NEW YORK Michelle Obama’s memoir, one of the most highly anticipated books in recent years, is coming out Nov. 13. The former first lady tweeted Sunday that the book, to come out a week after the 2018 midterm elections, is called “Becoming.” By Sunday night, her memoir was in the top 20 on Amazon.com. “Writing […]

YOSEMITE, Calif. A well-prepared California hiker missing for six days in the icy backcountry of Yosemite National Park was found in good health after an extensive search, officials said. A helicopter crew spotted Alan Chow on Friday above Wapama Falls near the center of the park, where overnight temperatures dipped below freezing, the National Park […]

LONDON Paul McCartney and George Harrison’s widow and son have publicly remembered the late Beatle on what would have been his 75th birthday. “Happy Birthday Georgie. Wonderful memories,” McCartney tweeted Sunday along with a black and white photograph of the two of them taken during the Beatlemania days. Harrison died of cancer in 2001 at […]

BEIRUT Syrian forces launched a ground offensive today on a rebel-held eastern Damascus suburb despite a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding a 30-day cease-fire across Syria, as the U.N. chief denounced the violence in the embattled region, describing it as “hell on Earth.” The violence, along with airstrikes that killed 10 people today, according to […]

BEIJING The ruling Chinese Communist Party’s move to enable President Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely is likely to ensure some degree of political stability while also reviving the specter of a return to one-man rule, analysts said today. In a sign of the leadership’s sensitivities, Chinese censors acted quickly to remove satirical commentary […]