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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Dreesen, who along with partner Tim Reid formed one of America's first interracial stand-up comedy duos and later spent years as Frank Sinatra's opening act, died Wednesday. He was 86.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who tried to get into pop star Sabrina Carpenter 's home more than a dozen times was ordered by a judge Wednesday to stay away from her for five years.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The musician Lil Nas X posted a moving video update to his Instagram on Wednesday morning. In the nearly three-minute clip, the artist — born Montero Lamar Hill — shared that he “has been in rehab for a few months,” and since then, has returned home to both Atlanta, where he is from and his family lives, and Los Angeles, where he resides.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Macy’s will celebrate America's 250th birthday with a Fourth of July fireworks show live on NBC featuring Post Malone, Blake Shelton, Salt-N-Pepa, Noah Kahan, Bebe Rexha and Shaboozey.
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FIFA World Cup 2026 fans have four more games on Wednesday, as group-stage matches continue.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ann Patchett's latest honor has an international scope.
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In “Outlast: The Jungle,” 16 strangers are dropped into the unforgiving Panamanian jungle and forced to survive in teams, where scarce resources, brutal conditions and shifting alliances push them to their limits.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The rapper Mystikal, who received multiple Grammy nominations in the early 2000s, will serve 20 years in prison for raping a woman at his Louisiana home in 2022.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Task” has tense standoffs between not-too-different cops and criminals. It has gunfights in the woods and heists that turn into bloodbaths that turn into kidnappings. Yet the HBO show’s most dramatic and essential moment may be a guy reading from a piece of paper.
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GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) — When shown the number of Instagram followers he had gained after helping tiny Cape Verde hold off powerhouse Spain in his team's World Cup debut, 40-year-old goalkeeper Vozinha gasped and laughed, in shock.
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Vice President JD Vance, appearing Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” to promote his newly released memoir on faith, was put on the spot from the first question, peppered for nearly an hour on Jeffrey Epstein, the economy, immigration and other issues facing the Trump administration.
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Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo trained on Tuesday in Palm Beach County ahead of his FIFA World Cup 2026 opener in Texas.
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PARIS (AP) — For weeks, a black mountain loomed over the Seine where Paris’ oldest bridge should have been. On Monday evening, its doors finally opened.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Days before “Obsession” opened in theaters, its 26-year-old director, Curry Barker, made a bet with his manager and agent. They said if the movie opened above $20 million, they would all get tattoos.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Recording Academy has tweaked some of its rules for the 2026 Grammy Awards, including the addition of five new categories.
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FIFA World Cup 2026 fans have three games on Tuesday, as group-stage matches continue.
WASHINGTON (AP) — It looks from afar more UFO than UFC.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro's next novel is set in a time and place familiar to fans of his classic “The Remains of the Day”: England in the 1930s.
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LONDON (AP) — Singer Bonnie Tyler is no longer in a coma but remains “very unwell” in intensive care, an update on her official website says.
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LONDON (AP) — British supermodel Naomi Campbell appeared in a London court Tuesday, giving evidence in a bid to overturn an official decision to ban her from being a charity trustee in England and Wales.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The marmalade-loving, Peruvian emigree bear Paddington is on the move again. Next stop, Broadway.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Christopher Jackson, one of the original cast members of the megahit Broadway musical “Hamilton,” is coming back to reprise his George Washington.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick also has the blessing of a second literary tastemaker, Jenna Bush Hager.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Author Amy Griffin sued a former classmate for defamation on Monday, saying the woman's statements in a New York Times story and a subsequent lawsuit alleging Griffin appropriated her stories of sexual abuse for her bestselling 2025 memoir “The Tell” are false in “every element.”
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FIFA World Cup 2026 fans have four games on Monday, as group-stage matches continue.
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World Cup fans at the FIFA Fan Festival had four free watch parties on Monday in downtown Miami.
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Uruguay hosted the first FIFA World Cup in 1930 and won the final against Argentina. The South American country won again in 1950.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Globally celebrated South African jazz icon Abdullah Ibrahim, who performed at Nelson Mandela ’s 1994 presidential inauguration, has died at age 91, his family announced in a statement Monday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Officials in Brazil on Monday were inspecting the site of a crash in which six people were killed Sunday, after two helicopters collided midair over a suburb of Rio de Janeiro.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Ponies” is a bit of a unicorn.
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The original FIFA World Cup trophy was on public display on Monday at the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami.
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FIFA World Cup 2026 fans have four games on Monday, as group-stage matches continue.
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FIFA World Cup 2026 fans have four games on Monday, as group-stage matches continue.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Two helicopters collided over Rio de Janeiro on Sunday morning and crashed in the city’s western zone, killing all six people aboard, firefighters said.
NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers who weren't partied out after the Knicks championship found another excuse to celebrate on Sunday as the National Puerto Rican Day Parade marched through Manhattan with pulsing music and vibrant colors.
NEW YORK (AP) — Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day,” billed as his first popcorn movie in years, launched with $44 million in domestic theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.
