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On Monday, the night before hearings to confirm Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s embattled nominee for Secretary of Defense, were set to begin, The New Yorker reported that Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) — a key vote on the Armed Services Committee — had declined an offer to meet privately with the woman whom Hegseth paid to settle a sexual assault claim.

The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer cites three sources familiar with the overtures to Ernst’s office; Ernst’s office, she adds, did not respond to her inquiries about the invitation.

Close your eyes and make a list of the most important issues in the 2024 election. Maybe you thought of the cost of living, abortion, immigration, democracy, climate change, gun violence, the war in Gaza, the Supreme Court. If you’re like the vast majority of voters, the word you probably didn’t think of is “cryptocurrency.”

But in the last year, the crypto industry quietly became the biggest corporate spender of the entire 2024 election. According to a report from the nonprofit watchdog Public Citizen, nearly half of the $274 million in...

Rupert Murdoch is facing a familial battle royale as three of the 93-year-old media mogul’s four adult children fight his efforts to adjust the family trust in order to leave eldest son Lachlan Murdoch in charge after his death, according to an investigative report published Wednesday by the New York Times.

The Times report is based in part on a 48-page decision by a Nevada probate commissioner that was filed under seal but obtained by the newspaper. Three of Rupert Murdoch’s four adult children — Prudence, Elisabeth and James — are fighting their father’s efforts to adjust the trust. The battle has so far played out in secret but will now be closely watched as the probate commissioner considers petitions filed by the three younger Murdochs.

According to the Times, Rupert Murdoch is motivated by the desire to ensure that Fox News, the New York Post, the Wall Street...

The crash of Ticketmaster’s website amid an overload of demand for Taylor Swift tickets has led to a Senate hearing, as lawmakers seize on the incident to scrutinize a host of business practices in the ticketing industry.

The full Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for next Tuesday — That’s The Ticket: Promoting Competition and Protecting Consumers in Live Entertainment — following the November debacle in which Swift fans were locked out of presales and a public sale was canceled.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Mn), who chairs the antitrust subcommittee, said in a statement that “the issues within America’s ticketing industry were made painfully obvious when Ticketmaster’s website failed hundreds of thousands of fans hoping to purchase tickets for Taylor Swift’s new tour, but these problems are not new. For too long consumers have faced high fees, long waits and website failures, and Ticketmaster’s dominant...

One America News, the upstart far-right media outlet best known for doggedly backing Donald Trump before, during and after his presidency, got about 90% of its financial backing from AT&T.

That eye-opening news, which met with pushback from the telecom giant, was reported in an investigative piece by Reuters. The news agency reviewed court records and came away with a number of stunning financial details and connections that had not previously been reported.

Robert Herring Sr., the 80-year-old founder of Oan who made his fortune in the circuit board industry, testified in a 2019 legal deposition that the decision to launch the network in 2013 was prompted by AT&T. “They told us they wanted a conservative network,” Herring said, according to the report. “They only had one, which was Fox News, and they had seven others on the other [left-wing] side. When they said that, I jumped to it and built one.

America’s War on Terror began with ill-defined intentions and led to 20 years of brutality that eroded the country’s international goodwill while fostering paranoia, mistrust of public institutions, and xenophobia at home. This is the crux of “America After 9/11,” the latest investigative journalism project from PBS’ Frontline team, and it’s a belief that the two-hour film effectively relays via its facts-first reporting and extensive sourcing.

To call the film timely is both stating the obvious and an understatement; while “America After 9/11” is one of numerous media productions being published this month to coincide with the 20th anniversary of World Trade Center attacks, the film’s release also comes just weeks after the United States’ contentious exit from Afghanistan. As its title implies (and as is to be expected from Frontline), “America After 9/11,” which is directed by longtime political documentarian Michael Kirk, centers on the United States’ political and...

Adam McKay’s Hyperobject Industries and Three Uncanny Four Productions, in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment, today launched Death at the Wing, a new podcast series that focuses on the tragic intersection of basketball, politics, and socio-economics in the 1980s that led to an extraordinary number of untimely deaths of rising basketball prospects. Developed and hosted by McKay, Death at the Wing is a deep exploration of the intersection of sports and culture that began with Reaganomics. The first two episodes are available this morning.

Each docu segment focuses on one player, one tragedy, and the big forces that shaped the story. In reporting the series, McKay conducted interviews with experts, journalists, and former players, including NBA Hall of Famer Jerry West, journo and Basketball: A Love Story author Jackie MacMullan, ex-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, professor of critical stories Dr. Todd Boyd, and The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer.

