Rita Moreno says it was always in her nature to be generous – to hold doors for people and help lighten a mother’s load if she was struggling with shopping bags and children. But Moreno, still …
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By GLENN GAMBOA
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5/6/24
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Senate Republicans are returning to a strategy they hope could neutralize their Democratic rivals' financial edge: Find rich people to run. But wealthy candidates running in Montana, Ohio, …
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By THOMAS BEAUMONT and BRIAN SLODYSKO
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5/6/24
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The referee for the Premier League match between Crystal Palace and Manchester United on Monday will wear a camera on his head for a program that will be broadcast later this year to offer an insight …
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5/6/24
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With help from AI, Randy Travis got his voice back. Here's how his first song post-stroke came to be
With artificial intelligence, country music star Randy Travis has his voice back. In 2013, the Travis was hospitalized with viral cardiomyopathy and later suffered a stroke. He now has aphasia, a …
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By MARIA SHERMAN
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5/6/24
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping will spend the bulk of his five-day tour in Europe this week in two small countries at the continent’s eastern half. It's a region Beijing has used as a foothold for its …
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By JUSTIN SPIKE and JOVANA GEC
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5/6/24
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French President Emmanuel Macron is welcoming China's Xi Jinping for a two-day state visit to France. He is seeking to press Xi to use his influence on Moscow to move toward ending the war in …
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By SYLVIE CORBET
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5/6/24
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The Biden campaign and top Democrats are wrestling with how best to use artificial intelligence, exposing the party’s anxiety over falling behind Republicans in the race to deploy technology that …
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By COURTNEY SUBRAMANIAN
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5/6/24
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Brad Parscale, the digital guru behind Donald Trump's surprise 2016 presidential victory, has become an evangelist about the power of artificial intelligence to transform how Republicans campaign for …
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By ALAN SUDERMAN and GARANCE BURKE
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5/6/24
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Brad Parscale was the digital campaign operative who helped engineer Trump’s 2016 presidential victory with the heavy use of Facebook ads. Now Parscale is back working for Trump and is an …
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By GARANCE BURKE and ALAN SUDERMAN
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5/6/24
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Text journalism's biggest day of the year has arrrived with the annual announcement of the Pulitzer Prizes. The Columbia University-based Pulitzer Board on Monday will reveal winners and finalists in …
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By DAVID BAUDER
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5/6/24
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Qantas Airways has agreed to pay $79 million in compensation and a fine for selling tickets on thousands of cancelled flights. The airline and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission …
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By ROD McGUIRK
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5/5/24
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Kim Godwin is out as ABC News president after three years as the first Black woman to lead a television network news division. The move seemed inevitable after parent Walt Disney Co. earlier this …
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By DAVID BAUDER
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5/5/24
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Berkshire Hathaway event gives good view of Warren Buffett's successor but also raises new questions
This year’s Berkshire Hathaway meeting gave shareholders their best chance yet to hear from the man who will one day take over as CEO when Warren Buffett is gone. Buffett said for the first time …
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By JOSH FUNK
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5/5/24
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is kicking off a three-country trip to Europe with the continent divided over how to deal with Beijing’s growing power and the U.S.-China rivalry. European carmakers …
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5/5/24
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his government has voted unanimously to shutter the offices of the Qatar-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera in Israel. Netanyahu announced the decision on X, …
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By TIA GOLDENBERG and JON GAMBRELL
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5/5/24
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Shareholder proposals are usually uneventful at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting, but Warren Buffett and the company are now facing a lawsuit over the way one presenter was treated last year. …
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By JOSH FUNK
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5/4/24
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The WNBA debuts of Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso were widely watched on a social media livestream from a fan who stepped in when the league’s app couldn’t broadcast the game. Reese and Cardoso …
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By The Associated Press
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5/4/24
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Madonna will give a free concert on Copacabana beach, turning its vast stretch of sand into an enormous dance floor. It takes place Saturday night after Rio de Janeiro spent the last few days …
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By ELÉONORE HUGHES
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5/4/24
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Berkshire Hathaway says its first quarter profit plummeted on the paper value of its investments. At the same time, the company said Saturday that most of the businesses it owns outright did well. A …
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By JOSH FUNK
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5/4/24
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Boeing has locked out its private force of firefighters who protect its aircraft-manufacturing plants in the Seattle area and brought in replacements after the latest round of negotiations with the …
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By ALEX VEIGA
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5/4/24
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