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Movie Review: In D-Day tale ‘Pressure,’ Andrew Scott is a forecaster with news nobody wants to hear

Sure, folks discuss the weather a lot, especially in Britain. Still, it's hard to imagine that a quiet chat about the weather — and why it isn't boring — could be an emotional high point...

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Independent bookstores are multiplying, although many people still think they're dying out

NEW YORK (AP) — Allison Hill, CEO of the American Booksellers Association, is used to strangers expressing sympathy when they learn what she does for a living. “It's all so funny,”...

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Iran expands restrictions on distribution of news content by international media outlets

Iran has expanded restrictions on distribution of news content from the country, directing international news outlets to restrict use of their content by Israeli media. A directive issued...

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Music Review: On Paul McCartney's 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane,' an ex-Beatle reminisces

NEW YORK (AP) — After all these years, it’s hard to conceive of something unprecedented happening in Beatles world. But here it is, on Paul McCartney’s new disc “The Boys of Dungeon Lane,” the...

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The Chicks announce intimate 'Taking the Long Way' 20th Anniversary Tour. 'This is our lives'

NEW YORK (AP) — Call it a comeback, a crossover moment, or both. Twenty years ago, The Chicks released their blockbuster 2006 album “Taking the Long Way” — their first full-length after the country...

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Movie Review: 'Backrooms' goes from internet meme to the big screen

What evil lurks in the drabbest of interiors? The meme-rooted “Backrooms” is the latest movie to pull its mounting horrors out of liminal spaces. “Exit 8,” released earlier this year,...

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How Daniel Roher and Matt Johnson charmed rising British star Leo Woodall

After two back-to-back films with high-profile Toronto directors, British star Leo Woodall suggests he should perhaps only work with filmmakers on this side of the Atlantic. "I strictly only work with...

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China executes man for poisoning gaming tycoon linked to Netflix's '3 Body Problem'

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese authorities have executed a man convicted of using poison to kill a billionaire gaming tycoon linked to the Netflix adaptation of “The Three-Body Problem” over a professional...

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Matthew Perry's assistant is last to be sentenced over his ketamine death

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The final sentencing in the 2 1/2-year investigation and prosecution following the drug death of Matthew Perry will be of the personal assistant who sat at the center of the entire...

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Newspaper publisher and former AP board chairman Donald Newhouse dies at 96

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald E. Newhouse, president of one of the largest family-controlled publishing companies in the nation and a former board chairman of The Associated Press, died Tuesday. He was 96 and...

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