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“Tiger King” Joe Exotic is headed to a federal courtroom Friday for a resentencing hearing

A lack of security allowed dozens of men to ambush rapper Drakeo the Ruler, who was beaten and stabbed to death backstage at a Los Angeles music festival

The director of a Mississippi library system says a mayor is withholding $110,000 from his city’s library because LGBTQ books are on the shelves

Pablo Picasso’s family is not selling a digital asset linked to one of his works after all

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson has worn many hats, and even “some incredibly ridiculous trousers,” as he puts it

Hopes that a few of last year’s biggest box-office hits, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “No Time to Die,” might join the best-picture Oscar race were dealt a blow Thursday when several of Hollywood’s top guilds announced their film nominations

A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman

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One of just 20 special football cards featuring Tom Brady in the year he won his first Super Bowl is coming up for auction

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Jussie Smollett, who was convicted last month for lying to police about a racist, homophobic attack that authorities said he staged, will return to court for sentencing March 10

A Virginia Senate committee has killed legislation that would have required parental consent for students to check out sexually explicit books from school libraries

The new Hulu series “Pam & Tommy” tells the story of the whirlwind courtship and marriage of “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee

"She's a fighter," Dov Forman said of his great-grandmother, Lily Ebert.

Brent Cobb makes a spiritual lane change with his first gospel album “And Now Let's Turn to Page

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Stephanie Ruhle is replacing Brian Williams on the weeknight MSNBC broadcast ‘The 11th Hour,’ and the show ‘Morning Joe’ will expand to four hours

Justin Bieber had a peachy 2021, and he leads the iHeartRadio Music Award field with nine nominations

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Spotify says it will grant veteran rocker Neil Young's request to remove his music from its streaming platform

A train ride from Moscow to the arctic port city of Murmansk would not seem like the most likely setting for anything as warm as Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No_ 6.”

Tim Roth plays a wealthy man on vacation with family members in Acapulco in Michel Franco's slow-burn “Sundown.”

Hours after Russian authorities officially added Alexei Navalny to the country’s registry of terrorists and extremists, a new documentary about the imprisoned opposition leader premiered at the Sundance Film Festival

A California lawyer says Michael Avenatti jumped at the chance to represent porn star Stormy Daniels in 2018, saying he'd do it for a dollar

Prince Andrew’s lawyers have asked a U.S. court again to throw out a lawsuit accusing him of sexual abuse, citing multiple legal defenses

Finishing a book is usually cause for celebration

The businessman and philanthropist who transformed the Boston Pops July Fourth concert and fireworks show from a small local event into a nationally televised extravaganza has died

The new album from the North Mississippi Allstars, “Set Sail,” is a 10-song set with a funk foundation

There are two women who Chanté Adams always thanks before hitting the stage each night on Broadway: her grandmothers, together in a picture frame in her dressing room

It's Neil Young versus Joe Rogan for the allegiance of Spotify

It's hours before dawn in Acehuche, a small town in Spain's western Extremadura region, and a group of youngsters is ending a parade by setting off fireworks and beating drums. The noise awakes residents for some of the biggest dates in the local calendar: the three-day celebration of the fur-covered characters known as “Carantoñas" that resemble wild beasts. With roots in pagan traditions of fertility that were incorporated into religious symbolism, the ancient festival currently marks Acehuche's patron, St. Sebastian, whom the Catholic tradition considers a martyr of the early anti-Christian Romans. After the 2021 edition was canceled amid a strong surge in coronavirus cases, the festival went ahead in late January this year. It was held under strict mask-wearing rules due to record numbers of infections across Spain fueled by the highly contagious omicron variant. Following the tradition, women dress up as “Regaoras” in colorful embroidered skirts and shawls, decorating...

Jazz pianist, session musician and band leader Bobbe Long “Beegie” Adair has died

New Orleans' health director says she won't take part in a satirical Mardi Gras-season parade, one of the season's earliest, citing threats since COVID-19 restrictions were resumed

The NFL's epic playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs was the most-watched event on television since the last Super Bowl

Rarely have past and present mingled in a documentary the way they do in “Descendant,” a nonfiction account of the last known ship to bring African captives to the American South for enslavement

Police say rapper Slim Jxmmi was arrested in Miami after attacking the mother of his young child during an argument

A federal jury in Atlanta has awarded $1.25 million to Cardi B in a defamation lawsuit against a celebrity news blogger who she says posted videos saying the Grammy-winning rapper used cocaine, had contracted herpes and engaged in prostitution

Howie Mandel has a bone to pick with his longtime friend Jay Leno

Rihanna is backing her belief that climate change is a social-justice issue by pledging $15 million to the movement through her Clara Lionel Foundation

Despite being vaccinated and boosted, Elton John has contracted COVID-19 and is postponing two farewell concert dates in Dallas

Dakota Johnson is having a big year

The debut work of Seattle author Nathan Harris has earned him the 2021 Ernest J

Ryan Culwell is as Texan as an El Camino with a rusty tailgate, writes Scott Stroud of The Associated Press

Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee co-directed the new documentary “Aftershock,” which explores the topic of maternal mortality in the United States and premiered this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival

President Joe Biden has called a Fox News reporter a vulgarity.

War kept him away from his beloved homeland for decades

With techno beats, '80s retro futuristic tones and sweeping production, “Give Me the Future,” Bastille’s 13-track album, dives into the world of science-fiction, exploring the way technology can be a tool for escape

Buzz always emanates at the Sundance Film Festival from its music documentaries

Unknown people have toppled a statue of Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León ahead of a visit of Spain's King Felipe VI to the U.S. Caribbean territory of Puerto Rico

A prosecutor has told a jury in an opening statement that California lawyer Michael Avenatti stole nearly $300,000 in book proceeds from porn star Stormy Daniels while a defense lawyer says it's not true