The British actor Sir Christopher Lee, perhaps best known for his role as the conflicted evil wizard Saruman in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, has died at the age of 93.
Pope Francis has announced a tribunal to investigate and remove bishops who failed to protect children who were sexually abused by priests. The decision comes after years of scandals in which senior Roman Catholic clergy were accused of covering up molestation and rape cases.
Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner has emerged as one of the most colorful figures in the global soccer body’s deepening corruption scandal, known for his video citing a parody news article as evidence of a US-led conspiracy.
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The regulator of prescription drugs in the United States has nearly approved the first treatment for lack of sexual desire in women.
The field of major Democratic presidential candidates is much less crowded than the Republican one, but it does have its colorful characters. Bernie Sanders, the feisty socialist who announced his bid in May, has been joined by Lincoln Chafee, a former Rhode Island governor and senator, who is defiantly pushing for policy goals that are miles—or perhaps kilometers—from the political mainstream.
The US government plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes. According to the New York Times, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce (paywall) as early as June 5 that the emissions are major contributors to global warming and therefore a risk to human health.
The global police organization has issued “international wanted person alerts” at the request of US authorities, who have charged the two former FIFA officials and four corporate executives with racketeering, conspiracy, and corruption.
Lawmakers sent a bill to president Barack Obama today that would curtail the bulk collection of US citizens’ phone records, although it would also reinstate several other surveillance measures from the post-9/11 Patriot Act that expired at midnight Monday.
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To all of the frustrated travelers who have long suspected that US airport security procedures are an ineffective annoyance: You are correct.
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The US high court ruled today in favor of Samantha Elauf, a Muslim woman who was refused a job as a sales associate at an Abercrombie & Fitch store in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2008 because she was wearing a hijab. The company said the headscarf would breach its “look policy.”
For someone who was born more than four decades after the Holocaust, I have seen my share of horrifying, gut-wrenching, and heart-breaking footage from or about Nazi concentration camps. I’ve watched these documentaries and propaganda films in class, at the US Holocaust Museum, at Yad Vashem in Israel, at the Berlin Jewish Museum, and at several locations in Poland. I’ve worked on a film that describes the atrocities—in fact, I spent half of my life in Warsaw, where the memory of World War II lingers to this day. But I have never been as affected by any film as I was by the “German Concentration Camps Factual Survey,” a propaganda picture made in 1945, and shelved for 70 years.
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Six years into his presidency, US president Barack Obama “finally” got his own Twitter account with the commanding handle: @POTUS.
Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death for six of the 17 counts that carried the death penalty, including the use of a weapon of mass destruction and bombing of a public place.
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The passenger was female, her suitcase was fuchsia, and the eight-year-old Ivory Coast boy who Spanish authorities found curled up inside is now the latest symbol of Europe’s rapidly worsening migration crisis.
Dallas-based prison communications giant Securus Technologies has backed off a controversial requirement that some of the jails which sign up for its video calling services ban in-person visits.
A Pakistan military helicopter with a delegation of diplomats on board crashed in the northern reaches of the country, killing seven—including the ambassadors to Pakistan from Norway and the Philippines, and the wives of the ambassadors from Indonesia and Malaysia. Two pilots and a crew member also were killed; the Polish and Dutch ambassadors were among the injured.
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