National Entertainment

Top New Shows (US): 1. Flipping the Bird: Elon vs. Twitter, Wondery 2. Pod Save the UK, Crooked Media 3. The Official Love & Death Podcast, HBO Max 4. Rise N’ Crime, OH NO MEDIA 5. BRAMTEA, Bramty Juliette and Luis Nestor 6.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. The 23rd Midnight by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown and Company) 2. Happy Place by Emily Henry (Penguin Publishing Group) 3.

Top Movie Purchases and Rentals (US): 1. Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves 2. Avatar: The Way of Water 3. Renfield 4. The Pope’s Exorcist 5. Beautiful Disaster 6. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 7. A Man Called Otto 8. Plane 9.

Matthias Pintscher will become music director of the Kansas City Symphony for the 2024-25 season, offered the job just five days after conducting the orchestra for the first time. His appointment on a five-year contract was announced Tuesday.

GENEVA (AP) — Christie’s is auctioning a staggering 700 pieces of jewelry from the collection of the late Heidi Horten, an Austrian heiress whose German husband built a retail empire starting in the 1930s — in part from department stores and other as

TORONTO — A member of Parliament and a celebrated playwright are among the nominees for the Trillium Book Award, Ontario's top literary prize.

NEW YORK (AP) — The next novel from million-selling author Kristin Hannah is a war story set in the 1960s. St. Martin's Press announced Tuesday that Hannah's “The Women” will be published next winter, Feb. 6.

NEW YORK (AP) — Instincts about the strategic significance of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol led a team of Associated Press journalists there just as Russians were about to lay siege. It proved to be a fateful decision.

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's town hall forum on CNN on Wednesday is the first major television event of the 2024 presidential campaign — and a gigantic test for the chosen moderator, Kaitlan Collins.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden called for a “fair deal” for Hollywood's striking writers on Monday as he hosted a White House screening of the the upcoming streaming series “American Born Chinese” to mark Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and P