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This image released by WGBH-TV shows Katy Kane, left, as she appraises celebrity chef Carla Hall’s vintage purse collection in an episode of "Antiques Roadshow Celebrity Edition," airing May 10 on PBS. (WGBH/PBS via AP)
'Antique Roadshow' flips the script with celebrity editions

By Mark Kennedy May. 03, 2021 11:33 AM EDT

Points cover the surface of a plaster model from a sculpture by Chas Fagan of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winning author Elie Wiesel in the Human Rights Porch at the Washington National Cathedral, Thursday, March 25, 2021. The marks are made with a pointing machine, a measuring tool to accurately copy plaster sculpture models into stone. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel gets seat at National Cathedral

By Ashraf Khalil Apr. 28, 2021 12:09 AM EDT

This cover image released by shows "The Chef’s Garden: A Modern Guide to Common and Unusual Vegetables — with Recipes" by Farmer Lee Jones. The 640-page handsome book is equal parts vegetable reference bible, family memoir and recipe collection. (Avery via AP)
A farmer to chefs reveals his deep vegetable knowledge

By Mark Kennedy Apr. 21, 2021 10:17 AM EDT

This cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows "The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the Future of the Human Race," by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster via AP)
Review: Take a ride into the greatest frontier in science

By Jeff Rowe Mar. 10, 2021 08:41 AM EST

This combination photo shows the cover of "The Soul of a Woman," left, and a portrait of author Isabel Allende. (Ballantine via AP left, and Lori Barra via AP)
Q&A: Isabel Allende on feminism, TV series, love in pandemic

By Sigal Ratner-Arias Mar. 09, 2021 11:02 AM EST

This 2018 photo released by the Gordon Parks Foundation shows Genevieve Young, a publishing editor and wife of photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks. Young was 89 when she died at her home in Manhattan on Feb. 18, 2020, after a long battle with cancer. She was a publishing editor with a long and diverse legacy. Beyond publishing a paid notice in The New York Times, the family says it had trouble finding anyone to report on her death because of the quickly spreading coronavirus. Plans for a memorial tribute, originally scheduled for last spring, remain on hold. (Gordon Parks Foundation via AP)
Longtime editor Genevieve Young left legacy in publishing

By Hillel Italie Feb. 18, 2021 09:44 AM EST

FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2020 file photo, Captain Sir Tom Moore walks down a guard of honour during a visit to the Army Foundation College in Harrogate, England, as part of his new role as Honorary Colonel of the Northern military training establishment. Tom Moore, the 100-year-old World War II veteran who captivated the British public in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic with his fundraising efforts, has died, Tuesday Feb. 2, 2021. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP, File)
Capt. Tom Moore, WWII vet whose walk cheered UK, dies at 100

By Danica Kirka Feb. 02, 2021 11:14 AM EST

This undated photo provided by John Creston DuBois shows Tristan Harris. Tristan Harris, Justin Rosenstein and Philip Clayton wrote essays for the book, "The New Possible". “The New Possible," is a collection of thought-provoking essays exploring how society can seize upon the recent upheaval to reshape technology, the economy, the environment, the food supply, government and community so we can eventually look back at 2020 as a reawakening instead of a death rattle. (John Creston DuBois via AP)
New book sees a 'New Possible' emerging from 2020's tumult

By Michael Liedtke Jan. 30, 2021 11:24 AM EST

Copies of Dorah Sitole's cook book "40 Years of Iconic Food", seen at centre, in Exclusive Books in Hyde Park Corner, Johannesburg, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. South Africa's pioneer Black food writer Sitole, portrait on cover, who quietly defied apartheid to win respect and a readership for African cuisine, died of COVID-19, in Jan. 2021. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
South Africa's trailblazing Black food writer dies of virus

By Mogomotsi Magome Jan. 19, 2021 03:37 AM EST

Pope Francis leaves after celebrating Mass on the occasion of the Christ the King festivity, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. At the end of the mass a delegation of youths from Panama will hand over the World Youth Day cross to youths from Portugal, where the next World Youth Day will be held in 2023. (Vincenzo Pinto/Pool via AP)
Pope book backs George Floyd protests, blasts virus skeptic

