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FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Art restorers in the Italian city of Florence have begun a six-month project to clean and virtually “unveil” a long-censored nude painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the most prominent women in the history of Italian art.

MONTREAL — A Jewish group is calling on a Montreal venue to cancel a performance by a French rapper whose music it describes as "openly antisemitic and hateful.

The box office roared back to life with the long-awaited release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever." The Marvel sequel earned $180 million in ticket sales from more than 4,396 theaters in the U.S.

BORODYANKA, Ukraine (AP) — Amid the ruins of war, the flowerings of art.

PARIS (AP) — An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport and whose saga loosely inspired the Steven Spielberg film “The Terminal” died Saturday in the airport that he long called home, officials said.

TORONTO — Alan John Park, a longtime member of the Royal Canadian Air Farce comedy troupe, has died. Park died Thursday at the age of 60, eight years after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Born in Scarborough, Ont.

EDMONTON — From dealing cards at a casino to working in oilfield camps in northern Alberta, addictions counsellor Justin Buffalo turns sorrow into stories permeated with comedy and urban legend.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Saying he wants to clear his name, Alec Baldwin on Friday sued people involved in handling and supplying the loaded gun that he was using when it fired, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a 2021 filming accident in New

NEW YORK (AP) — Dhonielle Clayton is not just a bestselling author of young adult fiction. She's an organizer, a former teacher and a founder of the grassroots publishing movement We Need Diverse Books.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Disneyland on Friday added two new characters in wheelchairs to its iconic “It’s a Small World" attraction, saying it wanted a "more accurate representation of diversity around the world.