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TORONTO — Alessia Cara is a big believer in the "Fake it 'til you make it" mantra — and for good reason. Ever since she was young, the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter from Brampton, Ont.

TORONTO — Alessia Cara is a big believer in the "Fake it 'til you make it" mantra — and for good reason. Ever since she was young, the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter from Brampton, Ont.

NEW YORK — The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation has launched a $1 million emergency fund to support freelance New York City-area jazz musicians during the coronavirus pandemic.

NEW YORK — Brian Dennehy, the burly actor who started in films as a macho heavy and later in his career won plaudits for his stage work in plays by William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller, has died. He was 81.

LONDON — A 99-year-old World War II veteran has completed his quest to walk 100 laps of his garden in eastern England and raised 13 million pounds ($16 million) for Britain’s National Health Service.

LOS ANGELES — In these dark times, clouded by fears of an enemy we can’t see and sheltered in homes we're itching to leave, it's reassuring to know that California's sunsets over the Pacific are just as vivid.

Is it safe to open mail and packages during the pandemic? There is no evidence that COVID-19 is spreading through mail or parcels, according to the World Health Organization and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For Doug and Telisha Williams, becoming homeowners was a special challenge.

NEW YORK — Elvis Francois, the orthopedic surgery resident who has gone viral with his top-notch live performances at hospitals, knew from adolescence he wanted to help heal the world through medicine. But through music? Not so much.

The bleak, stereotypical image of the lonely, socially isolated video game player is rapidly falling away.