National Entertainment

LONDON (AP) — An engrossing account of “how Shakespeare became Shakespeare” has been named the greatest-ever winner of the U.K.’s leading nonfiction book prize.

LONDON (AP) — Francis Dymoke won’t ride into King Charles III’s coronation on horseback and challenge any pretender to the throne to single combat as his ancestor did in 1066, but he will carry the Royal Standard into Westminster Abbey.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional guests willing to bare all — sometimes literally — as they brawled and hurled obscenities before a raucous audien

GENEVA (AP) — The voices sound like well-known personalities, the music features trendy dance beats and hip-hop syncopations, and the jokes and laughter are contagious.

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — “Jackass” star Bam Margera surrendered to Pennsylvania State Police on Thursday morning for allegedly punching his brother during an altercation four days earlier at their home in the Philadelphia suburbs.

LONDON (AP) — An attorney for the publisher of The Sun tabloid used Prince Harry's own words Thursday to argue that his phone hacking lawsuit should be thrown out.

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN veteran political correspondent Dana Bash will replace John King as host of the network's “Inside Politics” newscast , which airs at noon on weekdays, the network said Thursday.

TORONTO — Some Canadians heading to London for coronation festivities have enlisted a key expert to ensure they look their royal best: a master milliner.

NEW YORK (AP) — Carmen Berkley, a strategist with a Seattle-based foundation advocating equity and racial justice, remembers meeting Harry Belafonte a decade ago when she was a youth activist.

TORONTO — With more than 60 documentaries under his belt and nearly as many high-profile interviews to his name, filmmaker Barry Avrich said chronicling the career of Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella was by far his most nerve-racking experience yet.