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Carnegie honors 20 ‘Great Immigrants,’ including composer Tania León, for 20th anniversary
Tania León, the noted composer and conductor who also co-founded Dance Theatre of Harlem, never planned on emigrating to the ...
Issey Miyake transforms the Cartier Foundation into living sculpture garden with light and movement
As Paris wilted under the ruthless June sun, Issey Miyake sent out a battalion of intergalactic fashion soldiers at the ...
The Latest: Hegseth responds to an early intelligence briefing on Iran strike
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other military officials held a Thursday morning news conference to respond to an early ...
Ex-Barclays boss Staley loses challenge against ban from senior UK finance roles over Epstein claims
The former chief executive of Barclays Bank, Jes Staley, lost a legal challenge Thursday against a 2023 decision by Britain’s financial regulator to ban him from holding senior ...
Majority of US adults support religious chaplains in public schools, a new AP-NORC poll shows
Few U.S. adults support allowing religious schools to become tax-funded public charter schools, but a majority favors ...
Who was Olga, the Alaska Native drawing devotion as Orthodoxy’s new saint?
St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska,” as she is officially known, was canonized on June 19 as the first female ...
Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint
It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire ...
An explosion and ensuing stampede kill 29 children in a Central African Republic school
An explosion and the stampede that followed killed at least 29 schoolchildren and injured more than 250 at a high school in Central African Republic’s ...
Investigators begin analyzing data from black boxes of Air India flight that crashed
Investigators have begun analyzing data extracted from the black boxes of the ill-fated Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed about two weeks ago, killing at least 270 ...
International Space Station welcomes its first astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary
The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary arrived at the International Space Station on ...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei makes first public statement after end of Israel-Iran war
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei made his first public statement Thursday after the end of the Israel-Iran war. Khamenei took shelter in a secret location ...
North Korea may send military construction workers to Russia as early as July or August
North Korea’s planned dispatch of thousands of military construction workers and deminers to Russia’s Kursk region will likely take place as early as July or August, ...