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• Rihanna smiled under her mask as she heard her name called in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday, but hesitated before she stood up. Before her, top Barbadian government officials encouraged her to join them at a crucial moment in her nation's history. "You can come, my dear," Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley told the multi-Grammy winner. The 33-year-old Rihanna had just been declared a national hero by the Barbadian government and bestowed with a title, "the right excellent," as the island bade farewell to Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and celebrated becoming ...

NEW YORK — Author Alice Sebold apologized Tuesday to the man who was exonerated last week in the 1981 rape that was the basis for her memoir “Lucky" and said

Author said she is struggling with the role she played “within a system that sent an innocent man to jail.”

“I am sorry most of all for the fact that the life you could have led was unjustly robbed from you, and I know that no apology can change what happened to you and never will,” she wrote.

Anthony Broadwater, 61, was convicted in 1982 of raping Sebold when she was a student at Syracuse University.