As a journalist and author, she wrote meticulous portraits of people for The New Yorker. Her book “Is There No Place on Earth for Me?” won the Pulitzer Prize. By Trip Gabriel Susan Sheehan, a Pulitzer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kent State Professor Jerry M. Lewis promised Sandra Scheuer’s mother, Sarah, that he would tell the story of May 4, 1970, for as ...

KENT, Ohio — Dr. Jerry Lewis, whose more than four decades as a professor at Kent State University were highlighted by his actions both during and after the May 4 massacre, has died at the age of 88.

Dóra Maurer, a Hungarian conceptual artist whose output in multiple mediums explored how meaning shifts across time and space, has died at 88. The Art Newspaper reported that the Széchenyi Academy of ...

Celebrated civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson died early Tuesday, his family said in a statement, after battling the neurodegenerative disorder progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). He was ...

Legendary actor and director Robert Duvall has passed away. He was 95 years old. His wife of over 20 years, Luciana, announced his passing in a post on Facebook and said he died on Sunday “peacefully ...

After Jesse Jackson’s death, former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis put out a brief statement through his son on Facebook. “I was sorry to hear this,” Dukakis said. “Jesse inspired a lot of people.

An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force, forming a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people and seeking the presidency. His mission, he said, was “to transform the mind ...

Former NFL offensive lineman Tre' Johnson died on Sunday while the family was on a trip, according to a Facebook post from his wife, Irene. He was 54 years old. "It is with a heavy heart that I inform ...

Season 3 of “XO, Kitty,” Netflix’s hit rom-com following teen matchmaker Kitty Song Covey (Anna Cathcart), will premiere on the platform on April 2. The forthcoming season will follow the series ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...

Greg Brown, founding guitarist of alt-rock band Cake and the man behind the group’s breakout hit “The Distance,” has died at age 56. “It is with heavy hearts that we share the news of Greg Brown’s ...