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The playful anarchy of author-illustrator Dav Pilkey's bestselling "Dog Man" series, about a hero cop who is part-man, part-police dog, is now on screen in a new animated film, with comedian Pete Davidson playing Dog Man's arch-nemesis, Petey the Cat.

"Sunday Morning" looks back on the life of a public servant who sought to restore Americans' faith in the integrity of their government, and who was a Nobel Peace Prize-winner for his remarkable post-presidential years.

In 2020, Sarah McBride made history as the first transgender person ever elected to a state senate seat. Now, the Delaware Democrat is running for Congress.

She was working an economic policy job at the White House when, at age 30, she bought a small specialty food store called the Barefoot Contessa. It started her on a career as an entrepreneur, cookbook author and culinary TV host.

Few VIPs would let anyone watch them in the very personal act of getting a haircut, even if it is to highlight small businesses during Hispanic Heritage Month. But Doug Emhoff is used to venturing into uncharted territory. “Knowing that in your career you’ve not covered a haircut, I feel very honored!” he said.As the husband of Kamala Harris, the first female vice president, Emhoff is the first male to be a vice presidential spouse: there wasn’t even a name for it. “A bunch of us were talking ab…

It’s been more than two years and almost $70 million, but at long last the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, D.C., is relaunching. When this museum opened in 1987, it was the first in the world devoted exclusively to art made by women. An independent, non-profit organization, it was the vision, explained museum director Susan Fisher, of one woman: Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, a philanthropist and collector in Washington. “She had studied art history, and she was very much interes…

It may be hard to fathom that some 20,000 Americans would gather under an image of George Washington for a pro-Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939. But Rachel Maddow has spent the last few years sifting through similarly sobering stories for her new book, “Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism” (Crown). It’s a cautionary tale about threats to democracy set in the era of World War II.“Not only were there lots of Americans who didn’t want us to fight [in the war],” Maddow said, “but t…

At the Hudson Theatre on Broadway, three friends are playing three friends, in a revival of “Merrily We Roll Along,” with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.Jonathan Groff, who drew raves as King George III in “Hamilton,” plays composer Franklin Shepard: “He goes from being a super-excited young composer into a marriage, has a child, has a divorce, gets married again, fools around a little bit.“Lindsay Mendez, who won a Tony in 2018 for her role in a revival of “Carousel,” is writer Mary Flynn…

As the women’s liberation movement was picking up steam more than half a century ago, feminism – the idea of equality for women – was a new and controversial idea. Gloria Steinem says the very word “feminism” seemed to threaten people for two reasons: “One, because they didn’t understand it, and two, because they did understand it!“Now 89, Steinem was a 30-something columnist for New York magazine when she joined with a group of other journalists to create a new magazine aiming to push feminism…

Edward Blum, of Tallahassee, Fla., is not a lawyer; he retired from a job in finance. But he is founder and president of Students for Fair Admissions, a group he acknowledges starting to challenge higher education affirmative action policies in court. “The equal rights provision of our 14th Amendment basically gets to the point that people should not be treated differently because of their race or ethnicity,” said Blum. He also argues that affirmative action violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act. ”…