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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…
Priest and abstract-expressionist painter Bill Moore dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Father Bill Moore, a Catholic priest and prominent abstract expressionist who spent decades spreading spiritualism through his paintings, has died at age 71.
Romania's Jewish State Theater explores work on Holocaust
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The latest première at the Jewish State Theater in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, explores the horrors of the Holocaust via a survivor's memories of the Auschwitz and Plaszow concentrati…
Toobin suspended by the New Yorker, steps away from CNN
NEW YORK (AP) — Author-commentator Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended by the New Yorker and is stepping away from his job as CNN's senior legal analyst pending what the cable network is calling a “personal matter.”
Q&A: Adam McKay on the lessons of the 2000 recount
NEW YORK (AP) — Adam McKay was head writer at “Saturday Night Live” during the 2000 election — a heady era for the sketch show that saw the phrase “strategery” become lodged in the nation’s consciousness, Darrell H…
UK festival curator accuses UAE minister of sex assault
LONDON (AP) — The chair of Britain’s Hay literary festival said Sunday the event will not return to Abu Dhabi after one of the festival’s curators alleged that she was sexually assaulted by the tolerance minister o…
Jeff Bridges says he has lymphoma, cites good prognosis
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeff Bridges says he is being treated for lymphoma and his prognosis is good.
New this week: The Boss, Billie Eilish, Borat & 'Bad Hair'
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
'Sesame Street' launches a podcast to help educate kids
NEW YORK (AP) — What has more letters than the alphabet? That's easy: The post office.
Artist hikes length of Vermont, painting along the way
MANCHESTER, Vt. (AP) — After hiking over 200 miles (320 kilometers) on the country's oldest long-distance trail, Rob Mullen had just 3 miles (5 kilometers) to go in the rain to meet up with his wife and father for …
Review: Seventeen offer fleeting distraction with new EP
“Semicolon,” by Seventeen (Pledis Entertainment)
Veteran TV executive Channing Dungey jumps to Warner Bros.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Veteran TV industry executive Channing Dungey was named chairman of the Warner Bros. Television Group after tenures at ABC and Netflix in which she shepherded hit series including “Scandal."
Rhonda Fleming, film star of ‘40s and ‘50s, dies at 97
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Rhonda Fleming, the fiery redhead who appeared with Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan and other film stars of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 97.
Heard any Biden jokes? Study of late-night comics finds few
NEW YORK (AP) — From the perspective of late-night joke writers, there's really only one person running for president.
Suspect arrested on Hollywood studio lot after standoff
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities arrested a sexual assault suspect early Monday on the Paramount Pictures studio lot in Hollywood after a two-hour standoff with police, officials said.
'The West Wing' cast reunites again, this time for a book
NEW YORK (AP) — The stars of “The West Wing” are once again joining together, this time for a book about the award-winning White House television drama.