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Elizabeth Taylor was an intelligent and sizzling goddess of the silver screen in The Golden Age of Hollywood. (Please click the red link below the above title for word art and prose showing and examining how appealing she was.) Marriage liberated her sexually. She wasn't perfect. She was human. God Bless The Freedom Where We Can Start With Who We Are And Grow To Be Our Best

A Mississippi woman who married a man 61 years her senior says she’s ready to start a family with her new husband — despite the fact he’s a decade older than her own grandpa. Miracle Pogue, 24, met hubby Charles, 85, while working at a laundromat in Starkville in 2019, with the pair forming a friendship that turned romantic a year later. SNIP Miracle told Kennedy News of the moment she learned about her husband’s advanced age, saying: “I found out in conversation when we asked each other our date of birth and he said he was born in 1937.”...

Katelyn Boss is a 22-year-old server at a sports bar in Salt Lake City, Utah. She thought it was a waste of time at first. The tips were bad, and her base wage was $2.13 an hour. Then she tried putting her hair in pigtails to get higher tips from male customers — and it worked. When I first started working as a waitress at a sports bar and grill, I was struggling to make tips. It almost felt like I was wasting my time. I was making so little money, because the minimum wage in Utah for tipped employees...

Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, testified before the House Oversight and Reform Committee about various investigations relative to the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.

This month's event will follow a long tradition at the Pentagon of recognizing diversity in America's armed forces. Hallway displays and activities, for example, have marked Black History Month and Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month.

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama showed some affection in public on Wednesday, making a number of flirtatious remarks at a military event. “I never get to do anything with my husband. I haven’t seen him in three days. This is a nice date!” the first lady told the crowd at Joint Base Langley Eustis in Hampton, Va., before inviting the president to take the stage. She added, “You’re lookin’ good!” In the rare joint appearance, the president was also ready to serenade his wife, beginning his 15-minute speech with, “I hate following Michelle. She’s so good. How lucky...

President-elect Barack Obama is asking the country to look to George Washington's improbable crossing on the Delaware River on Christmas Day as inspiration to get through current tough times. Obama said in a holiday message that Washington and his army "faced impossible odds" as they fought against the British on Dec. 25, 1776, the day they surprised Hessian forces and won victories that gave new momentum and hope to American Independence. Obama used that story to say that "hope endures and that a new birth of peace is always possible" — even as many Americans are serving overseas and others...

MSNBC Calls Ohio for Clinton

KERRY O'BRIEN: What does Bindi Irwin have in common with Winston Churchill, Indira Gandhi and Nelson Mandela? Answer: Washington's National Press Club. She's only eight years old but, for the past fortnight, Bindi Irwin has spearheaded a quite staggering publicity blitz across America, selling the virtues of the land down under. From Hollywood to the Big Apple, the Bindi Irwin bandwagon relentlessly sang, danced and charmed everyone from fans to television talk show hosts. The final stop for the charismatic daughter of the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin was the national capital. Tracy Bowden reports on the Bindi phenomenon. TRACY...

In a visit to Saddam's Iraq a year ago, I wrote a column that outraged his government. It described officials burning a Muslim leader's beard and then driving nails through his head. The next day I was summoned to a government ministry and menacingly denounced by two of Saddam's henchmen. But neither man could speak English, and they hadn't actually read the offending column. (Imagine officials who don't read papers but rely on underlings for briefings!) At that point, my government minder took my column and translated it for them. I saw my life flash before my eyes. But my...