Comcast signs deal with LA 2028 Olympic organizers
LOS ANGELES — The company that owns NBC is pumping more money into the Olympic business, signing a deal with the 2028 Los Angeles...
Spike Lee to head Cannes Film Festival jury
NEW YORK — Spike Lee, who was set to lead last year's jury for the Cannes Film Festival that was ultimately canceled by the...
France to return Nazi-looted Klimt to rightful Jewish heirs
PARIS — The French government announced Monday that it will return a Nazi-looted Gustav Klimt landscape painting to its rightful owners more than 80...
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...
