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Canadians Susan Musgrave, Iman Mersal make revamped Griffin Poetry Prize short list

Canadians Susan Musgrave, Iman Mersal make revamped Griffin Poetry Prize short list

TORONTO — Canadians Susan Musgrave and Iman Mersal were both nominated Wednesday for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the first short list since the award combined its categories for homegrown and international poets into a single global purse.
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Apple Podcasts - Top New Shows

Top New Shows (US): 1. Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lemonada 2. Out of the Pods, Natalie Lee & Deepti Vempati 3. Prosecuting Donald Trump, MSNBC 4. When Reality Hits with Jax and Brittany, PodcastOne 5. The Last Ride, NPR 6.
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Texas-born princess facing imminent eviction from Rome villa

Texas-born princess facing imminent eviction from Rome villa

ROME (AP) — A Texas-born princess who lives in a Rome villa containing the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio is facing a court-ordered eviction Thursday, in the latest chapter in an inheritance dispute with the heirs of one of Rome’s aristocra
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Antiquities, plucked from storeroom, on Roman Forum display

Antiquities, plucked from storeroom, on Roman Forum display

ROME (AP) — Hundreds of remnants of ancient Roman life — including colored dice, rain gutter decorations depicting mythological figures, and burial offerings 3,000 years old — have long been hidden from public sight. Until now.
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Vatican inaugurates artisan apprentice school for basilica

Vatican inaugurates artisan apprentice school for basilica

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Wednesday inaugurated a new arts and crafts academy inside St.
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Otis Redding III, who followed father into music, dies at 59

Otis Redding III, who followed father into music, dies at 59

MACON, Ga. (AP) — Singer and guitarist Otis Redding III, the son and namesake of the legendary 1960s soul singer, has died from cancer at age 59, his family said Wednesday.
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Q&A: Aster, Phoenix try to discuss ‘Beau is Afraid’

Q&A: Aster, Phoenix try to discuss ‘Beau is Afraid’

In Ari Aster's new film “ Beau is Afraid ,” Joaquin Phoenix plays an anxious man in a rotten world who goes on a wildly weird journey, both Homeric and Oedipal , to his mother's home.
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Keri Russell evolves from silky spy to sweaty 'Diplomat'

Keri Russell evolves from silky spy to sweaty 'Diplomat'

The first sign is the hair. Not exactly a total mess. But definitely not neat, either. Keri Russell’s hair on “The Diplomat,” her new Netflix series set in the world of high-stakes global diplomacy, is the hair of a woman — in this case, the U.S.
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Foo Fighters plan summer album, first since drummer's death

Foo Fighters plan summer album, first since drummer's death

NEW YORK (AP) — Foo Fighters have announced a new album is in the works, the first since the death of the band's drummer, Taylor Hawkins .
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Fox settlement part of flurry of lawsuits over election lies

Fox settlement part of flurry of lawsuits over election lies

DENVER (AP) — Fox News’ nearly $800 million settlement of a voting machine company's defamation lawsuit marks the first milestone in a larger legal strategy designed to combat the false claims and conspiracy theories about elections that have rippled
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