Washington — The Justice Department and a group of Vietnam War veterans are set to face off in a Washington, D.C., courtroom on Friday over the fate of President Trump’s proposed 250-foot arch that he wants to build between Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan will hear arguments over…
Hosted by Jane Pauley. Featured: The mystery of Houdini’s death; actress Parker Posey; “Lincoln in the Bardo” composer Missy Mazzoli; “ghost signs” from the past; Israeli elections; and the Tower of London’s ravenmaster. Source link
Composer Missy Mazzoli is the first woman ever to have an opera premiered by the Metropolitan Opera. Based on the award-winning novel by George Saunders, Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek’s “Lincoln in the Bardo” depicts Abraham Lincoln mourning his 11-year-old son, Willie, whose passing has led the young boy to a threshold place between the…
On a recent Sunday night in Brooklyn, at a concert by the punk rock band Mannequin Pussy, we found the perhaps unlikely new face of the rarefied world of opera: 45-year-old classical composer Missy Mazzoli. Asked what she loves about punk music, Mazzoli replied, “I love that it’s extreme, that it wears its thoughts and…
The Emmy Award-winning “CBS News Sunday Morning” is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET. “Sunday Morning” also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here.) Hosted by Jane Pauley Escape artist and illusionist Harry Houdini, pictured in handcuffs, elbow irons and thumbscrews, courtesy of the Berlin police, Germany,…
There he was, in February 2017, on the cover of Time Magazine: Steve Bannon, chief White House strategist. They called him “The Great Manipulator.” He threatened at times to overshadow the president himself – not the best career move – and for a while he visibly fell out of favor. Steven Bannon, dubbed “The Great…
The U.S. service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in San Diego after the aircraft carrier’s record 321-day deployment. The aircraft carrier and other ships in the strike group were just awarded the Presidential Unit Citation, the highest valor award. Carter Evans was there as sailors and Marines reunited with loved ones. Source link
Donor accuses Kimberly Guilfoyle of $100,000 “quid pro quo”; USS Abraham Lincoln returns home after 10-month deployment. Source link
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The USS Abraham Lincoln and its more than 4,500 sailors and Marines returned home to San Diego on Thursday for the first time in 321 days, a jubilant homecoming after a long deployment that included months in the Middle East. Hundreds of family members and friends waited for hours in the sun to greet their…
