Posted: 8:24 AM NEW YORK (AP) - If video-of-the-year nominee Usher wins at the BET Awards this summer, he won't be far away: He's agreed to perform at the show.

Posted: 8:19 AM NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Zac Brown Band is adding some star power to baseball's Home Run Derby at next month's All-Star game festivities.

Posted: 8:17 AM WASHINGTON (AP) - Actor Matthew Broderick, country singer Josh Turner, composer John Williams and a dozen U.S. Olympic athletes will be among the headliners for this year's July Fourth celebration on the National Mall.

Posted: 4:42 PM Oprah Winfrey talks to eight, count 'em, eight Kardashian-Jener family members in an interview set to air on Winfrey's cable channel, OWN.

Posted: 7:34 AM Aspiring authors are getting less dependent on book publishers to help them realize their dream.

Posted: 7:28 AM Authorities in Tennessee are investigating a shooting at the home of country music singer-songwriter Tom T. Hall outside Nashville.

Posted: 9:01 AM METROPOLIS, Ill. (AP) - The yearly festival honoring Superman has taken off in the southern Illinois city that enthusiastically claims the Man of Steel as its favorite son.

Posted: 8:31 AM CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP) - It's not just a single life that gets toted up when Shirley MacLaine receives a career award. It's all her lives - past, present and future.

Posted: 8:27 AM PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The former Miss USA contestant who stepped down this week is standing by her claim the contest was rigged.

Posted: 8:23 AM MEXICO CITY (AP) - The Bieber may outdraw the Beatle. That's what Mexico City officials are saying as they prepare for Monday's free concert by teen star Justin Bieber.

Posted: 3:55 PM The fiancée of an "America's Got Talent" contestant scrutinized for claims he was injured in Afghanistan says he made a "mistake" when he gave the show a photograph of another soldier instead of himself.

Posted: 3:44 PM "American Idol" winner Phillip Phillips, who was plagued by serious kidney problems during the singing contest, is recovering from surgery.

Posted: 12:17 PM Federal prosecutors have charged five-time Grammy winner Lauryn Hill with willfully failing to file income tax returns with the IRS.

Posted: 7:36 AM Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth are tying the knot. The couple, who met on the movie set of "The Last Song," announced their engagement yesterday morning.

Posted: 7:26 AM Carrie Underwood is on a roll. She won her third video of the year award at the CMT Music Awards last night in Nashville.

Updated: 7:59 AM TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese shoe designer has become a pop diva's favorite by taking geisha and making it Gaga.

Updated: 7:57 AM NEW YORK (AP) - Taylor Swift has never revealed her target in the scathing song "Dear John," but John Mayer's pretty sure it was about him - and he doesn't think that's cool.

Updated: 7:52 AM LONDON (AP) - Archaeologists say they have discovered the remains of an Elizabethan theater where some of William Shakespeare's plays were first performed.

Updated: 7:54 AM Walter Cronkite's power was considerable and he used it for good. He flourished in the bargain and lived a heck of a life. None of that will come as news to the world he so reliably informed, but it is carefully and colorfully laid out in "Cronkite", the just-released biography by Douglas Brinkley.

Updated: 7:46 AM KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The U.S. Embassy in Pakistan says it terminated funding for a $20 million project to develop a local version of Sesame Street amid reports of corruption.

Updated: 7:46 AM CAMILLUS, N.Y. (AP) - Alec Baldwin wants to make sure students at a central New York school have the opportunity to get outside and play ball.

Posted: 5:25 AM Two Hollywood stars could spend the next two weeks in a New Orleans courtroom rather than on camera, on opposite sides in a real-life legal drama.

Posted: 5:17 AM The prototype space shuttle Enterprise has arrived in New Jersey, the first half of its trip to the flight deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier in New York City.

Posted: 5:10 AM The celebration of the 60-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II is ready to rock.

Posted: 11:39 AM LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Daytime Emmy Awards have found a new home at cable news channel HLN.