Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter turned 95 yesterday, ahead of the milestone birthday he told a crowd at the Carter Center last month, that he hopes there will be an age limit on the presidency. He explained that “just in foreign affairs [he doesn’t] think [he] could undertake it if [he] was 80 years old in the White House.” Currently, four presidential candidates–Sen. Bernie Sanders, former vice president Joe Biden, former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld and President Donald Trump–would be the oldest president ever inaugurated if they win in 2020. Read More...
A medical examiner has ruled that a 2-year-old boy who tumbled into an African painted dog exhibit at a Pittsburgh zoo was killed by the animals and not by the fall, a zoo official said Monday.
"What we understand from the medical examiner's report, the child did not die from the fall. The child was mauled by the dogs," said Barbara Baker, CEO and president of the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium, WPIX-TV reported. Read More...
Maura Tierney and Jeff Daniels in American Rust (Photo: Dennis Mong/Showtime)
Nearly six months after it was canceled at Showtime, American Rust has been picked up by Amazon Freevee, the free, ad-supported streamer. The drama stars Jeff Daniels and Maura Tierney, who will both return for Season 2, Amazon confirmed on Thursday.
American Rust, based on Philipp Meyer's novel of the same name, takes place in a Rust Belt town in Southwest Pennsylvania and follows police chief Del Harris (Daniels), who is compromised when the son of the woman he loves (Tierney) is accused of murder. Read More...