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NEW YORK (AP) -- Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who represented Donald Trump during his 2024 criminal trial, has been appointed acting librarian of Congress, the Justice Department said Monday. Blanche replaces longtime librarian Carla Hayden, whom the White House fired last week amid criticism from conservatives that she was advancing a "woke" agenda.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who represented Donald Trump during his 2024 criminal trial, has been appointed acting Librarian of Congress, the Justice Department said Monday.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Outgoing U.S. poet laureate Ada Limon and her two immediate predecessors, Joy Harjo and Tracy K. Smith, are condemning President Donald Trump's firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who had appointed each of them to their positions.
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump's proposed budget calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, which provides hundreds of millions of dollars each year to individuals and institutions around the country.
NEW YORK (AP) -- When Random House Publisher Andrew Ward met recently with staff editors to discuss potential book projects, conversation inevitably turned to current events and the Trump administration.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The American Revolution began 250 years ago, in a blast of gunshot and a trail of colonial spin.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Sen. Joe Manchin has a memoir coming out in September, what the self-styled maverick from West Virginia calls his "declaration of independence from the extremes on both sides."
An upcoming memoir by retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has a new title and release date. Kennedy's book also will come out as a single publication, not in two volumes, as once planned.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has a book coming out in September that her publisher is billing as an invitation for "readers to see the Supreme Court through the lens of her experience."
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump has named a new acting director for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, one of seven independent government agencies cited in a recent executive order calling for their dismantling "to the maximum extent of the law."
NEW YORK (AP) -- Award-winning singer-musician Rhiannon Giddens has become the latest artist to call off an appearance at the Kennedy Center, which has been in upheaval since President Donald Trump forced out the center's leadership and was elected chair of the board of trustees.
Until a few weeks ago, the biggest news to come out of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., was its annual celebration of notable American artists.
NEW YORK (AP) -- As she anticipates her estranged uncle's return to the White House, Mary Trump isn't expecting any future book to catch on like such first-term tell-alls as Michael Wolff's million-selling "Fire and Fury" or her own blockbuster, "Too Much and Never Enough."
NEW YORK (AP) -- As she anticipates her estranged uncle's return to the White House, Mary Trump isn't expecting any future book to catch on like such first-term tell-alls as Michael Wolff's million-selling "Fire and Fury" or her own blockbuster, "Too Much and Never Enough."
NEW YORK (AP) -- "The Handmaid's Tale" is selling again.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel "Nineteen Seconds," a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting that now tops a list compiled by PEN America of the books most banned in schools.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Less than two weeks before his 100th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter is receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, which has set aside its longstanding rule that the winner accept the honor in person.
NEW YORK (AP) -- As Vice President Kamala Harris begins her fall campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than others in her position who have tried the same.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will have a book out next winter that draws in part upon his own life and religious faith for what he calls a "warning" about antisemitism.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Former President Donald Trump's selection of JD Vance as his running mate has led to a surge in sales for "Hillbilly Elegy," his best-selling memoir that came out in 2016.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Former President Donald Trump's selection of JD Vance as his running mate has led to a surge in sales for "Hillbilly Elegy," his best-selling memoir that came out in 2016.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Former first lady Melania Trump has a memoir coming out this fall, "Melania," billed by her office as "a powerful and inspiring story of a woman who has carved her own path, overcome adversity and defined personal excellence." It's the first memoir by Trump, who has been mostly absent as her husband, former President Donald Trump...
NEW YORK (AP) -- At the heart of J.D. Vance's journey from venture capitalist to vice presidential candidate is a memoir he first thought of in graduate school, "Hillbilly Elegy."
Hillary Clinton's next book is a collection of essays, touching upon everything from marriage to politics to faith, that her publisher is calling her most personal yet.