When the B-52s first sang about “heroes falling to the ground like Hell’s magnet pulls me down,” JFK had been dead for only 15 years and was still a mostly unblemished national icon. Stories about how he treated women had been leaking out, but not until the #MeToo era did we learn just how abominably he and other revered and influential men behaved.
Journalist Maureen Callahan has worked for the New York Post and the Daily Mail — tabloids that have never met a Kennedy they didn’t love to trash. Read More...
The Batmobile pulled into a gas station Sunday night and, as usual, the children who spotted it gawked.
Lenny B. Robinson was used to that. The Maryland man, better known as the Route 29 Batman, had for years dressed as the Caped Crusader and driven his custom-made car to deliver moments of happiness and distraction to hundreds of sick children at area hospitals.
His costume stored in the Batmobile but his alter ego never entirely switched off, Robinson gave the kids at the gas station some superhero paraphernalia before driving off. Read More...
Getty ImagesThirteen years on, relatives of those who died in the bloody siege continue to question the government's response to the siegeRussia says it will comply with a ruling requiring it to pay €2.9m (£2.6m; $3.5m) in damages over the 2004 Beslan school siege.
About 330 people, including 186 children, died after Chechen rebels took more than 1,000 hostages.
In April the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia used disproportionate force to end it. Read More...
