3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (440+ words) Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said the agency that regulates television “threatened” the show and that an interview with James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, will not air on television but on YouTube — thus bypassing any…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (369+ words) Jean-Yves Kamale And Mark Banchereau KINSHASA – The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record in eastern Congo is rapidly spreading beyond its epicenter, Africa’s top health body said Thursday. In recent weeks, new cases and deaths have declined in Ituri province, the…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (515+ words) A California couple's surrogate who refused their wishes to have an abortion has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a custody dispute over the 4-week-old child who was born with a serious heart defect. McKenna West filed the emergency…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (199+ words) NEW YORK – Salman Rushdie, a U.S. citizen for the past decade, is to receive a literary honor reserved for the elite of American writers — a National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement. “I remember somebody told me that when Ray(mond)…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (836+ words) Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes declined in August to their slowest annual pace in more than a year as home shoppers grappled with rising mortgage rates and home prices. Existing home sales fell 2% last month from July to a seasonally…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (916+ words) NEW YORK – Kings of Leon return this fall with a new album that's a bit of a left turn, sonic-wise. And for that, you can thank a game of tag that went, well, sideways. Frontman Caleb Followill was working on…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (512+ words) AMSTERDAM – Yellow tentacles decorated with rhythmic patterns of dots swirl around a room, the patterns echoed on the floor and the walls. Reflections bounce off mirrors, blurring the boundaries of the space at Amsterdam 's Stedelijk Museum. The installation — specially…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (192+ words) Apple is unveiling its latest generation of iPhones, widely expected to include a foldable version, on Wednesday at an event headlined by new CEO John Ternus, who took over from Tim Cook on Sept. 1. Many of Apple’s biggest rivals, such…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (637+ words) MELBOURNE – Two members of the Iranian women’s soccer team who claimed asylum in Australia have confirmed their pivotal refusal to sing the national anthem during the Women’s Asian Cup in March was a protest against Tehran. The first media interview…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1099+ words) Laurie Kellman And Bill Barrow One shaped and delivered the language of feminism. The other rejected the label but showed how feminism can be done: with a microphone dusted in rhinestones, and without apology. Gloria Steinem and Dolly Parton embodied…...