New head of L.A. Olympics organizing committee Reynold Hoover draws on his planning ... in strategy from the one legendary promoter Al Franken used to pack the Sports Arena for his Sunkist indoor ...

Still, I’ve thought a lot about what a successful Democrat ticket might look like, and if it were up to me—and it really should be—my choice would be Al Franken/Kamala Harris. “Well ...

Al Franken initially declined to step down after ... to the editor here or email letters@chicagotribune.com. Larry Hoover ‘deserves to be in prison,’ Chicago FBI boss says of Gangster ...

Al Franken spent nine years as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota, and it all finally paid off in recent weeks when he logged a stint as a guest host on “The Daily Show.” Franken turned in some ...

A measure of Al Franken’s clout both within his sport and his hometown was evident on a movie set one spring day in 1953. Franken, the longtime Southern California track meet director ...

Former Minnesota lawmaker and “Saturday Night Live” standout Al Franken said on Thursday’s “Washington Post Live” broadcast that he “loved” his nearly nine years in the Senate and is ...

Al Franken, a comedian who served as Minnesota's Democratic U.S. senator before resigning due to sexual misconduct allegations, has said that he considers the possibility of running for Senate ...

Former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) on Wednesday said “it would be tempting” to run for office again, more than four years after he resigned from the upper chamber amid accusations of sexual ...

The very bad news is that Los Angeles lost its own P.T. Barnum on Wednesday. Al Franken died at age 96. (No, not that Al Franken. Not the comic who became a senator from Minnesota and was tossed ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Former U.S. Senator Al Franken joined "CBS Mornings" Tuesday and discussed his return to comedy as well as his reaction to some former Senate colleagues who now say they ...

a decade before the same state elected TV star and comedian Al Franken to the U.S. Senate? Stars trying to influence politics without entering the arena themselves strikes me as even more ...