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Bono recalls mother's deathbed scene in new memoir and says 'after she died she was never spoken of again' at home

'We were three Irish men, and we avoided the pain that we knew would come from thinking and speaking about her'

Irish Mirror · Sep 19, 2022

Sister of Lombard man freed by Taliban in hostage swap ‘stunned, very happy’ after 3 a.m. call from Biden

Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran and a civilian contractor in Afghanistan, was abducted in 2020. His sister in Lombard had pushed for years to get his release.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 19, 2022

Taliban freed from Guantanamo, claims exchanged for American

A senior Taliban detainee held at Guantanamo Bay says he was released and handed over to the Taliban in Kabul, in exchange for an American prisoner held in Afghanistan

The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2022

‘I couldn’t get on the damn horse’: John Carpenter on playing Red Dead Redemption

The legendary director of Halloween, They Live, and Escape from New York had some peculiar troubles with Red Dead Redemption.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Aug 30, 2022

Reporter Luke Mogelson: ‘I was surprised by the lunacy of the conspiracy theories in Michigan’

The New Yorker writer whose new book follows the militarised rightwing protests in Michigan that prefigured the Capitol attacks, on extremism and the possibility of civil war

The Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2022

Missing Pages: the podcast revisiting jaw-dropping literary scandals

From the case of Dan Mallory to the story of Kaavya Viswanathan, literary critic Bethanne Patrick looks back on some of the strangest book scandals ever

The Guardian - US · Aug 22, 2022

France pays homage to beloved New Yorker cartoonist Sempé

Family, friends and fans have paid tribute to French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé, who died last week at age 89

The Independent UK · Aug 20, 2022

Addams Family creator 'slept in a coffin' and 'drank martinis bobbing with eyeballs'

Charles Addams is the famous American cartoonist who created, in comic form, the brood now set to be resurrected later this year with the help of Catherine Zeta Jones in Tim Burton’s new Netflix show, Wednesday

Daily Mirror · Aug 19, 2022

TV analyst caught masturbating on Zoom call resigns from CNN

The incident happened two years ago and he's now moving on

Wales Online · Aug 13, 2022

Scandal-tainted legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin exits CNN

Jeffrey Toobin, a longtime legal analyst at CNN who became engulfed in scandal for exposing himself to his colleagues at the New Yorker in a Zoom meeting, announced Friday that he is leaving the network.

Los Angeles Times · Aug 12, 2022