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NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Woodward’s next book finds him in the familiar world of documenting a presidency’s ending. Woodward is teaming with Washington Post colleague Robert Costa on a book about the waning days of Donald Trump’s administration and on the initial phase...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Zoo has struck a new extension of its longstanding agreement with the Chinese government that will keep the zoo’s iconic giant pandas in Washington for another three years. But the agreement also calls for all three pandas — baby...
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the country’s top book publishers is partnering with an award-winning education technology company that specializes in bilingual materials for kids. Macmillan Publishers announced Monday that it had formed a “strategic” relationship with Encantos, where products range from board...
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Philharmonic, silenced from performances at Lincoln Center since March by the coronavirus pandemic, has agreed to a four-year labor contract with its musicians through Sept. 20, 2024, that retains wage cuts throughout the entire deal. The orchestra...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa has identified yearend school parties as COVID-19 superspreader events and ordered all students who have attended them to immediately go into a 10-day quarantine. Called rage parties, the celebrations to mark graduation from secondary school are private functions held...
NEW YORK (AP) — Sinead O’Connor hasn’t released any albums in the past few years, but she has been getting some writing done. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media announced Monday that the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter’s memoir, “Rememberings,” will come out June 1. Houghton Mifflin...
Against the backdrop of a pandemic’s blight and wounds from an acrimonious election, a group of acclaimed actors on Sunday staged an online reading of a religious text with remarkable relevance to the current moment: the Book of Job. Audience members may have been...
LONDON (AP) — Netflix has “no plans” to add a disclaimer to “The Crown” stating that its lavish drama about Britain’s royal family is a work of fiction. In a statement Saturday, Netflix said it has always presented the drama, as just that —...