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NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy Cliff, the charismatic reggae pioneer and actor who preached joy, defiance and resilience in such classics as “Many Rivers to Cross,” “You Can Get it If You Really Want” and ...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren used her appearance on Thursday’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert to blast CBS’ new parent company, warning Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison on the network’s own airwaves.

Pope Leo speaks out against Putin following attacks on civilians in Ukraine. Discussing the war's impact and the church's role in the conflict. Grocery store law to change shopping for millions Liz ...

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, addressed for the first time a schoolyard insult that President Trump lobbed at a Bloomberg News reporter last week. By Michael M. Grynbaum Last week ...

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by Chris Harper — Saturday, November 15, 2025, 02:40 PM EDT Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has officially launched, and early impressions are mixed. Two almost universally maligned parts of the latest COD ...

It's Friday, it's mid-November, and the weekly deluge of new albums felt like it was finally starting to slow down as we approach the holidays — until we looked at our Nov. 14 list of LPs, EPs, ...

Another artificial intelligence artist has reached the top of the music charts. "Walk My Walk," a song from Breaking Rust, a computer-generated blues-country singer, landed at No. 1 on Billboard's ...

Two weeks ago, Billie Eilish used her acceptance speech at the WSJ Innovator Awards to call out billionaires for hoarding their wealth when “people need empathy and help more than, kind of, ever, ...

Country song "Walk My Walk" by singer Breaking Rust is number one on the country digital song sales chart. However, the singer and the song are all AI-generated. It’s been streamed 2.1 million times ...

The AI-generated song “Walk My Walk” by Breaking Rust hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart This marks a first-of-its-kind achievement for AI in the country genre, with the song’s ...