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Actor Robbie Coltrane died on Friday at the age of 72. Fans and cast members from the Harry Potter series shared remembrances of Coltrane's portrayal of the lovable half-giant Rubeus Hagrid.

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Harry Potter fans and cast remember how Robbie Coltrane brought Hagrid to life

9:27am October 15, 2022

by Wynne Davis

Following the death of Robbie Coltrane on Friday, his colleagues and fans shared remembrances of his larger-than-life character Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series.

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'Wait Wait' for Oct. 15, 2022: Fall Festival edition!

9:23am October 15, 2022

Fall is here, and that can only mean one thing: Bill is spending the week jumping into freshly raked piles of leaves. While he does that, you get to enjoy some never-before-heard clips from our show!

The company of this production of 1776 is multi-racial and trans, female and nonbinary.

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In the Broadway musical '1776,' the revolution is in the casting

7:58am October 15, 2022

by Jeff Lunden

This production uses a cast of multi-racial actors who are female, nonbinary and trans — people who weren't even considered in the Declaration of Independence.

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The newest national monument was once a winter combat training site for World War II soldiers

7:47am October 15, 2022

by Leigh Paterson

President Biden dedicated a new national monument in Colorado this week, Camp Hale, a World War II winter combat training site. Ski troopers fought in Italy and several came home to start ski resorts.

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I Love You, You Hate Me examines what makes people (men especially) so hostile to a children's dinosaur. But it's spoiled by sensational side trips and settles on the idea that haters just need a hug. Above, Barney and Pia Hamilton as Min.

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Adults loved to hate Barney, but why? A new doc tries and fails to explain

7:00am October 15, 2022

by Linda Holmes

I Love You, You Hate Me examines what makes people (men especially) so hostile to a children's dinosaur. But it's spoiled by sensational side trips and settles on the idea that haters just need a hug.

Pablo Neruda, then serving as Chile's ambassador to France, talks with reporters in Paris after being named winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature.

He's known as Chile's greatest poet, but feminists say Pablo Neruda is canceled

6:02am October 15, 2022

by John Otis

"He's been canceled," a Chilean activist says of 20th century poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. Five decades after his death, feminists are denouncing him as a male chauvinist and sexual predator.

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People look at a large mosaic that dates back to the Roman era in the town of Rastan, Syria, on Wednesday.

A rare Roman-era mosaic is uncovered during the excavation of an old building in Syria

6:00am October 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

Syria uncovered a large intact mosaic that dates back to the Roman era, with officials describing it as the most important archaeological discovery since the country's conflict began 11 years ago.

Former film producer Harvey Weinstein, left, interacts with his attorney Mark Werksman in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on Oct. 4 2022.

Mel Gibson can testify at Harvey Weinstein sexual assault trial, judge says

2:54am October 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

The actor and director can testify about what he learned from one of Harvey Weinstein's accusers, a judge ruled Friday in the rape and sexual assault trial of the former movie mogul.

Jalyn Hall plays Emmett Till and Danielle Deadwyler is his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, in Till.

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Emmett Till is known for his death. A new film about his mother also honors his life

5:05pm October 14, 2022

by Justin Chang

In 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy was lynched in Mississippi. Till tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley, whose insistence on an open-casket funeral helped ignite the civil rights movement.

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Robbie Coltrane arrives in London for the world premiere of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 on July 7, 2011. Coltrane, who played Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies, has died at age 72.

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Actor Robbie Coltrane, who played Harry Potter's Hagrid, dies at age 72

4:50pm October 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

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.