Oprah Winfrey

Below is an excerpt from "On Faith," a daily online religion section sponsored by The Washington Post. Each week, Sally Quinn engages figures from the world of faith in a conversation about an aspect of religion. Oprah Winfrey aired her last show after 25 years on television. Is Winfrey a spiritual leader? An Oprah skeptic: Encouraging women and others to think positively and to help themselves is certainly worthwhile, but I wish Oprah would also tell her audience to be skeptical about taking the advice of untrained...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: Strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and grit. Mrs. Obama spoke for 22 minutes to the graduates of Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School on Saturday in her only high school commencement address this year. The ceremony took place in the gymnasium of nearby Tennessee State University. The first lady told...

With no tears and little emotion, Lance Armstrong acknowledged that he won all seven of his record Tour de France championships with the help of performance-enhancing drugs and that he acted as a bully who needed to "win at all costs" in the first of his two-part interview with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday night. Armstrong added that he believed then, as he does now, that winning cycling's most grueling race multiple times would have been impossible without the help of banned substances during what he...

Lance Armstrong went on national television last week — well, he appeared on something called the OWN network — and, in a "worldwide exclusive," told Oprah Winfrey he had doped as a cyclist . Other upcoming Oprah interview exclusives: ●Madonna says she first thought about sex before she was 21. ●Charles Manson admits to having a violent streak in the late 1960s. ●Albert Einstein concedes he was nerdy in high school. The Armstrong-Winfrey meeting showcased two public figures in...

Lance Armstrong went on national television last week — well, he appeared on something called the OWN network — and, in a "worldwide exclusive," told Oprah Winfrey he had doped as a cyclist . Other upcoming Oprah interview exclusives: ●Madonna says she first thought about sex before she was 21. ●Charles Manson admits to having a violent streak in the late 1960s. ●Albert Einstein concedes he was nerdy in high school. The Armstrong-Winfrey meeting showcased two public figures in...

On Wednesday, Oprah Winfrey signed off after 25 years in daytime talk TV. Lisa Moraes reports : "There are no words to match this moment," Oprah said Wednesday. "Today, there will be no guest," Oprah told Wednesday's gaily dressed studio-audience members, who'd been instructed to wear bright colors, according to news reports. "This last hour is about me saying thank you. It is my love letter to you. I want to leave you all with the lessons that have been...

Oprah Winfrey and Discovery Communications will attempt to goose the ratings on their OWN network with . . . Oprah. Oprah will host " OWN Your Life: The Oprah Class ," which will become a key part of the struggling network's lineup. The show will air in prime time — at 8 p.m. — Monday through Friday, starting in October. "The Oprah Class" will take the nearly 5,000 episodes of the syndicated "Oprah" show and slice and dice them into "classes" — about such Oprahesque subjects as raising...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: Strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and grit. Mrs. Obama spoke for 22 minutes to the graduates of Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School on Saturday in her only high school commencement address this year. The ceremony took place in the gymnasium of nearby Tennessee State University. The...

NEW ORLEANS — Chaka Khan is more than angry. Instead of getting to rest before her show at the Louisiana Superdome, the R&B star has been booked for two speaking engagements. She's holed up in her hotel suite, fuming. Outside, her assistants are waiting for her to open the door. Her makeup artist, Derrick Rutledge , is waiting, too. He just flew in to do her after working on Michelle Obama in the East Wing. After New Orleans, he's scheduled to fly out to do ...

Thousands of spectators cheered Olympic medalists Michael Phelps, Dara Torres and Kobe Bryant yesterday as Chicago got a high-profile boost to its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Oprah Winfrey was taping the season premiere for "The Oprah Winfrey Show" at a downtown park, and she invited 150 U.S. Olympic athletes to join her. The athletes were introduced under a shower of red, white and blue confetti. Winfrey intends the show to be both a welcome home for athletes who competed...

To the world-weary, Lance Armstrong's confession to Oprah Winfrey was just one more in a series. The process of public contrition is by now yawningly familiar: Comfortably seated in front of cameras, the high priestess of the mea culpa faces the penitent. The accused agrees to terms of engagement, his reflexive grin/grimace a foreshadowing of the little deaths to come. Remotes to the ready, America prepares to watch and judge. This is familiar turf for Oprah, America's First Interrogator — often having...

The first segment of a two-part series featuring Lance Armstrong confessing to using performance -enhancing drugs to Oprah aired Thursday. Fact checker Glenn Kessler wrote : It is fair to say that in more than three decades of reporting, The Fact Checker has never written a sports story. But The Fact Checker has written a lot about people who stretch the truth — or to put it less delicately, are liars.  With Lance Armstrong's confession to Oprah Winfrey that he used...

With no tears and little emotion, Lance Armstrong acknowledged that he won all seven of his record Tour de France championships with the help of performance-enhancing drugs and that he acted as a bully who needed to "win at all costs" in the first of his two-part interview with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday night. Armstrong added that he believed then, as he does now, that winning cycling's most grueling race multiple times would have been impossible without the help of banned substances...

PASADE NA, Calif. — Hearing the media drumbeat grow louder and louder, Oprah Winfrey has decided to stretch her Lance Armstrong interview from one night to two. So clear your calendar for Thursday at 9 p.m. (as originally announced) — and now also Friday at 9 — for "Oprah and Lance Armstrong: The Worldwide Exclusive" on OWN network . In Tuesday's special-inflation announcement, OWN promised that the cyclist would address the "alleged doping scandal" that has plagued his...

After years of denial, Lance Armstrong reportedly confessed to using performance enhancing drugs to Oprah Winfrey during a taped interview. Before the interview, Armstrong made an apology to his Livestrong cancer foundation, according to the Associated Press. Cindy Boren writes : Armstrong apologized for putting Livestrong at risk, but did not address whether he had used performance-enhancing drugs during a career in which he seven times won the Tour de France. He was stripped of those...

Asked if Lance Armstrong came across as contrite in confessing to having used performance-enhancing drugs during his taped interview on Monday, Oprah Winfrey told "CBS This Morning" that she'd leave that to the viewer to decide when the program airs later this week, adding: "I can only say I was satisfied by the answer. . . . "He did not come clean in the manner I expected," Oprah said during a segment promoting the interview, which will be aired over two nights on her Oprah...

After years of denial, Lance Armstrong reportedly confessed to using performance enhancing drugs to Oprah Winfrey during a taped interview. Before the interview, Armstrong made an apology to his Livestrong cancer foundation, according to the Associated Press. Cindy Boren writes : Armstrong apologized for putting Livestrong at risk, but did not address whether he had used performance-enhancing drugs during a career in which he seven times won the Tour de France. He was stripped of those titles and banned for...

On the eve of Monday's taped interview with Oprah Winfrey , Lance Armstrong made a series of phone calls to apologize directly to key people in the cycling community with whom he had not been truthful about his part in sports doping. It was part of Armstrong's effort to prepare himself and others for what's anticipated to be a partial confession and to make amends with those to whom he lied and misled . Earlier Sunday while out jogging near his Austin home, Armstrong told...