July 30th, 2025

Entertainment News

The Weeknd and Shakira will headline Global Citizen Festival supporting energy access and the Amazon

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — The Weeknd and Shakira — two of the world’s biggest touring artists — will headline this fall’s Global Citizen Festival in New York’s Central Park, supporting campaigns to improve energy access across Africa and defend the Amazon against deforestation. Global Citizen announced Tuesday that the pop stars behind such hits as ... Read More »

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Venice Film Festival lineup features Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Emma Stone and Dwayne Johnson

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Emma Stone, Dwayne Johnson, Adam Sandler and Idris Elba are just some of the celebrities headlining films at this year’s Venice International Film Festival. Organizers on Tuesday unveiled the starry lineup for its 82nd edition, which kicks off a busy fall film festival season in August. Two years after launching “Poor ... Read More »

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US says it’s leaving UN cultural agency UNESCO again, only 2 years after rejoining

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

PARIS (AP) — The United States announced Tuesday it will again pull out of the U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency because of what Washington sees as its anti-Israel bias, only two years after rejoining. This will be the third time that the United States leaves UNESCO, which is based in Paris, and the second ... Read More »

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Disney version of ‘Washington Black’ roots tale in Nova Scotia, expands world of side characters

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

TORONTO — Esi Edugyan says Disney Plus’s take on her acclaimed historical novel “Washington Black” will surprise anyone familiar with the sprawling coming-of-age tale. There are significant changes to the hero and his relationships, wholly invented scenes and entirely new characters inserted by showrunners and executive producers Selwyn Seyfu Hinds and Kimberly Ann Harrison. Edugyan ... Read More »

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PHOTO COLLECTION: Britain Royals Prince George

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

This is a photo collection curated by AP photo editors. The Associated Press... Read More »

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Gen Xers mourn drowning death of actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, known as Theo on ‘The Cosby Show’

By Canadian Press on July 21st, 2025

DETROIT (AP) — For Black youth and teens growing up in the mid-1980s, “The Cosby Show” offered something rarely seen on television up until that time: a sitcom that placed characters who looked like them in a positive light. And Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s Theo Huxtable was the character Generation X most related to. Fans took quickly ... Read More »

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Banishing a reporter: Trump escalates battle with Wall Street Journal over Epstein story

By Canadian Press on July 21st, 2025

President Donald Trump on Monday followed up his lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over last week’s Jeffrey Epstein story by banishing one of the newspaper’s reporters from Air Force One for an upcoming Scotland trip. The moves reflect Trump’s aggressiveness toward media who displease him — even a media magnate, Rupert Murdoch, with outlets ... Read More »

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Pee-wee’s bike is at the Alamo, but not where you think

By Canadian Press on July 21st, 2025

It took 40 years, but Pee-wee’s bike is now at the Alamo. Just not the basement. The Alamo announced last week it had acquired and would display the iconic bike from the 1985 Tim Burton film, “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.” The San Antonio landmark plays a key role in the film chronicling Pee-wee Herman’s search for ... Read More »

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Gen Xers mourn drowning death of The Cosby Show’s Theo actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner

By Canadian Press on July 21st, 2025

DETROIT (AP) — For Black youth and teens growing up in the mid-1980s, “The Cosby Show” offered something rarely seen on television up until that time — a sitcom that placed characters who looked like them in a positive light. And Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s “Theo Huxtable” was the character Generation X most related to. Fans took ... Read More »

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Tracee Ellis Ross, Jennifer Hudson, Magic Johnson and more react to death of Malcolm-Jamal Warner

By Canadian Press on July 21st, 2025

The death of Malcolm-Jamal Warner at just 54 was mourned by fans and admirers of the actor, who played the only son of Bill Cosby’s Cliff Huxtable on the landmark series “The Cosby Show” from 1984 to 1992 and also starred on the UPN sitcom “Malcolm & Eddie” with Eddie Griffin. Warner died Sunday in ... Read More »

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What to know about the CEO caught embracing an employee on the jumbotron at a Coldplay concert

By Canadian Press on July 21st, 2025

LONDON (AP) — A routine moment of crowdwork at a Coldplay concert went viral last week when a couple tried to avoid the spotlight after they were caught hugging on the jumbotron. Internet sleuths quickly figured out that they were the CEO and chief people officer of a little-known tech company called Astronomer. The snippet ... Read More »

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