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Tonight (Sunday June 22 2025), CBS broadcasts an episode of the series Face the Nation!

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Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.); Amb. Yechiel Leiter; Gen. Frank McKenzie, former Commander, United States Central Command; Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.); Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.).

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The episode of Face the Nation will be broadcast at 10:30 Am at Et/Pt.

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On Monday May 26 2025, ABC broadcasts This Week With George Stephanopoulos!

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The upcoming episode of “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” promises to bring insightful discussions and diverse perspectives on current political issues. Airing on ABC, the show will feature notable guests that include Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky and Representative Ro Khanna from California. Both politicians are known for their strong viewpoints, and their conversation is expected to highlight key topics affecting the nation today.

In addition to the interviews, there will be a roundtable discussion featuring prominent political figures such as Donna Brazile, Reince Priebus, Sarah Isgur, and Faiz Shakir. This group brings a mix of experiences from both sides of the political aisle, which should lead to a lively exchange of ideas. Their discussions will likely cover recent events and the implications for the future, providing viewers with a deeper understanding of the political landscape.

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Tonight (Sunday May 18 2025), ABC broadcasts an episode of the series This Week With George Stephanopoulos!

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.); Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.); roundtable discussion with Donna Brazile, Reince Priebus, Sarah Isgur and Faiz Shakir; reporter Katherine Faulders; ABC News correspondents Jay O’Brien and Maggie Rulli.

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The episode of This Week With George Stephanopoulos will be broadcast on ABC at 10:00 Am at Et/Pt.

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CNN has renewed “Have I Got News for You,” the American version of the long-running British comedy series, hosted by Roy Wood Jr. with co-stars Michael Ian Black and Amber Ruffin, TheWrap has learned. The cable channel is set to announce the show will be coming back for its third season as part of CNN’s Upfront presentation in New York City on Wednesday.

“Now that we know that none of us will be Pope, we proudly announce our return for Season 3 of ‘Have I Got News for You’ this fall,” Wood Jr., Ruffin and Black joked in a joint statement shared with TheWrap.

“Have I Got News for You” will enter its new season with momentum, having finished its second season as CNN’s second most-watched show. It averaged 722,000 viewers during the second season — up 66% compared to the ratings CNN’s 9:00 p.m. Et time slot was getting before.

Republicans may be publicly celebrating President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s slicing and dicing of the federal government, but their constituents are growing increasingly angry — and they know it. The GOP’s response has been to turn and run.

According to sources who spoke to Politico, Republican National Campaign Committee Chair Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) outright told lawmakers to stop holding town halls with voters during a closed-door meeting on Tuesday.

Republicans returned to their districts last month only to be met with legions of angry constituents demanding...

First Lady Melania Trump made her first solo appearance of her husband’s new term, visiting Capitol Hill to lobby for passage of legislation that would ban the publication of non-consensual sexually exploitive images, including revenge porn and AI deepfakes.

Social media platforms would be required to remove such images within 48 hours. The bill makes it a crime to knowingly publish such non-consensual intimate visual depictions.

“In today’s AI-driven world, the threat of privacy breaches is alarmingly high,” the first lady said at a roundtable. “As organizations harness the power of our data, the risk of unauthorized access and misuse of personal information escalates. We must prioritize robust security measures and uphold strict ethical standards to protect individual privacy.”

She also criticized Democrats by noting that more were not present at the event, even though the legislation is co-sponsored by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-tx) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-mn). Rep.

As Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) continues to wreak havoc with the internal mechanics of the federal government in its efforts to gut and dissolve vital agencies, the White House is signaling that it has no problem with the richest man on the planet serving as his own ethics watchdog.

Speaking to reporters today, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt fielded a question about Musk being a special government employee while his various companies have billions in government contracts, and whether the Trump administration was taking steps...

Jesse Eisenberg, who famously portrayed Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, is sharing his perspective on several tech billionaires pivoting to politics with Donald Trump back in the White House.

The Oscar-nominated actor-director made an appearance on the latest episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, where the host prompted him for his thoughts on the topic.

“You played Lex Luthor in the Superman movie [2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice] and it’s interesting because I see Zuckerberg now at the inauguration and he’s right at the seat of power,” Bill Maher said. “You kind of played Lex Luthor as a tech bro, and you must have some feelings, because you also played, famously in The Social Network, Mark Zuckerberg. What do you make of all that’s going on with the tech bros?”

