National Entertainment

LOS ANGELES — After 33 seasons on the air, “Cops” has been dropped by the Paramount Network as protests against police proliferate around the world.

NEW YORK — Spike Lee was just 10 when Muhammad Ali, in 1967, refused to be drafted into the Vietnam War. It wasn’t his fight, Ali said then. The Vietnamese “never lynched me.

NEW YORK — The Recording Academy is making changes to several Grammy Awards categories, including the often-debated best new artist title, and having nomination review committee members sign disclosure forms to prevent conflicts of interest.

London’s mayor has called for an urgent investigation after rapper Wretch 32 released a video of his father being tasered in his home by a British police officer. The 36-second clip posted late Tuesday on Twitter shows police entering a house.

NEW YORK — Four cast members are not returning for another season of Bravo’s “Vanderpump Rules” — two over their racist social media posts, and the others after they racially profiled a coworker.

NEW YORK — Public interest in demonstrations following the death of George Floyd boosted news programming — none more so than CNN.

TORONTO — CBC News host Wendy Mesley says she's sorry and "deeply ashamed" after using "a word that should never be used" during an editorial discussion about current issues regarding race.

Gone West, “Canyons” (Triple Tigers Records) The full-length debut album from Gone West sets the tone right from the album cover — the four members languidly walking up a road in Malibu, California. It's warm and they are sun-kissed.

Gone West, “Canyons” (Triple Tigers Records) The full-length debut album from Gone West sets the tone right from the album cover — the four members languidly walking up a road in Malibu, California. It's warm and they are sun-kissed.

NEW YORK — Charles King's “Gods of the Upper Air,” a group biography on such groundbreaking anthropologists as Franz Boas, Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston, has received a prominent history award.