Oscars 2025: How to watch Academy Awards and who is nominated
12 hours ago Noor Nanji Getty Images Stars, film fans and fashionistas rejoice as the biggest night in the showbiz calendar is here at last – the 97th Oscars. Spanish-language…
Gene Hackman ‘loved acting and hated everything that went with it’
12 hours ago Noor Nanji Getty Images “He loved being an actor, and hated all the stuff that surrounds being an actor.” That, for film director Barry Sonnenfeld, is how…
Firefly’s Blue Ghost becomes second private spacecraft with moon landing
1 hour ago George Sandeman BBC News Reuters A private spacecraft has landed on the Moon, becoming only the second commercial vehicle to reach the lunar surface. Blue Ghost left…
Angie Stone, veteran R&B singer-songwriter, dead in car crash
Grammy-nominated R&B artist Angie Stone has died after a car crash, aged 63, her daughter says. “My mommy is gone,” her daughter, Diamond Stone, wrote in a Facebook post. Stone…
Opinion | Trump Is Breaking Things We Can’t Just Fix
President Trump is doing damage to America that could take a generation or more to repair. The next election cannot fix what Trump is breaking. Neither can the one after…
What Would the Church Say About End-of-Life Decisions for a Pope?
A respiratory crisis suffered by Pope Francis on Friday during his two-week hospitalization for pneumonia has added urgency to a delicate, and uncomfortable, question worrying many in the church: What…
Mexico’s Response to Trump’s Tariffs: Troops, Cartels and China
Mexico braced for the worst when President Trump threatened steep tariffs on its exports. But as a deadline looms, Mexico’s leaders hope they have found a formula for staving off…
DOGE Claims Credit for Killing Contracts That Were Already Dead
While George W. Bush was president, the U.S. Coast Guard signed a contract to get administrative help from a company in Northern Virginia. It paid $144,000, and the contract was…
Horticulturalists, Biologists, Engineers: Federal ‘Bloat’ or Valued Experts?
The National Plant Germplasm System, a vast federal collection of seeds, roots, branches and stems, is probably unknown to most Americans. But to Rachel Spaeth the system is a “living…
Trump Threats and Mexico’s Crackdown Hit Mexican Cartel
One cartel leader says he’s trying to figure out how to protect his family in case the American military strikes inside Mexico. Another says he’s already gone into hiding, rarely…