National Entertainment

Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher 1. The Return by Nicholas Sparks - 9781538728567 - (Grand Central Publishing) 2. Battle Ground by Jim Butcher - 9780593199329 - (Penguin Publishing Group) 3.

TORONTO — It's been a banner week for Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist Gil Adamson.

NEW YORK — Stories of race, class and climate change were among the fiction finalists Tuesday for the 71st annual National Book Awards.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 11-17: Oct. 11: Country singer Gene Watson is 77. Singer Daryl Hall of Hall and Oates is 74. Actor Catlin Adams (“The Jerk,” ?The Jazz Singer”) is 70. Saxophonist Andrew Woolfolk (Earth, Wind and Fire) is 70.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Two former Oklahoma jail employees and their supervisor face misdemeanour cruelty charges after investigators found they forced inmates to stand handcuffed for hours and listen to the children's song “Baby Shark" on repeat, a prosecut

Cocktails are having a moment, and because of the pandemic, that moment is happening most often at home.

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump's return to the White House to recover from the coronavirus seems certain to raise the already heightened anxiety level of the journalists assigned to follow him.

BOSTON — Conductor Andris Nelsons has reached agreement on contract extensions with both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Gewandhausorchester of Leipzig, Germany, the parties announced on Monday.

Bell Media says a power outage at one of its facilities in Ontario affected TV and other services across much of Canada.

LONDON — Shares in the company that owns the Regal, Cineworld and Picturehouse movie theatres fell as much as 58% after it said it will temporarily close the venues because delays to the latest James Bond film left it with few blockbusters to attract