Summary List PlacementEmmy-winning broadcaster Larry King may be known for his interviews with major celebrities and politicians, but the television legend also interviewed top business leaders and CEOs.  King, who died on Saturday morning in Los Angeles, was best known for hosting the talk show "Larry King Live." It was reported that King had been in the hospital battling COVID-19 since the start of January. He passed away at the age of 87, his company Ora Media said in a statement. The talk show was CNN's most-watched and longest-running show. It ran nightly for over two decades. Throughout his 63-year career, King conducted 40,000 interviews and spoke with everyone from Frank Sinatra to Russian President Vladimir Putin. King was famous for interviews with politicians and other notabl...

Police are warning residents of a string of burglaries reported in December and January in North Side neighborhoods. | Sun-Times file photoIn each incident, someone broke into the common areas of apartment buildings and stole delivered packages. Police are warning residents of a string of burglaries recently reported in North Side neighborhoods. In each incident, someone broke into the common areas of apartment buildings and stole delivered packages, according to a community alert from Chicago police. The burglaries happened four times between Dec. 24 and Jan. 10 in the 3900 block of North Ravenswood Avenue, about 2:50 a.m. Jan. 19 in the 2700 block of North Hampden Court, and about midnight Jan. 20 in the 2600 block of North Clybourn Avenue, police said. Police believe four people, t...

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has announced that its Catholic Cemeteries and Mortuaries started offering contactless burial options due to state and local public health restrictions and high demand for funeral services. Public health protocols limiting in-person appointments have created delays for people planning services for loved ones, prompting the changes, the Archdiocese said. Families will not witness the burials, but the following services will be offered: arrangements via phone and email for immediate funeral/burial needs outdoor prayer service graveside committal immediately following the prayer service memorial mass at a later date. The cemeteries will remain open for people to visit loved ones, but the administration building is closed to the public. “We follow our Church’s...

The notion of straight actors playing gay roles has been a controversial topic in Hollywood in recent years, especially surrounding high-profile LGBTQ films like “Call Me By Your Name” or “Ammonite.” But Neil Patrick Harris, who is currently starring in Russell T. Davies’ AIDS drama miniseries “It’s a Sin” now on Channel 4, thinks that casting shouldn’t be driven by sexual preference and, in fact, that straight actors playing gay can even be “sexy.” “I think there’s something sexy about casting a straight actor to play a gay role — if they’re willing to invest a lot into it,” Harris told The Times (via Advocate). “In our world that we live in you can’t really as a director demand that [an actor be a given sexual orientation],” he said. “Who’s to determine how gay someone is?” Harris is pe

Photo Illustration: Scouted/The Daily Beast/ParachuteIf you’re unfamiliar with the Danish word “hygge,” pronounced “hoo-guh,” then you and me (of a few days ago) have something in common. I learned the word from my wife as I ran through a number of terms I was considering applying to products from the linens and home goods brand Parachute. “Oh, like hygge, you mean,” she said. “Um…” I replied. at The Daily Beast. ...read more Source:: The Daily Beast...

1469 Sandpiper Spit, Richmond; $2.45 million; 4 bedrooms, 5½ bathrooms in 4,492 square feet; built in 2005 on 0.14 acres; waterfront house features 360-degree views of San Francisco Bay, Bay Bridge and San Francisco skyline from almost every room; includes 104 feet of water frontage; also boasts an open-concept chef’s kitchen, expansive living room, additional media room and multiple outdoor living spaced; concrete pilings and concrete deck support the home, which was designed to withstand the test of time on the water. We publish home sale listings both Saturday and Sunday in our new home sections. On Saturday in the South Bay we run Peninsula sales; on Saturday in the East Bay we run Alameda County sales; on Sunday in the South Bay we run Silicon Valley sales; and on Sunday in the Eas...

Mike Carlson/APWhile the Sky have been slowly carving out their place in Chicago’s crowded sports landscape — especially over the last two years — winning a title would help cement their standing. Before general manager and coach James Wade’s first season with the Sky, he acknowledged the importance of growing the team’s fan base. His solution? “Winning puts people in the seats,” he said in 2019. After two seasons, Wade has a 32-24 record, giving him the highest winning percentage (.571) of any Sky coach, and has led the team to back-to-back postseasons for the first time since 2015-16. A global pandemic kept fans out of WNBA venues in 2020, but the league saw TV viewership increase by an average of 68% across all networks. The Sky also have seen their fan interaction on social media grow

Summary List PlacementSTEFANOVIKEIO, Greece – The US Army's 1st Battalion, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), together with Hellenic Armed Forces, executed Eddie's Odyssey, a first of its kind, joint training mission on Velopoula Island and over the Aegean Sea, January 13-14. The exercise, named after Ugly Eddie, the battalion mascot, consisted of US AH-64E Apaches, UH-60M and HH-60M Black Hawk helicopters working together with Hellenic 1st Aviation Brigade Apaches and CH-47D Chinook helicopters. The joint training encompassed transporting troops, aerial coverage operations and providing medical evacuation capabilities to Greek special operations forces (SOF), while they operated on objectives only accessible by traversing long distances over wate...

Summary List PlacementDisney+, the video streaming platform launched by Disney in 2019, has been growing in popularity in Indonesia and it could overtake Netflix in markets across East Asia as it builds its subscriber base by strategizing opportunities rising from closed theaters during the pandemic.  Although Disney+ is in an early development stage in Indonesia, a country with 270 million people, its streaming service Hotstar had attracted as many as 2.5 million subscribers as of January 16, according to Hollywood Reporter. Launched in September, Hotstar service offers movies, series, and content from Disney, Fox, Marvel, LucasFilm, Pixar, National Geographic, as well as more than 250 local Indonesian films. Read More: Netflix's CEO says it has to catch up with Disney+ on animated fam...