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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Vice President J.D. Vance, and other high-ranking figures in Donald Trump’s administration recently used an unsecured Signal group chat to discuss plans to bomb Houthi militants in Yemen. The group chat somehow included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, who wrote about the experience on Monday.

The administration’s stunning carelessness with this kind of highly sensitive information would have, in normal times, led to resignations. These are not normal times, though, and the White House...

President Donald Trump has revoked the security clearances of former President Joe Biden, former Vice President Kamala Harris, and many more of his political foes.

“I have determined that it is no longer in the national interest for the following individuals to access classified information: Antony Blinken, Jacob Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Andrew Weissmann, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Cheney, Kamala Harris, Adam Kinzinger, Fiona Hill, Alexander Vindman, Joseph R. Biden Jr., and any other member of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s family,” Trump stated in a presidential memo.

>More: Trump Revokes Security Clearances For Biden: ‘Joe, You’re Fired!’

“Therefore, I hereby direct every executive department and agency head to take all additional action as necessary and consistent with existing law to revoke any active security clearances held by the aforementioned individuals and to immediately rescind their access to classified information,” he added. “I...

During his 2024 run for the presidency, Donald Trump declared his desire to use the military on United States citizens who disagree with him, demonizing these Americans as the “enemy within.” He would go on to repeat his baseless claims throughout his campaign, from describing “evil” Democrats as more dangerous than China or Russia to targeting his Democratic rivals and the press.

Since taking office, it appears that the president has been following through on his plan to retaliate against his opponents. Earlier this month, a Trump admin revoked security clearances...

Anyone miserable in their jobs will take some solace from Careless People, a blistering new memoir by Sarah Wynn-Williams, former global public policy director at Facebook (since rebranded as Meta). This tale of her years at the company, from her idealistic pitch for an international role in 2011 to her firing in 2017, charts a descent into the swamp of Silicon Valley’s narcissistic greed and frigid amorality, offering personal indictments of several executives to whom she answered, including Joel Kaplan, Sheryl Sandberg, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

In the book, Wynn-Williams details...

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‘Adolescence’ Is Not Just For Teens

Grown-up TV: If such an award existed, Netflix would have taken home last year’s crown for word-of-mouth TV hit of the year for Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer. It may only be March, but the streamer looks to have repeated the trick in 2025. Adolescence, the four-part drama starring Stephen Graham and breakout teenager Owen Cooper, has topped the streamer’s charts in 71 countries after launching on March 13, while amassing a flawless set of reviews. The show has currently got a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 98%/9.2 out of 10, ranking it among the best television shows of this century. As Katie Campione wrote Tuesday, it was watched 24.3 million times around the world over its first few days.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned against striking a deal with Russia to end the Ukraine War that does not hold the instigators of the 2022 invasion and perpetrators of war crimes to account.

“Everybody would hope that the war in Ukraine could come to an end, and the unjustified suffering of the Ukrainian people could be ended,” Clinton told an event at the pro-democracy Cinema for Peace World Forum in Berlin on Monday.

“But there is no peace without justice; there’s no peace without accountability, and there is no peace without every effort undertaken to end the impunity of those who ordered this invasion and those who perpetuated the killings and the war crime.”

Clinton was speaking in a Q&a for UK director and cinematographer Laura Warner’s Ukrainian war crimes documentary The Cranes Call, organized at the French embassy in Berlin as part...

The Cranes Call, a documentary on war crimes in Ukraine directed by Laura Warner and produced by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s HiddenLight Productions, will go out worldwide via direct-to-consumer film and event platform Gathr, the producers unveiled Monday.

Warner and Hillary Clinton will present the documentary at the Cinema for Peace World Forum on Monday timed to the Gathr release.

The doc, described as a “real-time crime thriller set in a war zone,” follows war crimes investigator Anya Neistat and her team as they track down survivors of the Russian invasion of Ukraine who are courageous enough to stand against Russian commanders and soldiers accused of war crimes — including rape, torture and murder — against themselves and their families. Neistat is joined by Solomiia Stasiv, a young Ukrainian woman who had begun working in the field following the full-scale Russian invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.

Evan Williams produced The Cranes Call, with...

Adrienne Elrod and Rufus Gifford, who have been top strategists on Democratic campaigns and officials in recent presidential administrations, are partnering to launch a new communications, fundraising and strategy firm.

