Julia Gagnon, a senior at the University of Southern Maine, wanted to be on the internationally televised talent show as a way of sharing something with her birth mother in Guatemala. She’ll make her first appearance Sunday.
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‘Get out!’: Jerry Seinfeld is a billionaire
A key portion of Seinfeld’s fortune comes from a series of syndication deals for his sitcom.
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Kate, Princess of Wales, says she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy
Her condition was disclosed in a video message recorded on Wednesday and broadcast Friday, coming after weeks of speculation on social media about her whereabouts.
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Pattie Boyd’s trove of treasures from her life with Eric Clapton and George Harrison nets $3.6 million
The collection, which went on public display at Christie’s London headquarters last Friday, provided a glimpse into the heart of the 1960s and 70s counterculture.
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‘Love Lies Bleeding’: Kristen Stewart in a radically ripped romance
It is 1989 New Mexico in Rose Glass’s “Love Lies Bleeding,” and it is also not. Despite the radio reporting the fall of the Berlin Wall and some very “Just Say No”-era drug busts, this is a mythic 1980s and a mythic USA, peopled by venal desperados pulled from the mildewed pages of a 1950s […]
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Elton John and Bernie Taupin honored with prestigious Library of Congress Gershwin Prize
The evening’s entertainment featured renowned performers Garth Brooks, Charlie Puth, Brandi Carlile, Joni Mitchell and Annie Lennox.
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M. Emmet Walsh, unforgettable character actor from ‘Blade Runner,’ dies at 88
Born Michael Emmet Walsh, his characters led people to believe he was from the American South, but he could hardly have been from any further north.
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David Seidler, Oscar-winning writer of ‘The King’s Speech,’ dies at 86
The film drew on his own experience overcoming a stutter and his admiration for King George IV, who he looked up to as a child.
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Ariana Grande finalizes divorce
The pop star will pay ex-husband Dalton Gomez $1.25 million.
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A new Banksy mural sprouts beside a cropped tree in London. Many see an environmental message
Banksy, who has never confirmed his full identity, began his career spray-painting buildings in Bristol, England, and has become one of the world’s best-known artists.