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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…
New this week: 'Stateless,' 'Palm Springs,' The Dalai Lama
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
Mary Trump's book offers scathing portrayal of president
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's niece offers a scathing portrayal of her uncle in a new book, blaming a toxic family for raising a narcissistic, damaged man who poses an immediate danger to the public, acc…
Kanye West? Tim McGraw? Girl Scouts? All got PPP loans
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's small business lending program has benefited millions of companies, with the goal of minimizing the number of layoffs Americans have suffered in the face of the coronavirus pandem…
Posthumous memoir by Sargent Shriver scheduled for January
NEW YORK (AP) — The late Sargent Shriver, the Peace Corps' founding director and an architect of President Lyndon Johnson's “War on Poverty,” left behind at least one unfinished project.
Muti conducts Syria musicians in memorial concert amid ruins
RAVENNA, Italy (AP) — Nine musicians from the Syrian diaspora in Europe are playing Sunday in the 24th friendship concert conducted by Riccardo Muti, this year at the Paestum archaeological site in southern Italy, …
Little to celebrate in Pamplona with no running of the bulls
PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Residents in Spain’s northern city of Pamplona dressed up Monday in white clothes and traditional red scarves to mark what should have been the start of their annual San Fermín festival, whic…
Dana Canedy named as publisher at Simon & Schuster
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dana Canedy will take on one of the biggest roles at Simon & Schuster.
Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 12-18
Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 12-18
Hollywood catches up to director Gina Prince-Bythewood
Gina Prince-Bythewood knows what good fighting looks like. The “Love & Basketball” director has been an athlete her entire life, but she also just loves action movies. So when she started dreaming up the template f…
Tom Hanks on COVID-19, 'Greyhound' and wartime mentality
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Kaepernick, ESPN team up for documentary series on his life
Colin Kaepernick will be featured in a documentary series produced by ESPN Films as part of a first-look deal with The Walt Disney Co.
Executive turmoil at Essence, Ebony magazines prompt changes
NEW YORK (AP) — Two storied magazines that focus on news and culture in the Black community, Essence and Ebony, are in the midst of turmoil at their top levels.
'Lift Every Voice and Sing' hymn ignites hope across nation
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Black national anthem was born more than a century ago, but the popular hymn within the African American community called “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has resurrected a beacon of hope during n…
Fox's Carlson criticized for saying Democrats hate America
NEW YORK (AP) — Television's most popular political host, Tucker Carlson, says leaders of the Democratic party should be disqualified from running the country because they “despise” it.
UK's lockdown-hit arts venues to get $2B rescue package
LONDON (AP) — The British government has announced more than 1.5 billion pounds (almost $2 billion) to help the country’s renowned arts and cultural institutions recover from the coronavirus pandemic, after some th…