Lloyd Dobyns Jr., Peabody Award-winning TV newsman, dead at 85

Australia’s out tennis star Samantha Stosur marked the 10th anniversary of her US Open singles title win with a women’s doubles crown at the US Open championships with her Chinese partner Zhang Shuai. Thirty-seven-year-old Stosur and Shuai (32), defeated teen sensations Coco Gauff and Caty McNally 6-3 3-6 6-3 on Sunday in an exciting women’s doubles final at Flushing Meadow. “We were playing against a couple of youngsters who even though they’re so young, have got quite a bit of experience, they

Jennifer Hudson reckons the tale of how she went full circle from singing Aretha Franklin’s Share Your Love With Me in her first American Idol audition to being handpicked by the Queen of Soul herself to star in a Franklin biopic is “a story only God could write.

about $11 billion.Judge Robert Drain of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in White Plains, New York, led the negotiations with hopes that funds will be an opportunity to help with drug treatment and other opioid prevention programs in the community.

Naomi Osaka continues defending her US Open title! The Haitian-Japanese tennis player won her first 2021 US Open match against Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic. The 23-year-old athlete defeated Bouzkova after winning two straight sets.“It‘s an incredible energy.

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Grateful Dead’s 1969 Woodstock set in full during a show held on the original festival site – watch the footage below.The US band – which consists of former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann – took to the stage in Bethel Woods, New York on Monday (August 23) as part of their current 2021 tour.Completed by John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti, Dead & Company played an 18-song set that incorporated Grateful Dead’s five-song Woodstock ’69 setlist.

Lloyd Dobyns Jr., the Peabody Award winner who once served as an anchor and correspondent for NBC News, died on Sunday in Mebane, North Carolina, after suffering complications from a series of strokes, his son Ken Dobyns tells AP. He was 85.

Japan Can, Why Can’t We?” he reported on the Japanese boom at a time when American manufacturing was faltering. The documentary's success led him to co-write several books about Japan’s economic success.Dobyns won more than two-dozen awards for reporting, writing, and anchoring while with NBC News.

ABC and NBC ruled Monday evening with two-hour episodes of Bachelor In Paradise and American Ninja Warrior, respectively. Bachelor In Paradise ticked up from its season premiere in the previous week to earn a 0.9 rating in the 18-49 demo and 3.22 million viewers, per fast affiliates. Monday’s episode surpassed previous installment by one  tenth in demo rating and 4.97% in viewership. Bachelor in Paradise was the highest-rated program of the evening.

TheWrap’s Todd Gilchrist in his review.“A mostly decent Marvel movie buoyed by crisp, kinetic action and the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s best ‘villain’ yet,” wrote Slashfilm’s Hoai-Tran Bui.“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is a genuine triumph for Marvel Studios, a true family drama with plenty of charm and a myriad of winning performances from the outstanding cast led by Simu Liu and Tony Leung.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentDylan Penn, the young actor of Sean Penn’s “Flag Day” which competed at Cannes, will be receiving the Hol­ly­wood Rising-Star Award at the upcoming Deauville American Film Festival.The Hollywood Rising-Star Award launched in 2011 and handed out its inaugural nod to Ryan Gosling and Jes­si­ca Chas­tain, and went on to pay tribute to Paul Dano, Robert Pat­tin­son, Eliz­a­beth Olsen, Chloé Grace Moretz, Daniel Rad­cliffe, Shai­lene Wood­ley, Elle Fan­ning

The chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal has led to “no good options” for the US, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on ABC’s This Week show on Sunday.

On this week’s episode of Us Weekly’s “Hot Hollywood” podcast, the hosts reveal the winner of Red Robin’s “Spiciest Story of the Week” — and the title goes to Kelly Clarkson, who is been officially declared single by an L.A. judge and went to Vegas to celebrate!

Jamie Lang In a utopian Manila in a not-too-distant future, strange rolling blackouts cast an almost impenetrable darkness over city streets.

Bachelor In Paradise returned to ABC for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and topped Monday night ratings. The series, which also saw David Spade take over for former host Chris Harrison, drew in a 0.8 rating in the 18-49 demo and 3.06 million viewers upon its two-hour opening, per fast affiliates.

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