AP Photo/Don Brinn Ten-year-old Martin Witter watches a snail, “Speedy,” pull a miniature Roman chariot that he made out of a fish tin and toothpicks as another snail, “Butch,” sits in the driver’s seat, in the Lynwood section of Los Angeles, Calif., Oct. 1, 1954. Martin claimed to ...
HAVANA (AP) — For months, two-thirds of Cuba had no electricity at night. Some neighborhoods in the capital of Havana have been without running water for more than two weeks. Transportation is scarce and eggs, bread and cooking oil are hard to find. Yet every morning, about 178 young ...
In “Verity,” it’s hard to know who to trust. There’s Anne Hathaway’s titular character, a wildly popular novelist who is unable to speak or move after a car accident, but whose secret, and disturbing, autobiography speaks volumes. There’s Dakota Johnson’s struggling author, Lowen, who has been hired to finish Verity’s remaining novels and who finds herself living in Verity’s home and fantasizing about her more successful counterpart’s life, and husband. And then there’s Josh Hartnett, as said husband, who is caring and responsible but perhaps a bit quick to ...
QUANTICO, Va. (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. military will cut 20% of its generals and admirals as he made a series of announcements about a new drone command and more in what he called his “State of the Force” address. Hegseth was speaking to junior officers and enlisted leaders at the Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, the second year in a row that he has given such an address. This time, the U.S. military is seven months into a war with Iran with no clear end in sight, has captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and killed more ...
AP Photo/Stephan Savoia Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton gestures during a speech on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Sept. 30, 1992.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary will soon release tens of thousands of records previously restricted to broad public access that identify people listed by the Communist-era state security services as officers, informants, collaborators or recruitment targets during Hungary’s 20th-century dictatorship. The country, which peacefully transitioned to democracy in 1990 as the Soviet Union crumbled, spent more than four decades under Communist rule during which a sprawling state security apparatus closely monitored citizens and their loyalty to the socialist government. The security ...
