KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters lifted stranded people to safety Friday as Nepal and China raced to respond to catastrophic flash floods that killed more than 470 people and left more than 1,500 missing. Nepal authorities said the death toll there rose to 469, injured people were […]

Can one spoil a TV series based on a 125-year-old novel? I won’t, but let the record show that I badly want to. Netflix’s My Brilliant Career, a six-part adaptation of the book by Australia’s Miles Franklin, seems so obviously to be doing one thing that its reversal is a gut punch. I watched the […]

“I will always love you …” If you have been alive in America at any point in the last half-century, you have heard those words in one of two voices — Dolly Parton’s original, a spare country farewell written as a professional goodbye, or Whitney Houston’s cover. Both belong to the same woman: the songwriter from […]

The midterm elections are less than 70 days away, but a handful of outstanding legal cases in federal courts and at the Supreme Court could directly affect the elections on everything from mail-in voting and how much party committees will be forced to spend on television ads. The GOP and Democratic Party are both beefing […]