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The top U.S. general says the military must do more to improve career opportunities for Black Americans. They remain vastly underrepresented in some areas, including among Air Force pilots and in the top ranks of the military. Army Gen. Mark Milley is chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He told a Howard University ROTC commissioning ceremony on Wednesday that diversity is an important strength of the military. But, he added, "We must get better.” He said only two of 41 four-star generals are Black, even though the overall military is 20 percent Black.

Legal experts say the revelation that a juror who helped convict Derek Chauvin had participated in a march in Washington, D.C., months before the trial is unlikely to affect that guilty verdict. But that’s not always the case. Though rare, there have been cases in which convictions have been tossed out or reexamined after new information about a juror is discovered. Brandon Mitchell is one of 12 jurors who convicted Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd. He says the march he attended last summer in Washington was not about Floyd and was to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr's “I have a Dream” speech. 

NEW YORK (AP) — Not unexpectedly given the subject matter, HBO's two-part documentary “The Crime of the Century” opens with a body bag. It contained a man from San Diego — his remains carried away in the predawn hours after…

LONDON (AP) — Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy industrialized nations on Wednesday accused China of human rights abuses and economic mischief, but offered little concrete action to deal with an increasingly forceful Beijing. The top G-7 diplomats…

Rory McIlroy is back at Quail Hollow, the course where he won his first PGA Tour event. And he says his legacy is worth a lot more than whatever Saudi-backed money is available from a proposed super league. The concept has resurfaced ahead of the Wells Fargo Championship. A British newspaper reports that the Super League Golf is prepared to offer fees of up to $50 million to key players to join. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan told players in a previously schedule meeting they can't play both. That's the same message he had for them last year. No one is known to have signed up for the super league.

The Yankees and Mets can increase capacity from 20% to 100% at their ballparks for home games starting May 19 — as along as fans are vaccinated against COVID-19. And both teams will be giving away free tickets along with vaccinations. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made the announcement at a news conference with Yankees president Randy Levine and Mets president Sandy Alderson. While full capacity will be allowed in vaccinated sections, attendance in unvaccinated sections will be capped at 33%. Masks will continue to be required. Cuomo also said Broadway theaters will reopen Sept. 14.

Gia Coppola was feeling out of touch with popular culture when she stumbled upon the ending of Elia Kazan’s 1957 satire “A Face in the Crowd” several years ago. The story of a folksy truth-teller who rises to dangerous levels…

State lawmakers across the U.S. are reconsidering the tradeoffs of facial recognition technology amid civil rights and racial bias concerns. At least seven states already have enacted restrictions limiting government use of the technology and about 20 states are debating additional bills. States want to know how and why the technology is being used. Complaints about false identifications during protests over the killing of George Floyd prompted Amazon, Microsoft and IBM to pause sales of their face recognition software to police. The head of the National Sheriffs' Association calls it “fear-mongering politics at its worst.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Glenn Close recently made music-related headlines for her playful performance of “Da Butt” at the Academy Awards, but the revered actor has some real music news: she’s releasing an album with Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist-composer Ted Nash…

So much for Arsenal being one of the elite soccer clubs in Europe. The English team is facing the ignominy of being shut out of continental competition for the first time in 25 years only three weeks after being among the instigators of the controversially closed-off and ultimately ill-fated Super League. A failure to overturn a 2-1 deficit against Villarreal in the Europa League semifinals on Thursday would end Arsenal’s quarter-century run of participating in either the Champions League or UEFA’s secondary club competitions. Such a degrading of status would be ironic considering the planned Super League would have placed Arsenal as one of 12 elite teams in the European game.

BUCHAREST (AP) — Romanian police will investigate a possible poaching case involving an Austrian prince who is reported to have “wrongly” killed a massive male bear in a trophy hunt on a visit to the country’s Carpathian Mountains in March,…

LONDON (AP) — The United States, Japan and South Korea are plowing ahead with efforts to push North Korea back to nuclear negotiations despite the North's rejection of any such pressure. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Japanese…

The 2002 Washington D.C.-area sniper murders are being revisited in a powerful new documentary series. The eight-episode “I, Sniper” has dozens of interviews, from relatives of the snipers and their victims, law enforcement and everyday people who encountered the pair. But perhaps the most powerful voice is that of Lee Malvo, half of a two-man sniper team that killed 10 and terrorized the Washington D.C., region in 2002. The filmmakers coaxed Malvo to examine his life over 17 hours of calls that spanned years — all in 15-minute chunks, per prison rules. The series starts Monday on Vice TV.

PARIS (AP) — He’s well known in the U.K., and his photo was regularly splashed across the front pages of European newspapers. But as presidential elections approach in France, Michel Barnier – the EU’s Mr. Brexit and a potential contender…

The U.S. government is awarding a slew of big federal contracts to provide emergency shelters for more than 20,000 unaccompanied children who have recently crossed the border from Mexico. Child advocates worry that the companies receiving the contracts may not be properly equipped to care for the minors. An audit last year found that one of the companies had overcharged the government by more than $13 million. The Department of Health and Human Services says the shelters being provided are in line with the standards required during emergency situations. The agency says it also has taken “aggressive actions” to speed up the children’s release from the shelters.