The Elrod Gifford Group will represent individual, non-profit and corporate clients, at a moment when Democrats and progressives grapple with when and how to respond to the Republican dominance at the federal level. Elrod said that the firm will work with clients to “navigate this increasingly challenging and complex world.”

Elrod most recently was senior adviser and senior spokesperson for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign and, before that, had the same position for President Joe Biden’s reelection bid. She was director of external affairs for the Chips program office for Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. She also was director of surrogate strategy and operations for Biden’s 2020 campaign and had a similar role in Hillary Clinton’s 2016 bid.

Gifford was finance...

Elegance Bratton, whose documentary “Move Ya Body: The Birth of House” had its international premiere this week at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, speaks to Variety about the relevance of house music’s history in Trump’s America, and his feelings as he prepares to shoot crime thriller “By Any Means,” starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.

Bratton, who first broke through with documentary “Pier Kids” and drama “The Inspection,” and was selected as one of Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch in 2023, has a personal connection to house music because of how it empowered him as a gay teenager. When he was growing up, he was bullied because of his name. “There was all this pressure on me to be less effeminate,” he says. Within his family and community, if he were “naturally flamboyant,” “they attempted to bully or beat it out of me,” he says. Then, on television, he saw...

Carl Kurlander is a screenwriter (St. Elmo’s Fire) who served as a writer-producer for four of Peter Engel’s NBC series. He also teaches at the University of Pittsburgh, where he has made a series of documentaries including the birth of educational television and how AI is poised to transform the way young people learn. He was mentored by Peter Engel, the man behind the TV fixture Saved by the Bell, who died last week. Here, Kurlander contrasts the wildly different paths taken by Engel and Fred Rogers that led each to generate programming that helped kids cope.

Making Good Attractive: How Peter Engel and Fred Rogers Shaped Young Minds Through Television

I was stunned to hear Peter Engel passed away recently at 88, though he lived a long and interesting life. When I worked for Peter in the 1990s at NBC, he was introduced to crowds before Saved by the Bell...

House music typically thumps at 120-130 beats per minute, in 4/4 time.

That’s an awfully clinical description of the sound that shakes the floor and the walls at dance clubs around the world. What’s truly important — it makes you move ya body.

That, in fact, is the title of Elegance Bratton’s new documentary – Move Ya Body: The Birth of House, which screens at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival on Monday after holding its international premiere at TiDF on Saturday.

Bratton, director of Pier Kids and The Inspection, hails from New Jersey, but his documentary takes him to Chicago, where House Music emerged in the late 1970s. “Out of the underground dance clubs on the South Side,” notes TiDF, “a group of friends turn a new sound into a global movement.”

Vince Lawrence at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival

One of those friends, Vince Lawrence, played a key role developing the music,...

Quick Links'South Park's History and Hiatus'South Park's 2025 Return

I'm going down to South Park, gonna have myself a time. Well, maybe? The reality is that South Park has been off the air for quite some time. The once-reliable animated stalwart has seen several changes to its schedule in recent years, with most of these shifts decreasing the number of episodes. It's likely not in any real danger of cancellation, as the show's current deal has it renewed through 2027. But that deal also called for a set number of episodes each year, and 2024 fell well short of that target. The series even skipped the 2024 presidential race, the first time in its two-and-a-half-decade history that it has missed an election cycle. So what's going on?

Unlike every other animated series, South Park does not have a months-long production cycle. Most episodes are produced entirely the week before they air, and...

When The Real Housewives of New York premiered in 2008, it mainly focused on the trials and tribulations of six working mothers. As the show progressed, it recruited a wealth of interesting and passionate socialites to help make the show seem more alluring to fans of reality TV. Thus, The Real Housewives of New York often felt different from other installments in this franchise because the characters weren't exactly the typical housewives, they were actually high-powered businesswomen.

Carole Radziwill is a prime example of this. When she joined the show in 2012, she proved that women can be stylish and contemporary whilst still holding their own opinions. A lot of audiences enjoyed Radizwill's presence and appreciated how she brought a lot of witty humor to even the most tense of situations. So why did she decide to leave the show so suddenly and is there any chance that she will return?

Carole...

An accuser of Jeffrey Epstein revealed last year that Donald Trump had had a s*xual relationship with her friend regularly, which allegedly Epstein recorded. Also accused in these allegations were Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton. This was all in the court documents that were released in January of 2023.

