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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…
'World's loneliest elephant' Kaavan starts trip to Cambodia
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Kaavan, dubbed the "world’s loneliest elephant" after languishing alone for years in a Pakistani zoo, was readied Sunday for his flight to a sanctuary in Cambodia and the much-needed company of oth…
New this week: Selena series, 'Shameless' and Shawn Mendes
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
Dictionary.com picks 'pandemic' as its 2020 word of the year
NEW YORK (AP) — On Dec. 31, China reported a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown origin to the World Health Organization. By Jan. 31, WHO declared an outbreak of a novel coronavirus a global health emergency. Com…
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.
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‘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…
New this week: Selena series, 'Shameless' and Shawn Mendes
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
Dictionary companies choose same word of the year: pandemic
NEW YORK (AP) — In the land of lexicography, out of the whole of the English language, 2020's word of the year is a vocabulary of one.
Art world star gives back by buying work of the undiscovered
NEW YORK (AP) — Painter Guy Stanley Philoche, a star in the New York art world, had wanted to treat himself to a fancy watch after a hugely successful gallery show. Then the pandemic hit, and he feared for all the …
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.”
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 6-12
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 6-12:
Dictionary.com picks 'pandemic' as its 2020 word of the year
NEW YORK (AP) — On Dec. 31, China reported a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown origin to the World Health Organization. By Jan. 31, WHO declared an outbreak of a novel coronavirus a global health emergency. Com…
'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.
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.
Champion Ken Jennings will be first interim 'Jeopardy!' host
NEW YORK (AP) — “Jeopardy!” record-holder Ken Jennings will be the first in a series of interim hosts replacing Alex Trebek when the show resumes production next Monday.