February 15th, 2025

Entertainment News

Arrest made in beating death of pioneering Black Bronx rocker

By The Associated Press on January 18th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) – Police in New York City have arrested a man in connection with the beating death of a pioneering rock musician in the Bronx. Sharief Bodden, 29, was charged Friday in the killing of Peter Forrest, a 64-year-old Bronx resident, who under the stage name P. Fluid had been a frontman for ... Read More »

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Voice of America is required by law to report the news accurately. Could Donald Trump change that?

By Laurie Kellman And David Bauder, The Associated Press on January 17th, 2025

LONDON (AP) – It’s called the Voice of America – a storied news outlet that has promised “the truth” since it first broadcast stories about democracy into Nazi Germany during World War II. Now, it’s the voice of a country in which a majority of voters chose incoming presidentDonald Trump, a man famous for insistingthe ... Read More »

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Beyoncé at the Grammys: A timeline of the most-awarded artist’s historic run

By Maria Sherman, The Associated Press on January 17th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) – Give Beyoncé a record and she’ll break it. When the 2025 Grammy Award nominations were announced, her genre-defying album “Cowboy Carter” led the nominations with 11. That brought Beyoncé’s career total nominations to a whopping 99, making her the most nominated artist in Grammys history. Another amazing feat: “Cowboy Carter” tied ... Read More »

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New Pompeii excavation reveals a large private thermal complex built 2,000 years ago

By The Associated Press on January 17th, 2025

ROME (AP) – Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by ash and lava in 70 AD, has unearthed a new treasure — a private bathhouse built 2,000 years ago, decorated with sumptuous mosaics and equipped with a series of hot, warm and cold rooms in the manner of a spa. “We have here perhaps the ... Read More »

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Donald Trump vows to help ‘troubled’ Hollywood with Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone

By Lindsey Bahr And Jill Colvin, The Associated Press on January 16th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) – Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood “bigger, better and stronger” and has cast Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as stars of what he is calling his “Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California.” On Wednesday, the President-elect announced on his social media site that the ... Read More »

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He is credited with one of history’s most indelible photos. A new documentary questions who took it

By David Bauder, The Associated Press on January 16th, 2025

It is one of the 20th century’s most memorable images: a naked girl, screaming, running from a napalm bombing during the Vietnam War. More than a half-century later, a new documentary is calling into question who took it – and the retired Associated Press photographer long credited for the photo insists it was his, while ... Read More »

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Nintendo’s new Switch 2 console will come out in 2025

By Sarah Parvini, The Associated Press on January 16th, 2025

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Gaming giant Nintendo revealed its newest console Thursday in a highly anticipated announcement gamers had been waiting for since rumors of its release first spread years ago. The Nintendo Switch 2, the successor to the Nintendo Switch system, will be released in 2025, the company said. In a new promotional video, ... Read More »

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‘September 5’ revisits the seminal Munich Olympics attack broadcast, with questions for today

By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press on January 16th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) – Nearly all of the new film “September 5″ takes place in the darkened, smokey control room from which ABC Sports broadcast the hostage crisis of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. All around the room is a buzzing clutter of period analog equipment. The video monitors act like windows, offering perspectives ... Read More »

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Conan O’Brien will receive Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy

By Ashraf Khalil, The Associated Press on January 16th, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) – Comedian and host Conan O’Brien was named the newest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy on Thursday. O’Brien, 61, has carved out an improbable decadeslong career arc, moving from goofy television interloper to comedic elder statesman. Along the way, he survived one of the most public failures ... Read More »

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No cupcakes, no cosmos: ‘Sex and the City’ brownstone in NYC will get a gate to deter tourists

By Joseph B. Frederick And Michael Hill, The Associated Press on January 15th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) – Thinking about toasting Carrie Bradshaw with a cosmo while posing on the front steps of her iconic Manhattan brownstone from “Sex and the City?” Think again. The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission approved an application for a gate Tuesday after Barbara Lorber, who has owned the building since 1978, lamented “the endless ... Read More »

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‘Conclave’ leads race for British BAFTA awards, one more than ‘Emilia Perez’

By Hilary Fox And Pan Pylas, The Associated Press on January 15th, 2025

LONDON (AP) – Papal thriller ” Conclave “ leads the race – just – for the British Academy Film Awards, with nominations in 12 categories, one more than the genre-busting trans musical ” Emilia Perez.” But with the wildfires in Los Angeles over the past week fresh in the minds of everyone in the movie ... Read More »

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