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Nicholas Alexander Chavez plays Lyle Menendez and a priest on TV. He's hungry for what's next.

Nicholas Alexander Chavez plays Lyle Menendez and a priest on TV. He's hungry for what's next.

Nicholas Alexander Chavez has had a “very surreal” few weeks promoting and premiering his first roles in prime time, in a pair of shows debuting within one week of each other.
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Cissy Houston, a Grammy-winning gospel singer and Whitney Houston's mother, dies at 91

Cissy Houston, a Grammy-winning gospel singer and Whitney Houston's mother, dies at 91

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cissy Houston, a two-time Grammy-winning soul and gospel artist who sang with Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley and other stars and knew triumph and heartbreak as the mother of Whitney Houston, has died. She was 91.
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Lore Segal, esteemed Austrian American writer who fled the Nazis as a child, dies at 96

Lore Segal, esteemed Austrian American writer who fled the Nazis as a child, dies at 96

NEW YORK (AP) — Lore Segal, an esteemed Viennese American author and translator whose gift for words helped her family escape from the Nazis and who later drew upon her experiences as a Jewish refugee and immigrant for such fiction as “Other People's
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New charges filed against Chasing Horse just as sprawling sex abuse indictment was dismissed

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Prosecutors in Las Vegas have filed a new case against Nathan Chasing Horse that accuses the former “Dances With Wolves” actor of possessing and producing explicit videos of a minor.
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Federal judge orders Google to open its Android app store to competition

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ordered Google to tear down the digital walls shielding its Android app store from competition as punishment for maintaining an illegal monopoly that helped expand the company's internet empire.
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Movie armorer on Alec Baldwin's film 'Rust' pleads guilty to gun charge in separate case

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The weapons supervisor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust" pleaded guilty Monday to a separate criminal charge of carrying a gun into a licensed liquor establishment.
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Lore Segal, esteemed Austrian American writer who fled the Nazis as a child, dies at 96

NEW YORK (AP) — Lore Segal, an esteemed Viennese American author and translator whose gift for words helped her family escape from the Nazis and who later drew upon her experiences as a Jewish refugee and immigrant for such fiction as “Other People's
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Federal judge orders Google to open its Android app store to competition

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ordered Google to tear down the digital walls shielding its Android app store from competition as a punishment for maintaining an illegal monopoly that helped expand the company's internet empire.
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Ticketmaster changes Taylor Swift ticket transfer rules amid recent cyber thefts

Ticketmaster changes Taylor Swift ticket transfer rules amid recent cyber thefts

TORONTO — Ticketmaster is enforcing new rules around how fans transfer Taylor Swift tickets amid a surge in reported scams.
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Supreme Court rejects appeal from ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli

Supreme Court rejects appeal from ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Martin Shkreli, who was once dubbed “Pharma Bro” after jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug. Shkreli appealed an order to return $64.
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