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Movie-fan-in-chief Barack Obama is calling on the film industry to ramp up diversity in an interview about the lack of Oscar nominations for minority actors. “As a whole, the industry should do what every other industry should do, which is to look for talent and provide opportunity to everybody,” the President told CNN affiliate KABC […]

We were so totally here for the Twitter beef between Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa. Allow us to catch you up on what happened Wednesday in a way that’s as family-friendly as possible, as it got pretty profane. West took offense to fellow rapper Khalifa discussing the title of West’s forthcoming album, “Waves.” The ever-chill […]

Kat Nouri has a love-hate relationship with plastic. As an artist and product designer, she’s enamored with its transparency and the endless creative uses for it. But as a mother, and an environmentally-conscious consumer, she’s disgusted by it. “Plastic is a big part of our daily lives. There’s no denying it,” said Nouri. “But every […]

The Zika virus “is now spreading explosively” around the Americas, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said in a press briefing Thursday. “The level of alarm is extremely high,” she said. The relatively new mosquito-borne disease is now in “23 countries and territories in the region,” according to Chan. The Zika virus has raised […]

Not yet tossed the boarding pass from your last flight on Dragonair? Hold fire — you could be clutching a collector’s item. Cathay Pacific, Dragonair’s owners, have just announced that as of this month, the medium-haul carrier’s name will vanish from Asia’s airspace. In a repackaging exercise seen as an attempt to bolster the identity […]

I went to the Donald Trump rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on January 8 with a group of diverse folks to stand in silent protest against hate-speech in general and Islamophobia in particular. Trump proposes banning Muslims from entering the United States and putting Muslims in a database where their movements would be monitored. […]

Much like the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, or the morning of September 11, 2001, most Americans remember where they were when they heard the news of the Challenger disaster. It was NASA’s first in-flight tragedy. Challenger launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 28, 1986. Shortly after liftoff, the space shuttle’s […]

WESTOVER — Jake Terry’s deep three-pointer with 8.9 seconds remaining lifted the visiting Curwensville Area High School boys basketball team to a thrilling 47-46 victory over Harmony Wednesday night. The Golden Tide avenged a mid-December 45-44 loss by turning the tables on the Owls with a 17-point second quarter for a 23-22 halftime lead. In […]

TYRONE — State-ranked Tyrone inched closer to a three-peat in the Mountain League by breaking open a tight game with a 15-0 run to start the second half and going on to beat the scrappy Clearfield Area High School girls basketball team 62-48 Wednesday night. The Lady Bison, who lost 65-40 to the Lady Eagles […]

CURWENSVILLE – After dismantling the Curwensville Area High School girls basketball team at West Branch in mid-December, 74-27, the Lady Warriors turned the trick once again Wednesday night on the Lady Tide home floor, 73-44. And once again it was a lack of offense in the second half that killed any hopes of a […]

It only took an hour. Matthew Trevithick stepped out of the dorm where he was staying in Tehran and was on his way to buy a plane ticket back home when three people approached him from an unmarked Hyundai Sonata. They asked if he was Matthew. When he said yes, they put him in the […]

An Indiana community mourned an elementary school principal who sacrificed her life so her students could live. Posters, flowers, candles and balloons marked a makeshift memorial growing outside Amy Beverland Elementary School, northwest of Indianapolis. “Mrs. Jordan, you’re our biggest star. We love you,” said one poster. Another read: “You will shine forever.” Susan Jordan […]

Computers just got even more scarily smart. A program designed by Google researchers has become the first to defeat a professional human player at the ancient Asian game of Go. Google Deepmind’s program, AlphaGo, recently crushed the current European Go champion, Fan Hui, by five games to nothing. AlphaGo’s victory — a feat that experts […]

Taiwan’s president has paid a visit to an island in disputed waters in the South China Sea, in a show of sovereignty that has drawn criticism from the United States. Outgoing President Ma Ying-jeou landed Thursday on Taiping Island, also known as Itu Aba, a small land mass it controls more than 990 miles (1,600 […]

If you understand nothing else about Donald Trump, understand this: He has a particular mindset we see all the time in business — he’s “the disrupter.” The disrupter is someone whose entire “brand” is to break the mold, to turn the way we do things on its head. Amazon did this with retail, Uber did […]

This may not be the highest compliment to someone trying to hold a tune. Police in Amsterdam, Netherlands, kicked in the door of an opera singer Tuesday night, believing they were hearing screams of agony. Instead, the man was singing along to an opera. Authorities believed they were responding to a call of domestic violence, […]

A friend shared the recipe for these light and delicious waffles. The cinnamon cream syrup is a nice change from maple syrup, and it keeps quite well in the fridge. Our two children also like it on toast. —Amy Gilles, Ellsworth, Wisconsin View the recipe at TasteofHome.com >>

Serena Williams put in a nearly flawless performance to reach the Australian Open final, crushing Agnieszka Radwanska 6-0 6-4 in Melbourne on Thursday. Williams, seeking a seventh title at the season’s first major, improved to 9-0 lifetime against the fourth seed from Poland who won the 2015 year-end championships with the American absent. Williams needed […]

Sun Wenlin has known he was gay since he was 12. He came out to parents and friends two years later. Now 27, he met his partner Hu Mingliang, a security guard, in 2014. Inspired by the 2014 British movie “Pride”, Sun decided the time was right to settle down with Hu, whom he met […]

Former supermodel, business mogul and America’s Next Top Model host Tyra Banks is a new mom. That’s right; she can add mother to her list of accomplishments. Banks, 42, and her Norwegian photographer boyfriend, Erik Asla, welcomed a baby boy, named York Banks Asla, to the world on Wednesday evening. She shared a picture of […]

South Carolina’s lieutenant governor is set to endorse Donald Trump during the GOP front-runner’s rally here Wednesday night, a source with the GOP front-runner’s campaign told CNN. Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster, who was elected in November 2014, previously served as the state’s attorney general and chairman of the South Carolina GOP. He is the highest-ranking […]

Biotech startup Theranos has 10 days to correct critical deficiencies with its lab. That’s according to a letter issued to the company Monday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Theranos says it offers a cheaper, more efficient alternative to traditional medical tests. It is valued at more than $9 billion and has been […]

The mayor of San Francisco has asked the Department of Justice to investigate the death of a young black man who was shot and killed by police officers. Mario Woods, 26, died December 2. His death, which was captured on cell phone videos, sparked protests and calls for change. “In the past few weeks, our […]

Fresh off his two-month paternity leave, Mark Zuckerberg is continuing his habit of posting long musings to Facebook. On Wednesday, he gently explained artificial intelligence research and talked about what might be “the most important problem of this century”: getting AI to learn on its own. AI is something Facebook has been very vocal about […]

A whopping 18½-hour journey between Doha, Qatar, and Auckland, New Zealand, is poised to become the world’s longest direct flight if Qatar Airways follows through with plans for the new route. Qatar CEO Akbar Al Baker revealed plans for the ultra-long haul in an interview with Bloomberg Business at last week’s Bahrain Air Show. Boeing […]