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HALIFAX — Shawn Bath says he was only looking for a 30-second commercial about his efforts to clean up the harbours of Newfoundland and Labrador when he approached filmmaker Cody Westman in 2019.

FLORENCE, S.C. — Rapper Kodak Black was sentenced to probation Wednesday for assaulting a teenage girl in a South Carolina hotel room.

Hollywood thrillers in which sophisticated, attractive city folk move to creaky old country homes and experience scary things are a dime a dozen.

LONDON — Novels that explore forgotten and neglected communities in Britain, the U.S. and the Caribbean were named finalists on Wednesday for the 30,000 pound ($42,000) Women’s Prize for fiction.

Missing out on Thin Mints in the pandemic? A Google affiliate is using drones to deliver Girl Scout cookies to people's doorsteps in a Virginia community.

TORONTO — Four years after her acclaimed book "Seven Fallen Feathers" explored the deaths of Indigenous teens in Thunder Bay, Ont., journalist Tanya Talaga has returned to shine a new light on the ongoing colonial oppression there and across Canada.

CHICAGO — Amid signs pointing “To Elevator” and advising drivers to “Take Parking Ticket With You,” the Rhinemaidens lament the theft of their gold, Siegfried is murdered, and Brünnhilde drives off in a red Mustang convertible to redeem the world.

NEW YORK — President Joe Biden spent only a weekend as the “Hamburglar” in the conservative media world.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones will join the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s journalism school in July as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism.

NEW YORK — The Poetry Foundation has chosen Michelle T.