ARTICLES BY AP NATIONAL WRITER

'Jurassic Park' to 'Apocalypse Now': USOPC faces steep climb

DENVER (AP) — Even before the coronavirus pandemic wiped the Summer Olympics off the 2020 sports calendar, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee was an organization in peril.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

American poet Louise Glück wins Nobel Prize in Literature

NEW YORK (AP) — Louise Glück, an American poet long revered for the power, inventiveness and concision of her work and for her generosity to younger writers, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

How Eddie Van Halen transformed Michael Jackson's 'Beat It'

NEW YORK (AP) — Before Eddie Van Halen agreed to add a guitar break to Michael Jackson's “Beat It,” one of the most famous cameos in rock history, he had to be sure the phone call from producer Quincy Jones wasn't a practical joke.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Johnny Nash, singer of ‘I Can See Clearly Now,’ dies at 80

Johnny Nash, a singer-songwriter, actor and producer who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to the creator and performer of the million-selling anthem “I Can See Clearly Now,” died Tuesday, his son said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Novelist Lydia Millet among National Book Award finalists

NEW YORK (AP) — Stories of race, class and climate change were among the fiction finalists Tuesday for the 71st annual National Book Awards.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

'Jurassic Park' to 'Apocalypse Now': USOPC faces steep climb

DENVER (AP) — Even before the coronavirus pandemic wiped the Summer Olympics off the 2020 sports calendar, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee was an organization in peril.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

'Jurassic Park' to 'Apocalypse Now': USOPC faces steep climb

DENVER (AP) — Even before the coronavirus pandemic wiped the Summer Olympics off the 2020 sports calendar, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee was an organization in peril.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

American poet Louise Glück wins Nobel Prize in Literature

NEW YORK (AP) — Louise Glück, an American poet long revered for the power, inventiveness and concision of her work and for her generosity to younger writers, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

How Eddie Van Halen transformed Michael Jackson's 'Beat It'

NEW YORK (AP) — Before Eddie Van Halen agreed to add a guitar break to Michael Jackson's “Beat It,” one of the most famous cameos in rock history, he had to be sure the phone call from producer Quincy Jones wasn't a practical joke.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Johnny Nash, singer of ‘I Can See Clearly Now,’ dies at 80

Johnny Nash, a singer-songwriter, actor and producer who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to the creator and performer of the million-selling anthem “I Can See Clearly Now,” died Tuesday, his son said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Novelist Lydia Millet among National Book Award finalists

NEW YORK (AP) — Stories of race, class and climate change were among the fiction finalists Tuesday for the 71st annual National Book Awards.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Obscure works by Chandler, Christie published this week

NEW YORK (AP) — Two of crime fiction's most famous storytellers, Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie, also knew how to get a laugh.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

How Eddie Van Halen transformed Michael Jackson's 'Beat It'

NEW YORK (AP) — Before Eddie Van Halen agreed to add a guitar break to Michael Jackson's “Beat It,” one of the most famous cameos in rock history, he had to be sure the phone call from producer Quincy Jones wasn't a practical joke.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Johnny Nash, singer of ‘I Can See Clearly Now,’ dies at 80

Johnny Nash, a singer-songwriter, actor and producer who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to the creator and performer of the million-selling anthem “I Can See Clearly Now,” died Tuesday, his son said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Novelist Lydia Millet among National Book Award finalists

NEW YORK (AP) — Stories of race, class and climate change were among the fiction finalists Tuesday for the 71st annual National Book Awards.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

More stories