National Entertainment

Top New Shows (US): 1. Flightless Bird , David Farrier 2. Law & Order: Criminal Justice System , iHeart True Crime 3. Autocracy in America , The Atlantic 4. Synced , Monica Padman & Liz Plank 5. The Opinions , The New York Times 6.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Capture or Kill by Don Bentley & Vince Flynn (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) 2. Passions in Death by J. D. Robb (St. Martin’s Publishing Group) 3. The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore (One More Chapter) 4.

NEW YORK (AP) — Poet Li-Young Lee has won a $100,000 lifetime achievement prize, and Carole Boston Weatherford has been named the new Young People's Poet Laureate, the Poetry Foundation announced Tuesday.

LONDON (AP) — Former Spice Girl Mel B is among dozens of Black Britons urging Parliament to update the country's equality laws and prohibit Afro hair discrimination.

There was a class at my university called Black Arts, Black Power. Lester Fabian Brathwaite’s “Rage” would fit snugly right into that syllabus.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For the first time in almost 8,000 episodes, “Wheel of Fortune” did not open with a hello from longtime host Pat Sajak .

LONDON (AP) — Kate, Princess of Wales , announced Monday that she has completed chemotherapy treatment for cancer and plans to return to some public duties.

LONDON (AP) — Kate, the Princess of Wales, has completed chemotherapy and will make some public appearances in the coming months, bolstering Britain’s royal family after it was rocked by the twin cancer diagnoses of the princess and King Charles III.

NEW YORK (AP) — James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen — eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to CNN, “The Lion King” and Darth Vader — has died. He was 93.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jailed ex-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein underwent an emergency medical procedure at a New York City hospital on Monday to remove fluid on his heart and lungs after he complained of chest pains over the weekend, his representatives said