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  • Traveler Makes The Best Of Empty Airport
    When Richard Dunn found himself stuck overnight in the deserted Las Vegas airport, he spent his time making a video selphie — lip-synching Celine Dion's version of "All by Myself."
  • After President Obama overturned Bush-era policy restricting federal funding of embryonic stem cell research in 2009, Nebraska Right to Life led a protest of the research outside the University of Nebraska regents' meeting.
    Cloning, Stem Cells Long Mired In Legislative Gridlock
    The news that scientists have successfully cloned a human embryo seems almost certain to rekindle a political fight that has raged, on and off, since the creation of Dolly the sheep. It's a fight that has, over the past decade and a half, produced a lot of heat and light and not a lot of policy.
  • Hundreds Of Detained Immigrant Families Are Due For Release
    Advocates hope that a judge's deadline, and the possible revocation of one detention center's license, could lead to the end of family detention.
  • Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler
    Wexler won Oscars for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Bound for Glory, and was nominated for One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Matewan. He died Sunday. He was 93. Originally broadcast in 1993.
  • Charlie Louvin.
    Charlie Louvin: Country Meets Gospel, Again
    This year, Louvin released his first studio album in more than 10 years. The self-titled disc contains reworked versions of the country-gospel legend's songs, featuring guest vocals from a wide variety of big names, including Elvis Costello and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy.
  • Almanac ~ Thursday, 4/13/17
    It's Scrabble Day! Today is Thursday, April 13th, 2017 the 103rd day of the year with 262 days remaining.Sunrise: 6:37am Sunset: 7:44pm...giving us 13…
  • Trixie Mattel attends the <em>RuPaul's Drag Race</em> finale on May 19, 2015 in Los Angeles. In the years since, Mattel has released two albums, brought a YouTube show into the Vice fold and won <em>RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars</em> season three.
    Trixie Mattel: America's Next Top Folk-Country Comedy Drag Artist
    Part of an emerging legacy in drag spurred on by the mainstream success of RuPaul's Drag Race, Mattel has built a career as a comedy queen and folk singer with two albums and a TV show to her name.
  • Lesbian Pulp Fiction, 21st Century Style
    San Francisco writer Monica Nolan has just completed the fourth book in her saucy Lesbian Career Girl series. With titles like “Lois Lenz, Lesbian…
  • Soul singer Solomon Burke takes a long-awaited, and ultimately successful, stab at country music.
    A Soul-Singing Legend, Reborn in 'Nashville'
    According to legend, Solomon Burke — Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, licensed mortician and long-reigning King of Rock and Soul — always wanted to be a country singer. With Nashville, Burke finally gets his wish, not to mention a credibility-enhancing cast of supporting characters.
  • The Agonizing Collision Of Love And Slavery In 'Thomas Jefferson'
    The real, historical Thomas Jefferson never wrote anything about Sally Hemings, his slave and companion for decades. But she comes to life in a complex new novel from author Stephen O'Connor.
  • Thursday January 16, 2014
    16th Day of 2013 / 349 Remaining63 Days Until The First Day of SpringSunrise:7:23Sunset:5:169 Hours 53 Minutes of DaylightMoon Rise:6:11pmMoon Set:…
  • Judge Says Detained Immigrant Women, Children Should Be Released
    A federal judge has given the government 90 days to prove that holding hundreds of minors and their mothers in unlicensed secure facilities does not violate a 1997 settlement.
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