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Hill was pronounced the face of “The Hip-Hop Nation,” by Time magazine

(CBS/AP) Lauryn Hill has been charged with failing to file income tax returns for several years with the IRS, the U.S. Attorney’s office in New Jersey announced Thursday. Pictures: Stars with tax woes The five-time Grammy winner earned more than…

Commission on International Religious Freedom, with representatives monitoring the trial, has listed him as a “prisoner of conscience.” William Devlin, an evangelical pastor from New York spoke to reporters outside the prison, saying hundreds of thousands of Christians are praying for Brunson’s release

ALIAGA, Turkey — A Turkish court freed American pastor Andrew Brunson on Friday after he spent nearly two years in jail and more time under house arrest on charges related to terrorism and espionage. Brunson had become entangled in a…

“I don’t see any action

SEATTLE An American man detained in North Korea for the past nine months has been hospitalized after losing more than 50 pounds, and the need to bring him home is becoming more urgent, his sister said Sunday. Kenneth Bae, a…

(CBS News) Senior U.S

(CBS News) Senior U.S. intelligence officials are concerned about the growing presence of al Qaeda terrorists in civil war-torn Syria. In a statement released over the weekend, the State Department said the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)  has…

The former “American Idol” winner was the night’s only multiple winner, and her fans did it for her again

(CBS/AP) Carrie Underwood scored her third video of the year honor at the CMT Awards Wednesday night in Nashville for the song “Good Girl.” Underwood’s two wins – she also won for collaboration of the year for “Remind Me,” with…

Should win: James Corden (“One Man, Two Guvnors”)

(AP) NEW YORK – There’s “Follies” and then there’s folly. The first is a winning revival of Stephen Sondheim’s musical that wowed Broadway this season. The other is how you can characterize any attempt to handicap Sunday’s Tony Awards. But…

In a couple of other notable mashups, Paisley joined Hank Williams Jr

(CBS/AP) Carrie Underwood scored her third video of the year honor at the CMT Awards Wednesday night in Nashville for the song “Good Girl.” Underwood’s two wins – she also won for collaboration of the year for “Remind Me,” with…

Pictures: Stars with tax woes The five-time Grammy winner earned more than $1.6 million during 2005, 2006 and 2007, the three years for which she allegedly failed to file returns, federal prosecutors said

(CBS/AP) Lauryn Hill has been charged with failing to file income tax returns for several years with the IRS, the U.S. Attorney’s office in New Jersey announced Thursday. Pictures: Stars with tax woes The five-time Grammy winner earned more than…

Walker formed her own gospel group, the Caravans, as a young woman and was a protege of gospel star Mahalia Jackson

CHICAGO (CBS/AP) Grammy-winning singer Albertina Walker, who was known as the “Queen of Gospel,” has died at age 81. Close friend and WVON radio host Pam Morris says Walker died Friday morning of respiratory failure in at RML Specialty Hospital…

The two versions of his comments could not immediately be reconciled

TEHRAN, Iran Ahead of his inauguration, Iran’s new president on Friday reportedly called Israel an “old wound” that should be removed, but the latter half of that statement was immediately challenged by a varying interpretation of his remarks. Hasan Rouhani’s…