Personalities

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green downplayed his recent blow-up with team mate Kevin Durant and called the verbal exchange "a tactic" on Tuesday. The two players were caught on camera having an animated discussion during the team's loss to the Sacramento Kings on Saturday...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the 20 years since her groundbreaking debut "Baduizm," Erykah Badu has only gotten more creative. Besides continuing to make music, she's been a TV host and producer, performed with her daughter in the Lone Star Circus and delivered dozens...

 NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway has welcomed a new theater with a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by Jake Gyllenhaal. The "Brokeback Mountain" and "Nightcrawler" star was on hand Wednesday to reopen the Hudson Theatre with "Sunday in the Park with George," the venue's first theatrical production...

It’s a new day for journalist Tamron Hall. Last week, news broke that the ever-bubbly co-anchor was suddenly leaving NBC and the Today show just days after learning she’d be losing her 9 a.m. time slot because of the incoming former Fox News star Megyn Kelly,...

 By Sisipho Skweyiya | PRETORIA PRETORIA South African artist Percy Maimela stumbled upon his talent by chance, when some salt crystals spilled on the floor of the shop where he worked and as he tried to collect them he realized they formed shapes that he now turns...

 By Doina Chiacu and Brendan O'Brien Silenced on the Senate floor, Democrat Elizabeth Warren took her criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general out to the hallway - and found a much larger platform. Republican senators voted on Tuesday evening to end Warren's...

 Former U.S. president Barack Obama is trying some new and dangerous water sports that the Hawaii native had to miss out on for safety reasons while serving in the White House. Obama, whose eight years as president ended last month when he was succeeded by...

Substandard: A Farewell to Malls   In this Very Special Episode, Vic and Jonathan lament the death of shopping malls (Sonny: “Meh"). The Substandard honors Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka and the legends of professional wrestling. Why do Vic and Sonny keep making fun of JVL's Prada jeans?...

Trump Team: Kanye West Not Right Fit for ‘Traditionally American’ Inauguration ANDREW KELLY/REUTERS Kanye West was not invited to perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration because, according to a spokesman for the president-elect, the rapper’s music wasn’t right for the “typically and traditionally American event.” Appearing Wednesday...

Photographer Brooks Kraft’s first shoot of Barack Obama was in 2007, when he had five minutes for a cover portrait session for the New Republic. Kraft recalls that Obama was friendly and businesslike, using only the natural light streaming through a large window on...