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Officials inspect the wreckage of an Air Canada Express jet, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, just off the runway where it had collided with a Port Authority fire truck Sunday night at LaGuardia Airport in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Fact File: Posts misidentify pilot involved in fatal Air Canada crash

Marissa Birnie, The Canadian Press 4 minute read 4:28 PM CDT

Multiple social media posts this week paid tribute to the two pilots who died in a collision between an Air Canada plane and a firefighting truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport. But in some of the posts, photos purporting to show one of the pilots were actually images of people unconnected to the crash.

Some posts included images of a woman and identified her as one of the pilots who died, Mackenzie Gunther. Others identified a man wearing a tie as Gunther. The posts are false. The images of the woman identified as Gunther appear to be AI-generated recreations of someone who shares the same name with the pilot, who was male. The photo of the man in a tie appears to be someone who attended the same flight school as Gunther.

THE CLAIM

Sunday's fatal crash between Air Canada Express Flight 8646 and a firefighting truck on the runway at LaGuardia claimed the lives of two pilots, Gunther and Antoine Forest.

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Carney says Air Canada CEO’s English-only condolences lacked compassion

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Carney says Air Canada CEO’s English-only condolences lacked compassion

David Baxter, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: 1:47 PM CDT

OTTAWA - Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau was slammed by Prime Minister Mark Carney and Quebec's government on Wednesday for delivering an English-only message of condolence after Sunday's deadly plane crash in New York.

Rousseau is being summoned to testify at the House of Commons official languages committee after he shared a four-minute condolence video online that only included two French words — "bonjour" and "merci."

The Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages reported receiving 84 complaints about Rousseau's video as of Tuesday afternoon.

Carney, speaking to reporters before the weekly Liberal caucus meeting in Ottawa, said the decision to release the video message only in English showed a "lack of judgment and lack of compassion."

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Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks briefly with reporters as he arrives on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Music Review: Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea realizes lifelong dream with solo jazz album, ‘Honora’

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Music Review: Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea realizes lifelong dream with solo jazz album, ‘Honora’

Krysta Fauria, The Associated Press 3 minute read Updated: 12:18 PM CDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — On his first ever solo album, Red Hot Chili Peppers' eccentric bassist Flea is full of surprises. He opens with a track that serves as an abbreviated segue between what most fans know him for and what they will get on the rest of his jazz record “Honora.”

Although “Golden Wingship” doesn’t sound quite like something one would expect from the Peppers, of which Flea has been a member since the band’s founding more than four decades ago, the psychedelic instrumental blends the skronking sound of free jazz with familiar rock instrumentation, culminating in discordant cacophony.

It’s really not until the second song, “A Plea,” that the 63-year-old bassist shows his cards and reveals the focus on this, his 10-track jazz album: Flea’s first love, the trumpet, which he plays throughout the rest of the album.

A smooth flute over Flea's funky bass line and conspicuous trumpet dominate most of the nearly 8-minute track before Flea offers an impassioned lyrical plea: “Now we are human beings right here. / Human beings / We’re here, together,” he shouts. “Live for peace / Live for love / It’s all we got / See the god in everyone.”

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Democratic lawmaker asks judge to take Trump’s name off Kennedy Center

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Democratic lawmaker asks judge to take Trump’s name off Kennedy Center

Steven Sloan And Darlene Superville, The Associated Press 3 minute read Updated: 5:31 PM CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic lawmaker is asking a federal judge to force the Kennedy Center to block and reverse efforts to attach President Donald Trump's name to the historic performing arts venue.

In a motion filed Wednesday, Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio argues that Congress was clear in its intent that the Kennedy Center is named for the late President John F. Kennedy — and no one else.

“Renaming the Kennedy Center for President Trump — without any authorization from Congress — undermines the Center’s raison d’être, and frustrates its purpose as the only memorial to President Kennedy in Washington, D.C.,” the motion argues.

Trump's handpicked board of directors voted in December to rename the venue as the Trump-Kennedy Center, arguing the current president deserved the recognition for his efforts to renovate the institution. But the move immediately drew protest from Democrats and some in the Kennedy family along with questions from scholars and historians about whether the move was legally permissible.