The 47th US President Donald Trump | Credit: Gage Skidmore, licensed under Cc-by-sa 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The accuser, Sarah Ransome, was responsible for making the claims, which were communicated in 2016 to then-New York Post reporter Maureen Callahan. The names on the list also included Richard Branson, co-founder of the Virgin Group.

Donald Trump was not the only one filmed with Sarah Ransome’s friend Jeffrey Epstein in a still from Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich | Credits: Netflix

Sarah Ransome revealed a lot in the emails that she sent to Callahan about the relationship that her friend had with Donald Trump. She revealed that her friend,...

[This story contains major spoilers from the Zero Day finale.]

Zero Day ended with a shock when Robert De Niro’s politician did the right thing.

As a former U.S. president pulled back into politics to investigate the perpetrators of a deadly cyberattack, De Niro’s George Mullen put aside pressure from both the show’s current president (played by Angela Bassett) and his own wife Sheila Mullen, played by Joan Allen, to not tell the country the full truth of what he uncovered. That truth would be informing Americans about a homegrown attack involving Big Tech, but also elected officials like Speaker of the House Richard Dreyer, played Matthew Modine, and Mullen’s own idealistic daughter, Rep. Alexandra Mullen, played by Lizzy Caplan.

But in the end, that’s exactly what he did. He told the country the truth and faced the consequences. Mullen’s daughter turns herself in, and his wife leaves him; the...

“The Real Housewives of the White House.”

Those seven words about the sordid reality TV franchise were really all Bill Maher had to say tonight on HBO’s Real Time of the Oval Office shouting match Friday after showing footage of the very undiplomatic exchange.

Everybody gets it.

A fiasco that saw a flattery seeking Donald Trump blow his stack at Volodymyr Zelensky when the Ukrainian President tried to deliver some truths to the former Celebrity Apprentice host about Vladimir Putin’s trustworthiness. At the end of the 15-minute blow-up, with VP Jd Vance as vice enabler, Trump revealed himself by saying “This is going to be great television.”

“In World War III news, we’re on the other side now,” Maher also said Friday just hours after the White House debacle that put Trump once again on the same side Putin.

(L-R) Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump on Feb.

It’ll be debated for some time whether Donald Trump’s confrontation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was spontaneous or a pre-planned ambush, but by the end of the 15-minute exchange Friday, Trump relished how it would all play: “This is going to be great television.”

The idea that Trump has created a reality TV presidency is well-worn, but the reaction to the shout-fest, that it signals a breakdown in U.S.-Ukrainian relations and perhaps Western alliances, is hardly trivial.

“Wow, just wow,” said CNN’s Dana Bash, after the network finished running video of the exchange, before going to the network’s chief White House correspondents and then foreign correspondents to talk about the implications.

Such reactions continued throughout the day as the story dominated cable news and social media.

Trump was supposed to meet with Zelensky today to put the finishing touches on a U.S. mineral rights deal with Ukraine,...

Despite what any conservative comedian, cultural commentator or podcaster may think, there’s really nothing particularly “woke” about chaining your wife to a radiator.

Over the last year or so, the greater comedy community has seen a bizarre shift in sentiment toward one of the stand-up industry’s brightest stars and most respected voices. According to the likes of Andrew Schulz and Ben Shapiro, Bill Burr, who made a career mocking such sensitive topics as women, political correctness, male feminists, Hillary Clinton and women, is now the ideological equal to the most bespectacled, blue-haired, bleeding-hearted, gender-non-conforming sophomore at Sarah Lawrence College.

Following Burr’s recent explosive rant about how America needs to “put down” all the “rabid dog” billionaires who are sowing division while robbing the middle and working classes blind, the conservative side of the comedy culture war judged the Monday Morning Podcast host to be the “wokest of the woke” comedians.

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Vanessa Kirby will hit the big screen in Marvel’s Fantastic Four: First Steps this summer. However, in 2025, she will return to Netflix with the noir drama movie Night Always Comes as she reunites with director Benjamin Caron.

