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A new HBO documentary dives into the dreams of an unlikely mayor who defied odds to lead his impoverished, Central California city

MTV is ditching plans for indoor performances for its upcoming Video Music Awards, opting for outdoor shows spread throughout New York City instead

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association says its president, Lorenzo Soria, has died

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One of the country’s leading historians of the early United States, Pulitzer Prize winner Bernard Bailyn, has died at age 97

As the coronavirus pandemic forced people to stay put, it gave sharks a travel passport and scientists a rare opportunity

Comedian Andy Dick has filed a lawsuit in New Orleans against a man who punched him last year outside a French Quarter nightclub

The filmmakers behind the Lifetime docuseries “Surviving Jeffrey Epstein” have had to regroup twice ahead of its Sunday premiere

Two Jewish comedians riffing in a podcast about the idiosyncrasies of their shared heritage have sparked an uproar

Grammy Award-winning music producer Detail faces more than a dozen felony charges including multiple counts of rape and sexual assault

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Placido Domingo is back in Europe to receive a lifetime achievement award after recovering from the coronavirus, vowing in an interview with a top Italian daily newspaper to clear his name from sexual misconduct allegations

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Olympians including Michael Phelps, Apolo Anton Ohno, Jeremy Bloom, Shaun White, Lolo Jones and Sasha Cohen are opening up about their mental health struggles in a new sobering documentary about suicide and depression among the world’s greatest athletes

The British issue of Vogue is devoting its September issue to activism, with a cover featuring two Black activists and produced by a predominantly Black team on set

A British coroner has ruled that reality TV host Caroline Flack killed herself while facing an assault trial she feared would end her career and bring unbearable media scrutiny

Joe Biden’s Democratic presidential campaign has launched a new national ad focused on Black Americans, urging them to stand up to President Donald Trump the way their ancestors stood up to “violent racists of a generation ago.”

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FBI agents including a SWAT team have raided the home of YouTube star Jake Paul

Joe Biden’s Democratic presidential campaign is reserving $280 million in digital and television ads through the fall

The brazen humor of “The Ren & Stimpy Show” will be revisited in a new Comedy Central version of the animated show

Kaley Cuoco was looking for her next project three years before “The Big Bang Theory” ended

Longtime New York City newspaper columnist and author Pete Hamill has died

Five high school juniors, residing everywhere from Lake Worth, Florida to Saratoga, California, have been named National Student Poets

Zoos and aquariums from Florida to Alaska are struggling financially because of closures due to the coronavirus pandemic

For Bette Midler and Sarah Paulson, making HBO’s “Coastal Elites” in pandemic-forced isolation was an unsettling challenge

Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer Shirley Ann Grau has died at the age of 91

In a review of “A Saint from Texas” by Edmund White, Associated Press critic Molly Sprayregen writes that while the book contains artful prose, vivid storytelling, and a darkly whimsical tone

On stage or screen, the remarkable Mark Rylance seems incapable of hitting a false note

The new film “Made in Italy” hit close to home for Liam Neeson and his 25-year-old son, Micheál Richardson

A British judge has ruled that the Duchess of Sussex can keep her friends’ names secret while she brings a privacy-invasion lawsuit against a British newspaper

Police say a man who was fatally shot as he stood with another man on one of Chicago's most fashionable streets was a local rapper

For more than a century, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “The Secret Garden,” first published in 1911, has endured

A key witness in President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry is going to be sharing her views about the future of a polarized America

Rapper Kanye West has filed signatures in Wisconsin to run for president as an independent candidate in November

A brand new life is ahead for the vintage sitcom “Who’s the Boss?”

Neil Young has sued President Donald Trump's reelection campaign, saying he doesn't want his music used as a theme song for what he calls a divisive un-American campaign of ignorance and hate

“Mulan” is no longer headed for a major theatrical release

Walt Disney Co. has reported that its net income fell dramatically in the three-month period that ended in June

Fox News Channel viewers are usually a loyal bunch, but thousands reached for the ‘off’ switch when the network aired civil rights icon John Lewis' funeral last week

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Ben Samuel says the internet attention he's receiving after being on “Dating Around'' has been overwhelming

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Kanye West withdrew his petition to appear as a presidential candidate on New Jersey’s ballot

Jay-Z’s entertainment company is partnering with Brooklyn’s Long Island University to launch the Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment

Seth Rogen plays two roles in “An American Pickle,” a sweet immigration fable about a 1920s laborer who wakes up 100 years after falling into a vat of pickle juice and gets a crash-course in modern life from his great grandson

Oprah Winfrey has chosen Isabel Wilkerson's “Caste” as her new book club selection