The U.S. is dismantling key communications efforts abroad, once a major part of its efforts to build soft power. Its rivals are eager to fill the vacuum.

The sequel had a tough act to follow, but it still delivered a terrifying monster movie with grand sequences, a sweeping score and an indelible tagline.

Motivated by the helplessness of his boyhood, he described the lives of vulnerable people in conflicts around the world and later his own terminal illness.Rod Nordland in 2018, a year before his cancer diagnosis. A reporter for 40 years, he covered most...

Barry Hansen, mostly known by his D.J. name, said he’d leave the airwaves after 55 years of playing parody songs. His syndicated show was once heard on more than 150 radio stations.Barry Hansen, who was better known as Dr. Demento, wore a top hat and tu...

A model who was crowned Miss Sweden in 1961, she became best known for commercials that one observer said “replaced the ‘hard sell’ with the ‘sex sell.’”