LONDON — Winners of the 2026 British Academy Film Awards, announced Sunday: Film — “One Battle After Another” British Film — “Hamnet” Director — Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another” Actor — Robert Aramayo, “I Swear” Actress — Jessie Buckley, “Hamnet” Supporting Actor — Sean Penn, “One Battle After Another” Supporting Actress — Wunmi…
KYIV, Ukraine — Sitting in a circle the day before opening night, Ukrainian war veterans and drama students took turns reading their lines from a script that traveled centuries to reach them. At the center was Olha Semioshkina, directing the group through her adaptation of “Eneida” by Ivan Kotliarevskyi — an 18th-century Ukrainian reimagining of…
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi said Friday that she has cervical cancer. The former “Jersey Shore” star said in a video posted to TikTok that a biopsy had revealed the stage one cancer. “Obviously not the news that I was hoping for,” she said, sitting in her car…
Hilary Duff is a pop star once more. That is, if a pop star ever really stops being a pop star. Over 10 years since her last record — 2015’s “Breathe In. Breathe Out.” — Duff is back with “Luck… or Something,” a witty, and glittery, set of 11 pop songs that track the years…
LOS ANGELES — The Daytona 500 and NBA All-Star Game posted audience gains on Sunday despite going up against the Winter Olympics. Tyler Reddick’s win in the Daytona 500 drew an average of 7.49 million viewers on Fox, up 11% from last year. It was the most-watched NASCAR season opener since 2023, when 8.17 million…
Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald holds the trophy as quarterback Sam Darnold, right, and others look on after the team’s win in the NFL Super Bowl 60 football game against the New England Patriots, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) The Associated Press <
NEW ORLEANS — Actor Shia LaBeouf faces battery charges and is accused of repeatedly using homophobic slurs while hitting multiple people at a New Orleans bar during Mardi Gras, according to a police report. The New Orleans police report obtained by The Associated Press via a public records request states that LaBeouf, 39, “became irate…
NEW YORK — For her first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Demon Copperhead,” Barbara Kingsolver is taking on a subject she rarely discussed in public while growing up in a small Kentucky town: classical music. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Thursday that “Partita” will be published Oct. 6. (Faber will release the book…
LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — U2 is returning with its first collection of new songs in nearly a decade, opening with a tribute to Renee Good, the Minnesota mom fatally shot by a federal agent during this winter’s massive immigration crackdown. The Irish rock band released the six-song EP “U2 – Days of…
Stella and Gerry might not have a bad marriage, but they don’t have especially healthy one either. In the new film “Midwinter Break,” out Friday, these two Irish empty nesters beautifully portrayed by Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds have become the embodiment of the words “alone together” in their late 60s and early 70s. She…
