The Knicks. The World Cup. Taylor Swift's likely wedding. It's the Summer of New York

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The Knicks. The World Cup. Taylor Swift's likely wedding. It's the Summer of New York

NEW YORK (AP) — It is a city bathed in the orange-and-blue afterglow of a Knicks championship, gushing with the joy of World Cup fans jamming its bars and its streets, enjoying a singular confetti-raining, fireworks-bursting, parade-rolling, smile-inducing moment that seems to make this place feel even more like the center of the universe it has always claimed to be.

Ann Blyth, teen star of 'Mildred Pierce,' dead at 98

Ann Blyth, teen star of 'Mildred Pierce,' dead at 98

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ann Blyth, a versatile Hollywood star who received an Oscar nomination at 17 as Joan Crawford's wayward daughter in “Mildred Pierce," sang opposite Mario Lanza and Howard Keel in such MGM musicals as ”The Great Caruso" and ended her film career before age 30, has died at age 98.