Well, I’m finally home from my VITAC training. It was a tad cold up in Pennsylvania for this Florida girl, but I did get to see some flurries and that made everything all right. My equipment came and I’ve been in training for the past few weeks. I’m so excited…

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A religious tyrant decides that Salman Rushdie should die for writing a “blasphemous” book. For ten years he is forced to flee from one safe-house to another with no one for company but his bodyguards and an increasingly estranged wife. How does he pass the…

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In 1977 artist Tom Otterness shot a dog. This week, another artist depicted this in a near perfect Otterness-style statue, now housed in the 14th Street subway station.

Legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson once had a disturbing dream he killed someone in the boxing right. Then it came true.

The Hollywood actor recalls how he and some of the people involved in the production of 'Platoon' were 'out on the streets with the people.'

Harriet Tubman escaped the bonds of slavery as a young woman in the early 1800s. She returned to the South many times as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad to lead other African Americans to freedom. During the Civil War, Tubman served as a spy, nurse…

Justice department traces money from 1MDB fund to $1bn worth of assets such as Beverly Hills property, a Monet and production of DiCaprio movie

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No Time to Die, opening in April, celebrates an obsession with Aston Martin. We met the stunt driver who piloted replicas of the classic DB5 in the movie.

Wendy's conspicuous absence from the European market has to do with a business decision it made in the 1980s and a battle that raged in the decades since.

It's easily one of Mariah Carey's most recognisable songs, and it's almost always listed as one of the best Christmas songs ever written - but just how much mon...

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