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Global pandemic postpones this year's glitzy Tony Awards
NEW YORK - With Broadway shuttered amid the coronavirus pandemic, producers of the annual Tony Awards have postponed this year's celebration of American theatre. The show was originally scheduled for ...
Mar 26, 2020
Judge: Tekashi 6ix9ine probably belongs at home, not jail
NEW YORK - The judge who sentenced the rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine to prison said Wednesday he would have ordered home confinement instead if he had known about the coronavirus in December. U.S. District J...
Mar 26, 2020
CBC says it's working to restore the local TV news it shelved last week
TORONTO - The CBC says it's gradually restoring the local supper-hour TV news it recently shelved. Last week, the public broadcaster drew criticism when it announced it was temporarily scrap...
Mar 25, 2020
CBC Sports chief can refocus Olympic planning with Games set for 2021
TORONTO - After a whirlwind few days was capped with the postponement of the Tokyo Games until 2021, CBC Sports & Olympics executive director Chris Wilson can breathe a little easier. In...
Mar 25, 2020
In 'Crip Camp,' a rare spotlight for disability rights
PARK CITY, Utah - It wasn't Judith Heumann's first standing ovation, but it might have been her loudest. Heumann, who had polio as a baby and uses a wheelchair, has for decades been one of the leading...
Mar 25, 2020
Britain's Prince Charles tests positive for new coronavirus
LONDON - Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, has tested positive for the new coronavirus, his office said Wednesday. The 71-year-old is showing mild symptoms of COVID-19 and is self-isolat...
Mar 25, 2020
Taylor Swift's publicist takes aim at Kim Kardashian in feud
LOS ANGELES - The Kanye West and Taylor Swift public beef has reignited again with the ongoing feud now involving his wife and Swift's publicist. Swift's publicist, Tree Paine, fired back Monday night...
Mar 24, 2020
Though scuttled, SXSW still goes ahead with film awards
NEW YORK - South by Southwest, the sprawling Austin, Texas, conference and festival, was one of the first major gatherings cancelled by the coronavirus pandemic. But its organizers, eager to lend a ha...
Mar 24, 2020
'Wonder Woman 1984,' 'In The Heights' postponed due to virus
NEW YORK - Warner Bros. on Tuesday delayed the summer release of "Wonder Woman 1984" and removed the adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's "In the Heights" from its schedule due to the coronavirus pandem...
Mar 24, 2020
Multiple Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally dies at 81
NEW YORK - Terrence McNally, one of America's great playwrights whose prolific career included winning Tony Awards for the plays "Love! Valour! Compassion!" and "Master Class" and the musicals "Ragtim...
Mar 24, 2020
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