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Although Larry David had impersonated Senator Bernie Sanders brilliantly multiple times on “Saturday Night Live,” the men’s resemblance was written off as nothing but a joke. After all, they’re both older Jewish men from New York. Of course they’re similar.

On Tuesday night’s premiere of PBS’ “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” though, they discovered they have far more in common than just looks. After running a DNA test on the two, host Gates revealed that they share significantly long sequences of identical DNA. In short, they’re related.

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“What the hell?!” David said upon learning the news. “That is really funny. That is amazing! Alright. Cousin Bernie.”

In a separate interview, Sanders had a similarly delighted but stunned reaction. “You’re kidding. That is unbelievable.

During the panel discussion on CNN's State of the Union this morning, Ana Navarro again trashed President Trump for his "unconscionable" Puerto Rico tweeting.

President Trump has been criticized for what some are calling his lackluster response to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico — and his explanation on Friday did little to help him.

During a speech on his tax plan in Washington, D.C., Trump said the Hurricane Maria disaster relief effort in Puerto Rico has been complicated because the island is “surrounded by water.”

“This is an island, surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water,” the president said.

Now the president is being pilloried on Twitter not just for his hurricane response, but for his “toddler-level” response to that response.

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CNN's Ana Navarro described Steve Bannon's 60 Minutes interview as "eerie" during a panel discussion on The Lead this afternoon.

CNN's Ana Navarro fought with former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo on State of the Union this morning when the subject of Navarro's party affiliation came up.

CNN's Ana Navarro got heated with Stephen Moore over President Trump's decision to pardon Joe Arpaio just two weeks removed from his initial comments on Charlottesville.

While some may lament the bitter political divide in which this country currently finds itself, this is a golden era for cable news fight fetishists. And Mediaite is here to serve those insatiable urges. Case in point? The latest pugilistic stars of CNN, Ben Ferguson and Ana Navarro, both of whom self-identify as members of the […]...

Are you there, grand jury? It’s us, America.

On Wednesday, Twitter was overrun with queries on the status of Robert Mueller‘s special investigation into ties between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia following the president’s controversial Tuesday press conference in which he said “both sides” were to blame for the violence at the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville over the weekend.

Wrote CNN commentator Ana Navarro, “Dear Robert Mueller, Sir, please hurry the hell up! Signed, An American – Ana Navarro.”

Former FBI director Mueller is the Justice Department’s special counsel overseeing the investigation into the Trump campaign.

We already told you about the first part of Ana Navarro's heated debate with Matt Schlapp on CNN today, but here's the second part where they open fire on each other as they debated how much of a liar is President Trump.

CNN’s Chris Cuomo had a lengthy tangle with Ana Navarro and Matt Schlapp on New Day Tuesday morning, with the conversation veering wildly off-course from the credibility of the president to the science behind abortion. The segment kicked off with CNN’s recent poll, showing that a large majority of Americans do not trust information they […]...

Charles Blow, Jeffrey Lord, and Ana Navarro got into a heated debate on immigration during a CNN panel on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump is finally revealing why he frequents his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club so often.

Trump, 71, reportedly told a group of members at the club that the reason he visited there so often was because “that White House is a real dump,” according to Golf.com.

A White House spokesperson later denied to the publication that the statement was said. Trump is scheduled to leave Thursday for a two-week vacation at his Bedminster club.

Mark Knoller, a White House correspondent for CBS News, tweeted on Sunday that the president’s visit to his Sterling, Virginia golf club was...

Ana Navarro's father thought she would learn she is descended from Spanish royalty when she participated in PBS's Finding Your Roots celebrity genealogy series, "so he's still recovering," she said, after learning some of her ancestors were slaved. Writer/TV host/activist Janet Mock called it "incredibly emotional" to see a document in which one of her slave ancestors, at age 14, is listed on a ledger as being someone's property. Ted Danson discovered one of his…...

According to republican strategist Ana Navarro, lack of control in the Oval was a failure of previous Chief of Staff Reince Priebus's tenure.

There’s a tweet storm over Tropical Storm Don, which has formed in the Atlantic east of the Caribbean.

Though it may be a complete coincidence that the storm bears a common nickname for Donald, many on social media could not help but be reminded of the most famous Donald: the President of the United States.

National Hurricane Center spokesman Dennis Feltgen confirmed to the Associated Press that the storm name was not a political choice.

“I hadn’t even thought about that. I guarantee you that it has no connection to Donald Trump,” said Max Mayfield, the former National...

