Michael Tilson Thomas to lead New York Philharmonic opening subscription program
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Tilson Thomas is to conduct the opening subscription program of the New York Philharmonic season, three years after the…
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Dominican Republic is urged to stop deporting people to Haiti as people flee surge in gang violence
By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press DAJABON, Dominican Republic (AP) — Human rights activists are calling on the Dominican Republic’s…
Continue ReadingDan Pashman created a new shape of pasta. His cookbook expands pasta’s possibilities
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Food writer and podcaster Dan Pashman made the unusual step a few years ago of creating an…
Continue ReadingEuropean Union pushes ahead with a plan to buy weapons for Ukraine with frozen Russian asset profits
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top diplomat says he’s pressing ahead with a plan to use the…
Continue ReadingThe first ‘cyberflasher’ is convicted under England’s new law and gets more than 5 years in prison
By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — England’s first convicted cyberflasher was sentenced Tuesday to 5 1/2 years in prison after…
Continue ReadingKate’s photo of late Queen was doctored, agency says, as princess spotted in public for first time in months
By Rob Picheta, Sarah Tilotta and Bernadette Tuazon, CNN London (CNN) — Another official photograph involving Catherine, Princess of Wales was…
Continue ReadingIraq’s former defense minister wanted in Sweden for fraud is arrested at the Stockholm airport
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Authorities say that Iraq’s former defense minister, who holds dual Iraqi-Swedish citizenship, has been arrested in…
Continue ReadingSouth Africa’s ruling ANC takes rival party to court in fractious buildup to election
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is taking the independent…
Continue ReadingAn AI robot is spotting sick tulips to slow the spread of disease through Dutch bulb fields
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press NOORDWIJKERHOUT, Netherlands (AP) — Theo works weekdays, weekends and nights and never complains about a sore spine…
Continue ReadingMoldova expels Russian diplomat over presidential polling stations in breakaway Transnistria region
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Moldova said Tuesday it has expelled a Russian diplomat after Moscow opened polling stations for its presidential…
Continue ReadingMarch Madness as we know it could be on the way out amid seismic changes in college sports
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Tracking the changes upending college sports can be as frenetic as keeping up during the first week of March…
Continue ReadingUN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023
By JAMEY KEATEN and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming,…
Continue ReadingBen & Jerry’s and Magnum will form the core of an $8 billion ice cream company
By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — The world’s biggest ice cream business is about to go it alone. Unilever announced Tuesday that it plans…
Continue ReadingNed Blackhawk’s ‘The Rediscovery of America’ is among books honored by the Lukas prize project
NEW YORK (AP) — An exploration of racism on social media and a history of Native Americans are among the winners of J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project…
Continue ReadingBuddhists use karmic healing against one US city’s anti-Asian legacy and nationwide prejudice today
By DEEPA BHARATH and TERRY TANG Associated Press ANTIOCH, California (AP) — For one afternoon, on Antioch’s main street and tranquil riverbank,…
Continue ReadingA California city wrestles with its history of discrimination against early Chinese immigrants
By TERRY TANG and DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — Over the last two years, the quiet city of Antioch, California, has been…
Continue ReadingArmenia’s prime minister says quick border demarcation needed to avoid new conflict with Azerbaijan
By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia’s prime minister says the Caucasus nation needs to quickly delimit the border…
Continue ReadingUN’s Guterres decries violence in Myanmar as military airstrikes kill at least 25 Rohingya in west
By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed concern over the escalating violence in…
Continue ReadingAustin says US support for Ukraine remains resolute even as security aid remains stalled in Congress
By Haley Britzky, CNN Ramstein Air Base, Germany (CNN) — US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin emphasized Tuesday that the US “will not let…
Continue ReadingBelgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten is to step down as creative director at the end of June
By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian designer Dries Van Noten, who for almost four decades dazzled the fashion world with…
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