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The three-part reunion begins airing April 7.
Half of the Watergate journalism team of Woodward and Bernstein, Bob Woodward, has been working on a book called Fear: Trump In The White House for over eighteen months, and it is set to be released on September 11th. The book covers the level of dysfunction in the Trump White House, and the president has already discr...
The title of the book comes from something Donald Trump said in an interview about power.
It’s not lost on anyone that the Trump presidency has hit a seemingly critical point in the Rober Mueller investigation, and a book is coming out by one of the key journalists behind the revelations of the Watergate scandal.
But while Bob Woodward isn’t talking about his book at this time, Jonathan Karp, president of Simon & Schuster, says it will be the ultimate book so far on the Trump White House.
The last book about the Trump White House that caused a major shake-up, with resignations and terminations, was that of Michael Wolff. It ultimately saw the end of Steve Bannon’s relationship with Donald Trump and the Trump family, and allegedly increased the internal level of paranoia.
Bannon gave interviews to Wolff about the now infamous meeting in Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and Russian representatives.
Bannon signed off saying that he thinks it will be this event that Mueller uses to break Trump.
An Iranian ship patrols the Gulf.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran is using its sea power in the Gulf to show it will not be cowed by Washington's newly assertive Arab allies, prompting critics to accuse Tehran of destabilizing the region.
Iranian ships fired shots at a Singapore-flagged tanker which it said damaged an Iranian oil platform, causing the vessel to flee, and seized a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important oil route, over a debt row.
"Iran's recent measures in the Strait of Hormuz have one clear message to Saudi Arabia. No one can ignore Iran's key role," said an Iranian official, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue.
"Whether reformist or hardliner, Iranian leaders have consensus on securing Iran's influence in the region," said the official.
"They (the United States and its Gulf allies) don't expect a key regional power like Iran to remain silent over its aid ship being prevented from entering Yemen."
Tehran and Riyadh have long been locked in a proxy war, competing for regional supremacy from Iraq to Syria and Lebanon to Yemen, where Riyadh backs Yemen's exiled government against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.
Iran has been cautious about direct military confrontation with Saudi Arabia. "Riyadh is trying to drag Iran into a military conflict," said a senior Iranian security official.
"The Saudis are pursuing a very dangerous path ... We are strong enough to confront them ... but we prefer political solutions, for now."
Iran's maritime operations have brought a new dimension to the stand-off between Tehran and Riyadh, and officials and analysts say they clearly mark a renewed drive to wield regional influence.
Last week five Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps patrol boats fired shots at the Singapore-flagged Alpine Eternity oil products tanker in the Gulf, U.S. officials said. It fled to safety in the United Arab Emirates' waters.
Iran's Navy commander Habibollah Sayyari (C) points while standing on a naval ship during Velayat-90 war game on Sea of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran January 1, 2012.
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore on Monday called on Iranian authorities to investigate the incident and "prevent future recurrences".
"Such interference with navigational rights is a serious violation of international law," the authority said.
Earlier this month, Iran released the Marshall-Islands flagged container ship Maersk Tigris, seized in the Strait of Hormuz over a years-old debt, after security was put up by Denmark's Maersk Line, the ship's charterer.
Shipping underwriters said that the commercial pretext for such activity could lead to a spike in shipping costs. U.S. officials acknowledged concerns among Gulf partners about Iran's maritime conduct.
Denmark's Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard said his country hoped "similar cases will not occur in the future".
Iranian ships shadowed the U.S.-flagged Maersk Kensington on April 24. The Pentagon said at the time the incidents showed "a pattern of harassment".
An armed soldier stands onboard Iranian Navy destroyer Shahid Naqdi at Port Sudan at the Red Sea State, October 31, 2012. Two Iranian warships docked in Sudan on Monday, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported, less than a week after Khartoum accused Israel of attacking an arms factory in the Sudanese capital.
Iran, the United States, France, Germany, Russia and China are in talks aimed at clinching a long-term deal by June 30 to curb Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for an end to sanctions.
They are concerned that lifting sanctions would also give Tehran a cash windfall to increase funding to Shi'ite militias in countries like Syria, Yemen and Iraq.
Commenting on Iran's display of sea power, regional analysts said Washington's priority is to stop Iran developing an atomic bomb and halt expansion of the Sunni jihadis of Islamic State.
"Gulf shipping is not as much of a priority for the U.S. as is getting a deal over stopping nuclear weapon development," said Michael Frodl, of U.S. based consultancy C-Level Global Risks, referring to Iran's flexing its muscles in the Gulf.
