Adams, 33, first landed on Hollywood’s radar after playing a pregnant Southern belle in 2005’s independent film “Junebug,” which earned her an Oscar nomination. Since then, she’s been compared to just about every talented redhead in history, especially Lucille Ball and Julia Roberts. They’re fair comparisons, actually. In most of her roles, she’s perky and upbeat with a touch of screwball—Julie Andrews meets the Little Mermaid. When you spend some time with her, she does give off a little-princess vibe, like when she talks about her bouncing ponytail in “Charlie Wilson’s War....

Robach, 49, and Holmes, 45, who have co-hosted the show since 2020, are on a hiatus from the Good Morning America spin-off pending an internal ABC News review. The Daily Mail published photos of their alleged romance earlier this month as they headed on vacation in upstate New York. The pair have also been spotted out for drinks in New York City and holding hands in the back of a car....

The beloved actor and civil rights activist died last Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. But it’s where and how he grew up—and the parents who raised him—that shaped the man the world knew. And the choices he made as an actor. His life started in Miami on February 20, 1927. “He was born small and sickly,” Aram Goudsouzian wrote in his 2004 biography. “A premature baby of seven months, he weighed less than three pounds, and he seemed closer to death than life....

The good times didn’t last. Last week, after failing to meet earnings expectations for the fourth quarter in a row, Lucent ousted the fiery McGinn. “The board felt a different set of skills were required in this stage of the company’s life,” said Michelle Davidson, a Lucent spokeswoman. The move came the same week that AT&T, which spun off Lucent in 1996, unveiled its latest break-up plan. And Ma Bell’s new offspring might do well to take some lessons from the once-precocious Lucent....

What keeps an immigrant going is faith in his new country. This might not always look like patriotism because it doesn’t take the familiar forms–Fourth of July picnics, the fluttering of the Stars and Stripes. Instead it’s likely to show itself in a quiet dedication to work, family and friends. But this is the oldest form of American patriotism–a belief that in this New World you can make your own new world....

Even before he joined Mara Salvatrucha, better known as MS-13, as a teenager, Diaz, whose real name has been withheld for fear of retribution, knew he wanted to escape. The appeal of gang life “is all an illusion,” Diaz tells Newsweek, sitting in a church in an MS-13-controlled part of one of the toughest neighborhoods in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. For Diaz, who is now in his 20s, however, that illusion was quickly shattered the day he had to watch his little brother bleed out after he was hit in a shootout....

That optimism was extremely short-lived, however, as the Panthers’ thud of a 2016 season got off on the wrong foot the moment Graham Gano’s would-be game-winning field goal missed wide left in their opening night Super Bowl rematch against Denver. But that season was written off as fluke, thanks to injuries and inexplicable regression. The real Panthers would be back in 2017, they said. And, as predicted, the team rebounded in 2017 to go 11-5 and make the playoffs, again suggesting long-term success was possible, perhaps probable....

You’re a utility infielder batting a lusty.210. Whom do you fear most? Doc deserves more than Clemens, baseball’s highest-paid Neanderthal. They won’t be saying “Ben McWho?” for long. He’s taken his lumps. But, at 23, he’s taken them against Bo, not the Toledo Mudhens. Fork it over, O’s. Mr. Injury’s wearing Royal blue this season. He’s mean. He’s exciting. And, thanks to injuries and hype, he’s royally overrated. Meet major-league baseball’s second highest-paid Neanderthal....

That same factual integrity characterizes Maclean’s second book, the recently published Young Man and Fire (University of Chicago. $19.95). A painstaking nonfiction account of the events of Aug. 5, 1949, when 13 of 16 U.S. Forest Service smoke jumpers died fighting a Montana forest fire, the book details how “blowup” fires can explode with such speed and heat that brave young men in the best shape cannot hope to outrun them....

