Tennis great Stan Smith on life lessons and Arthur Ashe’s legacy
Fancy footwork won him Wimbledon.Simple footwear won him everything since.“The shoe has had a life of its own,” said Stan Smith, 78, whose eponymous Adidas…
Fancy footwork won him Wimbledon.Simple footwear won him everything since.“The shoe has had a life of its own,” said Stan Smith, 78, whose eponymous Adidas…
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — On Jan. 1, Pete Buttigieg’s second term ended, and the “Mayor Pete” era in South Bend was over. In the Democratic presidential candidate’s…
Norco High’s softball program under coach Richard Robinson has been setting the standard for excellence in the Southern Section for years. The top-seeded Cougars will…
JOHANNESBURG — Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who gained international recognition for his leading role in the 2005 film “Tsotsi,” which won South Africa’s first-ever Academy…
SAN FRANCISCO — Inside the once-bustling campaign headquarters for California’s medical marijuana initiative hangs a portrait of an angel with delicate wings, a sly smile and a…
About 80 years ago, guitarist and inventor Les Paul built a home recording studio in his Hollywood garage on North Curson Avenue and began developing…
WASHINGTON — When Nancy Pelosi first held the speaker’s gavel in 2007, liberals in her caucus wanted to impeach President Bush over the Iraq war. Pelosi…
Head of landmine-clearing NGO explains how the explosives still kill in peacetime and why the world is failing to clean up its wars.Long after wars…
Pope Francis was never drawn to pomp or grandeur. He asked to be buried in a simple casket, and his burial was held not in…
Last week, President Trump announced he won’t recognize Indigenous Peoples Day and will bring Columbus Day “back from the ashes” — another sign some Native…
What will Pope Francis be remembered for? Al Jazeera’s Virginia Pietromarchi looks at his legacy. Source link
The head of the Roman Catholic Church dies at the Vatican at the age of 88.Pope Francis was widely regarded as the “people’s pope”. He…
A day before Easter, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a temporary ceasefire for the Christian holiday. Like other Russian promises, this one was broken too.…
LEXINGTON, Mass. — Thousands of people came to this Massachusetts town over the weekend to witness a reenactment of how the American Revolution began 250 years ago,…
Mohammad Yousuf Dar and his wife, Shameema, sit cross-legged in front of their loom, deftly tying consecutive knots to create the floral patterns of the…
NBC’s “Suits LA” has said its final farewell to John Amos, months after the screen legend died late last summer. The “Suits” spinoff on Sunday…
Val Kilmer has died at the age of 65 from pneumonia, leaving behind a career that reached far beyond action movies. Source link
A man has been charged with 64 offences after a major investigation into a funeral directors in Hull in which police removed 35 bodies and…
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was killed 30 years ago on the afternoon of March 31, 1995 in Corpus Christi, Texas, by Yolanda Saldívar.While she has been gone…
I still remember exactly where I was when I found out that Selena Quintanilla-Pérez had been murdered.I was 9, a fourth-grader in south Texas, sitting…