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PARIS (AP) — Françoise Hardy, a French singing legend and pop icon since the 1960s, has died. She was 80. Her son, musician Thomas Dutronc, announced her death on social media, sharing a poignant photo of himself as a child with his mother. Hardy, who had been battling lymphatic cancer since ...
... the fuel, and it’s working with other companies to develop alternate supplies. The U.S. Energy Department is working on developing it domestically. Edwin Lyman co-authored an article in Science on Thursday that raises concerns that this fuel could be used for nuclear weapons. Lyman, the director of ...
For decades, families who have had loved ones kidnapped overseas have often had to work with consultants to get their relatives freed. Negotiating with kidnappers, terrorists and hostile countries is a murky and secretive world. One of the leading hostage negotiators has stepped into the limelight and written a book ...
... as two weeks ago and dismissing the “backlash from drivers set in their ways” who worked to stall implementation. Her change of heart was widely lamented by transit advocates as a betrayal of a key state environmental initiative that was expected to provide an annual cash infusion of around $1 ...
... remains high and extortion rates have risen some 50 percent. Organized crime has spread geographically and expanded business operations, including protection rackets for avocado and lime farmers, contraband energy producers, and migrant smugglers. Complaints of public corruption are also rising. Meanwhile, the militarization of security has meant cuts to state ...
... you know, that's a real concern for me. John Ross: My name is John Ross. I am a 71-year old widower with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. I don't go to restaurants. I don't go into inside places. Julie Lam: My name is Julie Lam. I am immunocompromised ...
Republicans showed no sign of loosening their embrace of the party leader, with House Speaker Mike Johnson releasing a statement lamenting what he called “a shameful day in American history.” He called the case "a purely political exercise, not a legal one.” The first criminal trial of a former American ...
... to evacuate, officials said Tuesday. A mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees devastated Yambali in the South Pacific nation’s remote highlands when a limestone mountainside sheared away Friday. The blanket of debris has become more unstable with recent rain and streams trapped between the ground and rubble, said ...
... violence that authorities are unable to contain. Local authorities on Sunday accepted the village population had been substantially more than 4,000 people when the limestone mountainside sheared away, but a revised estimate was not yet available. Justine McMahon, country director of the humanitarian agency CARE International, said moving survivors ...
... a year-long tour of China, but she found herself criticized there for her stereotype roles rejected in Hollywood for being too Asian she later lamented, and in China for being too American. She returned to the United States and found modest success in the infancy of television starring as ...
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