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An American Airlines passenger was refused beer — so he screamed, fought and spit blood, FBI says

May 29, 2018 at 1:54 p.m.

It began, as so many plane debacles seem to, with strange sounds in the bathroom. They were the noises of Jason Felix, one of the passengers on Wednesday's American Airlines...

Couple loses legal fight against wedding photographer, ordered to pay $1 million

August 22, 2019 at 12:20 a.m.

An autumn affair at the Petroleum Club in downtown Dallas, the union of a full-time beauty blogger and the love of her life, appeared to be a gorgeous thing —...

In a fiery ruling on Friday, an appeals court judge in Washington ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to look into it what she called "the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat."

Citing ‘basic physics,’ a judge berated the FAA for those shrinking airline seats

June 3, 2018 at 3:10 a.m.

If you're convinced your plane seat gets smaller with each vacation, that your cramped knees and crushed hips are not just a function of your expanding girth, that you're being...

Nepali teen dies from snakebite after being banished for having her period

August 22, 2019 at 12:05 a.m.

Alone and in pain, Tulasi Shahi encountered a poisonous snake. The Nepali woman had been banished to her uncle's cowshed as per the "chaupadi" tradition, a centuries-old practice common among...

New Yorker drew Comey being dragged off plane. United passenger’s lawyer critiqued it.

June 4, 2018 at 9:29 p.m.

Thomas Demetrio is no art critic; he's the attorney for David Dao - whom you and probably the rest of the world saw dragged off a United Airlines flight last...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

For decades ‘Sesame Street’ brutally parodied Trump, who wants to defund PBS

June 5, 2018 at 1:00 p.m.

You should know a couple of things before we embark on a recap of "Sesame Street's" surprisingly vicious takedowns of Donald Trump, which span three decades leading up to his...

‘Star Wars’ actor Riz Ahmed explains how ISIS is winning the TV war

December 17, 2018 at 5:14 p.m.

The British actor Riz Ahmed offers a simple explanation for why the Islamic State militant group keeps finding recruits: Terrorists make better TV. Specifically, the actor told the British Parliament...

President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the AeroMod International hangar at Orlando Melbourne International Airport on February 18, 2017 in Melbourne, Fla.

Trump’s 3,000 websites — and what they say about his rise to power

June 5, 2018 at 8:42 p.m.

In Trump We Trust — .com, that is. Not your politics? Maybe check out ThrowOutTrump.com. Actually, they're both empty websites, what you call parked domain names: bought and paid for,...

‘I misspoke one word’: Kellyanne Conway calls her critics ‘haters’ after Bowling Green fiasco

August 21, 2019 at 10:02 p.m.

Kellyanne Conway wishes her critics would let the "Bowling Green massacre" thing go. Chelsea Clinton, in particular, it seems. "I misspoke one word," President Donald Trump's campaign manager-turned-presidential adviser told...

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