16. Purdue’s Braden Smith, at 6-0, is 16 inches shorter than former teammate Zach Edey, but he’s the preseason favorite to be national player of the year — same as Edey. This tall-and-short twosome ...

Diane Ladd, an Oscar-nominated actress for 'Wild at Heart' and 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore,' has died at 89, her ...

Actor Diane Ladd died Monday at her home in Ojai, her Oscar-winning daughter Laura Dern announced, saying, 'She is flying ...

Sixteen hours into the filibuster. What began as words of encouragement for elementary students visiting the National ...

Humor heightens our sense of survival and preserves our sanity. These are the words of Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, aka Charlie Chaplin. As a ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics will take place in Milan and Cortina. The last time home Cortina d'Ampezzo had an Olympic moment? 70 ...

Basketball has grown into a truly global game, with players from every corner of the world now filling NBA rosters. But the league's American roots still run deep — and many of its top scorers got ...

Jean Epstein compared going to a movie to entering a state of hypnosis, an aesthetic experience that ‘modifies ...

On this day (October 29) in 1937, Sonny Osborne was born in Thousandsticks, Kentucky. After learning to play the banjo as a child, he formed a group with his brother, Bobby Osborne. Together, the ...