Terence Stamp, the prolific English actor who played General Zod in the βSupermanβ films and earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the title character in βBilly Budd,β has died. He was 87. Stamp died of undisclosed causes Sunday morning, his family confirmed to Reuters. βHe leaves behind an extraordinary body of work, both…
By early 1963, the Station Hotel in London had become an epicenter of the burgeoning British blues scene. On a blustery, snowy night that February, the Rolling Stonesβ classic early lineup took the stage for one of the first times, dazzling the audience with ferocious renditions of blues standards like Muddy Watersβ βI Want to…
In a high-stakes decision that will shape Californiaβs economy for years to come, air regulators on Friday approved a sweeping overhaul of the stateβs signature climate program, cap-and-invest. The 10-3 vote from the California Air Resources Board determines how aggressively the Golden State will curb planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions in the years ahead β and…
TikTok βΒ now in U.S. hands after the social media service split from China-based ByteDance earlier this year β is raising concerns among some users about its new privacy policy, prompting questions about the scope of its data collection. TikTok on Jan. 22 confirmed that a new U.S.-based entity was in control of the app, with…
The acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento has said she was fired after telling the Border Patrol chief in charge of immigration raids in California that his agents were not allowed to arrest people without probable cause in the Central Valley. Michele Beckwith, a career prosecutor who was made the acting U.S. attorney in the Eastern…
The CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, is among the delegation of CEOs that met with US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Thursday. The maker of AI chips is hoping the meeting between the two world leaders will lead to a lifting of restrictions on sales to China. Also in this…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ President Trump said Monday that the federal government should βnationalizeβ elections, repeating β without evidence β his long-running claim that U.S. elections are beset by widespread fraud. Speaking on a podcast hosted by former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Trump said Republicans should βtake over the voting in at least 15 places,β alleging that voting…
Danielle Spencer, the former child star who played sassy tattletale Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom βWhatβs Happening!!,β has died. She was 60. Spencer died Monday after she βlost her battle with cancer,β her brother, jazz trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, announced on Instagram. Spencer had suffered other health issues β including a bleeding hematoma and a…
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Judy Reyes is making every moment count. Earlier this year, the Bronx-born Dominican actor reprised her breakthrough TV role as Carla Espinosa on the reboot of the beloved ABC medical sitcom, βScrubs.β For just four episodes, she returned to Sacred Heart Hospital as head nurse and an exhausted mother of four daughters, whom she parents…