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Police seek clues after finding woman dead in Texas church, video of man dressed as a cop

May 17, 2019 at 11:40 p.m.

Even the authorities compare the circumstances surrounding the death of Terri Leann Bevers to a Hollywood procedural. Bevers, 45, had arrived at the Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian, Texas,...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

TV-watching record broken with four-day binge: ‘You forget there’s an outside world’

June 11, 2018 at 2:09 a.m.

Forget everything you know about binge-watching TV. Alejandro "AJ" Fragoso has you beat. He has everyone beat, in fact: He just set the binge-watching world record. On Friday, Fragoso holed...

An Indian man surfs a Facebook page at an Internet cafe in New Delhi on Feb. 9, 2016.

What it looks like when the Internet suddenly disappears

June 12, 2018 at 1:56 a.m.

Early one afternoon in November, Internet activity in Bangladesh fell off a cliff. The drop — to 5 percent of typical activity — lasted only an hour, but traffic would...

In his annual letter to shareholders, published Saturday, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett argued that Americans should look to the future with optimism, despite dour messages from the presidential campaign trail.

The case for a bright American future, according to billionaire Warren Buffett

June 11, 2018 at 2:22 a.m.

Sourpusses take note: One of the world's wealthiest and most respected investors thinks you're dead wrong about the future of the country. In his annual letter to shareholders, published on...

Florida man charged with throwing alligator into Wendy’s

March 30, 2019 at 5:42 a.m.

Florida authorities have arrested a man accused of throwing a live alligator through a restaurant's drive-thru window. Investigators identified Joshua James, of Jupiter, Florida, as the man who tossed the...

Beyonce, Chris Martin of Coldplay and Bruno Mars perform onstage during the Pepsi Super Bowl 50 halftime show at Levi's Stadium on Feb. 7, 2016, in Santa Clara, Calif.

Rudy Giuliani: Beyonce’s halftime show was an ‘outrageous’ attack on police

June 12, 2018 at 2:45 a.m.

New York's former mayor is not pleased with the Queen B.Rudy Giuliani, a onetime Republican presidential nominee, criticized Beyoncé on Monday for what he described as an "attack" on police...

Empty water filter boxes are stacked against the wall at a Flint, Mich., fire station Jan. 11, 2016. Residents had been told they could get filters and bottled water there, but the filters were gone by mid-afternoon and the water was all out a couple of hours later. Flint's 100,000 residents have been urged not to drink the water because of concerns over high lead levels.

Obama clears way for federal aid in Flint, Michigan, water crisis

May 25, 2019 at 12:50 p.m.

President Barack Obama on Saturday signed an emergency declaration for the state of Michigan, clearing the way for federal aid to help resolve the water crisis in Flint. For more...

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