It’s no secret George Lucas drew heavily on Japanese film when he began creating Star Wars. Between taking entire scenes from legendary director Akira Kurosawa to modeling Darth Vader’s appearance after samurai armor, Star Wars is essentially a ...
Enraged and unpredictable, President Richard Nixon drunkenly milled about the Oval Office, ranting at anyone within earshot. The Watergate impeachment proceedings had infuriated and humiliated Nixon a month earlier. During his final days in office, ...
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered the Pentagon to begin preparing for an overhaul of how the military investigates and prosecutes sexual assault, along with other major crimes like murder and kidnapping. Austin’s order, issued Wednesday, ...
Slain Houston Police Department Senior Officer William "Bill" Jeffrey will be buried Monday in Texas. Jeffrey, who spent more than three decades on the force, died Monday, Sept. 20, after being shot while trying to serve a warrant in the city. He was ...
This week, Super Coffee, one of the biggest bottled coffee brands in the US, announced two-time Olympic medalist Gabby Thomas was joining the brand’s team of athletic superstar endorsers. Thomas was appointed Super Coffee’s health and wellness ...
Following the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, Maj. John Ohmer Jr. received an urgent call from the US Army. One of the leading experts of camouflage experimentation for Army bases on the entire West Coast, Ohmer was tasked by top leaders with ...
A memorial to those who served in the Global War on Terror got one step closer to being built after lawmakers passed the National Defense Authorization Act Thursday, Sept. 23, in the House of Representatives. Gold Star families have spent years ...
A Utah-based Green Beret died Tuesday, Sept. 21, during a Special Forces combat diver preparation course in Kentucky. Staff Sgt. Paul Lincoln Olmstead, an engineer sergeant with the Utah National Guard's 19th Special Forces Group, was ...
US Customs and Border Protection spied on American citizens, blocked their international travel, and compromised their personal information to foreign agents, according to a scathing report that Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General ...
Shot by the federal agent he tried to run over in a Colorado convenience store parking lot, fugitive Dallas Michael Theiss has pleaded guilty to assaulting a law enforcement officer. In a plea agreement signed last month, Theiss, 24, confessed to ...
No single soldier on the battlefield is more revered — or more reviled — than the sniper. From tales of a long shot by The White Feather to tales of the long list of bodies that The White Death left behind, mythic stories of snipers and their ...
As a young 10th Mountain Division officer in 2006, Ray McPadden was among the first Americans to push into Afghanistan’s formidable Korengal Valley. After four years of Army ROTC, McPadden was finally going to do what he had signed up for: kill bad ...
Authorities have nabbed an Ohio man who threatened to blow up police stations nationwide, according to the FBI. Federal prosecutors in Colorado have also accused the man, Christopher Fassih, 25, of using his cell phone to store child pornography ...
When frost hit many of Brazil’s major coffee-growing regions in July 2021, coffee prices on the commodity futures market swiftly went haywire. At the time, Brazil, the largest producer of coffee globally, was still recovering from a devastating ...
KYIV, Ukraine — A top aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy survived an assassination attempt outside the capital city of Kyiv Wednesday, Sept. 22. The attack, which took place on a forested stretch of road near Kyiv’s Lisnyky village, ...
In the end, some hippies resorted to using bombs to make sure everyone understood their message of peace and love. Beginning in 1969 as a Vietnam War protest group, the Weather Underground Organization stood out for its brazen acts of domestic ...
Municipal lawmakers in New York’s capital refused this month to ban tear gas and other less-lethal munitions, the latest setback in a national movement to curb police responses against protesters. On Sept. 9, the Albany Common Council tabled a bid ...
We are always on the hunt for coffee bean grinders to tackle any brewing situation. But when it comes to creating the perfect espresso shot, having a high-quality burr grinder in your kit can be the key to achieving that elusive goal. This month, ...
Veterans could see an unusually large boost in their cost-of-living benefits payments because of legislation that Congress passed this week. The Senate approved the Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act on July 21. On Monday, Sept. ...
Zahra didn’t know what was happening. The Marines were leading her out of Hamid Karzai International Airport. They wouldn’t let her go back to get her bags, which were stuffed full of jewelry, money, and most of her legal documents. She was certain ...
By the pricking of my thumbs, Shakespeare's wicked Scottish king comes back to theaters on Christmas Day 2021. Macbeth and his sinister wife are getting the A24 treatment. The studio responsible for atmospheric gems like The Witch, The Green Knight, ...
On its worst days, Rikers Island is 413 acres of fetid misery. And most days are bad now. The home of New York City’s main jail complex is increasingly where inmates go to kill themselves. Since December 2020, at least six men have hanged ...
We're serious about coffee and know that it's not how you take it, but how you make it, that says a lot about you. That’s why we took the time to do an in-depth psychoanalysis on what certain brewing methods say about a person. No matter how you brew ...
The number of testicles attached to the body of one Adolf Hitler, a matter of the utmost historical importance, has been debated for decades. It also spurred mockery among Allied soldiers at the height of Hitler's supreme reign of Nazi Germany during ...
I got into it the same way most guys I know did — that old cliche about preparation meeting opportunity, aka luck. A friend of a friend of a friend was working on a television series about a place and time of which I have a pretty healthy knowledge ...
When Alyssa McClellan heard Afghan refugees were bound for Oklahoma, she felt compelled to do something. That isn't unusual for Sooners (Oklahomans). Though it's only the 28th most populous state in the US, Oklahoma ranks third for the number of ...
The Air Force inspector general will review the drone strike that killed 10 civilians — including seven children — in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 29. The review — which will comb through US Central Command’s already completed investigation of the ...
Last week, former President Donald Trump led calls that Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should face a charge of "treason" based on explosive allegations of backroom maneuverings in a new book by two veteran journalists. But ...
The claustrophobic trenches of Sam Mendes’ World War I epic, 1917, offer one of the most anxiety-inducing settings of any war film since Das Boot. High mud walls obscure a hidden enemy, unpredictable shelling snuffs out any sense of safety, and the ...
US Navy Lt. j.g. Everett Alvarez Jr. survived more than eight years as a prisoner of war inside North Vietnam's notorious Hoa Lo prison in Hanoi. The North Vietnamese called the prison the “fiery furnace,” while Americans sarcastically nicknamed it ...
