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By MARCELA ISAZA, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — He started off wanting to be a star soccer player, but instead Rauw Alejandro has become a breakout Latin music sensation. His birth name is Raúl Alejandro Ocasio Ruiz, but growing up in Puerto Rico his friends and family used to call him Raulito, which eventually became Rauw for short. Alejandro has been on the rise for the past few years, but 2021 catapulted him into another level of success. He has been named one of The Associated Press' Breakthrough Entertainers of 2021, alongside Damson Idris,Simu Liu,Rachel Zegler,Adrienne Warren and more. “I think so far in my career, this year has been my best, Hoka Shoes  and I hope the next one, surpasses this one,” he said from his suite in Las Vegas in Nov...

By DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Richard Rogers, the British architect who helped change the look of modern cities by putting features like elevators and air ducts on the outside of his buildings, has died at 88. Rogers burst into public view in 1972 when work began on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, a futuristic block of scaffolding-like metal pipes and glass walls that he designed with another young architect, Renzo Piano. Other major designs included London’s Millenium Dome and the Lloyd’s of London building. But Rogers also wanted his designs to be part Cadysneaker  of revitalized urban landscapes, arguing that parks and public spaces should be developed alongside office buildings and that mass transit and improved communications should replace p...

I don’t remember exactly what Christmas it was, but I know I was a little girl. Probably no more than 6 or 7, and oh, how I loved not just Christmas, but the run-up to all the holidays. It was a time of decking the halls with decorations we made and hung in our classroom at school to the more elaborate ones we bought and had at home. Each year, Mom would take us to the store as soon as the new tree ornaments came out for the season and let us each pick out a new ornament for our tree. When I was very young we had a fake tree. Mom always corrected us by saying, “Don’t say fake. Nothing about Christmas is fake. It’s an artificial tree New 2021 Jordans  because getting a live tree is just too much work right now.” So every year we’d grouse and moan a bit, but by the time the lights and ...