"So Iran is testing the limits."
CBN.com The Reverend Gary Davis was a self-taught street musician and Baptist preacher who became an icon of the mid-twentieth-century folk-music revival. Critics consider him to be one of the most innovative and influential blues guitarists of the century. His legacy as a teacher and performer can be heard in the wo...
Gary D. Davis was born on April 30, 1896, in Laurens County, south of Spartanburg, in the Piedmont section of upstate South Carolina. His parents, John and Evelina Davis, had eight children, six of whom died as babies. Davis' only surviving brother was killed by a girlfriend in 1930. Davis variously claimed to have bee...
Davis was raised by his grandmother, on a farm that, as he told his student Stefan Grossman (quoted on the Guitar Videos website), was "Way down in the country, so far you couldn't hear a train whistle blow unless it was on a cloudy day." Davis also told Grossman that his father gave him away because his mother was oft...
As a small child, Davis began playing the harmonica and his grandmother helped him make a guitar from a pie pan and a stick. After his mother gave him a real guitar, Davis practiced continuously. He also taught himself banjo. Davis' first musical exposure was to the spirituals sung in church, square-dance music, and po...
In 1910 or 1911 Davis joined a string band in Greenville, South Carolina, taking his place among the ranks of blind southern blacks for whom music was the only source of income. The band included the blind guitarist Willie Walker, who was to become a legend during the folk-music revival. Walker taught Davis the famous ...
According to Guitar Videos Online, Davis told Grossman that about 1910, "I first heard them from a fellow coming down the road picking a guitar and playing what you call ‘the blues.'" The first bluesman he heard was Porter Irving singing "Delia." In 1914 Davis entered the Cedar Springs School for Blind People in Sparta...
In 1919 Davis married Mary Hendrix, a woman five years his senior. They traveled throughout the Carolinas and Tennessee. Davis played on the streets of each town until the police ran him off. By 1926 Davis was in Durham, North Carolina, having left his wife when he found that she already had a husband, and numerous lov...
In 1933 Davis was ordained in the Free Baptist Connection Church in Washington, North Carolina. He became a singing preacher, playing lumber camps and traveling the revival circuit. When in Durham, he collected welfare. On the streets Davis always carried a weapon. According to legend he once repeatedly stabbed an acqu...
In Durham Davis played and sang with guitarists Blind Boy Fuller and Bull City Red. Although Fuller became one of the most-recorded blues players of the Depression era, it was Davis who taught Fuller much of his music. Fuller introduced Davis to J. B. Long, a scout for the American Record Company or Perfect Records, a ...
In 1937 Davis married Annie Bell Wright of Wake County, North Carolina. They moved to Mamaroneck, New York, in 1940, where Annie worked as a housekeeper. Within a year they moved to Harlem, to a house on 169th Street where they lived until 1958. Davis was ordained again, as a minister in the Missionary Baptist Connecti...
In Durham Davis had jammed with harmonica player Sonny Terry and guitarist Brownie McGhee. He joined up with them in New York in the 1940s and taught at McGhee's Home of the Blues Music School in Harlem. He spent the next 20 years as a singer and preacher on the streets of Harlem, avoiding the police and protecting his...
Few if any country bluesmen shared Davis' musical range. His ragtime, blues, and jazz incorporated medicine show tunes, country instrumentals, military marches, white ballads, old hymns, revival meeting and gospel songs, popular tunes, and original compositions, into a sound that was all his own. His repertoire include...
Davis' guitar styles ranged from ragtime piano to Piedmont or Carolina blues. He picked with only his thumb and index finger, saying that he played the guitar like he played the piano. He told Grossman in an interview posted on the Guitar Videos website, "you've got three hands to play a guitar and only two for a piano...
In particular Davis was known for his chord positions, playing five chords where other guitarists managed only one. As a young musician he had slipped on ice and broken his wrist. The bones were poorly set and his strangely-cocked left hand enabled him to play unorthodox chords.
Davis played large six-string Gibson guitars and sometimes twelve-string Bozos. Instead of the open tuning used by most street musicians, Davis tuned his guitar to the comparatively difficult E-B-G-D-A-E configuration, giving himself more complex chord possibilities. His blues dissonance came from alternating major cho...
The folk-music revivalists of the late 1950s "discovered" the Reverend Gary Davis and his career soared. To the folk musicians and audiences of the era, Davis was the authentic street musician. He recorded for producer Moses Asch on Stinson Records in 1954 and made Harlem Street Spirituals for Riverside in 1956. Davis'...
