Dick Thornburgh, ex-Pa. governor and US attorney general, dead at 88

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has rounded out cast for multi-camera comedy pilot Head of the Class, a reboot of the popular 1980s ABC sitcom.

Freestyle Digital Media has secured the North American distrubtuion rights to On Thin Ice, a social justice-themed sports documentary featuring athletes Allyson Felix, Evander Holyfield, Robbie Rogers, Apolo Ohno, Michael Sam, Aimee Mullins, and Greg Louganis. Directed by Keli Price, the film will be available to rent and own on February 2.

President-elect Joe Biden received his second dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Monday, three weeks after getting his first one with television cameras rolling in an attempt to reassure the American public that the inoculations are safe. Biden took off his sport jacket and said, "Ready, set, go." Chief Nurse Executive Ric Cumin administered the Pfizer vaccine at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware, close to the president-elect's home.

The U.S. attorney for District of Columbia has opened a federal excessive force investigation into the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old Trump supporter who was shot and killed Wednesday during the Capitol riot, CBS News reports.  Video of the incident shows an unidentified police officer shooting Babbitt as she appears to attempt to climb through a broken window in a barricaded hallway at the U.S.

FBI agents searched the offices and homes of several Republican Tennessee lawmakers Friday. The searches included the homes of former GOP House Speaker Glen Casada; his former chief of staff, Cade Cothren; and state Rep.

A West Virginia state lawmaker will not resign despite facing pressure to do so after posting a video of himself joining a crowd in storming the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, his lawyer says.  State Delegate Derrick Evans, a Republican, "committed no criminal act that day," his attorney, John H.

An attorney for President Trump’s campaign, Jerome M. Marcus, filed a motion Thursday to withdraw his services from a Pennsylvania lawsuit, joining the growing list of Trump staff and advisers to leave their posts after the attack on the U.S.

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott on Wednesday called on President Trump to resign or be removed from office hours after a large group of Trump supporters breached the U.S.

Amelia Hamlin strips off her face mask as she arrives back in the US on Wednesday (January 6) in Los Angeles.

pic.twitter.com/fIDoZdeyxt#ESSENCE is saddened to report the passing of famed author, Eric Jerome Dickey. Dickey was an ESSENCE and New York Times best-selling author best known for his novels about contemporary African-American life.

Marvel, and contributed to such anthologies as “Mothers and Sons” and “Black Silk: A Collection of African American Erotica.”“In comedy you learn to write with flow — segue, setup, and punch line — but in a way that people won’t see or notice. And in theater you learn about character," he told BookPage in 2000.

Janet W. Lee Author Eric Jerome Dickey died Sunday in Los Angeles due to complications from a long illness, a representative from his publisher Penguin Random House confirmed to Variety.

Dick Thornburgh was the former U.S. Attorney General as well as the former governor of Pennsylvania, who guided the state through the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear disaster.Thornburgh served as U.S.

The New York nurse who became the first in the U.S. to receive a dose of the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine last month received her second shot on Monday, becoming one of the first in the country to be fully inoculated.

2020 was light on parties, but Miley Cyrus is kicking off 2021 with a “Party in the U.S.A”.

Meghan Markle may have had one rollercoaster of a year in 2019, but nothing could have prepared her for what awaited her in 2020. The former American actress, who became the Duchess of Sussex when she married Britain’s Prince Harry in May 2018, endured a whirlwind of triumphs and drama this year alongside her husband and their firstborn Archie.

folklore and evermore, for all the world as if this was the Sixties, when The Beatles were knocking out Help and Rubber Soul within four months of one another. It made a difference to know that while we were just getting by – remember puzzles and Zoom quizzes? – at home in the US, Swift literally could not stop writing songs.