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COLUMBIA BASIN — It’s hot and smoky outside? This is the Columbia Basin. We’re used to this. Here are some chances…
Irina Antonova, head of top Moscow art museum, dies at 98
MOSCOW (AP) — Irina Antonova, a charismatic art historian who presided over one of Russia's top art museums for more than half a century, has died at 98.
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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.
Key question in Cosby appeal: Does defendant's past matter?
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In 2016, as Bill Cosby's legal team
Merriam-Webster's top word of 2020 not a shocker: pandemic
NEW YORK (AP) — If you were to choose a word that rose above most in 2020, which word would it be?
Testing new release strategy, 'The Croods' opens to $14.2M
NEW YORK (AP) — Testing
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 6-12
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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.
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.
‘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…
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 …
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.
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.