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Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) was dragged out of a Department of Homeland Security press conference, forced to the ground, and handcuffed by members of the FBI after attempting to ask Dhs Secretary Kristi Noem a question on Thursday.

“I’m Senator Alex Padilla, I have questions for the secretary,” the federal lawmaker who represents 40 million Californians said as several men grabbed his clothing and torso and began pushing him out of the room. Padilla told the men to “get off him.” In a video released by Padilla’s office, two...

Democratic senators criticized President Donald Trump’s private dinner on Thursday night, where he invited the top 220 investors of his $Trump cryptocurrency, as “corruption on steroids.”

On average, guests spent more than $1.7 million a seat to attend the dinner at the Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, according to an analysis by the blockchain analytics company known as Nansen. Each of the top seven winners spent over $10 million.

Investors could track through a leaderboard how much of Trump’s meme coin, which he unveiled on January 23, they needed to purchase to increase the rankings.

Earlier this month, data revealed that 58 wallets made over $10 million apiece on the $Trump meme coin, while 764,000 wallets lost money out of the two million that each purchased the coin.

Ethics watchdogs stated that the president effectively granted access in exchange for an investment in his cryptocurrency.

Democrats, and even some Republicans in Congress, noted that the event,...

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CNN host Jake Tapper’s new book, Original Sin, has set off a political firestorm. The book claims that President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline was more severe behind the scenes than what was publicly visible and that those in Biden’s inner circle were engaged in a cover-up to hide the extent of his diminishing memory.

Original Sin, subtitled President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,...

Donald Trump doesn’t see why everyone is so concerned that he accepted a $400 million jet from the Qatari government — one that will serve as the new Air Force Once, and which the president will reportedly retain through his presidential library fund after he leaves office.

“So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a Gift, Free Of Charge, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, Top Dollar,...

The Trump administration is getting ready to accept a super luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the royal family of Qatar to replace Air Force One until Donald Trump’s second term ends, when ownership of the plane will be shifted to his presidential library foundation, ABC News reported, citing sources familiar with the agreement.

Trump is scheduled to visit Qatar next week where the gifted plane — which has been described as “a flying palace” worth $400 million — is anticipated to be announced. If the deal goes through, it would be...

Catholics have a new pope, and for the first time in the church’s history, it’s an American. It took the College of Cardinals only two days to elect U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost as the successor to Pope Francis. Prevost — who has taken the name Leo Xiv — was by no means a frontrunner for the papacy, and as the world scrambles to learn about the new pontiff, it’s clear he harbors at least one very American habit: posting.

Prevost appears to have been an active user of Twitter,...

Opposition to CBS News parent Paramount potentially opting to settle a $20 billion lawsuit from President Donald Trump is growing, with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) warning the network that doing so will embolden the government to continue targeting the press.

In the letter sent to controlling shareholder Shari Redstone on Tuesday, Sanders nods to chatter that Paramount may reach a deal to resolve the case for up to $75 million.

“Rewarding Trump with tens of millions of dollars for filing this bogus lawsuit will not cause him to back down on his war against the media and a free press,” the senator writes. “It will only embolden him to shakedown, extort and silence CBS and other media outlets that have the courage to report about issues that Trump may not like.”

Last week, lawyers for both sides sat down to discuss a possible settlement. For Paramount, incentives to dispose of the case are high.

President Donald Trump’s meme coin is already a thing that shouldn’t exist, much less as a vehicle for foreign entities to funnel money to the sitting president, yet here we are.

According to a Wednesday report from Bloomberg, over half of the top holders of $Trump — a personal cryptocurrency token established days before his inauguration — are likely foreign buyers, who have dumped millions into the project.

And likely not without motive. Last month, the token announced that Trump would be hosting an exclusive May 22 dinner for about 200 of...

Nine Democratic senators sent an open letter to Paramount Global’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, urging her company to not settle a lawsuit filed by President Trump — which seeks $20 billion in damages — over what he claims was a deceptively edited interview aired by CBS’s “60 Minutes.”

