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‘Father Ted’ writer Graham Linehan cleared of harassing transgender activist
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
LONDON (AP) — The co-creator of British TV sitcoms “Father Ted” and the “IT Crowd” was cleared Tuesday of harassing a transgender activist on social media, but he was found guilty of damaging their mobile phone during an encounter last year. Prosecutors alleged that Gary Linehan, an Irish comedy writer known for his outspoken criticism ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Clarification: Rental Family-Japanese Culture story
By Canadian Press on November 24th, 2025
TOKYO (AP) — In a story published Nov. 20, 2025, The Associated Press quoted Chikako Ozawa-de Silva as saying: “When people feel they’re not loved, they are not accepted, they’re now seeing they’re not heard.” The story should have made clear that Ozawa-de Silva said: “When people feel they’re not loved, they are not accepted, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!News from outside disappears in North Korea
By Canadian Press on November 24th, 2025
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For two hours every day, Lee Si-young and her colleagues broadcast uncensored foreign news into authoritarian North Korea. Her radio audience could go to jail if caught listening. Lee’s Seoul-based Free North Korea Radio station has tried for two decades to give real-time news to North Korea’s 26 million people. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Decades-long efforts to send uncensored foreign news into North Korea face major setbacks
By Canadian Press on November 24th, 2025
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For two hours every day, Lee Si-young and her colleagues broadcast uncensored foreign news into authoritarian North Korea. Her radio audience could go to jail if caught listening. Lee’s Seoul-based Free North Korea Radio station has tried for two decades to give real-time news to North Korea’s 26 million people. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!BBC leaders grilled by lawmakers over its standards after Trump threatened to sue
By Canadian Press on November 24th, 2025
LONDON (AP) — The BBC’s chairman acknowledged Monday that it was too slow in responding over a misleading edit of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump but rejected claims that the broadcaster’s impartiality was being undermined from within its own board. Senior BBC leaders were quizzed by Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee amid ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Court order prevents LA coroner from releasing details of teen’s body found in singer d4vd’s Tesla
By Canadian Press on November 24th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police have blocked the county coroner’s office from releasing details about the death of a teen girl whose body was found in the trunk of a car registered to the singer d4vd, the medical examiner’s office said Monday. Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found dead on Sept. 8 in an ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Celebrated ‘Inconvenient Indian’ author Thomas King says he’s not Indigenous
By Canadian Press on November 24th, 2025
Celebrated author Thomas King says that despite believing so nearly all his life, he is not Indigenous. The writer of books including 2003’s “The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative” and 2012’s “The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America,” says he is reeling from recent news that he has no ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Udo Kier, striking German actor from ‘My Own Private Idaho’ and ‘Ace Ventura,’ dies at 81
By Canadian Press on November 24th, 2025
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Udo Kier, the German actor whose icy gaze and strange, scene-stealing screen presence made him a favorite of filmmakers including Andy Warhol, Gus Van Sant and Lars von Trier, has died at 81. His partner, artist Delbert McBride, told Variety that Kier died on Sunday in Palm Springs, California. A ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The best new holiday music releases for 2025
By Canadian Press on November 24th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — ‘Tis the season to put on some brand-new holiday music. The best way to get festive is to sing along to Christmas classics new and old. But don’t know what to press play on? We’ve got you covered. In honor of the most wonderful time of the year, here are some ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: Jessie Buckley startles and shimmers in ‘Hamnet,’ a meditation on love, loss and art
By Canadian Press on November 24th, 2025
“Tell me a story,” the earthy young woman asks the shy Latin tutor early in Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet.” What story, he asks? “Something that moves you.” She’s made a shrewd choice of storyteller. This awkward young man seems to have a way with words as he recounts the tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. As ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner and Miles Teller lead clever, charming ‘Eternity’
By Canadian Press on November 24th, 2025
Joan Cutler has an impossible decision to make in “Eternity.” The newly deceased character, played by Elizabeth Olsen, has one week to decide who she wants to spend her afterlife with and two husbands lurking and hoping that she’ll choose them. Luke ( Callum Turner ) is the dashing one who died in the Korean ... Read More »
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