Eisenberg responded, “I look at it from a very specific perspective, which is if...

Real Time With Bill Maher continues Friday, January 24 (10:00-11:00 p.m. Et/7:00-8:00 p.m. Pt) on HBO and will be available to stream on Max. Allowing Maher to offer his unique perspective on contemporary issues, the show continues with its opening monologue, one-on-one interviews with notable guests, roundtable discussions with panelists, and its signature “New Rules.” This week features a one-on-one interview with Jesse Eisenberg, award-winning actor and filmmaker who wrote, directed, and co-starred in the comedy-drama film “A Real Pain.” This week’s panel discussion includes Rep. Ro Khanna, Democratic congressman representing California’s Silicon Valley, member of the House Armed Services Committee (Hasc), and author of “Dignity in ... Read more...

At the time of this article, recent updates suggest that the U.S. Supreme Court will not rule in TikTok‘s favor this week. If that prediction comes true, the “divest-or-ban” law — which forces TikTok to be either divested from parent company ByteDance or banned in the United States — will go into effect on January 19.

TikTok has warned that the divest-or-ban law (which is more likely to result in the latter of those outcomes) will have massive economic and legal ramifications if enacted. The embattled app sees the U.S. statute as an overzealous regulation that would unfairly target specific companies while limiting Americans’ civil liberties.

As the final countdown to the law’s start date continues unabated, some of the politicians who initially passed it are starting to see TikTok’s point. Senators and Congresspeople who voted in favor of the bill are receiving widespread hate on social media,...

Donald Trump will soon start his second term as president. Don’t expect a strong opposition party or healthy “resistance” movement this time, at least not in Washington during the “shock and awe” start of his new administration. With 10 days before the president-elect is sworn in, Democrats in Congress are already capitulating to Trump harder than virtually anyone expected — and Republicans are ecstatic over the degree to which Trump and the GOP’s wins have “paralyzed” the Democratic elite.

On Tuesday, four dozen House Democrats joined Republicans in passing a...

Tonight (Sunday December 8 2024), ABC broadcasts an episode of the series This Week With George Stephanopoulos!

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Sunday on ABC News’ ‘This Week’ w/ Martha Raddatz

Rep. Ro Khanna

Gen. Frank McKenzie

Preet Bharara & Sarah Isgur

Robert Boyce & Mary Ellen O’Toole

And Donna Brazile, Reince Priebus, Rachael Bade & Susan Glasser join the roundtable

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Charlamagne tha God, a popular podcaster and co-host of the nationally syndicated radio show The Breakfast Club, called out the internet for creating division among Americans on Thursday.

“Look, this is a divided country. We’re polarized, and it’s getting in the way of really talking to one another. But you know what else is getting in the way? The internet, Ok, and particularly the way the internet works right now,” the media mogul said at a Project Liberty conference while moderating a discussion titled “At a Digital Crossroads: Bipartisan Tech Solutions to Unite a Nation.”

“The internet is one of the reasons we don’t know how to talk to each other no more. The platforms that control it, the way they manipulate what you see and how they sweep up all your data without paying most of us a dime. But a lot of us are seeing it,...

Celebrities and political figures will take part on Thursday in an organizing and fundraising Zoom event to rally Americans living abroad for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.

The lineup for the noon Et event includes Jane Fonda, Kyra Sedgwick, Alfre Woodard, Lynda Carter and Chef Marcus Samuelsson, as well as political figures including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Sen. Cory Booker (D-nj), Sen. Ed Markey (D-ma), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-ca), Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-az), State Rep. Justin Pearson (D-tn), former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-tx), former Trump administration official Olivia Troye and Harris-Walz finance chair Rufus Gifford.

Also scheduled are other former U.S. ambassadors including Bruce Heyman, Suzi LeVine and Norm Eisen, as well as former Usaid administrator Gayle Smith.

James Costos, the former U.S. ambassador to Spain and Andorra under President Barack Obama, organized the event along with Haymen, the former U.S. ambassador to Canada,...

Chicago — In one of the most moving moments of the Democratic National Convention, on Wednesday night, the parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a 23-year-old American who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, took the stage at the United Center and spoke of the anguish they’ve experienced over the 320 days since their son was taken hostage.

They called for the release of the other hostages, including 8 American citizens, and for a cease-fire deal that “ends the suffering of the innocent civilians in Gaza.”

But the DNC’s invitation to the family...

