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Author Ian Falconer of ‘Olivia’ books for children dies
By The Associated Press on March 7th, 2023
NORWALK, Conn. (AP) – Author and illustrator Ian Woodward Falconer, known for his “Olivia” book series for children, has died. Falconer’s lawyer and agent Conrad M. Rippy said Falconer died Tuesday of natural causes while with family in Norwalk, Connecticut. He was 63. Falconer’s “Olivia” books featured a clever piglet with a great imagination named ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fox Chair Murdoch says 2020 election was fair: court filings
By Jennifer Peltz, The Associated Press on March 7th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said under oath that he believes the 2020 presidential election was free, fair and not stolen, according to court filings released Tuesday in a voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit over Fox News’ coverage of former President Donald Trump’s unfounded election fraud claims. In sworn questioning in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mexican pageant challenges standard of beauty
By Juan Eduardo Mateos Flores, The Associated Press on March 7th, 2023
VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) – Edith Aguirre, a dance teacher and single mother of African descent, has been crowned “Miss Colonia” in a pageant that celebrates the beauty and talent of women from the lower-class neighborhoods of the Gulf coast port of Veracruz. Fighting against standards of appearance developed over decades, contestants’ skin tone in the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Founder of Chicago beef shop that inspired ‘The Bear’ dies
By Claire Savage, The Associated Press on March 7th, 2023
CHICAGO (AP) – The founder of the Chicago Italian beef shop that inspired FX’s “The Bear,” Joseph Zucchero, has died at 69, his son said. Mr. Beef, the no-frills sandwich joint in Chicago’s River North, has been a neighborhood staple for decades. But it became a national sensation after it was portrayed by the gritty, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Voting tech firm spotlights Murdochs in defamation suit
By Jennifer Peltz, The Associated Press on March 7th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – A voting tech company suing Fox News is arguing that Fox Corp. leaders Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch played a leading role in airing false claims that the technology helped “steal” the 2020 presidential election from former President Donald Trump. Smartmatic said the Murdochs, as the ultimate authorities at the network’s corporate ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!When Hollywood needs a movie villain, the tech bro answers
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press on March 7th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – “A toast to the disruptors,” Edward Norton’s tech billionaire says in Rian Johnson’s Oscar-nominated “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” And why not a toast? Sunday’s Academy Awards won’t give a prize for best villain, but if they did, Miles Bron would win it in a walk. (With apologies to the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Boy Meets World’ star Ben Savage enters US House race in LA
By The Associated Press on March 7th, 2023
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Actor Ben Savage, who starred as a child in the ABC teen sitcom “Boy Meets World,” is running for a U.S. House seat in California, marking his latest attempt to make the jump from Hollywood to politics. Savage, a Democrat, said in an Instagram post Monday that “it’s time to restore ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Toni Morrison honored with new stamp, unveiled at Princeton
By Nardos Haile, The Associated Press on March 7th, 2023
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) – Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is now forever immortalized on a stamp honoring the prolific writer, editor, scholar and mentor that was unveiled Tuesday morning in a tribute at Princeton University, where she taught for almost two decades. Guest speakers, some who had close personal relationships with Morrison, included former President Barack ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Libel lawsuit over ‘media men’ list settled out of court
By Hillel Italie And Jocelyn Noveck, The Associated Press on March 7th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – An author-editor’s libel lawsuit over allegations that he had committed sexual assault, widely cited as a prime example of backlash against the #MeToo movement, has been settled out of court. Stephen Elliott had filed the lawsuit in 2018 against writer Moira Donegan, who had organized a list of “s – tty ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Yiyin Li’s ‘The Book of Goose’ among PEN/Faulkner finalists
By Hillel Italie, The Associated Press on March 7th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Yiyun Li’s novel about the friendship of two girls in post-World War II France, “The Book of Goose,” and Dionne Irving’s “The Islands,” a story collection set everywhere from London to New Jersey, are among the finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. The other three nominees announced Tuesday by the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Prosecutor calls XXXTentacion’s alleged killers ‘predators’
By Terry Spencer, The Associated Press on March 7th, 2023
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – A Florida prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments Tuesday that three men on trial for the 2018 slaying of rapper XXXTentacion were “predators” who waited outside a motorcycle shop to rob and shoot the rising star, escaping with $50,000. Prosecutor Pascale Achille played cellphone videos the defendants allegedly took hours ... Read More »
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