Barack and Michelle Obama have book deals. The former president and first lady have signed with Penguin Random House, the publisher announced Tuesday. Financial terms were not disclosed, although the deals are likely in the tens of millions of dollars. Both Obamas have published books through ...
Jaden Smith wants his fans to have his art! The 18-year-old son of Will and Jada Smith has been leaving his artwork around Los Angeles in hopes that fans will find it. Jaden has been tweeting out hints as to where he placed the art and so far paintings have been discovered outside an art [...]
President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the director of national intelligence on Tuesday criticized the release of war on terror prisoners from the Guantánamo Bay detention center and suggested … Click to Continue »
Snap, the company behind the Snapchat disappearing messaging app, has been facing some criticism ahead of its upcoming initial public offering. WSJ's Lee Hawkins walks through five of the biggest criticisms of the IPO. Photo: Bloomberg News
Why are huge container ships, once worth millions of pounds, now being sold for scrap?
Even Andrew House, global CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, the video game division of the Japanese electronics giant, had doubts about how quickly virtual reality would be embraced by the mass market. In an interview at his San Mateo office last week, House revealed PlayStation VR’s sales for the first time, saying people had purchased 915,000 of the headsets as of Feb. 19, roughly four months after it went on sale. The sales figure is a positive sign for virtual reality and probably establishes... Читать дальше...
Oscar-winning film Moonlight presents a view of Miami that never shows up in a tourism video. Far from the sun and glamour of South Beach or the artists and hipsters of Wynwood, it shows predominantly black communities, truly known by few outside the people who live there. And it's recognizably their Miami, made beautiful and suddenly more hopeful than it might have seemed before. "The best thing about this movie is they actually went into the projects and shot it, and they let kids from around Liberty City be in it," said Kamal Ani-Bello... Читать дальше...
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — A North Carolina school board has voted not to ban the Confederate flag from school grounds, rejecting two pleas from a local chapter of the NAACP to establish the policy. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports (http://bit.ly/2m9A7kC) the Orange County Schools Board of Education decided instead on Monday to establish an
David Anthony Duffy, 54, of Philomath died Feb. 27. Crown Memorial Center in Salem is handling arrangements.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Islamic State fighters were increasingly using Mad Max-style suicide vehicles and commercial drones armed with grenades in their defense of the Iraqi town of Mosul, Australia's defense chief said Wednesday.
The House of Lords looks set Wednesday to defy Prime Minister Theresa May by demanding guarantees for EU nationals living in Britain, delaying a bill she needs to start Brexit negotiations. The opposition Labour party is hopeful it can push through an amendment to legislation empowering May to trigger Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, which begins two years of divorce talks. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon also this week warned she may be forced to call for a new independence referendum to defend Scotland's rights. Читать дальше...
Geologists attempted for the first time Tuesday to figure out what to do about the vast, yawning canyon dug out of the earth after a crater opened up in the Oroville Dam’s concrete spillway and diverted water at high speed into the adjacent hillside. Monday’s shutoff of water flowing down the main spillway revealed a shocking panorama of damage, forcing experts with the California Department of Water Resources to scramble to figure out how the crippled chute can possibly be fixed by the end of the year — in time for the next rainy season. Читать дальше...
A British musician is claiming that rock band U2 and lead singer Bono stole one of his songs for “Achtung Baby” album
Mexican entrepreneur Bertha Gonzalez Nieves takes work trips to an extreme
Janet “Janni” Irene Crawford Bressler died Feb. 6, 2017, at her home in Corvallis. A celebration of a wonderful life will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 5, at the Whiteside Theater, 361 S.W. Madison Ave., Corvallis.
An intruder broke into Floyd Mayweather's Las Vegas mansion last weekend and got away with several high-dollar items, according to reports.
Raith Rovers' John Hughes says the SPFL should be "embarrassed" by the decision that forced him to field Ryan Stevenson in goal.
Een 59-jarige Nederlander, die nagenoeg zijn hele leven in Canada heeft gewoond, dreigt te worden uitgezet. De man verhuisde als acht maanden oude baby naar Canada, maar heeft nooit de Canadese nationaliteit gekregen. En omdat hij een strafblad heeft met onder meer wapenbezit, bedreiging en mishandeling, moet hij het land uit.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Rights groups say Slovakia has failed to end the discrimination of Roma children in the country's education system.
NASA is preparing to launch a probe that will come closer to the Sun than any other man-made object in history, experiencing unimaginable heat and radiation to learn more about the solar winds that may someday threaten the planet.
Donations for charities made through PayPal’s Giving Fund platform might never get to their intended organizations, a class action lawsuit filed in Chicago Tuesday claims.
Penguin Random House wins battle for Obamas' books with record setting bid.
Football Federation Australia is dithering again by switching its focus from A-League expansion to ownership and operating reform
