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Shoppers gearing up for the 2023 holiday season won’t have to look hard for a convenient way to pay for all those presents.

Expect more of pretty much everything in "Marvel's Spider-Man 2." The new video game features two playable Spider-Men in Peter Parker and Miles Morales, as well an expanded New York sandbox to play in.

NEW YORK (AP) — Billy Porter is strutting off in an entirely new sonic direction on his fifth album. The Broadway, runway and TV star has pivoted to dance music. “I’m a new artist.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Édgar Barrera is one of the most in-demand people in music. He's worked with everyone from Madonna and Shakira to Peso Pluma and Karol G.

Nearly nine out of 10 parents believe their child is performing at grade level despite standardized tests showing far fewer students are on track, according to a poll released Wednesday by Gallup and the nonprofit Learning Heroes.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Last year, Dolly Parton was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — against her wishes. Now, almost exactly a year later, she's releasing her first rock ‘n’ roll album, appropriately titled “Rockstar," on Friday.

HAVANA (AP) — Until recently, the space was the one-car garage of a private home in Cuba’s capital, Havana .

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese actor-director Takeshi Kitano says he wanted his new film “Kubi” to show the world of samurai in ways that mainstream movies have rarely done before, by portraying the homosexual, love-hate relationship of warlords in one of Jap

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — More than 200 conservative Muslims marched in Indonesia's capital on Wednesday, calling for the cancellation of a Coldplay concert that night over the British band's support for the LGBTQ+ community.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beyond the engineering, the athleticism, the speed, the luxury — fans love the sound of Formula One . The fierce rhythms of a V6 turbocharged hybrid engine; the sticky staccato of a rushed downshift; sexy, loud zooms.