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Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia. What is FTD?

Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia. What is FTD?

Bruce Willis’ family has announced that he has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia .
Alan Gilbert extends contract with Hamburg orchestra to '29

Alan Gilbert extends contract with Hamburg orchestra to '29

NEW YORK (AP) — Alan Gilbert agreed Friday to a five-year contract extension as chief conductor of the Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in Hamburg, Germany, a deal that runs through the 2028-29 season. The New Yorker, who turns 56 on Feb.
Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia, condition worsens

Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia, condition worsens

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly a year after Bruce Willis' family announced that he would step away from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, his family says his “condition has progressed.
Biden hosts screening of film about lynching of Emmett Till

Biden hosts screening of film about lynching of Emmett Till

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday hosted a screening of the movie “ Till ,” a wrenching, new drama about the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till , who was brutally killed after a white woman said the Black 14-year-old had made improper advan
HarperCollins union approves contract, ends 3-month strike

HarperCollins union approves contract, ends 3-month strike

NEW YORK (AP) — Striking union members at HarperCollins Publishers have approved a tentative agreement reached last week and will return to work Tuesday, ending a walkout that lasted more than three months and became the center of an ongoing debate a
YouTube CEO steps down, severing longtime ties to Google

YouTube CEO steps down, severing longtime ties to Google

NEW YORK — Susan Wojcicki, a longtime Google executive who played a key role in the company's creation, is stepping down as YouTube's CEO after spending the past nine years running the video site that has reshaped entertainment, culture and politics.
Gear, goods to celebrate birds and a big global count

Gear, goods to celebrate birds and a big global count

If you're planning to take part in the four-day, global Great Backyard Bird Count this month (Feb. 17-20), or if you just love birds, there's plenty of gear and goods to help you enjoy them.
Advocates chronicle LA's Virgin of Guadalupe street art

Advocates chronicle LA's Virgin of Guadalupe street art

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — There’s nothing that Oscar Rodriguez Zapata enjoys more than going out for a drive to explore Los Angeles’ vast neighborhoods in search of the Virgin of Guadalupe .
CNN's Don Lemon regrets saying Nikki Haley past her 'prime'

CNN's Don Lemon regrets saying Nikki Haley past her 'prime'

NEW YORK (AP) — Don Lemon startled some colleagues on CNN's morning show Thursday with his implication that Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, at age 51, was past her prime.
Rise of Asian leads in network TV shows, now ABC's 'Company'

Rise of Asian leads in network TV shows, now ABC's 'Company'

In fourth grade, Catherine Haena Kim could not muster the courage to audition for the female lead of her school's production of William Shakespeare's “The Tempest.” But her teachers saw something in the way she held herself in the classroom.
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