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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. 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 defense team with a courtroom

Wade Seago shot an 820 pound hog in his front yard

JetBlue is disputing family members' characterization of an episode that prompted their removal from a June 21 flight and said it is considering barring the family from flying with the airline. Through a press release from their attorney, Tamir Raanan and Mandy Ifrah said they were returning home to New York from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with their three children when their 1-year-old, Eden, began kicking a seat in front of them as the plane was about to depart. According to the family, Ifrah apologized to the passenger, but a flight attendant nevertheless asked the pilot to return to the gate, and the family was removed from the flight.