Author John Nichols, who believed that writing was a radical act, dies at 83
John Nichols wrote more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, most centered around his adopted home of…
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New Zealand held a Bird of the Century competition. John Oliver got this puking bird to win!
By Associated Press
WELLINGTON: Comedian John Oliver has succeeded in his campaign to have what he describes as a weird, puking bird with a colorful mullet win New Zealand's Bird of the Century contest.
He managed…
‘Wait Wait’ for November 11, 2023: With Not My Job guest John Stamos
This week's show was recorded at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, with host Peter Sagal, judge and scorekeeper Bill Kurtis, Not My Job guest John Stamos and panelists Tom Bodett, Emmy Blotnick, and Skyler Higley. Click the audio…
John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (Part 2) – California Healthline
By Dan Weissmann
The final episode of this two-part series about YouTube star John Green and his fight to make tuberculosis drugs more affordable takes listeners halfway around the world to India.
For nearly two…
John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (Part 1) – California Healthline
By Dan Weissmann
Why is treating drug-resistant tuberculosis so expensive?
Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson’s patents on a drug called bedaquiline have a lot to do with it.
In this episode of “An Arm…
John Bradley obituary
My father, John Bradley, who has died aged 93, was a specialist in eastern European and Soviet history and politics, contributing to more than 20 titles, mainly on Czechoslovakia, his native land, and Russia.John taught in the department of…
‘Shark Tank’ star Daymond John looks to boost Black entrepreneurs for a fourth year
Daymond John attends the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California, on March 12, 2023.Leon Bennett | Filmmagic | Getty Images"Shark Tank" star…
John Bynner obituary
My friend and colleague John Bynner, who has died aged 85, was a social scientist who championed Britain’s birth cohort studies and had a mission to put the evidence to the greater good.John believed that data should inform policy to help…
‘Flora and Son’ movie review: Eve Hewson is magnetic in John Carney’s musical almost-romance
A still from ‘Flora and Son’
And here he is again. John Carney (Once, Sing Street, Modern Love) is back with an absolute swooner, the kind of feel-good rom-com that we don’t seem to get enough of nowadays (blame the streamers for giving…
‘Here I am, closer to the gutter than ever’: John Waters gets his Hollywood star
Self-described "filth elder" John Waters unveiled his sidewalk star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday.…