National Entertainment

NEW YORK — Apple and Google dropped the popular game Fortnite from their app stores after the game’s developer introduced a direct payment plan that bypasses their platforms.

Imagine taking a little pill that could make you strong and vibrant, one that basically unlocks your yearning potential. No, not that pill. Get your mind out of the gutter.

NEW YORK — It's baby No. 3 for John Legend and Chrissy Teigen. The couple revealed they are expecting in Legend's new video for the song “Wild," which premiered Thursday and features Teigen and Legend holding her baby bump at the end of the clip.

LOS ANGELES — Spicoli is making a virtual return to Ridgemont High to raise money for a pair of non-profit groups.

Sylvie Simmons, “Blue On Blue” (Compass Records) Respected music journalist Sylvie Simmons' second album, “Blue On Blue,” is an intimate collection of sweet songs about romance, regret, experience and hope.

NEW YORK — Even mock elections require wall-to-wall coverage, so when Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine set out to document Texas’ Boys State, the week-long summer camp of civics simulation run by the American Legion since 1935, they hired seven cinemato

NEW YORK — Lady Gaga is ready to just dance at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards. MTV announced Thursday that Gaga, who is tied as the most-nominated act alongside Ariana Grande, will perform at the Aug. 30 event.

1. “Midnight Sun” by Stephanie Meyer (Little, Brown) 2. “Live Free or Die” by Sean Hannity (Threshold Editions) 3. “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House) 4. “Too Much and Never Enough” by Mary L. Trump (Simon & Schuster) 5.

LOS ANGELES — Chris Evans became the most politically prickly “Avenger” a few years back with withering tweets about President Donald Trump and his Republican supporters.

NEW YORK — There is still plenty of life in Stephenie Meyer's “Twilight Saga.” Meyer is planning at least two more books in her mega-selling vampire series, she said during a recent promotional event.