Bill Lester returning to a more welcoming, diverse NASCAR
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Bill Lester, one of only a handful of Black drivers to ever race full-time in NASCAR, will return to competition 14...
Venezuelan teen sells drawings on Twitter to buy food
BARQUISIMETO, Venezuela — Samuel Andrés Medina carefully chooses from dozens of colored pencils spread out on his kitchen table, humming a reggaeton song as...
Garth Greenwell, Douglas Stuart among Lambda award nominees
NEW YORK — Fiction by Garth Greenwell and Douglas Stuart and nonfiction by author-comedian Samantha Irby are among this year's nominees for the Lambda...
Winfrey chooses four Marilynne Robinson novels for book club
NEW YORK — Besides working on her newsmaking interview with Meghan and Prince Harry, Oprah Winfrey has been busy with the novels of Marilynne...
Lin Emery, sculptor of movement, nature, dies at 94
NEW ORLEANS — Lin Emery, a New Orleans-based artist whose delicately balanced moving sculptures can be seen worldwide, has died. She was 94.
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Florida teen sentenced in hack of celebrity Twitter accounts
TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida teenager was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison for his role in hacking the Twitter accounts of prominent...
Yaphet Kotto of ‘Live and Let Die,’ ‘Alien,’ dies at 81
NEW YORK — Yaphet Kotto, the commanding actor who brought tough magnetism and stately gravitas to films including the James Bond movie “Live and...
Chadwick Boseman is posthumously nominated for an Oscar
NEW YORK — Half a year after his death, Chadwick Boseman was posthumously nominated for an Academy Award on Monday for his final performance...
PR firms: Golden Globes must reform or stars will boycott
NEW YORK — More than 100 Hollywood publicity firms that collectively represent the majority of stars in film and television said they will advise...
DeFeo, convicted killer in ‘Amityville Horror’ case, dies
ALBANY, N.Y. — The man convicted of slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a home that later inspired the “The Amityville Horror” book...
