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NEW YORK (AP) — For the press heading into a second Trump administration, there's a balancing act between being prepared and being fearful.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former talk show host Carlos Watson was sentenced Monday to nearly 10 years in prison in a federal financial conspiracy case that cast his once-buzzy Ozy Media as an extreme of fake-it-'til-you-make-it startup culture.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Zakir Hussain, one of India's most accomplished classical musicians who defied genres and introduced tabla to global audiences, died on Sunday. He was 73.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kristen Bell will return as host of next year's Screen Actors Guild Awards, streaming live on Netflix for a second consecutive year.

Claudia Lin, an online dating detective in the age of AI, is hunting once again through a dark cybersphere of tech systems in “The Rivals,” the second novel in a new mystery series by Jane Pek.

Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on Jan. 1.

NEW YORK (AP) — Come and take a trip to the giddy birth of rock ‘n’ roll through the eyes of one of its pioneers — Brenda Lee.

NEW YORK (AP) — At Wisconsin's Mukwonago Community Library, director Abby Armou isn't only committed to providing books and other media for local residents.

TORONTO — "Nickel Boys" won three of the top Toronto Film Critics Association Awards on Sunday night.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 22-28: Dec. 22: Actor Hector Elizondo is 88. Country singer and actor Red Steagall is 86. TV anchor Diane Sawyer is 79. Guitarist Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick is 76.