By the early 1960s Davis was entertaining audiences in coffee houses, at folk festivals, and on college campuses. He appeared at the first Newport Folk Festival in 1959 and again in 1965 and 1968. Davis' renditions of "Samson and Delilah" and "Twelve Gates to the City" were festival hits. "Samson and Delilah" had been ...
Folklore Productions' Manny Greenhill managed Davis and published his songs under Chandos Music. Davis toured Britain several times. The first time was in 1964 when he was featured in a short film. He also was featured in television documentaries in 1967 and 1970 and in the 1970 documentary film, Black Roots.
However, Davis never abandoned his preaching, continuing his relationships with various Baptist congregations and religious groups and serving as an assistant pastor at the True Heart Baptist Church in the Bronx. Once in the middle of a folk concert, Davis stopped playing and started preaching until he was forced from ...
Davis' complex, swinging finger picking influenced countless guitarists, including Jerry Garcia and Bob Dylan. Many musicians whom he met over the years learned his songs and copied his guitar styles. The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane covered "Death Don't Have No Mercy." Jorma Kaukonen performed "I'll Be Alright...
At the 1960 Indian Neck Folk Festival, Davis taught Eric Von Schmidt his version of "Cocaine" ("Coco Blues.") "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down," on Dylan's first album, was Von Schmidt's version of Davis' "Baby, Let Me Lay It On You," sometimes attributed to Fuller. Davis also claimed to have taught Fuller "Step It Up and...
Always as much a teacher as a performer, Davis' guitar lessons were legend. Even after he was famous, Davis charged five dollars for a lesson in his home that could last all day and all night, and included food prepared by Annie ("Mother Davis,") drink, and preaching. With the ever-present cigar dangling from his mouth...
Stories about Davis and his lechery abound. In the liner notes to the 2002 World Arbiter release, Allan Evans wrote: "he had an infallible ability to detect the most beautiful and sensual woman in any group." On the Reverend Gary Davis website, Barry Melton of Country Joe and the Fish recalled Davis staying at his hous...
Following a series of strokes, Davis died from a heart attack on May 5, 1972, in Hammonton, New Jersey, on his way to a concert. Annie Davis outlived her husband and three children from a previous marriage, dying just two months before her 103rd birthday.
Davis' music remains popular and many of his recordings have been reissued and included in anthologies. The 2001 collection, Demons and Angels, includes Columbia University recordings from 1958 and 1959, concert recordings from 1962 through 1966, and home recordings from 1964 through 1966. In November of 2002 World Arb...
At its 15th annual conference in February of 2003, the North American Folk Alliance awarded Davis its Lifetime Achievement Award. It was presented by his student Ernie Hawkins, who teaches his style and techniques, and Davis' protégé Andy Cohen, to Davis' longtime friend and manager, Leadbelly's niece, Tiny Robinson.
Reprinted by permission of The Gale Group.
Ciara has dropped the video for her most recent song, “Dose,” which she shared just in time for her 33rd birthday on Thursday.
Flanked by a crew of dancers and a marching band, the singer shows off her dance moves in a school gymnasium in her hometown of Atlanta. Co-directed by Ciara herself, the visual also features a young dancer, Jaylah Johnson, as well as the Mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms.
Earlier this week, Ciara also released a pep rally video for “Dose.” Co-directed by the singer, Ciara and her team take over the streets of Atlanta with their choreographed dance moves, while a crowd cheers from the sidelines.
“You never know what could happen in the streets of Atlanta. Atlanta is a place I call home. The place I spent most of my life growing up. Atlanta shaped me to be who I am today as an artist. On this night, we decided to go out in the streets of Atlanta and get a little bit of that ‘Dose,’” Ciara says at the beginning ...
“Dose” is the third song in a string of singles that Ciara’s released this year, which includes “Level Up”—which birthed the viral “Level Up” dance challenge—and her Afrobeat track “Freak Me,” with Nigerian artist Tekno Miles. Ciara also performed “Level Up” on the Ellen Show on Friday.
Each year, Howard Payne University's Social Work Club collects prom dresses for anyone girl who needs one, free of charge.
BROWNWOOD – At 500 bucks a frock, “one-and-done” sounds painful when applied to a prom dress. But for many girls, that’s exactly what it comes down to.
Spruill is a senior at Howard Payne University and the president of the Social Work Club. It’s a service club at the university whose members assist groups within the larger community outside of the school.
On March 23, the Social Work Club held its annual Cinderella Project to assist girls with the cost of prom. The expenses add up real quick for a spring formal dance.
