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Billboard on Tuesday named the 25-year-old award-winning singer its 2018 Woman of the Year. Grande will receive the award at Billboard’s 13th annual Women in Music event on Dec. 6 in New York City.

Grammy-winning song parodist “Weird Al” Yankovic received a star Monday on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Aretha Franklin’s music quickly climbed the iTunes’ charts following her death on Thursday.

The global sensation BTS is set to perform the world television premiere of their new single at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards Sunday.

There’s been an ebb and flow to Swiss ski jumper Simon Ammann’s career over the past six Olympic Games. Like the sport of ski jumping itself: what goes up, must come down. He flops, and then sweeps gold on normal and large hills, and flops again. But he rebounds, and sweeps again, before the pendulum swings the other way. Ammann...

Child development experts and advocates are urging Facebook to pull the plug on its new messaging app aimed at kids. A group letter sent Tuesday to CEO Mark Zuckerberg argues that younger children — the app is intended for those under 13 — aren’t ready to have social media accounts, navigate the complexities of online relationships or protect their own...

Let’s face it: New Year’s Eve can be a pain. Your favorite spots are crowded and it’s too cold to stand in line. But it’s also a chance to dress up and, armed with the confidence that 2018 will be your best year yet, toast with friends to the new year.

Tom Petty’s greatest hits were less bright pop songs than dark, short stories. Over four decades, he spun a soundtrack describing an array of disillusioned American girls who were raised on promises and were crazy about Elvis – but eventually became hardened enough to make a yuppie stick his head in the oven. His male protagonists brimmed with a defiant...

Frances Tiafoe of Prince George’s County returns home to play for the Washington Kastles Tuesday night after a first-round win at Wimbledon. The rising star talks about his rise in the tennis world and goals for the future.

Six-year-old Edith Fuller of Tulsa, Oklahoma, had to spell words just as difficult as those everyone else faced in the National Spelling Bee. She got them both right on Wednesday, but like more than 100 other spellers, her test score wasn’t high enough to make the finals. Edith did receive one accommodation to her tender age. Spellers were assigned numbers...

John Warren Geils Jr., a member of the rock group The J. Geils Band, was found dead in his Groton, Massachusetts, home on Tuesday, police confirmed.

Elvis Duran received the 2,603rd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Thursday, honoring a 30-year career as a radio personality, including hosting the nation’s most-listened to Top 40 morning show.

The “Ultralight Beam” rapper also revealed he turned to other artists for inspiration when it came to designing his concerts.

Prince’s career was one of the most enduring in pop, rock, R&B or any of the other genres his music spanned, with hit singles and albums from the late 1970s up into the 2010s. His crowning achievement was “Purple Rain,” a beloved 1984 album that went platinum 13 times over, as well as a movie that turned the unconventional, multitalented...