Gerry Conway, a renowned comic book writer who helped create characters and stories for Marvel and DC, including the Punisher character in the Spider-Man comics, has died.

Carnegie Corp. of New York's 2025 class of Great Immigrants, Great Americans include composer and conductor Tania León, last year's Nobel Prize winner in economics Simon Johnson, and Voto Latino CEO Maria Teresa Kumar.

The crime-fighting arm of the IRS has identified more than $32 billion in funds this past fiscal year for eventual seizure.

LOS ANGELES John Ridley will write the new Batman comic series with plans of the Dark Knight being a person of color. The Oscar-winning screenwriter and DC publisher Jim Lee announced plans for Ridley to write the miniseries during a DC FanDome virtual panel on Saturday. The four-issue comic is scheduled to release in January. Ridley said the series will focus on the family of Lucius Fox, who is one of Bruce Waynes closest allies. Ridley won an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay in 2013 for his work on 12 Years of Slave.