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"For Toast, the cat, who was no help at all," reads the dedication page of researcher Jonathan Saha's book, Colonizing Animals. A picture of the page went viral on Twitter.

The Scottish actor played gentle half-giant Hagrid, a mentor to the boy wizard, in all eight Harry Potter films, released between 2001 and 2011. Coltrane died Friday at a hospital in Scotland.

AMC Entertainment plans to roll out new ticket prices based on where you sit in the movie theater. Some consumers aren't happy about it.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the life Joseph Kromelis, Chicago's famous "Walking Man", and the harsh conditions that many unhoused people live with every day.

Brazilian pop star Gal Costa died Thursday at age 77. She was one of the key figures in the Tropicalia movement of the 1960s.

Nowruz, commonly known as the Persian New Year, symbolizes revival and renewal for its more than 300 million celebrants in modern-day Iran and beyond.

The golden retriever, part of a Swedish rescue team, helped find 18 people alive under the rubble in Turkey earlier this year. He searched this week for the last missing person in a Moroccan village.

William Christenberry grew up in Hale County, Ala. For more than 40 years, he has returned there each summer, revisiting the same locations to document the passage of time.

Some of the cost variations from a UnitedHealthcare database are startling. For treating a basic asthma episode, cases in the 10th percentile of distribution cost $98 each while those in the 90th percentile the cost was $1,535 per case.

President Biden marked the 155th anniversary of Memorial Day with remarks at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.