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Fox to hand over documents for 2nd voting machine lawsuit
By Bobby Caina Calvan, The Associated Press on April 26th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Fox News agreed Wednesday to hand over thousands of documents to voting machine company Smartmatic, which is suing the network for defamation in a case similar to Dominion Voting Machines’ just-settled lawsuit. Smartmatic says Fox bears financial responsibility for airing false allegations that the company rigged the 2020 presidential election against ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cedric the Entertainer has novel coming in September
By The Associated Press on April 26th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Call him the Cedric the Novelist. Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Wednesday that it will publish a novel in September by Cedric the Entertainer. “Flipping Boxcars,” billed as a “valentine” to 1940s crime fiction, is scheduled for Sept. 12. “Flipping Boxcars is an homage to my grandfather, who I ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Amid layoffs, Disney touts upcoming film slate at CinemaCon
By Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press on April 26th, 2023
LAS VEGAS (AP) – Amid a week of massive layoffs at Disney, the leadership team of its film arm gathered in Las Vegas on Wednesday to tout its successes and upcoming slate of films to a crowd of theater owners and exhibitors. The Walt Disney Company presentation, with exclusive new footage from films like “Indiana ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Farewell to a beloved elder: Activists reflect on Belafonte
By Hillel Italie, The Associated Press on April 26th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Carmen Berkley, a strategist with a Seattle-based foundation advocating equity and racial justice, remembers meeting Harry Belafonte a decade ago when she was a youth activist. She’d gone to Florida to attend a sit-in protest that other young Black activists had staged at the Capitol in Tallahassee over the death of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!How Montreal singer La Zarra came to represent France in Eurovision with ‘Évidemment’
By Jeffrey Mo, The Canadian Press on April 26th, 2023
LONDON – Just a few years ago, Fatima Zahra Hafdi was working in a series of hair salons in Montreal, hoping to one day find her true creative passion in life. Next month, she steps onto the stage as La Zarra in perhaps the world’s most famous music competition, the Eurovision Song Contest, where she ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada developing new immigration policy to attract French-speaking people, teachers
By The Canadian Press on April 26th, 2023
OTTAWA – The Liberal government says it is developing new policy on francophone immigration as a way to grow the French language in Canada. Official Languages Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor says it’s an advantage for Canada to have a bilingual workforce and population. The policy is part of a five-year action plan for official languages ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Freddie Mercury’s eclectic collection of ‘clutter’ for sale
By Brian Melley, The Associated Press on April 26th, 2023
LONDON (AP) – He was the king of Queen and his crown could be yours – for the right price. Freddie Mercury’s extensive collection of costumes, fine art, and even handwritten working lyrics for “We Are the Champions” and “Killer Queen” will be auctioned in September. Queen’s frontman had said he wanted to live a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Last of Us’ star, Pedro Pascal, has matching outfits with Vancouver’s libraries
By The Canadian Press on April 26th, 2023
VANCOUVER – Actor Pedro Pascal hasn’t started filming in Vancouver yet on the second season of his smash HBO hit “The Last of Us,” but the city library is already matching him up with its branches. A social media thread, posted by the Vancouver Public Library on Monday, linked photos of the star in outfits ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!US, UK galleries buy masterpiece ‘Portrait of Mai’ for $62M
By Jill Lawless, The Associated Press on April 26th, 2023
LONDON (AP) – One of the earliest portraits of a person of color by a British artist will remain on public display after London’s National Portrait Gallery and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles struck a 50 million-pound ($62 million) deal to buy it. The two institutions announced Wednesday they had each pitched ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Meryl Streep wins Spain’s Princess of Asturias award
By The Associated Press on April 26th, 2023
MADRID (AP) – Meryl Streep has won one of Spain’s most prestigious awards in the arts for her long career of acting excellence, the jury of the Princess of Asturias awards said Wednesday. The jury said that in her nearly five decades on screen, Streep has “developed a brilliant career that given life to full ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Kingsolver, O’Farrell among Women’s Prize fiction finalists
By Jill Lawless, The Associated Press on April 26th, 2023
LONDON (AP) – An Appalachian update on Charles Dickens and a tale told by a dolphin are among the six finalists announced Wednesday for the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction. American writer Barbara Kingsolver’s “Demon Copperhead,” a reworking of “David Copperfield” set in modern-day Virginia, and U.K. novelist Laline Paull’s deep-sea drama “Pod” are among ... Read More »
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