Michael J. Fox has recently undergone spinal surgery and is currently recovering, according to the actor’s spokesperson. Fox, who currently has a recurring guest arc on ABC’s “Designated Survivor,” “recently underwent spinal surgery unrelated to his Parkinson’s,” his rep said in a statement. “He is recovering, feeling great, and looking forward to getting back on the golf course this summer.” The reason for the surgery was not made public.

The war with the Saviors is dunzo, but will Rick Grimes face a civil war after his decision to spare Negan’s life in Sunday’s Walking Dead season finale? Will season nine begin with a significant time jump, as the comic book did after the end of the war with the Saviors? And how will Jadis — er, Anne — and her helicopter factor into the survivors’ ambitious rebuild in the season ahead? Vulture chatted post-finale with outgoing TWD showrunner Scott Gimple...

A recent Sunday afternoon at the Bridge City Collective cannabis shop in North Portland saw a steady flow of customers. Little wonder: A gram of weed was selling for less than the price of a glass of wine. The $4 and $5 grams enticed Scotty Saunders, a 24-year-old sporting a gray hoodie, to spend $88 picking out new products to try with a friend. "We've definitely seen a huge drop in prices," he says.

Snow falling at 1 to 2 inches per hour and 50-mph wind gusts are creating whiteout conditions. Eight to 15 inches of snow is expected, and travel is discouraged. Flights are grounded at MSP Airport, and Sunday events are now getting called off.

The 1967 blaze at Cornell University killed 9, including members of a fast-track Ph.D. program. No one was ever charged, but an amateur investigator thinks he knows who set it.

It’s no small task for teenagers to detach from those who have superintended nearly every aspect of their lives so far.

Nintendo Co. is teaming up with San Francisco-based Scrum Ventures to scout startups working on new ways to play or use the Japanese company’s hit gaming console, the Switch. The program, run by Scrum, will look for startups, teams within larger companies or university researchers developing new tools to improve the Nintendo Switch platform, including components, sensors, chips or other add-ons, the venture capital firm said. Scrum and Nintendo will provide developers with assistance to bring ...

Apple has been ordered by a federal court in Texas today to pay $502.6 million to a patent troll called VirnetX, the latest turn in an eight-year-old legal battle over FaceTime and iMessage patents, according to Bloomberg. Apple and VirnetX have been fighting in court since 2010, when the patent-holding company said the iPhone maker infringed on four of its patents related to internet-based communications. The legal battle has been protracted, and it involves...

Belgian cyclist Michael Goolaerts died in hospital on Sunday at the age of 23, hours after suffering heart failure during the gruelling Paris-Roubaix one-day classic race in France. "It is with unimaginable sadness that we have to communicate the passing of our rider and friend Michael Goolaerts," the rider's Veranda's Willems team said in a statement on Twitter.

Firefighters battled a blaze on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, on Saturday evening. The New York Fire Department confirmed it had responded to a three-alarm fire, which broke out shortly before 6pm local time. Footage posted on social media showed a vast amount of smoke billowing from multiple windows, with at least five fire engines spotted in Fifth Avenue.

NEW YORK—After years of complaints from players and fans over the outmoded mandate, the New York Yankees announced Wednesday they would eliminate the organization’s longstanding “no pubic hair” policy. “Effective this season, we are removing most of the restrictions on members of the New York Yankees growing their pubic hair,” said co-chairman Hal Steinbrenner, who admitted that while the rule had been an important part of Yankee culture since the 1960s...

There’s a fake form of marijuana going around Illinois — and it’s making people bleed from their eyes and ears. The Illinois Department of Public Health issued a warning about synthetic “weed” known as “spice,” “K2” or “Mind Trip” on March 27. At that time, there were six people who reported “severe bleeding” after taking the fake pot since March 7, according to the state department.

Self-driving cars could kill hundreds of people every year in the early going but save many more lives, a Toyota executive said Thursday at an event near the New York Auto Show. After a self-driving Uber car killed a pedestrian in Arizona earlier this month, concerns about the movement toward autonomous transportation have escalated. But Toyota North America CEO Jim Lentz said Thursday that more deaths are coming as automakers and tech companies pursue self-driving vehicles.

The government is promising to reduce active tuberculosis in the North by half within the next seven years, ahead of a broader goal to eliminate the disease by 2030. The eradication plan is to be led by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, which represents the 65,000 Inuit living in Canada, and will focus firstly on preventing deaths related to tuberculosis among children.

Black Panther is ruling Wakanda, the global box office and as of Tuesday, he is also the king of Twitter. The Marvel Studios blockbuster "Black Panther" is the the most-tweeted about movie of all time, Twitter announced on Tuesday in statement. The film, which stars Chadwick Boseman and is directed by Ryan Coogler, has amassed more than 35 million tweets.

Staff at Our Lady of Grace Church thought they received a suspicious package in the mail on Wednesday, but they were instead greeted by a pleasant surprise. The contents? A baby Jesus statue that had apparently been stolen from the church nearly 90 years ago. The Rev. Alex Santora, who writes The Jersey Journal's "Faith Matters" column, said the package was delivered via USPS with a tracking number but no return address information. He called the shipping company and learned only ...

Joanne Seiff, a resident of Manitoba, contracted Lyme disease a couple of years ago but didn’t remember pulling off the tick that bit her; nor did she have the telltale bullseye rash of a tick bite. Her husband Jeff Marcus, who grew up in New York’s Hudson Valley, about an hour and a half from the eponymous town of Lyme, Connecticut, recognized her symptoms immediately because Lyme disease was common there.