Texas opens investigation of reported immigrant child death

Osheaga concert goer wants class action suit over tardy headline act Travis Scott

MONTREAL — A frustrated Osheaga concert-goer is seeking to sue the promoter after last Friday’s headline act showed up late and after she had left. Travis...

With new category, Oscars are now a popularity contest

NEW YORK — Not since Faye Dunaway shouted “La La Land!” has an Oscar announcement caused quite as much chaos as the Academy of Motion Picture...

Israel faces crocodile conundrum with stranded reptiles

An Israeli businessman appears to have bitten off more than he can chew with plans for a crocodile farm in a West Bank settlement. Hundreds of crocodiles have...

Julia Roberts, reboots and diversity part of new TV season

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — What’s the television industry’s top summer destination? A hotel in which 200-plus U.S. and Canadian entertainment reporters and critics gather for an...

Dominguez wants dialogue to clear ambiguities of federalism

MANILA — Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has maintained that the draft federal constitution contains ambiguous provisions on the allocation of expenditures for the would-be federated government...

Samsung’s new phone shows how hardware innovation has slowed

NEW YORK — Samsung’s new smartphone illustrates the limits of innovation at a time when hardware advances have slowed. The new phone, the Galaxy Note 9, will be faster and...

Peso unmoved, local stocks downed by lackluster GDP

MANILA — The lower-than-expected growth of the Philippine economy in the second quarter of 2018, which was at a lackluster six percent, resulted in the negative close...

BSP raises inflation projection

MANILA — The central bank’s policy-making Monetary Board (MB) on Thursday revised upwards the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) inflation projection for 2018-19 amid rising inflation. In...