National Lifestyle

VENICE, Italy (AP) — For Angelina Jolie, portraying the famed opera singer Maria Callas meant more to her than she can put into words. “I felt such a privilege to feel like I got to know this woman and got to be inside her skin a moment.

At least nine people have died after being infected with listeria from Boar's Head deli meats tied to a massive recall last month, federal health officials said Wednesday.

BERLIN (AP) — The suspects in the foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna earlier this month sought to kill “tens of thousands” of fans before the CIA discovered intelligence that disrupted the planning and led to arrests, the agency's

TORONTO — Canadian rock band Metric and singer-songwriter Sam Roberts are adding fuel to this year's Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a long summer of technical glitches, most of America's prospective college students finally applied for federal financial aid — an annual process upended by a redesign-gone-bad .

VENICE, Italy (AP) — Angelina Jolie has played an evil queen, a war correspondent, a hacker, an international spy and a sociopath and is now adding opera singer to her resume.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A “mega den” of hundreds of rattlesnakes in Colorado is getting even bigger now that late summer is here and babies are being born.

The Reklaws' journey on “America’s Got Talent” has come to an end. Canadian country duo Stuart and Jenna Walker were eliminated from the competition show Wednesday night after their quarterfinals performance failed to secure enough fan votes.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Rapper-turned-actor Chris “Ludacris” Bridges sparked concern from some social media followers when he knelt on an Alaska glacier, dipped an empty water bottle into a blue, pristine pool of water and drank it.

TORONTO — Content from specialty channels bound for Rogers including Cooking, OWN, Discovery Science, Motor Trend and Animal Planet will be streamed and on demand when the brands switch to the media giant next year. Rogers Communications Inc.