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Phil Donahue, the talk show host who roamed his audience with a microphone and ruled daytime TV for decades, has died at age 88

Two 18-year-old men have been charged with the murder of former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor

In Nathan Silver’s divinely disordered screwball “Between the Temples,” Jason Schwartzman plays a grieving cantor who, after the death of his wife, can’t sing anymore but who finds a strange kinship with a much older bat mitzvah-seeking widow, played b...

William Kent Krueger returns to his favorite themes, the mistreatment of Native Americans and the rape of the natural world for profit, in his new mystery, “Spirit Crossing.”

Prosecutors have confirmed Harvey Weinstein will remain in custody in New York while awaiting retrial on rape and sexual assault charges in Manhattan

Moon Unit Zappa's memoir, “Earth to Moon,” recounts a childhood in 1970s Hollywood in quirky and unconventional musical visionary Frank Zappa's shadow

Longtime producer Almin Karamehmedovic has been elevated to the role of ABC News president

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Aug. 25-31 include actor Blake Lively, TV chef Rachael Ray and actor Chris Tucker

Lainey Wilson will release her fifth studio album, “Whirlwind,” on Friday

The Directors Guild will pay tribute to Francis Ford Coppola at its 25th DGA Honors in October

Phil Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched an indelible television genre, has died

Phil Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched an indelible television genre, has died, his family says

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have wrapped up their visit to Colombia by participating in a forum on the challenges facing women of African descent as they participate in politics

The latest installment in the 45-year-old franchise opened in first place.

The London Zoo has removed Banksy’s gorilla mural from its entrance gate

He embodied both the bad guy and the policeman and made hearts throb.

French actor and heartthrob Alain Delon has died at age 88, French media report

The felt fedora was worn by Harrison Ford in the second Indiana Jones movie.

Country singer Keith Urban gave just a few hours’ notice before performing a free concert in the parking lot of a convenience store and gas station in north Alabama

Maurice Williams, a rhythm and blues singer and composer who with his backing group the Zodiacs became one of rock's great one-shot acts with the classic ballad "Stay," has died at 86

Silvio Santos, a Brazilian television executive and presenter known for his beaming smile and catchphrase “Who wants money?”

There were wins for Liverpool and Arsenal and records for the prolific Mohamed Salah and the enduring James Milner on the first Saturday of the Premier League season

Priceless paintings by Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh and others were safe after firefighters worked to douse a fire at Somerset House

Madonna has celebrated her 66th birthday with a private evening tour of the famed Italian archaeological site at Pompeii

The arrest of five people in the overdose death of Matthew Perry has revealed key details about the final days of the “Friends” star, most of them spent in the throes of an addiction to the surgical anesthetic ketamine

Lawyers for The-Dream, a Grammy-winning songwriter and producer, are seeking the dismissal of a woman’s lawsuit that accused him of sexual assault and other abuse

The manager of the Texas rapper BeatKing says the Houston club music hitmaker has died at the age of 39

The launch of Venu Sports will be delayed after a federal judge granted FuboTV’s motion for a preliminary injunction against the planned sports streaming venture by ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros

Judge blocks plans for a joint streaming venture between Fox, Disney and Warner Brothers

Video game performers say the physical strain and hours put into motion capture and voice work make it worth protecting against artificial intelligence

Post Malone's sixth studio album, the 18-track “F-1 Trillion,” is his first country record

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Ketamine is the drug involved in the death of “Friends” star Matthew Perry and a powerful anesthetic approved by U.S. health regulators for use during surgery

A Missouri woman has been arrested on charges alleging she orchestrated a scheme to fraudulently sell Elvis Presley’s Graceland property in Memphis

Hettie Jones, an award-winning poet, publisher and children's book author who was the first wife and early muse of the author-activist Amiri Baraka, has died at age 90

Eugene Levy and Dan Levy will make history at the Emmy Awards next month as the first ever father and son co-hosts

Jack Russell, the lead singer of the bluesy ’80s metal band Great White whose hits included “Once Bitten Twice Shy” and “Rock Me” and was fronting the band the night 100 people died in a 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island, has died

Offbeat operas have been some of the Salzburg Festival’s best in recent years, the latest a colorful, outlandish and entertaining staging of Sergei Prokofiev’s “The Gambler” by director Peter Sellars

A Harris advertising campaign that uses Google search is prompting some concerns among news outlets about their work being co-opted for political purposes

The long investigation into the death of “Friends” star Matthew Perry has led to a sweeping indictment that pulled in five people who prosecutors say contributed to his ketamine overdose

Five people have been charged in connection with Matthew Perry’s death from a ketamine overdose last year, including the actor’s assistant and two doctors

Taylor Swift has made a triumphant return to the Eras Tour at London's Wembley Stadium with an assist from Ed Sheeran

Mark Wahlberg plays an oridinary New Jersey construction worker who gets roped into a world of international espionage in “The Union.”

Los Angeles police have arrested four people in the death of former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor, who was shot and killed when he interrupted thieves stealing the catalytic converter from his car

Four people arrested in killing of 'General Hospital' actor Johnny Wactor

Two people arrested in connection with Matthew Perry's overdose death have pleaded not guilty, only 1 granted release

Greg Kihn, a rock and roll musician best known for his '80s hit songs “Jeopardy” and “The Breakup Song,” has died

Pierre Moossa knows in some quarters it isn’t a popular answer

Lily Collins, the star of the hit Netflix series “Emily in Paris,” tells The Associated Press that her confidence has grown with each season of the show, mirroring her character

Lifelong Ipswich fan Ed Sheeran has bought a small stake in the club ahead of its return to the Premier League