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Bette Midler sang a profane yet touching tribute to Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, rewriting her 1988 hit “Wind Beneath My Wings ...

The Have I Got News for You co-host and Daily Show alum on the red state-blue state divide, his roots in journalism, and his new memoir, a love letter to his son about lessons in masculinity ...

David Johnstone said that the 1987 Loughgall incident was going to restart as a coroner’s inquest where eight men were killed ...

Republicans remain highly patriotic while their party hollows out America’s democratic institutions and their leader flirts ...

Bette Midler never misses an opportunity to shade Donald Trump. The “Hocus Pocus” actress, took a jab at the president, 79, ...

A new album by Woody Guthrie (1912–1967), perhaps the most influential US folk artist, was released late last summer. Woody ...

Three data center projects did not follow through on the economic promises they made to Virginia, according to an unreleased ...

Here’s a look at the life of Hillary Clinton, 2016 Democratic nominee for president. The first woman in American history to be nominated by a major party, Clinton is also a former secretary of state.

Here’s a look at the life of Michael Dukakis, three-term governor of Massachusetts. Personal Birth date: November 3, 1933 Birth place: Brookline, Massachusetts Birth name: Michael Stanley Dukakis ...

Trump confirmed he has green-lit CIA covert operations in Venezuela, and that ground attacks might be next. United States ...

When he headed to college, a young Ed Murnane thought he would become a math or physics teacher. But it soon became clear ...