The movie’s plot follows Willy Vlautin’s book, with Sarah Conradt writing the script. The book follows Lynette, a 30-something burdened with debt and juggling jobs, who strives to buy her family’s home in rapidly gentrifying Portland. When her mother reneges on a promise to help, Lynette embarks on a desperate two-day search for the money. This odyssey brings her face-to-face with the city’s winners and losers, escalating her desperation. A dangerous choice plunges Lynette into a downward spiral, forcing her to confront her past as she fights for her family’s future.

Netflix’s logline for its adaptation is as follows:

“Risking everything to...

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Major media companies are making big moves in the U.S. Top 50, but the top channel in the chart belongs to a company operated by an ubiquitous individual creator. The firm in question is MrBeast, LLC, which hauled in more than a billion views on its primary YouTube channel to finish first in the U.S. ranking.

MrBeast tries to appeal to viewers regardless of their political persuasions, but bigger media operations are targeting siloed viewers on either side of the aisle. Here are two case studies to show what I mean:

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After 50 seasons on NBC, only 167 people have joined the coveted cast of “Saturday Night Live” with a select few sticking around for 10 or more seasons.

The sketch series has kickstarted several cast members’ careers to a new heights, some so big you may have forgotten they started on the show: Billy Crystal, Robert Downey Jr., Ben Stiller, Laurie Metcalf and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, to name a few.

But several cast members’ careers are defined by the impact of the sketch show. Kenan Thompson has spent 22 seasons on the show, almost half of the series’ tenure.

Keep reading for a full breakdown of the longest running SNL cast members.

NBC Kenan Thompson

22 seasons (2003-Present)

Thompson is the longest running cast member on SNL with many of his fellow cast members joking that when he leaves the show will end. The comedian has played several iconic characters during his tenure on the show,...

A new political thriller starring Robert De Niro called Zero Day comes from the showrunner of the Netflix series Narcos, Narcos: Mexico, True Story. Eric Newman teams with Noah Oppenheim and Michael Schmidt for a six-episode mini-series that dives into the political landscape and will surely cause similarities to our current climate. The star-studded ensemble and thrilling writing put audiences in the front seat of a wild and crazy ride where you are guessing what’s next.

Zero Day Review

Zero Day asks the question, “How do we find truth in a world in crisis” when outside forces are trying to tear us apart? Current and former presidents attempt to team up to combat conspiracy theories and outside noise to calm the nation down. De Niro stars alongside Jesse Plemons, Angela Bassett, Lizzy Caplan, and Connie Britton.

Last year, I remember watching Alex Garland’s Civil War and understanding the...

Jane Fonda will receive the William O. Douglas Award for her commitment to social causes at Public Counsel’s annual gala dinner on Feb. 27 at the Beverly Wilshire in Los Angeles.

She is known for her work as an activist alongside her on-screen roles, most notably speaking out during the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam and Iraq wars.

“Jane Fonda’s lifelong dedication to justice and equality is extraordinary,” Public Counsel’s president and CEO Kathryn Eidmann said in a statement Tuesday morning. “Beyond her legendary career in film and television, she has used her platform with courage and conviction to champion civil rights, women’s rights, and social justice. Her fearless advocacy has inspired generations and created meaningful change for countless communities. We are honored to recognize her.”

Former Washington Gov. Jay Inslee will present Fonda with the award.

Earlier in the week, Fonda will receive the SAG...

If there’s one thing you can rely on “Saturday Night Live” for, it’s delivering good celebrity impressions. Some are so good, in fact, that they draw the actual celebrity into a sketch with them.

Most recently, it happened when then-Vice President Kamala Harris stopped by just before the 2024 election to give Maya Rudolph’s version of Kamala Harris a pep talk. But this is a tradition that goes back literal decades. So, we rounded up each one we could find.

You can relive them below.

Eddie Murphy and Tracy Morgan

During the “SNL50” celebration, the show brought back “Black Jeopardy,” featuring Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan and Eddie Murphy as contestants. Of course, Eddie Murphy was actually playing Tracy Morgan.

Kamala Harris and Maya Rudolph

Like we mentioned above, Kamala Harris made a surprise stop at 30 Rock just days before the 2024 election, giving her fake self, as well as the country at large,...

(Updated with video) Saturday Night Live has had a lot of Potus mocking over the decades, but you wouldn’t have known it from Sunday’s SNL50: The Anniversary Special.