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Mindy Levine, left, listens as Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, talks before President Donald Trump arrives for a board meeting of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts in the East Room of the White House, Monday, March 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer-winning author who turned unlikely subjects into bestsellers, dies at 80

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Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer-winning author who turned unlikely subjects into bestsellers, dies at 80

R.j. Rico, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: 4:46 PM CDT

Tracy Kidder, an award-winning narrative nonfiction writer who turned everything from computer engineering to life in a nursing home into unexpected bestsellers, has died. He was 80.

His son, Nat Kidder, confirmed to The Associated Press that Kidder died from lung cancer Tuesday at his daughter's home in Boston.

Kidder won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his 1981 work “The Soul of a New Machine,” which delved into the work of a fledgling computer company long before most people cared about the inner workings of Silicon Valley.

“It was like going into another country,” Kidder told the AP at the time. “At first, I didn’t understand what anybody was saying."

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FILE - Author Tracy Kidder stands in his cottage in South Bristol, Maine, on Sept. 26, 2005. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, File)

Movie Review: In ‘Miroirs No. 3,’ a slender and elegant tale of mutual rehabilitation

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Movie Review: In ‘Miroirs No. 3,’ a slender and elegant tale of mutual rehabilitation

Jake Coyle, The Associated Press 5 minute read 2:12 PM CDT

Christian Petzold’s beguiling and restorative new drama “Miroirs No. 3” begins with a glance and a car crash.

Wreckage and its long-term aftermath have long marked the movies of Petzold, arguably Germany’s foremost filmmaker. In his finest and most exquisitely haunting film, 2014’s “Phoenix,” an Auschwitz survivor and cabaret singer (Nina Hoss, colossally good) returns unrecognized to her German hometown with a reconstructed face, to a husband who’s said to have betrayed her to the Nazis.

“Miroirs No. 3” doesn’t have that film’s grandiosity of melodrama; it’s more of a lightly enigmatic chamber piece. But it’s likewise preoccupied with piecing life together again after tragedy, and maybe finding some catharsis in music. (The title comes from a Ravel piano piece.) And its startling power will, like “Phoenix,” sneak up on you.

Laura (Paula Beer, the star of Petzold's “Undine” and “Transit”), a piano student from Berlin, is reluctantly riding in the backseat of a car. Our first glimpse of her, before this road trip, was staring blankly, maybe suicidally, into a river. With Laura is her musician boyfriend, Jakob (Philip Froissant) and a producer that Jakob is hoping to impress. As they drive through the countryside, Laura locks eyes with a solitary middle-aged woman standing outside her home. For a fleeting moment they share a mysterious connection, maybe of some shared strain of depression.

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Movie Review: ‘They Will Kill You’ is a failed attempt at satanic, supernatural horror pulp

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Movie Review: ‘They Will Kill You’ is a failed attempt at satanic, supernatural horror pulp

Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press 4 minute read 10:38 AM CDT

If you're looking for some killer real estate, might we suggest The Virgil, an exclusive, well-appointed building in New York City? It's one of those century-old hotel-condos with great bones and spacious apartments, fully furnished. One drawback they might not mention on Zillow is all the murderous satanists.

The Virgil is the setting for most of the ambitious but ultimately cramped horror-comedy “They Will Kill You,” a wonderful vehicle for its star, Zazie Beetz, while not exactly fulfilling in either the horror or comedy modes. You might want your security deposit back.

Writer-director Kirill Sokolov borrows elements of Blaxploitation and apes cinematic techniques from Quentin Tarantino's violent revenge fantasies to come up with a muddled movie that has a patina of satire, a smear of dread, a little camp and some surreal touches, like eyeballs that bounce around with agency.

Much of the underwhelming nature of “They Will Kill You” is its lack of ambition. It's said the filmmakers used Dante's “Inferno” as an inspiration for a building that would house on its floors each of the vices from the nine circles of hell — lust, gluttony, greed and so forth. They settled on two and so both initially widened the plot idea but then immediately stunted it.

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Supreme Court sides with Cox Communications in a copyright fight with record labels over downloads

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Supreme Court sides with Cox Communications in a copyright fight with record labels over downloads

Mark Sherman, The Associated Press 2 minute read Updated: 12:20 PM CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with internet service provider Cox Communications in its copyright fight with record labels over illegal music downloads by Cox customers.

