Gordon Lightfoot, the legendary folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind" and "Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died Monday. He was 84. Representative Victoria Lord said the musician died at a Toronto hospital. His cause of death was not immediately available. Considered...
Hollywood Writers, Slamming ‘Gig Economy,’ to Go on Strike
Television and movie writers declared late Monday that they will launch a strike for the first time in 15 years, as Hollywood girded for a walkout with potentially widespread ramifications in a fight over fair pay in the streaming era. The Writers Guild of America said that its 11,500 unionized screenwriters...
Prominent Palestinian Hunger Striker Dies in Israeli Custody
A high-profile Palestinian prisoner died in Israeli custody on Tuesday after a nearly three-month-long hunger strike, Israel’s prison service announced, at a time of already soaring tensions between Israel and the Palestinians. Khader Adnan, a leader in the militant Islamic Jihad group, had begun staging protracted hunger strikes more than...
Trump to Appear on TV Network He Once Called an ‘Enemy of the People’
As president, Donald Trump frequently derided CNN as “fake news.” Now that he's running again, Trump has agreed to appear on a live town hall forum from New Hampshire next week for CNN viewers. The event, scheduled for May 10 at St. Anselm's College in Goffstown, New Hampshire, will be televised at...
NBA Playoffs: Star-Studded Round 2 Has Big Names, Intense Rivalries
Steph vs. LeBron. Celtics vs. 76ers. Knicks vs. Heat. Jokic vs. Durant. Big names. Big rivalries. The NBA has gotten a starry second-round slate, with Stephen Curry and Golden State set to meet LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers, along with Philadelphia taking on Boston in the renewal of...
Four People Killed in Mass Shooting in Kern County Desert
MOJAVE — Four people were fatally shot in a small Mojave Desert community, Kern County authorities said Monday. Deputies responding to a shooting report late Sunday night in the unincorporated community of Mojave found a man and three women with gunshot wounds to their upper bodies, the Kern County Sheriff's...
Speaker Kevin McCarthy Blasts Russia Over ‘Killing of the Children’ in Ukraine
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday said Russia must pull out of Ukraine, blistering Russia's “killing of the children” and distancing himself from some in his Republican party who oppose additional major U.S. aid to Ukraine to stave off the Russian invasion. In Israel on his first trip abroad as speaker, McCarthy emphatically stressed his...
Pilots Vote to OK Strike at American Airlines as Summer Travel Season Nears
Pilots at American Airlines voted to authorize a strike, a move that is highly unlikely to lead to an immediate walkout but puts more pressure on the airline to reach a new contract with the pilots’ union. The Allied Pilots Association said Monday that more than 96% of its 15,000...
Biden’s Diverse Coalition of Support Risks Fraying in 2024
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat-turned-Independent long known for his centrist views, voted for Joe Biden in 2020. But as Biden's reelection campaign begins, Lieberman is preparing to recruit a third-party candidate capable of defeating the Democratic president. “Centrists and moderates feel that he's governed more from the left than they hoped,”...
Latest Russia Missile Attack on Ukraine Injures 34, Damages Homes and School
Russia launched its second large salvo of missiles at Ukraine in recent days early Monday, damaging buildings and wounding at least 34 people in the eastern city of Pavlohrad but failing to hit Kyiv, officials said. Air raid sirens began blaring across the capital at about 3:45 a.m., followed by...