Tonight’s live show had Alec Baldwin, Will Ferrell, Jay Pharoah, Tina Fey, Jason Sudeikis, Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler in attendance but there was nothing of the presidents and presidential candidates they’ve played and poked fun at over nearly 10 presidencies.

In an era where Donald Trump and the FCC are targeting the media and media owners, Baldwin’s acclaimed impression of the former Celebrity Apprentice and SNL host was noticeably absent. Whether or not it was the chill of further legal and regulatory action against NBC owners Comcast, with almost everything else and the kitchen sink from SNL‘s history on screen tonight, seeing no politics out of the Potus-mocking show’s long legacy was almost as rank...

President Donald Trump said it’s too early to decide whether he will anoint Vice President Jd Vance as his “successor” ahead of the 2028 election.

In an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier, Trump was asked, “Do you view Vice President Jd Vance as your successor, the Republican nominee 2028?”

“No, but he’s competent,” Trump replied, “I think you have a lot of competent people; so far, I think he’s doing a fantastic job. It’s too early. We’re just starting.”

“By the time we get to the midterms,” Baier interjected, “[Vance] is going to be looking for an endorsement.”

“A lot of people have said that this has been the greatest opening almost three weeks in the history of the presidency,” Trump went on without answering the question.

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The conversation aired hours after Vance,...

We’re celebrating 50 years of “Saturday Night Live”! All this week, we’re digging into the late-night comedy institution with new stories, including lists, essays, interviews, and more.

The most recent “Saturday Night Live” sketch to go viral — or at least, the most recent one that multiple of this writer’s own friends sent to him — was the type of joke that you could easily find by scouring gay stan Twitter. On a December 2024 episode of the venerated sketch comedy series, Jane Wickline popped onto Weekend Update to sing a song about Sabrina Carpenter. Or, as she amusingly put it beforehand, a song in which she is Sabrina Carpenter bemoaning how nobody is creating lesbian rumors about her like her peers Olivia Rodrigo or Taylor Swift.

The sketch proved a bit polarizing: many (perhaps older people) didn’t get it, while others recognized the sense of humor right away: a younger,...

Saturday Night Live is celebrating its five decades with SNL50: The Anniversary Special, a three-hour event airing Sunday that brings together former cast members, beloved guest hosts, and current stars. As NBC’s sketch-comedy series takes a stroll down memory lane all the way back to its debut year of 1975, Gold Derby is fine-tuning our approach and reliving all of its most talked-about, influential, and downright hilarious moments that aired between 2001 and today.

Here are the 25 best SNL sketches of the past 25 years.

1. Debbie Downer: Disney World

May 1, 2004 | Season 29

Guest host Lindsay Lohan had no idea what she was getting herself into when she agreed to sit opposite Rachel Dratch in a simple sketch about a family eating breakfast at Disney World. But whenever Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz appeared together in the same scene, giggles were almost guaranteed to occur. Before long, everyone was cracking up uncontrollably at Dratch...

You can’t please all the people all of the time — even if you’re as popular as Taylor Swift. Having attained a somehow higher level of mega-celebrity with her record-breaking Eras Tour and a closely followed romance with Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs (who are headed back to the Super Bowl as the defending NFL champs), the singer now faces the perplexing wrath of Maga conspiracy theorists who have decided the league and the relationship are rigged to help Joe Biden’s chances in the 2024 presidential election.

The Sopranos had its fair share of shocking deaths, but not all of them were scripted from the start. One cast member took matters into her own hands, demanding a brutal exit after battling a real-life addiction that mirrored her on-screen struggles.

James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano in The Sopranos final scene | Credits: HBO

While James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano had his own fate debated for years, this actor made sure there was no room for interpretation. Her character had to go, and she made it clear there was no other way.

Edie Falco fought for Jackie Peyton’s fate in The Soprano — on-screen and off Edie Falco and James Gandolfini as Carmela and Tony Soprano in The Sopranos | Credits: HBO

Edie Falco wasn’t playing around when it came to Nurse Jackie’s fate. “If the last season isn’t about her going to meetings and getting help, she...

CNN is talking about Elon Musk’s “balls” again.

Anchor Dana Bash did not seem thrilled on Tuesday when mentioning how Musk — whom she called the “Disruptor in Chief” — changed his X handle to “Harry Bōlz.”.

“Elon Musk, who apparently has adopted the alias — at least he changed his social media handle — to ‘Harry Bōlz,’ tweeted this morning, ‘Democracy in America is being destroyed by judicial coup. An activist judge is not a real judge.”

