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In the many tributes that have been paid to John McCain over the last few days, he has been praised as a warrior, prisoner of war, leading member of Congress, presidential candidate, and statesman. Despite their differences with him, many if not most commentators have been quick to praise McCain as a great American.
The happiest places in the world are those where enlightened leaders shifted their focus from economic development to promoting quality of life. "The biggest predictors of happiness are tolerance, equality, and healthy life expectancy," Dan Buettner, a National Geographic writer and the author of The Blue Zones of Happiness , said Saturday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, which is cohosted by The Aspen Institute and The Atlantic.
The Titanic might have rested undiscovered at the bottom of the ocean floor for much longer if a top-secret Cold War navy mission hadn't taken place. The previously classified story behind the Titanic's discovery is part of National Geographic's new exhibition "Titanic: The Untold story."
Much of cable television has become toxic. The poison comes from overheated primetime shows that blend together things that don't mix: news, analysis and opinion.
In 1970, Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. On April 13, 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. on the 200th anniversary of the third American president's birth.
Keely Smith first became famous in the 1950's while working with her then-husband Louis Prima. She also became a crony of Frank Sinatra and worked with Nelson Riddle.
This image released by Lucasfilm shows Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in "Star Wars: The Last Jedi." With glowing reviews from critics and $450.8 million of worldwide box office in the first three days of release of "The Last Jedi," all would seem to be right in the "Star Wars" universe.
Alec Baldwin reprised his role as President Trump on "Saturday Night Live" in a cold open inspired by "A Christmas Carol." In the sketch, Baldwin as Trump is visited by "the ghost of witness flipped" Michael Flynn, the president's fired national security advisor , appearing in chains in the style of Charles Dickens' doomed ghost Jacob Marley.
Garrison Keillor, the former host of "A Prairie Home Companion," said Wednesday he has been fired by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations of what the network called improper behaviour. Keillor told The Associated Press of his firing in an email.
Quite fittingly, in his "retirement" speech this week Sen. Jeff Flake, this relentless champion of the relentlessly Stalinist Castro regime, attacked Communist-fighter Joe McCarthy. "As I contemplate the Trump presidency, I cannot help but think of Joseph Welch," Flake emoted.
In this Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, file photo, David Letterman speaks during the unveiling of a Peyton Manning statue outside of Lucas Oil Stadium, in Indianapolis. Letterman is being honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Oscar Wilde, the author of "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "The Importance of Being Earnest," and infinite witticisms seemingly ready-made for Facebook-"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes"-is a revered cultural icon. Perhaps for the first time, though, he's being revered in NoMad, where a recently opened bar is named after him.
Video shows 21-year-old Allen Armentrout dressed in a Confederate uniform surrounded by protesters on Aug. 15, saluting a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee at Charlottesville's Emancipation Park, following the "Unite the Right" rally Aug. 12. According to his family history, Allen Armentrout's great-great-great-great grandfather once put on a Confederate uniform and went off to war for the losing side of the U.S. Civil War.
During a political debate between Ann Coulter and Ana Kasparian of the Young Turks, Coulter danced a strange line between bashing President Donald Trump while also defending him. Coulter explained that one only need to look at what Trump promised he would do and what he has actually done.
I once confessed to an audience gathered for a pre-show talk about Pride and Prejudice that I felt a bit salty to see so many of them in attendance. A few months earlier, I explained, I'd given an absolutely fascinating lecture on Mary Shelley to maybe five people, one of whom was my Aunt Carmen.
In one of the latest examples of our information crisis, CNN took a story this week about how a friend of Donald Trump said after a meeting at the White House that he thought the president was considering firing Robert Mueller. Then the network sloppily repackaged the story so it could report that Trump was, in fact, thinking about terminating the special counsel.
During an interview Friday with Glenn Beck, another former Fox News Channel personality who was the subject of an advertiser boycott, Bill O'Reilly complained of a liberal "hit job" that did him in. "In the weeks to come we're going to be able to explain all of it," O'Reilly said in his first interview since he was fired on April 19. "It has to do with destroying voices that the far left and the organized left-wing cabal doesn't like."
Ultraliberal singer Barbra Streisand lamented Hillary Clinton's election loss in an interview with Leonard Lopate on Wednesday on the New York public radio station WNYC. Like Hillary, Streisand blamed sexism, not Hillary, for the defeat.
Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly returned to work Monday with his fervent delivery intact, despite a much lower profile. 'The truth will come out,' Bill O'Reilly says in podcast return Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly returned to work Monday with his fervent delivery intact, despite a much lower profile.
With repercussions from the sexual harassment allegations against Bill O'Reilly rippling through the country this week, Kimberly JaJack, a longtime Fox News enthusiast, descended into her basement Wednesday, curled onto the sofa and clicked on the television. O'Reilly, the star she calls her primary news source, beamed into the room, already barreling into the questions of the day on "The O'Reilly Factor," the nation's No.