to create a case that would allow her to raise a ‘priority question of constitutionality’ (QPC),” she said. “That’s a special French mechanism allowing someone in a lawsuit to ask whether the law applied in their case violates the Constitution.”

Ultimately, the Council of State refused to pass her challenge along. The criminal provisions that Le Pen contested, according to the court, were either non-existent or unrelated.

“The criminal provisions she was challenging weren’t even applicable in this administrative dispute,” Aynès told The Cube. “In other words, this wasn’t a backdoor appeal of her criminal conviction.”

The main impact of the Council of State court’s rejection is that Le Pen lost an opportunity to have the issue reviewed quickly, instead of waiting months for her appeal trial.

It’s an issue that she will have wanted to resolve quickly amid the political unrest in France — if President Emmanuel Macron called snap presidential elections, they could take place before Le Pen’s criminal appeal ruling, leaving her unable to run, whatever the subsequent result is.

Appeals yet to come

Despite claims made by online users that her appeal has been denied, Le Pen is launching a separate and larger appeal against her criminal conviction — the outcome of which is far from decided. A trial has been scheduled from 13 January until 12 February next year.

A verdict in this trial is expected before the summer, which would still give Le Pen time to stand in the 2027 presidential election, provided her sentence is overturned or reduced.

“The Council of State still has to rule on another QPC Le Pen filed over her removal as a regional councillor — but experts expect the outcome to be the same: no referral to the Constitutional Council,” Aynès told The Cube.

In July, Le Pen also sought an interim measure from the European Court of Human Rights — a Strasbourg-based court which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights — to quash the immediate application of her five-year ban. Her request was denied.

“At this point, only the criminal appeal can change things,” Aynès said. “If her verdict is upheld, she can then turn to the Court of Cassation [France’s supreme court for civil and criminal cases].”

Is the European Union to blame and how popular is Le Pen?

As for the claims that the “EU is behind” Le Pen’s ban, they’re also wrong: the case and the conviction are entirely under the French judiciary.

The details in the case date back to when Le Pen was an MEP. Prosecutors say that, between 2004 and 2016, she and several of her party members diverted funds meant to pay for parliamentary assistants to finance party activities in France.

According to Aynès, the wrongdoing only stopped because the European Parliament blew the whistle.

“That’s the only sense in which the EU can be said to have been ‘involved’ — it alerted prosecutors,” she said.

Similar narratives conflating the European Union’s role in national courts were repeated on social media after Romanian presidential candidate Călin Georgescu was banned from running in the country’s presidential election by the constitutional court.

Despite her legal woes, Le Pen and the National Rally (RN) party remain popular, so that part of the X post is true. At the time of her conviction, an Ifop Opinion poll placed her at 37%. More recent polling puts her and RN president Jordan Bardella between 33 and 37%, ahead of their political rivals.

Other claims that Bardella will run for her party as a presidential candidate are also unconfirmed, despite the 30-year-old having Le Pen’s vocal backing. RN did not respond to The Cube’s request for comment on the matter as of the time of publishing.

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Video: Powerful Tornado Leaves Trail of Destruction in Southern Brazil

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16 hours ago

November 9, 2025

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Video: Powerful Tornado Leaves Trail of Destruction in Southern Brazil

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The Brazilian authorities said several towns in the state of Paraná were struck by the tornado, which killed at least five people.

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