Sony Pictures says it grossed more than $1 million at the box office in Thursday’s limited release of its comedy “The Interview.” Some 320 theaters in the United States — about 10 percent of the amount originally planned — showed the film, about a week after Sony had suspended its release because of threats of […]
The gunman who shot dead two New York City police officers had a history of violence and mental illness, according to a top police official. Ismayyil Brinsley, 28, shot and killed officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos as they sat in their patrol car Saturday in Brooklyn. Brinsley then fled into a nearby subway station […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. officials are treating a cyberattack on Sony Pictures as a “serious national security matter,” with the National Security Council considering a proportionate response, the White House said Thursday. Evidence shows the attack against Sony was carried out by a “sophisticated actor,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. But he declined to blame North Korea, […]
Seventy years after his death, then 14-year-old George Stinney Jr got justice of sorts when his conviction for the killing of two young white girls was vacated by South Carolina Judge Carmen Mullins on Wednesday morning. Young Stinney was executed in that state’s electric chair less than three months after his conviction on the murder […]