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle sat for a tense, heated testimony before the House Oversight Committee, where she was grilled over the agency’s failure to prevent an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month.

In her opening statement, Cheatle called the shooting “the most significant operational failure of the Secret Service in decades.” Cheatle also said she takes “full responsibility for any security lapse of our agency.”

The shooter, identified as 20-year-old Matthew Crooks, was able to gain access to a...

“Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago,” the New York Times said today in the understatement of the moment as it a called for the incumbent to bow out of this year’s race against Donald Trump before it’s too late.

“The president appeared on Thursday night as the shadow of a great public servant,” the paper’s Editorial Board wrote late Friday in a piece headlined “To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race.”

“(T)he greatest public service Mr. Biden can now perform is to announce that he will not continue to run for re-election.”

Read the full Nyt Editorial Board piece calling for Joe Biden to exit the race below

The unprecedented insistence by the Grey Lady comes after nearly 24 hours of hand wringing and calls for an intervention as the weak voiced 81-year-old Biden stumbled and croaked through his...

Representative Ro Khanna, who represents California’s 17th congressional district, held a fundraiser with Paris Hilton and Joseph Gordon-Levitt on May 28, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.

Khanna, a Democrat, is currently seeking reelection for his seat, competing against 26-year-old Republican candidate Anita Chen in the upcoming November election.

He was introduced to Hilton a few years ago. The congressman tells THR he has had a “long friendship” with Hilton’s husband Carter Reum, the co-founder of the technology-focused venture capital firm M13. Khanna said Reum is “one of the most innovative technology leaders and investors in the country.”

A couple of years ago, Khanna met with Hilton regarding her long-standing push for more oversight of abusive youth centers. The heiress and reality TV personality has been vocal about her time at a “troubled teen” center in Utah, alleging in her memoir that she was beaten multiple times, “digitally” raped,...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has not given up her quest to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, demanding he either “resign” or “be vacated” after ushering through legislation to send military aid to Ukraine on Saturday.

“Mike Johnson’s speakership is over. He needs to do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. If he doesn’t do so, he will be vacated,” Greene told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday.

Greene: Mike Johnson’s speakership is over. He needs to do the right thing to resign…...

Amid the U.S. House passing a bill this week that would ban TikTok, Bill Maher wasted no time Friday sharing his thoughts on the controversial matter.

To kick off the latest episode of HBO’s Real Time, the host joked during his monologue, “China, you know what, you can manufacture everything else that we use, but keeping our kids stupid, that’s our job.”

The bill, which passed by a vote of 352-65 in the House, would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app if its China-based owner, ByteDance, doesn’t sell it. Lawmakers have expressed concerns that the company’s current ownership structure is a national security threat. President Joe Biden has said if Congress passes the measure, he will sign it, however, the bill has to pass the Senate first.

Later on Real Time, during his discussion with Republican Rep. Nancy Mace and Democratic Rep.

Bill Maher tapes his show, which means news that breaks on Friday is usually not mentioned.

Such was the case on Friday’s Real Time, as earlier in the day, stories broke that Maher has fired his longtime agents at CAA, allegedly over not being invited to agency head Bryan Lourd’s A-list house party during Oscars week.

Ironically, Maher’s “New Rules” editorial was about the trend toward whining about the small stuff in life.

“Being obsessed with your mental heath is bad for your mental heath,” he proclaimed. He tied it to why President Joe Biden’s approval rating is so low “when things are pretty good.” He cited the modern blessings of next day shopping, stuffed crust pizza, and porn on your phone. So “cheer the f**k up,” he advised.

“Yes, you are on the spectrum,” Maher said. “So’s everyone alive. That’s why they call it a spectrum.

On Thursday, fresh off a major policy victory, organizers and activists from Climate Defiance confronted Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan at an event at a country club in his home town of Wellesley, Massachusetts. Moynihan was there to participate in a fireside chat about the economy and the finance industry. A Rolling Stone reporter was there to document the action.

As soon as Moynihan started speaking, he was surrounded by protesters from the climate group. An activist loudly demanded that the CEO commit to stop financing fossil fuels; behind him,...

Mehdi Hasan is leaving MSNBC.

The cable news host said at the end of his show Sunday that he would be leaving the channel to pursue other opportunities.

“With this show going away, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to look for a new challenge,” Hasan said. “Tonight is not just my final episode of The Mehdi Hasan Show. It’s my last day with MSNBC. Yes, I’ve decided to leave. To be clear, I am so, so proud of what we’ve achieved on this show on this network, and I can’t thank you enough for tuning in and for your support, and for your feedback. But as they say, new year, new plans.”

