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By MATT O’BRIEN and KELVIN CHAN AP Technology Writers Artificial intelligence song generation platform Udio said it would give its frustrated users 48 hours starting Monday to download their songs before the company shifts to a new business model to comply with a legal settlement. The short reprieve comes after Udio on Wednesday said it

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer President Donald Trump’s razing of the White House’s East Wing to build a ballroom has put some news organizations following the story in an awkward position, with corporate owners among the contributors to the project — and their reporters covering it vigorously. Comcast, which owns NBC News and MSNBC,

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A remote and private estate of King Charles III will soon become the new home of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the British monarch’s younger brother disgraced over his friendship with the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The move to Sandringham in the east of England will keep Andrew,

By JILL LAWLESS and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Holding prestige but not power, Britain’s monarchy is finely tuned to public sentiment. That’s been evident with the disgrace of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, who was stripped of his princely title and his spacious home by his brother King Charles on Thursday, a banishment that

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on Saturday inaugurated its long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, a megaproject aiming to give the country’s millennia-old heritage a rich, modern display. Two decades in the making, the

By JUWON PARK Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Lee Soo Man resisted the title at first. “King of K-pop” sounded too brash, too nightclub-esque — like something you’d see on a neon sign in Itaewon, a nightlife neighborhood in the South Korean capital Seoul once popular with U.S. soldiers and foreign visitors. “I

NEW YORK (AP) — Heidi Klum donned green scales and squirming snakes to transform herself into Medusa for Halloween on Friday. Klum said she loves the Greek myth of Medusa, in which a goddess turns a beautiful woman into a monster with serpents for hair, the sight of which turns living things around her to

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer President Donald Trump is returning to “60 Minutes” this weekend, his first appearance on the show since he settled a lawsuit this summer with CBS News over the newsmagazine’s interview with Kamala Harris. Trump was interviewed by CBS’ Norah O’Donnell Friday at Mar-a-Lago for the appearance, which will air

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs has been transferred to a prison in New Jersey to serve out the remainder of his four-year prison sentence on prostitution-related charges. The hip-hop mogul is currently incarcerated at the Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institute, located about 34 miles (55 kilometers) east of Philadelphia on the grounds of

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — He has lost his title as prince, lost his rent-free mansion on the sprawling grounds next to Windsor Castle and lost whatever remained of his reputation in the public eye. What is next for the commoner once known as Prince Andrew probably involves a fleet of moving

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The Louvre will install streetside anti-ramming and anti-intrusion devices in the next two months, France’s culture minister said Friday, after facing pressure following the Oct. 19 heist of crown jewels at the museum. The announcement follows a provisional investigation that found a “chronic, structural underestimation” of the

The Associated Press YouTube TV viewers can no longer see Disney channels including ABC and ESPN after the two sides failed to agree on a new content distribution deal. Other channels that vanished from Google’s pay TV platform include the Disney Channel, FX and Nat Geo. Google’s pay TV platform said in a blog post

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — For sale: The world’s most valuable toilet, a lavatory literally worth its weight in gold. Sotheby’s announced Friday that it will auction off the solid gold cistern, a sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan entitled “America.” The auction house calls it an “incisive commentary on the collision

By R.J. RICO and JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press The day after the jewelry heist at the Louvre in Paris, officials from across Washington’s world-famous museums were already talking, assessing and planning how to bolster their own security. “We went over a review of the incident,” said Doug Beaver, security specialist at the National Museum of

By JILL LAWLESS and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British politicians, the public and the family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre on Friday praised King Charles III’s decision to strip his brother Andrew of his princely title and spacious home, a banishment that has left the disgraced royal increasingly exposed to political and legal

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press No one is bigger than the monarchy. Not even the king’s brother. In the end, that reality spelled the end of Andrew’s life as a prince of the realm. As details of Andrew’s links to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continued to dribble out and Parliament raised questions about his

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press Prince Andrew is losing the title that he’s had since birth and being evicted from his U.K. royal residence following recent revelations about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The scandal proved one too many for his brother, King Charles III, who took action Thursday, according to Buckingham

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “Call of Duty,” one of the most successful video game franchises of all time, is becoming a feature film with Peter Berg and Taylor Sheridan spearheading the adaptation, Paramount Pictures and Activision said Thursday. Berg and Sheridan will co-write the script and produce together, with Berg directing. The longtime

By GINA ABDY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Cassandra Peterson has entertained Halloween lovers as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, for more than four decades. Peterson developed the character in the 1980s, after leaving her career as a showgirl — a decision she credits at least in part to Elvis Presley, whom she says

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hip-hop producer Sean “Diddy” Combs wants a federal appeals court to quickly consider the legality of his conviction on prostitution-related charges and his more than four-year prison sentence. His lawyers filed papers with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, asking that oral arguments

LONDON (AP) — The Prince and Princess of Wales have won a legal case against a French magazine that published photos of the couple and their children on a skiing holiday, the royals’ office said Thursday. William and Kate took action against Paris Match after it ran photos in April of them and their children

By FERNANDA FIGUEROA Associated Press The just-wrapped Denver season of “Love Is Blind” may be the first time the show explored the Mountain West, but the Netflix reality dating show franchise is already a well-seasoned globe-trotter. In just five years, the show has aired seasons from nine different U.S. cities and spawned nearly a dozen

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Universal Music Group and AI song generation platform Udio have settled a copyright infringement lawsuit and agreed to team up on new music creation and streaming platform, the two companies said in a joint announcement. Universal and Udio said Wednesday that they reached a “compensatory legal

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When tenor Xabier Anduaga first auditioned for Riccardo Frizza, the conductor recalls that “he opened his mouth, and after two notes I understood I was in front of something special. It’s one of the voices you find every 15 or 20 years.” Peter Gelb, the Metropolitan

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Just before Janelle Monáe’s DJ set at Cinespia — an outdoor movie series framed by the marble mausoleums of a storied Hollywood cemetery — the multi-hyphenated performer wasn’t just focused on rehearsing a setlist. Instead, Monáe paused to guide a symbolic circle inspired by

WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer (AP) — In long-awaited cuts just months after completing its $8 billion merger with Skydance, Paramount has begun layoffs set to impact about 2,000 employees. Paramount initiated roughly 1,000 of those layoffs company-wide on Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Zimmern and Barton Seaver are what you’d call seafood fanatics. Or blue food evangelists. They want us to eat more things from the water, even first thing in the morning. “Seafood for breakfast is delicious,” says Zimmern, a chef, writer and TV host. Seaver,