July 26th, 2025

Entertainment News

Rap-punk duo Bob Vylan says it’s being targeted for speaking up about Gaza at Glastonbury

By Canadian Press on July 1st, 2025

LONDON (AP) — Rap-punk duo Bob Vylan on Tuesday rejected claims of antisemitism over onstage comments at the Glastonbury Festival that triggered a police investigation and sparked criticism from politicians, the BBC and festival organizers. The band said in a statement that it was being “targeted for speaking up” about the war in Gaza. Police ... Read More »

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‘Jurassic World’ needed a restart. Steven Spielberg knew who to call

By Canadian Press on July 1st, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — EXT JUNGLE NIGHT An eyeball, big, yellowish, distinctly inhuman, stares raptly between wooden slats, part of a large crate. The eye darts from side to side quickly, alert as hell. So begins David Koepp’s script to 1993’s “Jurassic Park.” Like much of Koepp’s writing, it’s crisply terse and intensely visual. It ... Read More »

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Bob Vylan rejects criticism and says it’s being targeted for speaking up about Gaza at Glastonbury

By Canadian Press on July 1st, 2025

LONDON (AP) — Rap-punk duo Bob Vylan on Tuesday rejected claims of antisemitism over onstage comments at the Glastonbury Festival that triggered a police investigation and sparked criticism from politicians, the BBC and festival organizers. The band said in a statement that it was being “targeted for speaking up” about the war in Gaza. Police ... Read More »

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Royal train will end 156 years of service as King Charles III seeks to economize

By Canadian Press on July 1st, 2025

LONDON (AP) — The Royal Train will soon leave the station for the last time. King Charles III has accepted it’s time to decommission the train, whose history dates back to Queen Victoria, because it costs too much to operate and would have needed a significant upgrade for more advanced rail systems, Buckingham Palace said ... Read More »

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Jury returns to deliberate for a second day at Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sex trafficking trial

By Canadian Press on June 30th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — A jury returns to deliberate for a second day Tuesday at the sex trafficking trial of music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. On Monday, jurors deliberated over five hours without reaching a verdict after receiving instructions on the law from the trial judge, Arun Subramanian. They are deciding whether prosecutors have proven ... Read More »

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First half of two-part Sanskrit epic big winner at Dora Awards in Toronto

By Canadian Press on June 30th, 2025

TORONTO — A modern take on a millennia-old Sanskrit epic was the big winner in the general theatre division of the Dora Mavor Moore Awards. “Mahabharata Part One: Karma: The Life We Inherit” took home five of the nine prizes in its division at the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts’ award ceremony on Monday ... Read More »

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Bush, Obama – and singer Bono – fault Trump’s gutting of USAID on agency’s last day

By Canadian Press on June 30th, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration — and singer Bono recited a poem — in an emotional video farewell Monday with staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Obama called the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID “a colossal mistake.” Monday was ... Read More »

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Brazil to reopen National Museum destroyed by fire in 2018

By Canadian Press on June 30th, 2025

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s National Museum offered a glimpse of its renovated building and collection on Monday, two days before it reopens for visitors and seven years after a devastating fire destroyed it. Journalists and special guests previewed the renovated museum in Rio de Janeiro, where they could also see a large part ... Read More »

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Slander or ‘trash-talking’? Drake-Kendrick Lamar feud has a day in court

By Canadian Press on June 30th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge is pondering the nature of rap battles and the cutting wordplay in Kendrick Lamar ’s “Not Like Us,” the megahit diss track that spurred a defamation lawsuit from his fellow superstar Drake. Drake sued Universal Music Group — both his and Lamar’s record label — over “Not Like ... Read More »

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No verdict on first day of jury deliberations at Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sex trafficking trial

By Canadian Press on June 30th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Jury deliberations got underway on Monday in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial and hit a snag almost as soon as they started. But, by the end of the day, jurors indicated they were making progress weighing complex charges that could put the hip-hop mogul in prison for life. The ... Read More »

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Royal train to end 156 years of service as King Charles III seeks to economize

By Canadian Press on June 30th, 2025

LONDON (AP) — The Royal Train will soon leave the station for the last time. King Charles III has accepted it’s time to decommission the train, whose history dates back to Queen Victoria, because it costs too much to operate and would have needed a significant upgrade for more advanced rail systems, Buckingham Palace said ... Read More »

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