Photo Jon Favreau, one of the hosts of the podcast “Pod Save America,” at CBS Radio Studios in Los Angeles last summer. HBO plans to have the hosts do a series of specials on the campaign trail in the run up to the 2018 midterm elections. Credit Jeff Newton HBO is getting into podcasts. The premium cable network has signed a deal with the hosts of the popular “Pod Save America” podcast to broadcast a series of hourlong TV…
And while two productions of the new musical — its premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse in California in 2014 and one in 2015 at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey — gave the part to a woman of color, Ciara Renée, the casting calls for those shows invited actresses of all ethnicities to audition for the role. Music Theatre International, the licensing company that holds the rights to “Hunchback,” says that Esmeralda is a female, aged between…
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She was at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah on Jan. 21 for the premiere of a documentary on her career. The next day, she was absent from the Supreme Court bench, asking Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to announce her majority opinion in a closely divided case in which she tangled with the court’s newest member, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch. Then it was on to Rhode Island for a “fireside chat” at a law school and an…
On Friday, North Korea announced it would send the only sister of its leader, Kim Jong-un, to South Korea as a member of its official delegation. That sets up at least the possibility of a landmark meeting with Mr. Pence, though Mr. Kim’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, is under Treasury Department sanctions for her role in North Korea’s human rights abuses, which would make a meeting highly unlikely. Indeed, Mr. Pence is drawing attention to abuses in North Korea at…
He admitted to a litany of unpaid bills, legal judgments and defaulted mortgages that had dogged him for two decades. These included a 2010 felony conviction for theft related to a fraudulent $45,000 bank deposit. He had also embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars over several years from Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, an Albany law firm where he had set up a lobbying practice, and he had evaded taxes on more than $1 million he funneled to a side…
Also on Wednesday, U.S.A. Gymnastics, the sport’s governing body, announced the creation of a fund intended to cover the cost of counseling services for gymnasts who have been sexually abused. The fund, established with the nonprofit National Gymnastics Foundation, will be administered by a third party and overseen by a five-person committee, U.S.A.G. said in a statement. The committee will include one gymnast; one member of the foundation’s board; one member at large; and “two independent individuals, one of…
Both sides were heavily invested in trying to produce a result that would get them out of the stubborn cycle of budget dysfunction and, just as important, get them through the November elections without another politically damaging shutdown or threat to default on the federal debt. The brief January disruption of the government had been more than enough to remind both sides of the risks of closing the government even to protect a group as sympathetic as undocumented immigrants…
MILTON, Ont. – A 74-year-old man has died following a head-on collision Wednesday night in Milton, Ont. Halton Region police say the Rockwood, Ont., resident was driving an SUV on Guelph Line at about 5:30 p.m. when the vehicle collidedwith an oncoming pickup truck. The elderly man was pronounced dead at the scene while a 51-year-old man from Campbellford, Ont., driving the pickup was taken to Milton District Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Guelph Line was closed for about six…
One person is dead following a house fire in Mississauga Wednesday night. Peel Regional Police said the fire broke out just before 10 p.m. in the area of Lorne Park Road and Lakeshore Road West. Authorities said one person was located inside the residence. There’s no word yet on the age and gender of the victim. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Fire has been extinguished. One party was located inside of the residence. Investigation ongoing. —…