By Nicole Winfield Nov. 23, 2020 10:02 AM EST

This combination photo shows book cover images for Charles Yu's “Interior Chinatown,” a satirical, cinematic novel written in the form of a screenplay, left, and " “The Dead Are Arising:The Life of Malcolm X," a biography by Tamara Payne and her late father Les Payne. The novel and biography won National Book Awards for fiction and non-fiction respectively. (Pantheon via AP, left, and Liveright via AP)
Charles Yu novel, Malcolm X bio win National Book Awards

By Hillel Italie Nov. 18, 2020 08:44 PM EST

FILE - This Feb. 19, 2019, file photo shows former President Barack Obama speaking at the My Brother's Keeper Alliance Summit in Oakland, Calif. Obama’s “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours, putting it on track to be the best selling presidential memoir in modern history. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Barack Obama memoir off to record-setting start in sales

By Hillel Italie Nov. 18, 2020 04:06 PM EST

UK vaccine chief warns of over-optimism, early imperfection

By Danica Kirka Oct. 28, 2020 01:47 PM EDT
LONDON (AP) — Warning that the first COVID-19 vaccines may be imperfect, the head of the U.K effort to develop a vaccine called Wednesday for immediate...

FILE - Oprah Winfrey arrives for the presentation of Stella McCartney's ready-to-wear Fall-Winter 2019-2020 fashion collection in Paris on March 4, 2019. Winfrey is setting aside her usual book club recommendations and instead citing seven personal favorites ranging from James Baldwin’s landmark essays in “The Fire Next Time” to Mary Oliver’s poetry collection “Devotions.” She is calling her choices “The Books That See Me Through,” works she values for “their ability to comfort, inspire, and enlighten” her. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
`The books that help her through': Winfrey suggests seven

By Hillel Italie Oct. 26, 2020 08:45 AM EDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019 file photo, Rabbis Jeffrey Myers, left, of Tree of Life/Or L'Simcha Congregation and Jonathan Perlman of New Light Congregation wait on stage before speaking to standing-room only crowd gathered for the one-year commemoration of the Tree of Life synagogue attack, at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum in Pittsburgh. Since March 2020, Tree of Life has halted all in-person worship and group activities. However, Rabbi Myers has made appearances on Zoom and Facebook, livestreamed from his living room. “During the pandemic, people are seeking community,” he said. “We try in any way to help them find solace and hope and inspiration.” (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)
Attack, then pandemic: Pittsburgh Jewish congregations cope

By David Crary Oct. 24, 2020 09:02 AM EDT

FILE - Billy Porter attends the National Board of Review Awards gala in New York on Jan. 8, 2020. Porter narrates “EQUAL,” a new docuseries on HBO Max that traces the history of the gay rights movement through the Stonewall uprising in 1969. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Billy Porter helps examine origins of gay rights movement

By Jocelyn Noveck Oct. 20, 2020 09:33 AM EDT

Former AP sports writer Ken Rappoport dead at age 85

By Barry Wilner Oct. 13, 2020 10:25 PM EDT
Some people light up a room with their smile. Ken Rappoport could energize an entire arena or stadium with his laugh. Not to mention his...

A collection of spirits and cocktail recipe books are displayed at a home in Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 4, 2020. Since the pandemic hit the United States, a lot of social drinking has moved back home. (Elizabeth Karmel via AP)
Cocktails get the home treatment in several new books

By Elizabeth Karmel Oct. 06, 2020 09:56 AM EDT

Critic of Chinese leader sentenced to 18 years in graft case

By Joe Mcdonald Sep. 21, 2020 11:53 PM EDT
BEIJING (AP) — The former chairman of a state-owned real estate company who publicly criticized President Xi Jinping’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic was...

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2018, file photo, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather for a formal group portrait to include a new Associate Justice, top row, far right, at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. Seated from left: Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr. Standing behind from left: Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Elena Kagan and Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Audio arguments, with a side of fish

By Jessica Gresko And Mark Sherman Sep. 17, 2020 01:43 PM EDT