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NEW YORK (AP) — A posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Hisham Matar's novel “My Friends” and a poetry collection by Anne Carson were among the winners Thursday night of the 50th annual National Book Critics Circle awards.

NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Blake Lively asked a judge on Thursday to dismiss a countersuit filed against her by her “It Ends With Us” costar Justin Baldoni, calling his claims “vengeful and rambling” after she sued for sexual harassment and retaliation.

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Mariah Carey did not steal her perennial megahit “All I Want for Christmas Is You" from other songwriters.

TORONTO — The Juno Awards are dropping into Hamilton next year. Organizers at the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences say they've selected the Ontario city as host for its 2026 awards show and associated music events.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The largely private relationship between Quinta Brunson and her husband of three years is over. Brunson, the star and creator of the hit ABC series “Abbott Elementary,” filed to divorce Kevin Anik on Wednesday.

TORONTO — Elton John will receive the 15th Glenn Gould Prize, a $100,000 award for an artist whose work has "enriched the human condition.

TORONTO — Canadian pop duo Tegan and Sara, Arkells frontman Max Kerman and pop-punk singer Fefe Dobson are set to speak at Toronto’s Departure Festival and Conference.

“Coco” is getting a sequel. Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger said Thursday that “Coco 2” is currently in development at Pixar Animation Studios.

Behind the red carpet movie premieres and new thrill-inducing rides for fans of its amusement parks, there is a quiet search underway to find the successor to Bob Iger, the face of Disney for most of the past two decades.

TORONTO — Ma-Nee Chacaby's memoir "A Two-Spirit Journey," which she wrote with Mary Louisa Plummer, has won this year's edition of Canada Reads.