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Melania Trump is telling her own story – and again breaking norms for American first ladies
By Laurie Kellman, The Associated Press on September 24th, 2024
Melania Trump is the first lady who has seldom been there. The wife of Republican presidential candidate and former chief executive Donald Trump walked directly into the fire of public scrutiny early, when her debut speech to the 2016 Republican National Convention drew immediate charges of plagiarism. Since then, it has been clear that she ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canisia Lubrin, Fawn Parker make Writers’ Trust fiction prize short list
By Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press on September 24th, 2024
TORONTO – Poet-novelists Canisia Lubrin and Fawn Parker are among the authors shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. The Writers’ Trust of Canada announced the finalists for the $60,000 prize on Wednesday. Lubrin, the Whitby, Ont., writer who won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2020, made the list for her novel “Code ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Drake sweeps rap categories at SOCAN Awards; Arkells celebrate impact of songwriting
By David Friend, The Canadian Press on September 24th, 2024
TORONTO – Drake wasn’t around to accept a handful of SOCAN Awards on Tuesday, but the rapper’s presence was still looming large at the celebration of Canadian songwriters. The Toronto performer swept all four of the rap awards for his songs “Jimmy Cooks,” “Rich Flex,” “Spin Bout U,” with 21 Savage, and “Wait For U,” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jury awards teen pop group OMG Girlz $71.5 million in battle with toy maker over “L.O.L.” dolls
By The Associated Press on September 24th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Toy maker MGA Entertainment must pay $71.5 million in damages for infringing on the name and likeliness of teen pop group OMG Girlz with one of its popular lines of dolls, a federal jury has decided. Monday’s verdict hands a win to OMG Girlz – as well as Xscape singer Tameka ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Judge suspends arrest order of a top Brazilian country music star amid money laundering probe
By Mauricio Savarese, The Associated Press on September 24th, 2024
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – A Brazilian judge Tuesday suspended the preventive arrest of one of the country’s most popular country music stars in connection with a money laundering investigation, a court source with access to the ruling told The Associated Press. A court staffer in the state of Pernambuco confirmed that local Judge Eduardo ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Four newsroom staff at Radio NL in Kamloops, B.C., are cut in format change
By The Canadian Press on September 24th, 2024
KAMLOOPS, B.C. – More than half of the newsroom at Radio NL in Kamloops, B.C., has been let go as the station moves to a music format. The radio station has had a decades-long grip on news in the Interior and beyond, breaking stories and covering everything from emergencies to courts and city hall. Radio ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Complainant takes stand in Jacob Hoggard’s sexual assault trial as Crown begins case
By The Canadian Press on September 24th, 2024
HAILEYBURY, Ont. – The complainant in Jacob Hoggard’s sexual assault trial says she attended a concert by his band Hedley in Kirkland Lake, Ont., the night of the alleged assault in June 2016. The woman said during brief testimony this afternoon that she was 19 years old at the time and attended an after-party with ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Video game actors’ union calls for strike against ‘League of Legends’
By Sarah Parvini, The Associated Press on September 24th, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Hollywood’s actors union called a strike against the popular multiplayer online game “League of Legends” on Tuesday, arguing the company that produces the game attempted to get around the ongoing video game strike by hiring non-union actors to work on a union title. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Woman alleges Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs raped her on video in latest lawsuit
By Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press on September 24th, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Another woman sued Sean “Diddy” Combs on Tuesday, alleging that the music mogul and his head of security raped her and recorded it on video at his New York recording studio in 2001. The lawsuit filed in federal court in New York, the latest of several similar suits against Combs, comes ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Crown prosecutors begin their case in Jacob Hoggard’s sexual assault trial
By The Canadian Press on September 24th, 2024
HAILEYBURY, Ont. – Crown prosecutors have begun their case in Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard’s sexual assault trial by outlining evidence they expect the complainant will share in court. Prosecutor Lilly Gates said in a brief opening statement this afternoon that the complainant, whose name is under a publication ban, will describe a sexual assault that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Key takeaways from AP’s interview with Francis Ford Coppola about ‘Megalopolis’
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press on September 24th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Francis Ford Coppola believes he can stop time. It’s not just a quality of the protagonist of Coppola’s new film “Megalopolis,” a visionary architect named Cesar Catilina ( Adam Driver ) who, by barking “Time, stop!” can temporarily freeze the world for a moment before restoring it with a snap of ... Read More »
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