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Mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili sued the Metropolitan Opera and her union, alleging the company unlawfully terminated her contracts because of a vocal issue that developed after she gave birth.

LAKE BUTLER, Fla. (AP) — Jay North, who starred as the towheaded mischief maker on TV's “Dennis the Menace” for four seasons starting in 1959, has died. He was 73.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shortly before he was forced to resign , the nation’s top vaccine regulator says he refused to grant Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

TORONTO — Canadian Stage’s upcoming season includes a return of Robert Lepage, the Canadian premiere of the controversial “Slave Play,” and a reinvigorated “A Doll’s House” that took Broadway by storm.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The sex abuse trial of former “Dances with Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse in Nevada has again been postponed. A judge on Monday moved the start of the trial in state court in Las Vegas to Aug. 4.

NEW YORK (AP) — Garth Greenwell's “Small Rain,” in which a poet falls ill and confronts mortality, the meaning of art and the failures of health care, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction on Monday.

TORONTO — The Canadian government has warned would-be travellers they may face more scrutiny at the United States border — including the search of electronic devices.

TORONTO — University Health Network in Toronto is aiming to attract 100 early-career scientists, focusing on people whose research could fuel economic development.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Mega Millions players will get slightly better odds and should start seeing more billion-dollar jackpots , but at a cost — literally — with tickets for the multistate lottery jumping in price to $5.

NEW YORK (AP) — Comic Amber Ruffin has a new spring gig. PEN America told The Associated Press on Monday that Ruffin will host the free expression organization's gala fundraiser on May 15.