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The singer who recorded the hits “Honeycomb,” “Kisses Sweet Than Wine” and many other popular songs during the 1950s and 60s has died

Screenwriter Walter Bernstein has died

Larry King has died at age 87 after a half-century in broadcasting that included interviews with presidents, movie stars and ordinary Joes

Gregory Sierra had memorable roles in “Barney Miller" and “Sanford and Son.”

Larry King seemed like a throwback to a different age in media and show biz even during the height of his career hosting a nightly talk show on CNN

Larry King has died at age 87 after a half-century in broadcasting that included interviews with presidents, movie stars and ordinary Joes

Celebrities and interview subjects, from Bill Clinton to Oprah Winfrey, are mourning the death of Larry King

Larry King, television's everyman interviewer of the famous and obscure, dies at 87, according to network he co-founded

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Daisy Ridley and Jennifer Hudson went to a movie premiere together last week

NBC will shut down the NBC Sports Network at the end of the year

The former top editor of The New York Daily News has been tapped as the next executive editor of The Providence Journal

Former “Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw says he is retiring from NBC News after working at the network for 55 years

Bob Avian, a Tony Award-winning choreographer who had a role in some of the most beloved and influential shows on Broadway, including “Dreamgirls,” “A Chorus Line,” “Follies” and “Miss Saigon,” has died

Just outside of Bucharest, a family with nine children called the lands around an abandoned water reservoir and landfill home

Production on the film “Our Friend” starring Jason Segel, Casey Affleck and Dakota Johnson wrapped before the pandemic but it makes sense if the movie — about a woman dying of cancer — strikes an emotional chord with viewers

Two new films about Wuhan have been released on the eve of the anniversary of the 76-day lockdown in the central Chinese city where the coronavirus was first detected

Producers of the forthcoming James Bond thriller “No Time to Die” say the film’s release has been delayed again, until the fall of 2021, because of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic

Popular South Korean hip-hop trio Epik High was working on a song called “End of the World” before the pandemic hit last year

Dave Chappelle has tested positive for the coronavirus and his upcoming comedy shows have been canceled

Native Americans celebrated as Joe Biden revoked a pipeline permit and halted border wall construction on his first day as president

CNN and MSNBC, whose political talk lineups are most popular with fans of President Joe Biden, significantly increased their audiences for his inaugural compared with four years ago when Donald Trump took the oath of office

Original “Saved by the Bell” star Dustin Diamond has begun undergoing chemotherapy treatments after being diagnosed with cancer, according to his representative

Country star Dolly Parton says her brother and singing partner Randy Parton has died of cancer

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Brazilian reggae band Natiruts, Jamaican musician Ziggy Marley and Mexican actress Yalitza Aparicio hope a trilingual song causes the people of the Americas to unite in a more fair and loving world

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Britain’s Glastonbury music festival has fallen victim to the coronavirus pandemic for the second year in a row

While album of the year nominees at the 2021 Grammys include Taylor Swift, Coldplay and Post Malone, the real victor is Emily Lazar

David Halls isn’t a doctor, nurse or ambulance driver, but he wanted to contribute in the fight against COVID-19

Stars ranging from Lady Gaga to Bruce Springsteen have capped a star-studded inauguration for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris

President Joe Biden's press secretary Jen Psaki has held her first press briefing, and it was a sedate affair — even boring at times

An unprecedented impeachment hearing failed to keep TV viewers from settling back into familiar habits last week

“Tiger King” Joe Exotic's name is missing from President Donald Trump’s flurry of pardons

Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman summoned images dire and triumphant Wednesday as she called out to the world “even as we grieved, we grew” in her poem “The Hill We Climb.”

Ramin Bahrani's “The White Tiger” is the kind of widescreen epic of class struggle about an ambitious, cunning climber that has long been a rich domain of movies

A lawyer for the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper says the Duchess of Sussex had no reasonable expectation of privacy for a letter she sent to her estranged father after her marriage to Prince Harry

Border tensions are boiled down to the microcosm of two families in “No Man’s Land,” an independent thriller written by and starring Jake Allyn and directed by his brother Conor

After Air Force One took Donald Trump out of Washington, an unusual Inauguration Day quickly felt more traditional, even comforting, for people watching at home

An attorney for “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson has pleaded not guilty on his behalf in a Los Angeles court to the rapes of three women in the early 2000s

President Donald Trump has pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a late flurry of clemency action benefiting nearly 150 people, including rap stars and former members of Congress

When President Donald Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of more than 140 people in a last-minute clemency flurry the list included two rappers, Lil Wayne and Kodak Black

Dozens of U.K. music stars including Elton John, Ed Sheeran and conductor Simon Rattle say musicians have been “shamefully failed” by the British government, which has left them facing post-Brexit restrictions on touring in the European Union

Moon Taxi have a new album with a dozen songs, but Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy says you may be forgiven for losing track of them

Italian police have recovered a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th century “Salvator Mundi” painting of Jesus Christ that was stolen from a Naples church without the priests even realizing it was gone

Aravind Adiga's novel “The White Tiger” about a driver in India who rises to become a successful businessman despite the stratified caste system was an international bestseller and critical darling

Inauguration Day for President-elect Joe Biden will look unlike anything the nation has seen before as the scars of COVID-19 and the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol turn the West Front into a virtual ghost town compared to years past

The inaugural celebration will be pared down, distanced, much of it virtual

The new crime drama “The Little Things” brings together a group of acting heavyweights and unlikely bedfellows in Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto

Two of Fox News Channel's top news executives involved in the controversial — but correct — election night call of Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden are out at the network