National Entertainment

ROME (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi cast a spell over Italy — and nearly led it to financial ruin.

NEW YORK (AP) — No script? No problem! There was plenty of uncertainty in the run-up to this year’s Tony Awards, which at one point seemed unlikely to happen at all because of the ongoing Hollywood writer’s strike.

OTTAWA — Five visual artists shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award are being recognized for contemporary work that includes explorations of queer representation, the diasporic experience and Canadian identity.

BANFF, Alta. — Canada’s leading media companies are banding together to work on reducing their collective impact on the environment.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host a Juneteenth concert in a “celebration of community, culture and music,” the White House announced Wednesday.

PARIS (AP) — UNESCO announced Monday that the United States plans to rejoin the U.N.

TORONTO — The Giller Foundation has launched a new scholarship for Black, Indigenous and racialized high school grads pursuing an education in creative writing and literature.

NEW YORK (AP) — Rachel Maddow has something special for anyone who appreciates the occasional digressions into history on her weekly MSNBC show.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 18-24 June 18: Musician Paul McCartney is 81. Actor Constance McCashin (“Knots Landing”) is 76. Actor Linda Thorson (“The Avengers”) is 76. Actor Carol Kane is 71. Actor Isabella Rossellini is 71.

NEW YORK (AP) — The intimate, funny-sad musical “Kimberly Akimbo” nudged aside splashier rivals on Sunday to win the musical crown at the Tony Awards on a night when Broadway flexed its creative muscle amid the Hollywood writers’ strike and made hist