Monica Bellucci, 50, is the oldest actress to ever take on the role of a “Bond girl.”
Shocked when approached by director Sam Mendes to play the part, Bellucci asked if she was replacing Dame Judi Dench in the role of M.
“I just blurted out: I’m not a girl, I’m a woman, I’m a mature woman,” she said. “Do I have to replace Judi Dench?"
Dench, 80, had played M, the head of MI6, in seven Bond…
The Department of Labor announced Monday a rule change under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) that now ensures workers in legal, same-sex marriages the same right to job-protected leave as those in opposite-sex marriages.
"The FMLA entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons," the rule states.
In a press…
Last week, the White House held a three-day summit to discuss domestic and international methods for "countering violent extremism."
On "Face the Nation" Sunday morning, CBS's Bob Scheiffer asked the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson a question many were wondering about the conference:
Why wasn't the Director of the FBI, James Comey, present at a U.S.-led summit on…
A grieving mother got a unique measure of closure after burning down the house where her 7-year-old daughter was raped and suffocated five years ago.
Somer Thompson’s killer Jared Harrell, 29, now convicted and serving a life sentence, was squatting in the house at the time of the young girl’s murder. The Orange Park, Fla. residence was in foreclosure after Harrell’s parents moved out.
When…
Back in 2007, then-President George W. Bush strongly cautioned against pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq preemptively. Doing so, he warned, would effectively surrender the region to control by Islamic extremists and create a safe haven "to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan":
“It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to Al Qaeda. It’d mean that we’d be risking mass killings on a…
CJ Pearson, a middle schooler from Georgia, took to YouTube to slam President Obama, calling into question his love of country and defending former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for doing the same.
“And when it takes a mayor, the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, to call you out on your downright hatred for America, then so be it,” he said.
Among other topics, Pearson criticized…
"As a former aide to former #NYC Mayor #RudyGiuliani I believe his comments were disrespectful to President #Obama, his family & America."
— Mike Paul (@reputationdr) February 20, 2015
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani continues to encounter backlash and even death threats concerning his remarks about President Obama not loving America.
Former Giuliani aide Mike Paul joined the…
The Census Bureau reported Friday that one in five children in the United States receive food stamps.
According to the federal agency's annual Families and Living Arrangements report, the number of children receiving nutrition assistance is higher than before the start of the Great Recession in 2007.
The Census explains,
"In 2014, an estimated 16 million children, or about one in five,…
As the “White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism” drew to a close Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder discussed the accomplishments of the event.
“I believe that, over the course of this summit, we have greatly advanced the cause of combating violent extremism,” he said.
Much like President Obama’s remarks on the so-called “causes and antidotes to violent extremism,”…
On Hannity Thursday night, radio talk show host Mark Levin strongly agreed with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s statement that President Obama does not love America.
“Rudy’s exactly right…” Levin said.
“When somebody says they want to fundamentally transform America, well then you must not love America. It’s like saying I want to fundamentally transform my wife, or my girlfriend…