Hilarious moment from CNN's Dana Bash:

"Now the 'Disruptor in Chief,' @ElonMusk, who apparently has adopted the alias, at least he changed his social media handle, to 'Harry Bōlz', tweeted this morning, 'Democracy in America is being destroyed by judicial coup. An activist… pic.twitter.com/DDGCcUxuTH

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 11, 2025

Musk, who owns X and runs Tesla and SpaceX, among other companies, laughed about it on his platform on Tuesday.

Made them say my name

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Amid the Trump administration’s blitz on executive branch operations, a Hollywood outpost of the U.S. State Department has gone offline. The website of American Film Showcase, a global cultural diplomacy partnership between the agency and the University of Southern California’s vaunted School of Cinematic Arts, is now unavailable — and its Instagram and Facebook accounts have been deactivated.

What’s going on?

On Monday afternoon, an agency spokesperson assured The Hollywood Reporter that Afs “continues to be a Department of State program and activities are ongoing.” Kristin Borella, an associate dean and head of communications at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, added that all programs funded by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs “are being reviewed to ensure compliance with [President Donald Trump’s] Executive Orders, including our public online presence.”

Earlier Monday, Trump purged Democrat-appointed board members from the federally-funded Kennedy Center...

Actor Pete Davidson revealed that he is removing hundreds of tattoos from his body, all in the name of a clean slate.

“They got to burn off a layer of your skin, and then it has to heal for like six to eight weeks,” Davidson told The Tonight Show of the prolonged process, calling it “horrible” to go through. “You can’t go out in the sunlight, and then you gotta do it like 12 more times. So think about that Game of Thrones tattoo you’re considering getting, alright?” he

Davidson added that he intended to keep two or three of his tattoos while trying to start with a clean slate, noting that he was sad as a child and gained inspiration from rapper Post Malone for his collection. Now, as he enters his 30s, he aims to be an adult. Davidson’s former tattoos pay tribute to ex-girlfriends, Hilary Clinton and,...

The 2025 Super Bowl will have some very famous stars in attendance. However, two of the most notable confirmed attendees – Taylor Swift and President Donald Trump – have some very bad blood.

The 35-year-old pop titan will be at the game on Sunday (February 9) to cheer on boyfriend Travis Kelce. Her suite will be heavily televised during the game and will likely host multiple famous friends.

Meanwhile, the 78-year-old president confirmed that he would be traveling to New Orleans for the game earlier this week. It marks the first time that a sitting president has attended the event.

Travis said that it was “a great honor” to have Donald attend the game. However, Taylor might feel differently since the politician has some beef with her and hasn’t hesitated to insult her over the years.

We put together everything you need to know about Donald‘s beef with Taylor.

Keep reading to find out more…...

A week before President Donald Trump was set to be sworn-in in front of a scaled-down crowd at the Capitol Rotunda, Washington D.C. felt completely still. Eight years earlier, the city had been electric with dissent, planes and busloads full of protesters already arriving, eager to demonstrate their displeasure with the incoming administration. This time around, there was no Disrupt J20, and only a fraction of the crowd that coursed through the capital in 2017 materialized for this year’s Women’s March. Trump’s opposition was still so dejected...

President Donald Trump says he has fired multiple members of the board at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and will soon install himself as chair.

In a post on Truth Social Friday, Trump said he had removed the chairman, billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein, saying he did not “share our vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture,” citing drag shows reportedly held at the performing arts venue.

“At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Great Again. I have decided to immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture. We will soon announce a new Board, with an amazing Chairman, Donald J. Trump!,” the post reads.

The board of trustees lists Shonda Rhimes as treasurer, as well as businessman Anthony Welters as...

During his time as host of SNL’s Weekend Update, Norm Macdonald’s favorite person to ridicule, of course, was O.J. Simpson, which he’d pay the ultimate price for. Okay, maybe not the “ultimate price” according to O.J.’s definition, but Macdonald did lose his job at SNL because of those jokes.

O.J. wasn’t Macdonald’s only punching bag though, as he had a few other recurring characters he loved to take it to. Here are five of them…

5 David Hasselhoff

Every chance Macdonald got to bring up the name “David Hasselhoff,” he took it. It wasn’t even that he’d ridicule Hasselhoff, Macdonald just loved the running gag where he’d say, “Which once again proves my theory: Germans love David Hasselhoff.”

