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Back on the road, Nancy Wilson of Heart still kicking at 70
Nancy Wilson, at age 70, can still perform her signature kick move while sporting her guitar.
“I can do that and more!” she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on a Zoom call from her home in Sonoma, California, on ...Read more
Review: In 'Mary Jane' on Broadway, Rachel McAdams in a play about the lengths a mother will go
NEW YORK — Amy Herzog’s beautiful play “Mary Jane” is, at its core, a study of the extraordinary lengths to which a mother will go to fight and care for her child. But the takeaway from time spent at the Samuel J. ...Read more
Paris Hilton producing 'Toxic' docuseries on mistreatment of female celebs in the early 2000s
Paris Hilton is reportedly working on a docuseries about media’s “toxic” treatment of female celebrities — including herself — in the early 2000s.
Hilton’s production company, 11:11 Media, has optioned Sarah ...Read more
Stagecoach 2024: What you need to know before heading out to the 3-day country festival
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Stagecoach Festival is making its way to the Empire Polo Club in Indio following both weekends of its sister event, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, on April 26-28.
The three-day ...Read more
Musician Steve Rashid plans Chicago-area concert at Studio5 venue he helped create
CHICAGO — The creative life can be, to borrow some words from the musical “Annie,” a “hard knock life,” or, as writer Maya Angelou once put it more gently, “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the ...Read more
Census change will lead to more data on health of Middle Eastern, North African people in US
Before the successful, healthy birth of her son, recalls Germine Awad — an Egyptian American who is a psychologist at the University of Michigan — clinicians told her that her hormone levels were too high and that her ...Read more
Holdout states consider expanding Medicaid -- with work requirements
In Humphreys County, Mississippi — about 70 miles north of the state capital, in the heart of the fertile Delta region — a third of the residents live in poverty. In Belzoni, the county seat, there are just a handful ...Read more
A Kentucky lawmaker had a nonviable pregnancy. State abortion bans made her loss more agonizing
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Almost a year to the day after Rep. Lindsey Burke gave birth to twins — one dead, the other alive — she walked out of a legislative committee meeting in Frankfort.
Burke, one of three Kentucky ...Read more
The race for Georgia's 3rd District is a new test of Donald Trump's mettle
ATLANTA — When former President Donald Trump arrived in Atlanta earlier this month for a high-dollar fundraiser, he seemed joined at the hip with a lower-profile former aide trying to make a big impact in Georgia ...Read more
SC has a teacher shortage. But teachers who leave can be blackballed from coming back
COLUMBIA, S.C -- South Carolina schools are suffering from a shortage of hundreds of teachers, with the number of vacancies only growing. But that hasn’t stopped the state from barring scores of teachers who may want to ...Read more
Editorial: 9th Circuit went too far with homelessness ruling
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — which has jurisdiction over nine states, including Nevada — has a reputation as one of the most liberal courts in the country. It also has the dubious distinction of being the ...Read more
After 25 years of selling tamales in Chicago, an undocumented immigrant mother returns to Mexico without her family
Claudia Perez’s children could count on one hand the number of times they had seen their father cry.
The day their mother left was one of them.
Perez had worked her whole life for a dream that did not come true: Save ...Read more
He thinks his wife died in an understaffed hospital. Now he's trying to change the industry
For the past year, police Detective Tim Lillard has spent most of his waking hours unofficially investigating his wife’s death.
The question has never been exactly how Ann Picha-Lillard died on Nov. 19, 2022: She ...Read more
Rural jails turn to community health workers to help the newly released succeed
MANTI, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he grew up.
He blames his ...Read more
Commentary: Gen Z is key to securing America's elections
America's elections are under unprecedented threat. From foreign interference in the 2016 presidential race to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, the integrity of our democratic process has been repeatedly targeted in recent ...Read more
Haiti's new leaders wanted to take power in the presidential palace. Then reality hit
Members of Haiti’s new transition government, who are readying to officially assume office on Thursday, were hoping to take the oath of office on the grounds of the presidential palace, the symbol of power even if the ...Read more
Man accused of beating trans woman to death as she slept near Miami City Ballet is arrested
MIAMI — A man caught on video surveillance beating a transgender woman to death — smacking her on her head and face with a pipe as she slept Tuesday near the Miami City Ballet building in Miami Beach — has been ...Read more
Minnesota state Sen. Nicole Mitchell's arrest delays votes, but DFL should keep majority despite Republican ethics probe push
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republican Minnesota senators on Wednesday unsuccessfully pushed to speed up an ethics investigation and expulsion of a Democratic-Farmer-Labor senator facing a felony burglary charge. But for now, it ...Read more
Kansas Marine vet who breached Capitol on Jan. 6 with flag painted on head pleads guilty
A Wichita, Kansas, man who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, wearing a patriotic face mask with an American flag painted on his head has pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor.
Chad Dustin Suenram, a U.S. Marine ...Read more
Morehouse students want Biden to put authenticity ahead of politics
ATLANTA — Last spring, when Nicholas Wilborn walked across Morehouse College’s graduation stage, he became the 14th member of his family to do so, dating back to his great-uncle, James Adam Wilborn, the former pastor ...Read more
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