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Markie Post, the actress best known for her roles in TV’s “Night Court” and “Scrubs” and the film “There’s Something About Mary,” died Saturday following a years-long battle with cancer. She was 70. The California-born actress’s death was confirmed by her manager Ellen Lubin Sanitsky, who didn’t release further details on the circumstances, Deadline reported. Post got her start in the entertainment business when she started working as a producer on game shows before starting her on-camera career as a card dealer on NBC’s “Card Sharks” in the late 1970s, the outlet reported. She later appeared in several television series,...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Chanting “we are not afraid,” thousands of Cubans took to the streets Sunday to demand the end of the communist dictatorship. The COVID crisis has only exacerbated the unrest on the island nation, which is why protesters also called for food and vaccines.

Babylon 5 and Lost actress Mira Furlan has died at the age of 65, her family and management have confirmed. Furlan played Minbari Ambassador Delenn in the 1990s sci-fi TV drama, Babylon 5, and Danielle Rousseau in the noughties mystery drama, Lost. Her family told the BBC the Croatian actress died on Wednesday due to complications with West Nile Virus. "It is with great sadness that I confirm the passing of Mira Furlan" the statement read. "She was a woman full of kindness, strength and compassion." It continued: "She died peacefully at her home in Los Angeles, surrounded by her...

Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces' Sweetheart whose songs helped raise morale in World War Two, has died aged 103. The singer's family confirmed she died on Thursday morning surrounded by her close relatives. "The family are deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of Britain's best-loved entertainers at the age of 103," a statement said. Dame Vera was best known for performing for the troops during WW2 in countries including India and Egypt. Her family said information on a memorial will be announced at a later date.

The UK is set to go to the polls on 12 December after MPs backed Boris Johnson's call for an election following months of Brexit deadlock. By a margin of 438 votes to 20, the House of Commons approved legislation paving the way for the first December election since 1923. The bill is still to be approved by the Lords but could become law by the end of the week. If that happens, there will be a five-week campaign up to polling day. The prime minister has said the public must be "given a choice" over the future of Brexit...

The first soldier to receive a Victoria Cross from the newly crowned Queen in 1952, has died at the age of 90. Bill Speakman was awarded the VC - Britain's highest military honour - for his bravery in leading a military action during the Korea War.

Live Thread for the Canadian General Election, May 2nd,2011

t’s hard to think of another film that commands the affections of the British people as completely as The Dam Busters (1955), that legendary account of the exploits of the elite 617 Squadron, whose intrepid young airmen breached the dams of Germany’s industrial Ruhr valley with the extraordinary bouncing bombs invented by Dr Barnes Wallis. Those bombs occupy a secure place in Britain’s folk memory. Wing Commander Guy Gibson, who led the raid, remains a national hero. And Eric Coates’s marvellously rousing Dam Busters March is immediately recognisable to most of us; see if you don’t hear England’s fans giving...

Labour MPs, including cabinet ministers, will take a quick look at the headlines this morning and think: right, that’s it. Several simultaneous stories smash a hole in the Prime Minister’s defence of his handling of the Lockerbie affair. The Sunday Telegraph reveals that “the British, Scottish and Libyan governments connived to free Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds”. Libya paid for medical advice that allowed the Scots to free the bomber. The Sunday Times claims that Brown “personally vetoed an attempt to force Colonel Muammar Gadaffi to compensate IRA bomb victims because it might have jeopardised British oil deals...

David Cameron is to launch the biggest shake-up of the Conservative Party for decades as part of a bold plan to win support across the whole of the United Kingdom. The Tories are to forge a new party with the Ulster Unionists to try to secure broader backing for Mr Cameron before the next election. The move to restore a link severed more than 30 years ago forms a central plank in a new Conservative strategy to broaden the party's appeal outside England.

