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Autumnal Attitudes and Platitudes   Fantasy On the Road To Kagandahan Loob Twas Marahuyo Muffet’s day off from schoolShe on the road looking for a big toad stoolA journey she had begun under a cloudy sunShe avoided a large confederacy of duncesWho in turn were all surrounded by foolsWith and withou…

MARIANAS Variety editor Zaldy Dandan’s fourth book, “If He Isn’t Insane Then He Should Be: Stories & Poems from Saipan,” is available at the Joeten Shopping Center in Susupe.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — This weekend’s box office belonged to two undeniable draws: Taylor Swift and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

NEW YORK (AP) — Bad Bunny kicked off the 51st season of “Saturday Night Live” with a few timely jokes about his next high-profile gig: the Super Bowl.

Autumnal Attitudes and Platitudes   Fantasy On the Road To Kagandahan Loob Twas Marahuyo Muffet’s day off from schoolShe on the road looking for a big toad stoolA journey she had begun under a cloudy sunShe avoided a large confederacy of duncesWho in turn were all surrounded by foolsWith and withou…

MARIANAS Variety editor Zaldy Dandan’s fourth book, “If He Isn’t Insane Then He Should Be: Stories & Poems from Saipan,” is available at the Joeten Shopping Center in Susupe.

LONDON (AP) — When novelists look to the future, the view is often grim. There are a lot more fictional dystopias than utopias.

(AP) — Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs are planning to appeal after the Grammy-winning artist and music executive was sentenced Friday to more than four years in prison for transporting people across state lines for sexual encounters. The case shattered his carefully cultivated reputation as an af…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in prison over his conviction on prostitution-related charges, with the judge rebuking the hip-hop mogul for subjecting two former girlfriends to years of abuse.

(AP) — Filmmaker Raoul Peck uses George Orwell’s writings to weave together a biographical portrait of the author and a dispiriting picture of power and truth in the modern world in “Orwell: 2+2=5.”