Long before he became the most famous cinematic fighter of all time, Sylvester Stallone had to fight his own battle to survive in New York. For example, he was living in places where he literally had pizza boxes for his mattress. “I did, yeah. It was very comfortable,” he said. His jobs also included cleaning…
In Kentucky, they take bluegrass and brown liquor (bourbon to be precise) quite seriously. But this past week, at the Kentucky Distillers’ Association meeting in Louisville, high spirits were undermined by frustration with President Trump’s tariff policies and war of words with Canada. Kentucky’s Democratic Governor Andy Beshear, just a few months shy of his…
St. Martin’s Press We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In “Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country” (to be published Tuesday by St. Martin’s Press), Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat, writes about how the language of faith, which he believes has been co-opted by…
A researcher in the Netherlands found an incredibly rare fragment of Homer’s epic “Odyssey” that is over 1,700 years old sandwiched between the pages of a library book. The find was made by Dr. Mark de Kreij, of Radboud University in the Netherlands, while he participated in a project to study and publish ancient…
This story originally aired on Jan. 10, 2026. In January 2022, the pain coursing through Hannah Pettey’s body for six months was hitting her harder than ever. Hannah Pettey: It was unbearable … I was in the bed at this point for probably like a week straight. Anne Marie Green: Were you even able to…
Scribner We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Robin Wall Kimmerer, an Indigenous botanist, became a #1 New York Times bestselling author with her 2013 book “Braiding Sweetgrass,” about the value of complementing our understanding of Western science with Indigenous knowledge about nature and humanity. In her most recent…
