National Lifestyle

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department is teaming with actor Robert Downey Jr. to recruit up to 1,000 new workers focused on climate change and clean energy.

Film scholar Jacqueline Stewart has been named the next director and president of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.

TORONTO, Ohio — Mirvish Productions is scuttling plans to resurrect "Jesus Christ Superstar." Mirvish announced Wednesday that the pandemic-plagued touring production will no longer return to Toronto this summer.

TORONTO — Clement Virgo's adaptation of a coming-of-age novel set in Toronto's hip hop scene is bound for the Toronto International Film Festival.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, the “100% Satisfaction Guarantee” was all the rage among many hotels. The gist was simple: Encounter a problem and receive your money back.

LONDON (AP) — Microsoft's acquisition of game publisher Activision Blizzard faces antitrust scrutiny in the U.K., where competition regulators said Wednesday they've opened an initial inquiry into the $69 billion deal.

MADRID (AP) — Italian singer Raffaella Carrà, a 20th-century pop icon both at home and in many Spanish-speaking countries, has had a square in Spain's capital named in her honor one year after her death.

Most compact SUVs seat five people. But there are a few that also come with a third-row seat to boost capacity up to seven passengers.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Residents of a former fishing village along Newfoundland's remote southern coast are considering whether to pack up and leave everything behind — for good. The people of Gaultois, N.L.

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) — Amid the stream of mass shootings that have become chillingly commonplace in America, the reality of the nation's staggering murder rate can often be seen more clearly in the deaths that never make national news.