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Edgar Wright melds past and present in his stylish new film “Last Night in Soho,” which opens Friday in North American theaters

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The following excerpt is from the chapter, “Bye, dear” in the book “Dilma’s Downfall: The Impeachment of Brazil’s First Woman President and the Pathway to Power for Jair Bolsonaro’s Far-Right,” written by Associated Press journalists Peter Prengaman and Mauricio Savarese. The book, published by AP Books, takes an in-depth look at the 2016 impeachment fight that threatened democracy in Latin America’s most populous country and deepened visions in ways being felt to this day. ——— “Mixed up in all this is a degree of prejudice against women,” Rousseff told foreign journalists on April 19, 2016, a few days after Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies impeached her. “There are attitudes towards me that would not exist with a male president.” In the months leading up to that vote, Rousseff and supporters had often noted that men — that is, male former presidents — did some of the same accounting maneuvers Rousseff was accused of and faced no consequences. In the weeks between the Chamber...

The set-up of “Last Night in Soho” is smashing but gets squandered by the film’s second half, which takes a promising premise and drives it into a muddled murder mystery that stretches the supernatural concept too far to bear

Accounts and images from court documents, interviews and social media postings have revealed much of what happened when actor Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on an Old West movie set in New Mexico

Olivia Rodrigo is having a sweet year as the leading nominee at the American Music Awards in her first year to be eligible

Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan’s son has been granted bail in a high-profile drug case that led to the actor finding himself at the center of a boycott campaign

The California Supreme Court has refused to consider Brad Pitt’s appeal of a court ruling that disqualified the judge in his custody battle with Angelina Jolie

Atlanta’s 6-2 victory over Houston in World Series Game 1 drew an average of 10,811,000 viewers on Fox, up 17.5% from the record low of 9,195,000 for the Los Angeles Dodgers’ opening 8-3 win over Tampa Bay last year

Investigators say there was “some complacency” in how weapons were handled on a movie set where Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed a cinematographer and wounded another person

An early 18th-century painting depicting Yale University’s namesake with an enslaved Black child has been returned to public display at one of the college’s museums

Christian author Rachel Held Evans left behind a legion of loyal readers when she died in May 2019, at the age of 37

Joanna Hogg first had the instinct to make a film about her then unfolding relationship to her heroin-addicted first love in 1979

A Cambridge University college is handing over a bronze cockerel looted from Africa in the 19th century to Nigerian authorities

Caissie Levy has vacated her palace on Broadway for a modest Louisiana home

An ancient native myth becomes a reality in a blighted Oregon town in director and co-writer Scott Cooper's moody horror “Antlers."

Young women across the U.K. are boycotting nightclubs and pubs as university cities join in a national “girls night in” protest after increasing reports of drink spiking and students being drugged by needle injections

The CMA Awards will be a night of all-star collaborations between Carrie Underwood and Jason Aldean, Kane Brown and Chris Young, and Mickey Guyton with Brittney Spencer and Madeline Edwards

New Mexico authorities say they have recovered lead projectile believed to have been fired from the gun used on film set

Four years after the “Greatest Show On Earth" shut down, officials are planning to bring back the Ringling Bros

In the second season of HBO Max’s “Love Life," William Jackson Harper takes over the lead role from Anna Kendrick

Their travel and performances were limited during the pandemic

Netflix employees walked out Wednesday in protest of Dave Chappelle’s special and its anti-transgender comments

Netflix employees walked out Wednesday in protest of Dave Chappelle’s special and its anti-transgender comments

The United Nations is summoning an unusual “witness” to testify to the dangers of burning fossil fuels that stoke global warming

Filming has been paused as investigators probe Thursday's fatal accident.

At first glance, broadcast newcomers “Ghosts” and “The Wonder Years” have barely had a chance to prove themselves in the ratings

Experts predict a tremendous legal fallout after Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger on a prop gun while filming “Rust” in New Mexico and unwittingly killed a cinematographer and injured a director

Comedian Mort Sahl has died

Professionals say they’re baffled by the circumstances of a movie-set shooting.

Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording Academy was interviewed by The Associated Press on efforts to make the Grammys more inclusive

Questions remain after a prop gun held by Alec Baldwin discharged on Oct. 21.

One of the unlikeliest heroes to emerge from Zack Snyder’s horror-action flick “Army of the Dead” earlier this year was an oddball safecracker named Dieter

A new documentary on the late snowboarding pioneer Jake Burton is more than a glossy retrospective of his life

“Renegades: Born in the USA” is a curated transcript of former President Barack Obama’s and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Bruce Springsteen’s conversations

Doctors ordered the Queen to rest last week.

“Dune” isn’t done

Troubadour Hayes Carll’s humor wears well, and droll observations fill his new album, “You Get It All,” serving as a counterweight to the serious topics he tackles

Buckingham Palace: Queen Elizabeth II won't attend COP26 climate conference in person following advice to rest

Mystery still swirls around Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of a Lady” nearly a quarter-century after the painting was stolen from an Italian museum

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Harvey Mason jr. knew there would be an uphill climb after taking over as the Recording Academy’s CEO

Caetano Veloso had written so many songs that he truly believed he was done creating music almost a decade ago

Members of the Tuskegee University marching band are threatening to quit performing at school events to protest what they say is a lack of resources and support

Treasures in a Dutch museum must be given to Ukraine.

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New episodes are available every Tuesday starting on Sept. 14.

Details are still emerging about how Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed a cinematographer on a New Mexico film set