He added that viewers could follow on him on Instagram, Threads and X to hear what comes next for him.

MSNBC canceled Hasan’s Sunday show in November as part...

Updated, with response to Hasan show cancellation: MSNBC is launching The Weekend, a morning news show on Saturdays and Sundays, as part of a series of changes to the weekend lineup that include ending Mehdi Hasan’s one hour weekend show.

The show will be hosted by Alicia Menendez, Symone Sanders-Townsend and Michael Steele and will air from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on both days.

Other changes include Ayman Mohyeldin taking over Mehdi Hasan’s one hour program on Sundays, with Mohyeldin expanding to four hours on both days. Hasan will remain at the network as political analyst and fill in host, the network said. His Peacock streaming series also will end, as will Sanders’ show Symone.

Alex Witt will expand hours of Alex Witt Reports from 1 p.m. Et to 4 p.m. Et, with Yasmin Yossoughian continuing as a national reporter.

Jonathan Capehart’s show, meanwhile, will move to 6 p.

The latest U.S. lawmaker to interact with politically-minded creators is Ro Khanna. The U.S. Congressman (D-ca) hosted a live stream that took place outside the White House and included input from streamers like Vaush and Emma Vigeland.

The three-hour stream ranged across hot-button issues like climate change, affordable housing, and student debt. The influencers joined Khanna in groups, with Vaush (real name Ian Kochinski) and Vigeland helping the Congressman kick off his broadcast.

The creators who linked up with Khanna are some of the strongest political voices on platforms like Twitch. Vaush has made headlines thanks to the lively debates he’s engaged in on social media. According to The Washington Post, another creator who met with Khanna in D.C. is Clara “Keffals” Sorrenti, who has used her platform to fight back against transphobic trolls.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle are turning to platforms like Twitch,...

Of the thousands of members of Congress who have served throughout history, few will be remembered, with rare exceptions. Those who become presidents, or Speaker of the House, or have buildings named after them are less likely to be forgotten. Then there are those whose policy stands solidify their legacies. When California Representative Barbara Lee became the lone member of Congress to vote against the war in Iraq in 2001, she became a target of nonstop hate mail and death threats. Now, decades later, as she strives to become just the third Black woman in American history elected to the United States Senate, her willingness to take a stand in the face of such adversity years ago has emerged as a political asset, landing her high-profile endorsements from colleagues like Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). In the latest THR “Power Watch” column, Lee — who was the subject of the 2020 Starz documentary Barbara...

Washington, Aug 24 (Ians) From Vice President Kamala Harris to Ambassador Eric Garcetti, top American leaders congratulated India for the historic touchdown of Chandrayaan-3 on the southern polar region of the moon, calling it an ‘incredible feat’.

“Congratulations to India for the historic landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the southern polar region of the moon,” Indian-American Kamala Harris wrote on X on Thursday as India became the fourth country to achieve the feat after the US, China, and the erstwhile Soviet Union.

“It’s an incredible feat for all the scientists and engineers involved. We are proud to partner with you on this mission and space exploration more broadly,” Harris said.

Last month, India signed the three-year-old Artemis Accords, a US-led international partnership on planetary exploration and research.

The Artemis Accords is closely linked to NASA’s Artemis Program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon’s surface, build a space camp there,...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-ca) was briefly hospitalized on Tuesday after a fall.

A spokesperson for the 90-year-old lawmaker said in a statement, “Senator Feinstein briefly went to the hospital yesterday afternoon as a precaution after a minor fall in her home. All of her scans were clear and she returned home.” TMZ first reported the news, but her office said that their original report was inaccurate in that she is not currently hospitalized.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that he spoke to Feinstein on Wednesday morning and “she said she suffered no injuries and briefly went to the hospital as a precaution. I’m glad she is back home now and is doing well.”

Feinstein was diagnosed with shingles earlier this year, something that kept her from Capitol Hill for nearly three months as she recovered. Her health has been the subject of intense speculation among reporters and Capitol Hill staffers,...

New Delhi, July 22 (Ians) The rapid rise of Indian-Americans from politics to administration, entrepreneurship to technology, medicine to hospitality, science to academia has put the global spotlight like never before on the high-achieving four million-plus strong diaspora.

