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BASIN EVENTS: Nov. 13-21
COLUMBIA BASIN — Shh! Hear that? It’s the last quiet time before the holidays begin in earnest. Here are a few way…
Tom Hanks, Chris Rock added to Oscars presenters
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Hanks, Chris Rock and Taika Waititi are some of the presenters who will take the Oscars stage at the Dolby Theatre during Sunday’s ceremony.
'The Masked Singer' hopes to take advantage of rare edge
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox will find out soon whether “The Masked Singer” benefits from the best time slot in television.
Shannen Doherty says she is battling stage 4 breast cancer
NEW YORK (AP) — Shannen Doherty is battling a recurrence of breast cancer that has progressed to stage four, telling fans “it's a bitter pill to swallow.”
Review: Green Day returns with snarling and lean album
Green Day, “Father of All...” (Reprise/Warner)
Review: `Olympic Pride, American Prejudice' reminder of past
“Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics,” Atria Books, by Deborah Riley Draper, Blair Underwood and T…
Weinstein accuser says he 'trapped' her during hotel assault
NEW YORK (AP) — The final accuser at Harvey Weinstein's rape trial testified Wednesday that he stripped off his clothes, pulled down her dress and groped her breast in a hotel bathroom in 2013, all the while tellin…
Rape case to be dropped against doctor who was on reality TV
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors are dropping charges that a doctor who appeared on a reality TV show and his girlfriend raped and drugged women in California after finding key video evidence never actually exi…
Miami sees a return to Cold War cultural hard line on Cuba
MIAMI (AP) — Platinum-selling reggaeton act Gente de Zona were barred from a New Year’s Eve concert in a Miami park. The mayor of Miami declared another Cuban singer persona non grata and her concert in a private c…
Disney Plus hits nearly 29M subscribers in 3 months
NEW YORK (AP) — Disney said its Disney Plus streaming service reached nearly 29 million paid subscribers in less than three months, an impressive start for what the company has positioned as its future as more peop…
Barnes & Noble suspends reissues of classics with new images
NEW YORK (AP) — Barnes & Noble is withdrawing a planned line of famous literature reissued with multicultural cover images that has been met with widespread criticism on social media.
At the Oscars, 'The Cave' aims to provide hope to Syria
NEW YORK (AP) — Home is a complicated notion for Feras Fayyad, the director of the Oscar-nominated Syrian documentary “The Cave.” His family home in Syria is believed to have been taken just weeks ago as President’…
White House excludes CNN from Trump session, with no protest
NEW YORK (AP) — The White House excluded CNN on Tuesday from its annual off-the-record briefing with television news personalities prior to the State of the Union address with no public protest from the network or …
Making Oscar history, 'Honeyland' shatters borders
NEW YORK (AP) — Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska were in a hard-to-reach area of Northern Macedonia — about as far from the Oscars as possible — when they came upon the beekeeper who would be their subject in …
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Apple Book charts for week ending February 2, 2020: (Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher)
Celebrated book editor Alice Mayhew dies at age 87
NEW YORK (AP) — Alice Mayhew, the celebrated and influential editor of political and historical works whose authors ranged from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to Taylor Branch and Doris Kearns Goodwin, died Tuesda…