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US playwright Jeremy O. Harris released 3 weeks after arrest in Japan for alleged drug smuggling
By Canadian Press on December 10th, 2025
TOKYO (AP) — The American playwright and actor Jeremy O. Harris has been released from detention in Japan three weeks after he was taken into custody on suspicion of smuggling the psychedelic drug ecstasy. The 36-year-old Harris, known for his Tony-nominated “ Slave Play,” was freed from police custody Monday, the Tomishiro police department told ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nnena Kalu is first artist with a learning disability to win the prestigious Turner Prize
By Canadian Press on December 10th, 2025
LONDON (AP) — Scottish artist Nnena Kalu has been awarded the Turner Prize for work that includes vivid abstract drawings and hanging sculptures, the first artist with a learning disability to win Britain’s most famous visual art award. Kalu, 59, who has autism, received the 25,000-pound ($33,000) prize on Tuesday evening at a ceremony in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Paramount says China’s Tencent withdrew from its Warner Bros bid to avert national security issues
By Canadian Press on December 10th, 2025
BANGKOK (AP) — Paramount Skydance says the Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings withdrew from its bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery to avert a possible national security review. Paramount’s revised filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of its takeover bid said the Chinese company had dropped its $1 billion financing ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!China’s Tencent quits Paramount’s bid for Warner Bros to avert national security questions
By Canadian Press on December 10th, 2025
BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings has withdrawn from Paramount Skydance Corp.‘s bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery, according to a revised filing of its takeover bid by Paramount with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing seen Wednesday shows the Chinese company dropped its $1 billion financing commitment ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sarkozy describes his prison stay and advises on appealing to the far right in his new book
By Canadian Press on December 9th, 2025
PARIS (AP) — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy described the prison where he spent 20 days as a noisy, harsh “all-grey” world of “inhuman violence” in a book released Wednesday that also offered political advice about how his conservative party should appeal to far-right voters. In “Diary of a Prisoner,” the 70-year-old says his own ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Son arrested after Grammy-nominated singer Jubilant Sykes is stabbed to death at California home
By Canadian Press on December 9th, 2025
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Grammy-nominated singer Jubilant Sykes was stabbed to death at his home in Santa Monica, California, and his son was arrested on suspicion of murder, authorities said Tuesday. Officers responded to a 911 call Monday night reporting an assault in progress at the residence in the coastal city west of Los ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!FBI adds true crime TV producer to Most Wanted list for loan fraud tied to phony heiress story
By Canadian Press on December 9th, 2025
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The former head of a California company that produced true crime TV shows has been added to the FBI’s Most Wanted list, years after being charged with portraying herself as an heiress to get millions of dollars from lenders. Mary Carole McDonnell, 73, is believed to be in Dubai, United ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In ‘The Chronology of Water,’ Imogen Poots found a great role, and a best friend in Kristen Stewart
By Canadian Press on December 9th, 2025
Imogen Poots has been thinking about a Sam Shepard quote: “People here have become the people they’re pretending to be.” Those 10 words, from a poem in his “Motel Chronicles” collection, are kind of about her character in “Hedda,” the quietly courageous Thea. But they’re also kind of about everything. After 20 years of acting ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of The Mavericks, has died at age 60
By Canadian Press on December 9th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of the genre-defying, Grammy-winning band The Mavericks, has died. He was 60. Malo died Monday night, his wife, Betty Malo, posted on his Facebook page. He had been battling cancer. The frontman of The Mavericks had documented his health journey on social media since ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Classic rock trio Triumph announce 50th anniversary tour
By Canadian Press on December 9th, 2025
Canadian classic rock trio Triumph are hitting the road for a 50th anniversary tour. The “Lay It On the Line” rockers say next year’s outing would mark their first tour in 30 years. Rik Emmett, Mike Levine and Gil Moore say their songs are meant to bring people together and that’s why they’re returning to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Takeover bid of parent company means limbo for CNN and some fellow cable networks
By Canadian Press on December 9th, 2025
Paramount Skydance’s hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery places CNN and its sister cable networks squarely back into what is likely to be an extended period of management limbo. There was some relief at CNN with last Friday’s announcement that Netflix was buying Warner’s studio and streaming businesses, since the cable network would not ... Read More »
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