The community happens to be the most educated with the highest median income in the US, with an average household earning of $123,700 — making them the top earners in the US among other Asians in the country.

As the profile of the Indian American community — now the second-largest immigrant group in the US — has grown, so too has its economic, political, and social influence, according to a recent Carnegie Endowment study.

In 2010, only 18 per cent of Americans saw India as “very important” to the United States, according to The Chicago Council survey.

Now, India is perceived by Americans as their seventh favourite nation in the world, with 70 per cent of people viewing India favourably in 2023, says a Gallup survey.

Billy Ray and Todd Garner are back for Week 6 of the Writers Guild standoff on Deadline’s Strike Talk podcast. Click below to listen.

This week, our hosts look at what the seismic developments of the past week will mean. Hailing it as groundbreaking, the Directors Guild agreed tentatively to a deal, and will bring it to membership shortly. At the same time, about 48% of SAG-AFTRA members cast votes on whether to authorize an actors strike if a deal isn’t struck the month’s end, and an overwhelming 97.91% of those voting gave the guild a strike authorization. Armed with that resolve, the guild has just began negotiating with the AMPTP, while there’s still no progress on getting back to the table with the writers.

The WGA picket line presence is still being felt: While DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter saw her guild make a tentative deal, the series...

While representing Silicon Valley’s 17th congressional district, Democratic congressman Ro Khanna has pulled off a unique political balancing act. He’s successfully positioned himself as a progressive capitalist, supported by billionaires in Big Tech while serving as a co-chair of Bernie Sanders’ last presidential campaign, which pilloried the billionaire class. But Khanna sees bringing disparate groups and ideas together as the key to success in politics and life.

After getting a law degree from Yale, Khanna interned for former President Jimmy Carter and former Vice President Al Gore, as well as volunteered for one of President Barack Obama’s early campaigns. He eventually served in the Obama administration before heading into private practice at a high-profile Silicon Valley law firm. He lectured at Stanford, then launched his own political career, running unsuccessfully for Congress once, before winning on his second try. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Khanna discusses his Hollywood staples,...

As striking writers gathered Wednesday afternoon outside Netflix’s Manhattan headquarters, they were greeted by a visitor from what might be considered enemy territory: U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democratic congressman whose 17th district sits in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley.

Khanna, here as an ally, gave a rousing speech through a bullhorn to demonstrators as their protest got underway on the second day of the WGA strike. “Many of us in Congress will be standing with you in your just fight,” he said to cheers.

Before then, Khanna spoke with Deadline about the disruptions caused by technologies, such as streaming and artificial intelligence, that have emerged from the computational laboratories in his home district.

“Writers are the heart and soul of the entertainment that we watch,” he said, adding that the models for compensating them “have changed because of the technology in my district in Silicon Valley.

Dianne Feinstein, the 89-year-old Democratic senator from California who has been mulling whether to run for another term in 2024, announced on Tuesday that she will, in fact, not be doing that.

“I am announcing today I will not run for reelection in 2024 but intend to accomplish as much for California as I can through the end of next year when my term ends,” Feinstein wrote in a statement. “Even with a divided Congress, we can still pass bills that will improve lives. Each of us was sent here to solve problems.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s colleagues aren’t waiting for her to formally announce her retirement from the U.S. Senate before backing would-be successors: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has put her “full support” behind Rep. Katie Porter, the Orange Country-area lawmaker and Warren protégé running to replace the 89-year-old California senator.

“Katie delivers because she’s smart and she has a backbone made out of steel,” Warren said in her endorsement. “She is exactly who Californians need as their next Senator.”

Warren’s early embrace of Porter’s candidacy is...

The nearly 90-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein hasn’t said whether she’ll seek reelection to the U.S. Senate. The next generation isn’t waiting to find out: Rep. Katie Porter has announced her bid for Feinstein’s seat. And she certainly won’t be alone in doing so as other high-profile California Democrats, like Rep. Ro Khanna, publicly mull a run.

“Right now California is facing severe storms and floods, and my district is facing historic weather conditions,” Khanna tells Rolling Stone. “My focus is on that. In the next few months,...

Rep. Katie Porter (D-ca) announced on Tuesday that she is running for the U.S. Senate in 2024.

Porter, who has gained a media profile for her hard-hitting questioning of House committee witnesses, while often using a whiteboard to explain complicated topics, is seeking the seat currently occupied by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-ca). Feinstein, 89, who has served in the Senate since 1992, has not yet revealed her plans, but there has been widespread speculation that she will not run again.

