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The wife of Joquín “El Chapo” Guzmán played a key role in successful plot to break the accused drug lord out of a maximum-security prison in 2015, according to a former high-ranking leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. Emma Coronel Aispuro, Guzmán’s American-born wife who is more than 30 years his …

From the start, few mistook Michael Caine for typical movie-star material. “I had a thick Cockney accent and I was a tall, skinny guy,” Caine recalls. The situation was compounded during the filming of one of his first hits, 1965’s spy thriller The Ipcress File: “I wore glasses, and during …

Greta Van Fleet frontman Josh Kiszka was sleeping in during a rare day off in December when his phone suddenly started blowing up. “I didn’t put together what was happening,” he says. “I thought the pope had died or something.” Pope Francis was fine, but Greta Van Fleet had just …

During the United Nations climate negotiations in Katowice, Poland, in December, the cavernous modern convention center at the heart of this grim industrial city was like a spaceship in coal country. Outside, the air was so sulfurous and polluted it gave at least one negotiator a nosebleed as they walked …

Spotify celebrated its 10th birthday in October — making it, by modern measures, a veteran tech company, long past the scrappy startup phase of existence. It’s gotten there by being very good at knowing what it does best. Now, to reach the next stages of profitability and long-term success, it …

Phish have to work pretty hard to surprise fans with their annual New Years Eve stunt. In years past, they’ve turned their stage into an aquarium, suspended themselves above arenas in a giant hot dog and appeared to shoot their drummer out of a cannon.But somehow, the band delivered as …

The late Aretha Franklin owed more than $6.3 million in back taxes, The Detroit News reports. However, an attorney for her estate claims that about half of those back taxes to the IRS have already been paid. According to legal documents filed in Oakland County Probate Court in Michigan per …

The sun reflects brilliantly off the waves of the Pacific, throwing shadows on the charred hills where tufts of green were just starting to emerge from blackened soil. “There’s no place like home” plays on the radio. The last embers from the Woolsey fire — the destructive wildfire that burned …

Last year, as people stormed the streets of Charlottesville with tiki torches as a symbol of white pride, Ice Cube didn’t flinch. “It was a weak attempt to scare people,” he says. “It’s just a very weak attempt to make people feel like something was about to happen, or that …

BURLINGTON, VERMONT — Get ready to feel the Bern again. A movement to draft Bernie Sanders to run for president in 2020 is launching today, with the aim of building an organizational structure so the Vermont Senator can start campaigning at a moment’s notice. “We have two goals,” Rich Pelletier, …