CHICAGO -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, took to Twitter over the weekend to call Sesame Street's Big Bird "government propaganda" after the character said he got the COVID vaccine. Children in the U.S ...

A 1972 clip showing Big Bird getting the measles vaccine has also resurfaced. To help educate kids about the COVID-19 vaccine and encourage them to get it, Big Bird from "Sesame Street" announced that ...

Even though he’ll be 6 years old forever, Sesame Street’s favorite yellow bird is technically turning 55 on March 20. Big Bird, an 8-foot, 2-inch, flightless-bird that may or may not be a canary, made ...

Danny Seagren, the Jim Henson -trained puppeteer who played Big Bird on Sesame Street and portrayed the first-ever ...

Jim Henson trained him to be a puppeteer, and he also worked on ‘Sesame Street’ and appeared as Big Bird on ‘The Ed Sullivan ...

Even though he’ll be 6 forever, Sesame Street’s favorite yellow bird is technically turning 55 on March 20. Big Bird, an 8-foot, 2-inch, flightless-bird that may or may not be a canary, made his way ...

The children's TV star may have unknowingly stuck his beak into politics. As first lady Jill Biden prepared to kick off a vaccination campaign for kids ages 5-11 on Monday, over the weekend "Sesame ...

Sarah Burris is a long-time veteran of political campaigns, having worked as a fundraiser and media director across the United States. She transitioned into reporting while working for Rock the Vote, ...

The mini-storm over Mitt Romney, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Big Bird pitted two visions of the show’s finances against one another. Mitt Romney claimed he’d cut funding so that ...

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