• Art and science collide in enormous project at dozens of museums and galleries

    Art and science collide in enormous project at dozens of museums and galleries

    Oct 10, 2024 10:15 PM EDT

    ... shimmering objects, most from medieval times, a few created by contemporary artists, all part of an exhibition at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles called Lumen: The Art and Science of Light. And the wording of that subtitle is critical. Katherine Fleming is president and CEO of the Getty Trust ...

  • Former South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson dies at 77

    Former South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson dies at 77

    Oct 09, 2024 05:52 PM EDT

    ... 28 years in the House and Senate to strike bipartisan compromise, as winning elections came to overshadow everything else. "We have lost our way," Johnson lamented in his parting speech on Dec. 11, 2014. Born in Canton, South Dakota, Johnson earned a bachelor's degree from the University of South ...

  • Countries worldwide commemorate anniversary of Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel

    Countries worldwide commemorate anniversary of Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel

    Oct 07, 2024 02:38 PM EDT

    While asserting Israel's lights to live safely within its borders, Meloni insisted it respect international law and lamented the devastation unleashed by Israeli forces in Gaza. She said Palestinians in Gaza had been "victims twice over: first of Hamas' cynicism, which uses them as human shields, and then of ...

  • Read Jack Smith's unsealed court filing that says Trump 'resorted to crimes' after 2020 election

    Read Jack Smith's unsealed court filing that says Trump 'resorted to crimes' after 2020 election

    Oct 02, 2024 08:01 PM EDT

    The issue surfaced as recently as Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate when Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, lamented the violence at the Capitol while a Republican opponent, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, refused to directly answer when asked whether Trump had lost the 2020 race. The filing was submitted ...

  • News Wrap: Claudia Sheinbaum sworn in as Mexico's first female president

    News Wrap: Claudia Sheinbaum sworn in as Mexico's first female president

    Oct 01, 2024 10:40 PM EDT

    ... former President Jimmy Carter celebrated his 100th birthday. ... Geoff Bennett: And we start today's other headlines with three new world leaders stepping into the limelight from France to Japan to Mexico, where the country's first ever female president was sworn in. Claudia Sheinbaum, a scientist and Mexico City ...

  • John Amos, iconic screen actor from 'Good Times' to 'Roots' to 'The West Wing,' dies at 84

    John Amos, iconic screen actor from 'Good Times' to 'Roots' to 'The West Wing,' dies at 84

    Oct 01, 2024 08:55 PM EDT

    ... ultimately my being killed off the show was the best solution for everybody concerned, myself included.” Amos' character was killed in a car accident. Walker lamented the situation. “If the decision had been up to me, I would have preferred that John stay and the show remain more of an ...

  • At UN, China warns against 'expansion of the battlefield' in Russia's war with Ukraine

    At UN, China warns against 'expansion of the battlefield' in Russia's war with Ukraine

    Sep 28, 2024 04:22 PM EDT

    ... diplomatically and, sometimes, punishing those who do not. At every General Assembly high-level meeting, the leaders of scattered Taiwan-supporting nations — usually small ones — lament at the rostrum about the island's government being shunned by the international community. Wang's subjects in the speech varied Wang also weighed ...

  • Families still seek answers 10 years after 43 students disappeared in southern Mexico

    Families still seek answers 10 years after 43 students disappeared in southern Mexico

    Sep 27, 2024 03:08 PM EDT

    ... the findings of his own administration, asserting that those trying to link the military are driven by “political interests.” The United Nations Human Rights Office lamented in a statement Thursday the “unsatisfactory results” of authorities. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which sent experts to Mexico to aid in ...

  • Maggie Smith, star of stage, film and 'Downton Abbey,' dies at 89

    Maggie Smith, star of stage, film and 'Downton Abbey,' dies at 89

    Sep 27, 2024 02:09 PM EDT

    ... with a clutch of Academy Award nominations and a shelf full of acting trophies. She remained in demand even in her later years, despite her lament that “when you get into the granny era, you’re lucky to get anything.” Smith drily summarized her later roles as “a gallery of ...

  • Harris to campaign on southern border in Arizona in attempt to make immigration an issue that can win supporters

    Harris to campaign on southern border in Arizona in attempt to make immigration an issue that can win supporters

    Sep 25, 2024 06:32 PM EDT

    ... frequently visited the border and prosecuted drug- and people-smuggling gangs in that post. As she campaigns around the country, the vice president has also lamented the collapse of a bipartisan border security deal in Congress that most Republican lawmakers rejected at Trump's behest. Harris has worked to make ...