The woman who murdered singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez was denied early release from prison in Texas on Thursday. Yolanda Saldívar was sentenced to life in prison for the 1995 murder of the Tejano singer who became a music icon in the US. When Saldívar was sentenced, she was given the possibility of parole after serving 30 […]
Lucy Hooker BBC Business reporter Getty Images The name WH Smith, a staple of UK town centres since the Victorian era when it became the country’s principal newspaper distributor, is set to disappear from the High Street after the firm agreed to sell its shops to Hobbycraft-owner Modella Capital. The sale does not include the […]
BOSTON — Imagine how many times Doug and Christine Lane must have beamed with pride over the years as they watched their son Spencer slowly and steadily transform himself from an unsteady toddler to a talented teenaged figure skater. That’s what parents do, right? In good times and bad, they’re first in line with the […]
Years before President Trump returned to the White House, his budget chief, Russell T. Vought, began mapping out a plan to shrink the federal government. In Mr. Vought’s design, spending would be slashed by about $9 trillion over the next decade. Entire federal programs — from housing vouchers to student loans — would be eliminated. […]
The entry to the Smithsonian Institution’s Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP hide caption toggle caption Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing Vice President JD Vance to eliminate “divisive race-centered ideology” from Smithsonian museums, educational and research centers, and the National Zoo. Titled “Restoring Truth and […]
Dolphins whistle. Whales sing. Fish croak, chirp, grunt, hum and growl. But in the chatter of the sea, one voice has been missing — until now. Sharks have long been seen as the silent killers of the water. But scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand recently recorded a rig shark, or Mustelus […]
The tariffs on cars and auto parts that President Trump announced on Wednesday will have far-reaching effects on automakers in the United States and abroad. But there will be important differences based on the circumstances of each company. Tesla The company run by Mr. Trump’s confidant, Elon Musk, makes the cars it sells in the […]
In December 1967, when he arrived at a snowy farm on China’s northeastern border with the Soviet Union, Xu Chenggang carried with him an electron tube to help him assemble a radio. Mr. Xu, a 17-year-old Beijing native, would spend the next 10 years there, living in a horse stable and subjected to re-education and […]
Six Russian tourists have died after a tourist submarine sank in the Red Sea near the Egyptian city of Hurghada. Thirty-nine other people were rescued after the vessel – the Sindbad – sank at about 10:00 local time (08:00 GMT), officials say. Nine are said to have been injured with four in critical condition. Two […]
All aircraft flying near Ronald Reagan National Airport will now be required to broadcast their positions to air traffic controllers, the acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration told a Senate subcommittee on Thursday. The policy, which took effect on Thursday, was put in place after it was revealed that technology in an Army helicopter […]