Year: 2021

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tupac Shakur’s handwritten lyrics from classic songs such as “California Love” and “Dear Momma” along with galleries that pay homage to his upbringing and late mother are among the features in a massive touring museum exhibit. The Shakur Estate announced Tuesday that “Tupac Shakur.

PARIS (AP) — The lone survivor of the Islamic State cell that attacked Paris in November 2015 is coming under public questioning for the first time in France. Salah Abdeslam discarded a malfunctioning explosive vest on Nov. 13, 2015 and fled home to Belgium. He is one of 20 men on trial for the coordinated

Kristen Stewart is engaged to screenwriter Dylan Meyer. The 31-year-old actor announced the news the Howard Stern Show Tuesday. Stewart told the host: “We’re marrying, it’s happening.” She also revealed that Meyer did the proposing, saying she had “very distinctly carved out” what she wanted. The actors says Meyer “nailed it.” The two started dating

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s government says Sabah Fakhri, one of the Arab world’s most famous singers, has died at the age of 88. The death was announced on Tuesday. Fakhri has entertained generations with traditional Arabic songs and preserved extinct forms of Arabic and Syrian music. He was born

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A senior U.S. diplomat has urged Sudan’s top general to restore the country’s civilian-led government and free officials and politicians detained in connection with last week’s coup. The call by U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffery Feltman on Tuesday comes as mediation efforts are

MOSCOW (AP) — A top Russian security official has met with the visiting chief of the Central Intelligence Agency in Moscow. Kremlin Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev met CIA Director William Burns on Tuesday to discuss U.S.-Russian relations, according to Patrushev’s office. It didn’t provide any details. Ties between the two countries have badly frayed

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The head of the U.N. food aid agency says the drought-stricken island nation of Madagascar is a “wake up call” to what the world can expect in coming years due to climate change. David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Program, told The Associated Press on

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The judge who presided over the trial of Derek Chauvin has made public the names of jurors who convicted the former Minneapolis police officer of murder in the death of George Floyd. Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill also Monday released the names of alternates who watched the trial but did not

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A TV station says a Los Angeles police helicopter recorded images of what appeared to be a human-shaped inflatable toy floating in the sky about two weeks after the second of three airline crew reports of a possible jetpack flier. KNBC-TV reports the helicopter crew took photos and video of the

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A month after a Southern California offshore oil spill, environmental advocates say they plan to sue the federal government over the failure to review and update plans for platforms off thecoast. The Center for Biological Diversity says it sent notice Tuesday to the Secretary of the Interior of its intent

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Interior Department is preparing to offer oil and gas lease sales on large tracts of public land despite concluding that burning fossil fuels from those parcels could carry huge costs and contribute to climate change. Burning oil, natural gas and coal from federally owned lands