“California needs a warrior in the Senate—to stand up to special interests, fight the dangerous imbalance in our economy, and hold so-called leaders like Mitch McConnell accountable for rigging our democracy,” Porter said in an announcement video she posted on Twitter.

Porter served on the natural resources and oversight and reform committees in the last Congress. She chaired the natural resources subcommittee on oversight and investigations. She was elected to Congress...

San Francisco, Dec 3 (Ians) Praising Indian-origin Democrat Ro Khanna, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has released internal ‘Twitter Files’ that revealed how the micro-blogging platform took orders from the US President Joe Biden’s team to suppress the censorship of his son Hunter Biden’s laptop story, published by the New York Times during the 2020 US presidential elections.

Musk tweeted a link to the account of independent journalist and author Matt Taibbi, who posted a series of tweets revealing the Twitter Files.

“On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published ‘Biden Secret Emails’, an expose based on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop,” Taibbi posted late on Friday.

He claimed that Twitter took “extraordinary steps to suppress the story,” removing links and posting warnings that it may be unsafe.

“They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography,” Taibbi posted.

The White House was said to be “giddy and gleeful” in the wake of Election Night’s surprisingly strong showing by Democrats. But the administration has nothing on the mood of Bill Maher, as exhibited on Friday’s Real Time.

A week after a downbeat Maher was ready to throw shovels of dirt on America while anticipating its demise at Republican hands, the comedian returned in a jubliant mood. “I haven’t had a text from Joe Biden in three days,” he said in his warmup. “I feel like he’s ghosted me.”

Maher seemed amazed at the turn in fortunes, noting that Pennsylvania may have been the biggest surprise. That’s the state where the polished Dr. Mehmet Oz “lost to a guy who dresses like the airline lost his luggage.”

Noting that ex-President Donald Trump is suffering a backlash, with many now touting the 2024 prospects of Florida Gov.

Priyanka Chopra welcomed Diwali with a shoutout to Jennifer Rajkumar, the first Indian American woman to be elected Member of the New York State Assembly, who lobbied to get Diwali declared a public-school holiday in New York City from 2023.

Rajkumar, whose 2020 Assembly race was endorsed by California Congressman Ro Khanna, represents certain neighbourhoods in the Queens and also chairs the sub-committee on diversity in law. New York City, incidentally, is home to more than 2,00,000 people of Indian origin.

Chopra, who’s best-known in the U.S. for her performance in the FBI drama series ‘Quantico’, reposted a video to her Instagram Story where Rajkumar announced the news. Along with the video, Chopra wrote: “After all these years! My teenage self-living in Queens is crying tears of joy. #representationmatters.”

Last Diwali, Chopra, who’ll be seen soon with Richard Madden in the sci-fi television series ‘The Citadel’, had posted pictures of the celebrations at her home,...

You are allowed to disagree, Bill Maher argued during his Friday Real Time on HBO. And he brought up two instances of news this week from the world of television to underline his point.

Maher talked about Whoopi Goldberg’s crisis and suspension from The View because of her analysis of what the Holocaust was really about. Maher, who has been targeted by Goldberg in the past, said he was not in favor of her cancellation, “as much as I disagree with her crazy statements.”

He pointed out Goldberg’s show is called The View, emphasis on “The.” That’s the problem in America,” he said. “There is one true opinion, and everyone else can go sit in the corner.”

He pointed out a time where Goldberg defended quarterback Michael Vick, who was suspended from football for his role in a dog fighting ring. Goldberg was a rare defender of Vick when that situation emerged,...

Reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday buzzed over the sightings in Senate hallways of Paris Hilton, the reality star who met with lawmakers to advocate for protections for youth in congregate care facilities.

At a press conference just outside the Capitol, Hilton said, “Today I come here not as Paris, but as a survivor.”

“For 20 years I couldn’t sleep at night, as memories of physical violence, feeling of loneliness, the loss of years rushed through my mind when I shut my eyes.”

“This was not just insomnia. It was trauma,” she said.

Hilton said that when she was a teenager, “I woke up to two large men in my bedroom,” asking her if she “wanted to go the easy way or the hard way.”

She said that she thought she was being kidnapped, but she was physically dragged out of her house and being sent to a residential care facility,...

It doesn’t look like a $15 minimum wage is going to happen anytime soon.

