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BASIN EVENTS: July 24-Aug. 1
COLUMBIA BASIN — It’s hot and smoky outside? This is the Columbia Basin. We’re used to this. Here are some chances…
Jan Morris, author and transgender pioneer, dies at 94
NEW YORK (AP) — Jan Morris, the celebrated journalist, historian, world traveler and fiction writer who in middle age became a pioneer of the transgender movement, has died at 94.
BTS says new album 'BE' is a 'letter of hope'
SEOUL (AP) — K-pop band BTS on Friday released their highly anticipated new album, which they described as a “letter of hope.”
Dylan papers, including unpublished lyrics, sell for $495K
BOSTON (AP) — A long-lost trove of Bob Dylan documents including the singer-songwriter's musings about anti-Semitism and unpublished song lyrics has sold at auction for a total of $495,000.
Review: Kelsey Waldon covers weighty topics on new album
Kelsey Waldon, “They'll Never Keep Us Down” (Oh Boy)
'Coming 2 America' to launch on Amazon Prime in March
“Coming 2 America,” the sequel to the 1988 Eddie Murphy comedy, has landed on a date to come to audiences. The film which reunites Murphy and Arsenio Hall will debut on Amazon Prime Video on March 5, 2021, Amazon S…
James Taylor on how he takes a song and makes it his own
NEW YORK (AP) — Something happens when James Taylor covers a song. It gets all James Taylor-y.
Review: Dolly Parton brings her holiday spirit to Netflix
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BTS releases new album 'BE,' a 'letter of hope'
SEOUL (AP) — K-pop band BTS on Friday released their highly anticipated new album, which they described as a “letter of hope.”
People magazine names Michael B. Jordan as Sexiest Man Alive
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Michael B. Jordan has been crowned as 2020's
Barack Obama memoir off to record-setting start in sales
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Barack Obama's “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours, putting it on track to be the best selling presidential memoir in modern hi…
'Shuggie Bain' writer Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize
LONDON (AP) — Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction Thursday for “Shuggie Bain,” a novel about a boy’s turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow that was turned down by 32 publ…
British writer Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize for coming-of-age novel “Shuggie Bain”
LONDON (AP) — British writer Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize for coming-of-age novel “Shuggie Bain.”
Trump-friendly Newsmax seeks to cut into Fox’s viewership
NEW YORK (AP) — Now that his largely invisible network has suddenly been flooded by fans of President Donald Trump, Newsmax television personality Grant Stinchfield is puffing out his chest.
Lawyers: Senior royals advised Meghan to write to her father
LONDON (AP) — The Duchess of Sussex was advised by two senior members of Britain’s royal family to write a letter to her estranged father that a British newspaper later published in part, court papers filed Wednesd…
Video shows unauthorized man with flamethrower atop NYC bus
NEW YORK (AP) — A rapper who said he was making a tribute to a legendary New York City hip-hop group was recorded shooting a flamethrower from the top of an occupied city bus in an unsanctioned stunt a transit agen…