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DiCaprio’s Earth Alliance gives $3M to Australia fire relief

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio's Earth Alliance environmental organization will donate $3 million to help wildfire relief efforts in Australia. The foundation said Thursday that it has started the Australia Wildfire Fund to help ...

Prolific ‘Graduate’ writer-actor Buck Henry dies at 89

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Buck Henry, ìThe Graduateî co-writer who as screenwriter, character actor, ìSaturday Night Liveî host and cherished talk-show and party guest became an all-around cultural superstar of the 1960s and 70s, has died. He was 89. Henry’s wife, Irene Ramp, told The ...

Royal courtiers chart path for Prince Harry’s independence

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II has moved quickly to take control of the crisis surrounding the decision by Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, to distance themselves from the royal family, ordering royal courtiers to find a ...

Brazil court allows gay Jesus film on Netflix

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — The president of Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday issued an order that allows streaming service Netflix to continue exhibiting a satirical film depicting Jesus as a gay man and reaffirmed Brazilians’ right to free speech. “It ...

Forest ecologist helps refashion Barbie dolls as scientists

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — When Nalini Nadkarni was a kid, she’d run home from school, climb into one of the eight maple trees in her parents’ backyard and spend an afternoon there with an apple and a book. That time in the treetops set the ...

So long, for now

My parents’ home, where I grew up, still brings back sharp memories and feelings of long summer days, of the squishy soil and prickly grass beneath my feet running through the sprinkler in the front yard, and of the smack sound a baseball makes when it hits the pocket of my glove just ...