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NEW YORK (AP) — On a trip to New York in the early 1970s, Robert Evans, the former head of Paramount, discovered a dead rat in his hotel room bed.

VENICE, Italy (AP) — For the first time in the 127-year history of the Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest and most important contemporary art fair features a majority of female and gender non-conforming artists, under the curatorial direction of Cec

“Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable” by Zain E. Asher (Amistad) In recounting her family’s struggle to carry on after her father’s unexpected death, Zain E.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Stinky but handsome and widely popular landscape trees have spawned aggressive invaders, creating thickets that overwhelm native plants and sport nasty four-inch spikes.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed , who claims untested crime-scene evidence will help clear him.

“Finding Me: A Memoir” by Viola Davis (HarperOne) Brutally honest and honestly brutal, actor Viola Davis looks back on her childhood like the victim of a disaster still dazed by the experience but remembering every terrible moment.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 1-7: May 1: Singer Judy Collins is 83. Actor Stephen Macht (“Suits,” ″General Hospital”) is 80. Singer Rita Coolidge is 77. Singer-bassist Nick Fortuna of The Buckinghams is 76.

“Search,” by Michelle Huneven (Penguin Press) Whoever said that university politics are vicious because the stakes are so low probably never served on a ministerial search committee.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — His completed geometry exercise in hand and a smile lighting up his eyes above his face mask, Victor Rodas rushed to the teacher as other students were still drawing. “I’m winning the race!” the 12-year-old exclaimed.

NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of notebooks, scripts, speeches, drafts of letters, artwork and even signed baseballs owned by the late playwright Neil Simon have been donated to the Library of Congress.