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Harris says leaving reelection decision to Biden was ‘recklessness,’ but defends his abilities

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Kamala Harris says it was “recklessness” for Democrats to leave it to President Joe Biden to decide whether to continue seeking another term last year, but she defends his ability to do the job, according an excerpt of her new book. Harris, in an excerpt of “107 Days” published Wednesday in The Atlantic, writes that as questions swirled about whether the then-81-year-old Biden should seek reelection, she and others left the decision to him and first lady Jill Biden. “Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it ...

Fears of escalation: NATO shooting down Russian drones in Poland

WOHYN, Poland (AP) — Multiple Russian drones crossed into Poland in what European officials described Wednesday as an deliberate provocation, causing NATO to send fighter jets to shoot them down. A NATO spokesman said it was the first time the alliance confronted a potential threat in its ...

Christoph von Dohnanyi, who led Cleveland Orchestra until 2002, dies at 95

CLEVELAND (AP) — Christoph von Dohnanyi, a conductor acclaimed for performances as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1984 to 2002, has died at age 95. Dohnanyi died in Munich on Saturday, the Cleveland Orchestra said in a statement Monday. “A grand seigneur among the great international conductors to whom the Salzburg Festival owes its world reputation,” Salzburg Festival artistic director Markus Hinterhauser said in statement. Dohnanyi was most known for his time in Cleveland, helping burnish an orchestra led by George Szell from 1946 to 1970 and Lorin Maazel ...

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s National Gallery announced Tuesday that it will use a whopping 375 million pounds ($510 million) in donations to open a new wing that, for the first time, will include modern art. Founded in 1824, the gallery has amassed a centuries-spanning collection of Western paintings by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to J.M.W Turner and Vincent van Gogh — but almost nothing created after the year 1900. The modern era has been left to other galleries, including London’s Tate Modern. That will change when the gallery opens a new wing to be constructed on land ...

Oprah Winfrey selects Elizabeth Gilbert’s new memoir for her book club

NEW YORK (AP) — Elizabeth Gilbert’s “All the Way to the River,” a memoir that has already stirred up an online conversation, is Oprah Winfrey’s new book club pick. In Gilbert’s book, published this week, the author writes of a consuming love affair with the self-destructive and ...