Category Archives: Entertainment News
'Ship of Gold' treasure hunter released from prison, but 500 gold coins remain unaccounted for
By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press A former deep-sea treasure hunter who made one of the greatest shipwreck discoveries in American history and spent the past decade in prison after refusing to disclose ...
Mar 10, 2026 FILE - California Gold Marketing Group's Dwight Manley examines a gold coin, recovered from the S.S. Central America steamship that went down in a hurricane in 1857, in a laboratory, Jan. 23, 2018, in Santa Ana, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Multiple gunshots fired near Rihanna's LA home and a woman is taken into custody
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles police took a woman into custody after she fired gunshots near the home of Grammy-Award winning performer Rihanna, according to police and news reports. No one was injur...
Mar 09, 2026 FILE - Rihanna attends the 2025 CFDA Awards at The American Museum of Natural History on November 03, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
'Country' Joe McDonald, '60s rock star, proud protest counterculture icon, dies at 84
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) - "Country" Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that...
Mar 08, 2026 Singer-songwriter Country Joe McDonald performs at the Vietnam War Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library, in Austin, Texas, Thursday, April 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
Pixar's 'Hoppers' bounds to No. 1 as Warner Bros.' 'The Bride!' is on life support
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Disney and Pixar's environmental adventure "Hoppers" topped the North American box office this weekend with $46 million in domestic ticket sales in its opening weekend, ...
Mar 08, 2026 Piper Curda attends the world premiere of Disney and Pixar's HOPPERS at El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles, California on February 23, 2026. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images for Disney)
Savannah Guthrie makes offscreen visit to 'Today' show, first since her mother went missing
NEW YORK (AP) - Savannah Guthrie made an off-camera appearance Thursday at NBC's "Today" show studios to thank colleagues for their support since her mother Nancy went missing from her Arizona home a ...
Mar 05, 2026
MrBeast's company fired a video editor after Kalshi accused the employee of insider trading
By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Beast Industries fired a MrBeast video editor this week following accusations of insider trading by the prediction market operator Kalshi. Kalshi anno...
Mar 05, 2026
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says in deposition that he resisted censoring platforms
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Jurors in a bellwether trial about the impacts of social media on teenagers and children on Wednesday watched a deposition of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerb...
Mar 04, 2026 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to the Los Angeles Superior Court at United States Court House on February 18, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. A 20-year-old California woman sued Meta and YouTube accusing them of building addictive platforms causing harm to children. (Photo by Jill Connelly/Getty Images)
Instagram says it will notify parents if teens 'repeatedly' search for terms related to suicide
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Instagram said Thursday it will start alerting parents if their kids repeatedly search for terms clearly associated with suicide or self-harm. The alerts will o...
Feb 26, 2026 In this photo illustration, the Facebook and Instagram apps are seen on the screen of an iPhone on October 04, 2021 in San Anselmo, California. Social media applications Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are experiencing a global outage that started before 9 a.m. (P.S.T.) on Monday morning. (Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
A children's hospital is renamed for Dolly Parton and hopes to transform pediatric care in Tennessee
By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Dolly Parton's name might inspire full-throated sing-a-longs to her working woman's anthem "9 to 5," or evoke memories of thrilling days spent at her ...
Feb 26, 2026 Dolly Parton speaks onstage at Dolly Parton's Threads: My Songs In Symphony World Premiere at Schermerhorn Symphony Center on March 20, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
Phil Collins, Lauryn Hill, INXS, Iron Maiden, Luther Vandross and Shakira get Rock Hall nominations
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Phil Collins, Mariah Carey, Lauryn Hill, INXS, Iron Maiden, Luther Vandross and Shakira are some the 2026 nominees for induction into the Rock &...
Feb 25, 2026 Guitarists Adrian Smith, Dave Murray, Steve Harris and Janick Gers of Iron Maiden performs at Ozzfest 2005 at the Hyundai Pavilion on August 20, 2005 in San Bernandino, California. (Photo by Karl Walter/Getty Images)