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HANGZHOU, CHINA — The first gold medals at the Asian Games were all won by host nation China on Sunday in rowing, shooting and wushu after President Xi Jinping opened the two-week multisport extravaganza in a colorful ceremony. China claimed the first gold when Zou Jiaqi and Qiu Xiuping dominated the women’s lightweight double sculls rowing […]
KANSAS CITY NATIONAL SECURITY CAMPUS, MO. — In an ultra-sterile room at a secure factory in Kansas City, U.S. government technicians refurbish the nation’s nuclear warheads. The job is exacting: Each warhead has thousands of springs, gears and copper contacts that must work in conjunction to set off a nuclear explosion. About 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) […]
Notre Dame, by and large, had done everything it possibly could and needed to do to score what would have been a momentous, signature victory the type of which the Fighting Irish program has found so very fleeting in recent years. Down 10-0 at home Saturday night to sixth-ranked Ohio State, Notre Dame clawed ahead […]
WASHINGTON — The climactic end of a seven-year voyage comes Sunday when a NASA capsule is to land in the Utah desert, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected. Scientists have high hopes for the sample, saying it will provide a better understanding of the formation of our solar system and how Earth became […]
Pharrell Williams built a recording studio at the Louis Vuitton headquarters in Paris so he could go back and forth between making clothes and producing music. The Happy hitmaker was appointed the men’s creative director of the French luxury fashion house in February and presented his first collection during Men’s Fashion Week in June. While […]
NEW YORK — Fall is in the air — officially. The equinox arrives on Saturday, marking the start of the fall season for the Northern Hemisphere. But what does that actually mean? Here’s what to know about how we split up the year using the Earth’s orbit. What is the equinox? As the Earth travels around […]
Lizzo accepted the Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award on Thursday amid her current lawsuit controversy. The musician was recognised at the Black Music Action Coalition (BMAC) gala in Los Angeles on Thursday just hours after she was hit with a second lawsuit which accuses her of fostering a hostile work environment. Lizzo skipped the red carpet […]
Doja Cat has defended her cover artwork for her new album Scarlet. The 27-year-old rapper took to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday to respond to criticism over the cover artwork just hours before the release of the new album. The artwork features a realistic-looking drawing of two spiders with their legs intertwined against […]
Kylie Minogue has made a triumphant return to the dancefloor with her critically acclaimed 16th studio album, ‘Tension’. The Australian pop idol, 55, has followed up viral sensation ‘Padam Padam’, which brought her music to a whole new younger generation of fans thanks to TikTok, with non-stop dance floor-fillers. She said of the record: “Unlike […]
MIAMI — A storm churning in waters off the eastern U.S. has increased to tropical storm strength and is forecast to reach the North Carolina coast Friday morning, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm was off the coast of South Carolina and North Carolina late Thursday with top sustained winds of 65 kph. A storm […]