“This lawsuit is an attack on the United States Constitution and the First Amendment. It has absolutely no merit and it cannot stand,” the senators wrote in the letter, dated May 7. “In the United States of America, presidents do not get to punish or censor the media for criticizing them. Freedom of the press is what sets us apart from tin-pot dictatorships and authoritarian regimes.”

The letter, addressed to Redstone and posted publicly, was signed by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-r.I.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.

Donald Trump and his family continue to cash in on cryptocurrency from entities looking to curry influence with the president and his administration — which is simultaneously working to deregulate the industry.

At a crypto conference in the United Arab Emirates, Eric Trump and Zach Witkoff announced that the Trump family’s stablecoin — World Liberty Financial’s USD1 — will be the vehicle for the state-backed Emirati investment firm Mgx to invest $2 billion into Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange.

The announcement comes weeks after Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao...

Kamala Harris criticized Donald Trump in a speech in San Francisco last night, noting that his administration has perpetuated a “wholesale abandonment” of America’s highest ideals.

Speaking at the 20th anniversary gala for Emerge America, an organization that recruits and trains Democratic women to run for office, Harris took aim at the president’s agenda. During the 15-minute speech, Harris reflected on the fear and anxiety being caused by Trump’s tactics and praised those who have been standing up against them.

“They are counting on the notion that...

Jon Stewart took aim at the Democrats and their complete lack of response to Donald Trump’s actions on the latest episode of The Daily Show. He began his monologue by acknowledging, “Ladies and gentlemen, it is Trump’s world and we’re just cowering in it.”

The late-night host listed a series of things Trump has done in the past few days, including deporting hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador and declaring that CNN and MSNBC should be illegal. “By the way, I’m not against everything he does,...

Sen. Chris Murphy cautioned lawmakers that continuing to engage in norms during the Trump administration could bring an end to American democracy. His comments come after 10 Democratic senators, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, voted with Republicans to pass Trump’s spending bill and avert a government shutdown.

“If we continue to observe norms, if we continue to engage in business as usual, this democracy could be gone,” Murphy said Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press.

Donald Trump has taken unprecedented actions in his second term as president, ignoring the...

Despite what the Vice President’s social media manager may post, the likelihood that J.D. Vance has actually watched an entire episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is lower than the probability that Charlie Kelly has finished War and Peace.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator Rob McElhenney has gone on the record as stating that his greatest fear for his iconoclastic comedy show is that, if the series becomes too successful, the mainstream bozos whom the show mocks will become unironic supporters of The Gang and destroy what makes Always Sunny satirical as they hijack the in-jokes and share the show’s precious memes with everyone else in Twitter’s asshole algorithm.

Sadly, given the success of Always Sunny among the terminally online community, it comes as no surprise that whichever incel shitposter is in charge of the Vice President’s Twitter account is familiar with the show,...

As Donald Trump continues to publicly yell at world leaders, allow Elon Musk to make massive job cuts in key federal agencies and departments, and rant on social media, Democrats continue to respond mostly with strong discouraging words. So, at this point, Seth Meyers is begging them to “show some spine.”

His latest plea came on Monday night, as the NBC host returned from a two-week break with a super-sized, two-part “A Closer Look” segment. In it, he largely focused on Trump’s hostile meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday.

But Meyers also latched onto the Democrats’ response to Trump’s actions during the meeting, which included House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries saying, “It certainly is the case that we’ll need to see some mature leadership from the Trump administration.”

When host Wolf Blitzer pushed back on Jeffries, asking whether “you think there will be some...

Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin has already vowed to operate as a legal attack dog for Elon Musk and Doge, and is now styling himself and those in his office as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyers.

“As President Trumps’ lawyers, we are proud to fight to protect his leadership as our President and we are vigilant in standing against entities like the AP that refuse to put America first,” Martin wrote in a post from the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia’s official X account on Monday.

Donald Trump once again is tapping right wing media personalities to fill top U.S. national security and law enforcement positions, as he announced that he had selected Dan Bongino to serve as deputy director of the FBI.

The announcement follows the Senate confirmation of Kash Patel, another Trump loyalist and media firebrand, to lead the FBI.

Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Great news for Law Enforcement and American Justice! Dan Bongino, a man of incredible love and passion for our Country, has just been named the next Deputy Director Of The FBI, by the man who will be the best ever Director, Kash Patel. Dan has a Masters Degree in Psychology from C.U.N.Y., and an Mba from Penn State. He was a member of the New York Police Department (New York’s Finest!), a highly respected Special Agent with the United States Secret Service, and is...

Since inauguration day, President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have wreaked havoc on the federal government. They sent their destructive policial project into a hyperdrive over the weekend, causing shockwaves both at home and abroad. In a period of about 72 hours, the president announced a trade war with two of America’s most critical economic partners, while Musk and his cronies seized control of sensitive federal financial systems, and announced that the president has approved the dissolution of the United States Agency for International Development (Usaid).

International financial markets...

A baseball stadium.

A team of federal lawmakers have proposed a measure that, if signed into law, would effectively require cable companies to issue refunds to customers if they remove channels during carriage disputes.

The bill, called the “Stop Sports Blackout Act,” is intended to curb the effects of disputes that result in cable and satellite operators dropping regional and national sports networks, though it would apply broadly to all types of channels.

On Friday, Representative Pat Ryan and Senator Chris Murphy said they were inspired to act after a recent programming dispute led Altice USA-owned Optimum TV to drop several channels owned by Msg Networks. The dispute, which continues today, means subscribers of Optimum TV are unable to access locally-televised games from the New York Rangers, New York Knicks, Brooklyn Nets and a few other sports franchises unless they switch to a different TV service or pay $30 per...

Sen. Bernie Sanders is ringing the alarm that the United States is “rapidly” becoming an oligarchy run by billionaires out to enrich themselves.

“We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society. Never before in American history have so few billionaires, so few people, have so much wealth and so much power,” the senator said.

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“Never before has there been so much concentration of ownership, sector after sector, power of Wall Street,” he continued. “And never before in American history — and we better talk...

The wealth of the world’s very richest people — a list dominated by U.S. billionaires, many of whom backed President-elect Donald Trump — has soared to record levels since the election. Billionaires’ investments to elect one of their own in Trump is paying off as Wall Street cash floods into the companies they control.

Already, data shows that the ultra-wealthiest segments in the U.S. control a greater share of wealth than during the Gilded Age. Since 1989, the top 0.1 percent got over $14 trillion dollars richer than the entire bottom 50 percent of America,...

Alan Jones, the veteran Australian radio broadcaster, has been charged with two dozen offenses of sexual and indecent assault.

The 83-year-old was taken into custody at his Sydney apartment early on Monday morning, according to the BBC.

Jones is a well-known Australian radio personality who has also worked as a political speechwriter and used to manage the Australian rugby union team.

Jones has been charged with sexually abusing seven men and a 17-year-old boy, reports said. Overall, he faces 24 charges over alleged incidents between 2001 and 2019, including 11 counts of aggravated indecent assault.

New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb was quoted telling reporters that the investigation will be “very complex” and “thorough,” and that she expects more victims to come forward in the coming weeks.

Jones, who has been granted conditional bail and will appear in court on December 18, has previously denied allegations of abuse published by The Sydney Morning Herald in 2023.

“Allegations have been made,...

Veteran Australian broadcaster Alan Jones was charged on Monday with two dozen offenses of sexual and indecent assault. The alleged crimes go back some 20 years.

Jones was arrested at his home in Sydney on Monday morning by New South Wales police and taken to the police station, where he was charged and remanded on bail to appear in court on Dec. 18.

He was charged with 11 counts of aggravated indecent assault, nine counts of assault with act of indecency, two counts of sexually touching a person without consent and another two counts of common assault.

“Allegations have been made, nothing has been tested, nothing has been proven,” Jones’ lawyer Chris Murphy said outside the police station, according to Australian media. “Alan Jones will assert his innocence appropriately in the courtroom.”

Police said that Jones knew the eight alleged victims in different ways — some personally, others he employed — and that the youngest...

