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Special LP releases, live performances and at least one giant block party are scheduled around the U.S. Saturday as hundreds of shops celebrate Record Store Day during a surge of interest in vinyl and the day after the release of Taylor Swift’s latest album.

Baseball star Shohei Ohtani was not involved in gambling and had no knowledge of payments being made from his accounts to pay an illegal bookie, federal prosecutors said Thursday, as they criminally charged his translator with stealing $16 million from the Los Angeles Dodgers slugger.

Recent productions of ‘Mere Mortals’ and ‘Big Data’ reflect the unease we feel with emerging technology

“Oppenheimer,” a solemn three-hour biopic that became an unlikely billion-dollar box-office sensation, was crowned best picture at a 96th Academy Awards that doubled as a coronation for Christopher Nolan.

Former talk-show host Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with the same form of dementia that actor Bruce Willis has, a statement released Thursday on behalf of her caretakers said.

Taylor Swift’s last song will still be ringing in the ears of thousands of fans at the Tokyo Dome on Saturday night when the singer is expected to rush to a private jet at Haneda airport that will take her on a time-zone-spanning journey to see her boyfriend, NFL star Travis Kelce, play in the Super Bowl in Las Vegas.

Taylor Swift won album of the year at the Grammy Awards for “Midnights,” breaking a record for most wins in the category with four.

If Taylor Swift is jetting from her upcoming Tokyo concert to Las Vegas to see boyfriend Travis Kelce play in the Super Bowl the next day, she’d better already have a place to park her plane.

Carl Weathers, a former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action-movie and comedy star in playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies, fighting alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Predator” and teaching golf in “Happy Gilmore,” has died. He was 76.