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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…