National Lifestyle

MOSCOW (AP) — For most aficionados, a sparkling wine can be called champagne only if it comes from the region of France with that name and is made under certain regulations.

TORONTO — Wendy Mesley, a longtime CBC television news anchor and journalist, has signed off from the public broadcaster.

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.

ROME (AP) — Raffaella Carra’, for decades one of Italian television's most beloved entertainers, a woman affectionately nicknamed the “queen of Italian TV," died Monday at 78, Italian state TV quoted her family as saying.

Chase Elliott heard the roar of the crowd begging for more burnouts and NASCAR’s most popular driver didn't disappoint his supporters.

HOMEWOOD, Ill. (AP) — More drownings have been reported in the Great Lakes so far in 2021 than by this time last year, prompting officials to urge swimmers to practice water safety measures.

This summer is already shaping up to be a difficult one for air travelers.

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Rockabilly and country performer Sanford Clark, who had a Top 10 hit with “The Fool” in 1956, has died in a Missouri hospital from COVID-19. He was 85.

LONDON (AP) — Pope Francis has had surgery to remove part of his left colon in what the Vatican has described as a planned procedure.

Census taker Linda Rothfield's government-issued iPhone kept directing her back to apartments in San Francisco that she already knew were vacant. When she did find apartments that were occupied, she was sometimes turned away because of the pandemic.