What’s wrong with Thomas Muller? Bayern have struggled for consistency under the Italian coach in 2016-17 and have been forced to settle for the runners-up spot in Group D of Europe’s elite club competition, behind Atletico. They are also second in the Bundesliga, three points behind surprise leaders RB Leipzig. And while there was nothing riding on the clash against last season’s beaten finalists at Allianz Arena on Tuesday, Ancelotti was nevertheless relieved to earn a positive result against Diego Simeone’s tough, well-organised visitors....

ACM 17/2 to beat Roma 2-1 Ancelotti was fired by Bayern on Thursday after a disappointing run of results that culminated in a 3-0 Champions League thrashing against Paris Saint-Germain. That left Bayern behind their French rivals in Group B, and in the Bundesliga the reigning champions trail Borussia Dortmund by three points after six games. A league defeat to Hoffenheim and recent draw with Wolfsburg have left them off the pace, and ultimately cost Ancelotti his job – although there were also reports of disharmony in the dressing room....

Egyptian and European researchers spent two months probing the remains of Heracleion and Canopus off the coast of the Nile Delta, Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities reported. They used a sophisticated scanning device to uncover new parts of the ancient settlements. Although it was mentioned in classical texts, Heracleion lay undisturbed beneath the waters of Abu Qir Bay until it was mapped in 2000. Researchers spent four years charting the city, known as Thonis in Egypt, according to the website of lead researcher Franck Goddio....

In a study published in Nature Human Evolution, researchers led by David Wahl from the U.S. Geological Survey looked at an ancient hieroglyphic inscription found at Naranjo—a Maya city that was located 20 miles south of Witzna, in what is now northern Guatemala. The text reveals a series of successful military campaigns against a neighbouring kingdom, including one called Bahlam Jol, which once belonged to Naranjo. The inscriptions says that the city “burned for the second time....

A half-century after the first TV dinner was born, the food industry is approaching its long-sought dream of supplanting the unpaid labor of people like the Mullins in the final, and arguably most profitable, step by which a cow gets turned into meat loaf. Increasingly the acres of Corian countertop in America’s Versailles-quality kitchens are used not for chopping or whisking but for dumping takeout containers onto plates. For those who even bother with plates....

The appointment of Richard A. Posner, the chief judge of the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, comes on the heels of Judge Jackson’s ruling two weeks ago that accepted almost all of the government’s arguments while sweeping aside most of Microsoft’s. Naming Posner, whose charge is to oversee “voluntary” talks, removes Jackson –and potential charges that he’s biased against the company–from the settlement process. By placing Posner in the peacemaking role, Jackson has forced both sides to work with a prominent and respected legal theorist whose views they couldn’t easily dismiss....

Prices for everything but bread, salt, gas, coal and a handful of other staples will soar. Yeltsin’s chief economic adviser expects them to double. The former Russian economics minister says they will quadruple. And Soviet newspapers predict that prices for scarce items like lemons could multiply by a factor of 25. At the same time, state stores are to be privatized, but how that will be coordinated is unclear. Most wage ceilings have been removed, raising fears of hyperinflation....

Right after the self-described “middle-aged square guy” tells Jack Black’s elitist-slacker sales clerk Barry off and leaves the store, the proprietor of Championship Records, Rob Gordon, portrayed, by John Cusack, comes out of the back office and sarcastically praises his friend/employee for his handling of the situation. This prompts Barry to ask a terrific and difficult-to-answer sub-question to his original inquiry about the Top 5 musical crimes perpetrated by Stevie Wonder in the ‘80s and ‘90s: is it better to burn out than to fade away?...

Andre Burakovsky left the second period of Saturday night’s contest against the Lightning after taking a puck to the hand. Victor Hedman had attempted a pass through the neutral zone that came up high on Burakovsky and clipped him. The 27-year-old Austrian went down the tunnel and did not return to the bench the rest of the middle frame. The Avs went on to win the game 7-0. Burakovsky had a goal in the first period, cleaning up a rebound of shot off the rush by Mikko Rantanen to put Colorado up 3-0....