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Family of slain Florida woman questions investigation
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The family of a slain college student says a sheriff’s deputy…
Sonia Sanchez wins $250,000 prize for lifetime achievement
NEW YORK (AP) — Poet, educator and activist Sonia Sanchez is this year’s winner of…
Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize
STOCKHOLM (AP) — U.K.-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose experience of crossing continents and cultures…
About that ‘No Time to Die’ ending…
NEW YORK (AP) — This story discusses the ending of “No Time to Die.” That…
Film TV workers union says strike to start next week
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The union representing film and television crews says its 60,000 members…
Rachel Cusk among fiction finalists for Governor General’s Literary Awards
OTTAWA – British-Canadian author Rachel Cusk is among five boundary-pushing writers in the running for…
#MeToo, 4 years in: ‘I’d like to think now, we are believed’
NEW YORK (AP) — To Charlotte Bennett, the new book that arrived at her Manhattan…
Queen accepts medical advice to rest, cancels N Ireland trip
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for a…
R. Kelly’s Chicago trial on federal sex charges set Aug. 1
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered R&B superstar R. Kelly to stand…
Vanessa Bryant said LA sheriff promised to secure crash site
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant’s widow said she pleaded with the Los Angeles County…
Let computers do it: Film set tragedy spurs call to ban guns
NEW YORK (AP) — With computer-generated imagery, it seems the sky’s the limit in the…
Assistant director of Baldwin film fired after 2019 mishap
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that…
Grammys CEO on a mission to regain music community’s trust
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — When Harvey Mason jr. took the helm at the Recording Academy,…
Boissonnault, Fraser, Ien among nine new faces in Trudeau’s cabinet
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has chosen nine new ministers for his cabinet, which…
Prince Andrew’s lawyer wants to keep 2009 legal deal sealed
NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Andrew’s lawyer asked a New York judge Tuesday to keep…
Potential legal woes mount after ‘Rust’ shooting tragedy
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alec Baldwin the actor, who pulled the trigger on a prop…
In Somalia, a rare female artist promotes images of peace
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Among the once-taboo professions emerging from Somalia’s decades of conflict and…
Sheriff: Movie set showed ‘some complacency’ with weapons
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Investigators said Wednesday that there was “some complacency” in how…
US returns antiquities to India in stolen art investigation
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. authorities returned about 250 antiquities to India on Thursday in…
Return to Sender? Stolen Elvis bust is back in Illinois bar
WEST PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — The King of Rock n’ Roll is back in the…
New suit: One Epstein accuser says 2nd accuser defamed her
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who says financer Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused her has…
A World Remembers: Memorials honor COVID-19’s 5 million dead
BERGAMO, Italy (AP) — The Italian city that suffered the brunt of COVID-19’s first deadly…
Quebec City honours victims on first anniversary of deadly sword attack
MONTREAL – Officials in Quebec’s capital held ceremonies and urged residents to come together on…
New this week: ‘Finch,’ ABBA and ‘The Harder They Fall’
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV,…