Authorities in central Maine say a man set his estranged wife’s house on fire during the middle of the night before fatally stabbing himself in front of responding officers. A central Maine man set his estranged wife’s house on fire during the middle of the night before fatally stabbing himself in front of responding officers, police said Sunday.
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Avon audience sees – Loving’ as major Oscar contender
Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga star in “Loving,” a film about the Virginia couple who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1967 making interracial marriages legal throughout the country. Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga star in “Loving,” a film about the Virginia couple who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1967 making interracial marriages legal throughout the country.
The Harlem Hip at Lenox Saphire
There are two reasons Phil Young is an uptown legend. First, for his work as a florist: for many years, he ran the Carolina Flower Shop, one of Harlem’s oldest and most beloved stores.
“Enough Is Better Than a Feast”: Christmas Dinner in the Time of the Great Depression
Andrew Coe and Jane Ziegelman, a husband-and-wife team of authors and food historians, host their dinner parties in a broad Brooklyn Heights kitchen designed to resemble a nineteen-thirties schoolroom: red cupboards, wood counters that groan with the accumulated weight of cookbooks. Although Coe and Ziegelman once co-wrote a history of foie gras, their latest project is “A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression,” a thick volume that examines a complex decade in American dining.
Why people believe fake news, explained
Why do so many Americans have trouble telling truth from fiction online? As humans, we’re wired to believe the worst. The controversy around “fake news” took on a new pall this month when a North Carolina man chose to investigate, gun in hand, a false online conspiracy theory that a Washington.
10 books on leadership to read in 2017
After an utterly dark and divisive year of political leadership, people will surely be looking for fresh professional inspiration in 2017: books that help us stick to our resolutions at work, that offer surprising and uplifting stories from other leaders, that provide lessons from history about consequential leaders, and books that simply give us ideas for working smarter, faster or better. To compile this year’s list of leadership books to watch for in the year ahead, we combed through publishers’ lists and picked a few that we believe will make an impact.
John Stossel: Hey, Puzder and McMahon: Close them down
When Puzder took over Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s restaurants, they were deep in debt.
MSM Fake News Alert!!! AOL.Com Editors
The headline above was part of AOL’s main news crawl for Tuesday, December 20, published at 10:17AM. The authors are the AOL.COM EDITORS .
Trump interviewing candidates for remaining cabinet posts
President-elect Donald Trump spent his Tuesday holed up at his Mar-a-Lago estate in southern Florida meeting with candidates for his unfilled cabinet and cabinet-level positions, including prospective hires to run the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Trump met Luis Quinonez, who runs a company with military and healthcare ties, and Toby Cosgrove, the CEO of the Cleveland Clinic. Both are thought to be candidates to be the next VA secretary.
Trump interviewing candidates for remaining cabinet posts
President-elect Donald Trump spent his Tuesday holed up at his Mar-a-Lago estate in southern Florida meeting with candidates for his unfilled cabinet and cabinet-level positions, including prospective hires to run the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Trump met Luis Quinonez, who runs a company with military and healthcare ties, and Toby Cosgrove, the CEO of the Cleveland Clinic. Both are thought to be candidates to be the next VA secretary.
Could Angela Merkel save lives by outlawing Christmas?
In the wake of the news that most probably a radical Muslim has driven into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing at least twelve people and injuring dozens more , the question arises: should Germany outlaw Christmas? After all, it was a Christmas market that triggered the attacker. And even if the attacker wasn’t triggered by the Christmas holiday, such gatherings of Christians make them an easy target for Muslim attackers.
18 ‘healthy habits’ you should give up in 2017
We all have them – habits we think are healthy because we heard them somewhere on the news or from a health-conscious friend. And no matter how much we hate them, we just keep doing them because we think they’re good for us.
Spirit of the Hills Wildlife Sanctuary kicks off living nativity production
It’s been a few months since the Spirit of the Hills Wildlife Sanctuary lost their U.S. Department of Agriculture license and exotic animal rescues were removed from the facility. “I’ve been part of the living nativity now for 12 years and it’s great.
Mary Sanchez: A fox in the hen house
Andrew Puzder has gone out of his way to downplay the needs of his workforce. Primarily, this means those Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. workers who have joined the nationwide clamor to raise the minimum wage.
Saturday Night Live mix Trump and Love Actually in hilarious Christmas parody
One of the best-loved Christmas movies of all time gets a very 2016 makeover in a skit for the latest episode of Saturday Night Live. SNL takes on the famous scene in 2003 hit Love Actually in which Mark arrives at Juliet ‘s door, clutching large cue cards professing his secret love to her.
Paul Choiniere
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: While many focus on holiday preparations, it is that time of year for a crusty old political writer such as myself to take stock of the political scene and where things may be headed. Not to be a complete pre-recovery Scrooge, however, I tuned the radio to some Christmas tunes while writing.
Love Your Homemade Quilt? Thank Capitalism.
A patchwork quilt covering a bed in a country B&B or hanging on a museum wall evokes nostalgia for simpler times. Using simple shapes-triangles, squares, trapezoids, octagons-and the clever arrangement of color and pattern, the quilters of a bygone era created beauty and utility from what we wasteful moderns might simply discard.