Clay Aiken is officially in the running for a seat in the House of Representatives after winning a primary in North Carolina’s second congressional district.

One day after his opponent Keith Crisco died suddenly after a fall in his home, the “American Idol” alum was was declared the Democratic nominee after winning the required 40 percent of the vote in the district. The two were in a tight race when Crisco died on Monday. Aiken won 40.86 percent of the votes, while Crisco won 39.49 percent.

The singer will face Republican incumbent Renee Ellmers in the Novemeber election after edging out Crisco by 390 votes.

Aiken suspended all campaign activities after learning of his opponent’s passing, writing on Twitter on Monday, “I am stunned and deeply saddened by Keith Crisco’s death. He was a gentleman, a good and honorable man and an extraordinary public servant.”

The district historically leans primarily Republican. (Mitt Romney won 57 percent of the vote there in 2012.)

Emily Blake

With reporting by Alex Zalben.

There’s not a lot more that Will Forte can tell us about his new Fox comedy, “The Last Man On Earth,” than what we already know from the title. It seems to be exactly what it sounds like: The “Saturday Night Live” alum plays a guy who just so happens to be all alone on the planet. The just-released trailer for the show plays like a dark comedy, with Forte wandering the aisles of an abandoned grocery store pantsless and trolling for porn, and, still pantsless, singing into a megaphone at an empty Dodger Stadium, acquiescing to an invisible crowd’s demands for just one more song.

As a short, the concept works tremendously. As a series, however, a potential audience member wonders just how much mileage can be had out of a one-man show.

At the Fox upfronts this week, MTV News had the chance to ask Forte exactly how the heck he planned to pull this off.

“We’re writing it for my family,” he joked. “My family’s gonna love it, my family’s gonna be really interested, and if we get other viewers, that’s alright, but we’ve got the Forte family locked up.”

“No, we’re actually very excited about it. We’ve come up with a lot of really fun, interesting things and twists and turns.”

Not that he can tell us about any of those twists: “I don’t want to say too much about it, but we’re really excited about it. It’s a really fun, dark, at times but mainly just ...

For the men of the world, Indiana Jones is a double-edged sword. The archeologist-slash-badass is the model of manhood we all aspire to, but he’s also an impossible ideal. This is the reason the world has so many unfortunate fedoras.

That’s what Justin Bieber learned today.

Earlier, the pop star shared a photo to his Instagram with the caption “Is that young Indiana. #skintightpants #igottachill.”

Having examined the picture closely, I can confirm that this isn’t, in fact, a picture of young Indiana Jones (it’s not even Sean Patrick Flanery), but just a snapshot of Bieber on a tiny pony.

Assuming the singer hasn’t recently taken up humility as a hobby, I’m going to take the comparison as an earnest one. In that case, we have a few things to talk about because one should never invoke the name of Indiana Jones without the goods to back it up.

(I know that the hashtag #skintightpants could suggest that the comparison was made tongue in cheek, but I don’t joke about Indiana Jones.)

So what’s wrong here? Let’s start at the top.

The Hat
Bieber’s hat is a porkpie. Indiana Jones bravado requires a true fedora, but one that’s suited to the wearer’s head. Big fedoras make everyone look bad.

The Footwear
Indiana Jones wears one kind of shoe, and it’s not whatever Bieber has on. Alden is an American institution, appropriate for a true American hero.

The Pants
Ah, yes. The “#skintightpants” need to go. An explorer needs something that ...

Here’s the thing about Alec Baldwin: He pretty much always gets the last word. And while that word often is NSFW, on Tuesday (May 13), he kept things pretty PG when he responded to being pulled over and put in a squad car by New York police after a bicycle-riding infraction.

According to reports, Baldwin was indeed cited for riding his bike the wrong way down a city street and not having proper ID on him when officers pulled him over on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. And, according to TMZ, police sources described the former “30 Rock” star as being “belligerent” with arresting officers while in custody.

Baldwin reportedly got a disorderly conduct citation on top of his bicycle infraction as a result.

All this, the star noted, even as police are nowhere to be found when tabloid photographers camp outside his home and scare his daughter.

And then things got real. “New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity,” he added on Twitter, lashing out at officers who ticket citizens for “behavior once thought benign.”

A spokesperson for the New York Police Department could not be reached for comment at press time.

The incident comes less than three months after Baldwin penned a scathing essay for New York magazine in which he officially said good-bye to public life and implied that he would abandon the city for Los Angeles.

Gil Kaufman

With reporting by James Lacsina

With “Show Me,” Kid Ink and Chris Brown joined forces to create a platinum-selling single. They’ve got another potential smash on their hands, too, with “Main Chick” — but because of his recent legal troubles, Brown will likely not end up in the video.

“Right now, it’s looking like we got a nice video with me and Tyga, but we still gonna have some open room to situate with Chris and have some ideas if it just comes to that,” Ink told MTV News before KIIS FM’s Wango Tango in Los Angeles over the weekend.

“I talked to him just right before we started shooting the video, and his team has been incorporated with my team and reaching out, and keeping me in tune with what’s going on,” he said. “We were waiting for him for the video. Hopefully we can finalize it pretty soon and have it out. We don’t wanna waste too much time.”

Last week, Brown was sentenced to another four months behind bars, where he’s been for the last two, for skipping out on his anger management.

When the video does drop — sooner rather than later, and without Breezy, it seems — the Tha Alumni Music Group rapper expects it to be one of his crispest yet.

“Usually, I do a lot of performance videos, or strictly story videos,” he said. “This one is kind of more about just the visual, and catching the eye when it’s on mute. I think I got ...