Which, of course, they do, as has been statistically proven.

4 Hillary Clinton

Clinton was a frequent target of Macdonald’s, including references to her being the “First Bitch.

When Donald Trump was invited to host “Saturday Night Live” just months after launching his presidential campaign in 2015, the decision stunned staffers and left months of lingering tensions behind the scenes, per The Daily Beast. Previewing the upcoming book “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live” by Susan Morrison, the publication notes that then-writer Tim Robinson was quoted as saying series creator and showrunner Lorne Michaels had “lost his fucking mind” bringing Trump to the show. Robinson, who would go on to co-create and star in Netflix’s sketch series “I Think You Should Leave” in 2019, was working on the writing staff after having previously been a cast member.

“Lorne has lost his fucking mind and someone needs to shoot him in the back of the head,” Robinson is written to have said around the time of Trump’s hosting spot, per Morrison’s book.

“It’s the hardest...

As Ohio State and Notre Dame reached halftime of the college football championship in January, viewers watched as an unusual interruption crossed their screens: a prerecorded video of the newly inaugurated president.

“In recent years our people have suffered greatly, but starting now we’re going to bring America back and make it safer, richer and prouder than ever before,” Donald Trump said, standing stiffly in front of an American flag as he addressed an audience of 26 million who had tuned in to watch the game. “We will put America first, and by doing so we’re going to make America great again.”

Even some high-ranking ESPN employees were shocked by the Maga video. Presidents have appeared on the network’s broadcasts before, but usually for some idle chumminess, like Barack Obama and his March Madness picks, or during an emergency, as Joe Biden did at the Sugar Bowl in...

Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump and former co-chair of the Republican National Committee, is joining Fox News to host a new weekend show.

Trump’s show, My View with Lara Trump, will air at 9 p.m. Et Saturdays starting February 22.

Lara Trump, who is the wife of Eric Trump, previously had been a paid contributor for Fox News but left in 2022 after Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign. She also has hosted a web series, The Right View, since 2020.

Suzanne Scott, CEO of Fox News Media, said in a statement, “A gifted communicator who knows how to connect to the viewers, successful entrepreneur and working mother, Lara’s innate understanding of the American public and today’s political landscape will be a compelling addition to our weekend lineup.”

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Trump’s new assignment is the latest example...

In a surprise move, Fox News Channel is giving President Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump her own program.

She will host a weekend show for Fox News, My View with Lara Trump, which will run Saturday evenings at 9 p.m. beginning Feb. 22.

“I’m thrilled to bring my voice back to Fox News, talk directly with the American people, and highlight what makes this country so great,” Trump said in a statement. “As I cover the success of The Golden Age of America, I look forward to where this time will lead our country and where this opportunity will lead me in the future.”

“A gifted communicator who knows how to connect to the viewers, successful entrepreneur and working mother, Lara’s innate understanding of the American public and today’s political landscape will be a compelling addition to our weekend lineup,” Fox News president Suzanne Scott said in a statement.

Exclusive: Hillary Clinton’s HiddenLight is behind a Sky History documentary series about the Kursk submarine disaster that will for the first time feature her husband Bill Clinton.

Airing later this month, Kursk: 10 Days That Shaped Putin will forensically examine events that started in August 2000 after an explosion onboard the Kursk submarine trapped a group of Russian submariners at the bottom of the Barents Sea. The series questions why Russia’s military and political establishment took so long to alert President Putin to the disaster and took days to accept international assistance, whilst the families of the 118 submariners desperately waited for information.

Kursk: 10 Days That Shaped Putin will feature first-hand testimony from those involved including Bill Clinton, who was U.S. President at the time. Bill Clinton will for the first time be appearing in a show produced by the company run by his wife and daughter. The two-parter will...

Just over a month after his death on Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100, Jimmy Carter won a posthumous Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording for Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration. He defeated Barbra Streisand (My Name Is Barbra), Dolly Parton (Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones), producer Guy Oldfield (All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words), and George Clinton (…And Your Ass Will Follow). It was Carter’s fourth victory after a storied post-presidential career, the longest of any former president in U.S. history.

