Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - More than 46 years after it was shot, the Aretha Franklin concert film “Amazing Grace” will finally be released, ending one of the most tortured and long-running sagas in docume...

WASHINGTON - The brash shareholder activist Evelyn Y. Davis, who owned stock in more than 80 public companies and rarely failed to make her presence known at corporate-investor meetings, has died. She...

NASHVILLE - Tennessee and Alabama will get their largest solar power projects yet, to supply a Facebook data centre with 100 per cent renewable energy. Officials with the Tennessee Valley Authority an...

SPOKANE, Wash. - In a story Nov. 5 about mountain caribou, The Associated Press reported erroneously that six of the animals would be relocated from the Lower 48 states to Canada. The six mountain car...

LONDON - The Spice Girls are coming back for a British stadium tour next summer. The band plans to take the stage without fashion designer Victoria Beckham, who performed as “Posh Spice” d...

LOS ANGELES - Rapper Mac Miller died from an accidental overdose caused by a combination of cocaine, alcohol, and the powerful opioid fentanyl, a coroner’s report released Monday said. The Los A...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An Illinois woman who lost 144 pounds (65 kilograms) on “The Biggest Loser” television program has written a book about her experiences. The (Springfield) State Journal...

DEARBORN, Mich. - The Arab American National Museum is launching an exhibition on themes of displacement and survival as it honours its annual book award winners. The museum in the Detroit suburb of D...

NEW YORK - Alec Baldwin is denying that he punched anyone over a parking spot and says an assault allegation is being reported “for the purposes of clickbait entertainment.” The actor was ...

ATLANTA - Authorities say the ex-boyfriend and father of the son of “Growing Up Hip Hop” star Angela Simmons has been killed in Atlanta. Police said in a statement that a man was shot seve...