Entertainment & Arts
Television
Ron Howard’s Disney+ documentary about Jim Henson, which features interviews with his family and close associates, is an admiring but unvarnished look at the puppet innovator.
Awards
The director of the documentary ‘Jim Henson Idea Man’ had an overarching question he wanted to answer: ‘How in the world did he create such a lasting legacy of work with such a burst of creativity in only a few decades?’
Sports
Women’s basketball stars Sue Bird and Sylvia Fowles also could be part of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class of 2025.
World & Nation
Actor Kim Sae-ron’s death adds to the list of celebrity deaths in South Korea that underscore the enormous pressure they face under the gaze of a relentless media that pounces on their every misstep
Obituaries
The journalist saw himself as a ‘radical centrist’ in a Daily News career that looked out for the ‘little man,’ challenged police corruption and assailed bureaucrats.
‘We knew we needed to wrap our challenging elements inside a story that is universal and modern,’ says the series creator.
Howard Lutnick, President-elect Donald Trump’s Commerce secretary pick, is a cryptocurrency enthusiast and head of investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald.
Shaquille O’Neal says he wasn’t going to mention Dwight Howard’s name again, only to trash him a day later. The ex-Laker centers who used the ‘Superman’ nickname are beefing again.
California
Cellphones must now be put away or locked away during the school day in the nation’s second-largest school system. So far, most students seemed to be complying.