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U.S. television network Fox on Tuesday renewed drama series "Empire" for a sixth season but said there were no plans to bring back the character played by Jussie Smollett, the actor who said he was the victim of a hate crime in January.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Mueller expressed frustration to Attorney General William Barr last month about how the findings of his Russia investigation were being portrayed, saying he worried that a letter summarizing the main conclusions of the probe lacked the necessary context, a Justice Department official said Tuesday night. Mueller communicated his agitation […]

Kevin Carmichael: All of this chatter about the weather matters because of the uncertainty over whether Canada’s economic slump is transitory or entrenched

Israel has summoned the French envoy and reprimanded her after the outgoing French ambassador to the United States said Israel’s West Bank occupation amounted to apartheid, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

Israel reduced the offshore fishing limit it imposes for vessels operating out of Gaza from Tuesday following rocket fire from the territory by Palestinian armed groups, officials said, while the fishermen’s union said a number of fishing boats came under Israeli naval fire early Tuesday.

With the front lines around Libya’s contested capital Tripoli stalemated, the two rival factions are bringing oil and money supplies into the firing line of their battle for power.

Later this year, the Louvre will host an exhibition of masterpieces by Italian master Leonardo da Vinci to mark his death 500 years ago in France, but the work that has recently been the focus of intense scrutiny by the media and Leonardo specialists may not be on show. In 2017, Christie’s auctioned Salvator Mundi as a Leonardo work for a record $450 million. The work hasn’t been displayed in public since, triggering doubts about its ownership, its whereabouts and its authenticity.

A few hundred mostly young people jointly ate bananas outside Warsaw’s top national gallery Monday to protest what they called censorship. Authorities had removed artwork there featuring the fruit, saying it was improper. Artists and opposition politicians called for the protest as part of their Facebook and Twitter action to ridicule the ban by posting photos of themselves eating bananas.

Over his 57 years making movies, Werner Herzog has carved out two film careers. Naturally, most critical and box-office attention has issued from his great feature-length fictions - Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre, The Wrath of God and so forth. Alongside his features Herzog has assembled a distinct oeuvre of documentaries. These imaginative, often impish, works place the filmmaker in conversation with eccentrics who’ve lived in proximity to something remarkable. Take Juliane Koepcke, the German who, having survived a plane crash in 1971... Читать дальше...

Is trouble brewing for Vanderpump Rules star Lala Kent and her fiancé Randall Emmett? On Tuesday, fans of the Bravo series noticed the 29-year-old beauty mogul deleted photos of her...

Camille and Ben Arneberg founded the successful ecommerce businesses Willow & Everett and CubeFit. Now they've moved onto selling healthy dog treats, tapping into their passion for pets.

May 1 – Macron have extended their kit supply deal with French top flight club OGC Nice through to 2024.

Auburn Mountainview High School baseball coach Glen Walker has joined the 300-win club ... and has kept right on winning. On April 1, Walker won his 300th game when the … Click to Continue »

Decisions on names for Fort Snelling and Lake Calhoun fail to recognize the state's native peoples.

Around an enormous outdoor runway lit with dozens of floating tealights, French label Christian Dior crisscrossed cultures and continents at its first fashion show in Morocco Monday, with beaded dresses and patterned prints taking center stage.

Abdel-Kader Ouazzani, the last of Morocco’s brocade master weavers, has been repeating the same gestures for 63 years in his dilapidated workshop in the heart of the old city of Fes.

In turquoise waters off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, scuba divers ease among delicate pink jellyfish and admire coral. Yet a rebounding tourism sector threatens the fragile marine ecosystem. The Red Sea is a top scuba diving destination, but Egypt’s tourism sector was buffeted by a wave of security shocks through much of this decade, before a partial recovery since 2017.

In the 40 years of Iran’s Islamic Republic, 2019 is shaping up to be among the worst for an economy that’s weathered wars, sanctions and oil slumps. Even before the U.S. decided to tighten oil sanctions against Iran last week, the rial currency had lost two-thirds of its value against the dollar, and the International Monetary Fund expected gross domestic product to shrink 6 percent.

Photos of Yeti footprints posted online by the Indian army triggered a social media storm Tuesday, with users ridiculing the military for propagating theories debunked by science. The army tweeted three images late Monday showing a series of foot-shaped impressions, each almost a meter long in the snow in the Himalayas near the Nepal-China frontier.

Japanese Emperor Akihito, in his final remarks as his three-decade reign drew to a close Tuesday, thanked the people for their support and expressed hope for a peaceful future.

U.S. President Donald Trump, his family and the Trump Organization filed a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank and Capital One in an attempt to block congressional subpoenas seeking their banking and financial records. The lawsuit by Trump, sons Donald Jr. and Eric and daughter Ivanka was filed Monday in federal court in New York. The Trump Organization and the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust are among the other plaintiffs.

'Avengers: Endgame' leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to the endings for many of the movie's female characters.

Whether you are a Volkswagen aficionado or not, there is a good chance you’ve caught a glimpse of the iconic Woodstock Bus somewhere on the internet. Or perhaps you are one of the lucky ones who saw it firsthand at the legendary rock festival back in those groovy bell-bottomed days. But did you know there...