He fought long and hard, but in the end, Joe Nuxhall lost his battle. The Old Lefthander passed away Thursday night, at the age of 79. He had been battling cancer over the past couple of years, but most recently, was hospitalized for pneumonia and breathing problems. He was supposed to go through surgery to have a pacemaker implanted, but that operation was called off. At 10:55 p.m. Thursday, he was pronounced dead at Mercy Hospital in Fairfield.

In the end, he was grander than Churchill, greater than Thatcher, more distinguished than Lloyd George, far superior to Wilson, or Heath or, indeed, almost any previous prime minister you would care to mention over the past 100 years. None of them got a standing ovation when they left office. Heaven forfend. The very idea of applause in the chamber used to be anathema. More bizarrely, MPs stood to a man and woman - Conservatives, too, egged on by David Cameron - to clap someone who has treated the House of Commons with thinly-disguised contempt. So much disdain, indeed, that...

A LIFE-LONG heart condition has forced yellow Wiggle Greg Page to hang up his skivvy from the much-loved children's group. Page, 34, revealed he was quitting the Wiggles because of a chronic condition called orthostatic intolerance, which is caused by low blood pressure and leaves sufferers feeling dizzy, short of breath and nauseated when they stand up.

The day after every election, Gary Burbank "blows up" with explosive sound effects all of those political commercials from both sides that got so annoying in the closing days of the campaign. Just click on "listen online" and listen to all the commercials both Republican and Democrat get blown to pieces.

If JimRob, etc. approve this is the Live Thread for the Canadian General Election, on January 23rd, 2005. We have a while to go before the returns start coming in, but I thought the thread needed to get up and running.

Government expected to fall, accused of income-trust leak OTTAWA - The battle lines are firmly drawn for what will be a bitter winter election that will mirror the nasty and short-lived 38th Parliament, which is expected to fall tonight under the weight of a non-confidence vote brought on by a united opposition. The Conservatives continued to hammer their core theme of corruption as they hurled allegations that Finance Minister Ralph Goodale's office leaked details of income-trust changes, just days after opposition leader Stephen Harper linked the Liberals to organized crime. The Liberals, meanwhile, having learned from their early mistake of...

It cannot be said too often that terrorist atrocities are solely the responsibility of those who perpetrate them. To blame the invasion of Iraq, or the occupation of the West Bank, or poverty, or racism, or Western decadence, is both intellectually and morally wrong. What is reasonable, however, is to ask why modern Britain is breeding so many anti-British fanatics. Muktar Said Ibrahim has lived here since he was 12, and in 2003 he applied for citizenship. Last week he attempted to blow up the No. 26 bus. Why? Part of the answer has to do with how Britain sees...

On her Web site, Danica McKellar, the actress best known as Winnie Cooper on the television series "The Wonder Years," takes on questions that require more than a moment's thought to answer. "If it takes Sam six minutes to wash a car by himself," one fan asked recently, "and it takes Brian eight minutes to wash a car by himself, how long will it take them to wash a car together?" "This is a 'rates' problem," Ms. McKellar wrote in reply. "The key is to think about each of their 'car washing rates' and not the 'time' it takes them."...

remember exactly how it started: When I was a fifth grader, my mother encouraged me to read The Hobbit. So I did, and J. R. R. Tolkien's book filled my head with visions of wizards and warriors and dwarves and elves and goblins. A little while later, Mom drove me and a friend to a local toy store, where some guy was teaching kids to play a new game. It was called Dungeons & Dragons. This weekend marks D&D's 30th anniversary — Saturday is Worldwide D&D Game Day, and in a couple of weeks we'll see the publication of a...

Some time around 1989 or 1990 I got a call from the press office of the British Embassy in Washington. "Can you possibly help us out?" the caller asked. "We have two young Labor MPs in town, and we're having a lunch for them with journalists. They're both very bright and they will be cabinet ministers in a Labor government, if there is ever another Labor government, which of course we know there won't." I was open for lunch that day and, as a follower of British politics, I thought it would be enjoyable to meet two bright young Labor...