Carter’s one term in office was beset by challenges including economic stress, an energy crisis, and the Iran hostage crisis, the last of which largely contributed to his failure to secure a second term in the White House. He was defeated by Ronald Reagan in 1980 and left office in 1981, after which Carter focused on humanitarian work,...

Willie Geist may have hosted Sunday Today since 2016, but a first for the show has him feeling “shocked” and “overwhelmed.”

He often fills in on Today when one of the show’s big names, like Craig Melvin or Dylan Dreyer, is out.

Willie is also a regular commentator on the MSNBC show Morning Joe and often shows up on Saturday Today next to Laura Jarrett.

But he seems most at home on the Sunday Today set, where he interviewed everyone from Hillary Clinton to Chip and Joanna Gaines.

It is at Sunday Today that, in a first for the veteran interviewer, he commented on the speed at which tickets for a Live show sold out.

Willie has hosted Sunday Today for years but has never performed in front of a live audience until now. It is astounding to learn how many people love him and the show.

Willie is ‘overwhelmed...

Madonna made her return to standup comedy in New York City over the weekend, reports The Sun.

The Queen of Pop stopped by the Comedy Cellar on Saturday night thanks to an invitation from her buddy Amy Schumer, performing a full 30-minute set at the iconic club. According to the tabloid, it was a bit of a rough night for Madonna.

“She did well enough, but the audience was so stunned it was Madonna that it took them the entire set to warm up to her,” a source told The Sun. “She didn’t do as well as you’d think she would, she got laughs every time she dropped F-bomb, because just hearing Madonna curse is funny.”

Apparently, the highlight of Madonna’s set was a joke about not having “any staff left” if Trump continued his mass deportations. Yikes.

This wasn’t Madonna’s first go at standup...

Exclusive: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau’s memoir-cum-manifesto ‘Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other’ is getting the doc series treatment.

The retired TV presenter, celebrity interviewer and former partner of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s bestseller has been picked up by Canadian producer Sphere Media.

Each of six self-contained episodes will feature well-known personalities from the worlds of culture, sports, politics and business, with Grégoire Trudeau using her interview skills to draw out guests and give them the space to candidly talk about personal struggles, challenges and truths.

The doc series will also feature professionals working at the cutting edge of mental health research, therapy and brain therapy. The tone will look to normalize and destigmatize mental health despite the scientific focus.

Sphere Media’s SVP of Development and Content, Kim Bondi, is leading on development with Sphere co-producing alongside Grégoire Trudeau. It’s early stages right now, so no network or streamer is attached.

Elegance Bratton’s documentary “Move Ya Body,” which tracks both the artistic evolution of house music and its historical and sociopolitical impact, emerged from the unlikeliest of sources: Hillary Clinton.

Bratton and “Move Ya Body” producers Roger Ross Williams and Chester Algernal Gordon visited the IndieWire Studio at Sundance, presented by Dropbox, to discuss the origins of the film. Williams was approached by the former Secretary of State, a Chicago native with a deep passion for the city’s distinct brand of joyfully repetitive dance music. He then brought Bratton, who was eager for a fun “palette cleanser” after directing “The Inspection,” on board.

“The project was brought to me by Roger, and he was like ‘I’ve got this project with Hillary Clinton, because she loves house music,” Bratton said. “I didn’t know she was a house head!”

Williams was excited by the enthusiasm he felt from Clinton,...

Jim Acosta is leaving his longtime home of CNN.

The anchor’s decision to depart the cable news network comes five days after it was reported that The Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer’s long-running evening program, would move from its current 6 pm Et time slot to 10 am in March, replacing Acosta’s CNN Newsroom.

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Chrisley Knows Best alum, Savannah Chrisley produced proof that she petitioned President Donald Trump to consider a pardon for Todd and Julie Chrisley. Many people believe it won’t happen and that she’s delusional. However, the family has a long history of being his supporters.

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Chrisley Knows Best critics mocked Todd’s daughter for addressing the RNC last year ahead of the election. And, they also slammed her when she visited Mar-a-Lago more than once. Next, they mocked her hope for a pardon, claiming they didn’t have enough money to pay Trump for one. Overall, it seems critics don’t know how long the Chrisley Knows Best stars have been involved in pro-Trump politics.

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In 2016, Todd discussed Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump with Deadline. He said, “I believe fundamentally, in order for this country to grow and evolve,...