Top Gun Turns 38: Tom Cruise’s Top Gun Almost Didn’t Get Made if Movie Hadn’t Changed ‘Classic Bimbo’ to Real, Intelligent Woman Tom Cruise’s Top Gun is one of the legendary actor’s earliest landmark projects that ended up thrusting him into the mainstream. Recognized as arguably the biggest action star in Hollywood since a ... 05/18/2024 - 6:44 am | View Link
ABC honors General Hospital in a very special way ABC paid tribute to the soap at the start of this year with a primetime special called General Hospital: 60 Years of Stars & Storytelling. Now, the network has honored the soap once again by ... 05/16/2024 - 11:10 am | View Link
National political themes will lead off the campaign for Pennsylvania’s next attorney general National political themes will lead off the campaign for Pennsylvania’s next attorney general. It's an office that played a major role in fighting lawsuits designed to keep Donald Trump in power after ... 05/16/2024 - 4:54 am | View Link
What is an attorney general? They’re more attorney than general As current Washington AG Bob Ferguson leaves office after 12 years, voters will choose a new “lawyer for the entire state.” ... 05/15/2024 - 1:01 am | View Link
Top Army general in Pacific says Asian nations moving toward NATO-like cooperation to counter China Chinese military expansion is pushing Asian nations into closer strategic partnership with the United States that has parallels to NATO in Europe, the top Army commander for the region said Wednesday. 05/8/2024 - 5:17 pm | View Link
President Joe Biden is giving a commencement speech at Morehouse, one of the country's preeminent historically Black colleges, as pro-Palestinian protests continue on campuses across the US. Follow here for live news updates.
On this day in 1978, British rockers Dire Straits released their debut single, “Sultans of Swing.”
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Workers at a Mercedes Benz plant in Alabama voted against joining the United Auto Workers union Friday, potentially stalling hopes of a rapidly growing organizing wave for autoworkers in the southern United States. Via CNN:
The result was a close outcome. Out of the valid votes counted, 56% of workers voted “no,” while 44% voted “yes” for unionization, according to Mercedes-Benz.
Wisconsin Republicans are so very confused about where they stand on ballot drop boxes, they don't even know their own position anymore. For decades, Republicans were all for drop boxes and wanted them in every county. Then when Trump lost in 2020 and blamed, in part, voter fraud because of drop boxes, the Republicans were dead set against them.
“If you choose the path of zealots, dragging the country into the abyss, we will be forced to leave the government. We will turn to the people and build a government that will earn the people’s trust.”
— Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s war cabinet quoted by the New York Times, giving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an ultimatum