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BASIN EVENTS: Dec. 19-27
COLUMBIA BASIN — It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and a lot of people will be spending time at home wi…
Petri Hawkins Byrd deliberates on life after 'Judge Judy'
Judith Sheindlin has been the sole judge, jury and verbal executioner for the last quarter century on her behemoth TV court show, “Judge Judy.” Her trusted bailiff, Petri Hawkins Byrd, has stood by her side during …
Bad Bunny is Spotify's most-streamed artist of 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — The year's most played artist on Spotify? Globally speaking: Bad Bunny.
Pope book backs George Floyd protests, blasts virus skeptic
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the U.S. police killing of George Floyd and is blasting COVID-19 skeptics and media organizations that spread their conspiracies in a…
Queen, Prince Philip to spend Christmas at Windsor Castle
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, will spend Christmas at Windsor Castle instead of their Sandringham estate for the first time in decades.
George Clooney says he has cut his own hair 'for 25 years'
LOS ANGELES (AP) — George Clooney is just like us, maybe. The star said he does his own haircuts with a device famously touted in infomercials.
Music festivals offer to help Belgium's vaccination campaign
BRUSSELS (AP) — With nothing on their agendas for months to come, music festival organizers in Belgium want to use their know-how to help the country's coronavirus vaccination campaign.
Review: Hitman hiding out in England stars in 'Eddie's Boy'
“Eddie’s Boy,” by Thomas Perry (Mysterious Press)
‘I’m Your Woman’ puts a fresh spin on the 1970s crime drama
Director Julia Hart couldn’t stop thinking about Tuesday Weld. She had just watched Michael Mann’s 1981 thriller “Thief” and Weld’s character Jessie had taken over her imagination. Where did she and the baby go? Wh…
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'Big Sky' producers recognize Native American criticism
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Native American tribes and advocates are condemning “Big Sky,” a Montana-set ABC drama, for ignoring the history of violence inflicted on Indigenous women and instead making whites the crime vict…
18 indicted, including rapper, in gang-related activity
NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities on Tuesday announced the indictment of 18 people, including New York City rapper Casanova, in connection to a litany of gang-related crimes including racketeering, murder, drugs, firearm…
Rita Ora says sorry for lockdown-breaching birthday party
LONDON (AP) — British singer Rita Ora apologized Monday for breaking lockdown rules by holding a birthday party, saying it was “a serious and inexcusable error of judgment.”
'Game Change' co-author John Heilemann has book on 2020 race
NEW YORK (AP) — The co-author of the million-selling “Game Change” has a book of his own coming about the 2020 election.
Cosby's sex assault conviction goes before high-level court
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania's highest court questioned Tuesday whether Bill Cosby's alleged history of intoxicating and sexually assaulting young women amounted to a signature crime pattern, given studies that…
Dave Prowse, actor who played Darth Vader, dies at 85
LONDON (AP) — Dave Prowse, the British weightlifter-turned-actor who was the body, though not the voice, of arch-villain Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, has died. He was 85.