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Cory Booker

Cory Booker has been a U.S. senator from the state of New Jersey since 2013. He is the state's first-ever African-American senator. The child of two IBM executives, Cory Booker graduated from New…

George Takei

George Takei played Lt. Hikaru Sulu on the television show Star Trek and its many movie and video game sequels. He has remained closely associated with the role throughout his career. Takei spent…

Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg is the Swedish teen whose persistent and plainspoken activism made her the face of the youthful climate change protest movement in 2018. She was named Time magazine's Person of the…

Olivia De Havilland

Olivia de Havilland began acting in films when she was a teenager, and by her early twenties she was appearing as the romantic leading lady in such costumers as 1935's Captain Blood and 1938's The…

January Current Events 2024: Disaster News

Top of Page World News | U.S. News | Science & Technology News | Current Events This Week The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you…

Our Top Stories for the Week of November 21, 2022

It’s been a busy week, from protests to social media advancements. Who has time to keep track of it all? That’s why we’ve boiled it all down to our top stories of the week.   International…

Lolo Jones

Name at birth: Lori JonesLolo Jones is the Olympic hurdler and bobsledder whose good looks and talent for staying in the spotlight have sometimes overshadowed her many athletic achievements. Lolo…

Billie Eilish

Name at birth: Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'ConnellPop Singer Billie Eilish took the music charts by storm in 2019, breaking through after three steady years of building a fan base on social media…

Zendaya

Name at birth: Zendaya Maree Stoermer ColemanZendaya is the one-named star who turned her beginnings as a Disney Channel actress into success as a pop singer, social media juggernaut, and Emmy-…

Kevin Hart

Kevin Hart is the energetic comedian who parlayed his stand-up routine about being short and insecure into a successful career that includes comedy albums, TV shows and feature films. Audiences know…