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NEW YORK (AP) — When actor Casey Likes watched “Back to the Future” growing up, his mom would always say he reminded her a lot of the film’s star, Michael J. Fox. Something in the universe agrees: He’s taken on Fox’s classic movie role on Broadway.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — This year Whitney Houston would have turned 60, and a special celebration to raise money for a good cause is being planned for her birthday.

Compared with the devil, angels carry more credence in America. Angels even get more credence than, well, hell. More than astrology, reincarnation , and the belief that physical things can have spiritual energies. In fact, about 7 in 10 U.S.

“A Pocketful of Happiness” by Richard E. Grant (Simon & Schuster) The title of Richard E. Grant’s memoir, “A Pocketful of Happiness,” is both misleading and utterly truthful.

DUNEDIN, New Zealand (AP) — Hanging on the edge of the stunning South Island, in one of the world’s more remote countries, sat a scenic, minor-league sized city founded by Scottish immigrants.

BRIGHTON, Iowa (AP) — You-pick farms are struggling through heat, drought and haze as customers cancel picking appointments and crops across Iowa refuse to grow.

NEW YORK (AP) — A week later, the “Barbenheimer” boom has not abated. Seven days after Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” conspired to set box office records , the two films held unusually strongly in theaters.

NEW YORK (AP) — Six straight days of 12-hour driving. Single digit paychecks. The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries: UPS delivery drivers and Hollywood actors and writers.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S.

TORONTO — Several Metro locations across the Greater Toronto Area remain closed today as thousands of workers at the grocery chain enter day two of a strike.