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Adele James is addressing a colorism controversy over a Netflix docuseries in which she stars as Cleopatra.

State Senate lawmakers passed a bill Thursday that would update California's civil rights law to explicitly include protections against discrimination based on a person's perceived caste. The measure now heads to the state Assembly.

There is a "significant risk" that the federal government will no longer be able to pay all its obligations in the first two weeks of June if the debt limit remains unchanged, the Congressional Budget Office said Friday.

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman is retiring from her role as second in command at the State Department, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Friday.

An unpublished, as-yet-untitled book by an unnamed author shot up the US bestseller lists this week, thanks to preorders from Taylor Swift fans who believed it to be her memoir.

More than 50 high temperature records could be broken through Monday as heat builds across the western US and Canada.

America's most-watched PBS station is on the verge of going dark.

Adam Levine is set to reunite with Blake Shelton on "The Voice."

Two fishermen who were accused of cheating during the Lake Erie Walleye Trail fishing tournament last September -- after it was discovered their fish were stuffed with lead weights and fish fillets -- will serve jail time for the crime, according to court documents from a Thursday sentencing hearing.

What's eating Yevgeny Prigozhin?

Fort Benning, a massive US Army training base near Columbus, Georgia, was renamed Fort Moore on Thursday to honor the late Lt. Gen. Harold "Hal" Moore and his wife Julia, who both made "meaningful and lasting contributions" to the Army, officials said.

A newly described butterfly genus has been named after a character in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

Dogs taking over a front office, Josh Allen becoming a paperboy, and Angela from "The Office" starring alongside Peyton Manning can only mean one thing -- the NFL schedule has just been released.

Dolly Parton took a moment during the 2023 ACM Awards to remember two of her friends.

Daniel Penny, a US Marine veteran who held homeless street artist Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on a New York subway train earlier this month, has surrendered to police to face a second-degree manslaughter charge.

"STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie" is a remarkable accomplishment, making brilliant use of film clips to seamlessly illustrate and augment reenactments and the actor's narration of his story, having spent more than 30 years living with Parkinson's disease. Nostalgic without becoming overly sentimental, it's an ode to Fox's life, career and the struggle he continues to endure.

Astronauts have been adjusting to the challenges of sleeping in space for years, including light exposure and zero gravity. The lessons learned from their experiences could help ensure that the first crewed missions to Mars get enough rest.

After generations of trying to produce the power of a star on Earth, a successful nuclear fusion ignition happened in the middle of a December night and was over in 20-billionths of a second.

Turkey's main opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu has accused Russia of interfering in the country's ongoing presidential election campaign.

The Eurovision Song Contest might be taking place this weekend in Ukraine, had circumstances been different. Instead, Liverpool has become a Kyiv-on-the Mersey.