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TORONTO — A new Kids Help Phone fundraising campaign that aims to expand online mental health services is getting a boost from some big names in music.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, has died. He was 89.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — “If I hadn’t been a girl, I’d have been a drag queen.” Dolly Parton has uttered those words famously and often.

PARIS (AP) — From Renaissance art to couture and celebrity interruptions, Paris Fashion Week shows continued in vibrant form — presenting the French capital's final trends for fall-winter 2023-2024.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The former star of St. Louis-based television reality show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie's” was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for arranging the shooting death of his nephew to collect a life insurance payment.

TORONTO — Canadian Film Fest has announced thelineup for its hybrid festival taking place from March 28 to April 1.

“Life & Fire,” Omer Klein (Warner Music) Jazz grows in places far from its roots, as “Life & Fire” shows.

For comedian Hasan Minhaj, the Film Independent Spirit Awards is the ideal hosting gig. “Low pressure. Low downside. All upside,” Minhaj said. “That’s the sweet spot for me.

Ahead of the 95th Academy Awards on March 12, Associated Press Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle share their predictions for a ceremony with some sure things and some major question marks.

LONDON (AP) — Britain's domestic intelligence agency didn't act swiftly enough on key information and missed a significant opportunity to prevent the suicide bombing that killed 22 people at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in northwest England, an inqui