It sure seemed like it had a chance for a while there, though. Democrats wanted it in the coronavirus relief bill, which they’re gearing up to pass through reconciliation, a measure allowing the Senate to advance budget-related matters with a simple 50-vote majority rather than the 60 votes typically required to pass legislation without bringing the filibuster into play. But not just anything can be passed through reconciliation, and the it’s up to the Senate...

In many ways, Sen. Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris as his vice president is historic: She is the first woman of color on a major party ticket, as well as the first female vice-presidential Democratic pick in more than three decades. Yet many on the left were not overly pleased with the pick, pointing to Harris’s somewhat regressive record when she was district attorney of San Francisco and attorney general of California. Among these critics were sex workers’ rights advocates, who have been vocal about Harris’s...

If you want to meet a Republican politician who’s the ultimate poster boy for shameless apple-polishing — the kind of eager conservative loyalist who would crawl across broken glass to shine Donald Trump’s shoes — you should watch “The Swamp,” the new HBO documentary, and get a load of Matt Gaetz, a congressman from Florida who got swept into the U.S. House of Representatives by the Trump tidal wave.

Gaetz is a real piece of work. At 38, he’s got the baby-faced, handsome-but-not-too-dashing, smile-by-committee looks and easy-talking facility of a jock bro who was popular in high school and is now a mid-level bank manager. If you had to describe what his job is, the most accurate thing to say might be that Gaetz is a congressman who plays a congressman on TV. With his Chris O’Donnell immaculateness, he’s a constant presence on Fox News and CNN, mouthing his talking points,...

Washington — Andrew Yang has dropped out of the Democratic presidential primary, but his signature plan to give every American adult a $1,000 a month has never been more popular.

With the novel coronavirus likely to plunge the economy into a recession and decimate the livelihoods of people who own small businesses or work in jobs without a guaranteed salary, lawmakers across the political spectrum have come out in favor of direct cash payments as a response to the pandemic. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-n.Y.) and Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hi) as well as Sen.

In this week’s episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Congressman Ro Khanna of California, who also serves as a national co-chair of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign. They discuss the DNC’s role in Iowa caucus debacle, and the prospects for New Hampshire and beyond (note: this episode was taped before the New Hampshire primary).

Khanna, who unseated an eight-term incumbent Democrat for his seat in 2016, sits on the House Armed Service Committee, Budget Committee, and Oversight Committee. He has made...

When a group of bills known as Sesta/Fosta was introduced in early 2018, it garnered widespread bipartisan support. The bills were intended to curb online sex trafficking, a goal that was easy for lawmakers to get behind, and one that few wanted to be seen actively opposing. One of the few dissenting votes was from Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California. In addition to his broader concerns about how Sesta/Fosta could potentially chip away at free speech on the internet, he had received calls from sex workers in...

Stephon Clark lived and died in Sacramento. When the 22-year-old father of two was shot and killed by local cops after a foot chase in the spring of 2018, it provoked the largest national uproar over a police killing of an unarmed black man since the groundswell of protests that began with the death of Michael Brown and the Ferguson uprising five years ago this week. The Sacramento officers who took Clark’s life were not charged with any crime.

It didn’t happen in Rep. Ro Khanna’s district, but it was close enough.

Robert Mueller wrote a scathing letter to Attorney General Bill Barr in late March, blasting Barr’s infamous four-page summary to Congress because it did “not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the special counsel’s findings. That is the takeaway from a bombshell report published Tuesday evening in the Washington Post.

Mueller’s letter, sent days after Barr’s cursory briefing of March 24th, blamed Barr’s communique for spurring “public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation” into the Trump campaign’s contacts...

A spring release is planned for Alyssa Milano’s podcast Sorry Not Sorry.

The weekly podcast, according to Milano, will tackle social, political and cultural issues from the perspective of unapologetic guests while highlighting activists doing amazing things and grassroots efforts throughout the country. The podcast will focus on shaping narratives and changing hearts and minds to bridge the ideologies of a divided nation.

The podcast includes interviews with VP Joe Biden, Congressman Ro Khanna, Frances Fisher, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, Congresswoman Jayapal, Manuel Oliver, and others. Future interviews include Stacey Abrams, Mayor Eric Garcetti, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and Terry Crews.

“I’m not sorry for using my voice. I’m not sorry for making people uncomfortable while being the voice for those who have been silenced,” explained Milano. “I am grateful for this opportunity to instigate empathy and conversation while highlighting the people leading change by service throughout our great country.