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Facebook is launching podcasts and live audio streams in the U.S.

For her tour this fall to promote her memoir “Going There,” Katie Couric is anticipating not only the interest of her fans but a return to something like a pre-pandemic world — a nationwide book tour

Germany is opening a museum exploring the fate of millions of Germans forced to leave eastern and central Europe at the end of World War II, along with other forced displacements of the 20th and 21st centuries

The man known as Mr. Worldwide is ready to get back to his main business even as he spends more and more time with his latest investment in NASCAR

“The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard” has hit the top box office target

15 months later, Radio City reopens with Dave Chappelle.

Queen Elizabeth II has attended the final day of the Ascot races, where environmental protesters urged the monarch to press politicians to act against climate change

Queen Elizabeth II has attended the final day of the Ascot races, where environmental protesters urged the monarch to press politicians to act against climate change

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A 22-year-old man lost his hand and several others were also injured amid violence as police tried to break up an unauthorized rave party in western France

A record-setting Women's College World Series last week capped off a dynamic year of increased visibility for NCAA Division I women’s sports

Thousands of heavy metal fans are camping, singing — and even moshing — at Britain’s first full music festival since the start of the coronavirus pandemic

American filmmaker Laura Poitras has once again turned her camera on the watchmen in an exhibition opening Friday in Berlin

Every year, Hollywood inevitably comes under criticism for its lack of racial diversity

German police are appealing for information about the possible owners of two 17th-century paintings discovered in a highway rest stop dumpster

Rapper IDK is launching a music business program at Harvard University for students of color

The Gannett media company is promoting an effort to get Americans who live on either side of the ideological divide to talk to each other

As COVID-19 restrictions lift in the U.S., many are reacquainting with friends and loved ones

Frank Bonner, who played a brash salesman with a love of flashy plaid suits on the TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” has died

A string of notable American women will appear on the U.S. quarter under a four-year program that begins in 2022

The author and journalist Janet Malcolm has died at age 86

A judge has signaled that jailed R&B singer R. Kelly will likely get to keep his new defense team for a sex-trafficking trial

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an NBA legend, but the man known for his trademark skyhook shot has also devoted his life advocating for equality and social justice

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A public inquiry into a mass attack at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in northwest England has found that “serious shortcomings” by venue operators, security staff and police helped a suicide bomber who killed 22 people carry out his “evil intentions.”

The award-winning show celebrates groundbreakers from the LGBTQIA+ community.

The author of “Fire and Fury,” the million-seller from 2018 that helped launched the wave of inside accounts of the Trump White House, will have a last look coming out next month

Jazz guitarist Julian Lage fronts a trio on his Blue Note Records debut, “Squint.”

The U.S. Paralympic trials will receive unprecedented coverage this year, streaming live this week and culminating with a 90-minute highlight show on NBC

Warsaw’s Jewish history museum has opened an exhibition featuring the works of a renowned contemporary Polish artist that confront the pervasive presence of the Holocaust in Poland, where Germany carried out its destruction of Europe's Jews

Warsaw’s Jewish history museum has opened an exhibition featuring the works of a renowned contemporary Polish artist that confront the pervasive presence of the Holocaust in Poland, where Germany carried out its destruction of Europe's Jews

France’s tourism sector is taking a further step toward normality.

Three years after workplace misconduct allegations cost veteran TV and radio talk-show host Tavis Smiley his job and a national forum, he’s ending his silence

The LA Bowl has found a big name to be its very first title sponsor: ABC talk show host Jimmy Kimmel

The Japanese public generally opposes holding the Tokyo Olympics during a pandemic, even though outward dissent has seemed muted

A brisk and bright sun-dappled fable of above-ground adventure and below-the-surface identity, Enrico Casarosa’s “Luca” is one of Pixar’s most pure and condensed enchantments — a summery, shimmering fish-out-of-water fairy tale

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former President Donald Trump and one of his top advisers during his administration, has a book deal

The ESPYS are returning to New York next month and actor Anthony Mackie will host the show that honors the year’s top athletes and moments

In “Fatherhood," Kevin Hart plays a new dad whose wife dies shortly after childbirth and he’s left raising their daughter on his own

One of Germany’s most famous Catholic boys’ choirs plans to establish a separate choral group for girls for the first time in its more than 1,000-year history

The Associated Press says it will no longer publish the names or photographs of people charged with minor crimes, in a recognition of how such stories can have a long, damaging afterlife on the internet

Rita Moreno emigrated with her mother from Puerto Rico at age five

At first blush, Annie Murphy’s new series “Kevin Can F Himself” is your average multicamera sitcom with a laugh track and corny jokes

A New York judge on Tuesday approved disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s extradition to California, where he faces additional sexual assault charges

A British researcher is suggesting that seven may be a magic number for American media consumers

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Oprah Winfrey and Hearst Magazines are teaming up for interviews that pair young Black journalists with elders to tell stories about their lives