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March 26, 2018
Flat-Earther blasts off into sky in home-made steam rocket
LOS ANGELES - Paul McCartney, Common, Miley Cyrus, Amy Schumer and other stars played supporting roles at nationwide gun-reform rallies dominated by teenage survivors' emotional speeches.Still, the protests were deeply personal for some of the celebrities involved.Jennifer Hudson, who performed "The Times They Are A Changin'" to cap Saturday's March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., alluded to the shooting deaths of her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in 2008."We've all lost somebody. ... We've all got a purpose. And we want what? We want change," she said, encouraging the vast crowd to join her in song.McCartney said his decision to take part in the New York City rally was prompted by the 1980 Manhattan shooting death of John Lennon,...
March 25, 2018
Stars affected by violence join students' gun-reform rallies
GENEVA - Swiss singer Lys Assia, the first-ever winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, has died aged 94, the competition's organizers said.Assia, who won the first edition of the contest in 1956 in Lugano, Switzerland, with the song "Refrain", "passed away on March 24 at Zurich's Zollikerberg Hospital, having recently turned 94," Eurovision said in a statement.Assia, whose real name was Rosa Mina Schaerer, was born in 1924 in Rupperswil in the north of Switzerland.She began her career as a dancer, but soon turned to singing, achieving her biggest hit in 1950 with "O Mein Papa", Eurovision said.Assia took part in the contest again in 1957 and actually came second in 1958 with the song "Giorgio".She tried to return as a contestant again in...
March 25, 2018
Lys Assia, Eurovision's first-ever winner, dies aged 94
MONTPELIER, Vt. - The man made famous by being "the most interesting man in the world" loaned his expertise with his perfectly groomed facial hair by helping to judge a contest looking for the best beard in Vermont. Jonathan Goldsmith, whose close-cropped beard was a key part of the image of the cigar-smoking sophisticate, judged the Best Beardies competition Sunday. The contest's 2018 Top Beardie was Chip Fortune, of Colchester, whose mountain man-style beard won over the judges. The other winners were: Troy Headrick, of Burlington, urban beard; Louie Coli, of Westford, freestyle beard; Dillon Mears, of Plainfield, people's choice; and Steve Jalbert, of Barre, top fundraiser. The winners were among this year's 20 competitors who made it to Sunday's finals. They...
March 25, 2018
'Most interesting man' judges contest; 'mountain man' wins
March 24, 2018
'Melrose Place' actress faces 2nd re-sentencing for crash
March 24, 2018
Deepika Padukone: Celebrities should help bring about social change
March 24, 2018
600 invited to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding
March 24, 2018
Jail housing 200 roosters as cockfighting evidence
March 24, 2018
Gone extinct: Animatronic T-Rex bursts into flames
March 21, 2018
Hawking's remains to be buried at abbey near Newton, Darwin
