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Oct 16, 2024 | 
newsnationnow.com | Rich Johnson |Sean Spicer |Stephen Smith
(NewsNation) — Sean Spicer was not impressed with Vice President Kamala Harris’ interview on Fox News. And some Harris loyalists were not thrilled with how Harris was questioned by Fox’s Bret Baier.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Stephen Smith
The man who inspired Richard E Grant’s character in Withnail and I left behind previously unseen diaries, and he sounds so much like the aggrieved and entitled Withnail in their pages that fans may consider them the whiniest finds available to humanity.
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May 25, 2024 | 
thetimes.co.uk | Stephen Smith
The Epsom Derby on Saturday promises to be the usual carnival of top hats, horseflesh and jockeys’ silks, but one familiar sight will be far thinner on the ground: the traditional figure of the racecourse bookie. With their battered leather satchel and wad of slips, windmilling semaphore of changing odds known as tic tac and loud suits, the bookie — or “layer” — has long been a familiar sight on the rails.
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Sep 16, 2023 | 
thetimes.co.uk | Stephen Smith
In the same way that you can’t throw a chip in Padstow without hitting one of Rick Stein’s four restaurants, the historic town of Bishop Auckland in Co Durham belongs to Jonathan Ruffer. He is that unexpected quantity, a hugely wealthy investment banker who is also a devout Christian and free-spending philanthropist. He has invested £50,000 in Bishop Auckland every day for the past ten years — and this is in a part of the world where £50,000 will buy you a two-bedroom house.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
wtop.com | Stephen Smith
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Bethany Patton steps up to the counter and places her pink mug into a shoebox-sized dishwasher. It spins. It whirs. Water splashes inside. After 90 seconds, the door opens and steam emerges. A barista grabs the mug, dries it and prepares Patton’s order — a 16-ounce Starbucks double espresso on ice. For bringing her own cup, Patton gets $1 off her drink.
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
wtop.com | Stephen Smith
Tunes from Dan & Shay and Vic Mensa plus a genre-blending Hulu series “The Other Black Girl” set inside the world of publishing are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you Among the offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists are a joyous season two of “Welcome to Wrexham,” “Barbie” can be bought for $30 and Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon return for season three of “The Morning Show.” NEW MOVIES TO...
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
wtop.com | Stephen Smith
Today in History Today is Wednesday, Sept. 6, the 249th day of 2023. There are 116 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On Sept. 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz (CHAWL’-gawsh) at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
wtop.com | Stephen Smith
A camera clicks. In a fraction of a second, the shutter opens and then closes, freezing forever the image in front of it. When the camera shutter blinked inside a jail in downtown Atlanta on Thursday, it both created and documented a tiny inflection point in American life. Captured for posterity, there was a former president of the United States, for the first time in history, under arrest and captured in the sort of frame more commonly associated with drug dealers or drunken drivers.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
wtop.com | Stephen Smith
Today in HistoryToday is Wednesday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2023. There are 130 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History:On Aug 23, 1927, amid worldwide protests, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery. (On the 50th anniversary of their executions, then-Massachusetts Gov.
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Aug 16, 2023 | 
wtop.com | Stephen Smith
A federal judge on Wednesday declined to approve a proposed settlement in a class-action lawsuit prompted by a surge in Hyundai and Kia vehicle thefts, saying it fails to provide “fair and adequate” relief to vehicle owners. The proposed settlement, announced in May, could be valued at $200 million and covers about 9 million 2011-2022 model year Hyundai and Kia vehicles in the U.S., the companies said at the time.