The philosophy works when it comes to a wedding dress, not so much in any other context, however. Consequently, there are a lot of slightly-used – or even purchased but never worn – prom frocks in the world.
Wouldn’t it be great to sort through some of those? That’s exactly the idea behind the Cinderella Project, now in its twelfth year.
That’s right. Instead of $500, girls could get a prom dress for the cost of a breath of fresh air. Remember all those dresses in the world? There’s lots of now-wiser girls who love passing them on.
One of the most interesting twists are those girls who came a year or two before to get a dress, and then returned that garment to pick out a new one.
It’s held HPU’s Girling Center for Social Justice and there’s no eligibility requirements. The club asks the girls to fill out a questionnaire asking where they are from, how many dresses are required and to whom the dresses are going. The club reaches out to local school districts to determine their dates for prom to ...
“So that it will benefit as many schools as possible,” Spruill explained.
Skylare Strasser, 17, came from Bangs with her grandmother, Debbie Williams. Strasser was getting nowhere finding a dress at a retailer that she liked.
It was a good bet, Strasser left satisfied with what she found.
“We were really excited, it’s an awesome thing they're doing,” said her nana.
Daimia Partin was shopping for her sister Savannah, a sophomore at Priddy High School who happened to also be competing in a track meet in Zephyr that afternoon.
Partin deserves a particular shout-out; not only was she shopping for dresses and texting photos of them to her sister, she also had to keep an eye on her - year-old son Barrett.
If you’ve ever been a little boy stuck in a dress shop, you know it doesn’t exactly rise to the heights of diversion you’re accustomed to. Fortunately, cartoons nowadays play on smartphones.
In between running the 400, her sister settled on “the sparkly one.” So far, so good.
“That's what we're going for,” Partin said, sounding relieved.
Though spring break and all it entails is verrrrrry exciting, packing for it can be a challenge. You have to plan for a variety of temperatures, coordinate outfits that are cute yet comfortable, and, of course, try to fit it all into one suitcase.
Fortunately, there are people who are actually good at this stuff, and those people are CollegeFashionista Style Gurus. Stylish students from across the country told us what they're wearing for spring break and what they're bringing along with them.
Below, check out their outfits, advice, and more!
What's important to you in a travel outfit? Comfort is key. Nobody wants to travel in uncomfortable clothes. If I'm traveling, I need to be wearing something that I can be comfortable sitting in for more than 3 hours.
What are your three spring break packing must-haves? Portable charger, sunglasses, and travel size perfume.
What's important to you in a travel outfit? Comfort above all is the most important for a traveling outfit. Sight-seeing is difficult to enjoy in a pair of uncomfortable shoes. If you are comfortable, you will feel confident and enjoy all the activities.
What are your three spring break packing must-haves? A camera, a nice pair of stylish sunglasses, and cute sneakers.
What's important to you in a travel outfit? Layering is important to me in a traveling outfit. It allows you to add or subtract items depending on the situation, for example, a cold airplane or when traveling to and from different climates!
What are your three spring break packing must-haves? My camera, my white sneakers, and my Coach backpack.
What's important to you in a travel outfit? It's all about comfort, especially for long flights, and while many think that being comfortable means settling for a grungy outfit, the recent jogger trend makes it incredibly easy to dress on point even on your laziest days.
What are your three spring break packing must-haves? My Lauren Manoogian Capote Coat, which resembles a gorgeous blanket to wrap myself in on the airplane, a simple LBD for quick wardrobe changes from day to night, and my Opening Ceremony leather high-top slip ons because they go with absolutely everything.
What's important to you in a travel outfit? I always pack an item or two that allow me to complement everything else in my travel bag. This allows you to mix and match everything else you have when you are not sure what to wear.
What are your three spring break packing must-haves? Birkenstock sandals, swim shorts, and oxfords button-ups.
What's important to you in a travel outfit? When traveling, I like to keep it cool and casual yet still completely put together (you never know who you'll run into). I suggest layering a chic coat over athleisure and always having a pair of sunnies on hand.
What are your three spring break packing must-haves? A great pair of sunglasses, dry shampoo, and extra sunscreen!
What's important to you in a travel outfit? Simplicity is what I keep in mind when putting together a traveling outfit. A plain tank top, denim shorts and flats are comfortable and effortless combination whether you're flying in a plane or sitting in the car.
What are your three spring break packing must-haves? Strong sunblock, sandals, and a snazzy pair of sunglasses.
What's important to you in a travel outfit? When it comes to traveling, I never feel comfortable without some type of jacket. A comfortable, yet stylish bomber jacket gives me the cool girl vibes I love while staying casual.

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