As your calendar is filling up with all the summer music festivals you need to pay attention to, let me make it easy. Here’s why Hangout Fest is the only fest in which you need to invest.

There. I rhymed. Did I get your attention?

Forget Bonnaroo or Electric Daisy or, hell, even Newport. Here’s why you need Hangout in your life.

IT’S ON THE BEACH
Do I even need to proceed with this post? It’s on the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Sand between your toes, sun on your sunhat and a brisk saltwater breeze. Like, really, what more could you want when you’re jamming to Outkast?

Even The Kickoff Party Is Bangin’
I mean, before we even get started on this magical weekend, the party is already started. With the kickoff party, we’ll hear from Bleachers (a.k.a. Jack Antonoff from Fun.), Iron & Wine, Girl Talk and so much more.

Look, here’s Girl Talk, ready to bring his mash-ups to you on Thursday.

There Will Be No Flower Crowns
I can’t actually promise anything, but I have a feeling that people will leave the flower crowns for Coachella and bring their seashell hair ties instead. Feel out that beachy vibe and wear a lei instead.

See that? Shell accessories. I’m all about it.

That elevator video of Solange, Jay Z, and Beyoncé — maybe you’ve seen it? Well, allow me to put on my sensible myth-buster’s pantsuit, because there are some beyond questionable non-truths circling around this story that need debunking.

Maybe you’ve seen a headline like “Solange Purged Beyoncé From Her Instagram” or “This Appears to Be the Only Photo of Beyoncé Left on Solange’s Instagram” tweeted and retweeted throughout your social-media circles?

Well, I traced the story back to its origin: SheKnows, which reported on Monday that the “Losing You” songstress had been “deleting all traces of her sister” in response to the fallout. Their proof? The following photo, purportedly the only one of Beyoncé that remains.

Or so they claimed. A quick moderately time-consuming scroll through Solange’s feed reveals that there are at least two more photos of her big sis left untouched.

Maybe more! Whatever! So what! Who cares! #FredArmisenAsJoyBeharVoice

The point is that there is more than one photo of Bey on Solange’s Instagram, which contradicts the story as it has been reported and re-reported and re-re-reported ad nauseum on Tuesday (May 13).

Besides, as someone who has literally been paid to check Solange’s Instagram every morning for the past WHO EVEN KNOWS (thanks for the college education, Mom and Dad!), I can honestly say that until the Met Gala, the “Pretty Hurts” singer rarely, if ever, figures into her little sister’s feed. The fact that ...

Even though the main “Harry Potter” saga ended almost two years ago, the series has been surprisingly active in the last 24 hours. Earlier today, we brought you news that the original trio is reuniting for a new Universal Studios ride, and now we know when the J.K. Rowling-penned spin-off trilogy will debut.

The first installment of the “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” trilogy will open in theaters on November 18, 2016.

Now before you begin to panic because of how far away that date is let’s remember how awesome these new films sound.

The new film is being written by Rowling herself and follows the early life of Newt Scamander, the magical creature specialist responsible for one of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts textbooks.

The films will be set 70 years before the events of Rowling’s book series, placing the movie roughly in the 1920s, and since Scamander’s story starts in New York City, this is a time and place we have yet to see from the author’s fictional universe.

Once Rowling delivers the script — that is, if she hasn’t already — the next step will be to find a director. No names have been rumored yet, but expect that to change in the coming months.

Now, stop screaming. I’m excited too.

“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” opens in theaters on November 18, 2016.

Kevin P. Sullivan

Miley Cyrus wants to clear something up: That R-rated onstage rant wasn’t about her ex-fiancé Liam Hemsworth, it was just that she was suffering from a case of being “tooooo turnttttt up.”

In addition to riding a giant inflatable pink penis, Miley caught everyone’s attention when a video surfaced of the singer going off on a particular “motherf–ker that broke my heart,” at London’s G.A.Y. club before launching into her hit single, “Wrecking Ball.”

The pop star took to Twitter on Tuesday (May 13) to make it publicly known that her comments were not about her former longtime love; it was just meant to “rile up the boys.”

Shortly after she added that although she doesn’t usually respond to “tabloidy stuff,” she said she didn’t want something untrue to be making the rounds since “it sounded hateful but not what I meant.”

She concluded her Twitter comments by adding that she doesn’t want “hateful things being said about those I care about” and gives one more reason as to why she got caught up in the moment: “I was just tooooo turnttttt up.”

There you have it!

Christina Garibaldi

Now that the first photo has debuted, it’s clear that for his take on the Caped Crusader, Zack Snyder really wants to bring Batman back toward the darker vigilante comic book fans know from the work of Frank Miller.

When Snyder announced the meeting of Batman and Superman back at San Diego Comic-Con 2013, he used a quote from Miller’s iconic run to tease what he hoped to achieve with his “Man of Steel” follow-up.

Just a passing glance at the new Batsuit, with its stubbier ears, large emblem and gauntlet-like gloves, that this is the Batman from “The Dark Knight Returns.”

Batman’s suit obviously plays into that, but also the man beneath it. Soon after Ben Affleck joined the movie, there were rumors floating around that he had already started to bulk up. Those rumors now appear to be very, very true. While Christian Bale wasn’t exactly lean during his tenure as Bruce Wayne, Affleck is built like a bulldog.

Since Snyder took the first photo in a low-contrast monochrome, many of the other details in the Batsuit are hard to make out. It’s possible that the main portion of the costume falls in line with the “Dark Knight Returns” gray aesthetic, but we’ll have to wait for a color photo.

The suit itself has a texture that looks almost sinewy. Random scratches in the texture hint at the description of a worn-down Batman that we’ve been hearing for some time ...