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TORONTO — The experimental Toronto-based opera company Against the Grain Theatre has recruited award-winning librettist Royce Vavrek as its new artistic director.

It’s early morning in Southern California, and Renee Ballard, director of the LAPD Open-Unsolved Unit, is where she most loves to be. She’s surfing, and she’s darned good at it.

NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Tori Amos is working on a children's book — her first — that she hopes will help young people follow their own paths of inspiration.

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit Monday with a new wave of lawsuits accusing him of raping women, sexually assaulting men and molesting a 16-year-old boy.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 20-26: Oct. 20: Rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson is 87. Actor-turned-nun Dolores Hart (“Where the Boys Are,” “King Creole”) is 86. Actor William Russ (“Boy Meets World,” “Wiseguy”) is 74.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Follett's next historical epic will look back to the origins of one of the world's most famous and enigmatic destinations — Stonehenge. The Welsh author's “Circle of Days” is scheduled for next Sept.

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III, who is 75 and battling cancer, will travel halfway around the world to Samoa this month to take his seat as the head of the Commonwealth and highlight the existential threat that climate change poses for Pacific island

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III, who is 75 and battling cancer, will travel halfway around the world to Samoa this month to take his seat as the head of the Commonwealth and highlight the existential threat that climate change poses for Pacific island

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will be interviewed by Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Wednesday in Pennsylvania as she steps up her travel and conversations with media outlets in the closing stretch of the presidential campaign.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is embracing perhaps Hollywood's most memorable drill sergeant to portray his vision of a hardened military and mock the Biden administration's embrace of the LGBTQ+ community serving openly.