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California's ArcLight and Pacific Theaters to close for good

Hollywood's theatrical business may be slowly rebounding but for some exhibitors the last year has been catastrophic. Pacific Theaters, which operates some 300 screens in California, including the bel...

Apr 12, 2021

Japan to start releasing Fukushima water to sea in 2 years

TOKYO - Radioactive water accumulating in tanks at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will be released into the sea in two years after it is treated, Japan's government said Tuesday in a decision lon...

Apr 12, 2021

Police: Officer wounded, 1 dead in Tennessee school shooting

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A confrontation in a Tennessee high school that involved police officers responding to a report of a possible armed man, left one person dead and an officer wounded, authorities sai...

Apr 12, 2021

Lin-Manuel Miranda, mayor open new Times Square vaccine site

NEW YORK - "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda joined New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday at the grand opening of a Times Square COVID-19 vaccination site intended to jump-start the city's ...

Apr 12, 2021

Luke Bryan tests positive for COVID, sidelined from 'Idol'

LOS ANGELES - Luke Bryan says he's tested positive for COVID-19, which sidelined him from the season's first live "American Idol" episode on ABC. Paula Abdul, an original judge on the talent show when...

Apr 12, 2021

Ex-police chief gets 1 year in prison for hiring scandal

The former police chief of Connecticut's largest city was sentenced Monday to one year and one day in prison for rigging the hiring process that led to his appointment in 2018. A federal judge in Brid...

Apr 12, 2021

Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt join Oscars starry presenting cast

The Oscars are aiming to be more like a movie than a television show and enlisting A-list stars like Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Halle Berry and Reese Witherspoon to help hand out statuettes. They'll be...

Apr 12, 2021

George Floyd's brother sheds tears on the stand

MINNEAPOLIS - George Floyd's younger brother took the witness stand Monday and lovingly recalled how George used to make the best banana mayonnaise sandwiches, how George drilled him in catching a foo...

Apr 12, 2021

Will Smith film departs Georgia over voting restrictions

NEW YORK - Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua have pulled production of their runaway slave drama "Emancipation" from Georgia over the state's recently enacted law restricting voting access. The fi...

Apr 12, 2021

Sidelined last year, the Met Gala is returning - twice

The Met Gala is coming back. Actually, twice. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday that the annual high-wattage celebration of both fashion and celebrity - cancelled last year because of th...

Apr 12, 2021