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  • Even without prisoners, Alcatraz remains one of the most infamous prisons in America. Five decades after it closed, it still captures the public's imagination. Those who stayed there, however, can tell you exactly what doing time on "The Rock" was like.
  • A provocative obituary ran in the New York Times on March 30, 2013. It began as follows: “She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job…
  • From his cancer diagnosis to his dramatic return to Washington to casting a decisive "no" vote on the health care repeal, Sen. John McCain had an eventful week.
  • Dr. Scholl's foot powder, tin foil, dead rats—former CIA Chief of Disguise Jonna Mendez used them all to conceal agents and secret messages. She shares stories about getting creative undercover.
  • The songwriter and producer hadn't been to Nashville since his days with the Eurythmics, but he says the city made the perfect setting for The Blackbird Diaries, his first solo album in 13 years.
  • President Obama is holding a series of bilateral meetings with world leaders in The Hague. Although the event is focused on nuclear disarmament, international attention is dominated by events in Ukraine.
  • Jason Ryan's new book Jackpot chronicles the glory days of the "gentlemen smugglers" of South Carolina, who brought thousands of tons of pot into the country during the 1970s, financing a dream lifestyle of yachts, cars and beautiful women. The party ended in the early 1980s, once Reagan stepped up his anti-drug campaign.
  • Terence Davies' Sunset Songis the tacitly feminist tale of a woman, played by Agyness Deyn, who is at least partially freed by owning land and acting on her own anger.
  • It's been an excruciating wait for families of passengers on the missing Malaysian airliner. They wait for word in a Beijing hotel and have little confidence in Malaysian authorities.
  • President Trump met with French President Emmanuel Macron today in France to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.
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