South Africa eases; liquor is sold, school openings delayed
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Many South Africans spent their Monday morning lining up outside liquor stores, as alcohol sales were allowed again after a ...
The Latest: One dead in Indianapolis shootings amid protests
The Latest on the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer pressed a knee on his nec...
Papal ping-pong? Vatican opens summer camp amid virus
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is getting into the summer camp business, with ping pong tables taking over the Vatican auditorium, a giant pool in the Vat...
New USAID adviser sparks furor over past anti-Islam comments
NEW YORK — Some Muslim American groups are calling for the dismissal of a newly appointed religious freedom adviser for the U.S. Agency for Internatio...
Asia Today: Indonesians return to mosques, at a distance
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Muslims in some parts of Indonesia attended Friday prayers as mosques closed by the coronavirus for weeks were allowed to start r...
Sitcom casts to do virtual reading for Asian Heritage Month
The casts of “Fresh Off the Boat” and “Kim's Convenience” are partnering for one night for charity.
The Latest: India surpasses 150,000 virus cases
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and pe...
William Small, ‘hero to journalism’ at CBS, NBC, dies at 93
NEW YORK — Longtime broadcast news executive William J. Small, who led CBS News' Washington coverage during the civil rights movement, Vietnam War and...
Out of the Woods: Tiger emerges for TV match with Lefty, QBs
The purpose is to raise $10 million or more for COVID-19 relief efforts, and provide entertainment with four of the biggest stars from the PGA Tour an...
Review: ‘Sunny Days’ tells of beginnings of ‘Sesame Street’
In “Sunny Days: The Children’s Television Revolution That Changed America,” journalist David Kamp takes readers on a fascinating journey through the d...
Jazz competition for high school students goes virtual
NEW YORK — The coronavirus pandemic has altered the annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival, but it will still g...
Genetics expert Francis Collins wins major religion prize
Physician and geneticist Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health since 2009, has been awarded one of the world’s leading religi...
Pandemic will alter Communion rituals for many US Christians
NEW YORK — Holy Communion will have a different look when in-person worship services resume at the end of May in the Catholic Diocese of Knoxville, Te...
Vatican ties virus rethink to pope’s environmental appeal
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is marking the 5th anniversary of Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical by calling for the world to map out a sustainable ...
Online English classes revive ties severed by war in Syria
BEIRUT — Who got married? Who had a baby? Have we lost anyone?
Keith Urban hosts drive-in concert for medical workers
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country star Keith Urban is used to playing massive stages full of lights, speakers and screens in front of tens of thousands of sc...
The Latest: S.Korea: Rules stay relaxed despite virus spike
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and pe...
Trump ‘not sure we even have a choice’ on reopening states
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was continuing his push to get states reopened as he praised another Republican governor for rolling back state co...
Virginia defends coronavirus restrictions in church lawsuit
RICHMOND, Va. — An attempt by a Virginia church to prevent the state from barring gatherings of more than 10 people “would seriously undermine” the st...
HGTV, Food Network helped by coronavirus stay-at-homes
NEW YORK — Americans stuck at home staring at fading furniture and wondering what to cook for dinner have been a boon for television networks like HGT...
Court overturns Quincy Jones’ win in Michael Jackson lawsuit
LOS ANGELES — A California appeals court on Tuesday overturned most of a 2017 jury verdict awarding Quincy Jones $9.4 million in royalties and fees fr...
HBO doc puts spotlight on Natalie Wood’s life, not her death
LOS ANGELES — The fate of “ Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind ” hung on a Robert Wagner interview. Director Laurent Bouzereau knew that it would be a ...
Asia Today: Japan debuts robots at hotels for virus patients
BANGKOK — Robot staff debuted at a Tokyo hotel used for mildly sick coronavirus patients under a new plan to free up beds at hospitals overburdened wi...
Queen and Adam Lambert honor global COVID-19 ‘Champions’
LONDON — Queen and singer Adam Lambert have a message for workers on the frontline of the COVID-19 fight: “You Are the Champions.”
‘Goonies’ cast, ‘Flintstones’ rescue TV viewers in pandemic
LOS ANGELES — Josh Gad had a notion about what might soothe the kid in him during a scary time and maybe do the same for others. The actor got to work...
Producer’s memoir talks life of hits, magic of Ed Van Halen
SOUTH PASADENA, Calif. — In a life full of magical musical moments, few compare for Ted Templeman to the night he first saw Van Halen in a mostly empt...
Dalla Torre, grand master of Knights of Malta, dies at 75
ROME — Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, an Italian aristocrat who steered the ancient Knights of Malta religious order after an institut...
Religious freedom watchdog pitches adding India to blacklist
NEW YORK — The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is urging that the State Department add India to its list of nations with uniquely p...
Storybooks, radio connect kids isolated in far-flung Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — All it takes is a few words from a storybook to connect kids over the crackle of an AM radio station. It's not 1950s entertainment...