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Most Americans met Wednesday night’s news that Arizona Senator John McCain was facing a dire diagnosis of brain cancer with shows of respect for the elder statesman and former prisoner of war. The attack on McCain--a war hero who spent more than five years in a North Vietnamese prison-is faintly reminiscent of the early days of Trump’s presidential campaign. During a family values summit in Iowa in the summer of 2015, just a month after he’d announced his seemingly quixotic bid for the White House, Trump lashed out at McCain: “He’s not a war hero.

Johnnie Cochran is dead. Marcia Clark writes murder mysteries. Judge Lance Ito is retired. Kato Kaelin tweets a lot. And F. Lee Bailey, the famed criminal defense attorney, is flat broke. On Thursday, O.J. Simpson - the NFL icon who brought them together more than two decades ago  - was granted parole from his prison sentence for a Nevada robbery conviction, asserting during a highly anticipated hearing that “I’m not a guy who has lived a criminal life.” But of all the characters who played a role in Simpson’s unforgettable acquittal for the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, no one’s life has changed as dramatically as Bailey’s. By changed, we mean cratered. Bailey joined Simpson’s

If O.J. Simpson gets out of prison, he'll have far more financial resources awaiting him than most ex-convicts. Simpson goes before a parole hearing Thursday that could lead to his release from prison this fall. Beyond any money he can make from selling autographs or other memorabilia, Simpson, who is 70, will probably have significant retirement income. The NFL won't say how much he'll get from his NFL pension, and it's hard to estimate without knowing some key details, such as when he decided to start collecting benefits. But according to the NFL benefits formula, he could receive as much as $100,680 a year if he waited until age 65 to start drawing his pension. Ex-players have the option of