Fox News: You’ve led an incredible career. As you can imagine, a lot of child stars tend to fade away as adults. How did you escape that?Osmond: I don’t know if I’ve escaped it completely. There’s a stigma in being a child celebrity… But I think it starts with family. My mother saved me… I remember when I was doing "Donny & Marie," I was about 17 at the time. … [Read more...] about Marie Osmond says ‘my belief in God made all the difference’ in escaping child star curse, weight loss journey
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Schumer and McConnell trade places, but icy relationship holds
McConnell regularly shut Schumer out of planning the Senate agenda in recent years. Most notably, he declined to negotiate a bipartisan organizing resolution for former President TrumpDonald TrumpClinton, Bush, Obama reflect on peaceful transition of power on Biden's Inauguration Day Arizona Republican's brothers say he is 'at least partially to blame' for Capitol violence Biden reverses Trump's freeze on .4 billion in funds MORE’s first impeachment trial in the first months of 2020, a striking difference from the bipartisan resolution that passed unanimously before President Clinton’s 1999 impeachment trial. … [Read more...] about Schumer and McConnell trade places, but icy relationship holds
COVID-19 Clobbers Weak CA Transit Systems
On June 30, the transit association declared, "California's local public transit agencies, suffering from billions of dollars in losses due to reduced ridership and plummeting farebox and tax revenues from the COVID-19 pandemic, warned state and federal lawmakers that they are facing an existential threat that jeopardizes the economic, social, and physical well-being of the communities in which they operate." … [Read more...] about COVID-19 Clobbers Weak CA Transit Systems
Get Cooking: How to choose the right cuts of beef
But how to choose correctly when butchers give so many — truly an unwieldy plethora — of names to cuts of beef? The other day, just at my neighborhood Safeway, I found beef steaks labeled “flat iron,” “tri-tip,” “chuck eye tenders” (as distinct from the mere “chuck tenders” nearby?), “cross rib tender,” as well as the mainline “T-bone,” “brisket” and “top sirloin” and so on. … [Read more...] about Get Cooking: How to choose the right cuts of beef
China Denounces End of US Restrictions on Contacts with Taiwan Officials
— Euan Graham (@graham_euan) January 10, 2021 “These changes are long overdue, and the Trump administration ideally would have made them sooner. Beijing seeks to coerce, isolate, and eventually control Taiwan. The United States must counter these efforts by Beijing, and more robust U.S. bilateral interactions with Taiwan are an important part of that," said Bradley Bowman who is a senior director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. … [Read more...] about China Denounces End of US Restrictions on Contacts with Taiwan Officials