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“Semicolon,” by Seventeen (Pledis Entertainment) Is it a “Homerun” for Seventeen? With special album “;(Semicolon),” Seventeen offer some comfort pop. Punctuation can be difficult, as is putting together a great album.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Two guitars owned, played and partly designed by the late Eddie Van Halen will be going up for auction.

MIAMI — At LIV, one of the most glamorous, star-studded nightclubs in one of the world's biggest party destinations, there's a velvet-roped VIP area, and then there's a secret VIP area.

A new study indicates that suicide is the leading cause of firearm-related death in Ontario, with older men in rural areas making up the majority of those fatalities.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 25-31: Oct. 25: Actor Marion Ross is 92. Singer Jon Anderson (Yes) is 76. Singer Taffy Nivert (formerly Danoff) of Starland Vocal Band is 76. Guitarist Glenn Tipton of Judas Priest is 73.

LONDON — The chair of Britain’s Hay literary festival said Sunday the event will not return to Abu Dhabi after one of the festival’s curators alleged that she was sexually assaulted by the tolerance minister of the United Arab Emirates while working

LOS ANGELES — Liam Neeson’s thriller “Honest Thief” stole the top spot at the box office in yet another quiet weekend of moviegoing. The Open Roads Films movie brought in $3.7 million in North America the weekend of its U.S. debut.

NEW YORK — The stars of “The West Wing” are once again joining together, this time for a book about the award-winning White House television drama.

Jeff Tweedy, “Love Is the King” (dBpm Records) “Here I am,” Jeff Tweedy sings at the onset of the title track, and also first song, of “Love Is the King," a record made in April while the Wilco frontman was quarantining with his wife and sons at home

HALIFAX — Calls for Ottawa to define a "moderate livelihood" fishery mounted on Sunday, as hundreds gathered in support of Indigenous lobster fishers after a heated dispute over treaty rights boiled over.