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Clair Obscur leads the AP’s list of 2025’s top video games
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
It’s been a difficult year for the people who create video games, with layoffs persisting while the tech industry tries to force us to use artificial intelligence for everything. But great games emerged nonetheless — and I can’t imagine AI ever being able to deliver the kind of thrilling, rewarding adventures we’ve seen in 2025. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!PEN America launches digital site to support incarcerated writers
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Writers in U.S. prisons will have a new path to getting their work seen through a website managed by PEN America that includes information on publishers, agents, journalists and other potential contacts. PEN’s Prison and Justice Writing Program on Tuesday announced the launch of the Incarcerated Writers Bureau, an initiative developed ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rick Atkinson’s Revolutionary War trilogy to be adapted into graphic editions
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Prize-winning military historian Rick Atkinson, a comic book fan growing up, hadn’t imagined his own work being suitable for the illustrated format. Ten Speed Graphic announced Tuesday that a graphic edition of “The British Are Coming,” the first volume of Atkinson’s acclaimed Revolutionary War trilogy, will be out next June, shortly ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Father Ted’ writer Graham Linehan cleared of harassing transgender activist
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
LONDON (AP) — The co-creator of British TV sitcoms “Father Ted” and the “IT Crowd” was cleared Tuesday of harassing a transgender activist on social media, but he was found guilty of damaging their mobile phone during an encounter last year. Prosecutors alleged that Gary Linehan, an Irish comedy writer known for his outspoken criticism ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!News from outside disappears in North Korea
By Canadian Press on November 24th, 2025
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For two hours every day, Lee Si-young and her colleagues broadcast uncensored foreign news into authoritarian North Korea. Her radio audience could go to jail if caught listening. Lee’s Seoul-based Free North Korea Radio station has tried for two decades to give real-time news to North Korea’s 26 million people. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Decades-long efforts to send uncensored foreign news into North Korea face major setbacks
By Canadian Press on November 24th, 2025
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For two hours every day, Lee Si-young and her colleagues broadcast uncensored foreign news into authoritarian North Korea. Her radio audience could go to jail if caught listening. Lee’s Seoul-based Free North Korea Radio station has tried for two decades to give real-time news to North Korea’s 26 million people. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!BBC leaders grilled by lawmakers over its standards after Trump threatened to sue
By Canadian Press on November 24th, 2025
LONDON (AP) — The BBC’s chairman acknowledged Monday that it was too slow in responding over a misleading edit of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump but rejected claims that the broadcaster’s impartiality was being undermined from within its own board. Senior BBC leaders were quizzed by Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee amid ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Court order prevents LA coroner from releasing details of teen’s body found in singer d4vd’s Tesla
By Canadian Press on November 24th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police have blocked the county coroner’s office from releasing details about the death of a teen girl whose body was found in the trunk of a car registered to the singer d4vd, the medical examiner’s office said Monday. Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found dead on Sept. 8 in an ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Celebrated ‘Inconvenient Indian’ author Thomas King says he’s not Indigenous
By Canadian Press on November 24th, 2025
Celebrated author Thomas King says that despite believing so nearly all his life, he is not Indigenous. The writer of books including 2003’s “The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative” and 2012’s “The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America,” says he is reeling from recent news that he has no ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Udo Kier, striking German actor from ‘My Own Private Idaho’ and ‘Ace Ventura,’ dies at 81
By Canadian Press on November 24th, 2025
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Udo Kier, the German actor whose icy gaze and strange, scene-stealing screen presence made him a favorite of filmmakers including Andy Warhol, Gus Van Sant and Lars von Trier, has died at 81. His partner, artist Delbert McBride, told Variety that Kier died on Sunday in Palm Springs, California. A ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The best new holiday music releases for 2025
By Canadian Press on November 24th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — ‘Tis the season to put on some brand-new holiday music. The best way to get festive is to sing along to Christmas classics new and old. But don’t know what to press play on? We’ve got you covered. In honor of the most wonderful time of the year, here are some ... Read More »
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