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Dolly Parton was more than a musician, actor, author, philanthropist, or theme-park entrepreneur. Parton, who died Tuesday at age 80, occupied a space in our global cultural imagination — a figure of American mythology, someone best described as larger-than-life and then a little bit more. But from the very beginning, at the heart of everything she accomplished, she was a songwriter.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins acknowledged American farmers’ concerns over the escalating trade war with Canada Tuesday but insisted the United States will come out on top.
Why can’t America agree on what time it is?
The United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross on Tuesday ratcheted up a joint call for countries to adopt bans and restrictions on use of autonomous weapons systems — often known as “killer robots” — warning that “the risks have intensified.”
Congress members call on Marco Rubio to ‘use every tool’ at his disposal to secure release of 20-year-old Sama Safi.
The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces on Tuesday announced the official dissolution of the group, which once controlled a de facto autonomous zone in Syria’s northeast.
A tornado ripped through a small village in southern France, damaging about 300 homes, destroying several cars and injuring dozens of people, authorities said Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has decreed that the state can temporarily seize control of critical infrastructure facilities if private owners fail to protect them from Ukrainian drone attacks or rebuild them after the strikes.
Evacuations were being ordered Tuesday in rural Texas where a wildfire has ballooned in size, burning through ranchland and forcing schools to delay or cancel classes.
The center claims Pirro and her subordinates abused their prosecutorial powers to seek baseless indictments against President Donald Trump’s perceived political enemies.
Dolly Parton, the country music icon whose soaring vibrato vocals, poignant songwriting and sparkling costumes defined her rise from a log cabin in the Tennessee mountains to the height of stardom and acclaim, has died.
Texas and Florida accounted for nearly 20,000 of the July arrests. The agency has been bolstered by billions of dollars from Congress and has hired 12,000 new deportation officers and agents.
The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index dipped to 89.4 in August from 90.2 in July.
Australia’s recorded music industry will bar tracks wholly generated by artificial intelligence from official charts as burgeoning generative technologies threaten artists’ livelihoods, a representative said on Tuesday.
Claims by Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell that her sex trafficking conviction was a “complete miscarriage of justice” were rejected Tuesday by a federal judge who said her assertions were based on “speculation, distortions, and/or outright falsehoods.”
Rather than saying that President Donald Trump’s order is legal, the high court said Monday it was too early for Democratic-run states to challenge it in June, when they convinced a federal judge in Boston to freeze the order for November’s election.
The two-week runoff window since the two Republicans were the top vote-getters in an Aug. 11 primary has been a slugfest.
Kirk Heilbrun told jurors that he didn’t believe Clancy’s claim that she hallucinated a voice telling her to kill her children, who ranged from 8 months to 5 years old. He said he instead believed she took their lives so they wouldn’t “suffer” after she killed herself.
Copernicus warns of ‘unprecedented strain’ on world’s oceans as El Nino and climate change drive up sea temperatures.
A Thai vendor confronted Israeli tourists outside his shop on the island of Phuket, waving a Palestinian flag.