Actor Eric Close is moving out of "Nashville" as the 48-year-old's character, Teddy Conrad, will no longer be a regular on the ABC musical drama. The network declined to comment on the decision, though it apparently opted "to place the focus of the show squarely on the music business.
Hours after state lawmakers approved the bill, North Carolina's governor on Thursday vetoed legislation that would allowed some court officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages.
Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced the indictments of 15 Chinese nationals who they say cheated on college-entrance exam as part of an attempt to fraudulently obtain U.S. student visas.
A French court on Wednesday handed a French bartender a four-month suspended jail sentence and a year-long suspension for serving a customer 56 shots, an amount of alcohol that led to the man's death last October.
The mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico's capital city, had a run-in with a New York cabbie on Wednesday when the driver refused to take her to her Bronx hotel.
Soccer officials elected Sepp Blatter to a fifth term as FIFA president despite the corruption scandal that has engulfed the international sports organization.
For the second year in a row, the Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in a tie on Thursday as 13-year-old Vanya Shivashankar and 14-year-old Gokul Venkatachalam were crowned co-champions of the competition.
Another Tuesday, another Mega Millions drawing - and still now winner. All in all, 18 draws have now come and gone since March 24, the last time a player managed to hit the lottery's jackpot. The good news for those feeling lucky this time around is that the big prize is up to an impressive $233 million.
Mexican authorities on Tuesday released singer José Luis Gastón Hurtado, better known by his stage name "Cox," following his arrest over the death of his girlfriend, Paola López.
Pedro Rivera's new album will contain a song he recorded years ago with Jenni, years before the singer's daughter embarked on her own successful career.
McDonald's plans to toast its hamburger buns longer and sear and grill its beef in a way that makes patties juicier in an effort to win back customers.
More than 280 regional champions competed on Wednesday in the in two preliminary rounds of the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 49 who survived the initial exams now await word on who will move on to the finals, scheduled to air at 8 p.m. Thursday on ESPN.
Google is funding an initiative aimed at helping people living with disabilities through the use of emerging technologies. The company has put up $20 million in Google.org grants and issued an open call to identify new areas of opportunity.
In preparation for an even larger drill in September, 12,000 Russian soldiers this week are conducting air-defense exercises in the Ural mountains and western Siberia. The war games, which began on Monday and are to last until Thursday, also involve 250 aircraft.
With a nearly 30 percent decline in its black-market value against the dollar, the Venezuelan currency continued to drop at a stunning rate in May, a development likely to put further pressure on the South American nation's fragile economy.
Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina skipped diplomatic protocol by bluntly calling the Chinese "not terribly imaginative" prior to announcing her 2016 presidential bid, Bloomberg reported. The former Hewlett-Packard chief made the comment in a discussion on the Common Core educational benchmarks.
One great way to show your gratefulness could be to tag a message of support to your iPhone 6. Luckily, there are a number of smoothly designed cases that will both protect your device and get that point across, as well.
At least 13 people were killed and more than 200 injured when a tornado ripped through Ciudad Acuña, a border town of 125,000 located in the Mexican state of Coahuila, across from Del Rio, Texas.
A tabloid widely viewed as a mouthpiece for the Chinese regime warned on Monday that a war with the United States would be "inevitable" if Washington were to interfere with Beijing's ever-expanding presence in the disputed South China Sea.
The surge of violence El Salvador has seen since the end of a 2012 truce between two street gangs has not only led to the homicide rate spiking to its highest level in a decade, but is also putting the spotlight on the Central American country's powerful anti-gang police unit.
A participant in this year's Miss BumBum competition - a popular contest to find Brazil's best derriere - this week stunned commuters on São Paulo's famed Paulista Avenue when she hopped on a bus dressed only in a bikini.
Draw 17 has come and gone, and once again no player managed to hit the Mega Millions jackpot - a feat unaccomplished since March 24. The good news for those feeling lucky this time around is that the lottery's big prize has therefore cracked the $200 million threshold.
Ada Colau, who rose to political prominence as part of Spain's "indignados" protest movement, on Sunday was elected mayor of Barcelona, the Wall Street Journal reported. Her leftist coalition was one of several non-traditional parties able to claim triumphs in the country's municipal and regional elections.
American feminist leader Gloria Steinem, two Nobel Peace laureates and two dozen other activists from 15 countries on Sunday used a bus to cross the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South Korea in what they declared to be a landmark event.
