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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…
'S.W.A.T.' dives into Black, police conflict in season debut
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The ghost of a bitter chapter for Los Angeles haunts the season debut of “S.W.A.T.,” which casts today’s police-connected African American deaths as part of a cruelly repetitive history.
Lawyer: Britney Spears fears father, wants him out of career
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears fears her father and will not resume her career so long as he has power over it, her attorney said in court Tuesday.
CNN tops cable ratings for election week, Biden's speech
LOS ANGELES (AP) — CNN and Fox News Channel battled for viewers on the election day that turned into an election week and then some, each earning bragging rights.
Massive Simone Leigh sculpture now greets Penn students
NEW YORK (AP) — A 16-foot-tall bronze bust of a Black woman by artist Simone Leigh has been installed in the heart of the University of Pennsylvania's campus, and is being called an “impressive and challenging” add…
Review: A 'Hillbilly Elegy' adaptation, hold the politics
J.D. Vance's “Hillbilly Elegy,” an election-year explainer to liberal America about the white underclass that fueled Donald Trump's rise, has been reborn as blandly overbaked awards bait.
Musicians Mayfield, Markham plead guilty in fraud case
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Grammy Award-winning New Orleans trumpet player Irvin Mayfield and his musical partner, pianist Ronald Markham, each pleaded guilty Tuesday to a conspiracy to commit fraud charge stemming from th…
Review: Chris Stapleton delivers a sure-footed masterpiece
Chris Stapleton, “Starting Over" (Mercury Records Nashville)
Colder months can be perfect time to photograph gardens
NEW YORK (AP) —
Posthumous book coming from historian Robert D Richardson
NEW YORK (AP) — A posthumous work by prize-winning historian Robert D. Richardson will come out in 2022. It centers on three major American thinkers he previously wrote books about: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David…
Review: Bromance 'The Climb' a triumph of quirky filmmaking
Three-quarters through “The Climb” comes a scene we've all come to expect in a romantic comedy: A wedding is interrupted by the best man who rushes into a church during a marriage ceremony and screams “I object!”
Veterans’ fundraiser to go virtual, with a prince and a Boss
NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s Stand Up for Heroes fundraiser is going virtual for the first time and The Boss will once again be there. But so will a real prince.
Rolling with it, Keith Richards is chilling in the garden
NEW YORK (AP) — Keith Richards is so old-school that when he does his interviews — he'll do so from a landline.
Star-studded benefit concert to honor nurses on Thanksgiving
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stevie Wonder, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan will be among the entertainers honoring nurses in a star-studded benefit virtual concert on Thanksgiving.
How a Brazil samba school shimmied from Carnival to COVID-19
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The sultry heat of the Southern Hemisphere’s summer will soon be rolling into Rio de Janeiro. In a normal year, the air would whisper into Dr. Wille Baracho's ear:
Country singer Lee Brice to miss CMA Awards due to COVID-19
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country singer Lee Brice tested positive for COVID-19 and will not perform as scheduled at the CMA Awards on Wednesday.