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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries seized on the latest revelations from Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News, as they called on Rupert Murdoch to curb hosts from spreading election conspiracy theories.

“I didn’t think people would vote [in 2016] for someone who was so deeply flawed,” Clooney told Chris Wallace on his HBO Max talk show. “[Trump] was the guy that came to the bars and asked me about which cocktail waitress was single, you know, that’s who he was.” When asked by Wallace if he was asked such questions by Trump in the ’90s, Clooney said that it happened in the 2000s.

, a 3-city networking event for Black and Brown creatives. After years of searching for networking communities where she felt comfortable and understood. Ellis decided it was time to create the space herself.

New York Magazine dismissed media concerns about Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman's health in a glossy profile piece that argued the Democratic Senate candidate's "vulnerability" was actually a strength.

Loretta Lynn, a beloved country singer and the subject of the 1980 film “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” has died. She was 90 years old.According to a statement to the Associated Press by Lynn’s family, the singer died in her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. “Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, October 4th, in her sleep at home in her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills,” the statement said.Lynn was a longtime staple in country music, and the most awarded woman in the field.

As 60 Minutes embarks on its 55th season on CBS, corporate sibling Pluto TV is launching a curated channel dedicated to the program.

Lise Pedersen During a packed day of events at the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge in San Sebastián on Thursday, 10 finalists, narrowed down from 55 submissions this year, went head-to-head in live pitching sessions at this competition designed to foster forward-looking initiatives in the tech and film-TV space. Variety caught up with Daniel Karpantschof from Copenhagen Industries for the project Violette, which is looking to provide a 100% safe alternative for cast and crew to use firearms on sets. What’s your background? I’m an artist and entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Copenhagen Industries. I used to do project/script development at Zentropa, and then moved over to production, and left for the U.S., where I, among other things, served on President Obama’s Council of Experts for Entrepreneurship, and The Economist Group Ideas Lab. I moved back to Copenhagen to found Copenhagen Industries with an old friend, who’s done special effects and pyrotechnics for 20 years. 

meeting the late Queen in London in 2009, months after entering the White House, in a video tribute released after her funeral service on Monday. “She welcomed us to the world stage with extraordinary generosity,” he said. He revealed that shortly afterwards his two daughters, Malia and Sasha, made another trip to England and were invited to tea with Elizabeth II.

The Queen's funeral will be held at Westminster Abbey at 11am today.

Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro.“It took a year and two people to replace me which makes me feel good, and I get to take that,” she said on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM show.When Cohen, 54, asked the former talk show host if she knew Farah Griffin or had any thoughts, she used it as a chance to shoot down the family of the former communications director in the Trump administration.“I don’t know her at all. The only thing I know about her is her family,” McCain said.

Meghan McCain left The View at the end of Season 24 in 2021 and the search to fill the conservative chair was extensive, a fact that the former daytime talk show host relishes. Following McCain’s departure from the ABC program, producers auditioned women over the course of the season landing on Alyssa Farah Griffin and upping Ana Navarro to permanent co-host.

former Trump communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin, as well as Ana Navarro.In an interview with SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen this week, McCain boasted about the fact that she was replaced by two people, and that it took all of “The View” Season 25 to make the decision.“It took a year and two people to replace me, which makes me feel good,” McCain said on “Andy Cohen Live.” “And I get to take that.” When asked for her thoughts on Farah Griffin specifically, McCain was a bit mixed in her feedback, but first criticized Farah Griffin’s family.“I don’t know her at all. The only thing I know about her is her family.

“The Daily Show” star Trevor Noah became the latest TV host Monday night to weigh in on the quickly snowballing phenomenon that is the Trump Espionage Denier movement. In trademark fashion, Noah boiled the denials down to four excuses, saying the reasons being drummed up for the former president’s absconding of a top-secret document trove should be vetted with a healthy dose of laughter.“You know, what’s been the most fun?” Noah asked. “The most fun in all of this is how Trump and the red caps are working so hard to invent new excuses for why this crime wasn’t a crime.

