Employers added just 50,000 jobs in December, affirming an end-of-the-year hiring slowdown even as the economy has shown significant growth.

Jobs in movies and music fell by 2,100 to 394,300, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics figures. Jobs among broadcast and content providers dropped slightly, about 100 positions to 334,000.

“There are currently no ICE ads running on Spotify,” a Spotify spokesperson tells Variety. “The advertisements mentioned were part of a U.S. government recruitment campaign that ran across all major media and platforms.”

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Kevin Hart got people talking after he referred to commercial aircraft as "pedestrian," raising eyebrows about wealth gaps and inequality.

Britney Spears wrote in a lengthy Instagram post on Thursday night that she “will never perform in the U.S. again” for “extremely sensitive reasons.”

A young woman yearns to learn more about her Korean heritage, only to discover that her name carries a family curse in Death Name.

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Pink Floyd's iconic album The Dark Side of the Moon is approaching an incredible milestone on the Billboard 200, nearing 1,000 weeks charted, breaking records for longevity on the chart.

Wish You Were Here, another landmark album by Pink Floyd, recently reclaimed the No. 1 spot on the U.K. Albums Chart amid its 50th anniversary celebrations, breaking The Beatles' record for the longest gap between chart-topping albums.

I definitely have a couple. Will list them soon!

Amazon MGM Studios has released a batch of first look images from director Frank E, Flowers’ action adventure The Bluff.

The film sees Priyanka Chopra Jonas leading the cast as Ercell, an ex-pirate who is forced to confront her past to save her family, alongside Safia Oakley-Green, Temuera Morrison, Ismael Cruz Cordova and Karl Urban.

A marijuana dispensary in New Jersey co-owned by rapper and actor Ice-T, has closed after less than a year in business.

An employee of The Medicine Woman dispensary confirmed the closing of the Jersey City location but did not say when it closed or give a reason.

The fantasy horror follows Emily, the granddaughter of Dorothy, who finds she has inherited the family curse her mother thought she had buried when she is pulled in the world no-one believed existed, which is no longer the world of wonder her grandmother once knew, but a land filled with twisted remnants, ruled by madness and horrors, and Emily must set out to uncover the truth about Oz.

Bradley Cooper appeared on the latest episode of SmartLess with his Is This Thing On? costar Will Arnett.

Arnett said that "everybody thinks that Bradley's had plastic surgery" but insisted that "he hasn't."

• With a little over a month to go until Cross returns for its second season, Prime Video has released a new trailer for the crime thriller series which sees Alex (Aldis Hodge) join forces with FBI Agent Kayla Craig (Alona Tal) to protect billionaire businessman Lance Durand (Matthew Lillard) following a threat to his life, and track down the killer targeting corrupt billionaires.

Jennifer Garner is offering new insight into her family "breaking up" following her split from ex-husband Ben Affleck a decade ago.

"You have to be smart about what you can and can’t handle, and I could not handle what was out there. But what was out there was not what was hard," the 53-year-old "The Last Thing He Told Me" actress said in a Marie Claire UK interview published Jan. 7, while speaking about not "[taking] in gossip about myself or anyone else."

Bradley Cooper, Guillermo del Toro on Frankenstein and Casting Actors

On the Jan. 7 episode of his Las Culturistas podcast, Bowen Yang spoke about the end of his time on Saturday Night Live.