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Today in History: September 25, soldiers escort Black students into Little Rock high school

Sep. 25, 2023 00:03 AM EDT

Today in History Today is Monday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2022. There are 97 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 25, 1957, nine Black students who’d been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock,...

A rare Truman Capote story from the early 1950s is being published for the first time

Sep. 22, 2023 18:52 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Along with such classics as “In Cold Blood” and “Breakfast at Tiffany's,” Truman Capote had a history of work left uncompleted and unpublished. Capote, who died in 1984 shortly before his 60th birthday, spent much of his latter years struggling to write his...

What's streaming now: Doja Cat, 'Sex Education,' 'Spy Kids,' 'The Super Models' and 'Superpower'

Sep. 22, 2023 16:00 PM EDT

The return of Netflix’s “Sex Education” with Gillian Anderson, Sean Penn's documentary about Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a docuseries that charts the rise of the first supermodels are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you ...

`10 Days in a Madhouse' opera premieres in Philadelphia, celebrating women's voices

Sep. 22, 2023 13:04 PM EDT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kiera Duffy is disturbed by “10 Days in a Madhouse” as much as an 1887 public was outraged by the squalid surroundings exposed by trailblazing reporter Nellie Bly. “The idea of the hysterical woman trope really does persist today,” the soprano said ahead...

Today in History: September 22, Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Sep. 22, 2023 00:18 AM EDT

Today in History Today is Friday, Sept. 22, the 265th day of 2023. There are 100 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves...

Music Review: On ‘Scarlet,’ Doja Cat’s demons demand attention — as if it was possible to look away

Sep. 22, 2023 00:18 AM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Before Doja Cat, the adventurous and often absurdist rap phenomenon born from internet celebrity, released her stellar fourth full-length album, the take-no-prisoners “Scarlet,” she bit the hand that feeds. Sort of. On social media, she told...

Nigerians protest mysterious death of Afrobeat star as police exhumes body for autopsy

Sep. 21, 2023 20:31 PM EDT

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Thousands marched across Nigeria on Thursday over the mysterious death last week of an Afrobeat star whose body has been exhumed for an autopsy as authorities investigate the cause of his demise. Lagos police said the body of the late Ilerioluwa Aloba, better...

Sophie Turner sues to force estranged husband Joe Jonas to turn over children's passports

Sep. 21, 2023 17:37 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Sophie Turner sued her estranged pop star husband Joe Jonas on Thursday to force him to turn over the passports of the couple's two young daughters so she can take them to England. Turner, who was served with divorce papers this month after four years of...

2 Chainz says joint-Lil Wayne album is done, talks new 'Amazon Music Live' season

Sep. 21, 2023 13:36 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s no secret that rap superstar 2 Chainz considers Lil Wayne an inspiration, and now that admiration for the “Tha Carter” series icon has translated into another official joint album that he says will be out before 2023 ends. “We have two videos shot,...

Stephen Sanchez conjures jukeboxes and early rock n' roll on debut album 'Angel Face'

Sep. 21, 2023 11:38 AM EDT

For his debut record, “Angel Face,” Stephen Sanchez travels back in time with songs that you can imagine listening to in a Ford Thunderbird or watching a performance of on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” “Angel Face,” out Friday, is a concept album, about a fictional musician in...