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A prosecutor in closing arguments at the sex-trafficking trial of R. Kelly has asked jurors to make the R&B superstar “pay” for his alleged sex crimes

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The chief investigator for a Boston museum still working to recover $500 million worth of art stolen in 1990 says he's hoping for new leads to emerge following the death of a key figure in the case

A federal appeals court has revived a Philadelphia newscaster’s lawsuit against Facebook over the unauthorized use of her image in advertisements for dating sites and sex-related products that ran on the site

It was looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago, Now, a 3,500-year-old clay tablet discovered in the ruins of the library of an ancient Middle Eastern king is finally headed back to Iraq

A movie year of fits-and-starts, delays and reversals has sometimes been difficult to track

The purportedly haunted Rhode Island farmhouse where the spooky happenings that inspired the 2013 horror movie “The Conjuring” occurred has hit the market for the scary price of $1.2 million

BTS' Jungkook: "Still hard to believe that we did a speech and a performance."

Conductor Riccardo Muti has extended his contract as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra by one year through the 2022-23 season

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British director Roger Michell has died at age 65

The journey from stage to screen, so often a perilous one, has been particularly bumpy for “Dear Evan Hansen.”

Giorgio Armani has celebrated 40 years of his Emporio Armani line with a retrospective show at his Silos museum and a collection for youthful dressers that brimmed with colorful optimism

Shaquille O’Neal, Tyra Banks and Kevin Hart are among the celebrities taking part in a live-streamed special intended to boost Black-owned businesses

James Bond star Daniel Craig has been made an honorary Commander in the Royal Navy

Nick Cannon almost quit his lucrative TV host and producer career after facing heavy scrutiny for his anti-Semitic comments last year

Broadway is in need of a boost these days so it has smartly called on one of its most beloved, award-winning stage veterans for help — Audra McDonald

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The Met Opera’s season opens on Monday, and for the first time in its 138-year history it will perform an opera by a Black composer

Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, got a hawk’s-eye view of New York City with a visit to the rebuilt World Trade Center’s signature tower

Robert Gentile, a mobster who for years denied suspicions from authorities that he knew anything about artwork stolen in a 1990 museum heist, has died

A month after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the music is going quiet. The last time the militant group ruled the country, in the late 1990s, it outright banned music. So far this time, the government set up by the Taliban hasn’t taken that step officially. But already, musicians are afraid a ban will come, and some Taliban fighters on the ground have started enforcing rules on their own, harassing musicians and music venues. Many wedding halls are limiting music at their gatherings. Musicians are afraid to perform. At least one reported that Taliban fighters at one of the many checkpoints around the capital smashed his instrument. Drivers silence their radios whenever they see a Taliban checkpoint. In the alleys of Kharabat, a neighborhood in Kabul’s Old City, families where music is a profession passed through generations are looking for ways to leave the country. The profession was already hit hard by Afghanistan’s foundering economy, along with the coronavirus...

Mayim Bialik knew she’d be busy around this time of year, but not this busy

Musical multi-hyphenate Brandi Carlile has another trophy for her shelf as she won artist of the year at the 2021 Americana Honors and Awards show

A library devoted to Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami’s writings, scrapbooks and record collection opens next week in Tokyo for research, cultural exchange and a gathering spot for his fans

Britney Spears said in a court filing that she agrees with her father that the conservatorship that has controlled her life and money for 13 years should be terminated

Melvin Van Peebles, a Broadway playwright, musician and movie director whose work ushered in the “blaxploitation” films of the 1970s, has died

Closing arguments have begun in the sex trafficking trial of R&B singer R. Kelly

Taking center stage in a prestigious Spanish film festival to receive a top career award, actor Johnny Depp presented himself as a victim of the “cancel culture” that, he said, has spread across the cinema industry

Taking center stage in a prestigious Spanish film festival to receive a top career award, actor Johnny Depp presented himself as a victim of the “cancel culture” that, he said, has spread across the cinema industry

Poland’s broadcasting regulators have extended the license of Discovery Inc.-owned TVN24

Owen Wilson, Kim Kardashian West, Rami Malek and Jason Sudeikis will take turns hosting the first four weeks of ‘Saturday Night Live’ this season

Mickey Guyton's path in country music has been fraught with obstacles, but her perseverance turned into a powerful and personal debut full-length album

Jim Sheeler, a former Rocky Mountain News journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his extensive and compassionate reporting on the families of Colorado soldiers killed in the Iraq War and the man tasked with notifying them, has died

New York prosecutors have charged a Los Angeles man with perjury, saying he falsified emails to support his lawsuit against entertainment industry executives

The daytime talk show is honoring Hispanic Americans.

Netflix says it has bought the works of Roald Dahl, the late British author of celebrated children’s books such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”

Most TV dramas try to tell stories over a few years with maybe half a dozen central characters

Germany’s president has called on the country to face its cruel colonial past as he opened a new museum in the capital’s center that will be home to two of Berlin’s state museums which include looted artifacts from countries in Africa and elsewhere

Willie Garson, who played Stanford Blatch on TV’s “Sex and the City” and its movie sequels, has died at the age of 57

The projectors are rolling

Smoke and flames shot up the side of the Superdome's roof after a pressure washer being used to clean the roof of the New Orleans arena caught fire

Increasingly under fire from its clients, the Nielsen company says it will soon incorporate homes that have cut the cable cord and rely on broadband in its measurement of local TV viewership

A philanthropic organization led by rapper Jay-Z is seeking police files and other records related to officer misconduct in the Kansas City, Kansas, police department

AEW founder Tony Khan has put professional wrestling on notice that he has the hottest company in the business

A lawyer for R. Kelly has told a judge that the R&B singer is unlikely to take the witness stand at his sex-trafficking trial

The coronavirus has forced Hollywood to adapt in countless ways to keep productions running through the pandemic

Author Brad Ricca's “True Raiders" tells the true but little-known story about the hunt for the Ark of the Covenant in 1909, the Biblical artifact that Indiana Jones set off after on screen

Filmmaker James DeMonaco remembers the day “Rocky III” hit theaters as if it were yesterday

In “Daughter of the Morning Star” the 17th novel in Craig Johnson’s series featuring Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire, the author uses the mystery genre to raise awareness about the epidemic of violence against Native American women