NEW YORK — Comcast dropped its $66 billion bid for Twenty-First Century Fox’s entertainment assets on Thursday but said it would still try to expand its international footprint by acquiring 61 percent of European broadcaster […]
LOS ANGELES — HBO’s medieval fantasy series “Game of Thrones” led nominations for the Emmy Awards on Thursday that spanned satire to the supernatural, but streaming service Netflix knocked HBO off its 17-year pedestal as […]
CAROLINA BEACH — Camps and vacations are the highlight of summer for most N.C. students. At Carolina Beach, professional surfer Tony Silvagni is combining camp and vacation into a week-long experience he hopes proves that […]
RALEIGH — Miss America will be crowned in Atlantic City in September with competitors, spectators, and the media wondering just how the phases of competition will play out. The 96-year-old program has dropped the swimsuit […]
SAN JOSE — Apple on Monday unveiled software upgrades that would let older iPhones run faster, help parents limit their children’s screen time and make its Siri voice assistant work more like a rival feature […]
LOS ANGELES — In “Ocean’s 8,” Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock), a tough cookie who’s all raccoon eyes, ironically pursed lips, and long stringy black hair, gets paroled from prison with hardly a dollar to her […]
Public relations manager Maggie McCuen is grateful for every penny her company has contributed to paying off her student loan balance; since December 2016, these contributions have totaled over $1,400. “It absolutely alleviates stress,” said […]
RALEIGH — U.S. travelers will hit the roads, rails and airports this Memorial Day Weekend by the largest numbers in more than a decade, despite the highest gasoline prices in four years according to AAA, […]
SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube is hiring music experts across the world to make its revamped music streaming subscription more locally “authentic,” officials at YouTube, a unit of Google, told Reuters on Friday. Music programmers in […]
LOS ANGELES — SPOILER ALERT: The following review contains mild spoilers for “Deadpool 2.” Thanks to some mistranslated Latin, generations of schoolchildren were brought up to believe that ancient Roman households contained a special room […]
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