As Tropical Storm Don approaches land, Trump memes are approaching gale-force levels. The most recent Atlantic tropical cyclone shares its name with the U.S. Commander in Chief, and Twitter is loving it. And the jokes have been rolling in like storm clouds on the social media platform. Me waiting for weather Twitter to crank out some jokes about newly-formed Tropical Storm #Don pic.twitter.com/jlR7SiMI2f — Dan Amarante (@DanAmarante) July 17, 2017 Tropical Storm Don. A lot of hot air, going around in circles. https://t.co/waH5NrcpjW — Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) July 17, 2017 Tropical Storm Don will tell you...

On Monday night, CNN's Ana Navarro sounded off on the latest developments about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer back in June 2016.

CNN commentator Ana Navarro went off on President Trump after he shared a fan video of himself literally fighting back against CNN.

Ana Navarro delivered a passionate new smackdown on CNN by saying that Donald Trump's latest tweets have once again diminished the standing of the presidency.

CNN commentator Ana Navarro made a name for herself in 2016 as an anti-Trump Republican on cable TV. But, so she says, it isn’t a new thing. Navarro told a star-studded audience at CAA’s first-ever Amplify conference that she once did it to the party’s 2008 presidential candidate, John McCain. Navarro said to the crowd at the Montage Laguna Beach that after she became McCain’s national Hispanic chair, back “when the Republicans were trying to win the Hispanic vote” one of her tasks was to prepare his vice presidential pick, Sarah Palin, for a Univision interview. It did not go.

A gunman opened fire inside an Equinox fitness club at the Village of Merrick Park in Coral Gables, Florida, around 1 p.m. on Saturday — leaving two people dead, the luxury gym has confirmed.

Police said the shooter is dead, The Miami Herald reported — and it is believed that he committed suicide after firing his gun.

Equinox member Shed Boren told The Herald the incident involved a disgruntled trainer: “I had just left Equinox,’’ he said. “I heard from my trainer that it was a trainer that had been let go. The general manager and one of the trainers were shot.

Keep up with the glitzy awards world with our weekly Awards Roundup column.

– Pflag National — the nation’s largest organization for families, friends, and allies of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (Lgbt) — will celebrate The Ninth Annual Straight for Equality Awards, celebrating high-profile allies who are moving equality forward for the Lgbt community, and transforming the way that Lgbtq people are understood and treated by using their talents in their respective fields to empower others to also become engaged on the issues.

This year, the event will celebrate Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress Martha Plimpton, CNN political analyst Ana Navarro, and Alcoa. Attendees will also enjoy a performance from the Tony Award-winning Best Musical “Kinky Boots.” The evening will be hosted by comedian Fortune Feimster.

– Two-time Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts will receive the CinemaCon Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Film Award, it was announced by CinemaCon Managing Director,...

TruTV has two shows all in one. Recently, the network released the trailer and new details about their upcoming series Talk Show the Game Show.Hosted by Guy Branum, the "half-hour series is a boisterous combination of two beloved television formats that pits celebrities against each other to vie for the title of "Best Guest of the Night." Season one's guests will include Chelsea Handler, Maria Bamford, Wanda Sykes, Moby, Ana Navarro, Bridgett Everett, Kelis, Margaret Cho, Kyle Kinane, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and Julie Klausner.Read More…...

Which celebrity will be win the coveted title of “Best Guest of the Night”?

That’s the question that TruTV’s “Talk Show the Game Show” asks when it premieres on April 5. When stars visit late-night talk shows to promote a project or themselves, they need to play nice to win over the host, Guy Branum (“Chelsea Lately,” “The Mindy Project”) and audience. “Talk Show the Game Show” awards them for these skills.

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For example, points can be awarded for getting applause by naming a city, flashing the host, singing, using a euphemism instead of swearing and making the audience go, “Aww!”

But beware. Being a bad guest is “grounds for sanction,” whatever that means. (Can we vote for pie in the face?) Bad behaviors include excessive name dropping, white male fragility, being boring, failure...

President Donald Trump consistently griped about voter fraud during and after the election. And now that he’s taken office he is taking his baseless assertions one step further as he calls for a “major investigation.”

“I will be asking for a major investigation into voter fraud,” he wrote in part Thursday morning on Twitter, and indicated that that illegal immigrants, those registered in two states and “those registered to vote who are dead” are to blame — without offering any evidence to back up his claims.

Although he won the Electoral College following the general election on Nov. 8, Trump lost...

Late Tuesday night, the confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump‘s Education Secretary nominee, Betsy DeVos, got underway after significant back-and-forth in the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

DeVos, the billionaire former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, struggled through tough questioning by the committee’s Democratic members and gave responses that ignited Internet uproar over her readiness for the position as the nation’s top education policy-maker and policy-enforcer.

Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, the committee’s Republican chairman, pushed the hearing to an atypical 5 p.m. start time, and allowed each member only one round of five-minute questions.

This is the first in an ongoing series of one-on-ones with the political pundits who have been at the forefront of the cable-news conversations this election season. Ana Navarro’s ability to let loose a perfectly timed zinger and also challenge Republican orthodoxy, especially on issues of immigration and same-sex marriage, have made her a favorite of the political TV media. She emigrated with her parents from Nicaragua in 1980, when she was 8 years old. Her father was politically active and opposed the rise of the Sandinistas. She first rose to prominence as a TV pundit during the

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Updated with video: Gop strategist Ana Navarro told Trevor Noah she thinks House Speaker Paul Ryan has the right idea, handling Donald Trump as if he is a Zika mosquito: "avoid contact or you will be infected." Making her first visit to Noah's The Daily Show, the host thought he should explain to his viewers a bit about the CNN contributor. “So for the five people who don't know who you are–" Noah began. "I'm the woman who said 'pussy' on TV," Navarro finished, winning…...

“I want to say it was fun watching the debate with you, but I feel grosser than did after a day of shooting the Jersey Housewives reunion last week,” Bravo’s programming exec-turned-late-night star Andy Cohen told Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost after they watched Sunday’s presidential debate. Cohen said he’d heard from CNN Gop analyst Ana Navarro, saying she too thought Debate 2 had “turned into a Real Housewives reunion,” adding…...

CNN political commentator Ana Navarro went nuts when a pro-Trump panelist asked her to stop using the word "pussy." Navarro was referring to now-famous remarks Trump made to Billy Bush, when one of the panelists tried schooling her. Navarro went absolutely ballistic, screaming "pussy" and making it clear she would not be silenced. Read more...

Republican strategist and CNN contributor Ana Navarro says her quick disappearance from a panel on the cable news network tonight wasn’t because of her repeating Donald Trump’s use of the term “p***y.” Shortly after exiting the Don Lemon hosted talking head-fest and her big dust-up with fellow GOPer Scottie Nell Hughes over the utterance of the term on live TV, Navarro explained online as why she was no longer on-air: Good night y’all. I’m going to bed. Landed. Went to…...

Numerous media pundits and even some of politics' biggest players are criticizing President Barack Obama, who they charge should have canceled the rest of his trip to Cuba and Argentina in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Brussels, Tuesday. Opting to remain on the trip, Obama and the first family attended a baseball game in Havana, Cuba, on Tuesday before dancing the tango at the Argentina state dinner in Buenos Aires. "The advance person who let him do the tango, that person ought to be looking for work on somebody's - in somebody's campaign very, very far away," Richard Haass,...

CNN will not schedule guest Roger Stone after he wrote a series of inflammatory tweets against other network personalities. Stone worked for Trump’s presidential campaign last year and has been appearing on CNN somewhat regularly ever since. The controversial tweets, dating back several years, include calling Ana Navarro an “entitled diva bitch” and said “black beans and rice didn’t miss her.” Stone also called Roland Martin a “stupid negro” and a “token buffoon” and instructed him to “eat somemore Popeye’s.” “He will no longer appear as a guest on CNN,” a network spokesperson told TheWrap. Also Read:...

Republican strategist and CNN commentator Ana Navarro has been among Donald Trump's harshest critics from the right over the past couple of weeks. And on Monday, she found herself in an intense head-to-head debate with Trump defender Jeffrey Lord of The American Spectator. But things really went off the rails when Lord told Navarro that she's not a real Latina.

Lucy Spiegel, executive director for contributors and audience at CNN, is leaving the network after six years.

Senior vice president for talent and content development, Amy Entelis, informed staff in an email obtained by TheWrap.

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Spiegel has overseen network commentators ranging from Jesse Jackson and the married duo of James Carville and Mary Matalin, to current contributors such as Jay Carney, Ana Navarro and Donna Brazile.

Read Entelis’ full note below:

Lucy Spiegel, who for six years has recruited and managed all of CNN’s commentators and analysts,...

CNN just got busted in the biggest political cover-up, and it has nothing to do with Benghazi or the IRS -- instead it's all about ... Tablets!!!Last night CNN's Election coverage experts were given Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablets to use. It was reportedly part of a product placement deal ... and competing devices -- like the iPad -- were supposed to be no where in sight. Not everyone got that memo ... because Jake Tapper and Ana Navarro...

CNN's Don Lemon would have been a great guest on any talk show Monday after the explosive weekend he had telling viewers Bill O'Reilly "doesn't go far enough" in his criticism of black culture. He stayed off the major morning shows, but there he was sitting in the audience of The View, apparently as the guest of Republican strategist and temporary co-host Ana Navarro.