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Niece says ‘cruel and traitorous’ Trump belongs in prison

Published On: December 7, 2020 07:54 PM NPT By: Associated Press

President Donald Trump’s niece says her uncle is “criminal, cruel and traitorous” and belongs in prison after he leaves the White House.

High court to decide whether Nazi art case stays in US court

Published On: December 7, 2020 04:50 PM NPT By: Associated Press

Jed Leiber was an adult before he learned that his family was once part-owner of a collection of centuries-old religious artworks now said to be worth at least $250 million.

Venezuela’s Maduro claims sweep of boycotted election

Published On: December 7, 2020 03:11 PM NPT By: Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela, Dec 7: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s political alliance claimed a sweeping victory Monday in congressional elections boycotted by the most influential opposition politicians and widely criticized internationally as being fraudulent.

UK gears up for huge vaccination plan watched by the world

Published On: December 7, 2020 01:18 PM NPT By: Associated Press

LONDON, Dec 7: Shipments of the coronavirus vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech were delivered Sunday in the U.K. in super-cold containers, two days before it goes public in an immunization program that is being closely watched around the world.

Biden picks Calif. AG Becerra to lead HHS, pandemic response

Published On: December 7, 2020 10:06 AM NPT By: Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Dec 7: President-elect Joe Biden has picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his health secretary, putting a defender of the Affordable Care Act in a leading role to oversee his administration’s coronavirus response.

David Lander, ‘Squiggy’ on ‘Laverne & Shirley,’ dies at 73

Published On: December 6, 2020 01:37 PM NPT By: Associated Press

Actor David L. Lander, who played the character of Squiggy on the popular ABC comedy “Laverne & Shirley,” has died after a decades-long battle with multiple sclerosis, his wife said. He was 73.

With red carpets rolled up, the Oscar race goes virtual

Published On: December 6, 2020 01:28 PM NPT By: Associated Press

This is the time of year when Hollywood’s awards-season-industrial complex usually shifts into high gear. It’s a frothy, festive run of the year’s final premieres and screenings — all part of a carefully orchestrated dance to court tastemakers and, ultimately, academy voters.

Theater uses its creativity to defy pandemic and stage shows

Published On: December 5, 2020 10:30 AM NPT By: Associated Press

There’s theater on Broadway. You just have to adjust your sights. More than a hundred blocks north of Manhattan’s shuttered theater district but on that same famed thoroughfare, an actor recently read his lines from a huge stage.

Hillary, Chelsea Clinton to tell unheralded heroes’ stories

Published On: December 5, 2020 07:33 AM NPT By: Associated Press

Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, are forming a film production company that they say will tell the stories of people whose voices are often overlooked.

Alison Lurie, prize winning novelist, dead at 94

Published On: December 4, 2020 08:18 PM NPT By: Associated Press

Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose satirical and cerebral tales of love and academia included the marital saga “The War Between the Tates” and the comedy of Americans abroad “Foreign Affairs,” died Thursday at age 94.

MTV Entertainment commits $250 million to diversify reality

Published On: December 4, 2020 07:30 PM NPT By: Associated Press

MTV Entertainment Group says it’s making a $250 million commitment to spur reality production over the next three years by companies owned and operated by women and people of color.

Bangladesh moves ahead with Rohingya refugee relocation

Published On: December 4, 2020 01:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press

DHAKA, Dec 4: Authorities in Bangladesh on Friday started sending a first group of more than 1,500 Rohingya refugees to an isolated island despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process.

Ho, ho — Whoa! Virus keeping most Santas at a distance

Published On: December 4, 2020 08:00 AM NPT By: Associated Press

Brad Six becomes Santa Claus, pulling his black boots over his red pants in the office of a Miami outdoor supply company. It’s hot, so he forgoes the traditional heavy jacket for a lightweight vest and grabs his Santa hat.

Make a pizza Margherita like an Italian. Here’s how.

Published On: December 4, 2020 07:32 AM NPT By: Associated Press

The Margherita is the undisputed heavyweight champion of pizza. It’s the pizza that any pizza chef would order to get the measure of a new pizzeria because there is nothing to hide behind; no snazzy flavors to mask the quality of your ingredients, dough and skill with the oven. Here is Thom Elliot and James Elliot’s recipe from their new book, “Pizza.”

A year in 60 secs: TikTok lists top videos, creators of 2020

Published On: December 3, 2020 07:15 PM NPT By: Associated Press

From skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac to learning Cardi B’s rump-shaking choreography, TikTok users got creative in a pandemic year with new songs, dances and memes in 60 seconds or less.

All Mariah Carey wants is you to enjoy her Christmas special

Published On: December 3, 2020 05:20 PM NPT By: Associated Press

Christmas is still a few weeks away, but Mariah Carey is already orchestrating her dinner menu. “I do my father’s linguini with white clam sauce every Christmas Eve,” says the legendary songstress. “Then we do that traditional, more of a Southern-style Christmas dinner.”

‘All my love, Elliot’: Actor Page comes out as transgender

Published On: December 2, 2020 05:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press

Oscar-nominated actor Elliot Page, the star of “Juno,” “Inception” and “The Umbrella Academy,” came out as transgender Tuesday in an announcement greeted as a watershed moment for the trans community in Hollywood.

Bad Bunny is Spotify’s most-streamed artist of 2020

Published On: December 1, 2020 04:53 PM NPT By: Associated Press

The year’s most played artist on Spotify? Globally speaking: Bad Bunny. The Puerto Rican superstar is the music platform’s most-streamed artist of the year with 8.3 billion streams globally.

Rita Ora says sorry for lockdown-breaching birthday party

Published On: December 1, 2020 02:49 PM NPT By: Associated Press

British singer Rita Ora apologized Monday for breaking lockdown rules by holding a birthday party, saying it was “a serious and inexcusable error of judgment.”

Testing new release strategy, ‘The Croods’ opens to $14.2M

Published On: November 30, 2020 03:46 PM NPT By: Associated Press

Testing a novel release strategy, Universal Pictures’ animated sequel “The Croods: A New Age” had one of the best opening weekends of the pandemic, grossing $14.2 million over the five-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.