In break with the past, Met opera is devoting a third of its productions to recent work
The Metropolitan Opera is broadening its repertoire this season by performing more recent operas alongside classics like “La Boheme.”
2023-09-20 01:23
Climate change made storm that devastated Libya far more likely and intense, scientists say
Scientists say climate change made the devastating storm along the Libyan coast up to 50 times more likely and 50% more intense
2023-09-20 00:59
House Republicans struggle to find consensus in closed-door party meeting amid government shutdown threat
House Republicans are still struggling to reach consensus on a plan to fund the government, with lawmakers going back-and-forth over the issue during a closed-door party meeting on Tuesday morning.
2023-09-20 00:57
Man accused in deaths of 18 elderly women in Texas killed in prison by his cellmate
Official says a man accused of killing nearly two dozen elderly women who was convicted last year of in the slayings of two was killed by his cellmate early Tuesday morning in a Texas prison
2023-09-20 00:56
US SEC charges investment firm linked to Russian billionaire
WASHINGTON The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday charged Concord Management and its owner with failing
2023-09-20 00:50
Why new fighting in Azerbaijan's troubled region may herald a new war
Azerbaijan’s launch of reportedly intense artillery firing in the Nagorno-Karabakh region has raised fears that another full-scale conflict with Armenia could be underway
2023-09-20 00:25
Americans are united in their negative perception of national politics, new Pew report finds
Americans' outlook on national politics is best summarized as "dismal," according to a wide-ranging new Pew Research Center report released Tuesday.
2023-09-20 00:16
US issues more sanctions over Iran drone program after nation's president denies supplying Russia
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on seven people and four companies in China, Russia and Turkey who officials allege are connected with the development of Iran’s drone program
2023-09-19 23:58
Nigeria gay wedding suspects freed on bail, lawyer says
A Nigerian court has freed on bail more than 60 people arrested last month during a police raid on a suspected gay wedding, their lawyer told CNN after a bail hearing Tuesday.
2023-09-19 23:52
Ray Epps, center of a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory, is charged with a misdemeanor over the Capitol riot
An Arizona man who became the center of a conspiracy theory about Jan. 6, 2021, has been charged with a misdemeanor offense in connection with the U.S. Capitol riot
2023-09-19 23:52
Over 1,200 children have died in the past 5 months in conflict-wrecked Sudan, UN says
The U.N.’s refugee agency says more than 1,200 children under age 5 have died in nine camps in war-scarred Sudan in the past five months because of a deadly combination of measles and malnutrition
2023-09-19 23:49
Expect farm bill in December, says chair of Senate farm committee
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON The top Senate negotiator of the United States' largest farm spending package is looking
2023-09-19 23:24