Jesse Jur, husband of Paige Presler-Jur and son-in-law of John and Martha Presler of Princeton, was named the 2018-19 University Faculty Scholar at North Carolina State University.
LOS ANGELES -- HBO's "Game of Thrones" slashed its way to a record-setting 32 Emmy nominations Tuesday for its eighth and final season, leading HBO back to dominance over Netflix, the streaming service that bumped it last year from atop the increasingly crowded television heap.
NEW YORK -- In 1964, Stanley Kubrick, on the recommendation of the science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, bought a telescope.
In advance of the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau is recruiting thousands of people for temporary jobs across the country. These positions provide the perfect opportunity to earn some extra income while helping your community.
NEW YORK -- The national holiday to mark America's birth as a country has been filled with parades, concerts, competitive eating and, of course, fireworks.
NEW YORK -- How does one willingly, even eagerly, walk into a sunlit nightmare like Ari Aster's "Midsommar"? For Florence Pugh, the motivation came while watching the camera zoom between Toni Collette's legs in a particularly balletic moment during the feverish climax of Aster's debut, "Here…
With the arrival of warmer weather and tick season underway in Kentucky, officials with the Kentucky Department for Public Health (DPH) within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) are reminding people to take precautions against tick bites, which can transmit serious and potenti…
NEW YORK -- It's one of the most striking and memorable moments in "Hadestown," Anais Mitchell's multi-Tony Award-nominated retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, when Hades sings: "Why do we build the wall, my children?"
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered remarks on the Senate floor Thursday touting the Tobacco-Free Youth Act, legislation he introduced with Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) to raise the national minimum age for purchasing tobacco products to 21. During his floor speech, Senator McC…
NEW YORK -- Ryan Reynolds once envisioned himself, best-case scenario, as Wilson on "Home Improvement" or Mr. Furley on "Three's Company."
LOS ANGELES -- To say filmmaker Ava DuVernay is a busy woman is an understatement, but when Turner Classic Movies called and asked her to curate the channel's "The Essentials" series, she knew she had to make it work.
LOS ANGELES -- Georgia Engel, who played the charmingly innocent, small-voiced Georgette on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and amassed a string of other TV and stage credits, has died. She was 70.
PARIS -- Some kneeled, some folded their hands to make silent entreaties. Others sang with their eyes focused on the sky that had gone from blue to yellow and orange, and filled with acrid smoke.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Disney raised the curtain on a hotly anticipated video steaming service that's aiming to topple industry pioneer Netflix, once a valuable ally of the Magic Kingdom.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Even with rain clouds threatening from above, the spirits, and heels, were high at Diane von Furstenberg's idyllic Coldwater Canyon property Thursday afternoon.
It was the final period of the day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High and Jonathan Blank was in history class, learning about the Holocaust. Across campus, five of his friends, pals since grade school, sat in different classrooms watching the clock. In 19 minutes, school would be out and the b…
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Princeton’s Emma Talley captured the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship on Monday by one shot — and what a shot!
(Editor’s note: This opinion article focuses on the small community of Midway, Ky., located about 12 miles from Lexington. The town has a population of 1,650.)
The rioting in Baltimore has been disturbing to all Americans, as the unresolved cause of Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody should be as well.
My wife and I spent last week in Virginia, where we toured the homes of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. The faith of these two giants of American history in many ways speaks to the significance of faith in America today.
onsidering the Obama administration’s failure to keep its promise — made by the President in public speeches at least 36 times — that “if you like your plan, you can keep it,” there should be little surprise that other claims offered by Obamacare’s Kool-Aid drinkers to sell this big-governme…
A gift from President Roosevelt: