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Sarah Pidgeon finds her voice, her inner rock god and a Tony nomination in Broadway's 'Stereophonic'

Sarah Pidgeon finds her voice, her inner rock god and a Tony nomination in Broadway's 'Stereophonic'

NEW YORK (AP) — Sarah Pidgeon is making her Broadway debut this season in a celebrated, thoughtful show about how art is created. And getting her first Tony Award nomination. And in a play that's transformed her into a member of a rock band.
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Indigenous CBC employee's discrimination claims to be heard by human-rights tribunal

Indigenous CBC employee's discrimination claims to be heard by human-rights tribunal

OTTAWA — An Indigenous employee with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. is taking up the fight against what he describes as systemic racism by his employer.
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Israel's block of AP transmission shows how ambiguity in law could restrict war coverage

Israel's block of AP transmission shows how ambiguity in law could restrict war coverage

NEW YORK (AP) — Israel's shutdown and seizure of an Associated Press video camera that provided a live glimpse into Gaza alarmed many journalists, who worried Tuesday about wider implications for coverage of a war largely fought out of the world's si
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Thailand welcomes home trafficked 1,000-year-old statues returned by New York's Metropolitan Museum

Thailand welcomes home trafficked 1,000-year-old statues returned by New York's Metropolitan Museum

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's National Museum hosted a welcome-home ceremony Tuesday for two ancient statues that were illegally trafficked from Thailand by a British collector of antiquities and were returned from the collection of New York’s Metropolit
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Oscar-winning composer of 'Finding Neverland' music, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, dies at age 71

Oscar-winning composer of 'Finding Neverland' music, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, dies at age 71

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, who won a 2005 Oscar for the musical score of “Finding Neverland,” died Tuesday. He was 71.
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German author Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker Prize for tale of tangled love affair

German author Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker Prize for tale of tangled love affair

LONDON (AP) — German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Kairos,” the story of a tangled love affair during the final years of East Germany’s existence.
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Matthew Perry's death under investigation in connection with ketamine level found in actor's blood

Matthew Perry's death under investigation in connection with ketamine level found in actor's blood

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have opened an investigation into how Matthew Perry received the supply of ketamine that killed him, police said Tuesday. Los Angeles police are working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S.
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Trump campaign calls 'The Apprentice' film 'blatantly false,' director offers to screen it for him

Trump campaign calls 'The Apprentice' film 'blatantly false,' director offers to screen it for him

CANNES, France (AP) — Donald Trump’s reelection campaign called “The Apprentice,” a film about the former U.S. president in the 1980s, “pure fiction” and vowed legal action following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival .
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Nonfiction 1. Good Energy by Casey Means, MD, and Calley Means, narrated by Casey Means, MD (Penguin Audio) 2. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 3.
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Scarlett Johansson says a ChatGPT voice is 'eerily similar' to hers and OpenAI is halting its use

Scarlett Johansson says a ChatGPT voice is 'eerily similar' to hers and OpenAI is halting its use

NEW YORK (AP) — OpenAI on Monday said it plans to halt the use of one of its ChatGPT voices that “Her” actor Scarlett Johansson says sounds “eerily similar" to her own.
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