By VINCENT THIAN BEIJING, China (AP) — In Beijing’s Forbidden City, once the sprawling palace to China’s Ming and Qing emperors and their legions of guards and servants, steady streams…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy BRYNN ANDERSON Why this photo? CHICAGO (AP) — The Democratic National Convention spans four days. There are a lot of delegates in a large open space. Trying to create an impactful image…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — Brandon Sanderson, whose epic “Wind and Truth” is a highlight of the upcoming publishing season, sees nothing wrong with the idea of “escapism.” �…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy ANNIE RISEMBERG DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In a classroom at the House of Urban Culture, tucked away in the narrow streets of Dakar, Senegal, Aminata Thiam claps her hands in time with a bea…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy The Associated Press “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” a docuseries following young wives in Utah, and the suspenseful thriller “Rebel Ridge” are some of the new television, fil…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy LINDSEY BAHR VENICE, Italy (AP) — Jude Law plays an FBI agent investigating the violent crimes of a white supremacist group in “The Order,” which premieres Saturday at the Venice Fi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:43AMBy ALEXIS TRIBOULARD and JULIA FRANKEL HAIFA, Israel (AP) — As her 4-year-old son perused the Israeli museum’s ancient artifacts, Anna Geller looked away for just a moment. Then a crash …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy JILL LAWLESS LONDON (AP) — Oasis fans seeking tickets to the band’s reunion tour endured hourslong waits, and in some cases disappointment, as online platforms strained under demand S…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:09AMBy VIRGINIA MAYO ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — The city palace of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens is partly reopening this weekend, allowing Antwerp to show off the life and work of perhaps it…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy ADRIANA MORGA NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime celebrity watchers may not have been shocked when Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce from Ben Affleck, but what was surprising was that Lopez’s di…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:25AMBy JAMES POLLARD NEW YORK (AP) — The notion that online gaming could help players develop charitable habits seemed bold when the anti-poverty nonprofit Comic Relief US tested its own multi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy The Associated Press “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” returning for its second season and Adam Sandler’s first comedy special since 2018 are some of the new television, f…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy JESSICA DAMIANO Alicia Silverstone worried fans this week when she posted a TikTok clip of herself nibbling a poisonous berry she found along a sidewalk on a trip to England. The “Cluel…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy RYAN DOAN-NGUYEN NEW YORK (AP) — In 1974, Harlem’s deserted streets and tumbledown tenements told the story of a neighborhood left behind. Decades of disinvestment had culminated in a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy The Associated Press Albums from Sabrina Carpenter and Lainey Wilson, as well as John Woo revisiting his 1989 Hong Kong-set action movies “The Killer” are some of the new television, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMROME (AP) — Madonna will fund an artistic project involving youths, she announced during her 66th birthday celebrations in Pompeii. While touring the Pompeii archeological park Friday with…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:50AMBy MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — Jack Russell, the lead singer of the bluesy ’80s metal band Great White whose hits included “Once Bitten Twice Shy” and “Rock Me” and was fronting…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:22AMBy The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police have arrested four suspects in the fatal shooting of former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor. The four suspects who …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:05PMBy MICHAEL BALSAMO and ANDREW DALTON LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have arrested at least one person in connection with Matthew Perry’s death from an accidental ketamine overdose last y…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:31AMBy CARLA K. JOHNSON In the 1980s and ’90s, Ron Spitzer played bass and drums in rock bands — Tot Rocket and the Twins, Western Eyes and Band of Susans. He sang and wrote songs, toured th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy HIRO KOMAE OSHU, Japan (AP) — Katsunori Suzuki is one of a few craftsmen in Japan still producing cast iron cookware by hand using laborious traditional techniques. The president of the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy The Associated Press A country album from Post Malone and Awkwafina playing a struggling actor whose winning lottery ticket has her on the run for her life in “Jackpot!” are some of t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy ALICIA RANCILIO Corn dogs, funnel cakes and fried Oreos may come to mind when you think of state fair food, but fairgrounds are also the place where bakers test out their creations by ent…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — Visitors to corn mazes across the country are finding a familiar and joyous figure in the winding labyrinth of tall stalks. Snoopy. More than 80 farms in th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy The Associated Press Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy” premieres its final season and a Boston heist movie starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck are some of the new television, films…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMNEW YORK (AP) — Francine Pascal, a onetime soap opera writer whose “Sweet Valley High” novels and the ongoing adventures of twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield and other teens captiv…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:58AMBy ALICIA RANCILIO From “Beaches” to “First Wives Club” and “Hocus Pocus,” Bette Midler has starred in a number of projects where women aren’t just at the center of the story �…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy The Associated Press The Olympics-ready “Challengers” making its streaming debut and an EP from country-turned-pop singer Maren Morris are some of the new television, films, music and…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy JOHN MARSHALL PHOENIX (AP) — Caitlin Clark sauntered across the orange carpet in a tan Armani dress and white Versace slingback pumps, an understated-but-elegant look for the kickoff ev…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy JOCELYN NOVECK PARIS (AP) — Sure, they call it the City of Light. But Paris is also the City of Fashion, one of most influential fashion capitals of the world for decades, no, centuries…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy The Associated Press The long-awaited debut album from Ice Spice and the movie “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” with new and old franchise stars are some of the new television, films, mu…
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