Angela Davis bought the guns used in a courthouse raid that murdered a judge, and she later served as Gus Hall’s running mate on the Communist Party presidential ticket. But the former member of the FBI’s Most Wanted list also…
For a woman running to be a sex symbol, 64 ranks as past her prime. I essentially said as much a week or so back in writing about Madonna’s complaints about “ageism” even as she dates twentysomething men and buys…
In 2021, researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora determined that males amounted to 69 percent of people quoted in Nature’s journalism articles. The reaction to this did not consider whether this reflected more males in…
The host or the producers of The Dick Cavett Show possessed a sense of humor — or at least a sense of the absurd. The program’s many odd pairings included, especially, Raquel Welch and Janis Joplin. And then Douglas Fairbanks…
“I am announcing today I will not run for reelection in 2024 but intend to accomplish as much for California as I can through the end of next year when my term ends,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein explained in a statement…
U.S. diplomats in Russia released on Monday a lengthy message to Americans instructing them to leave Russia if there and to not travel to the country. Do they know something we do not? Or do the Americans still in Russia…
Russia reportedly plans to launch a second-wave invasion of Ukraine in the next two weeks on a grander scale than the first. “Russia is believed to be massing 1,800 tanks, 3,950 armoured vehicles, 400 fighter jets and 300 helicopters for…
Normandy Vamos sues American Idol because the program did not pay her for trying out for its televised talent show and because it made a “laughingstock” of her. “To carry out this scheme,” the lawsuit maintains of the former allegation,…
An elected official in Michigan with a “D” suffixing her name received no jail time as part of a plea agreement in which her lawyer admitted that she tampered with a ballot box after an especially close election in an…
