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Owners of big cat refuge from ‘Tiger King’ selling property
By The Associated Press on March 31st, 2023
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – The owners of a Florida-based sanctuary made famous by the Netflix docuseries, ” Tiger King, “ say they plan to move most of their big cats to an Arkansas facility and eventually sell their 67-acre (27-hectare) property. Howard Baskin wrote in a post on Big Cat Rescue’s website that he and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Journalist’s arrest threatens reporting from Russia
By David Bauder, The Associated Press on March 31st, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – The arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges in Russia has news organizations based outside the country weighing for the second time in a year whether the risks of reporting there during wartime are too great. The Journal and other news outlets continued to press Friday for the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Journal reporter’s arrest threatens reporting from Russia
By David Bauder, The Associated Press on March 31st, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – The arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges in Russia has news organizations based outside the country weighing for the second time in a year whether the risks of reporting there during wartime are too great. The Journal and other news outlets continued to press Friday for the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Baldwin codefendant gets 6 months probation on gun charge
By The Associated Press on March 31st, 2023
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – A codefendant in the case against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on a movie set in New Mexico was convicted Friday of unsafe handling of a firearm and sentenced to six months of probation. Safety coordinator and assistant director David Halls also must pay ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lourdes shrine reviewing mosaics after Jesuit abuse claims
By Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press on March 31st, 2023
ROME (AP) – Officials at the Catholic shrine in Lourdes announced the creation of a study group Friday to decide what to do with one of the French sanctuary’s most famous but now controversial attractions: mosaics by a Jesuit artist who has been sanctioned by the Vatican and his religious order for sexually, spiritually and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Gwyneth Paltrow scores court win that means more than $1
By Andrew Dalton And Sam Metz, The Associated Press on March 31st, 2023
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) – All that for a dollar? Nah, Gwyneth Paltrow ‘s motivation to go to trial to fight a lawsuit accusing her of sending a fellow skier “absolutely flying” at a posh Utah ski resort in 2016 was about vindication. She got it when a jury found her not at fault in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nine art projects share $1.3 million Canadian Heritage grant for Riopelle anniversary
By The Canadian Press on March 31st, 2023
MONTREAL – Nine cultural projects have been chosen to share a $1.3-million Canadian Heritage grant to create artworks for the 100th anniversary of artist Jean Paul Riopelle’s birth. The Jean Paul Riopelle Foundation, in collaboration with the Department of Canadian Heritage, describes the Riopelle Dialogues Program as one of the most ambitious cultural programs in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mena Massoud carves out his own path with ‘Evolving Vegan’ after post-‘Aladdin’ slump
By Noel Ransome, The Canadian Press on March 31st, 2023
TORONTO – Leading up to the opening of Disney’s live-action “Aladdin” remake in 2019, Mena Massoud was at a pivotal moment in his career he felt would catapult him forward – he was the lead in the much-anticipated reboot alongside Will Smith and Naomi Scott. Disney magic wouldn’t help Massoud in the long run however. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Berlin museum presents 100 works by artist Gerhard Richter
By Kirsten Grieshaber, The Associated Press on March 31st, 2023
BERLIN (AP) – A new show of works by one of Germany’s most famous living artists, Gerhard Richter, opened at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie museum on Friday. “Gerhard Richter. 100 Works for Berlin” shows for the first time the long-term loan from the artist’s foundation. At the center of the exhibition is Richter’s 2014 series “Birkenau,” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Charles III commorates WWII dead, child refugees in Hamburg
By Frank Jordans, The Associated Press on March 31st, 2023
BERLIN (AP) – King Charles III commemorated the more than 30,000 people, mostly German civilians, who were killed in the Allied bombing of Hamburg almost 80 years ago as he visited the northern city Friday on the last leg of his first foreign trip since becoming monarch. The attack in July 1943 carried out by ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Gwyneth Paltrow gets vindication at ski collision trial
By Sam Metz, The Associated Press on March 31st, 2023
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) – Gwyneth Paltrow wasn’t to blame for a 2016 collision with a retired optometrist on a beginner run at a posh Utah ski resort during a family vacation, a jury decided Thursday following a live-streamed trial that became a pop culture fixation. A jury awarded Paltrow $1 – a symbolic amount ... Read More »
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