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WEST CHESTER, Pa.

Influential Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki's first feature in 10 years will open this year's Toronto International Film Festival. "The Boy and the Heron" is a hand-drawn film, written and directed by Miyazaki.

British Columbia musician Rhys Fulber doesn't remember every recording session in a career stretching back to the 1980s, but a day in the studio in 2001 sticks in his mind. He recalled the privilege of working with the "transcendent" Sinead O'Connor.

VENICE, Italy — A tribute to late Quebec filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée and a dramedy about a reluctant vampire are among the Canadian highlights set for a sidebar to the Venice Film Festival.

DENVER (AP) — The case involves almost everything a victim of sexual harassment would be desperate to avoid. Multiple requests for follow-up interviews about a traumatizing episode. Bickering over legal fees.

DENVER (AP) — The case involves almost everything a victim of sexual harassment would be desperate to avoid. Dozens of emails and multiple requests for follow-up interviews about a traumatizing episode. Bickering over legal fees.

NEW YORK (AP) — “The Boy and the Heron," the first film in a decade by Japanese anime master Hayao Miyazaki, will open the 48th Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced Thursday.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk may want to send “tweet” back to the birds, but the ubiquitous term for posting on the site he now calls X is here to stay — at least for now.

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese pop star Shinjiro Atae said he is gay in an emotional announcement at a fan event that was warmly welcomed in a country where the government does not legally recognize LGBTQ equality.

LONDON (AP) — Sinéad O’Connor, the gifted Irish singer-songwriter who became a superstar in her mid-20s and was known as much for her private struggles and provocative actions as for her fierce and expressive music, has died at 56.