News & Entertainment by Email (2024)

He grew up on the fringe of Yosemite National Park and went to school in Yosemite Valley, where his schoolhouse offered close-up views of Yosemite Falls, Glacier Point and Sentinel Rock. He says he wasn’t a very good ...Read more

The facts and the law behind New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s successful prosecution of Donald Trump could be argued at length. But as a government prosecutor for 30 years, I have been most interested in the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Just weeks after police stormed a student-led occupation at Columbia University, a cohort of protesters set up a new camp on the same lawn Friday during an alumni reunion, calling on college graduates to ...Read more

NEW YORK — More than 1,000 New York City high school students walked out of class Friday to protest the Israel-Hamas war — and the response by the nation’s largest school district to the heightened tensions.

Protest...Read more

Elon Musk had inside knowledge of a miss on production and delivery numbers that Tesla Inc. was facing when he sold more than $7.5 billion in stock in 2022, a shareholder in the electric vehicle maker claimed in a lawsuit....Read more

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told political and defense leaders in Singapore that U.S. ties with China have improved, but devoted most of his speech to talking about Washington’s actions in the region designed ...Read more

Families of the victims of the two deadly Boeing 737 Max crashes five years ago met Friday with the head of the fraud division at the U.S. Justice Department and urged further legal action against Boeing.

The meeting, ...Read more

Wall Street likes what Gap Inc. is selling.

The retailer’s shares jumped more than 28% on Friday — the most since November 2023 — following an eye-popping earnings report that showed a fashion overhaul by new Chief...Read more

Chicago is still reeling from a lack of workers four years after the pandemic hollowed out U.S. cities.

The downtown vacancy rate has been setting records quarter after quarter and recently rose to 22.5%, according to ...Read more

BENSALEM, Pa. — Mike Domanico, co-owner of The Trump Store in Bensalem, is having a busy week.

Within hours of jurors in New York declaring former President Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony charges, Domanico had secured...Read more

NEW YORK — Hundreds of pro-Gaza protesters stormed the Brooklyn Museum early Friday evening, briefly setting up tents in the lobby and unfurling a banner from the roof of the museum.

The group had marched from the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A disciplinary board in Washington on Friday recommended that Rudy Giuliani, a former lawyer and ally to Donald Trump, should be disbarred for frivolously arguing the 2020 presidential election was stolen. ...Read more

The Houthis said they attacked a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Red Sea in response to deadly American and British airstrikes on their positions in Yemen on Thursday.

The Iran-backed militant organization targeted the USS ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump, Republican front-runner and now convicted felon, said Friday he wanted to testify in his own defense at his hush money trial but was worried about getting sued over what he might have said on the...Read more

Michelle Obama’s mother, Marian Robinson, has died at the age of 86.

The former first lady mourned her “rock” Friday with a note posted to social media on behalf of the Obama family.

“My mom Marian Robinson was ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Richard Allen Davis, the man condemned to death for the notorious 1993 murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas in the North Bay — a killing that hasreshaped California’s criminal justice system in the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A TV audience of more than 15 million watched Thursday as former President Donald Trump became a convicted felon.

Starting around 4:45 p.m. Eastern, viewing surged for cable news and broadcast networks as ...Read more

ATLANTA — Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management announced water service would be halted at 5 p.m. in much of Atlanta, including all of downtown, so crews can work to repair breaks on a 48-inch and 36-inch ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis police officer, another person and a suspected shooter are dead following a shooting in south Minneapolis Thursday evening that left a chaotic scene in the Whittier neighborhood.

Minneapolis ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado has made it a misdemeanor to knowingly carry a firearm onto school grounds, into a polling place or inside a government building under a law signed Friday by Gov. Jared Polis.

The ban, which takes ...Read more