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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Remember the first rap song you heard? Some of your favorite rappers and DJs do.

CLAUSTHAL-ZELLERFELD, Germany (AP) — Nestled in the spruce trees in the Harz mountains of northern Germany is a bark-eating pest not much bigger than a sesame seed.

NEW YORK (AP) — CBS' latest game show doesn't ask its contestants to have any skills — no need to sing, dance, cook or pull a rabbit out of a hat. All it asks from its competitors is adoration — lots of it.

“Dead and Gone,” by Joanna Schaffhausen (Minotaur) A private eye named Sam Tran is dead, hanged from a tree in a local cemetery, and Chicago P.D. Detective Annalisa Vega catches the case.

“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride (Riverhead Books) “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” James McBride’s tour de force of a new novel, opens in 1972, when authorities discover a human skeleton and mezuzah at the bottom of a w

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 13-19: Aug. 13: Actor Kevin Tighe (“Emergency,” ″Murder One”) is 79. Opera singer Kathleen Battle is 75. Director Paul Greengrass (the “Bourne” films) is 68.

What’s left on your bucket list this summer? Have you spent enough time near water? Listened to live music outdoors? Have you eaten enough corn, berry cobblers , ice cream sandwiches? Wait, what’s that? You haven’t had an ice cream sandwich this summ

Spicy and loaded with umami, gochujang is one of the foundations of Korean cooking, and it’s ideal for boosting dishes with punchy flavor in one stroke.

When our 17-year-old refrigerator started wheezing, I fully expected we’d need a new one. I was shocked — and frankly a little disappointed — when a repair technician fixed it for less than $200.

The Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game franchise says it won't allow artists to use artificial intelligence technology to draw its cast of sorcerers, druids and other characters and scenery. D&D art is supposed to be fanciful.