Will Smith refused a request to leave the Oscars ceremony after he slapped presenter Chris Rock, Hollywood’s film academy said on Wednesday as it started a process that could lead to the best actor winner’s expulsion from the group.

U.S. oil prices fell 7% to close just above $100 on Thursday as President Joe Biden announced the largest ever release from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve and called on oil companies to increase drilling to boost supply.

A lesbian couple is suing a New York IVF clinic for implanting a male embryo instead of a female one, likening it to rape. 

A batch of dome-shaped ice volcanoes that look unlike anything else known in our solar system and may still be active have been identified on Pluto using data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, showing that this remote frigid world is more dynamic than previously known.

Events Wednesday squashed whatever fears might have lingered over the fate of an American astronaut who was relying on a Russian spaceship to carry him home.

This past weekend a church in Lexington, Kentucky, successfully raised a whopping $145,000 in a bake sale to help those displaced by the war in Ukraine. 

Bruce Willis, the star of the “Die Hard” franchise and dozens of other action movies, will retire from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, a disease that has hampered his “cognitive abilities,” his family said on Wednesday.