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It’s an art collection like no other because it was collected like no other. Hundreds of pieces of art are now on display from a spectacular stash that was once hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era dealer. The artworks, including masterpieces by Monet and Rodin, are being shown for […]

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel may have been feeling groovy when they sang “The 59th Street Bridge Song” all those years ago, but they’ve had many a rough moment since. This morning, on Garfunkel’s 76th birthday, Rita Braver talks with a rock music legend:  “Can you believe I’m still doing […]

Aerial photography used to be reserved for only professionals, but flights and views that were once almost impossible to get are becoming routine — making for a spectacular surge of aerial photography nationwide. FlyNYON is one of the businesses taking advantage of a rapidly rising aerial photography market by offering […]

PHILADELPHIA — The city of Philadelphia announced Friday that the statue of former mayor and police commissioner Frank Rizzo will be moved to a different location, CBS Philadelphia reports. People who want to see it come down say Rizzo treated the African-American community unfairly, even brutally, at times. “Earlier this […]

Years ago, famed British architect Norman Foster proclaimed that his favorite building of the 20th century was an PLANE — the Boeing 747. Now, the jumbo jet he so honored is on its final approach as a passenger plane. Kris Van Kleave gives us the view from the cockpit:  “I […]

In this season of shorter days and longer nights we probably need the sight of flowers more than ever. Perfect timing for Ben Tracy’s “Postcard From Tokyo”:  The mornings begin shrouded in fog and surrounded by color. Yellow, red, pink … a forest of flowers begins to grow. The Tokyo […]

Sally Ride made history back in 1983, when she became the first American woman to travel into outer space. Now, Ride and three other women who were NASA pioneers are being honored with their own Lego likenesses. The “Women of NASA” Lego set went on sale this week, and quickly […]

Bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates pulls no punches in his writings about race relations in America. This morning, he discusses the fine print with our Martha Teichner:  It’s not all that often that a guy who writes about race can sell out a 3,000-seat theater … on a weeknight, especially. But […]

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — President Trump paid a solemn visit Friday to Pearl Harbor and its memorial to the USS Arizona, a hallowed place he said he had read about, discussed and studied but had never visited until just before opening his first official visit to Asia, the […]

Serena Altschul tells us all about a watch that was once “Newman’s Own”: A little over a week ago, at the Phillips Auction House in New York City, a trove of 50 wristwatches was up for sale. But the star of the show — with its own special room, and […]