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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…
Biden campaign 'flooding the zone' with celebrity backers
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Poised over the piano, Carole King was set to play “I Feel the Earth Move” during a recent virtual fundraiser for Joe Biden when the Democratic presidential nominee himself beat her to it.
First night RNC ratings down; Fox sticks more with the show
NEW YORK (AP) — Up is down, down is up. President Donald Trump thanked CNN Tuesday for its Republican convention coverage, while Fox News heard complaints from some viewers that it wasn't showing enough.
ABC's Muir, Democratic convention on cable TV lead ratings
NEW YORK (AP) — In this pandemic season, ABC's David Muir has emerged as broadcast television's star of the summer.
Radio station fires worker over role in Yusuf Hawkins death
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was among those charged in the notorious 1989 killing of Yusuf Hawkins, a Black teen set upon by a white mob and shot, was fired from a New York hip-hop radio station after a new documenta…
Polanski's request to restore film academy membership denied
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Tuesday denied Roman Polanski's request to restore his membership in the organization that bestows the Academy Awards two years after he was expelled from it for raping a minor.
Police: Justin Townes Earle's death was probable overdose
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville police said a preliminary investigation into the death of singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle shows his death was a probable drug overdose.
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Trump's audience doesn't match Biden's; president hails CNN
NEW YORK (AP) — Up is down, down is up. President Donald Trump thanked CNN Tuesday for its Republican convention coverage, while Fox News heard complaints from some viewers that it wasn't showing enough.
Kate McKinnon's 'Joe Exotic' series ordered by NBCUniversal
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The saga of Joe Exotic is getting another Hollywood chapter, with Kate McKinnon starring as his rival in a limited TV series.
20 years later, ‘Bring It On’ still gets the cheers
No one expected “Bring It On” to win its opening weekend. The Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union teen cheerleading comedy was facing off against a $60 million Wesley Snipes action film. But on the weekend of August …
Writer Gail Sheehy, author of ‘Passages,’ dies at 83
NEW YORK (AP) — Gail Sheehy, the journalist, commentator and pop sociologist whose best-selling “Passages” helped millions navigate their lives from early adulthood to middle age and beyond, has died. She was 83.
Dyson's 'Long Time Coming' addresses history of racism in US
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the country's most prominent scholars on race has a new book out in December.
Rule, Britannia! BBC ditches singalong amid colonial rethink
LONDON (AP) — The BBC has ditched the lyrics of “Rule, Britannia!” for its traditional end-of-summer concert amid a debate over the song’s celebration of the British Empire at a time when critics are reevaluating t…
Review: Writer Spencer Kope takes a risk but it pays off
“Shadows of the Dead,” by Spencer Kope (Minotaur)
Rule Britannia! BBC to play song without lyrics at concert
LONDON (AP) — The BBC has ditched the lyrics of “Rule Britannia!” for its traditional end-of-summer concert amid a debate about the song’s celebration of the British Empire at a time when critics are reevaluating t…