Image copyright TIFF Image caption Jamie Foxx and Michael B. Jordan star in Just Mercy Michael B Jordan has described the “huge responsibility” he felt while playing a real-life lawyer who represents black inmates on death row. The actor’s latest film Just Mercy premiered in Toronto on Friday. Jordan plays Bryan Stevenson, an Alabama lawyer […]
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Rookie Tim Melville struck out eight in 5 2/3 innings, and the Colorado Rockies beat the San Diego Padres 3-2 Friday night to snap a season-long, nine-game losing streak. It was a matchup of the worst teams in the NL West. The Rockies, who made the postseason each of the last two seasons, came in
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Politics isn’t necessarily what immediately comes to mind when you think of The Avett Brothers. But the band couldn’t help but be influenced by the world around them while writing songs for their upcoming album, “Closer Than Together,” due out Oct. 4. “We didn’t make a record that was meant to comment on the sociopolitical
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Christian Yelich bounced back at a big moment for the Milwaukee Brewers. Yelich hit his 44th homer and Zach Davies pitched five effective innings for his first win since July, helping the Brewers beat the Chicago Cubs 7-1 on Friday night. Milwaukee pulled within four games of Chicago for the second NL wild card. The
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President Trump assured Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, on Thursday that he was still considering legislation that could include background checks for gun buyers. But White House aides said they had polling data showing that gun control was politically problematic for the president, according to two people briefed on the meeting. Inside
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Sarandon’s film Blackbird premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday Susan Sarandon has voiced her support for assisted dying after taking on the role of a terminally ill woman. The actress’s new movie Blackbird sees her play a mother named Lily who gathers her family to tell them
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Ketel Marte hit a three-run homer, Josh Rojas singled home two more, and the Arizona Diamondbacks extended their surge into playoff contention, beating the Cincinnati Reds 7-5 on Friday night. The Diamondbacks have won 10 of their last 11 games and 13 of 17, leaving them 2½ games behind the Cubs for the final NL
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Maine will soon become the first state to adopt ranked-choice voting in presidential elections. Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, announced on Friday that she would allow a bill recently passed by the Maine Legislature to become law without her signature. The first vote conducted under the new law will be the general election in November
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The NBA star told The Associated Press at a premiere on Wednesday for the upcoming film he executive produced called “The Game Changers” that he visited Hart a day earlier in the hospital. The “Night School” actor, Paul said, is “being strong.” “Kev is a brother to me, and I went by and saw him
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BANGKOK — About one million Rohingya Muslims in camps in Bangladesh could soon lose a vital connection to the outside world if the government moves forward with a threat to suspend cell service to the world’s largest refugee settlement. Citing “state security” and “public safety,” the Bangladeshi telecommunications minister ordered a halt this week to
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