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Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa’s epic is still breathtaking. To watch it again is to be swept along, all over again, by…

A performance of the Broadway musical “Suffs” was briefly disrupted Tuesday when protesters unfurled a banner with the slogan “Suffs Is a White Wash” and chants of “Cancel ‘Suffs!’” The Tony Award-winning show’s producers and creative team…

Richard Petty has a record 200 wins in the NASCAR Cup Series to go along with seven championships. The Hall of Fame driver known as “The King” and his family have been with the stock car series since its inception in 1948. He turned 87 this…

Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy has come under fire from creditors including two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him. The creditors say they'll likely ask next week that the case be dismissed…

Jessica Campbell will become the first woman to work on the bench of an NHL franchise after the Seattle Kraken hired her as an assistant coach Wednesday. Campbell has spent the past two seasons working as an assistant coach for Seattle’s…

Philadelphia sports radio host Howard Eskin has been suspended from Phillies home games for the rest of the season after investigations by his employer showed he kissed a worker for Citizens Bank Park’s food service provider without…

The U.S. government has officially ended its legal fight against an upcoming dive to the Titanic shipwreck. That's because the expedition will no longer enter the ship's hull or take artifacts from the site. The U.S. has said doing so would…

At least two people are injured and another is missing after an explosion at a defense weapons plant in Arkansas. A spokesperson for General Dynamics says it happened Wednesday morning at its Ordnance and Tactical Systems facility in…

Global software giant Microsoft Corp. will pay $14.4 million in California to settle allegations that it discriminated against employees who took protected leave from work. The California Civil Rights Department announced the terms of the…

Wall Street’s record-breaking rally kept going after weak reports on the economy kept the door open for possible cuts to interest rates. The S&P 500 rose 0.5% Wednesday to set an all-time high for the 33rd time this year. The Dow Jones…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Wednesday: Quest Diagnostics, Southwest Airlines rise; Simulations Plus falls.

Starting next week, California residents have 30 days to challenge maps that will determine how $1.8 billion is distributed to increase internet access. Getting the California Public Utilities Commission to accept any changes to the maps is…

California lawmakers have voted to place a pair of $10 billion bonds on the ballot this November. The bonds would pay to build and repair school buildings and help communities prepare for the impacts of climate change. Money from the bonds…

As it stands on the threshold of power in France, the far-right National Rally is facing scrutiny about some of the candidates it hopes will help it secure a ruling majority in legislative elections on Sunday. They include a woman it has…

Suburban Chicago mom Keely Roberts counts the days, not years, since a deadly shooting at an Independence Day parade in 2022 injured her and left one of her twin boys paralyzed from the waist down. She says it has been 730 days since her…