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King Charles III to travel to Kenya for state visit full of symbolism

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III will travel to Kenya later this month for a state visit full of symbolism: His mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, learned she had become queen while visiting a game preserve in the East African nation in 1952.

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Salman Rushdie was stabbed onstage last year. He's releasing a memoir about the attack

NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie has a memoir coming out about the horrifying attack that left him blind in his right eye and with a damaged left hand. “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder” will be published April 16.

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Music Review: Jamila Woods’ ‘Water Made Us’ showcases what we love, and loathe, about romance

Love can bring great joy and great pain; no wonder it is the source material for great art. For Jamila Woods , the Chicago-based neo-soul musician and poet, romantic love is a featured topic on her third studio album, “Water Made Us.

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'Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour' will be a blockbuster - and might shake up the movie business

NEW YORK (AP) — Greg Marcus has been in the movie business for years but he never expected to be urging moviegoers to take out their phones during a film — let alone to be crafting friendship bracelets in preparation for an opening weekend.

Oct 10, 2023 8:46 PM Read more >

Author and activist Louise Meriwether, who wrote the novel ‘Daddy Was a Number Runner,' dies at 100

NEW YORK (AP) — Louise Meriwether, the author and activist whose coming-of-age novel "Daddy Was a Number Runner" is widely regarded as a groundbreaking and vital portrait of race, gender and class, has died. She was 100.

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Drug dealer in crew blamed for actor Michael K. Williams' overdose death gets 5 years in prison

NEW YORK (AP) — A member of a New York City drug-dealing crew blamed for the fentanyl-laced heroin death of actor Michael K. Williams was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison.

Oct 10, 2023 6:16 PM Read more >

Rena Sofer returns to 'General Hospital' as fan favorite Lois after more than 25 years

It's been nearly 30 years but Rena Sofer still remembers her line from a classic scene on ABC's “General Hospital” in 1994 when her character jumped out of a cake to surprise her husband and his other wife. “She said, ‘Happy birthday, Mrs.

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Nonfiction 1. Going Infinite by Michael Lewis, narrated by the author (Audible Studios) 2. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, narrated by Jeremy Bobb and the author (Simon & Schuster Audio) 3.

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Barry Manilow prepares upcoming Broadway musical 'Harmony,' at long last

New York (AP) — More than 30 years after the musical “Harmony” was written, it finally prepares to make its Broadway debut. The show was almost lost to history — like its subject.

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Mateo Askaripour's 'This Great Hemisphere' is a novel about power set 500 years from now

NEW YORK (AP) — Mateo Askaripour's follow-up to his acclaimed debut novel “Black Buck” is a look into the distant future.

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