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First Lady Melania Trump’s Easter Egg Roll, scheduled for Monday, features corporate sponsors for the first time in the event’s history, among them major Silicon Valley corporations.

The event — which takes place when egg prices are at record highs and avian flu is spreading through flocks — features a reading nook and photo op sponsored by Amazon; a “Bunny Hop Stage” sponsored by YouTube, which is owned by Google; and an “AI-Powered Experience and Photo Opportunity” sponsored by Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Thread’s parent company, Meta. A “Ringing...

Most legal observers regard President Trump’s lawsuit over the editing of a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris as frivolous. Nevertheless, parent company Paramount Global has been angling to settle the case, given that the administration has the power to stall or block its merger with Skydance.

Doing so would likely generate backlash from CBS journalists and others who would see it as another major media organization capitulating to the president in hopes of currying favor.

“These are not ‘settlements’ — they are ‘bribes’ and should be described accurately,” wrote Ian Bassin, a former associate counsel in the Obama White House, on BlueSky. “The reporting even explains that CBS executives believe this payment will help avert Trump blocking their merger. That’s a bribe.”

But even if Paramount were to offer a cash payout to the president or his library in hopes of winning merger approval, legal experts say it...

President Trump is a con man. He conned people into giving to his now-defunct foundation only to use the donations for personal expenses. He conned people into spending more money than they could afford on the now-dissolved Trump University. He conned lenders into subsidizing his floundering real estate projects. The list goes on, and, as is made clear on a near-daily basis, it’s not limited to Trump’s life as a private citizen.

The pettiest grift of Trump’s presidency may be a scheme that was recently uncovered by Popular Information’s Judd Legum.

Scott Lloyd, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, had virtually no experience working with displaced populations before the Trump administration put him in charge of the agency responsible for helping tens of thousands of refugees settle in the U.S. every year, not to mention the care of the more than 10,000 children who arrive in the country alone.

And that lack of experience has shown in his job performance. Under Lloyd, the number of children in custody has reached an all time high and the number of days those...

Jennifer Lawrence spoke during an inaugural summit at Tulane University in New Orleans over the weekend, calling out politicians for their corruption and championing bipartisanship as a way for the American people to move forward.

On Friday, the Oscar-winning actress sat down with former U.S. Federal Election Commission chairman Trevor Potter and displayed her usual charm with tongue-in-cheek questions about how a "Hollywood elite" like herself could impact change.

"If candidates or PACs break the rules, what is the punishment? A really big fine?" Lawrence asked at one point during the event.

Shortly after some of Donald Trump’s accusers called for a congressional investigation into their claims of sexual harassment and assault, a group of Democratic lawmakers called on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to look into their claims.

But with Republicans controlling both the houses of Congress—plus the executive branch of government—the chances for a Congressional inquiry already appear slim: the committee’s chairman, Representative Trey Gowdy (R-s.C.) shot down the request almost immediately, referring it to the Department of Justice, over which Trump has oversight.

The decision, according to Politico, doesn’t sit well with Democrats,...

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When Donald Trump Jr.—just hours after tweeting the email chain that exposed his glee (“I love it”) over the prospect of getting dirt on Hillary Clinton from a Russian lawyer in 2016—went on Fox News’ Hannity July 11 and said, “In retrospect, I probably would have done things a little differently,” some friends took notice.

“Those are not words normally heard from a Trump,...

Media members all over the country are talking about a recent New York Times story in which the publication reported that Donald Trump Jr. received an email informing him he would receive damaging information about Hillary Clinton as part of Russian government effort to aid his father’s candidacy. Trump Jr. released the email chain on Tuesday in wake of the report. “This is moving into perjury, false statements, and even potentially treason,” Sen. Tim Kaine told CNN, while ethics lawyer Richard Painter told MSNBC on Monday that the situation “borders on treason, if it is not itself treason.” On Monday evening,...