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A list of the most recent stories about Oprah Winfrey.
AP Interview: Wiggins will be strong in 2014
The director of the Tour de France expects Bradley Wiggins to come roaring back in 2014 after not defending his crown in this year's race that starts in just over a week. "I think he'll have his motivation back and be back," Christian Prudhomme said in an interview Tuesday in ...
Pa. man chronicles journey to forgive his father
"The last time I saw my mother alive was June 25, 1978. Somewhere after sunrise, just outside my bedroom door, I heard my father tell her he would kill her. 'Kill me!' she dared him. 'Kill me!' I heard two gunshots. Then silence. 'Get up,' my father begged. 'Please, get ...
Help wanted: Lululemon's cheeky CEO ad
If you can hold a headstand for at least 10 minutes, communicate in Sanskrit and enjoy downing wheatgrass and tequila shots on Fridays for work-life balance, Lululemon has a job for you. After a rocky few months, the company is seeking a new CEO. Lululemon Athletica Inc. has posted a ...
Winfrey giving $12M to new African-American museum
Oprah Winfrey is giving $12 million to a museum being built on Washington's National Mall that will document African-American history, officials said Tuesday. The media mogul and former talk-show host previously gave $1 million to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the museum says her $13 ...
APNewsBreak: Pallone says he's in NJ Senate race
U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone said Sunday that he's officially in the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat occupied by Frank Lautenberg and can win the Democratic primary against better-known Newark Mayor Cory Booker by running on his progressive congressional record. Pallone planned to hold a news conference Monday announcing ...
Sotomayor gets another $1.9 million for memoir
Being a Supreme Court justice has not only been good for Sonia Sotomayor's legal career, it's also helped her bank account. The justice reported Friday that she's received more than $3 million in advance payments for her best-selling memoir, "My Beloved World." Her annual financial disclosure forms show that Knopf ...
Paris Jackson now in all-too-familiar spotlight
Until he died in 2009, Michael Jackson was fiercely protective of his children (save for that one balcony-dangling incident). He covered their faces when they went out with him so they might enjoy the kind of normal childhood he missed out on as a member of the Jackson 5. But ...
Charice comes out as lesbian, apologizes to family
Charice Pempengco, a Filipino singer who played an exchange student in "Glee," says she's a lesbian and has apologized to her family in an emotional TV interview. The 21-year-old said on Sunday's talk show on ABS-CBN TV that she wants to apologize to those who do not understand and cannot ...
Report: $750 million missing in Angola-Russia deal
Some $750 million is missing from Angola's treasury from a deal with Russia facilitated by a Swiss bank and a shell company registered in Britain's Isle of Man, a report by a corruption watchdog group said. Russian and French arms dealers got away with $263 million, Angola's president reportedly stashed ...
FROM RED CARPET TO BOTTOM LINE
c.2013 New York Times News Service This February, Zac Posen went to the Oscars. Though he had been in Los Angeles and gone to the parties surrounding the awards several times over the last decade, the designer had never attended the actual ceremony at the Kodak Theater. Yet Posen decided ...
10 Things to Know for Friday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday: 1. A MYSTERY INVOLVING RUSSIAN MISSILES Assad is vague on whether Syria has received a shipment of the sophisticated S-300 air defense systems. 2. AUTHORITIES FIND LINKS BETWEEN THREATENING LETTERS A suspicious letter ...
Winfrey to Harvard grads: Learn from your failures
The invitation from Harvard University caught Oprah Winfrey at a low point. Her new TV network was struggling, branded a flop in the media, when Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust called last year to ask Winfrey to address 2013 graduates. The request came "in the very moment when I had ...
10 Things to Know for Wednesday
1. WHAT'S BOOSTING CONFIDENCE IN THE U.S. ECONOMY Surging home values, a brighter job market and record-setting stock prices have propelled consumer confidence to its highest level since early 2008. 2. MAIN THREAT TO SYRIA'S REBELS NOW COMES FROM WITHOUT The opposition says thousands of Hezbollah fighters have joined the ...
Winfrey calls Ripa and Strahan talk-show royalty
Oprah Winfrey doesn't have a daily talk show anymore. But two years after abdicating her throne, the former talk-show queen is clear who she thinks now wear the crowns: Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan. Winfrey declared the co-hosts "the reigning king and queen" during a surprise appearance on Tuesday's "Live ...
Cyclist tests positive for EPO, risks life ban
Cycling's first major race since the end of the Lance Armstrong case was rattled by another high-profile positive doping test Friday. Former Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca tested positive for EPO in a surprise check at his home before this year's race, organizers said. If confirmed in a backup ...
Tuning in to ‘today’s modern man’
As if the ESPN lineup and the Oprah Winfrey Network aren’t already doing enough to send men and women fleeing to separate viewing rooms, there’s a new gender-specific channel on the television horizon.This one is to be called the Esquire Network and its target audience is “the modern man … ...
Commentary: Butler, VCU elevate A-10 for now
The sports landscape these days is as overwhelming as the menu at The Cheesecake Factory. Where do you start? We have the NFL playoffs, Lance Armstrong and Oprah, Wright State in first place and the national phenomenon that is Miss Alabama. There’s Flyin’ to the Hoop, Fairmont girls basketball and ...
Turmoil fails to put dent in Tom Cruise’s popularity
Just turned 50, Tom Cruise is eligible for membership in the American Association of Retired Persons. Just split from third wife Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise is the object of told-you-so cynics who simply knew that romance wouldn’t last. Just finished with his stab at something really different as a heavy-metal ...
Make 2013 your ultimate bucket list year
Creating a bucket list can be both awesomely fun and amazingly daunting. The trick to the ultimate bucket list is to include both “reach” items and things that would be easy to accomplish (because honestly, what’s the point if you aren’t having fun with it?). If you’re at a loss ...
Armstrong scandal drains meaning from sentimental photo
My moral dilemma of the week was a prized photo that has followed me around for a number of years. In the picture, a desperate 11-year-old boy, wrapped in an American flag, urges cycling hero Lance Armstrong through an uphill pull during a Rome time trial, part of the 2004 Tour ...
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