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LONDON (AP) — American novelist Virginia Evans won the Women’s Prize for Fiction on Thursday with “The Correspondent,” a word-of-mouth bestseller that made her a literary star after seven unpublished novels.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It looks from afar more UFO than UFC.
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PARIS (AP) — French singer and actor Patrick Bruel was handed preliminary charges of rape, attempted rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment of several women between 2008 and 2019 and released under strict judicial supervision, a prosecutor's office said Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Javoris Hollingsworth looked over his children’s shoulders during the pandemic, he noticed something missing from the educational videos keeping them occupied: Black characters who reflected families like his own.
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LONDON (AP) — The galaxy-hopping hero of “Doctor Who” has survived many narrow escapes and reinventions over more than six decades.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift attended Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs at Madison Square Garden, the arena that has gotten a lot of attention recently as the possible location for her upcoming wedding to Travis Kelce.
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NEW YORK (AP) — What makes a memorable World Cup anthem? Is it a song that best reflects the host countries? Is it a global banger, incorporating multiple languages and genres? Or should it simply value a chant-along chorus above all?
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations are among the agencies focused on security at the FIFA World Cup 2026 events in the U.S.
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LONDON (AP) — The late Laurence Olivier, arguably Britain’s greatest ever stage actor, was honored Wednesday with a blue plaque attached to the central London property where he lived as a child.
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Glenn Close will finally get her hands on an Oscar.
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Fabio Luisi wanted his Ring Cycle to be heard and not seen.
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The grand opening of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Fan Festival is from 2 p.m. to midnight on Saturday at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami.
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TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Nearly 50 years after Elvis Presley 's death, a gaggle of exuberant young boys and teens shook up his hometown, intent on keeping the king's legacy alive for a new generation.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Gordon S. Wood, the eminent and prolific scholar who forged a highly influential and sharply debated narrative of the country's early years of independence through such prize-winning works as “The Creation of the American Republic” and "The Radicalism of the American Revolution," has died. He was 92.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley are accusing one of their former defense attorneys of legal malpractice that they say led them to be convicted and imprisoned, separating them from each other and their family, ruining their reputations and costing them millions.
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NEW YORK (AP) — John Mellencamp, Jay Leno and Whitney Cummings will be among the guest speakers when Bill Maher receives the Mark Twain Award for American Humor during a June 28 ceremony at the Kennedy Center.
New York (AP) — It's been nearly 30 years since Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens wrote the music and lyrics for the musical “Ragtime,” an American epic tracking the intertwining lives of three families in New York at the turn of the 20th century.
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Take a look at a little Miami nostalgia from 1983 featuring Gloria and Emilio Estefan during the early days of Miami Sound Machine.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The most infectiously joyous of awards shows, the Tonys often feel like a summer camp reunion — make that a theater camp reunion — except with tuxedoes and gowns replacing the shorts and tees.
NEW YORK (AP) — “Schmigadoon!,” an adaptation of an Apple TV series that gently mocks big, brassy Broadway shows, won the best new musical Tony Award on a night when actor John Lithgow and playwright Bess Wohl made history.
NEW YORK (AP) — The summer box office is booming — but not because of the usual suspects.
Raised in the rural Montana community of Big Sandy, Jeff Ament got hooked as a teenager on skateboarding at a time when not much more than only a handful of ramps were available in the state.
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Leo XIV ackowledged Saturday he is competing for attention with another VIP in Madrid this weekend, and the pontiff declared his preference in Spain's biggest soccer rivalry.
King Charles III and his wife Queen Camilla were among senior members of Britain's royal family who donned elegant hats, tailcoats and dresses to attend the wedding of Charles' nephew Peter Phillips on Saturday.
NEW YORK (AP) — When her favorite band took the stage, Kristin Shires was in the front row.
The horror-comedy franchise Scary Movie is making a return.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Carlos Alberto Solari, the Argentine singer-songwriter known as “the Indio” who led Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota, one of the country's most popular and influential rock groups, died Friday. He was 77.
A team of about 100 obsessive soccer fans was hard at work on Friday at an organized high-tech operations center in Miami-Dade County.
LONDON (AP) — Anthony Head, the suave, smooth-voiced British actor known for roles in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Ted Lasso," has died, his family said Friday. He was 72.
ATLANTA (AP) — What is more American than taking a musical instrument with ancient roots and zapping it with electricity? That new creation, the electric guitar, has launched the dreams of millions of teenagers.
There will be four free FIFA World Cup watch parties at the Amerant Bank Arena, an indoor arena that can host 18,000 guests in Sunrise.
PARIS (AP) — Former American supermodel Carré Otis filed a complaint Friday at a Paris court alleging she was raped and trafficked by Gérald Marie, the former European head of Elite Model agency, in a move her lawyer said is meant to encourage other potential victims to come forward.
NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift's new song for the Disney and Pixar's forthcoming “Toy Story 5” film is here. On Friday, Swift released “I Knew It, I Knew You,” a bit of a return to country music for the performer who first made a name for herself in the Nashville music scene before taking over the world.
Shakira and Burna Boy will perform in Mexico City for the first of three opening ceremonies at the World Cup.
LONDON (AP) — The former Prince Andrew made money by subletting three cottages on the estate where he lived rent-free for two decades, according to a report on the royal family’s properties released Friday by the U.K. public spending watchdog.
NEW YORK (AP) — When World War I broke out in 1914, Edith Wharton's initial response was less as a storyteller in search of material than as a citizen and intrepid witness.
