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Utah bans 13 books at schools, including popular “A Court of Thorns and Roses” series, under new law
Thirteen popular books have been banned from all public schools in Utah in the first wave of bans expected under a new law that prohibits books when at least three of the state’s 41 school district boards claim they contain pornographic or indecent material. Allowing just a few...
Alice Munro's daughter alleges sexual abuse by the late author's husband
TORONTO (AP) — The daughter of the late Nobel laureate Alice Munro has accused the author's second husband, Gerard Fremlin, of sexual abuse, writing that her mother remained with him because she “loved him too much” to leave. Munro, who died in May at age 92, was one of the...
Dan David Prize names 9 historians as winners of prestigious award
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Dan David Prize on Tuesday named nine historians as the 2024 winners of the prestigious award, with each of them receiving $300,000 to advance their research. The winners' areas of study are vast, from the birth of democracy in India, to the underground...
Posthumous book by Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina will document war crimes since Russian invasion
NEW YORK (AP) — A posthumous book by Victoria Amelina, the Ukrainian author killed last year during a Russian missile strike, will be published in February upon the war's third anniversary. “Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary,” which draws upon Amelina's...
