This week, NBC’s Peacock Channel will begin streaming the feature-length documentary A Most Beautiful Thing. A trailer of the film is on Vimeo here, and the main site for the project is here. I saw a preview version last week and recommend it. The film’s story would be surprising and engrossing at any time, but it has a current power and relevance its producers could not have foreseen when they began making it.
When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.
It didn’t have to be this way.
Plus, getting a clingy preteen off your back.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the first lady’s longtime confidant, has written a book full of allegations about the president’s wife.
Alex Azar’s remarks come as three vaccine candidates have entered late-stage Phase 3 clinical trials.
To have a job without a workplace, you must build an office of the mind. Structure, routine, focus, socialization, networking, stress relief—their creation is almost entirely up to you, alone in a spare bedroom or on your couch, where your laptop might vie for attention at any given moment with your pets or kids. If the coffeepot runs dry, there is no one to blame but yourself.The first time I undertook this construction process was in 2009, and it was an abject failure.
As Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden heads to Kenosha, Wisconsin, to meet with the family of Jacob Blake, we speak with Congressmember Mark Pocan, who was born and raised in Kenosha. “Clearly, what happened — someone shot in the back seven times, close range, in front of their children, by the police — was another example of the policing problem we have in this country,” Pocan says.
Mass protests entered their fourth week in Belarus to demand the ouster of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who claimed victory in the country’s August 9 election that critics say was rigged. But Lukashenko shows no sign of backing down, and authorities have responded to protests with violence and arrests. Sadakat Kadri, a human rights lawyer and writer, says Russian President Vladimir Putin is invested in keeping Lukashenko in power.
The top commander at Fort Hood is removed from his post, and the U.S. Army has launched an investigation, after a series of murders and accusations of sexual abuse at the base, with 23 deaths at Fort Hood this year and 13 soldiers disappeared, killed or who died by suicide. In April, the remains of soldier Vanessa Guillén were found near the base, and the main suspect in that case killed himself in July shortly after he was accused of her murder.
I want her to challenge herself, even a little.
She blew up at me when I asked her to hook me up with her “friends.
Think CSI, but with birth charts instead of fingerprints.
It won’t exactly be an October surprise, but it could still be a shock: a wave of business failures hitting during the campaign season.
If they want to meaningfully expand coverage, they should boot Rep. Richard Neal.
It’s a surprisingly principled stand by a multibillionaire.
AstraZeneca announced Monday its vaccine candidate has entered the final testing stage in the U.S.
The proposed communications contract comes as the agency faces growing questions about its independence from the Trump White House.
Virus cases are dropping everywhere, but the rush to reopen could backfire.
Canada’s prime minister is building a Covid-19 recovery plan he hopes will “change the future” — and turn the page for his Liberal Party.
Despite unemployment above 10 percent and millions of jobs vaporized, Trump is running on his economic record before the pandemic.
“When you have $60 billion less going to families,” former U.S. Treasury economist Ernie Tedeschi told POLITICO, “that means that there’s going to be something close to that less in spending.
In the debate over Covid-19 relief, Congress is worried about the wrong problem.
For the April-June period, Japan’s exports dropped at a whopping annual rate of 56 percent.
People held in immigration jails in Louisiana report horrific conditions and continued mistreatment after Hurricane Laura devastated the area. Immigrants detained at the LaSalle and Jackson Parish jails say that after the storm, the two facilities have flooded with urine and feces and lack electricity, clean food or water.
The president won a court ruling that allows him to continue to withhold his tax returns, at least for now.
As protests for racial justice and against police brutality have gained national attention in the last several months, we’ve seen a number of statues commemorating Confederates and colonizers topple. While that change alone is fantastic, the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey is pushing things to the next level by erecting a monument of Black transgender civil rights icon Marsha P. Johnson, as reported by CNN.
Adam Carolla came to prominence as a straight-talking, humorous in his confidence, sideman to Dr. Drew Pinsky on the popular 1990s syndicated radio show turned bestselling book, and subsequent television call-in show: “Loveline.” He then became a co-host with friend Jimmy Kimmel on the short-lived but relatively popular The Man Show on Comedy Central.
It turns out a white Virginia police sergeant who levied felony criminal charges against Black Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas for an alleged conspiracy to “injure” a Confederate monument may have done so to feed a longstanding grudge, according to The Huffington Post. A scathing email Portsmouth Sgt.
