Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett and Miranda July are National Book Award finalists
Salman Rushdie’s memoir a bout his near-fatal stabbing, “Knife,” and Percival Everett’s revisionist historical novel, “James, ...
DreamWorks Animation at 30: Painting a bright path forward with ‘The Wild Robot’
Filmmaker Chris Sanders had finally cracked “The Wild Robot.” Peter Brown’s middle-grade book, about an intelligent robot ...
A chemical cloud moving around Atlanta’s suburbs prompts a new shelter-in-place alert
Residents east of Atlanta were again warned to take shelter where they are on Tuesday if a chemical cloud moves over their neighborhood, as winds shifted the plume from a fire at a ...
US job openings rise to 8 million as labor market remains sturdy
U.S. job openings rose unexpectedly in August as the American labor market continued to show resilience. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that employers posted 8 million ...
Shohei Ohtani is looking to top himself in his first playoff appearance with the Dodgers
Shohei Ohtani was already a superstar with his hitting and pitching accomplishments over six years with the Los Angeles Angels. Yet every October, Ohtani vanished, with the ...
The new French prime minister tells parliament the country’s ‘colossal’ debt is ‘sword of Damocles’
In his inaugural address to parliament, new French Prime Minister Michel Barnier warned that “colossal” and spiraling debts are a “sword of Damocles” hanging over the country’s ...
‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse to pass over part of United States, South America on Wednesday
On Oct. 2, an annular solar eclipse will pass over Hawaii, Easter Island, Chile and Argentina, with the best view of the “Ring of Fire” being on Easter Island.