While we have often heard of the powerhouse Vince McMahon, his wife of 58 years, Linda McMahon is no less. A prominent professional wrestling and business figure, she has built her own career thanks to her corporate success and political ventures. Known primarily as the former CEO of WWE and Vince McMahon’s wife, she has been as essential to the success of the World Wrestling Federation as her husband, transforming it into a multimedia empire under her leadership.

Linda McMahon | Credit: Image by Gage Skidmore licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

A mainstay in sports entertainment and mainstream culture, Linda has been actively involved with politics and has played a crucial role in Donald Trump’s political campaigns. Her political alignment with the former and now upcoming president of the United States of America is well documented, stemming from years of professional interactions and mutual support in each other’s ventures.

The first reactions to Wicked are being shared. Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Jonathan Bailey lead the cast of the highly anticipated adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical. The Wicked movie's cast, the enduring popularity of the source material, and the long journey to seeing the adaptation come to fruition has already made it one of 2024's most talked-about movies, even before its November theatrical release. It will also be the first of two movies that adapt the musical.

As shared on X (formerly Twitter), the first reactions to Wicked are overwhelmingly positive, with much of the praise highlighting the music, performances, direction from Jon M. Chu, and production design. Check out the reactions below:

The world is not ready for how great @wickedmovie is. Jon M. Chu, Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande have gifted us a musical masterpiece that is much more than we could have ever expected. Ariana & Cynthia will blow you away.

The 13th edition of the Montclair Film Festival will kick off this week with the second U.S. screening of Edward Berger’s “Conclave” since the Telluride Film Festival, one of several top awards contenders scheduled for the prestigious New Jersey event.

“Conclave” premiered in Colorado in late August and later showed during the Toronto International Film Festival and the Hamptons Film Festival. The Focus Features release features an ensemble led by Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Carlos Diehz, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rossellini. It is expected to factor heavily in the Oscars race, with Fiennes a top contender for Best Actor.

But “Conclave” isn’t the only notable film or event scheduled for the Montclair Film Festival, which runs from October 18 through October 27. “We are incredibly grateful to these filmmakers for bringing their work to us,” said Montclair Film Artistic Director and Co-Head Tom Hall. “This year’s program shows...

Colman Domingo has new plans on his weekend schedule.

The Oscar nominated actor has been selected to receive a Voice & Visibility Award from NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ+ film festival. He’ll receive the shine this Saturday at the city’s Sva Theatre during a program that will also feature a conversation between Domingo and Vanity Fair staff writer Chris Murphy.

Per NewFest, “individuals awarded this honor are recognized for exceptionally demonstrating NewFest’s mission to give voice and visibility to LGBTQ+ stories and artists. Recipients have played an active and essential role in empowering and advancing the LGBTQ+ community in the media.” NewFest executive director David Hatkoff called out one of Domingo’s roles as evidence he fits the bill.

“Colman Domingo’s Academy Award-nominated performance as queer trailblazer Bayard Rustin in Rustin, the opening night film of NewFest’s 2023 festival, was one for the ages,” Hatkoff stated. “His work in television,...

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The 2024 Democratic National Convention continues Wednesday, with former President Bill Clinton, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, set to deliver speeches in primetime.

“Our convention is an opportunity to bring the story of our party to the American people — not just the story of what we’ve achieved under the Biden-Harris administration, but how the Harris-Walz ticket is planning to build on that historic record for a new way forward into the future,” Convention Chair Minyon Moore said in a statement. “The story here is simple and it’s...

John Legend and Sheila E hit the stage on Wednesday (August 21) at United Center in Chicago, Ill.

The two musicians are set to perform during the third night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, reportedly leading a tribute to the late Prince.

Ahead of tonight’s festivities, the full list of performers and speakers has been revealed and we have all the details right here.

Keep reading to find out more…

Along with John and Sheila, Stevie Wonder, Maren Morris and Kenan Thompson were also spotted rehearsing for the event!

Taking the stage as speakers during the night include the following:

Mindy Kaling (host)

Former President Bill Clinton

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker

Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy

Maryland Governor Wes Moore

Minnesota Governor and...

Vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz (D-mn), former President Bill Clinton and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg are among the speakers who will be featured on the third night of the Democratic National Convention.

Also in the lineup: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-ny), former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Wes Moore (D-md), Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-pa), Sen. Cory Booker (D-nj), Sen. Chris Murphy (D-ct), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-mn), Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-nv) and Republicans including former Trump administration official Olivia Troye and Geoff Duncan, former lieutenant governor of Georgia.

Walz “will introduce himself to the American people tonight on the convention stage, highlighting the small-town values that have shaped his lifetime of service and his commitment to safeguarding the freedoms that we all hold dear,” Alex Hornbrook, executive director of the Democratic National Convention Committee, told reporters.

Hornbrook also said that the evening would feature “everyday Americans whose freedoms...

Democrats called on President Joe Biden to restore voters’ faith in him — and fast. Rep. Adam Schiff said that the debate last month “rightfully raised questions among the American people about whether the president has the vigor to defeat Donald Trump” and expressed concern that the race appears to be close, while Sen. Chris Murphy said “clock is ticking” for Biden to recover from his dismal debate performance.

“Given Joe Biden’s incredible record, given Donald Trump’s terrible record, he should be mopping the floor with Donald Trump,” said Schiff,...

Senator Chris Murphy accused the Supreme Court of being “brazenly corrupt and brazenly political” after reporting revealed Justice Clarence Thomas’ undisclosed lavish gifts and trips from conservative benefactors, as well as Justice Samuel Alito’s “displaying affiliation with political causes in public.”

“I think there’s a crisis on the court, in particular with respect to Justice Alito and Justice Thomas,” the Connecticut Democrat said during Sunday’s State of the Union on CNN. “What Justice Thomas is engaged in is just a grift, right? He’s got a major...

Joe Biden amped up his attacks on Donald Trump following his rival’s conviction on 34 felony charges last week, calling the former president “unhinged” and engaged in an “all-out assault” on the justice system.

The president’s remarks came at a Greenwich, Ct fund-raising reception at the home of Richard Plepler, the former CEO of HBO.

Telling those gathered that the presidential campaign entered “uncharted territory” last week, Biden told the crowd, per a pool report, “For the first time in American history, a former president that is a convicted felon is now seeking the office of the presidency.”

“But as disturbing as that is, more damaging is the all-out assault Donald Trump is making on the American system of justice.”

As he did in brief remarks about the conviction on Friday, Biden called it “reckless” and “dangerous” for Trump to call the judicial process rigged, which has been his...

Joseph Lieberman, the longtime U.S. senator from Connecticut who became the first Jewish candidate of a major party when Al Gore selected him as his running mate in the 2000 election, has died at the age of 82.

Marc E. Kasowitz of law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres, where Lieberman took a position as Senior Counsel for more than a decade after serving 24 years in the Senate, confirmed his death in a statement to Rolling Stone. “We are profoundly saddened at the passing of our firm’s senior counsel Senator Joe Lieberman,...

Sen. Chris Murphy accused Republicans of intentionally blocking a bipartisan immigration bill in order to fuel the crisis at the border because it aids Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency.

“They want the border to be out of control because it helps [Trump] politically, and they know [Biden] has limits to what he can do through executive order,” the Democratic senator said Sunday on ABC’s This Week.

Sen. Chris Murphy urges Democrats to "go on the offense" on immigration after a bipartisan border deal was tanked by Republicans.

"Donald Trump...

As former President Donald Trump openly condemns the Senate’s border legislation, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told colleagues Saturday he won’t consider a border deal anytime soon. But does that mean Trump is calling the shots?

“Of course not. He’s not calling the shots. I am calling the shots for the House, that’s our responsibility,” Johnson told NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker on Sunday.

Trump posted on social media last week that a border bill “is not necessary” and blamed President Joe Biden...

Jaws actor Richard Dreyfuss recently caught a performance of Broadway’s The Shark Is Broken, the comedy-drama about the making of Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster. Despite the smile on his face in meet-the-cast photos, he wasn’t very happy.

In an exclusive Vanity Fair interview, Dreyfuss criticizes the play – written by and co-starring Ian Shaw, dead-ringer son of the late Jaws actor Robert Shaw – for what he says are inaccuracies and for making him look like “a big jerk.”

“I went to see it, to see if it really was gonna hurt,” Dreyfuss tells Vf‘s Chris Murphy. “And it did.”

The comedy, based in part on Robert Shaw’s diary, depicts the long-rumored feud between Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw during the film’s hurry-up-and-wait Cape Cod shooting as the the cast – Dreyfuss, Shaw and Roy Scheider – was all but sequestered on the floating Orca set. Dreyfuss, played by Alex Brightman,...

Robert Card, an Army reservist with a history of mental health issues, is suspected of killing at least 18 people at multiple locations in Maine on Wednesday.

Hours before the rampage, the Senate voted 53-45 to adopt an amendment making it easier for veterans with mental disabilities to get guns. The Department of Veteran Affairs is currently required to send the names of veterans who need assistance managing their benefits to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

The amendment adopted on Wednesday, introduced by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.

New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is facing a rapidly growing number of calls from his Democratic colleagues to resign from office following a damning indictment on charges of corruption and bribery.

On Wednesday, Menendez pleaded not guilty to the charges during his arraignment in Manhattan court.

The indictment, which was made public on Friday, was initially met with widespread silence from Senate Democrats, save for Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman, who on Saturday called for Menendez’s resignation. “Senator Menendez should resign,” he wrote. “He’s entitled to the presumption of innocence,...

In the wake of yet another school mass shooting — this time in Nashville, Tenn. — Rep. Dan Crenshaw asserted that putting more guns in schools would prevent these tragedies from occurring. “If we had a minimum of two armed guards or police officers at every single school in America, you would probably prevent these from here on out,” the congressman said, adding, “Yes, more guns, the kind of guns that protect the president.”

Crenshaw also said during his Sunday appearance on CNN’s State of the Union that it’s “very...

Lady Gaga gave a performance that had people talking.

On Sunday night, the singer took the stage at the Oscars to sing the Best Original Song nominee “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick”.

Read More: Lady Gaga Is Performing At The 2023 Oscars After All

Gaga opened the performance, sitting on a stool, delivering a speech, “I wrote this song with my friend, BloodPop, for the film ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, in my studio basement. It’s deeply personal for me, and I think that we all need each other. We need a lot of love to walk through this life.”

Lady Gaga performs a stripped-down version of "Hold My Hand" at the #Oscars. https://t.co/ndiKiHeOT5 pic.twitter.com/dLlahLTjht

— Variety (@Variety) March 13, 2023

She added, “And we all need a hero sometimes. There’s heroes all around us in unassuming places, but you might find you can be your own hero,...

“It’s a shitty time of year.”

It’s a Friday in early December, and I ask Nelba Márquez-Greene how she’s doing. In roughly two weeks, it will be 10 years since her daughter, Ana, was killed at the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. She’s fending off interview requests from news producers casually asking if she’s available to tell their audience “a little about what that day … felt like.” She’s reeling from a cable news chyron that described a recent trip survivors of the 2021 high school shooting in Oxford,...

San Francisco, Nov 21 (Ians) The US government is now looking into whether Elon Musk’s foreign investment partners have access to users’ private data on the micro-blogging platform, as he plans another round of layoffs.

Bloomberg reported, citing sources, that the government is asking for more details about Musk’s private agreements with global investors who hold stakes in the company.

These investors include Saudi Arabia’s Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud and the Qatar Investment Authority.

Musk’s business dealings in both Ukraine and China have already drawn concerns among the government ranks.

The government is now “looking into whether Musk’s foreign investment partners have access to users’ private data on the platform”.

U.S. President Joe Biden has expressed concerns that Musk’s “relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at.”

Senator Chris Murphy (Democrat-Connecticut) also called for the Committee on Foreign Investment...

Barack Obama will appear as a guest on the Nov. 17 episode of “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah,” Variety has learned exclusively. The episode airs on Comedy Central at 11 p.m.

In conversation with Noah, the former president will discuss the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum and critical issues facing America and the world today. The interview will be Obama’s third with Noah, and his first in-studio. He previously appeared in a 2020 virtually taped episode, and did one of his final interviews as president with Noah at the White House.

The interview comes the week after the midterm elections that won the Republican party control of the House of Representatives — ending two years headed by the Democrats — and just days after Obama’s successor, the twice impeached Donald Trump, announced his bid to return to the White House in 2024.

The Obama interview will also mark a highlight for the end...

Elon Musk has sold nearly 4 billion worth of Tesla stock in the less than two weeks since he closed the deal to buy Twitter. That’s according to CNBC, citing SEC filings.

Musk, who purchased the troubled social media platform on October 27 for 44 billion, said that he was done selling roughly 7 billion in Tesla to fund the sale in August.

Musk’s purpose for the more recent selloff has not been disclosed but, unlike 2021 when he sold 22 billion worth of the then-surging Tesla, Tesla shares are off 46 this year, so his 3.95 billion decision unlikely to be about profit-taking.

Musk admitted late last week that Twitter was losing millions a day and said that was among the reasons he chose to cut its workforce roughly in half.

“Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over 4M/day,” wrote Musk late Friday afternoon.

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Carter Smith’s queer horror Swallowed, starring Jena Malone and Cooper Koch, was awarded the U.S. narrative feature grand jury prize at the 2022 NewFest Festival, which runs through Oct. 25 in New York.

Juliana Curi’s documentary UÝRA — The Rising Forest, Maryam Touzani’s drama The Blue Caftan and Nyala Moon’s short How to Not Date While Trans were also awarded jury prizes in the documentary feature, international feature and New York short categories of the annual LGBTQ+ film festival’s 34th edition.

Writer-director Elegance Bratton was also honored on Oct. 20 with the inaugural 2022 Breakthrough Queer Visionary Award for his film The Inspection, about a gay Black man who joins the Marines. The film, which stars Jeremy Pope, Gabrielle Union and Raúl Castillo, debuted at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival and is set to open in U.S. theaters on Nov. 18.

“Queer cinema is thriving,...

If you spend any significant time online — and particularly in the nebulous, insufferable realm of Politics Twitter — you’ve probably met him: 79-years-old, a full head of silver hair, an immaculately tailored suit, and, frequently, a pair of sizzling red laser-eyes. He’s “Dark Brandon,” President Joe Biden’s alpha-male bizarro, and the latest star of the White House’s ham-fisted effort to convince people that the septuagenarian commander-in-chief is actually a Super Cool Badass Dude™.

Dark Brandon is crushing it pic.twitter.com/w0L8xCzIW8

— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) August 7, 2022

In reality,...

President Joe Biden today gave a speech marking the signing of a gun safety bill passed in the aftermath of recent mass shootings.

But even as lawmakers, gun reform advocates and victims’ families gathered on the South Law ceremony said that the new legislation would be meaningful, some also said it falls short of laws that were in place in the past, like an assault weapons ban, or even a ban on purchases of those firearms for those under 21. And some said it more loudly than others.

Biden’s speech was interrupted by Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin was killed in the 2018 Parkland, Fl shootings. Oliver could be heard shouting, “I have been trying to tell you this, for years,” and Biden then said, “Let him talk. Let him talk.” Oliver, who founded the group Change the Ref and is calling for much greater measures, was then escorted away.

In his speech,...

Update, Saturday, 6:20 Am Pt: President Biden signed the bipartisan gun safety bill into law on Saturday, saying that “time is of the essence” and “lives will be saved” by the legislation.

“While this bill doesn’t do everything I want, it does include actions I have long called for,” Biden said, calling it a “monumental day” given that no significant federal gun legislation has been passed for almost 30 years.

With the president at the brief signing event was First Lady Jill Biden. He said that the White House will hold a larger ceremony to mark the occasion on July 11.

Previously, Friday, 10:35 Am Pt: The House passed a bipartisan compromise gun safety bill, and the legislation now will head to Joe Biden’s desk for him to sign into law.

The vote was 234-193, and lawmakers cheered as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the final vote. Fourteen Republicans joined...