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The enslaved Africans who first arrived in the British colony of Virginia in 1619 after being forcefully removed from their natural environments left much behind, but their rhythms associated with music-making journeyed...Read more

Humans have sailed the world’s oceans for thousands of years, but they haven’t all reached port. Researchers estimate that there are some three million shipwrecks worldwide, resting in shallow rivers and bays, ...Read more

Maya Angelou’s often-quoted advice — When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time— is quoted so often because it’s so obviously true.

On Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump showed the world ...Read more

The FBI has acknowledged a "new message" tied to the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie's mother Nancy.

The Today show presenter Savannah's mother Nancy vanished from her home in Arizona last week, prompting an ...Read more

Quinton Aaron is "laughing and smiling" in hospital as he recovers from a "spinal stroke".

The Blind Side star - who starred opposite Sandra Bullock in the 2009 Oscar winning film - was rushed to hospital last week after ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The sites of the three consequential deaths span just over two miles of south Minneapolis. George Floyd in 2020, Renee Good and Alex Pretti last month.

The death of Floyd, after a police officer dug a knee...Read more

Austin Butler will play Lance Butler in a new biopic.

The 34-year-old actor - who was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's 2022 movie Elvis - is set to take on the role of cyclist ...Read more

Milly Alcock and Norman Reedus have joined the cast of Charli XCX's Takashi Miike film.

The House of the Dragon star Milly and Walking Dead actor Reedus will join Sho Kasamatsu and Kiko Mizuhara in the upcoming movie, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Tens of thousands of protesters marching with signs. A chorus of whistles shrieking to alert neighborhoods to the presence of federal agents. Parents escorting neighborhood children to school. People on ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Current and former gang members have long come to Homeboy Industries to get their lives back on track, in part lured by their trust in Father Greg Boyle, a Jesuit priest who founded the nonprofit nearly 40 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the days after Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in September while speaking at a Utah college campus, stunned followers of his conservative movement mourned online, condemning political violence. From his ...Read more

Ozzy Osbourne and Gary 'Mani' Mounfield will be remembered with a special tribute at the BRIT Awards.

The 76-year-old Black Sabbath rocker and the 63-year-old Stone Roses musician passed away last year within months of ...Read more

Neil Young has cancelled his entire tour.

The 80-year-old musician has called off his UK and European tour, which was due to begin at Cornwall's Eden Sessions on June 17 before ending in Udine, Italy on July 26, saying "...Read more

Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes have split up again.

The couple split in September after three years together, before briefly reconciling in January but are not believed to have called time on their relationship once ...Read more

Kaley Cuoco was "so depressed" she thought she was "gonna die" following her second divorce.

The Big Bang Theory star was married to former tennis player Ryan Sweeting from December 2013 to September 2015 but it was ...Read more

New York and New Jersey won a temporary court order blocking the Trump administration’s freeze on federal funds for the $16 billion Gateway tunnel under the Hudson River.

U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas on Friday ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump eliminated the extra 25% tariff he had imposed on Indian goods over the country’s purchases of Russian oil, the first step to cement the terms of a trade deal the two nations ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge has stopped the Trump administration from freezing funding for the Hudson River Tunnel project in an 11th-hour ruling.

The order by Manhattan Federal Court Judge Jeannette Vargas granted ...Read more

CHICAGO — The three leading Democrats in the March 17 U.S. Senate primary clashed Friday over how they finance their campaigns and proposed reforms to federal immigration enforcement operations as Congress debates a new ...Read more

Harvard University is proposing to limit the number of top grades awarded to undergraduate students, responding to concerns that grade inflation may weaken the meaning of a degree from the school.

The plan would cap A ...Read more