The justices ruled unanimously that Cox bears no liability for the copyright violations of its customers, reversing a jury verdict and lower-court rulings.

“Cox neither induced its users’ infringement nor provided a service tailored to infringement,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the court in an opinion that acknowledged that the record labels “have struggled to protect their copyrights in the age of online music sharing.”

The company, in a statement, praised the court for affirming that internet service providers "are not copyright police.”

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Updated: 12:20 PM CDT

FILE - The Supreme Court in Washington, Nov. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Stephen Colbert and son will co-write a ‘Lord of the Rings’ movie

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Stephen Colbert and son will co-write a ‘Lord of the Rings’ movie

The Associated Press 2 minute read Updated: 8:20 AM CDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert, famous devotee to J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, is co-writing a “Lord of the Rings” movie with his son.

Warner Bros. announced early Wednesday that Colbert will script “The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past” along with series veteran Philippa Boyens and Peter McGee, Colbert's son. Producer Peter Jackson revealed Colbert's involvement in a social media video that introduced a “very special partner” on the film.

“It took me a few years to scrape my courage into a pile to give you a call, but about two years ago I did,” Colbert told Jackson. “You liked it enough to talk to me about it, and ever since then, the two of us have been working with the brilliant Philippa Boyens on how to develop this story.”

“Shadow of the Past” will come after Andy Serkis' upcoming “The Hunt of Gollum,” which is set to arrive in theaters next year.

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FILE - Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert arrives at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Woman pleads not guilty to trying to murder Rihanna and to assaulting the singing superstar’s family

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Woman pleads not guilty to trying to murder Rihanna and to assaulting the singing superstar’s family

Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: 12:38 PM CDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman from Florida pleaded not guilty Wednesday to the attempted murder of Rihanna.

Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, of Orlando, also pleaded not guilty through her attorney to more than a dozen other felony counts in Los Angeles Superior Court.

Prosecutors allege the singing superstar, her hip-hop star partner A$AP Rocky and their three young children were among the people assaulted at their home in the Beverly Hills area on March 8 when Ortiz, 35, pulled up to the property and sprayed about 20 bullets from an AR-15 style rifle into the tall exterior wall.

Ortiz is charged with 10 counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and three counts of shooting at an occupied vehicle or dwelling. She could get life in prison if convicted on all charges.

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FILE - Rihanna arrives at the premiere of

Books by Lyse Doucet and Arundhati Roy make shortlist for Women’s Prize for Nonfiction

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Books by Lyse Doucet and Arundhati Roy make shortlist for Women’s Prize for Nonfiction

The Associated Press 3 minute read Updated: 12:58 PM CDT

LONDON (AP) — Two books about hotels as places of risk and refuge in wartime are among finalists announced Wednesday for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, set up to help rectify a gender imbalance in publishing.

“The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan” by Canadian journalist Lyse Doucet and U.K. author Jane Rogoyska’s “Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War” are on a six-book shortlist announced Wednesday for the 30,000 pound ($40,000) prize.

Also in the running are Indian author Arundhati Roy’s memoir “Mother Mary Comes to Me” and Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran’s exploration of migration “Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century”

The list is completed by two books about art by British writers – “Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health” by Daisy Fancourt and Judith Mackrell’s “Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Lives and Loves of Gwen and Augustus John.”

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FILE - Writer and activist Arundhati Roy participates in a protest at the press club of India in New Delhi, India, Oct. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

Lobsters and red carpet gowns: A new show celebrates Schiaparelli’s surrealist fashion

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Lobsters and red carpet gowns: A new show celebrates Schiaparelli’s surrealist fashion

Sylvia Hui And Hilary Fox, The Associated Press 3 minute read Updated: 12:17 PM CDT

LONDON (AP) — London's Victoria & Albert Museum is opening a new exhibition celebrating the bold and surrealist designs of Italian fashion house Schiaparelli, from dresses created in collaboration with Salvador Dalí to show-stopping red carpet gowns worn by Ariana Grande.

The exhibition traces a century of art and innovation at the couture house, charting the way founder Elsa Schiaparelli worked with leading artists in Paris in the 1930s to current creative director Daniel Roseberry, who continues to capture global attention by dressing stars like Margot Robbie in sculptural designs.

