Director and producer Jean-Marc Vallée, who won an Emmy for directing the hit HBO series “Big Little Lies” and whose 2013 drama “Dallas Buyers Club” earned multiple Oscar nominations, has died. He was 58. His representative, Bumble Ward, said Sunday that Vallée died suddenly in his cabin outside Quebec City, …

 The district attorney’s office that prosecuted a trucker who was sentenced to 110 years in prison for an explosive crash that killed four people in suburban Denver will request a reduced term of 20 to 30 years. Jefferson County District Attorney Alexis King said in a statement Thursday evening she …

A vulnerability living inside a Java-based software known as “Log4j” shook the internet this week. The list of potential victims encompasses nearly a third of all web servers in the world, according to cybersecurity firm Cybereason. Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Oracle, Cisco, Google, and one of the world’s most …

cIllinois’ Democratic governor JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed off on a new congressional map that could result in the loss of two GOP seats, but the state is an outlier in a trend giving Republicans the advantage in redistricting ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.  Republicans control the process for redrawing …

Little is known about the company behind the most popular e-cigarette brand among high school and middle schoolers. For two years, Puff Bar has been operating in the shadows. It listed its mailing address first to a shuttered storefront on skid row in Los Angeles and more recently to a …

President Biden acknowledged the soaring inflation rate in a speech Wednesday at the Port of Baltimore that was meant to tout his infrastructure and social spending plans. “The American people, in the midst of an economic crisis, that recovery is showing strong results, but not to them,” Mr. Biden said. …

Kenosha, Wisconsin — A paramedic who was shot by Kyle Rittenhouse at a police brutality protest in August 2020 testified Monday about his tense confrontation with the teenager before taking a bullet in the arm. Jurors watched footage of the moment Rittenhouse shot Gaige Grosskreutz at close range with an …

The latest tax plan to pay for President Joe Biden’s social spending bill would exact a minimum tax on the nation’s biggest companies and slap a surtax on the very wealthiest Americans, among other provisions. It also includes international taxation reforms, would close tax loopholes benefiting the rich and boost …

Even the COVID-19 pandemic’s biggest corporate winners can’t escape some of the biggest problems now plaguing the economy. Apple and Amazon warned Thursday that global supply-chain snags and U.S. labor shortages will dent their earnings and worsen heading into the holidays.   The tech giants are grappling with a lack of semiconductors, higher shipping …

The following is a transcript of an interview with Congressman Bennie Thompson that aired Sunday, October 24, 2021, on “Face the Nation.” MARGARET BRENNAN: We want to turn now to the investigation into the events leading up to the Jan. 6 attacks on the US Capitol. The chair of the …