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- Lukas prizes honor books on homelessness, the US Census and ancient India
NEW YORK (AP) — Books on homelessness, the U.S. Census and ancient India are among this year’s winners of prizes handed out by the J. Anthony Lukas Project, named for the late author and investigative journalist. The winners were announced Tuesday by the project’s administrators, the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism [...] Read More »
8 hours ago - Len Deighton, author of bestselling spy thrillers, dead at 97
LONDON (AP) — Len Deighton, a prolific writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on bestseller lists for decades, has died. He was 97. Deighton’s literary agent, Tim Bates, said he died Sunday. No cause of death was given. Deighton’s first novel, “The IPCRESS File,” helped set the tone of cool and gritty 1960s thrillers [...] Read More »
8 hours ago - Len Deighton, author of best-selling spy thrillers, dead at 97
LONDON (AP) — Len Deighton, a prolific writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on best-seller lists for decades, has died. He was 97. Deighton’s literary agent, Tim Bates, said he died Sunday. No cause of death was given. Deighton’s first novel, “The IPCRESS File,” set the tone of cool 1960s thrillers and was made [...] Read More »
8 hours ago - How Canadian film ‘Undertone’ became a box-office hit despite public funding rejection
TORONTO — Personal grief, a potentially haunted house and a sound-driven sense of dread helped turn “Undertone” into one of the year’s most unexpected horror hits. But the biggest twist? The director says Canada’s public film funders passed on it. The Toronto-shot film opened to $9.3 million at the North American box office over the [...] Read More »
11 hours ago - Trump team applying pressure to media: Tell the war’s story the way we see it
Through lectures, scoldings and outright threats, President Donald Trump and his aides are ratcheting up the pressure on journalists to cover the war in the Middle East the way the administration wants. The president has fumed on social media about stories he doesn’t like and berated a reporter on Air Force One. The government’s top [...] Read More »
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