LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – For about 10 hours in 1980, the United States faced a nuclear threat of its own making after an airman performing maintenance on a Titan II missile dropped a 9-pound socket wrench 70 feet, ripping a hole in a fuel tank and leading to an explosion that propelled a 9-megaton ...
WILMINGTON, N.C. – Comedian and talk-show host Whoopi Goldberg is being targeted by a North Carolina county commissioner over her comments about President-elect Donald Trump.Local media reported New Hanover County Commission Chairman Woody White used Facebook to criticize Cape Fear Community ...
Theodore Melfi’s buoyant “Hidden Figures” is an old-fashioned feel-good movie with powerful contemporary relevance, spearheaded by a trio of unstoppable actresses playing black women who wouldn’t be stopped.Set in 1961 Virginia, the fact-based “Hidden Figures,” adapted from Margot ...
LONDON – Letters sent by Britain’s late Princess Diana – including one in which she described a young Prince Harry as being “constantly in trouble” while at boarding school – sold for thousands of pounds at an auction Thursday.The six handwritten notes were sent to Cyril Dickman, a ...
Just like a Michael Moore documentary, there’s nothing subtle about a Ken Loach drama.The 80-year-old British director and social critic has long been an ardent, insistent, eloquent champion of the more vulnerable members of society – particularly working-class folks who are trying to do ...
NEW YORK (AP) – HBO thought its documentary “Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds” would be perfect for Mother’s Day. Instead, it has turned into a television memorial service.“Life took over and changed the rules,” Sheila Nevins, who runs the network’s ...
