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LOS ANGELES — Howard Weitzman, an attorney whose clients included Michael Jackson, Justin Bieber, and auto maker John DeLorean, has died. He was 81.

TORONTO — As "Kim's Convenience" nears its series finale Tuesday, star Paul Sun-Hyung Lee is in mourning.

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — The 100th Miss America will be crowned before a live audience at the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut following a year of virtual appearances and delayed competitions due to the pandemic, organizers announced Thursday.

Parker Millsap, "Be Here Instead” (Okrahoma Records/Thirty Tigers) Parker Millsap begins his new album ready to roll, playfully exploring the flexible verb on a song titled “Rolling.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Police in Sri Lanka on Thursday arrested the reigning Mrs. World for pulling the crown off the head of the winner of a Mrs. Sri Lanka beauty pageant and allegedly causing injuries. She was later released on bail.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Red Book” by Patterson/Ellis (Little, Brown) 2. “The Four Winds” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press) 3. “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig (Viking) 4. “Win” by Harlan Coben (Grand Central Publishing) 5.

MADRID — Spanish authorities have slapped an export ban on a painting a day before it was due to be auctioned with a starting price tag of 1,500 euros ($1,780), saying it could be a lost work by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggi

NEW YORK — A Chicago-based writer and activist has received the First Book Award from the Academy of American Poets. Kemi Alabi's “Against Heaven” is scheduled for publication in Spring 2022.

1. “The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman (Viking) 2. “Dog Man: Mothering Heights” by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic) 3. “The Women of the Bible Speak” by Shannon Bream (Broadside Books) 4. “Faucian Bargain” by Steve Deace and Todd Erzen (Post Hill Press) 5.

OTTAWA — The head of the Canadian Museum of History has resigned following reported allegations of workplace harassment at the national institution.