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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The CMA Fest is prohibiting any Confederate flag imagery at its four-day festival, following similar bans at other country music festivals.

BOSTON (AP) — “My No. 1 job is to keep you and your sister safe.” That’s what I tell my toddler almost daily when I remind him not to jump off the couch, stand on the kitchen counter or dart across the street without me.

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — A speller has been reinstated into the Scripps National Spelling Bee field after successfully appealing that he was denied relevant root information about a word.

TORONTO — Two decades after starring on "Felicity" and playing the beloved Ben Covington, Scott Speedman is having something of a renaissance moment. Or, as he humbly puts it, "a few good years.

NEW YORK (AP) — This year's winner of the International Booker Prize, Geetanjali Shree's novel “Tomb of Sand,” will be released in the U.S. this winter by an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

MONTREAL — The new chief executive of Canadian National Railway Co. did not apologize on behalf of her company for the absence of francophones on its board of directors.

TORONTO — A canvas by Quebec abstractionist Jean Paul Riopelle hammered down for nearly $2.9 million at auction. Riopelle's 1953 palette-knife with drip piece "Sans titre" nearly doubled its pre-auction estimate of $1 million to $1.

NEW YORK (AP) — When Jaquel Spivey found out he was nominated for a Tony Award as lead actor in “A Strange Loop,” he was shocked. Not just for the normal reasons, but for the statement it made.

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana (AP) — The front lawn of Lydia Larce’s home is strewn with debris: remnants of cabinets and chunks of pink shower. She lives in a FEMA trailer out back, her home in shambles after hurricanes tore through Lake Charles.

Travel businesses and public health experts are questioning the prudence of Canada's continued vaccination mandate on airplanes and at the border, suggesting the policy may be out of step with the science and global tourism trends.