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‘It Takes Two’ rapper Rob Base, who helped bring hip-hop mainstream, dies at 59

NEW YORK (AP) — Rob Base, a rapper and one half of the Harlem hip-hop duo Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 59.

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Britney Spears was 'confrontational' and 'flamboyant' but tested low for alcohol during DUI stop

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears refused to get out of her BMW for about 10 minutes before her driving under the influence arrest in March. When she did, the singing superstar smelled of booze and appeared drunk in field sobriety tests, according to a police report and dashcam video obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

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Highlights and memorable moments from the red carpet fashion at Cannes 2026

London (AP) — As the twelve days of non-stop premieres at the Cannes Film Festival come to a close, so does the extravaganza's parade of high fashion.

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A round of a-paws for ‘La Perra,’ winner of the Palm Dog award at Cannes

CANNES, France (AP) — A round of a-paws for “La Perra,” winner of this year’s Palm Dog award at the Cannes Film Festival. The Chilean movie took the top canine prize Friday, a day before the festival's official awards ceremony.

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Memorial Day weekend: Miami Beach hosts Hyundai Air & Sea Show

Miami Beach is preparing to host the Hyundai Air & Sea Show on Saturday and Sunday at Lummus Park.

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Bruce Dern takes a bow at the Cannes Film Festival with a new documentary on his life

CANNES, France (AP) — When Bruce Dern was leaving the Actors Studio to try to make it in Los Angeles, Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg warned him that he wasn’t going to be landing leading man parts. He was going to be “the fifth cowboy to the right.”

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Paul McCartney helps Stephen Colbert say goodbye to 'The Late Show' in ambitious final show

NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert chatted with Paul McCartney and joined him on stage for a raucous performance of “Hello, Goodbye” on the final broadcast of CBS' “The Late Show” on Thursday night, a bittersweet farewell for a canceled show that still had a few barbs left for the network that ended its 33-year run.

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The game's afoot as armchair detectives mark Sherlock Holmes Day

SCHATTENHALB, Switzerland (AP) — From 221B Baker Street in central London to a cliffside waterfall in the Swiss Alps, generations of armchair detectives are celebrating International Sherlock Holmes Day on Friday.

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Wynwood Balloon Museum brings interactive inflatable art exhibit to South Florida

A globally touring inflatable art exhibit that has attracted more than seven million visitors worldwide has arrived in South Florida, bringing creative installations and interactive experiences to Wynwood for a limited run.

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Matthew Perry's family trusted his assistant to help keep him sober. He instead helped him overdose

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matthew Perry paid Kenneth Iwamasa $150,000 a year to be his live-in personal assistant. His role for the “Friends” star would expand to drug messenger, addiction enabler and de facto doctor, according to court filings.

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Giant inflatable artworks have taken over The Hague

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — There is a giant stew pot in a small lake in the center of The Hague.

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Cannes' amfAR Gala raises millions for AIDS research with sales of artwork, jewelry and lavish goods

ANTIBES, France (AP) — Actors and celebrities at the Cannes Film Festival were coaxed off the Croisette and up the French Riviera coast to Antibes on Thursday for dinner, performances and the annual amfAR Gala auction, which raised millions for AIDS research.

Rachel Maddow takes on the DOJ’s 150-year saga in a new book, 'Department of Fate'

NEW YORK (AP) — After writing bestsellers about the military, the oil and gas industry and the state of democracy, Rachel Maddow is now working on a history of the Justice Department.

Will White House correspondents' dinner be rescheduled? Some say: ‘Let’s call the whole thing off’

NEW YORK (AP) — And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.

The breathless Korean sci-fi monster movie 'Hope' leaves the Cannes Film Festival floored

CANNES, France (AP) — Sprawling action movies with aliens do not generally compete for the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or. But Na Hong-jin's “Hope” is not your average science fiction.

Don’t sleep on ‘Is God Is,’ a primal scream of a movie inspired by Westerns and Greek tragedy

Aleshea Harris wrote “Is God Is” with the assumption that it would never be performed as a play, let alone turned into a movie. It was simply a story she needed to get onto the page: A tale of rage and revenge, an ancient Greek tragedy melded with Spaghetti Western tropes centered on contemporary Black women, twins, on an epic, violent journey to find the father who wronged them. She even rewatched Quentin Tarantino's “Kill Bill” while she was writing.

Cannes standout 'Paper Tiger' reveals a new side to Miles Teller

CANNES, France (AP) — James Gray has been to the Cannes Film Festival enough times to not entirely trust the response his films get here, for better or worse.

Ella Langley dominates the ACM Awards and Cody Johnson wins entertainer of the year

Cody Johnson won entertainer of the year, but it was Ella Langley's night from the start. The first honor of the Academy of Country Music Awards Sunday was for the coveted song of the year, given to Langley for the crossover hit “Choosin’ Texas,” presented to her by Michael Bublé.