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Posted at 2:30 pm on May 27, 2017 by Brad Slager     The New York City location of the Alamo Drafthouse Theater announced it would stage a females-only screening of the upcoming Gal Gadot film “Wonder Woman”.

Posted at 3:30 pm on May 27, 2017 by Amelia Hamilton At the end of the school year, a lot of schools give out awards like “most likely to succeed” or even the politically incorrect “prettiest smile,” but teachers in Texas have found themselves in trouble after presenting 13 year-old Lizeth Villanueva with the award for “most likely to become a terrorist.” For real. The award, handed out the day after the attack in Manchester, was meant to be a joke, but one in exceedingly poor taste. “They just found it as a joke,” said Lizeth, 13,

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Posted at 10:30 pm on May 27, 2017 by Susan Wright I’m a music fan. I’ve been a music fan – a serious music fan – since elementary school. The origins of my love began with AM radio and 6am stumbling out of bed, while Mama rushed around the house, washing faces, laying out school clothes, and brushing spilled Cheerios from the table. In pigtails and knee socks, I could sing every song on the radio. During the summer, family vacations began equally early. My parents would pull me and my brothers out of bed, get us dressed and fed, then we’d lo

Former Secretary of State stabbed to death by a white supremacist in Portland, Oregon, when they tried to stop the man's racist tirade. "Heartbreaking. No one should have to endure this racist abuse," Clinton tweeted Saturday night. "No one should have to give their life to stop it." Police arrested 35-year-old Jeremy Joseph Christian early Saturday morning after he allegedly stabbed three men who tried to stop him from berating two Muslim women on a Portland MAX train.

Touting President Trump’s first trip overseas as president as “historic” and “unprecedented,” a senior White House official said Saturday that “this trip has left no one with any doubt about who America’s friends are.” The president arrived back at the White House on Saturday night after a nine day trip overseas. He made many stops, among them Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Vatican, Belgium and Italy. The administration official told reporters aboard Air Force One on the trip back to the U.S. that the trip clarified Trump's position to U.S. allies.

President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump returned to the White House Saturday night, capping off the president's first trip abroad since taking office. Trump hailed the excursion, which took him across five different countries, as a "home run." After exiting Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House Saturday night, Trump waved to reporters, but made no remarks.

Gauthier Destenay, the husband of Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, was omitted on Saturday from the caption of an official White House photo of NATO spouses. The White House corrected the caption amid backlash and accusations of homophobia on Facebook.

Sen. an entire chapter about Cruz, referring to him as "singularly dishonest" and "exceptionally smarmy." The two have a longstanding feud. "I probably like him more than most of my other colleagues like Ted, and I hate him," Franken added to CBS, a claim he has made before to USA Today.

All of the mythic South was in Gregg Allman’s music: soul, blues, country, gospel, rock ’n’ roll, jazz. The roadhouse, the back porch, the juke joint, the church, the farm, the highway. It was in the weary, determined drawl of his voice, rising to a sustained, honeyed ache or rasping with stubborn gumption. It was in the way his keyboard playing took turns steering the Allman Brothers Band and creating its backdrop: the Hammond organ that could be greasy or celestial, the piano that summoned hymns, honky-tonk, boogie-woogie and jazz.