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A Woman Takes The Wheel At GM

For the first time, a woman has been named CEO of a major U.S. automotive company. Mary Barra, 51, breaks a glass ceiling in one of the most male-dominated industries in the nation. But women buy more than half the cars in America, so the question is why it took so long.

Journalist Arnie Blondestone (Paul Giamatti) interprets the bizarro story at the heart of the too-twisty horror fantasy <em>John Dies at the End.</em>

Spoiler Alert: 'John Dies,' But The Rest? Who Can Tell?

Based on a web serial, Don Coscarelli's loopy, disorienting horror fantasy film seems like an overeager bid for cult-hit status, piling flashbacks on top of flashbacks on top of parallel universes, portals, space bugs, ESP, and a talking dog.

Over the last four decades, incomes in the United States have grown much less equal. Inequality is less pronounced in Western Europe.

Why America's 1-Percenters Are Richer Than Europe's

The share of total income of the top 1% of earners in the U.S. more than doubled over four decades. But in Europe, the gains were less dramatic. What accounts for the difference across the Atlantic?

Adele's <em>25</em> was (by far) the biggest album of 2015, selling more than 6 million copies in less than two months.

2015 In Album Sales: Adele, Adele, Adele

According to Nielsen Music, the singer's stratospheric success with 25 made her the year's top-selling artist by far — even though 25 was available in only the last six weeks of 2015.

Kim Darroch, the U.K.'s ambassador to the U.S., calls President Trump an inadequate leader who poses a threat to the international trade system, in memos leaked to the <em>Daily Mail</em>.

Trump Says He Won't Work With British Diplomat Who Called Him 'Inept'

Ambassador Kim Darroch paints Trump as incompetent and his administration as "diplomatically clumsy," in memos to the Foreign Office and leaked to the Daily Mail. Trump says the diplomat isn't liked.

Must ... stay .... awake: A Chinese paramilitary police officer yawns and his colleagues fall asleep while then-President Hu Jintao delivers a speech at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Dec. 18, 2008.

China's Communists Declare War ... On Boring Meetings

If the new Communist Party leadership in China has its way, the country will be saying zaijian to droning speeches and over-the-top red carpet receptions. These are the first concrete signs of change since China's new party leader, Xi Jinping, took power last month.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey.

No-Fly Zone In Syria Could Cost $1B A Month, U.S. General Says

Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has outlined the options and risks of U.S. military involvement in Syria. Read his letter to the chairman of the Senate's Armed Services Committee.

Libby Says President Authorized Leak

A former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney suggests in court papers that President Bush approved a leak of classified pre-war intelligence on Iraq. Lewis Libby's claims put the president and the vice president in the awkward position of having authorized leaks.

Kansas officials say weather conditions made it hard for cows to cool down in an intense heat wave. Here, cattle graze near wind turbines in Hays, Kansas, in 2017.

Days of intense heat have killed thousands of cattle in Kansas

Temperatures topped 104 degrees in the state's top cattle county. In widely seen video footage, rows of carcasses are shown lined up along the edge of a field.

French woman who refused sex with husband not to blame for divorce, rights court says

Europe's top human rights court ruled the woman's right to respect for private and family life had been violated when French courts found her solely at fault for her divorce because she withheld sex.

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