Michael S. Rosenwald

A photograph of the Princess of Wales at the Alma Bridge in Paris marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Diana, who died in a car crash in a nearby tunnel August 31, 1997.

Diana’s last day: Dodi’s yacht, a Ritz suite, a diamond ring and relentless photographers

June 2, 2018 at 10:11 p.m.

The last day of Princess Diana's life began on the top deck of her lover's yacht, with croissants and fresh jams. Diana and her beau, Dodi Al Fayed, sipped their...

The Discovery Channel's annual Shark Week will include "Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White," with Olympian Michael Phelps testing his speed against that of a great white shark.

Michael Phelps vs. a shark: The bizarre history of humans racing animals

June 3, 2018 at 10:09 a.m.

A few months after embarrassing Adolf Hitler by winning four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Jesse Owens traveled to Cuba for an exhibition race against Julio...

Gun industry, with help from Donald Trump Jr., hopes to ease restrictions on hard-to-buy gun silencers

June 6, 2018 at 2:48 p.m.

The federal government has strictly limited the sale of firearm silencers for as long as James Bond and big-screen gangsters have used them to discreetly shoot enemies between the eyes....

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Eddie Vedder donates $10,000 to help save Christmas for a Maryland family

June 8, 2018 at 6:14 p.m.

Donnell Booker Jr. tore through the wrapping paper on Christmas morning, revealing a seven-inch Kindle Fire and a smile nearly as wide. "This is my tablet," the 8-year-old said. "My...

A woman stands among 15 crosses posted on a hill above Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., on April 28, 1999, in remembrance of the 15 people who died during a school shooting on April 20.

April ushers in ‘the killing season,’ mass murder researchers say

June 21, 2019 at 5:39 a.m.

Mass-murder researchers and terrorism experts do not like turning their calendars to April. For them, it marks the beginning of what one calls "the killing season."Timothy McVeigh blew up a...

Police tape surrounds the area of a random shooting on Feb. 21, 2016, in Kalamazoo, Mich.

In Kalamazoo, an agonizing wait for a mass shooter’s motive

June 21, 2019 at 10:40 p.m.

Investigators say they are baffled. Neighbors are totally bewildered. All around this traumatized city, residents wonder whether they will ever learn why Jason Brian Dalton allegedly gunned down random strangers...

Paper industry tries to write new future with ad blitz

June 15, 2018 at 5:28 p.m.

Remember paper? Memos to sign. Maps to fold. Letters to write. Calendars to flip. Wistful paper executives remember. They've watched email, annotatable PDFs, digital calendars and paperless billing diminish more...

Across the country, librarians are steering tight acquisition budgets to e-books.

Libraries check out the future

June 15, 2018 at 6:17 p.m.

The hallmark of public libraries — the printed book, bound by covers and centuries of page-turning — is being shoved aside by digital doppelgangers. Around the country, libraries are slashing...

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