CHICAGO -- Illinois U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Purple Heart recipient who lost both legs in a combat helicopter crash in Iraq, fired back at Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Twitter after he challenged her and other Democratic leaders' patriotism and charged that they despise the country.

The volleys started when Carlson, in a nearly 14-minute...Read more

Amanda Kloots is continuing to celebrate her husband, Nick Cordero, on social media after his death.

On Tuesday, fitness instructor Kloots shared a video montage chronicling her relationship with the Broadway star, who died Sunday morning at 41 after a long and turbulent battle with COVID-19. The video, compiled by Kloots' sister, features a ...Read more

Walt Disney Co. did not throw away its shot with the streaming debut of "Hamilton."

The filmed version of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway smash drove a surge in downloads of the streaming service Disney+ during the Fourth of July weekend, according to data firm Sensor Tower.

Preliminary estimates show that the Disney+ app was installed for the ...Read more

COVID-19 survivor Tom Hanks has a message for anyone unwilling to "do their part" to stop the spread of the respiratory illness.

Appearing Tuesday on NBC's "Today," Hanks reflected on his own early bout with the coronavirus and questioned why some weren't taking the pandemic seriously. He also discussed his forthcoming World War II drama, "...Read more

We've probably all been to a wedding that felt like it would never end. For Sarah (Cristin Milioti), that wedding is her younger sister's, where she's drowning herself in red wine and extremely unprepared to give a speech. Now imagine living that nightmarish day again, and again, and again. This is a vision of a sun-drenched, perfectly ...Read more

A couple of Saturdays ago, I asked Twitter to recommend me "a really good, fun, delightful movie." Times are tough, and movies, well, sometimes, they should be easy, and yes, delightful. In response, I received almost 200 different suggestions, so I compiled them into a list to refer to whenever I need a really good, fun, delightful movie. This ...Read more

It's hard for me to recall the most vivid moments in "Mission to Mars," Brian De Palma's outer-space drama from 2000, without hearing the great music of Ennio Morricone.

That probably isn't how you expected this to begin, but then, Morricone had a thing for unusual overtures, so bear with me. At one point in "Mission to Mars," the astronaut ...Read more

The new Netflix sci-fi action film "The Old Guard," starring Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne, is a slick actioner with a supernatural twist. It has a great concept, cast and script, and it's executed crisply by Gina Prince-Bythewood, the director of "Love & Basketball" and "Beyond the Lights." This film makes her the first Black woman to direct a...Read more

Songs of summer are supposed to be romantic and carefree, offering us a lighthearted distraction from the real world, at least for the season. There are some of those escapist songs here, in my playlist of 2020 releases -- pop songs about simple pleasures, seasonal romance, and the comfort of childhood memories.

But this is a summer like no ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Black Lives Matter protests continue around the country, making familiar the myriad signs that people hold up: "Justice for George Floyd." "No Justice, No Peace." "8:46," the last a reference to the amount of time a police officer held a knee to Floyd's neck in Minneapolis.

Peggy Sivert and Tatum Hawkins, who run SoLA ...Read more