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Some Nike customers have been showing their displeasure with the brand over its decision to use football player Colin Kaepernick in ads.

Most of us celebrate the first Monday in September by enjoying a day off from work, but here's what you should know about Labor day.

As everyone is preparing for cookouts, fireworks and family time to celebrate Independence Day, here are a few fun facts about the Fourth of July!

The number of 'silent' protests that involve kneeling during the National Anthem is increasing...but is the message behind the protests being lost?

The AT&T 9/11 ad featured a hand holding a cell phone over the Manhattan skyline with an image of the lights representing the missing twin towers of the World Trade Center on the phone’s screen. The company apologized for the ad and pulled it after angry complaints. Every September 11th,...

Frank Tanabe knew his time was short. He was battling liver cancer, and at 93, it was clear he wasn’t going to win the fight. But Tanabe, a World War II veteran whose family spent time interred in a Japanese-American Camp in the U.S. after the attack on Pearl Harbor, had one mission left that he wanted to accomplish before his death: he wanted to vote one last time.

It was literally a race against time: a question of whether an absentee ballot would reach a 93-year-old Honolulu man before it was too late.

I’ve worked in television long enough to know that it’s pointless to utter phrases like, “Now I’ve heard everything!” But this is the kind of story, had I not learned said lesson, that might make me say such a thing.

The legendary Aretha Franklin. Jesse McCarney. Steven Tyler. Olympic Gold Medalist Carl Lewis. Roseanne Barr. And most recently, Christina Aguilera. They’ve all found ways to butcher, either through missed lyrics or a rotten job of carrying a tune, the National Anthem. It’s a difficult song musically. It requires quite a...

NBC is says removing words from the Pledge of Allegiance during an opening to U.S. Open Golf coverage was “a bad decision.” That’s according to a letter the network is sending to viewers who complained about the fact that the words “Under God” were cut twice from the pledge. In the...

For more than three decades, Red Skelton was a household name, a top star on radio and television. He started on NBC television, but in 1953, he moved over to CBS. The incredible video included in this post aired from Television City in Hollywood in January of 1969. I particularly...

Take one look at the tone of all of the political commercials broadcast in the past month during local and state primaries, and you’d easily think that we’re a country torn apart by petty bickering. Yet a new poll says that nearly a third of Americans describe themselves as “extremely...

“I believe in the United States of America as a Government of the people by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a Republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable; established...