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‘A Diamond in a Rhinestone World’: Dolly Parton’s Life in Pictures
Rolling Stone has published a photo retrospective charting Dolly Parton’s life and career, from her childhood in rural Tennessee to her status as a global country music icon. The gallery marks her enduring cultural significance, tracing key moments across five decades that shaped her rise from poverty to superstardom and her role as a beloved…
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33 Years Later, Magic’s Head Designer Reveals One of His Biggest Regrets
Magic: The Gathering’s head designer Mark Rosewater has admitted that, if he could redesign the trading card game from scratch, he would merge artifacts and enchantments into a single card type. Writing in a two-part “Big-Picture Questions” column, Rosewater explained that the distinction between the two — once based on artifacts being usable by any…
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Olivia Rodrigo Says She’s ‘Already Cooking Up’ Another Lego Set After Initial Success
Olivia Rodrigo has revealed she is already working on a new Lego collaboration, following the success of her first collection launched globally on 1 August. The partnership marked the first time Lego has offered a musician multiple sets simultaneously, with the singer working closely with the brand’s senior designer to embed personal details, favourite looks…
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GB’s Dart and Jones advance in US Open qualifying
Britain’s Harriet Dart and Fran Jones both won their opening matches in US Open qualifying in New York, keeping their hopes alive of reaching the main draw at Flushing Meadows. It was a mixed day for the British contingent overall, with Dart and Jones progressing while Jodie Burrage and teenager Henry Searle both lost their…
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CBS News To Air Special Commemorating The Life Of Dolly Parton
US television gave extensive coverage to the death of Dolly Parton, who died aged 80, with CBS News and ABC News broadcasting hour-long tribute specials on the evening of her death and NBC News following the next day. The scale of the coverage reflected Parton’s standing as one of America’s most beloved entertainers, and tributes…
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Female Virginia officer sues police department after allegedly sharing locker room with biological male
A former Norfolk, Virginia, police officer, Meghan Grabow, has filed a $15 million lawsuit against the city and police chief Mark Talbot, alleging she was forced to share a women’s locker room with a biological male recruit who identifies as a woman. The suit, filed on 10 August, claims Grabow’s complaints were dismissed by superiors,…
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Dolly Parton Tribute Specials Set on CBS, CMT
Tributes to Dolly Parton, who died on 25 August 2026 in Nashville at the age of 80, were broadcast across CBS and Paramount’s sister networks in the days following her death. The centrepiece was the CBS News special “Dolly Parton – An American Icon”, which aired the same evening from 10-11pm ET/PT and streamed on…
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Taylor Swift’s ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’ Hits No. 1 on Billboard’s Radio Songs Chart
Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” has reached No. 1 on Billboard’s all-format Radio Songs chart, marking her ninth career leader on the ranking. The song, featured in Toy Story 5 and inspired by the film’s cowgirl character Jessie, continues a strong run for Swift across multiple airplay formats and adds to her…
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‘Darth Vader’ Wants You to Know He Definitely Supports Flock Surveillance
A San Diego activist, Anthony Ralphs, has gone viral after appearing at a city council meeting dressed as Darth Vader to satirically endorse Flock Safety’s automated licence-plate-reading cameras, with the clip drawing millions of views on TikTok and Instagram. Ralphs, a DJ, event producer and agriculture consultant, has spent roughly the past year campaigning against…
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Dolly Parton Was All Smiles & Jokes at Final Public Appearance, 2 Months Before She Died
Dolly Parton’s final public appearance took place on 24 June 2026, roughly two months before her death at age 80 on 25 August, when she made a surprise visit to the grand opening of Dolly’s Tennessean Travel Stop in Cornersville, Tennessee. Arriving in a fringed blue-and-pink outfit, she took part in the ribbon-cutting and greeted…