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NEW YORK — After hosting the Oscars nine times, Billy Crystal wouldn’t necessarily rule out a tenth. But the 72-year-old actor would prefer some wider attention for his low-budget indie film, “Standing Up, Falling Down.

NASHVILLE — Hall of Fame songwriter Jim Weatherly, who wrote “Midnight Train to Georgia" and other hits for Gladys Knight, Glen Campbell and Ray Price, has died. He was 77.

NASHVILLE — A new museum two decades in the making is telling the interconnected story of Black musical genres through the lens of American history.

WASHINGTON — Two weeks after Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first woman to be vice-president , her barrier-breaking career has been memorialized in a portrait that depicts her face emerging from the cracks in a massive sheet of glass.

NEW YORK — Hall of Fame coach and NFL analyst Bill Cowher has a book coming out in June that his publisher is calling “more than just a football story.

BELGRADE, Serbia — A #MeToo-like movement is sweeping the strongly patriarchal Western Balkans and activists hope there will be no turning back. It started with a chilling account of alleged rape and abuse at a high-end acting school in Serbia.

TORONTO — A bunk bed, a play tent and moving blankets helped Sarah Chalke deliver the final dialogue for her new Netflix series "Firefly Lane.

NEW YORK — This year's winners of the Carnegie medals for fiction and nonfiction, presented by the American Library Association, have each checked out a few books in their time.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas — A grand jury has indicted an 18-year-old on a capital murder charge in the killing of actor Eddie Hassell during a carjacking in suburban Dallas.

LONDON — The long forgotten sea shanty has been enjoying a renaissance on social media and is now moving into popular music with two U.K. artists landing record deals, following their online performances.