BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A close ally of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico beat a pro-Western career diplomat to become Slovakia’s new president, and succeed Zuzana Čaputová, the country’s first female head of state. Parliamentary speaker Peter Pellegrini received 53.26% of the vote with the ballots from almost all polling stations counted by the Statistics […]
Fans of the 1997 movie “Titanic” (this writer is aggressively not one of them) have had a longstanding debate about the film’s ending. Spoiler warning for a 23-year-old movie and real-life historic tragedy. At the end of the movie, the two main characters Jack (portrayed by a very young Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (played by […]
In a race that’s critical if the GOP wants to take back the Senate as well as the White House, things are looking up for the Republican front-runner. According to a new poll by Rasmussen, 2022 Republican gubernatorial candidate and former broadcaster Kari Lake leads both incumbent independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who caucuses with the […]
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson took home another AP NFL Most Valuable Player award at this year’s “NFL Honors” ceremony Thursday in Las Vegas. Here is a roundup of the night’s winners and highlights: AP NFL Most Valuable Player: Lamar Jackson Lamar Jackson was a near-unanimous choice for his second AP NFL Most Valuable Player […]
It seems the average movie-goer is much more patriotic than Hollywood seems to believe. Few other reasons would explain the phenomenal box-office success of the Bollywood film “The Fighter,” which was released on Thursday, coinciding with India’s Republic Day on Friday. Directed by successful Bollywood director Siddharth Anand and starring famous Bollywood actors Hrithik Roshan, […]
NEW YORK — After a tumultuous movie year marred by strikes and work stoppages, the Academy Awards showered nominations Tuesday on Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic, “Oppenheimer,” which came away with a leading 13 nominations. Nolan’s three-hour opus, viewed as the best picture frontrunner, received nods for best picture; Nolan’s direction; acting nominations for Cillian Murphy, […]
Dan Steele knows what a long day in court is like. So he was extra appreciative on Wednesday that former President Donald Trump journeyed to New Hampshire after spending the day in a New York courtroom, where he sat defiantly during his trial to determine damages for defaming a magazine writer after she accused him […]
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