Purple and gold lights will flicker off the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign beginning Wednesday morning to pay tribute to the nine victims killed Sunday in a helicopter crash in Southern California, including Kobe Bryant and his teenage daughter Gianna, Clark County officials said.
The company that has introduced millions of Barbie dolls to children across generations has unveiled new versions that look more like the children who play with them.
He knew it would be impossible, but in some ways that was the point.
RICHMOND, Va. -- For Virginia Del. Danica Roem, merely voting for the Equal Rights Amendment didn't feel like enough of a statement.
Grand Valley State University suspended a newly hired member of its football coaching staff after he made laudatory remarks about Adolf Hitler during an interview with the Michigan school’s student newspaper, saying, “The way he was able to lead was second-to-none.”
In the fall, country singer Chase Rice had a rare and exciting opportunity: He was scheduled for a performance that would be filmed for an episode of “The Bachelor.” ABC’s long-running reality series, which averages about 6 million viewers per episode, is a coveted promotional platform for m…
MIAMI — Whether the topic is steaks or Speedos, Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid is up for anything.
CIREGLIO, Italy — As Americans mourned NBA legend Kobe Bryant on Monday, fans and friends in Italy remembered a lesser-known chapter in his life when he played in their streets as a boy while his father competed in the local basketball league.
When the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs face off in Super Bowl LIV in Miami on Sunday, billionaire presidential candidates will battle for attention while big brands bearing positive messages hope to bring balance to the divisive political atmosphere.
PLOVDIV, Bulgaria — Stamen Karamfilov bends low over a canvas, adding the finishing touches to a woodland landscape — no mean feat considering the Bulgarian artist is almost totally blind.
He ate, played and learned like any other kid. But David Vetter’s life unfolded in a series of unusual environments: plastic, bubblelike enclosures that protected him from germs. He had severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), and even a seemingly harmless germ could kill him.
Hours after President Donald Trump’s defense team on Saturday wrapped up its opening statements in the Senate impeachment trial, “Saturday Night Live” zeroed in on Alan Dershowitz, the storied defense attorney who is helping represent the president.
LOS ANGELES — STX’s “The Gentlemen” proved no match for Sony’s “Bad Boys for Live,” which again left box office competitors in the dust after collecting $34 million in its sophomore outing.
Mango season may be months away, but if you live in South Florida today, your trees may be ripe for the picking — of iguanas.
You may no longer see peacocks on planes, as the U.S. Department of Transportation has proposed tightening rules that have, until now, required airlines to accommodate emotional support animals.
The National Weather Service in Miami, Florida issued a warning to residents that they could see iguanas falling from trees as temperatures drop.
They called him the Pillowcase Rapist.
The Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday requesting that Major League Baseball strip the 2017 Houston Astros and the 2018 Boston Red Sox of their World Series titles and award the trophies to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
LONDON — Thomas Markle, the estranged father of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, will say on a British television documentary Wednesday night that he believes Prince Harry and his daughter are “cheapening” the royal family and turning the House of Windsor into “a Walmart with a crown on it.”
LONDON — Terry Jones, one of the British Monty Python comedy team and director of religious satire “Life of Brian,” has died at the age of 77 after a long battle with dementia, his family said on Wednesday.
Traveling on an Amtrak train from Chicago to the Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, station costs $16 per person each way. And it would cost the same for most of the passengers traveling with the Chicago-based disability-rights advocacy group Access Living.
Mexican human rights activists are raising alarms after the disappearance of a well-known conservationist in western Michoacan state.
PARIS — Louis Vuitton made a splash as it showcased its latest purchase on Tuesday: the world’s second-biggest rough diamond.
LONDON — Men in Britain should be allowed to donate sperm after they die to meet growing demand from couples seeking fertility treatment, medical experts say.
ASSEN -- A Dutch court will hold the first procedural hearing on Tuesday in the case of a man accused of keeping his family in seclusion for nine years in an isolated farmhouse in the northern Netherlands.
Singer-songwriter David Olney, 71, died while performing on Saturday — apologizing, closing his eyes and not opening them again.
LONDON - In a quiet, heartfelt speech Sunday night, before a small audience at a charity he founded, Britain's Prince Harry said he and his wife, Meghan, were "taking a leap of faith" in stepping away from their duties as senior royals, but added, "There really was no other option."
COLOMBO — Thousands of twins packed two-by-two into a stadium in Sri Lanka’s capital on Monday — so many that officials struggled to count them in time to prove they had organized a record-breaking gathering.
LONDON — Britain’s Royal Mint has issued its first commemorative coin featuring a British rock group, in a tribute to the late Freddie Mercury and the three other band members of Queen.
BANGKOK — In geography and in culture, the rice paddies of northeastern Thailand are thousands of miles away from the birthplace of hip hop in New York City’s Bronx, but for Thai rapper RachYo, the language of hip hop is universal.
SAN DIEGO — A giant tortoise from the San Diego Zoo has created his own Galapagos Islands following — literally.
LOS ANGELES — Universal’s “Dolittle” and “1917” found out what “Bad Boys” will do when they come for you at the box office. Sony’s “Bad Boys for Life,” the third entry in the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence-led series, beat expectations and towered over the competition during the Martin Luthe…
Gary Starkweather, who invented the laser printer in defiance of his corporate boss at Xerox, making the direct printing from computer terminals possible in homes and offices, died Dec. 26 at a hospital in Orlando, Fla. He was 81.
As a woman wandered aimlessly through a Tampa, Fla., Walmart with a child Saturday evening, a store security guard noticed something didn’t seem right. She opened the packaging for an odd array of items she hadn’t paid for such as matches, brad nails, denatured alcohol and a Mason jar. Then,…
Turkey’s top Islamic authority is challenging 1,400 years of religious thinking, with a new ruling on the fraught topic of usury.
BANGKOK — A BASE jumper was left hanging half way up a Thai cliff for several hours after his parachute got caught on jagged rocks hundreds of feet above the ground.
Rapper Jay-Z on Tuesday sued two Mississippi prison officials on behalf of 29 inmates who say authorities did nothing to stop violence that has killed five prisoners in the last two weeks, NBC News reported.
LONDON -- Britons will no longer be able to use credit cards to place bets under the latest move by the government to tackle problem gambling, hurting the owner of PaddyPower Betfair and its takeover partner Canada's Stars Group .
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president said on Tuesday the government has so far failed to sell his predecessor’s luxury $130 million plane that he has slammed as a trapping of power and opulence of an out-of-touch ruling elite.
A Secret Service agent fatally shot a dog that was on a walk in a Brooklyn neighborhood Monday night, according to reporting from the New York Daily News and a statement from government officials.
SERGIYEV POSAD, Russia — When Alexei Voronenkov’s 70-year-old mother passed away, he paid to have her brain frozen and stored in the hope breakthroughs in science will one day be able to bring her back to life.
