And her fans were called Noranians for their devotion to a performer who had enthralled her country — onscreen and on the concert stage — since she was a teenager.

A product of the San Francisco rock crucible of the 1960s, he fashioned his own brand of the blues, blending gospel, soul, rock and other genres.

François Bayrou’s popularity has plunged as his word is doubted on events at a Catholic school to which he had several ties.

Besha Rodell’s memoir, “Hunger Like a Thirst,” is also a fascinating capsule history of restaurant criticism.

A few months after Emmilee Risling went missing, her parents received a map. It was crudely drawn, sketched in ink on lined notebook paper. Slashed lines indicated roads; a rectangle marked a fire station. An acquaintance had passed it along from an …

Many scientists contributed to the final result, but he was the one who, as a young physicist, designed the world’s deadliest weapon. He went on to advise a dozen presidents.