Caroline Kennedy arrived in Australia on Friday morning to begin her posting as the US ambassador to the country, but already she has given the locals a lesson in manners.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorIn today’s podcast news roundup, Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum will take fans back to “Smallville”; QCode hatches supernatural comedy series “Bloodthirsty Hearts”; the Obama’s Higher Ground and Spotify culture series “The Big Hit Show” unpacks “Fight Club”; and more.More than a decade after “Smallville” ended its run on TV, series stars Tom Welling (who portrayed Clark Kent/Superman on the show) and Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor) are hosting a new podcast revisiting every episode of the fan-favorite hit. “Talk Ville,” from Cumulus Media, is set to premiere July 13, with new episodes dropping each subsequent Wednesday, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Podcasts and other platforms.

and have to fight their way through workplace inequities as they find their paths—great success often comes later.Below, our 13 over 40: successful women who hit it big in their 40s—and beyond.Who holds the keys to Tinder, OkayCupid, and Hinge? A 29-year-old tech bro? Nope, it’s Sharmistha “Shar” Dubey, the 50-something . She worked her way up through the company for over a decade, the launch of Tinder Gold when she was in her late 40s. Of course she did—it takes wisdom earned throughout the years to come up with something so brilliant and diabolical as getting people to pay to see who likes them.Angeline Boulley published her first novel, a young adult coming-of-age thriller called The Firekeeper’s Daughter, at 55.

Robin Roberts is opening up about her partner Amber’s breast cancer diagnosis.

Sasha Obama is reportedly dating Clifton Powell Jr. The news broke this Wednesday, with reports linking the two together over the past couple of months. Here’s all we know about Clifton Powell Jr and his relationship with Barack and Michelle Obama’s youngest daughter.Malia Obama is a writer for Donald Glover’s new TV showMichelle Obama reveals Sasha and Malia have brought their boyfriends to their ‘home’Clifton Powell Jr.

Tonight on Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update’s anchors tackled topics ranging from Barack Obama’s joke at President Biden’s expense, to Will Smith’s resignation from the Film Academy and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Grammys speech.

this notoriously ugly fish.The show comes out next week, but you can watch the Kimmel version of it above now. The fake Obama commercial begins 4 minutes and 47 seconds in.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterFive candidates took the stage for an L.A. mayoral debate last week, but as far as Hollywood is concerned, there might as well be only two.Karen Bass, the former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, is the favorite among the industry’s Democratic donor community, led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and J.J. Abrams.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHulu has hired Brandon Shaw to serve as vice president of originals publicity, Variety has learned.In his new role, Shaw will report to Candice Ashton, who was recently promoted to senior vice president of originals publicity and events. Barrie Gruner is executive vice president of marketing and publicity for Hulu Originals, with Shannon Ryan overseeing the group in her role as president of content marketing for Hulu and General Entertainment.

running for Congress in her home state of Ohio.When Porter ran for state office in Ohio in 2016, we exposed her long history of radical right-wing extremism:For years, Porter used her daily radio program and weekly column to promote a variety of conspiracy theories surrounding President Obama’s birth, alleging that his election was the result of a massive communist conspiracy. After her prayers failed to prevent Obama from taking office and subsequently cursing America, Porter went to work warning her fellow conservatives that Obama would orchestrate food shortages in order to starve them to death, use a swine flu outbreak as an excuse to lock them up in concentration camps, and use Obamacare to deny them healthcare and eliminate them.Porter has also long warned that increasing acceptance of gay rights will turn Christians into criminals who will eventually be rounded up and tossed in jail, going so far as to try and prevent the Supreme Court from ruling on the issue of gay marriage.

Stephen Colbert will be offering his live take on the news on the night of the State of the Union.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBC News will show an interview between Lester Holt and President Joseph Biden during NBC’s Super Bowl pre-game show on Sunday February 13.NBC said the interview is slated to take place in Virginia, and will mark President Biden’s first sit-down interview with a news organization in 2022.The sit-down appears to be taped, which the White House the networks showing the Big Game have started doing during the Trump administration. President Obama often agreed to talk to journalists live.

Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, have accustomed us to seeing in their unique love in the gestures and photographs they share. That is why we find it captivating to read their sweet exchanges on important dates such as their wedding anniversary or birthday.

Former Senator, Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada, who played a major role in President Obama’s most essential legislative accomplishments, died at age 82 of pancreatic cancer. His death was announced by political reporter Jon Ralston, who called Reid, “probably the most important elected official in Nevada history.”

With the eighth and final season of “Black-ish” looming, stars Anthony Anderson (Tre) and Tracee Ellis Ross (Bow) are looking back at the first time they auditioned together for the show.

Dear President Obama: The Clean Energy Revolution Is Now about Obama's environmental tenure and legacy concerning the massive expansion of oil and natural gas drilling.Katherine Heigl's birthday is just one day before her daughter Naleigh's birthday. “Just two Sagittarius reading up on what makes us tick in the beautiful New Moon Journals we received from @spiritdaughter.

Harold & Kumar films as well as Designated Survivor, Clarice, Deadbeat, and House, made the announcement while promoting his new memoir You Can’t Be Serious.The 44-year-old, who also served as an advisor to President Obama, told People that he discovered his sexuality later in life, adding, “There’s no timeline on this stuff.