Friends and relatives of John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston gathered Thursday at his central Florida home for a memorial service to honor his 16-year-old son, Jett

Cruise struggled to maintain his composure as he spoke on “The View” about last week’s death of 16-year-old Jett Travolta

According to a story in The Washington Post, an airline and two officials with the Transportation Security Administration recently paid $240,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit alleging they barred an Iraqi-born U.S. citizen from a 2006 flight until he covered his T-shirt, which bore a phrase in both English and Arabic.

Happy birthday, Elvis Presley. Today, you would have been 74. Or, maybe … today you are 74.

A private funeral service is set to be held in Ocala for John Travolta’s teenage son.

Jay-Z isn’t performing at President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration, but he is planning to make a big splash on the eve of the event.

MSNBC political commentator Chris Matthews has told his colleagues he won’t be leaving television to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Pennsylvania.

Michael Jackson has signed a yearlong lease on a mansion in the swanky Bel Air area of Los Angeles

It’s another girl for Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck.

He wanted the book to be comforting and inspiring, so that members of the armed forces could read it to their children and help their young ones understand why parents in the military sometimes have to leave for long and trying periods.

The brewer has stopped giving free samples in hospitality centers at its SeaWorld theme parks in Orlando, San Antonio and San Diego and its Busch Gardens parks in Tampa and Williamsburg, Va.

U.S. actor Tom Cruise said Scientology teachings helped him overcome childhood dyslexia, a Spanish magazine reported.

Two sushi bar owners paid more than $100,000 for a Japanese bluefin tuna at a Tokyo fish auction Monday, about ten times the average price and the highest in nearly a decade, market officials said.

Some 150 million 3D glasses will be given away for Super Bowl viewers to watch a three-minute 3D sneak preview of the big-screen animated feature “Monsters vs. Aliens.“ While 3D telecasts are nothing new, this marks the first time one has been done for such a large audience.

Don’t let the smell of beer and the rock music fool you: Beer pong is a serious game. Some dare say a sport.

It’s not every day you could see 31 paintings by Queena Stovall, Virginia’s Grandma Moses

To recap last week’s preview of the first six months of 2009: President Barack Obama takes the oath of office to the delight of millions, but approval ratings plummet when he fails to fix everything in the first two hours of his administration. Flush with bailout money, Chrysler introduces the sporty Dodge Desperate, which runs on actual cash stuffed directly into the gas tank, according to new Chrysler CEO and former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Newspaper readership and ad revenues rise when Americans realize that much information on the Internet isn’t true. Americans abruptly return to the Internet when they realize newspapers have far fewer pictures of naked people than the Internet.

Thousands of campers and revelers gathered along the Rose Parade route before the first dawn of 2009, eagerly awaiting the floral floats that will proceed down Colorado Boulevard escorted by marching bands and well-groomed horses on New Year’s Day.

What are your New Year’s resolutions for 2009? Whether it’s a traditional goal or a little off the wall, we want to hear from you!

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will get to keep historic instruments from Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash and Mother Maybelle Carter pledged by a man who committed suicide after being accused of defrauding millions from investors.

Four years after a stroke, Dick Clark is relishing the prospect of another New Year’s Eve celebration, determined to appear for his 36th year in Times Square.

Freddie Hubbard, the Grammy-winning jazz musician whose blazing virtuosity influenced a generation of trumpet players and who collaborated with such greats as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, died Monday, a month after suffering a heart attack. He was 70.

The Tom Cruise WWII thriller earned $21.5 million over the weekend, with a four-day haul of $30 million since it opened on Christmas Day

Hubbard’s manager, David Weiss, says the musician died Monday at Sherman Oaks Hospital in Los Angeles. He had been hospitalized since suffering a heart attack last month.

With an estimated annual income of more than $40 million, you might mistake his portfolio for that of Warren Buffett (not a relative). And he’s done it by sailing beyond most musicians’ ticket, T-shirt and poster revenue stream.

Bad memories of 2008? Shred ‘em.

A “Happy 200th Birthday” card is tough to find.

Both are planning extensive coverage for Jan. 20, when Barack Obama is sworn in as the nation’s 44th president. While it will be followed as a news event, network executives said the installation of the first black president will be as much a celebration as a story.

It would seem that a certain men’s room at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is no longer flush with tourists.

Once again, as media outlets take a “special look back” at events that shaped the previous year - really an opportunity for journalists to write a bucket-load of year-in-review stories in advance and spend a week or two polishing their resumes and looking for a more inviting career path, like bomb-disposal technician - I instead choose to use my super powers to predict what lies ahead in 2009.