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BreakingCountry Music Icon Dolly Parton Dies at Age 80Read now →

BreakingAug 26, 2026

Country Music Icon Dolly Parton Dies at Age 80

Dolly Parton, one of the best-selling music artists in history, has died at age 80 in Nashville, Tennessee, her family confirmed, after a brief illness. Over a six-decade career she sold more than 100 million records, won 11 Grammy Awards, and built a lasting philanthropic legacy through Dollywood and her Imagination Library children's book charity.

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Scientists Find Rare Soft Tissue in a 450-Million-Year-Old Sea Fossil

Science · Aug 26 · L2

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Amazon Plans to Bring Drone Delivery to Nearly 500 US Cities

Tech · Aug 26 · L2

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Country Music Icon Dolly Parton Dies at Age 80

Scientists Find Rare Soft Tissue in a 450-Million-Year-Old Sea Fossil

Amazon Plans to Bring Drone Delivery to Nearly 500 US Cities

Venice Film Festival Opens With Danny Boyle's Murdoch Drama "Ink"

Anthropic Prepares to Publicly File for a Blockbuster IPO

A Manhattan-Sized Ice Island Just Broke Off a Greenland Glacier

New Catalyst Turns Tough Plant Waste Into Valuable Chemicals

Shakira Pledges $1.25 Million to Rebuild Schools After Colombia Earthquake

Nvidia to Raise AI Server Prices by More Than 15% as Memory Costs Climb

Oil Tanker Disabled by Projectile Strike Near the Strait of Hormuz

Laser Scans Reveal 2.5 Kilometers of Hidden Inca Roads Near Machu Picchu

Scientists Find the Ideal Amount of Sleep to Slow Down Biological Aging

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Swings Past $2 Billion at the Global Box Office

Marvell Hands Google the Right to Buy $12.2 Billion in Stock in a Giant AI Chip Deal

Houthi Rebels Strike Saudi Oil Supertanker With a Ballistic Missile in the Red Sea

NASA's New Planet Hunting Telescope Is Cleared for an August 30 Launch That Could Find 100,000 Worlds

New Compound Burns Fat Without Losing Muscle, Offering a Different Path to Weight Loss Than Ozempic

Simon Cowell Steps Away From America's Got Talent for Weeks After Back Surgery

Trump's 50 Percent Tariffs on Canada Take Effect as Carney Vows to Match Them Dollar for Dollar

US Unveils 'Economic D-Day' Sanctions on Iran as the Rial Crashes to a Record Low

The Sharpest Images Ever Taken of the Sun Reveal Whirlpools Just 20 Kilometres Wide

Light Powered Nanorobots Smaller Than a Speck of Dust Can Now Hunt and Carry Away Bacteria

Bret Michaels Cancels the Rest of His 2026 Tour One Night After Returning to the Stage

Wall Street Braces for Nvidia Earnings and a New Fed Chair's First Jackson Hole