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MSNBC says that journalist Alex Wagner will take over Rachel Maddow's prime-time slot four nights a week, beginning in August

Federal authorities have seized six websites that prosecutors say were illegally distributing copyrighted music to millions of users

Many observers expected the Jan. 6 committee hearings would be nothing more than reruns, but they've proven much more

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Songwriter Kenneth “Ken” Williams, who wrote or co-wrote hundred of tunes for a vast array of performers, including Donny Hathaway, The Four Tops and Peaches & Herb, including The Main Ingredient’s hit “Everybody Plays the Fool,” has died

“Elvis” has won its box-office dance-off with “Top Gun: Maverick.”

As a freshman, Nina has a crush on her English teacher

In “Outside,” four old college friends who haven’t seen each other for a year or more go hunting together on the wild moors of Iceland

Queen Elizabeth II has traveled to Scotland and attended a ceremony as part of a week of traditional events

“Elsewhere,” the new novel from Alexis Schaitkin, transports readers to a mysterious mountain town where mothers occasionally vanish, a fact of life residents call an “affliction.”

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of July 3-9 include drummer Ringo Starr, rapper 50 Cent and “This Is Us” actor Milo Ventimiglia

Rapper Kendrick Lamar has closed this year’s Glastonbury Festival with a powerful headline set that saw him chant “Godspeed for women’s rights” as fake blood poured down his face from a crown of thorns

It is the highest honor at the BET Awards.

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The Elvis biopic shook up theaters with an estimated $30.5 million in sales.

The former Beatle pulled out all the stops for the 2½-hour concert.

The BET Awards return Sunday with a live show that could see Doja Cat, Drake and Ari Lennox snag some trophies

Residents at a motel along a tourist strip not far from Walt Disney World that was used as the setting for the 2017 film “The Florida Project” were told that they must vacate on short notice because the complex has been sold to another owner

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Mishael Morgan of “The Young and the Restless” won as lead drama actress, becoming the first Black actor to win in a lead category at the Daytime Emmys

In the twilight of his music directorship of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti candidly outlined his legacy and implored musicians to remember his instruction on Giuseppe Verdi’s operas: use the 19th century scores without altered notes

The judge in the defamation suit also ordered Depp to pay Heard $2 million.

The FBI raided a Florida art museum and seized more than two dozen paintings.

Celebrities including Viola Davis, Bette Midler and Stephen King reacted with sorrow and frustration after the Supreme Court on Friday voted 5-3 to overturn Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed a woman’s constitutional right to abortion

The rapper and artist were both involved with the so-called San Isidro Movement.

Two members of a loose-knit group of dissident artists have been sentenced to prison in Cuba

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged music fans at the Glastonbury Festival to “spread the truth about Russia’s war” on his country

The curators of a major art show in Germany have apologized for including a work featuring antisemitic elements that prompted an outcry at the event’s opening this week

For two years, former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords allowed a film crew to shadow her and husband Sen. Mark Kelly

Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp were at a bit of a career crossroads when they manifested Marcel, a one-inch-tall seashell with a tiny voice and a big heart

A judge has issued a bench warrant for an eyewitness to the shooting.

How does Rick Astley handle one of his songs being part of the biggest internet meme of all time

He may have died in November, but Virgil Abloh lives on at Paris Fashion Week in a high-energy runway spectacular for Louis Vuitton menswear

The stars and shows of daytime television are gathering in person to hand out trophies live at the Daytime Emmys for the first time in three years

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A memoir by Chelsea Manning will come out this fall

The author of “Nomadland,” the basis for the Oscar-winning movie of the same name, is working on a book about abortion

After more than six decades of making bicycles soar, sending swimmers panicking and other spellbinding close encounters, John Williams is putting the final notes on what may be his last film score

James Burrows loves sitcoms, and he should

One the most spectacular examples of ancient Roman baths, the Baths of Caracalla, has become more spectacular

One the most spectacular examples of ancient Roman baths, the Baths of Caracalla, has become more spectacular

“MJ,” the hit-filled Broadway musical about the King of Pop, got a huge bump at the box office after nabbing four Tony Awards and getting valuable exposure in front of millions during its electric telecast performance

For the first major collection of Paris Fashion Week’s menswear season, Givenchy’s models walked on water

James Rado, co-creator of the groundbreaking hippie musical “Hair,” which celebrated protest, pot and free love and paved the way for the sound of rock on Broadway, has died

Actor Marlee Matlin, director Jason Reitman and producer Jason Blum are joining the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Phones in serial killer movies are usually used by the deranged hunters to taunt the police or carefully tell victims how they’ll die

Sophie Allison's band Soccer Mommy is back with a third album, a wonderfully varied mix, from the industrial harshness of “Unholy Affliction” to the eerie “Following Eyes” to the airy “With U.”

Baz Luhrmann directs Austin Butler as Elvis Presley in the new musical drama from Warner Bros