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The Red Bull Stratos jump by the Austrian skydiver Fearless Felix Baumgartner broke records on Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) YouTube for concurrent live streams.

Did the BBC look the other way for four decades as host Jimmy Savile sexually abused underage girls? The broadcaster and British authorities are investigating.

Variety magazine was sold to Penske Media Group, owner of Nikki Finke's Deadline.com. Does brand value matter?

IRS forms from Sesame Workshop show the salaries of the puppeteers who play Big Bird and other "Sesame Street" characters.

The East West Players are holding a forum on Asian-American visibility in theater at the David Henry Hwang Theater in Los Angeles.

Dutch director George Sluizer completed River Phoenix's last film, "Dark Blood," 19 years after the actor died of a drug overdose.

"Discovering Columbus," an installation by Tatzu Nishi, allows visitors an up-close view of the Columbus Circle monument.

Jose Antonio Vargas has asked the New York Times and the Associated Press to stop using the term "illegal immigrant" in their news stories.

Driven by single-camera comedies such as NBC's "The New Normal," sitcom production was up in Los Angeles for the last quarter.

Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway are pitching in to help New York's historic Public Theater following a $40 million renovation.

The annual Kennedy Center Honors has honored only two Hispanics since its founding in 1978.

The Pirate Bay returns online after a two-day-long power outage.

The Pirate Bay is the latest BitTorrent download site to be shut down from anti-piracy efforts.

Employment in Internet media has grown substantially according to an analysis of the U.S. Labor Bureau's job figures compiled by Ad Age.

In Florida, the Walt Disney World resort has supported mostly conservative lawmakers this year, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Hyperlocal news was all the rage a few years ago, but a sustainable digital business model for local news has proved elusive.

California enacted a new bill that protects child actors. Backed by Cory Feldman and Todd Bridges, the bill was sponsored after J. J. Abrams discovered that his casting associate was a registered sex offender.

About 80 employees from the newly formed SAG-AFTRA union are voluntarily leaving their jobs on Friday, a consequence of a merger between SAG and AFTRA.

Mohammad Hosseini has said that Iran will boycott the 2013 Academy Awards over the anti-Muslim video "Innocence of Muslims." Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi won an Oscar last year.

Mirroring his role as Facebook's Sean Parker in "The Social Network," Justin Timberlake is rebooting Myspace. The singer/actor posted a demo of the new site on Vimeo.

Three victims injured when James Holmes opened fire during a screening of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" say Cinemark USA was negligent.

Violent protesters in Peshawar, Pakistan, torched two movie theaters over anti-Muslim film "Innocence of Muslims."

Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers show that the newspaper industry has lost 40 percent of its jobs since 2001.

The MTA said that 10 pro-Israel advertisements calling jihad “savage” are expected to appear in New York City subways next week.

A week before a court was to rule on a challenge to the Department of Labor's reforms to the way low-skilled foreign seasonal workers are brought into the country on the H-2B non-agricultural work visa, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted Thursday to hobble the department's efforts.

Mexican guest workers filed Wednesday a U.S. Department of Labor complaint against CJ's Seafood, a Wal-Mart Stores supplier, alleging the company didn't pay overtime for long shifts, locked them in and made physical threats for not working fast enough.