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As the British royal wedding approaches, Elaine Fantham, professor emerita of classics at Princeton University, recalls history's first famous Camilla. She was a warrior leader who became an attendant to the goddess Diana in Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid.

Scores of buildings, paintings and sculptures throughout Italy are deteriorating, as state funds to preserve them lag. A nonprofit foundation is trying to shock Italians into taking responsibility for their unique art heritage.

Swamped by thousands of calls a day, contact tracing programs have been forced to adapt. Even though they can't call everyone, experts say it's too early to give up on this pillar of disease control.

California Republicans thought their state would finally be relevant in a GOP presidential primary for the first time in more than 50 years. But now that Donald Trump is the party's de facto nominee, the fun is over for the California GOP.

Although she has released five albums since 1999, singer-songwriter Laura Veirs remains largely unknown in the United States. Critic Tom Moon believes her new CD, Year of Meteors, will change that.

Critic Bob Mondello reviews the new movie Shopgirl, starring Steve Martin and Claire Danes. Martin wrote the novella on which the film is based. And despite Martin's reputation for zaniness, Shopgirl turns out to be a low-key romance for grown-ups.

Nobel laureate Harold Pinter is noted for his use of "silence" as a playwright. Long, tense pauses between his characters became a technique and a trademark of his plays, often making audiences squirm and wonder what people do not -- and perhaps cannot -- say to one another. We revisit one of Pinter's most well-known plays, Betrayal.

Cities will soon spend billions upgrading their water systems with federal infrastructure funds. But many don't have information about how to prepare the systems for climate change.

French President Emanuel Macron has taken center stage in the ongoing Ukraine crisis, insisting on the centrality of Europe to diplomacy.

British playwright Harold Pinter, who juxtaposed the brutal and the banal in such works as The Caretaker and The Birthday Party and made an art form out of spare language and unbearable silence, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday.