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Ron DeSantis’s attorneys say that The Walt Disney Co. lacks standing to sue him in the company’s federal lawsuit over the Florida governor’s moves to strip the company of control of a special district that covers its Orlando theme parks.

DeSantis’s legal team also contends that the governor has sovereign and legislative immunity from the litigation, in which the company claims that its First Amendment and other constitutional rights were violated by the governor’s actions. Disney claims that the DeSantis-led effort to install his own appointees to the special district was in retaliation for the company’s opposition last year to a parental rights law, which detractors call the “don’t say gay” bill.

DeSantis is seeking to have the lawsuit dismissed. In the governor’s latest brief, (read Disney DeSantis reply brief), his attorneys argue that the governor and another state official, the secretary...

About a month after Sept. 11, 2001, documentarian and journalist Lisa Katzman went back to her apartment in Lower Manhattan. Although her home had been cleaned, the windows were open and there was still dust in the air as hundreds, if not thousands, of volunteers still labored tirelessly at Ground Zero and the surrounding streets as part of the recovery and cleanup mission after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. She spent one night there and woke up in the morning feeling “like I had an anvil on my chest,” she recalls.

That was enough for Katzman to pack back up and return to staying with friends further away. It’s also what changed the way she thought about the events of that fateful day.

“9/11 is remembered as a terrorist attack, but it is also the largest man-made environmental disaster that ever impacted an American city, let alone a city as big as New York,...

Larry Kudlow spent nearly three years advising former President Donald Trump on economic policy. Now he’s taking to Fox Business Network, where he will get to comment as a new Commander-in-Chief is likely to dismantle much of what his predecessor wrought.

Can he do so in an objective manner?

“I’ve said good and bad things about Democrats and Republicans,” says Kudlow in an interview, noting that business-news viewers probably already know his philosophy. He launches “Kudlow,” a Fox Business hour that will run at 4 p.m. and re-air at 7 p.m., today. Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will be one of his first guests. “I myself am not bashful about my own comments. I have a few opinions. It’s not exactly breaking news that I’m a free-enterprise, free-markets, supply-side guy. That will not be shocking information.”

Stock-market aficionados have had a long relationship with Kudlow, who...

Last time Adam McKay crashed the Oscar party with The Big Short, his inventive dissection of the meltdown of the global economy in 2008 got a Best Picture nomination and McKay’s first Oscar for script. He’s back with the latecomer Vice, cleverly mixing humor and inventive narrative techniques to show how Dick Cheney hitched himself to George W. Bush and wielded unprecedented power for a veep, from quarterbacking the 9/11 crisis while Air Force One circled the skies, to masterminding the fight against terrorism with hardnosed moves. McKay tackles the architect of a Republication revolution that is on full display in the Trump White House. His film recently led the Golden Globe nominations, hauling six nods, including Best Director. The ordeal included McKay risking death by irony — his Cheney-like chain smoking and stress eating led him to a minor heart attack, and the echocardiogram of the blockage being cleared are...

When the Twin Towers came down in the 9/11 attacks 15 years ago, Hillary Clinton was a junior senator from New York and Donald Trump was still a New York business mogul.  Both Clinton and Trump - who are now the two major-party nominees for president - visited Ground Zero in the days following the terrorist attacks and responded to 9/11 and its immediate aftermath in very different ways. Clinton made frequent trips to Ground Zero in 2001 and photos and tapes from that time capture her outrage and anguish over both the attacks and the U.S. government's response to them. Those tapes...

When the Twin Towers came down in the 9/11 attacks 15 years ago, Hillary Clinton was a junior senator from New York and Donald Trump was still a New York business mogul.  Both Clinton and Trump - who are now the two major-party nominees for president - visited Ground Zero in the days following the terrorist attacks and responded to 9/11 and its immediate aftermath in very different ways. Clinton made frequent trips to Ground Zero in 2001 and photos and tapes from that time capture her outrage and anguish over both the attacks and the U.S. government's response to them. Those tapes...

Super Tuesday is here, which begs the question - what exactly is Super Tuesday? This nominating extravaganza is the single biggest voting day of the presidential race until November's general election, with ballots being cast in 13 states and one territory: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming and American Samoa. The voting process varies by state. Both Republicans and Democrats hold caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota. Both parties hold primaries in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia. Republicans are also holding caucuses in Alaska and Wyoming, while Democrats hold caucuses in American Samoa.

Super Tuesday is here, which begs the question - what exactly is Super Tuesday? This nominating extravaganza is the single biggest voting day of the presidential race until November's general election, with ballots being cast in 13 states and one territory: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming and American Samoa. The voting process varies by state. Both Republicans and Democrats hold caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota. Both parties hold primaries in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia. Republicans are also holding caucuses in Alaska and Wyoming, while Democrats hold caucuses in American Samoa.

Craig Rosebraugh's new documentary highlights the 'influence, deceit and corruption' of fossil fuel industry

Provocative, frank and impossible to ignore. And that's just the title.

Craig Rosebraugh, a Us filmmaker and political activist, has produced a feature-length documentary that demands to be seen. Greedy Lying Bastards is still awaiting a firm release date – sometime in 2012 is the current promise – but, if the trailer and impressive roster of interviewees are anything to go by, it's likely to cause quite a stir.

Filmed over the past two years and across nine countries, Greedy Lying Bastards claims to be a "searing indictment of the influence, deceit and corruption that defines the fossil fuel industry":

Rosebraugh documents the impact of an industry that puts profits before people, wages a campaign of lies to thwart measures to combat climate change, uses its clout to minimize infringing regulations and undermined the political process in the U.

Episode Number: 7012 (January 20, 2011)

Guests: Chris Matthews

Segments: Rush Limbaugh Speaks Chinese, State Budget Shortfalls – Christine Todd Whitman, 50th Anniversary of JFK’s Inaugural Address

Videos: Thursday, January 20, 2011

Tonight’s show was yet another stellar show in this week’s streak of wonderful shows. The Rush Limbaugh segment showed the utter hypocrisy of Limbaugh, and the Kennedy/Pundit montage was brilliant. I thought that the banter between guest Chris Matthews and Stephen Colbert flowed very naturally, and was challenging without being overpowering. Christine Todd Whitman was a bit dry for me though, but then again, I live in Texas so any talk of state’s issues makes me think of Rick Perry which gives me a pain in my right temple. [Joke #1: How can you tell if a person is from Texas? They'll tell you. Joke #2: How can you tell if a person is from Texas? They don't see that #1 is a joke.]

What did you think of tonight’s show? Leave it in the comments and don’t forget to vote in the poll!

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