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Verna Myers attends the 2020 Athena Film Festival awards ceremony at The Diana Center at Barnard College on February 26, 2020 in New York City.

Inviting new people to make stories. How this VP is pushing Netflix to diversify

January 25, 2021 at 7:45 a.m.

Verna Myers traces her calling as a diversity advocate to more than 50 years ago when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. It was the day before her eighth birthday....

Using bubbles in concert is nothing new to the Flaming Lips. Lead singer Wayne Coyne at the Allentown Fair in Allentown in August 31, 2006.

How the Flaming Lips pulled off COVID-distancing space bubble shows

January 25, 2021 at 6:50 a.m.

The Flaming Lips pulled off their first full-length space bubble concerts this past weekend in Oklahoma City, with both the band and audience members sequestered in their own zip-up bubbles....

DO THEY DO ANYTHING ELSE WITH THE BIBLE? | Until the 20th century, presidents would kiss the bible after swearing the oath of office. The first president not to do so was President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953. Instead, President Eisenhower recited a brief prayer. These days, presidents simply recite the phrase "so help me God" after swearing the oath.

Read Amanda Gorman’s inauguration day poem

January 20, 2021 at 2:42 p.m.

Clad in a long yellow coat and crisp white shirt, with a ruby red headband atop her braids, 22-year-old Amanda Gorman took the podium in front of the Capitol building Wednesday morning to read...

1928: First Catholic to receive presidential nomination | <p>New York Governor Al Smith was chosen as the Democrats' candidate in 1924, but he had to contend with the Ku Klux Klan and other anti-Catholic sentiment. The first Catholic to receive a presidential nomination from a major political party, he lost to Republican Herbert Hoover. Today a dinner in his honor is held each year in New York City to raise money for charity. A political roast, it has attracted such presidential nominees as George W. Bush, Barack Obama, John McCain, and Hillary Clinton.</p>

‘Make the dream exist.’ How Amanda Gorman became Biden’s inauguration poet

January 20, 2021 at 2:38 p.m.

LOS ANGELES — Like most of us, Amanda Gorman has been cooped up in her West Los Angeles apartment binge-watching "The Great British Baking Show" because of the pandemic. Unlike...

Antibody test accuracy | Antibody tests are fairly accurate, but researchers are less certain overall what the information about antibodies tells us, especially depending on when the test is conducted. These tests are not a substitute for a molecular test for an active COVID-19 infection. FDA research has also suggested that people who have had COVID-19 may lose their antibodies after a certain point.

What happens when a restaurant worker gets COVID-19?

January 20, 2021 at 8:50 a.m.

LOS ANGELES — On Nov. 1, Ashley and Tyler Wells were deep in rural Northern California, driving south, about 10 hours outside of Los Angeles. They were returning from a...

Lose the earbuds. Ditch the phone. How to get the most out of your music

January 19, 2021 at 11:13 a.m.

LOS ANGELES – At some point during the pandemic, we've all sighed some variation on Willie Nelson's timeless lyric: "Hello walls. How'd things go for you today?" Some moments were...

George Clooney, Delroy Lindo, Riz Ahmed, Steven Yeun, Gary Oldman: 5 actors trade stories about self-doubt, weeping and thoughts of Chadwick Boseman

January 19, 2021 at 10:10 a.m.

Impostor syndrome: Everybody feels it, even Hollywood's most seasoned stars. In a conversation recorded last month, actors Delroy Lindo, Riz Ahmed, Steven Yeun, Gary Oldman and George Clooney copped to...

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