CANADA
<strong>Leonard Cohen catalog sold</strong>
British song management firm Hipgnosis on Sunday said it has acquired the entire catalog of Canadian singer-poet Leonard Cohen. The London-based company said it had acquired rights to “all 278 songs and derivatives” written by Cohen, including Hallelujah, which Hipgnosis said had been covered more than 300 times and “streamed more than 5 billion times.” It did not say what it had paid the heirs of the Montreal songwriter, who died at age 82 in 2016.
UNITED STATES
<strong>Migrants land in Florida</strong>
A wooden boat carrying about 300 Haitian migrants on Sunday ran aground near a Florida Keys private club,