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Voting technology company settles lawsuit against OAN over 2020 election claims
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
The settlement between Smartmatic and One America News Network is the latest development in a larger legal pushback by voting equipment companies targeted by fraud claims related to the 2020 election.
A former Marine gets 9 years for firebombing a California Planned Parenthood clinic
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
The 24-year-old had pleaded guilty to four felony counts related to the firebombing of a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022. The clinic was closed and no one was injured.
Chicago shooting kills 7-year-old girl and wounds 7 people including small children
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Eight people were shot including a young girl who was killed in what Chicago police believe was gang-related violence on the city's South Side on Saturday night.
The first foreign-born grand champion of sumo, Akebono Taro, dies at age 54
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Born Chad George Ha'aheo Rowan in Hawaii, Akebono moved to Tokyo in the 1980s, won his first grand championship in 1993, the first of 11 such titles, and retired in 2001. He died of heart failure.
Tony-winning playwright Christopher Durang dies at 75
Wednesday, April 03, 2024
Durang was a master of satire and black comedy who won a Tony Award for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with "Miss Witherspoon."
John Barth, innovative postmodernist novelist, dies at 93
Wednesday, April 03, 2024
John Barth, the playfully erudite author whose darkly comic and complicated novels revolved around the art of literature and launched countless debates over the art of fiction, died Tuesday.
A strong earthquake rocks Taiwan, collapsing buildings and causing a tsunami
Tuesday, April 02, 2024
Taiwan's earthquake monitoring agency gave the magnitude as 7.2. The earthquake collapsed buildings in a southern city and created a tsunami that washed ashore on southern Japanese islands.
Louis Gossett Jr., the 1st Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87
Friday, March 29, 2024
Gossett won the award for An Officer And A Gentleman, and also got an Emmy for Roots. More recent prominent roles for the Broadway star and civil rights activist were in The Color Purple and Watchmen.
A bus plunges off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people
Thursday, March 28, 2024
An 8-year-old child is only survivor. The passengers were headed to an Easter festival before the bus plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames.
Famed American sculptor Richard Serra, the 'poet of iron,' has died at 85
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Serra, known for his iconic large-scale pieces of outdoor artwork, died at the age of 85 on Tuesday at his home in Long Island, New York.
M. Emmet Walsh, character actor from 'Blood Simple' and 'Blade Runner,' dies at 88
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Walsh died from cardiac arrest on Tuesday at a hospital in St. Albans, Vermont, his longtime manager Sandy Joseph said.
Alabama lawmakers have approved a sweeping anti-diversity, equity and inclusion bill
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Republicans said they are guarding against programs that "deepen divisions," but Black Democrats called it an effort to roll back affirmative action programs that welcome and encourage diversity.
What is the breast cancer calculator actor Olivia Munn suggested after her mastectomy?
Friday, March 15, 2024
The questionnaire on the National Cancer Institute's website estimates lifetime risk and five-year risk based on factors known to increase the likelihood of a woman developing breast cancer.
Watch Live: President Biden's 2024 State of the Union Address
Thursday, March 07, 2024
President Biden will try to use his State of the Union address to convince voters he deserves a second term. Watch live coverage beginning at 9 p.m.
'Oppenheimer' wins 7 prizes, including best picture, at British Academy Film Awards
Monday, February 19, 2024
Atom bomb epic Oppenheimer won seven prizes, including best picture, director and actor, at the 77th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, cementing its front-runner status for the Oscars next month.
Former CIA engineer gets 40 years for giving agency's hacking secrets to WikiLeaks
Thursday, February 01, 2024
Joshua Schulte was sentenced in what the U.S. government described as the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history and for possession of child sexual abuse images and videos.
Alec Baldwin pleads not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in fatal film set shooting
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
A grand jury in Santa Fe indicted Baldwin in January after prosecutors received a new analysis of a gun the actor pointed at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during rehearsal for the film Rust.
'Oppenheimer' dominates the Oscar nominations, as Gerwig is left out for best director
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Christopher Nolan's blockbuster biopic will be up for 13 awards, followed by Poor Things with 11 and Killers of the Flower Moon with 10. Barbie, the year's highest-grossing film, got 8 nominations.
Authorities searching for a suspect in the shooting deaths of 8 people near Chicago
Monday, January 22, 2024
The victims were found Sunday and Monday at three separate locations. Police said they did not know of a motive for the killings, but said the suspect knew the victims.
Sarah, the Duchess of York, diagnosed with skin cancer
Sunday, January 21, 2024
The melanoma was found after several moles were removed while she was undergoing reconstructive surgery after a mastectomy. Doctors are analyzing it to see if it was caught early.