National Entertainment

NEW YORK — Susan Wojcicki, a longtime Google executive who played a key role in the company's creation, is stepping down as YouTube's CEO after spending the past nine years running the video site that has reshaped entertainment, culture and politics.

NEW YORK (AP) — Don Lemon startled some colleagues on CNN's morning show Thursday with his implication that Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, at age 51, was past her prime.

In fourth grade, Catherine Haena Kim could not muster the courage to audition for the female lead of her school's production of William Shakespeare's “The Tempest.” But her teachers saw something in the way she held herself in the classroom.

VICTORIA — British Columbia Liberal leader Kevin Falcon says he supports supervised drug injection sites, but when member of the legislature Teresa Wat spoke to the audience of a Mandarin news show last week, she had a different message.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Maurice Benard is doing well. He's had front-burner stories as Sonny Corinthos on ABC's “General Hospital” for more than 30 years. His family is good: Daughter Cailey is pregnant and son Joshua's acting career is on the rise.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday asked artists and filmmakers to unequivocally declare their support for his country during a live video address at the opening of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival.

PHOENIX (AP) — “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King has been chosen to receive the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism from Arizona State University.

TORONTO — "The Great Canadian Baking Show" is hitting the road in search of talented home cooks. Producers of the culinary reality series say they are holding their first- ever open audition to cast bakers for the upcoming seventh season.

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TORONTO — David Cochrane has been named the new host of CBC News Networks' daily politics show, "Power & Politics." CBC says Cochrane, who has been appearing as a guest host this week, begins the post immediately.