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In a statement on Monday, Ye apologized for a history of “impulsive” behavior, including using antisemitic imagery and describing himself as a Nazi.

Dear Annie: My best friend and I have been close since college. He is the person who helped me move into my first apartment, who showed up with coffee during finals, who still remembers the name of my childhood dog. That is why it hurts so much to watch him repeat the same pattern that already cost him almost everything.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am getting married in a traditional church ceremony. My father, who will be giving me away, has refused to wear a tuxedo because it is a “monkey suit,” even though all of the other men in the wedding party will be wearing one.

Dean Koontz’s new novel, “The Friend of the Family,” takes the best-selling author in a new direction as the master of suspense tries his hand at historical fiction for the first time, with a tinge of magical realism.

After years of sobriety, Natasha Lyonne is opening up about a recent relapse.

Spokane Public Library has rolled out a new collaboration with local artists to create custom library-inspired designs for a whole line of fun goods, including T-shirts, mugs, tote bags, stickers, bookmarks and limited edition library cards.

As a child growing up in north Seattle, “Snow Falling on Cedars” author David Guterson was keeping score on a chalkboard for his brother’s junior high basketball game. When another child, Ani Sakya, disagreed with the score, Guterson made an insult about the kid’s mom. Sakya threw Guterson on the ground, and Guterson’s arm broke in the fall.

Chuck Klosterman’s “Football” is a strange book – an impassioned collection of essays about the game that would make an awkward gift for the fan in your family. Though its release is timed to the height of the NFL postseason, Klosterman often seems inclined to put you off watching the sport. He muses at length about classic players and statistics, only to lament the dead-endedness of the debates they inspire. He broods on the sport’s structural absurdities and moral questionability. He predicts its eventual decline and death. As he puts it in the introduction, “I love football, but I don’t want to take it to the prom.”

LOS ANGELES — Francis Buchholz, the former bassist for the German hard rock band Scorpions who performed at the height of the band's global stardom, has died. He was 71.

Cloud Dancer offers broad buyer appeal, it photographs beautifully, feels move-in ready and allows buyers to easily imagine their own furnishings. Additionally, the color is a soothing, universal neutral that helps to provide a space with a sense of calm and serenity.

AKTAU, Kazakhstan – The Toyota 4x4 bounced across a roadless, barren plain. Behind, a cloud of pale dust shimmered in the sun. Ahead, a formation of bleached rocks shot skyward.

Clutter, it may surprise you to learn, isn’t a monolith. There are all different kinds: visual clutter, digital clutter, easy-to-part-with clutter. Distinct types of clutter call for different approaches to controlling them, and one of the trickiest sorts to contend with is what’s known as aspirational clutter, those things we hold on to because they represent the version of ourselves we would like to be, even if we aren’t quite there yet.

Dear Doctors: My wife started getting sick a few days before Halloween. It stayed in her nose and throat. That’s a common cold, right? Why is having a cold so different from when you get the flu?

Editor’s note: Annie is away. This was originally published in 2023.

LOS ANGELES — Harry Styles has been a busy guy the last few years. Now there’s a new tour, album and single, “Aperture,” to show for it. Important to his process? Widening his friend circle and going out dancing. The writing process “came at a time when I was starting to, like, go out dancing a lot more,” Styles told BBC Radio 1 on Thursday. “Also, I was just hearing a lot of different types ...

After nearly 12 years with the band, Ronnie Platt still finds himself awestruck night after night performing with Kansas.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: What degree of formality is proper for a musician at an afternoon concert?