By Mark Savage
BBC Music reporter
It's one year since music legend David Bowie died of cancer.
The musician died two days after his 69th birthday, having kept his illness hidden from everyone except his family and closest collaborators.
He had only just released his 25th album, Blackstar, which came to be seen as his "parting gift" to fans, reflecting as it did on themes of mortality and decay.
It was a typically adventurous and enigmatic record from a musician who maintained a sense of mystery throughout his career. Read More...
Hunter Biden and his attorneys have sent a letter making several demands of Fox News, including one that threatens litigation if the network does not remove content from its website that includes sexually explicit images of the president’s son.
The letter also demands that Fox News issue a retraction or correction to news coverage about allegations that the Biden family was bribed by a Ukrainian oligarch. Much of that coverage was based on information from Alexander Smirnov, an FBI informant who said he had ties to Russian intelligence and has since been charged with lying about the matter by the Justice Department. Read More...
Alberto, the first named tropical storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall near Tampico, Mexico, on Thursday morning. The sprawling storm has unleashed strong winds and heavy rainfall in both northeast Mexico and Texas while producing a significant ocean surge that stretched as far north as Louisiana, 700 miles from the storm’s center.
As of 11 a.m. Eastern time, the storm weakened to a depression about 95 miles west of Tampico. Read More...