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A little girl’s butterfly skin and ‘the worst disease you’ve never heard of’

June 4, 2018 at 4:23 p.m.

Every morning, Kevin Federici pulls on a head lamp, sterilizes a sewing needle and prepares to prick his baby girl all over her tiny body. She fights him with everything...

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>

Kelly Ripa to return to “Live!” on Tuesday morning

June 8, 2018 at 9:10 p.m.

Kelly Ripa will return to her seat as co-host of "Live! With Kelly and Michael" on Tuesday morning, after a tumultuous week for the show. Beginning this past Wednesday, Ripa...

Denise Pavone-Brooks and Jeffrey Stork on their wedding day in Arlington, Virginia, in 2010.

Why we never really get over that first love

June 9, 2018 at 1:57 a.m.

Twenty years ago ... She was my first relationship ... My first boyfriend ... I was 17 ... She was 19 ... We were crazy about each other ... We...

For people who are part of a couple, Valentine's Day can be a cauldron of unmet expectations.

Valentine’s Day? How about we just don’t

June 11, 2018 at 7:03 a.m.

It's almost Valentine's Day! Bring on the flowers and the stuffed teddy bears, the candy hearts and the drugstore aisles lined with pink and red. March out the prix-fixe menus,...

In 2008, as a student at Florida State University, Kassie Edwards was raped. Now an advocate who speaks about her experience, she worries that the recent spate of sexual-assault news will discourage rape victims from reporting the crime.

A survivor fears recent spotlight on rape may make it harder for other victims

April 5, 2019 at 10:07 p.m.

Kassie Edwards reported her rape. It wasn't much of a decision, really. She was attacked on Halloween 2008. Two months earlier, Edwards had transferred to Florida State University to be...

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