LOS ANGELES — Betty Boop and “Blondie” are joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain.
The first appearances of the classic cartoon and comic characte...
Richard Smallwood, a gospel singer and recording artist nominated eight times for Grammy Awards, has died. He was 77.
Smallwood died Tuesday of complications of kidney f...
NEW YORK — From Sydney to Paris to New York City, crowds rang in the new year with exuberant celebrations filled with thunderous fireworks or light shows, while others to...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that come...
ROME — Pope Leo XIV opened 2026 on Thursday with a plea for peace, singling out in particular countries “bloodied by conflict” and families wounded by violence.
Leo cele...
CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — A fire ripped through a bar’s New Year celebration in a Swiss Alpine resort less than two hours after midnight Thursday, with dozens of peopl...
KYIV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian drone strike killed 24 people and wounded at least 50 more as they celebrated the New Year in a Russian-occupied village in Ukraine’s Kherson ...
Today is Thursday, Jan. 1, the first day of 2026. There are 364 days left in the year. This is New Year’s Day.
Today in history:
On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Linco...
NEW YORK — The U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission wants to turn America's 250th birthday celebration into the country's single biggest year for volunteering.
But America...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian drones blasted apartment buildings and the power grid in the southern Ukraine city of Odesa in an overnight attack that injured six people, includ...
