Carrie Underwood gave her first television interview since suffering a surgery-requiring fall in November. On Thursday morning, the “Cry Pretty” singer chatted with the Today Show‘s Hoda Kotb about the incident, which left her with a broken wrist and more than 40 stitches on her face. Underwood described the ordeal …
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Tidal, Jay-Z’s oft-beleaguered music-streaming service, has been accused of tampering with its streaming data to score higher numbers and payouts for Beyoncé and Kanye West’s most recent albums. In an extensive report, Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv said it has investigated Tidal’s internal data from a hard drive it obtained that …
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A pair of honors that Bill Cosby received from the Kennedy Center, including the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, were rescinded Monday, two weeks after the comedian was found guilty of indecent aggravated assault. Cosby received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1998 and the prestigious Mark Twain Prize a …
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Earlier this week, Donald Trump‘s loose-lipped lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, made it clear that the president reimbursed his fixer, Michael Cohen, for the $130,000 Cohen paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her pre-election silence about an alleged affair with Trump. The money in question, Giuliani told the …
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Not since the 1960s has anger at racial injustice been this palpable in America’s cities. Only a few weeks ago, Philadelphia made national headlines when protesters packed a local Starbucks chanting, “A whole lot of racism, a whole lot of crap, Starbucks coffee is anti-black!” Just a few days earlier, …
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The as-yet-unstoppable force of the Trump presidency and the as-yet-immovable object of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation came a little closer to each other Tuesday night. A meeting between Trump and Mueller has long loomed as a potential inflection point for the investigation, and the Washington Postreportsthat Mueller brought …
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Ashley Judd filed a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein Monday, accusing the disgraced producer of sexual harassment and defamation. “Mr. Weinstein’s abusive conduct toward others has caused no end of damage to aspiring actors and others in the film and entertainment industry,” Judd said in a statement (via Variety). “As my …
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Mastodon and Dinosaur Jr. announced a joint North American summer tour. The prog-metal and alt-rock bands scheduled 13 dates for the U.S. and Canada – running from September 1st in Edmonton, Alberta through September 19th in Hamilton, Ontario. A fan club pre-sale for both bands begins May 1st at 10 …
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“Heaven is closed/And hell’s overcrowded,” Willie Nelson sings on his new album. “So I think I’ll just stay where I am.” Just one year after his unsuspecting opus God’s Problem Child, Nelson, 84, is back with Last Man Standing, the latest in his series of late-career ruminations helmed by producer …
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Following the April 6th release of her daring country pop album, Golden, Australian pop queen Kylie Minogue paid a quick visit to New York on Wednesday night, performing on ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers.’ Donning a golden floor-length dress, the singer performed her lead single, the honky-tonk disco gem “Dancing,” …
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