Category Archives: World

Warner Bros. names BBC's Ann Sarnoff as its new CEO
NEW YORK - BBC executive Ann Sarnoff was named chief of Warner Bros. on Monday, making her the first woman to head the movie studio in its 96-year history. Her appointment follows the departure in Mar...
Jun 26, 2019

Driver with record charged with 7 homicides in biker crash
CONCORD, N.H. - The driver of a pickup truck in a fiery collision on a rural New Hampshire highway that killed seven motorcyclists was charged Monday with seven counts of negligent homicide, and recor...
Jun 26, 2019

Italy's Milan-Cortina wins vote to host 2026 Winter Olympics
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Riding a wave of widespread Italian enthusiasm to be an Olympic host, Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo won the vote Monday to stage the 2026 Winter Games. International Olympic Comm...
Jun 26, 2019

Dixie Chicks say new album is coming
LOS ANGELES - The Dixie Chicks took the long way around, but they're returning with new music soon after a 13-year hiatus. The award-winning group's lead singer, Natalie Maines, took to Instagram rece...
Jun 26, 2019

Woodstock 50 may be back on at new venue
VERNON, N.Y. - A smaller Woodstock 50 festival could possibly be held at an upstate New York harness track and casino. Town of Vernon Supervisor Randy Watson tells the Poughkeepsie Journal that Woodst...
Jun 26, 2019

Cuba Gooding Jr. faces judge in groping case
NEW YORK - Lawyers for Cuba Gooding Jr. are providing a court with video they say will show the actor did not grope a woman at a New York City bar. The prosecution, meanwhile, presented the court Wedn...
Jun 26, 2019

2 more deputies fired after shooting at Florida high school
PARKLAND, Fla. - Two additional deputies have been fired as a result of an internal affairs investigation into the agency's response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland...
Jun 26, 2019

Sheryl Crow says 2008 fire destroyed all her master tapes
LONDON - Singer Sheryl Crow says the original tapes of albums such as "Tuesday Night Music Club" and the track "All I Wanna Do" perished in a 2008 fire at Universal Music Group. Crow told the BBC Wedn...
Jun 26, 2019

Prince William says he'd be 'absolutely fine" with gay child
LONDON - Britain's Prince William says it would be "absolutely fine" if one of his children came out as gay though he'd worry about how the public would respond. William made the comment on Wednesday ...
Jun 26, 2019

Sebastian Maniscalco to host MTV's 2019 Video Music Awards
NEW YORK - Comedian and actor Sebastian Maniscalco will host MTV's 2019 Video Music Awards. He'll be joined at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on Aug. 26 by some of the industry's biggest...
Jun 26, 2019