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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s National Gallery announced Tuesday that it will use a whopping 375 million pounds ($510 million) in donations to open a new wing that, for the first time, will include modern art. Founded in 1824, the gallery has amassed a centuries-spanning collection of Western paintings by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to

By ITZEL LUNA Associated Press Charlie Sheen said fatherhood quickly occupied his life when he got sober eight years ago. “It turned into just an interesting daily grind of just sudden responsibility and, you know, having to answer the call and it was amazing,” Sheen said Monday, telling an audience that once he “finally put

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ella Langley, Megan Moroney and Lainey Wilson lead the nominations for the 2025 Country Music Association Awards, with six nods each. Joining Wilson in competing for the night’s highest honor — CMA entertainer of the year — will be Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, Chris Stapleton and Morgan

By LYDIA DOYE Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts, authorities said Monday. The mural appeared Monday and depicts a protester lying on the ground holding

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump celebrated news on Monday that an alumni group from West Point canceled an award ceremony set to honor Tom Hanks, with the president calling the famous actor “destructive” and “WOKE.” Hanks was scheduled to receive the 2025 Sylvanus Thayer Award on Sept. 25,

By ITZEL LUNA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Not many franchises have fueled society’s timeless fascination with the boundless possibilities of a utopian future like “Star Trek.” Next year the sprawling franchise will add more shows, Lego sets and even a Rose Parade Float in a yearlong celebration of its 60th anniversary. The hefty

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — The morning after Rian Johnson premiered his latest whodunit “Wake Up, Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,” he and one of his stars, Glenn Close, were debating billing. Not among the main cast, which considering all the stars in “Wake Up, Dead Man” — Daniel Craig,

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Howard Stern, the popular and highly paid radio host, returned to SiriusXM’s airwaves Monday after trolling listeners into thinking he had departed his long-running show. Stern, 71, who evolved from his shock jock origins to become a respected interviewer, enlisted a seemingly flustered Andy Cohen

By ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer Another group of big-name sports figures have invested in Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart’s 3-on-3 women’s basketball league Unrivaled as it aims to build on its promising inaugural season. The league announced Monday that it is now valued at $340 million after closing its oversubscribed Series B investment round

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Howard Stern, the popular radio host who gave a massive boost to the nascent satellite radio business when he signed a blockbuster, multimillion dollar contract for SiriusXM almost two decades ago, has abruptly left the company. Stern, 71, who evolved from his shock jock origins

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett says “violence or threats of violence” against judges shouldn’t be the cost of public service. But in an interview at the court with The Associated Press about her new book, “Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution,” Barrett

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Emily Osment is divorced and single. A judge’s order dissolving the marriage of Osment and musician Jack Anthony Farina took effect on Monday after a mandatory six-month waiting period. The two had been married for less than five months when Osment filed a divorce petition in Los Angeles Superior Court

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry arrived in the U.K. on Monday leading to speculation about whether he will meet with his father, King Charles III, for the first time in 19 months. Amid signs of a thaw in the frigid relationship between Harry and the rest of the royal family,

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barack Obama won his third career Emmy and Kendrick Lamar won his second, while the 50th season of “Saturday Night Live” was the biggest winner with 11 on the second night of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Lamar and Tony Russell won for the music

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — Nia DaCosta was thunderstruck when she first read Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” in drama school. But when she saw a production of it, something was missing. “I was like, ‘Oh, that’s not as crazy as I thought it would feel,’” DaCosta says. “I thought: I guess I

By ITZEL LUNA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s the year for horror and “The Conjuring: Last Rites” was no exception. Its opening weekend tipped the genre over $1 billion in earnings for this year’s domestic box office. The horror sequel raked in $83 million domestically in 3,802 theaters, making it the third-highest domestic

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Mark Volman, a founding member of the 1960’s pop group The Turtles, whose hits include “Happy Together” and “Elenore,” died in Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday after a brief, unexpected illness, according to his publicist, Ame Van Iden. He was 78. Volman was known for his exuberant

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The 82nd Venice Film Festival may be over, but the conversations on the films that premiered, the things people said, the clothes they wore, and how it affects the Oscar race are still going. Here’s a rundown of the big moments and takeaways from this year’s edition. What won

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga set the tone at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night with career-defining moments of their own. Grande scored two honors — video of the year and best pop video — and had the audience buzzing when she thanked her “therapists and

By ITZEL LUNA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Penguin” made a splash during Saturday’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards, taking home eight awards for the “Batman” spin-off’s craft and technical work. The show, which is up for outstanding limited or anthology series at next weekend’s main Primetime Emmy Awards, took awards for hairstyling, costumes,

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — For the third time, the knives were out at the Toronto International Film Festival. Rian Johnson on Saturday night premiered the third movie in his whodunit series, “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.” Like the previous two movies, “Knives Out” and “Glass Onion,” Johnson

By GENE PUSKAR, MINGSON LAU and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press OREFIELD, Pa. (AP) — In a romance and adventure worthy of the big screen, a Pennsylvania couple is preserving the past and forging a future as the owners of the world’s oldest operating drive-in movie theater. Lauren McChesney got more than admission to a double

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Julie Andrews won her third Emmy Award at age 89 Saturday at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, while “The Studio” will take nine trophies and “The Penguin” will take eight into next weekend’s main Emmys ceremony. Andrews won for best character voice-over performance for her

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — “Father Mother Sister Brother,” Jim Jarmusch’s quietly humorous relationship triptych, won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival Saturday. The film about the relationships between adult children, and with their parents, stars Adam Driver, Vicky Krieps and Cate Blanchett. It was an upset win

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer Days after complaints over the handling of an interview with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on “Face the Nation,” CBS News said Friday it would no longer allow editing of its guests’ words on the Sunday morning public affairs show. Noem charged that CBS had “shamefully edited the interview

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Cliff Smith Jr. was still a few years away from being known as Method Man and helping Wu-Tang Clan take the hip-hop world by storm when he got hooked on what became one of his life’s biggest passions. Rooting for the New

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — For Giorgio Armani, it was always the clothes. And his clothes all started with the fabrics. While other fashion empires make their money on handbags and footwear, Armani’s appeal has always been in the apparel, the core of his $10 billion empire. After his death Thursday