Vorbild für die Beatles, Elton John und Prince: Little Richard schuf mit seiner flamboyanten, sexuell ambivalenten Bühnen-Performance und seinem Hit "Tutti Frutti" die Grundlagen für den Rock'n'Roll.

Das Jahr 2020 ist bislang ungewöhnlich trocken, die Waldbrandgefahr ist hoch. Eine Karte zeigt das Risiko bundesweit - und berücksichtigt dabei auch Faktoren wie Windrichtung und aufziehende Regenwolken.

Folgen der Corona-Grenzschließungen: Beim Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge sind in den ersten Monaten dieses Jahres offenbar fast ein Drittel weniger Asylanträge gestellt worden als im Vorjahreszeitraum.

Nach seinen provokanten Aussagen zur Corona-Pandemie diskutieren die Grünen über einen Parteiausschluss von Tübingens Oberbürgermeister Boris Palmer. Nun macht ihm die FDP Avancen.

Ein Missbrauchsvorwurf gegen Joe Biden stürzt die US-Demokraten ins Dilemma. Seine Kritiker sagen: Würde er an den Standards gemessen, die er selbst aufgestellt hat, müsste er seine Kandidatur zurückziehen.

Ein 25-jähriger Mann hat die Anschläge auf Geschäfte türkischstämmiger Inhaber in Waldkraiburg gestanden. Der Tatverdächtige habe sich dem IS anschließen wollen, gab die Staatsanwaltschaft bekannt.

Fußball-Zweitligist Dynamo Dresden muss nach positiven Corona-Fällen für zwei Wochen in Quarantäne. Das könnte den Plan zur Fortsetzung der Saison gefährden. Denn die Chancengleichheit ist jetzt kaum noch gegeben.

Die einen befürworten Schutzmaßnahmen, die anderen protestieren vehement: Rhetoriker Olaf Kramer erklärt, warum die Coronakrise für heftige gesellschaftliche Spannungen sorgt - und wie wir miteinander reden sollten.

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Chicago: They were there when you were born and they’re there for you now. Mothers are first responders to any sickness or heartache that their kids have. They don’t come with sirens blaring, but have rescued us when we had a high fever, or tummy ache in the middle of the night.

Dear Mom,

A state full of parents who, having been suddenly forced to help homeschool youngsters, have by the millions grown more appreciative of the work of professional teachers in actual classrooms, had reason to worry when they heard how Gov. Cuomo trotted out plans for a Gates Foundation reinvention of public education statewide.

Every day should be Mother’s Day, because without mothers, none of us would exist. But today is the national holiday, designated 106 years ago by President Woodrow Wilson — a time when cards, flowers, chocolates and breakfast in bed typically accompany the kind words we send mom’s way.

“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes,” Mark Twain was first credited with saying in 1970, 60 years after reports of his death had ceased to be exaggerated.

COVID-19 has killed at least 19,000 New Yorkers and dealt a body blow with lasting consequences to the city. Two paths lie ahead. If pandemics become common, then not only New York City but all of America’s service-based economy faces a bleak future. If this terrible plague is a unique event, then things will eventually get almost back to normal. To save both the nation’s biggest and most productive metropolis and tens of millions of service jobs across the county, we must invest enormously to prevent future pandemics.

“A mother has no age,” the rabbi said as a masked handful of us buried my grandma in Queens last week. The next day, my friend lost her mom to COVID-19 after a weeks-long battle with the illness.

Nearly all of the assaults occurred on Thursday along the border of South Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant between 9:55 and 11:15 a.m., cops said.

A disabled Brooklynite who ran afoul of Department of Buildings officials by renting out his home to Airbnb users triumphed last week when a Manhattan judge ordered the city to repay his $4,375 fine and cover any additional costs and payouts in his battle with the de Blasio administration. The decision ended a legal battle pitting Stanley “Skip” Karol against the city that began with an anonymous phone call back in July 2018.

The C train reached its last stop just after 9 a.m. Saturday at the Euclid Ave. station in East New York when the man insisted he needed five more minutes before he could leave the car.

Former Mayo manager Stephen Rochford feels the difference between a Dublin side he calls the "greatest in history" and the Mayo, Kerry and Tyrone teams they have beaten on the way to five in a row is the ability to convert scoring opportunities in finals.

Two years ago, Galway lost their All-Ireland hurling crown to Limerick after a draining two-game semi-final against Clare.

In the latest in this series on the greatest matches he ever witnessed, RTÉ GAA commentator Darragh Maloney looks back at that 2000 All-Ireland SHC semi-final between Offaly and Cork.

Damian Lawlor celebrates the special place Clones has in the GAA and how Cavan-Monaghan this afternoon would have heralded the start of an Irish summer

The Georgia attorney general has promised his office will investigate the handling of the death of Ahmaud Arbery, the black 25-year-old man shot to death by two white men who escaped charges for more than two months.

Investigators are using additional video footage to reconstruct the February afternoon that Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot in a quiet southern Georgia neighborhood.

Flurries of snow descended in abject defiance of the calendar on Saturday, from Pennsylvania to Maine, with white globs of frozen water falling even in Manhattan.

He may have just welcomed a new baby, but Elon Musk can still act like one himself.

Alex Morgan has kicked off the spring in a big way.

He's still giving the money back though.

Many mothers are pulling double and triple duty caring for kids, juggling jobs, homeschooling, navigating financial hardship and acting as unofficial family doctor at time with unprecedented health concerns.

Fauci, 79, told CNN correspondent Jake Tapper that the contact was “low risk" — meaning he did not have direct contact with the sick staffer. A test Friday found Fauci did not have COVID-19, CNN reported.

The Georgia attorney general has promised his office will investigate the handling of the death of Ahmaud Arbery, the black 25-year-old man shot to death by two white men who escaped charges for more than two months.

The April jobs report showed the true devastation of the coronavirus pandemic on the workforce.

Three Minnesota teens have been arrested in connection with a video that shows a woman getting kicked in the head, the latest in a series of incidents targeting Asian Americans since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Investigators are using additional video footage to reconstruct the February afternoon that Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot in a quiet southern Georgia neighborhood.