Caroll Spinney, the television puppeteer known for his work as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on the long-running show "Sesame Street," died Sunday. He was 85. In a statement posted to Facebook, Sesame ...

Arts advocates are pushing back against President Trump’s proposed federal budget, which reopened the perennial fight over federal funding for the arts by calling for eliminating funding for the ...

(AP) President Barack Obama deployed Big Bird in a new campaign ad Tuesday mocking Mitt Romney’s vow to end federal funding for public broadcasting. Romney’s campaign dismissed it as an example of ...

And there it is, the very thing we were told could not happen. One of the flaccid arguments made ahead of the defunding of public broadcasters was that the Republicans wanted to kill off Big Bird and ...

Boys and girls, do you know what it means to lose federal funding? You’re about to find out because this week, the U.S. House and Senate voted to cut $1.1 billion of federal funding from the ...