“'Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art' will celebrate one of the most ingenious and daring designers in fashion history," museum director Tristram Hunt said Wednesday.

Highlights among the 400 objects on show include Dalí’s famous Lobster Telephone, from 1938, displayed along with the “Lobster Dress," a white silk gown embellished with a red lobster that Schiaparelli created with the surrealist artist. The dress was famously worn by Wallis Simpson, the American socialite whom King Edward VIII abdicated to marry.

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A visitor takes a picture of a gown worn by Ariana Grande at the 2025 Oscars, during the press preview for Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art exhibition at the V&A museum in London, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

YouTube star KSI to give little-known Dagenham a global stage by streaming match on his channel

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YouTube star KSI to give little-known Dagenham a global stage by streaming match on his channel

Steve Douglas, The Associated Press 3 minute read 10:56 AM CDT

Dagenham & Redbridge rarely gets more than 2,000 fans attending its home matches in English soccer's sixth tier.

On Saturday, there will be eyeballs from all around the world on the little-known team.

Three weeks after becoming a minority shareholder of the east London club, social media star KSI will begin his quest to get Dagenham some global recognition by streaming its match to his 17.6 million subscribers on YouTube.

Dagenham hosts Hampton & Richmond in National League South, and it will mark the first time a match at that level will be broadcast live on YouTube. The initiative has been backed by both the National League and broadcaster DAZN, which shows selected games from the English sixth tier.

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FILE - Youtuber KSI arrives at the WellChild Awards ceremony in London, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Celine Dion set to perform in Paris two years after triumphant Olympics appearance

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Celine Dion set to perform in Paris two years after triumphant Olympics appearance

John Leicester And Jocelyn Noveck, The Associated Press 2 minute read 9:53 AM CDT

PARIS (AP) — Near, far, wherever she is … Celine Dion is heading back to Paris.

Confirming clues that have been popping up, tantalizingly, on posters around the French capital, a person involved in the planning told The Associated Press that Dion will play autumn concerts at the La Defense Arena.

The person spoke on condition anonymity to discuss the closely guarded preparations, and did not give details.

Representatives for Dion in the United States did not immediately respond to questions.

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FILE - Singer Celine Dion poses for a portrait on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Jason Benetti steps into the spotlight as NBC’s lead voice for ‘Sunday Night Baseball’

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Jason Benetti steps into the spotlight as NBC’s lead voice for ‘Sunday Night Baseball’

Joe Reedy, The Associated Press 6 minute read Updated: 9:33 AM CDT

When NBC Sports executive producer Sam Flood learned in November that his network would be back doing baseball, he immediately knew who he wanted as his play-by-play voice and the format for it.

Viewers will get their first look and listen on Thursday when NBC has an opening day doubleheader.

The prime time game between the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks will be Jason Benetti’s debut as the network’s lead baseball announcer.

Benetti will be the voice of “Sunday Night Baseball,” which moves to NBC and Peacock after 26 seasons on ESPN. He handled play-by-play for the “MLB Sunday Leadoff” package on Peacock in 2022 after calling baseball for NBC during the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

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Updated: 9:33 AM CDT

FILE -Bill Walton does commentary on NBC Sports Chicago for the Chicago White Sox's baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels on Aug. 16, 2019, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Joe Reedy, File)

N.S. legislature closed to the public after singing protesters delay budget vote

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N.S. legislature closed to the public after singing protesters delay budget vote

Lyndsay Armstrong, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Updated: 3:39 PM CDT

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia legislature has been closed to the public after singing protesters disrupted a budget vote Tuesday night.

Saf Haq says she and about 40 others broke into song before midnight Tuesday when the legislature moved to vote on a budget-related bill that would result in a series of cuts to government programs, delaying the vote.

Instead, it was voted on Wednesday afternoon, without members of the public in the gallery. The Progressive Conservatives used their dominant majority to pass the appropriations act, which authorizes government spending included in the new budget.

Haq said she protested Tuesday because the cuts approved in this budget will hurt vulnerable Nova Scotians and the province's vibrant arts and culture scene.

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Updated: 3:39 PM CDT

March 25, 2026

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