Today: May 06, 2024
Today: May 06, 2024

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With help from AI, Randy Travis got his voice back. Here's how his first song post-stroke came to be

With artificial intelligence, country music star Randy Travis has his voice back

Tom Brady's Netflix roast features lots of humor, reunion between Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick

Three months before Tom Brady gets roasted by critics as Fox Sports' top NFL analyst, he took his share of barbs from comedians, former teammates and his longtime coach Sunday night during a made-for-streaming comedy live event on Netflix

It's (almost) Met Gala time. Here's how to watch fashion's big night and what to know

Attention all you fashionistas: It's almost Met Gala time

What to stream this week: Zac Efron, Indigo Girls, 'Dark Matter,' Brooke Shields and Anne Hathaway

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include a new documentary showing the Indigo Girls’ rise and subsequent marginalization, Joel Edgerton finding himself in an alternate timeline of his character's life in the limited series “Dark Matter” and a new “Pretty Little Liars” returns Thursday on Max

Shohei Ohtani homers twice as Dodgers sweep Braves with 5-1 win

Shohei Ohtani went 4 for 4 with two home runs, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves, 5-1, on Sunday afternoon to sweep the three-game series

Uncertain plans for 150th Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan, others leave questions for Preakness

The second jewel of horse racing’s Triple Crown could be absent of 150th Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan and other contenders who contributed to the thrilling three-wide photo finish

Actor Bernard Hill, of 'Titanic' and 'Lord of the Rings,' has died at 79

Actor Bernard Hill who starred in “Titanic,” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy has died

'The Fall Guy' gives Hollywood a muted summer kickoff with a $28.5M opening

“The Fall Guy,” the Ryan Gosling-led, action-comedy ode to stunt performers, opened with a below-expectations $28.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, providing a lukewarm start to a summer movie season that’s very much to be determined for Hollywood

Eurovision 2024 begins in Malmo with contestants' walk on 'Turquoise Carpet'

MALMO, Sweden (Reuters) - Eurovision 2024 began in the Swedish city of Malmo on Sunday when 37 contenders walked the "Turquoise Carpet" amid heightened security and calls for boycotts due to Israel's

A milestone reached in mainline Protestant churches' decades-old disputes over LGBTQ inclusion

The fight to allow same-sex marriage and gay clergy has defined much of the last half-century for major mainline Protestant denominations in the U.S. Within these theologically moderate-to-progressive Protestant groups, the decades of wrestling over whether to reaffirm or overturn longstanding anti-LGBTQ+ church policies sowed deep divisions

Madonna attracts 1.6 million to free concert at Brazil's Copacabana beach

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - More than a million people thronged Brazil's Copacabana beach for a free Madonna concert on Saturday, braving the heat to see the end of her "Celebration" world tour.

Hometown champion Pantoja unanimously outpoints Erceg at UFC 301 in Rio de Janeiro

Hometown champion Alexandre Pantoja unanimously outpointed Australian Steve Erceg on Saturday night to retain his flyweight championship at UFC 301

Rio de Janeiro set for Madonna’s massive Copacabana beach concert that will be her biggest ever

Madonna will give a free concrete on Copacabana beach, turning its vast stretch of sand into an enormous dance floor

New Orleans' own PJ Morton returns home to Jazz Fest with new music

Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and producer PJ Morton comes home with a new album and memoir dropping soon amid a Saturday afternoon performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which nears the end of an eight-day run

Paramount will let exclusive talks with Skydance lapse, NYT reports

(Reuters) - Paramount Global will end its exclusive negotiations with Skydance Media without reaching a deal, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Congressman praises heckling of war protesters, including 1 who made monkey gestures at Black woman

Israel-Hamas war demonstrations at the University of Mississippi turned ugly when one counter-protester appeared to make monkey noises and gestures at a Black woman

A sellout for a WNBA exhibition game? Welcome to the league's Caitlin Clark era

More than three hours before Caitlin Clark made her WNBA debut with the Indiana Fever in an exhibition game against the Dallas Wings, some fans among the sellout crowd were lined up outside the arena at the University of Texas-Arlington dressed in yellow No. 22 University of Iowa jerseys

Disney parks tighten rules on disability access to combat abuse

The Walt Disney Company is stopping visitors who make up a disability in order to get around the unbelievably huge lineups at their amusement parks. Anyone found fabricating a disability in order to obtain special access will now be permanently barred from both Disneyland in California and Disney World in Florida! In addition, they won’t receive a refund for any annual passes, tickets, or other purchases they made. Disney made this big rule change on Tuesday because way too many people have been abusing the system meant to help guests with real disabilities. This system is called the Disability Access

'Star Wars' actor Mark Hamill drops by White House for a visit with 'Joe-bi-Wan Kenobi'

“Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill has dropped by the White House for a visit with President Joe Biden

Mick Jagger wades into politics, taking verbal jab at Louisiana state governor at performance

Rolling Stones' frontman Mick Jagger waded into Louisiana politics during the band's performance at The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Court appearance for country star Morgan Wallen in chair-throwing case postponed until August

An initial hearing for country music star Morgan Wallen has been postponed until Aug. 15 in a case in which he’s accused of throwing a chair from the rooftop of a six-story bar and nearly hitting two police officers

Judge in Trump's hush money case clarifies gag order doesn't prevent ex-president from testifying

The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial has clarified the gag order pertaining to the ex-president doesn’t prohibit him from testifying on his own behalf

The rise and fall of movie maker Harvey Weinstein

(Reuters) - Harvey Weinstein, the former Hollywood producer who transformed the independent film world with Oscar-winning movies such as "Shakespeare in Love" and "The English Patient," was convicted

Redstones, Ellison offer concessions to Paramount investors, Bloomberg News reports

(Reuters) - The Redstone family and Skydance Media CEO David Ellison have both made concessions to make a potential change in control at Paramount Global more appealing the company's other investors,

New York made Donald Trump and could convict him. But for now, he's using it to campaign

After a years-long breakup with his hometown, former President Donald Trump is back in New York, this time as a criminal defendant

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