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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…
Gina Yashere memoir 'Cack-Handed' to be released in June
NEW YORK (AP) — Gina Yashere has some tough stories to share but also some inspiring ones.
California executive pleads guilty in college admission plot
A California businessman said to have steered “Full House” star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, to the ringleader of the college admissions bribery scheme admitted Monday to payin…
Another record low in viewership for 'Pandemmys'
NEW YORK (AP) — The novelty of television stars getting Emmy Awards delivered to their homes wasn't enough to keep the annual show from slipping further in popularity.
Sam McBratney, 'Guess How Much I Love You' author, dies
NEW YORK (AP) — Sam McBratney, the Irish children's author whose picture story of ever-wider and higher devotion “Guess How I Much Love You" became bedtime reading for millions of families, has died.
Review: 'Agents of Chaos,' from Russia, but not with love
Let's take a trip back in American history, but not too way back. To a time not that unfamiliar — the last presidential election. Do you remember all the stuff swirling around in 2016?
Famed French actor Michael Lonsdale dies at 89
PARIS (AP) — Michael Lonsdale, a giant of the silver screen and theater in France who worked with some of the world’s top directors in an acting career that spanned 60 years, died on Monday, his agent said. He was …
Kal Penn hopes for dialogue with new show for young voters
Politics has been more than a little shouty of late. Actor and activist Kal Penn would quietly like to change that.
Review: Craig Johnson mystery involving art creates art, too
“Next to Last Stand,” by Craig Johnson (Viking)
Ellen DeGeneres makes on-air apology, vows a 'new chapter'
NEW YORK (AP) — Ellen DeGeneres used her opening monologue of the new season of her daytime talk show to address allegations of a toxic work environment, apologizing for things “that never should have happened.”
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 27-Oct. 3
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 27-Oct. 3
Book Review: Two love affairs fuel 'The Book of Two Ways'
“The Book of Two Ways,” by Jodi Picoult (Ballantine)
Meghan's lawyers deny she cooperated with royal book authors
LONDON (AP) — Lawyers for a British newspaper publisher that's being sued for invasion of privacy by the Duchess of Sussex argued Monday that she made personal information public by cooperating with the authors of …
Israeli and Emirati film industries to cooperate after deal
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Film agencies in Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced an agreement Monday to collaborate on television production, the latest development to follow a U.S.-brokered deal b…
The 'Pandemmys' were weird and sometimes wonderful
It was Regina King, winning her fourth career Emmy on Sunday, who perhaps summed up the proceedings the most succinctly — and accurately: “This is freaking weird."
Media celebrates Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life, legacy
NEW YORK (AP) — Across television and streaming services, the life and legacy of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was already front and center Saturday, a day after her death at 87. A look at coverage and …