By Chloe Melas Travis Scott is scheduled to perform at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, marking his first major public performance since a crowd surge killed ten people and injured thousands at his Astroworld Festival in Houston last November. Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is the executive producer and host of this year’s Billboard Music
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By Ivana Kottasová and Rob Picheta, CNN Ukraine’s folk-rap group Kalush Orchestra has won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, surfing a wave of goodwill from European nations to clinch the country’s third win at the glitzy event. The band’s song “Stefania,” written about the frontman’s mother, beat competition from main rivals the United Kingdom and
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Britney Spears made a devastating announcement Saturday. The Grammy winner posted a joint message on her Instagram account, telling her fans she and her fiancé, Sam Asghari have lost their pregnancy. “It is with our deepest sadness we have to announce that we have lost our miracle baby early in the
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Scottie Andrew, CNN From labor leader César Chávez’s decades of activism, to Roberto Clemente’s boundary-breaking career in Major League Baseball, to the “Queen of Salsa” Celia Cruz’s music with a message, the tales of notable Latinos who made history will be on display in a new Smithsonian exhibit. The National Museum of the American Latino
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Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN The recently opened Venice Biennale — an 8-month-long international festival of art and culture staged every other year (though it skipped 2021 due to the pandemic) — is an opportunity to see some of the world’s best artists all in one place. The event, with origins dating back to 1895, is
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN His name is “Hector,” he’s over 100 million years old, and his fossils sold for more than $12 million in auction at Christie’s. Hector is the most complete skeleton of Deinonychus antirrhopus ever found, according to Christie’s. The specimen, excavated in Montana in 2013, dates back to the early Cretaceous period:
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Jacopo Prisco, CNN Cita Sadeli saw the start of the pandemic from a different angle than most: standing on an articulated lift, hovering 120 feet above street level. She spent much of early March 2020 painting a mural on the exterior of Hotel Zena in downtown Washington, DC, watching from above as the coronavirus outbreak
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN Kendrick Lamar’s highly anticipated new album includes a personal, if problematic, song about his transgender relatives. In the song “Auntie Diaries,” off his new record “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,” Lamar raps about his uncle and cousin — depicted as two important, beloved figures in his life — who are
Continue Reading By Livia Borghese When in Rome, don’t drive your fancy sports car down historic stairways. That advice apparently went unheeded by a man who this week drove his rented Maserati down the city’s Spanish Steps and now faces charges for allegedly causing damage to the landmark, according to police in the Italian capital. The unnamed
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Leah Dolan, CNN and Austin Steele, CNN This year, the Cannes Film Festival celebrates its 75th anniversary. It is one of the most glamorous events in the world with a red carpet that has been graced by many a style icon over the decades, from Brigitte Bardot to Princess Diana. In front of a sea
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By Marianne Garvey Fred Ward, a veteran character actor in film and television, has died, according to his publicist Ron Hofmann. Ward, known for his work in “The Right Stuff,” “Short Cuts,” and numerous other films, died on May 8 at age 79. No cause of death was given. Ward started acting in the early
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Hannah Ryan, CNN A painting that served as the cover for one of legendary soul singer Marvin Gaye’s albums has sold at auction for almost $15.3 million. Ernie Barnes’ joyous depiction of a frenetic scene in a dance hall, titled “The Sugar Shack,” sold to Bill Perkins, a hedge fund manager and entrepreneur, after 10
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN It’s that time of the year again when TV networks announce new and renewed shows. But it’s also when they announce the series that have been canceled. Here are some of the shows by network that have been axed or are ending: ABC “Black-ish” (final season) “Promised Land “ “Queens”
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Story by Francesca Street, CNN. Video by Teodora Preda, CNN Walking from one mountain to another, suspended high above ground with only a vast valley yawning below, isn’t for the fainthearted. But thrill-seekers — and lovers of infrastructure — will be flocking to the Dolnà Morava vacation resort in the northeast of the Czech Republic
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Jacqui Palumbo and Christiane Amanpour, CNN | Henry Hullah, CNN Four years after releasing the studio album “Dirty Computer” — a pop opus about love and rebellion in a dystopian future — Janelle Monáe has followed up with a new science fiction book set in the same world. On Thursday, the singer and actor spoke
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By Marianne Garvey My Chemical Romance is back together and back with new music. The group has debuted “The Foundations of Decay,” produced by Doug McKean, Gerard Way and guitarist Ray Toro. The last song the group released was “Fake Your Death,” a track they recorded for their unfinished fifth album but instead released on
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By Marianne Garvey Kendrick Lamar has released his fifth solo album, “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers.” The 18-track album features guest collaborations with Ghostface Killah, Kodak Black and Summer Walker. Pharrell Williams is named as a producer on “Mr. Morale.” Lamar just released a new song, “The Heart Part 5” and a deep-fake video
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Sunday’s public celebration for the life of Naomi Judd will feature tributes from family and friends, along with never-before-seen performances. “Good Morning America’s” Robin Roberts, who is a close family friend to the Judds, will host the memorial for the famed country singer who died in April. She was 76.
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Adapted from the novel that became a not-particularly-memorable movie in 2009, “The Time Traveler’s Wife” now transforms its bizarre love story into an HBO series. Rose Leslie and Theo James star, but in keeping with the time-travel rules that state there’s no changing things or saving people, despite their heroics
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Drew Barrymore had just done “E.T.” when they planted her in front of a wind machine for “Firestarter,” probably the most memorable visual of that 1984 movie. But nothing by Stephen King can stay dead forever, which explains a new do-over that can barely generate enough heat to qualify as
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