The holiday video game console battle is heating up. Microsoft says its new Xbox Series X will cost $500 and debut November 10, just ahead of the holidays. There haven’t been any new generations of video game consoles for several years. The most recent Xbox, Xbox One, was released in …

Actress Natalie Portman is leading a mostly female celebrity-backed group of investors that is bringing a women’s soccer team to Los Angeles, her new team announced Tuesday. The squad will enter the National Women’s Soccer League in spring 2022.  Among the others backing the team are tennis superstar Serena Williams, …

Splash Mountain, one of Disney’s most beloved theme park rides, is getting “reimagined” to distance itself from a film many have decried as racist. The company announced Thursday that the ride will now highlight the 2009 animated hit “The Princess and the Frog,” which features Disney’s first black princess. Both …

Harold Reid, who sang bass for the Grammy-winning country group the Statler Brothers, has died after a long battle with kidney failure. He was 80. Reid died Friday in his hometown of Staunton, Virginia, his nephew Debo Reid said. The Statler Brothers frequently sang backup for country icon Johnny Cash. …

Scandal-hit opera star Placido Domingo on Thursday said his apology over sexual harassment allegations had given a “false impression” but cancelled his appearance in an upcoming performance in Madrid. “I feel I have to issue another statement to correct the false impression generated by my apology,” he said in a …

Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett has been reinstated from his indefinite suspension, the National Football League announced Wednesday. Garrett was suspended for his role in a brawl between the Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers last season. Garrett had to sit out the final six games of the 2019 season …

Madonna is offering some unsolicited advice to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: “Don’t run off to Canada. It’s so boring there,” the singer says in a video posted to her Instagram page on Tuesday. “I’ll let them sublet my apartment on Central Park West.”  In a true display of #firstworldproblems, …

A man who was killed in April while helping to stop a shooter at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte was honored by Lucasfilm with a Star Wars character named after him. Ri-Lee Howell, named for the late Riley Howell, is a Jedi Master and historian of the Jedi Order, according …

Two Las Vegas men who admitted to running one of the nation’s largest illegal television and movie streaming services pleaded guilty this week and now face money laundering and copyright infringement charges, federal officials said Friday.  iStreamItAll was an online, subscription-based streaming site that allowed users to download TV episodes …

Los Angeles — A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday said Chris Brown must give up all rights to his former pet monkey, pay for its care and not try to buy a new one if he wants charges of illegal animal ownership dropped. The 30-year-old singer was allowed to enter a …