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PARIS (AP) — The ring gleamed in Instagram posts. So did the diamond necklace and the luxury Paris address. For Kim Kardashian , sharing online was second nature — an extension of her fame. But in the early hours of Oct.

NEW YORK (AP) — Poet Marie Howe, one of this year's winners of the Pulitzer Prize, says being a writer is often less a career than a vocation.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 18-24: May 18: Actor Candice Azzara (″Caroline in the City,” ″Rhoda”) is 84. Bluegrass singer-guitarist Rodney Dillard of The Dillards is 83. Keyboardist Rick Wakeman of Yes is 76.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The complex effects of personal trauma have not traditionally been the stuff of sci-fi and fantasy. They tend to get in the way of the quest. “Game of Thrones” made a meal of it.

MILAN (AP) — South Korean conductor Myung-whun Chung was named on Monday the new musical director of the famed Milan opera house, Teatro alla Scala , the first Asian to hold the position.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has fired the nation’s top copyright official, Shira Perlmutter , days after abruptly terminating the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U.S. Copyright Office.

ST. JOHN'S — Atlantic music stars Classified, Kellie Loder and Maggie Andrew emerged as top winners at this year's East Coast Music Awards on Sunday as days worth of festivities honouring the region's musicians wrapped up in St. John’s, N.L.

Amber Heard is now a mother of three. The actor on Sunday wrote on Instagram that she has welcomed twins into the family, a son named Ocean and a daughter named Agnes. She shared the news along with a photo of their tiny feet.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — On a Friday evening in downtown Johannesburg, a world away from the genteel suburbs that include some of Africa's wealthiest neighborhoods, groups of men huddle on a dark street as a security patrol whizzes past.

Marvel’s “Thunderbolts” and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” dominated the North American box office charts again this weekend.