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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Swift continues to be unstoppable. As if the momentum behind the “Anti-Hero” singer couldn’t get any bigger, Swift announced that she’ll be releasing a new album in April titled “Tortured Poets Department” while accepting her 13th Grammy award on Sunday. “I want to say thank you to the

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — SZA and Lizzo would have won had there been a Grammy for best hug. The pair were pure joy after SZA was announced as the winner of best R&B song for her single “Snooze.” The two squealed and embraced when Lizzo presented the award to her longtime friend.

By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Before Trevor Noah got into a monologue filled with impressive name-dropping at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, he introduced Dua Lipa to kick off music’s biggest night. “Look at this room,” Noah said after her medley. “Look at these people. These people write the soundtrack to our life.” Noah recognized Ed

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Tracy Chapman made a highly anticipated appearance during Sunday’s Grammy Awards to perform her 1988 hit song “Fast Car” with country star Luke Combs. Chapman played her acoustic guitar as the pair performed a duet of the iconic song that saw a resurgence in popularity since Combs released a

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Swift made history, SZA brought tears and hugs to the stage, while Fantasia had people on their feet at the 66th Grammy Awards on Sunday. Recording Academy voters, the organization behind the Grammys, recognized a range of top artists with golden gramophone trophies in the top four

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — After 11 previous seasons spread over 24 years, the final run of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” feels like an occasion but really isn’t, in the way a show that actually built toward something, like “Lost” or “Game of Thrones” was. Mostly, Larry David’s extended swan-song provides a final chance

CNN By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Music’s biggest night is upon us. At Sunday’s 66th annual Grammy Awards, nominees SZA and Taylor Swift are poised for significant wins, while the stage is set for some legendary performances. Tracy Chapman will return to the Grammys to sing “Fast Car” with Luke Combs, a song she

By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Music’s biggest night is upon us. At Sunday’s 66th annual Grammy Awards, nominees SZA and Taylor Swift are poised for significant wins, while the stage is set for some legendary performances. Tracy Chapman will return to the Grammys to sing “Fast Car” with Luke Combs, a song she closed

CNN Opinion by Dean Obeidallah (CNN) — Editor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show.” Follow him on Threads. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley made a surprise appearance on “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend, taking

By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — “Saturday Night Live” welcomed an unexpected guest as part of the comedy show’s cold open sequence this weekend. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley appeared as part of a sendup of a CNN Town Hall set in South Carolina. She appeared as herself, a “concerned citizen” among the audience members posing

By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — Ben Winston, the seemingly unflappable Brit responsible for producing the presentations, live performances and stadium full of stars at the Grammy Awards, is prepared for the unexpected on Sunday night. “You never know what’s going to happen on a live show,” Winston told CNN in an interview this week.

By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — After prolific actor Carl Weathers passed away on Thursday, several of his costars were quick to pay tribute and share their feelings about his legacy, including Pedro Pascal, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, who said in a heartfelt video posted to Instagram that he “never could have accomplished what

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — After feeding the collective fear of heights with “Free Solo,” climber Alex Honnold sets his sights on tackling one of the highest unclimbed cliff faces on the planet, while delivering a climate-change message for good measure. “Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold” works on both levels (one of them

CNN By Dan Heching and Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Carl Weathers, who came to fame as Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies and proceeded to appear in dozens of movies and TV shows from “Predator” to “The Mandalorian,” has died, according to his manager Matt Luber. Weathers was 76. The actor “died peacefully at

By Dan Heching and Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Carl Weathers, who came to fame as Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies and proceeded to appear in dozens of movies and TV shows from “Predator” to “The Mandalorian,” has died, according to his manager Matt Luber. Weathers was 76. The actor “died peacefully at home”

CNN By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — Legendary music producer Clive Davis remembers too well when Whitney Houston suddenly died over Grammys weekend 12 years ago. “It was painful. First of all, it was shocking. I had been with her 48 hours earlier,” Davis recalled in an interview with CNN this week. The superstar singer was

By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Anthony Anderson fought a chair and lost. The actor got hurt on the set of his upcoming film “G20” in Cape Town, South Africa, and detailed the incident in a post on Instagram Thursday. “I spent the night in the emergency room,” he wrote, alongside a photo of himself

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Usher may have once watched over Beyoncé when the two stars were younger, but he’d like to clear up confusion he was her nanny. The singer, who is set to headline the Super Bowl halftime show next week, recently talked to Shannon Sharpe on his podcast, “Club Shay

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Kelly Clarkson says a diagnosis about her health motivated her to make some new choices. During a recent episode of her daytime talk show, her guest Kevin James mentioned how well Clarkson is looking these days. The singer and talk show host has previously talked about how walking

By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — Molly Manning Walker learned she was a two-time BAFTA nominee at the unholy hour of 5 AM. The British director was in Park City, Utah at the Sundance Film Festival, premiering the movie she was being honored for, “How To Have Sex.” A story about a rite of passage