Dead or alive? Rumors of Kim Jong Un’s aunt persist
Last year, a North Korean defector said that Kim Kyung Hee had died from a stroke while arguing on the phone with the North Korean leader about her husband’s execution….
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Last year, a North Korean defector said that Kim Kyung Hee had died from a stroke while arguing on the phone with the North Korean leader about her husband’s execution….
For some opponents of the HPV vaccination, the line of thinking goes like this: Give young women a shot to protect them from certain strands of the most common sexually…
In 2013, Jennifer Glass was diagnosed with stage IIIB lung cancer. To help document her life, she took a photo every day and then, in March 2014, she set it…
WASHINGTON — Gruesome killings by the Islamic State, terrorist attacks in Europe and tensions with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia are reshaping the early Republican presidential race, creating anxiety…
You remember the other Bill Cosby. For a long time, he was the only Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby’s life in the spotlight He was a groundbreaking comedian, famed for his…
The Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Monday stepped up his defense against reports that he embellished stories about his war reporting earlier in his career, while some former colleagues…
At Baher Mohamed’s home in Cairo, the Al Jazeera English journalist tries to get closer to his baby Haron, born while he was in prison. “A few days ago I…
NEW YORK -– “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd spent the first quarter of Sunday’s show covering the fallout from former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s claim four days earlier…
But at the time, the 26-year-old single mom in North Carolina had no idea she was about to be $127 million richer. It wasn’t until the next day, when she…
WASHINGTON — Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on Monday tried to argue that something he wrote in 2010 does not undercut the premise of the anti-Obamacare lawsuit that the Supreme Court…
Televangelist Pat Robertson might not seem like your typical “50 Shades of Grey” reader nor the type to catch the movie. But he does think he knows what it’s all…
Back in New Hampshire for the first time since the midterm elections, it didn’t take long for Sen. Marco Rubio to get a question about immigration. Speaking to a group…
LOS ANGELES — In the end, it was the audience that got snubbed. Following the best picture win on Sunday night by “Birdman” — a brainy film seen by fewer…
WARSAW — The utter tenacity with which the director Pawel Pawlikowski talked and talked and refused to be shooed off stage by the Oscar orchestra has been matched only by…
WASHINGTON — Two Pennsylvania state representatives joined forces this month to petition the federal government to rename a controversially named peak in the Alleghany Mountains. Rep. Rosita Youngblood (D), who…
WASHINGTON — Deporting the estimated 5 million undocumented immigrants who could benefit from deportation-relief policies that Republicans are trying to block would have a hefty price, according to a report…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) How tough is it to create a racially diverse denomination? Consider a recent luncheon organized by the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. About 100…
Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel, “The Buried Giant,” is an eccentric, ham-handed fairy tale with a jumble of story lines lifted from “Beowulf,” Arthurian legend and assorted folk traditions. It is…
My husband and I do not share a last name. We might joke about being the Flongs, but his last name is Fleck, and mine is Long. When Dan told…
About 2 percent of American children are allergic to peanuts, a figure that has more than quadrupled since 1997 for reasons that are not entirely clear. There have also been…
Patricia Arquette used Hollywood’s biggest awards show as a platform to speak about something other than the Oscar she won: women’s equality. But backstage, when Arquette spoke about women’s rights…
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RELATED: Giuliani’s Obama comments put 2016ers in a bind Enough with the media's gotcha game, we started Our American Revival to talk about big, bold ideas: http://t.co/VRGXvNi76E – In that…
The following is an excerpt from Nietzsche: Great Thinkers on Modern Life, a new series published by The School of Life. In this particular chapter, author John Armstrong uses the…
“The need for a unified Arab force is growing and becoming more pressing every day,” Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said in a televised speech Sunday. El-Sisi said Jordan and…
RELATED: Giuliani’s Obama comments put 2016ers in a bind Enough with the media's gotcha game, we started Our American Revival to talk about big, bold ideas: http://t.co/VRGXvNi76E – In that…
RELATED: Giuliani’s Obama comments put 2016ers in a bind Enough with the media's gotcha game, we started Our American Revival to talk about big, bold ideas: http://t.co/VRGXvNi76E – In that…
“My dad is going to prison and I’m really upset about it because he’s the only parent I have in my life and the only one I can rely on,”…
It took Richard Linklater 12 years to make “Boyhood,” and it felt like it took 13 to get through the Oscars ceremony that snubbed his movie. We made it out…
Here’s a phrase you probably never expected to read: Highbrow PBS and trashy Investigation Discovery have complementary programs Monday night about race and intolerance. Neither is very satisfying on its…