NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who rose from borrowing money to release her first book to decades as a literary celebrity sharing her blunt and conversational takes on everything from racism and love to space travel and mortality, has died. She was 81. Giovanni, subject of the…
In the last scene of Terrence Malick’s 1973 film, Badlands, a recently arrested spree killer is sitting handcuffed next to a state trooper. Unperturbed by the prospect of the electric chair, the killer compliments the trooper’s state-issued Stetson. “You’re quite an individual, Kit,” the trooper says. Kit looks at him and deadpans: “Think they’ll take…
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today’s edition, campaign embed Alex Tabet and national political reporters Bridget Bowman and Ben Kamisar examine the pressure Sen. Joni…
CNN — The epicenter of Donald Trump’s transition is gradually shifting from south Florida to Washington, DC, to prepare for the president-elect’s return to the country’s seat of power, even as he prefers to bask in the afterglow of his electoral triumph from Mar-a-Lago. Key allies are shepherding Trump’s Cabinet picks through a gauntlet of…
President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has fallen in Syria, almost 14 years after an uprising against it began and more than half a century after his father launched the family’s brutal dictatorship. Rebels led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham movement took control of Damascus early on Sunday after sweeping through the country over the previous…
With the NFL in our backyard and MLB on the way, it’s time we started thinking about another Las Vegas sports division: the Global Gaming League. The brainchild of Clinton Sparks, a Grammy-nominated producer and co-founder of the professional gaming and lifestyle brand XSET, the Vegas-based GGL disrupts the traditional esports model by connecting competitive…
Celebrity fashion designer Bob Mackie has told Newsweek he is “OK” after a sidewalk fall left him battered and bruised. The 85-year-old mastermind behind pivotal fashion moments of stars including Cher, Tina Turner, Miley Cyrus and Zendaya was rushed to hospital after tripping on a Subway grate and plunging face-first to the ground. “I have…
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show with Syria and the aftermath of the historic collapse of the Assad regime. Israeli forces are continuing to attack key military sites, airports and army air bases in cities across Syria, including the capital Damascus. In…
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Ukrainian man who embarked on a perilous journey fleeing his war-torn country into Romania was rescued from a deep mountain ravine in subzero temperatures with an unlikely companion: his months-old kitten named Peach. More than a dozen rescuers worked in a harsh blizzard to save Vladislav Duda, 28, who was…
CNN — Nearly three dozen of President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to serve in his incoming administration donated to his campaign or to the deep-pocketed outside groups that worked to elect him, a CNN analysis of federal campaign records shows. They range from tech multibillionaire Elon Musk – who has emerged as the single largest, disclosed…