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Van Gogh's Strange Afterlife

Opinion Journal - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
In "Solar Dance," Modris Eksteins examines one of the 20th-century's most famous counterfeit cases: a cache of fake Van Goghs that Berlin art dealer Otto Wacker released into the market. Hugh Eakin reviews.


My Way on the Highway

Opinion Journal - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
In "Engines of Change," Paul Ingrassia writes about automobiles that swept the American imagination at various periods. Joseph Epstein reviews.


Five Best: Hollywood

Opinion Journal - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
Author Leo Braudy on books about the world's movie capital, from its beginnings as a dusty outpost for silent-movie production, through the gaudy century that followed, to the present, when a slow resurrection is underway.


Blackpool 1-0 Birmingham

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
An own goal by Curtis Davies earns Blackpool a narrow first-leg semi-final lead over Birmingham in the Championship play-offs.
Categories: BBC, News

Wigan 36-22 Hull KR

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
Josh Charnley scores a hat-trick as Wigan beat Hull KR, while referee Phil Bentham is stretchered off with a suspected broken leg.
Categories: BBC, News

Family donates NFL star's brain

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
The family of former NFL star Junior Seau has donated his brain for research into the effects of head trauma on professional football players.
Categories: BBC, News

TransCanada reapplies for oil pipeline

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Canadian company trying to build the disputed Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S. submitted a new application for the project Friday after changing the route to avoid environmentally sensitive land in Nebraska....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Affirmative action backed in largely black Brazil

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
SAO PAULO (AP) -- Brazil's top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across this nation, which has more blacks than any country outside Africa yet where a severe gap in education equality between races persists....

Woman in Secret Service case calls agents 'fools'

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A woman who says she was the prostitute who triggered the U.S. Secret Service scandal in Colombia said Friday that the agents involved were "idiots" for letting it happen, and declared that if she were a spy and sensitive information was available, she could have easily obtained it....

Woman in Secret Service case calls agents 'fools'

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A woman who says she was the prostitute who triggered the U.S. Secret Service scandal in Colombia said Friday that the agents involved were "idiots" for letting it happen, and declared that if she were a spy and sensitive information was available, she could have easily obtained it....

Woman in Secret Service case calls agents 'fools'

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A woman who says she was the prostitute who triggered the U.S. Secret Service scandal in Colombia said Friday that the agents involved were "idiots" for letting it happen, and declared that if she were a spy and sensitive information was available, she could have easily obtained it....

Woman in Secret Service case calls agents 'fools'

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A woman who says she was the prostitute who triggered the U.S. Secret Service scandal in Colombia said Friday that the agents involved were "idiots" for letting it happen, and declared that if she were a spy and sensitive information was available, she could have easily obtained it....

3 convicted, 6 acquitted in sex trafficking case

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee federal jury split its verdict Friday against nine people accused of operating a sex trafficking ring across three states run mostly by Somali refugee gang members, convicting three men and acquitting six....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Egyptian troops, protesters clash in Cairo

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian troops blasted protesters with water cannons, tear gas and live ammunition, trying to prevent them from marching on the Defense Ministry Friday in clashes that left one soldier dead and scores of people injured just three weeks ahead of presidential elections....

Romney: Regular people teach him about struggles

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

Romney: Regular people teach him about struggles

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

Romney: Regular people teach him about struggles

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

Romney: Regular people teach him about struggles

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

Romney: Regular people teach him about struggles

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

Romney: Regular people teach him about struggles

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 04:28
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....
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