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Women filmmakers have record showing at Berlin Film Festival
Louise Dixon, Associated Press | Posted Feb 16th - 8:18am
The voice of the female filmmaker was louder than ever at this year's Berlin Film Festival, with seven out of the 17 films in the competition section helmed by women, and female directors from all corners of the globe featured prominently at the festival.

London Fashion Week: Jasper Conran goes for monastic chic
Sylvia Hui and Gregory Katz, Associated Press | Posted Feb 16th - 7:38am
London Fashion Week is picking up pace with Alexa Chung, Jasper Conran and other designers offering catwalk shows Saturday, to be followed by the House of Holland and Simone Rocha.

Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, star of 'Downfall,' dies at 77
The Associated Press | Posted Feb 16th - 7:30am
Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who played Adolf Hitler cooped up in his Berlin bunker in "Downfall" and an angel in Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire," has died. He was 77.
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
The Associated Press | Posted Feb 16th - 7:05am
Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
The Associated Press | Posted Feb 15th - 5:03pm
Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:

The Latest: 21 Savage surrenders on outstanding warrant
The Associated Press | Posted Feb 15th - 4:54pm
The Latest on saga involving Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage (all times local):
All Academy Awards categories will air live on Oscars telecast, reversing plan to give 4 honors during commercials
The Associated Press | Posted Feb 15th - 4:13pm
All Academy Awards categories will air live on Oscars telecast, reversing plan to give 4 honors during commercials.
Chicago police spokesman: 2 suspects arrested in reported hate crime against black actor Jussie Smollett are also black
The Associated Press | Posted Feb 15th - 1:02pm
Chicago police spokesman: 2 suspects arrested in reported hate crime against black actor Jussie Smollett are also black.

Ex-FBI official recounts discussion about 25th Amendment
Eric Tucker, Associated Press | Posted Feb 15th - 12:25pm
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said in an interview posted Friday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein broached the idea of using the Constitution to oust President Donald Trump, saying the Justice Department official "discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort."

APNewsBreak: Allred contacted authorities about R Kelly tape
Michael Tarm, Associated Press | Posted Feb 15th - 11:44am
Attorney Gloria Allred tells The Associated Press she has contacted law enforcement about concerns one of her clients may be the person in a VHS tape recently given to Chicago prosecutors that purportedly shows R&B star R. Kelly having sex with an underage girl.

Tichina Arnold finds a new sitcom home in 'The Neighborhood'
Lynn Elber, Associated Press | Posted Feb 15th - 9:58am
Tichina Arnold knew as a tot she was meant to perform.

Outtakes: Regina King on white lies, directing and '227'
Mesfin Fekadu, Associated Press | Posted Feb 15th - 9:04am
Regina King — who is nominated for her first-ever Academy Award for her work in "If Beale Street Could Talk" — discusses sitting in the director's chair and following up on the promise she made to female filmmakers during her Golden Globes speech in outtakes from a recent interview with The Associated Press. Read the interview here .

The Latest: 2 questioned in Smollett attack now suspects
The Associated Press | Posted Feb 15th - 8:54am
The Latest on the attack on 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett (all times local):

Main suspect in Sweden's royal jewels heist confesses
The Associated Press | Posted Feb 15th - 8:15am
The main suspect in the theft of royal funeral artifacts from a Swedish cathedral confessed Friday to stealing them after his DNA was found on the items that were pulled out last week from a garbage bin north of Stockholm.

Regina is already a King, but what about president?
Mesfin Fekadu, Associated Press | Posted Feb 15th - 8:05am
So, Regina King walked into a 99-cent store. And what'd she get? A prophecy on her life.
Chicago police, Fox dispute reports about Smollett attack
Don Babwin, Associated Press | Posted Feb 15th - 7:39am
Chicago police says local media reports that allege the attack against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett was a hoax are unconfirmed.

21 Savage 'wasn't hiding' being British, feared deportation
The Associated Press | Posted Feb 15th - 7:22am
The Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage said in an interview aired Friday that he didn't talk about his British citizenship before because he didn't want to get deported.

'Small Island' author Andrea Levy dies of cancer aged 62
Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless, Associated Press | Posted Feb 15th - 4:44am
Andrea Levy, a prize-winning novelist who chronicled the hopes and horrors experienced by the post-World War II generation of Jamaican immigrants in Britain, has died. She was 62, and had suffered from cancer.

It's a girl! Berlin zoo's baby polar bear has 1st checkup
The Associated Press | Posted Feb 15th - 2:40am
Berlin's Tierpark zoo says its latest baby polar bear is "a perky, strong girl."
