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King Charles III plans to meet Pope Francis during Vatican state visit in April
By Canadian Press on March 17th, 2025
LONDON (AP) — King Charles III is scheduled to have an audience with Pope Francis during a state visit next month to the Vatican, suggesting the Holy See is optimistic the pontiff will be back at work by then, barring any setbacks in his recovery from double pneumonia. The tentative audience was among details of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Semisonic objects to White House using their song ‘Closing Time’: ‘You missed the point’
By Canadian Press on March 17th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — The band Semisonic is pushing back at the White House for using their hit song “Closing Time” over a social media post that shows a shackled deportee. The White House added the song in a post of a man with his wrists handcuffed to his waist as he is patted down ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!James Taylor songs will fuel an upcoming stage musical, ‘Fire & Rain’
By Canadian Press on March 17th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Alicia Keys, Dolly Parton and Neil Diamond — step aside. The next musical icon to turn their songs into a stage musical will be James Taylor. Taylor’s songs will fuel “Fire & Rain,” a musical announced Monday, in development with a story by playwright and actor Tracy Letts and direction by ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!James Taylor songs will fuel an upcoming stage musical, ‘Fire & Rain’
By Canadian Press on March 17th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Alicia Keys, Dolly Parton and Neil Diamond — step aside. The next musical icon to turn their songs into a stage musical will be James Taylor. Taylor’s songs will fuel “Fire & Rain,” a musical announced Monday, in development with a story by playwright and actor Tracy Letts and direction by ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!James Taylor songs will fuel an upcoming stage musical, ‘Fire & Rain’
By Canadian Press on March 17th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Alicia Keys, Dolly Parton and Neil Diamond — step aside. The next musical icon to turn their songs into a stage musical will be James Taylor. Taylor’s songs will fuel “Fire & Rain,” a musical announced Monday, in development with a story by playwright and actor Tracy Letts and direction by ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!James Taylor songs will fuel an upcoming stage musical, ‘Fire & Rain’
By Canadian Press on March 17th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Alicia Keys, Dolly Parton and Neil Diamond — step aside. The next musical icon to turn their songs into a stage musical will be James Taylor. Taylor’s songs will fuel “Fire & Rain,” a musical announced Monday, in development with a story by playwright and actor Tracy Letts and direction by ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Amid 2028 speculation, California governor’s podcasts with Trump loyalists anger Democrats
By Canadian Press on March 17th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — As a wounded Democratic Party struggles to regroup, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is holding mostly chummy conversations with prominent conservatives on a new podcast he’s touting as a way for the party to grapple with the MAGA movement’s popularity. In doing so, he appears intent on showing he is more than ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trump visits the Kennedy Center as he puts his mark on the national arts institution
By Canadian Press on March 17th, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday is visiting the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where he is taking a tour and chairing a meeting of its board of directors. It was his first time at the venerable institution since he began remaking it at the start of his second term ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Court puts a temporary hold on releasing records related to the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife
By Canadian Press on March 17th, 2025
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico court granted a temporary restraining order Monday against the release of certain records related to the investigation into the recent deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa. The order is in response to a request by Julia Peters, a representative for the couple’s estate. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Book Review: John Green is obsessed with tuberculosis. He makes a strong case that we should be, too
By Canadian Press on March 17th, 2025
So you read “The Fault in Our Stars” or watched John Green on YouTube, and, if you’re like me, you probably thought, “I would read or watch anything this mind produced for public consumption.” Even if it’s a 200-page nonfiction thesis on tuberculosis arguing why it should be Public Enemy No. 1 and on its ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Prosecutors say Minnesota man accused of hiding stolen ruby slippers from ‘The Wizard of Oz’ is dead
By Canadian Press on March 17th, 2025
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge dismissed the charges Monday against a Minnesota man accused of hiding a stolen pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in the 1939 musical “The Wizard of Oz” after prosecutors informed the court that he died on Sunday. Jerry Hal Saliterman, 77, of Crystal, who had ... Read More »
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