Front-Runners Pulling Away From Rivals

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Big Ben, which has kept time in London for 157 years, will fall silent for several months during renovation.

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In the latest loss of big-name talent at ESPN, Skip Bayless, who debates Stephen A. Smith on the network’s “First Take” program, appears to be headed to Fox Sports.

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The Church of England has released a short prayer that some see as a sign the church sides with those who want Britain to remain a member of the European Union.

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Facing tough competition, Dannon is tapping into the public’s concern about food sources by establishing animal welfare and conservation standards for its suppliers.

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A second lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. to block a plan to send eight chimpanzees living in a research laboratory in Atlanta to a wildlife park in Kent, England.

Yogi Berra’s three sons have made a new deal to market their father’s name and likeness and sell remaining pieces of his memorabilia collection.

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A professor who gained notoriety by questioning whether the massacre in Newtown, Conn., was a government hoax has sued a Florida university for firing him.

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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a small moon around Makemake, one of the dwarf planets beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Health officials in Tennessee have confirmed six cases of measles in the Memphis area since Thursday, surpassing in one weekend the nationwide total for all of 2016.

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That smell of fresh-baked apple pie wafting through the Broadway theater? It’s producers of the musical “Waitress” replicating a small-town, pie-making diner.

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Canada’s new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, is now such a digital star that more than a million people watched his YouTube explanation of quantum computing. 

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Snapchat, the social network of choice for many younger voters, has joined a legal battle to ensure the right to take a selfie inside the voting booth.

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Severe weather, including the possibility of tornadoes and showers with softball-size hail, is forecast for a large swath of the Plains on Tuesday.

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A security guard was wrong to stop a North Carolina middle school choir from singing the national anthem at the National September 11 Memorial Museum, officials said.

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New York City’s public hospital system “is on the edge of a financial cliff,” Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration is warning, proposing an infusion of $2 billion.

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The full jury for next month’s 69th annual Cannes Film Festival will include George Miller, the Australian director and the jury’s president, and the actress Kirsten Dunst.

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The organizer of a party at a water park in Taiwan last year that ended with an explosion that killed 15 people was sentenced to nearly five years in prison.

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The celebrity chef Rachael Ray was accidentally pulled into social media attacks by Beyoncé fans intending to disparage the designer Rachel Roy.

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Prince has rocketed to No. 1 as fans buy (yes, buy) his albums. Eight of the singer’s albums have returned to the Billboard Top 200 in the days after his death.

The arrests of children under 12 in a bullying case have distressed a Tennessee city. The incident was filmed, but the roundup led to an internal police investigation.

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The ambitious young prince who oversees the economy of Saudi Arabia rolled out a grand vision for the future of the kingdom.

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Stephen Curry will miss two weeks with a sprained knee. His Warriors have a 3-1 lead in Round 1 of the playoffs.

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A man with a rifle opened fire at students as they left a high school prom in Wisconsin on Saturday, injuring two. He was killed by a police officer, the authorities said.

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What really happened to a bust of Winston Churchill that was in the Oval Office? President Obama may, finally, have cleared up some of the confusion.

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A hundred years ago this week the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland was reported in depth in the American news media, reflecting the growing clout of Irish-Americans.

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The map on “Game of Thrones,” the dripping crimson of “Daredevil,” the brooding landscapes of “True Detective”: Opening titles are getting more memorable and elaborate.