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Byline: Will Carless, Bill Keveney and Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY On the eve of midterm elections in America - as Jan. 6 insurrectionists remain on trial, as candidates nationwide deny [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney USA TODAY As Election Day approaches, Brad Luckhardt has been knocking on doors in suburban Minnesota trying to connect with other male voters on a topic that [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney USA TODAY New laws banning abortion are are scheduled to take effect Thursday in three states - Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas - two months after the U.S. [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney USA TODAY Shove off, Starks. Beat it, Baratheons. Get lost, Lannisters. In 'House of the Dragon,' HBO's 'Game of Thrones' prequel, it's a mad, mad, mad, mad [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES - The harm to African Americans that started with slavery persists to this day through systemic discrimination that requires California to make 'comprehensive [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY 'Grooming,' a term associated with adults who sexually abuse children, has become an attack word in today's battle over anti-LGBTQ legislation and is spilling out [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Abortion isn't the only right that could be under threat by the Supreme Court's draft ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. If the draft opinion, published [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY The nation's Latino population was undercounted in the 2020 census at a level more than three times that of the 2010 census, according to U.S. [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Transgender adults are having a much more difficult time than the overall population in getting enough nourishment during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study shows. [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney and Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY Native American tribes have been especially vigilant in encouraging COVID-19 vaccines and enacting stringent safety protocols. The next challenge for these communities [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY The courtroom is the latest place where the nation's yawning political and cultural chasm is on vivid display. Two criminal trials, one centering on Kyle [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY The LGBTQ community's mental health suffered with Donald Trump's rise to the presidency, according to two studies measuring distress levels before and after the 2016 [...]

Byline: Paul Davidson and Bill Keveney, USA TODAY PORT OF LONG BEACH, Calif. - Earlier this month, President Joe Biden announced a seeming breakthrough in the supply chain bottlenecks that [...]

Byline: Trevor Hughes, Bill Keveney, and Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES - Jimmy Glen Woods picks up bicycle parts and other items a neighbor left outside his gray tent, [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Annaleigh Ashford stands out in two prime-time projects this fall, although it's fair to say viewers won't be seeing double. Ashford returns as blonde, devil-may-care [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney USA TODAY Edward Asner, known to millions as gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, died Sunday at age 91. His publicist, Charles Sherman, confirmed to USA TODAY [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY It's not Mr. Roarke's 'Fantasy Island,' although Fox's reboot honors his legacy. The latest reimagining of producer Aaron Spelling's hit 1970s ABC anthology drama, which [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY 'Reservation Dogs' breaks new ground as the first TV series featuring an all-Indigenous team of writers, directors and series regulars. It's a noteworthy milestone for [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY NBC will run away with ratings gold thanks to the Tokyo Olympics, but its medal is tarnished by a viewership free fall from 2016 as [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney USA TODAY Momentum is slowly building toward breaking down a gender wall at awards ceremonies such as the Primetime Emmys, which announced nominations for its 73rd ceremony [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney and Maria Puente, USA TODAY A Los Angeles probate judge will allow Britney Spears to choose her own attorney, the first big change in the pop star's [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Money is the root of all satire in HBO's 'The White Lotus.' Specifically, well-heeled white vacationers at a Hawaiian resort are the targets of writer-director [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY It's hard to think of civic education as a stale, dry endeavor once you've watched Andra Day sing about the court system or Adam Lambert [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY When it comes to big basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and rapper Lil Dicky, opposites don't necessarily attract. Abdul-Jabbar is a hero to star Dave Burd, [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Amazon's 'Bosch' is coming to an end, but protagonist Hieronymus 'Harry' Bosch isn't leaving quietly. In fact, he's not leaving at all. Based on Michael [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Less than 25 years ago, the very idea of a TV star and her sitcom character identifying as lesbian was earth-shaking, as Ellen DeGeneres' coming-out [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY If COVID-19 has slowed wedding planning, prime-time television is doing its best to take up the slack. Springtime TV is traditionally known for nuptial extravaganzas, [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY This story contains details from the series finale of 'NCIS: New Orleans' on Sunday. Wedding bells were ringing in the series finale of 'NCIS: New [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY This story includes details from the 'Last Man Standing' series finale. 'Last Man Standing' ended Thursday. Again. The series finale, 'Keep on Truckin',' marks the [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Barry Jenkins knows full well the traumatizing effect of film and TV depictions of the inhumanity of slavery. But the director of Oscar-winning 2016 film [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Katey Sagal has been working so hard at ABC that one of her characters got sick. The star of first-season drama 'Rebel' (Thursdays, 10 EDT/PDT), [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY INGLEWOOD, Calif. - More than 20,000 vaccinated music fans were excited to attend the biggest concert in the Los Angeles area since the start of [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney USA TODAY Change becomes 'Mom.' The popular CBS sitcom (Thursday, 9EDT/PDT), which ends its eight-season run on May13, is a significantly different - and better - show [...]

Byline: Bryan Alexander, Bill Keveney, and Charles Trepany, USA TODAY This wasn't your normal Oscars backstage situation, even before best supporting actor winner Daniel Kaluuya was quizzed about mentioning his [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, Columnist, USA TODAY 'Law & Order: SVU' fans turned out in force for last week's long-awaited reunion of former partners Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler in a [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Viewers may be stuck at home more than they'd like during the COVID-19 pandemic, but many have escaped to the comfort of classic TV comedies. [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Greg Gutfeld is taking his Fox News Channel talk show from Saturdays to a high-profile weeknight perch, serving as a lighter, more satirical chaser for [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney USA TODAY Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one of America's most consequential presidents, has been portrayed by accomplished actors from Ralph Bellamy and Edward Herrmann to John Lithgow and [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has a new hall of famer: William Shatner, who took part in WWE events when he wasn't patrolling the universe as [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney USA TODAY Fans of 'The Simpsons' can expect a late holiday gift (and probably not the only tardy arrival in this 'D'oh!' of a year): the animated [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY It has been a memorable year for Daniel Dae Kim. The 'Lost' and 'Hawaii Five-0' star, an executive producer of ABC's 'The Good Doctor,' had [...]

Byline: Gary Levin, Kelly Lawler, Bill Keveney and Erin Jensen USA TODAY Pandemic life has officially been stranger than fiction for a year. This week unofficially marks the one year-anniversary [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY 'The Real World Homecoming: New York' proves you can go home again, although much has changed over three decades for one of TV's first reality [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY If Tim Allen and Richard Karn reuniting for a reality building competition reminds you of their classic sitcom 'Home Improvement,' that's the point. History Channel's [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Before Henry Louis Gates Jr. spoke to music stars John Legend and Yolanda Adams for a PBS project on the Black church in America, he [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Many people hold down two jobs. Not many have a 3,000-mile commute in between, as Kenan Thompson does. The longtime 'Saturday Night Live' star has [...]

Byline: Maria Puente and Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Fox Business Network viewers may have seen the last of conservative talk host Lou Dobbs after the cable network canceled his show, [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Fox's '9-1-1' shows are proving to be as formidable a team as the firefighters, paramedics and police who populate them. Both first responder dramas already [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney USA TODAY Former President Donald Trump isn't the only one dealing with loss after Election Day. Fox News, the longtime top-ranked cable news network and, until recently, [...]

Byline: Bill Keveney and Kelly Lawler USA TODAY For 20 years, a typical episode of 'Law & Order' was clear cut: Someone finds a body, the cops investigate and arrest [...]