Top Stories

Hollywood writers are on strike. Thousands of unionized screenwriters who say they are not paid fairly for their work were headed for the picket line Tuesday after high-stakes negotiations between a top guild and a trade association representing Hollywood’s leading studios failed to avert the first major walkout in over …

Authorities found the bodies of seven people Monday on a rural property in Oklahoma during a search for two missing teens and an adult man, officials said. The property is just east of Henryetta, roughly 50 miles south of Tulsa, a spokesperson for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said. …

Police are searching for two inmates who escaped from a Virginia jail sometime over the weekend. The Prince Edward County Sheriff’s Office was notified around 4:00 a.m. Monday that Alder Marin-Sotelo, 26, and Bruce Callahan, 44, were missing from Piedmont Regional Jail in Farmville, Virginia. “We launched an immediate search …

People squeezed by inflation and demanding economic justice took to the streets of cities across Asia and Europe to mark May Day on Monday, in a global outpouring of worker discontent not seen since before the Covid-19 pandemic sent the world into lockdowns. French unions pushed the president to scrap a …

ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Sunday that Turkish intelligence forces had killed Islamic State leader Abu Hussein al-Qurashi in Syria. “This individual was neutralized as part of an operation by the Turkish national intelligence organization in Syria yesterday,” Erdoğan said in an interview with TRT Turk broadcaster. …

A man suspected of using an AR-15 rifle to kill five neighbors execution-style continued to elude an army of law enforcement hunting for him outside Houston over the weekend. Authorities said Sunday afternoon that Francisco Oropesa, 38, appeared to have slipped past a 2-mile dragnet of more than 150 law …

HELSINKI — A walrus that became a global celebrity last year after it was seen frolicking and basking in an Oslo fjord before it was euthanized by the authorities has been honored with a bronze sculpture in Norway. The life-size sculpture by Norwegian artist Astri Tonoian was unveiled Saturday at …

Multiple people died in a single-vehicle crash in New Mexico on Saturday afternoon, authorities said. The exact number of people who died in the crash on Interstate 25 near Hatch was not available. “Police can confirm that there was a single vehicle accident with multiple fatalities involving undocumented individuals,” New …

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, speaking Saturday at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, vowed to continue to work to free Americans believed to be wrongly detained abroad. During the annual event, Biden mentioned the plight of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, detained in Russia on March 29 and …

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Christale Spain, a longtime party operative, was elected Saturday as chair of South Carolina’s Democratic Party, becoming the first Black woman to lead the organization in what will be the Democrats’ leadoff presidential voting state in 2024. Spain was elected during the party’s convention Saturday in Columbia. …