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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — A list of nominees to the 96th Academy Awards , which were announced Tuesday in Beverly Hills, California.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Thousands of artworks were destroyed in a fire that swept through the main art gallery in Abkhazia , reports said, a severe blow to the cultural heritage of the separatist Georgian region.

ATLANTA (AP) — Rapper YFN Lucci pleaded guilty Tuesday to a gang-related charge after reaching a deal with prosecutors nearly three years after he was indicted on murder, gang and racketeering charges in Atlanta.

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Top Movie Purchases and Rentals (US): 1. Napoleon 2. The Marvels 3. Oppenheimer 4. Trolls Band Together 5. Anatomy of a Fall 6. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 7. The Color Purple 8. Dumb Money 9.

Top Movie Purchases and Rentals (US): 1. Napoleon 2. The Marvels 3. Oppenheimer 4. Trolls Band Together 5. Anatomy of a Fall 6. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 7. The Color Purple 8. Dumb Money 9.

NEW YORK (AP) — Million-selling author Yuval Noah Harari has another grand theme for his next book: Information. Harari's “Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI” will be published Sept. 10 by Penguin Random House.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman charged with killing a high-profile marketing consultant and social justice advocate in film pleaded not guilty Monday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ava DuVernay kept hearing she had to read “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” She had Isabel Wilkerson’s book in galleys before it was published in 2020. Oprah Winfrey kept telling her to read it. But she put it off.

NEW YORK (AP) — Norman Jewison, the acclaimed and versatile Canadian-born director whose Hollywood films ranged from Doris Day comedies and “Moonstruck” to such social dramas as the Oscar-winning "In the Heat of the Night," has died at age 97.