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Book Review: Kenitz's debut novel transforms 'The Perfect Home' into a gut-roiling thriller

Jan. 06, 2025 16:55 PM EST

Dawn and Wyatt Decker are a reality TV couple renovating homes on-screen and dealing with fertility problems off-screen. Their story and their marriage seem like a foregone conclusion, but only a few chapters in, a sharp twist turns this unassuming world of domesticity upside-down. ...

How co-writing a book threatened the Carters' marriage

Dec. 29, 2024 17:23 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — No ex-president had a more prolific and diverse publishing career than Jimmy Carter. His more than two dozen books included nonfiction, poetry, fiction, religious meditations and a children’s story. His memoir “An Hour Before Daylight” was a Pulitzer Prize...

Stellantis pledges invest $2.1 million in Italian production in 2025 during talks with government

Dec. 17, 2024 15:01 PM EST

MILAN (AP) — Carmaker Stellantis will invest 2 billion euros ($2.1 billion) in Italian production next year and spend another 6 billion euros ($6.3 billion) in the supply chain, the head of European operations told a government panel on Tuesday. Stellantis executives laid out...

Japan's ban on recognizing same-sex unions is unconstitutional, a court finds. Here's what to know

Dec. 13, 2024 08:32 AM EST

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's refusal to recognize same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, a high court ruled Friday, the latest victory for the LGBTQ+ community to add pressure on the reluctant government. Friday’s decision by the Fukuoka High Court in southern Japan marks the eighth...

The wife of a Wisconsin kayaker who faked his own death moves to end their marriage

Dec. 12, 2024 13:53 PM EST

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The wife of a Wisconsin kayaker who faked his own drowning so he could leave her and their children and meet a woman in Eastern Europe filed court documents Thursday seeking to end their marriage. Online court records indicate Emily Borgwardt filed a petition...

Black denomination upholds stance against same-sex marriage. A gay pastor in its ranks seeks change

Dec. 12, 2024 10:47 AM EST

When the African Methodist Episcopal Church, arguably the world’s largest independent Black Protestant denomination, held its quadrennial General Conference in Ohio in August, among the agenda items was an issue that the Rev. Jennifer S. Leath had labored over for two decades: same-sex marriage....

2024 in pop culture: In a bruising year, we sought out fantasy, escapism — and cute little animals

Dec. 11, 2024 13:49 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — I’ll get you, my pretty! And your little pygmy hippo, too! Forgive us the shameless attempt to link the fantasy hit “Wicked” to the delightful Moo Deng. But, hear us out — there’s something the two have in common as the year draws to a close. Escapism....

Book Review: Weike Wang’s 3rd novel 'Rental House' finds beauty and humor in a marriage of opposites

Dec. 10, 2024 09:14 AM EST

Vacation rental with the in-laws — for many, it’s a setup for disaster. In Weike Wang’s “Rental House,” it’s certainly that. It’s also an opportunity for Wang, a wildly gifted writer, to explore the upside and downside of education, marriage and family. Add to the mix an interracial...

Michigan Democrats look toward a future that some hope includes Pete Buttigieg

Dec. 10, 2024 08:57 AM EST

MONROE, Mich. (AP) — In a packed union hall outside Detroit, a worker shifts the conversation from policy to the personal, quizzing Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on his knowledge of Michigan, the state he only recently started calling home. “Mayor Pete — Secretary...

Woman who conspired to kill her 2 children can be tried in the death of her estranged husband

Dec. 05, 2024 18:02 PM EST

PHOENIX (AP) — A woman convicted of conspiring to kill her two youngest children and another woman was found competent on Thursday to stand trial on additional charges. Two court-appointed doctors in Arizona deemed Lori Vallow Daybell fit to face charges of conspiring to kill her...