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Tina Fey expecting her second child

NEW YORK

Tina Fey is expecting her second child.

Her publicist confirms that the “30 Rock” star announced while taping an appearance of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” on Wednesday. Fey is about five months pregnant. Her “Oprah” appearance is scheduled to air next week.

Fey and her husband, composer Jeff Richmond, are also parents of a 5-year-old daughter, Alice.

The 40-year-old actress-writer is promoting a new memoir, “Bossypants.”

Burns says funds are key to his work

WASHINGTON

Ken Burns has a slew of documentary projects planned for the next six years, and he says they depend on funds from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Funding for the humanities and for public broadcasting has been targeted for deep cuts in Congress.

Burns says more than a third of his budgets come from those sources. A $1.3 million grant helped him make “The Civil War” series, and that money was quickly repaid through sales of his work.

He planned to tell Congress that cuts would devastate film producers. But a hearing Wednesday was canceled amid stalled budget talks.

2 arraigned in death of DJ Megatron

NEW YORK

Two New York City men have been charged with murder in the shooting death of radio and TV personality DJ Megatron. Twenty-one-year-old William Williams and 20-year-old Richard Cromwell appeared in court Thursday. They were arrested Wednesday on charges of murder, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon. Their lawyers say they are not guilty.

Police say the 32-year-old disc jockey was shot once in the chest while walking to a store near his home on New York’s Staten Island last month. His real name was Corey McGriff. DJ Megatron worked on BET’s “106 & Park” music-countdown series.

Associated Press