News junkies often develop a tight relationship with a favorite TV anchor or cable-news outlet. Mosheh Oinounou hopes some of them will turn instead to a “news concierge.”

The former executive producer of “CBS Evening News” is among the many journalists discovering they don’t need a traditional media apparatus — say a TV-network control room or a giant printing press — to serve up information and analysis. Some reporters are taking to independent newsletters via companies like Substack. Oinounou has found a perch for himself on Instagram, where he helps everyone from random followers to a handful of celebrities make sense of current events. He even takes requests to help explain specific topics. Joe Jonas is among those asking him questions.

“My feed is sort of Drudge Report meets Axios meets The Skimm — all on Instagram,” he says in an interview.

A daily Instagram Story from Oinounou will contain information on coronavirus case counts,...

Let us take a moment to consider those who have been impacted most by the pandemic. Not women, who are dropping out of the workforce like flies; not people of color, who are disproportionately affected by Covid-19 and live in constant fear of becoming the victims of police violence; and not low-income children and students with special needs, who are struggling to receive the bare bones of an education in a remote learning setting. Spare a thought for the real victims of 2020: the men who are caught cranking their hogs on Zoom.

Social distancing protocols have made actions such as exposing oneself to horrified observers more difficult, if not impossible. But if nothing else, the pandemic is testament to the indefatigability of the human spirit, and when there is a will, there is a way. Famed legal analyst, The Run of His Life author, and New Yorker staff writer Jeffrey Toobin is proof of this, per reporting from Vice.

Details about what was referred to by Vice as the “Zoom Dick Incident” are few, but continue to emerge. Initially, the article reported...

If anyone in Hollywood knows what it takes to get through epidemics, it’s Norman Lloyd. This protean actor was 3 in New York when the Spanish flu erupted in February 1918 and infected some 500 million people, about one-third of the world’s population. It came in four waves, and finally subsided in April 1920.

Norman has no particular memories of that plague, as he was kept indoors by his parents. And indoors he remains now, at the cozy, quiet, tree-enshrouded house on the far west side of Los Angeles that he’s owned since 1948. His wife Peggy died in 2011, but he has no shortage of friends (his annual November birthday party attracts up to 100 people) and keeps to a regular schedule under the supervision of a nurse and assistant who look after his daily needs. And, no, he isn’t working anymore; the last film he acted in was Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck five years ago.

The comedian wanted people to laugh. But not all the time. Sometimes, not at all.

Ryan Reiss typically spends his evenings warming up studio audiences for Seth Meyers’ “Late Night” show. Big guffaws are in demand. On recent Friday evenings, however, Reiss has held forth in a different studio at NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza headquarters, asking visitors to clap and show their energy – yet remain mindful that some moments of the program they are about to see won’t be very funny.

Some may get them angry. No matter what you hear, he reminds them, keep in mind one rule: No booing.

On these Fridays, in the studio once reserved for Megyn Kelly’s morning program, MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes bounds out from backstage and offers – while standing on a set festooned with elaborate video walls – an energetic monologue. He then presents lively conversation and visits with guests like Richard Engel,...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that as the reports surfaced that President Donald Trump had asked the president of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter, it was a clarifying moment that convinced her to launch an impeachment inquiry.

“I can’t tell if he knows right from wrong. He just done wrong,” Pelosi said of Trump’s July 17 call, which is now at the center of the Democratic-led investigation.

Pelosi announced the impeachment inquiry on Sept. 24, but speaking at the New Yorker Festival, moderator Jane Mayer asked her what led her to favor launching the impeachment process after earlier opposing it.

“There was plenty the president had done, evidenced in the Mueller report and just other things, that were impeachable offenses,” Pelosi said.

Noting that “timing is everything,” and that they would proceed “when we get more facts, when the truth has more clarity, we will be ready.

Two months into his ill-begotten presidency, when Donald Trump flew into a temper tantrum over Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ insistence on recusing himself from overseeing the Russia investigation, he famously bawled, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” Cohn, in case you haven’t seen the documentary that took its title from the president’s outburst, was the red-baiting witch-hunter from the 1950s who became New York City’s top mob lawyer and, fittingly enough, young Donald’s fixer, mentor, and role model. Cohn had all the charm and scruples of a...

Al Franken, the former Saturday Night Live star turned Democratic politico turned suddenly ex-Democratic politico, is back in the media business: SiriusXM announced today that the former U.S. Senator will launch a weekly radio show this Saturday, Sept. 28. His first guest is expected to be fellow former SNLer Chris Rock.

Upcoming guests will include former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and comedian Patton Oswalt.

In addition to his own show, the former Minnesota senator will join the SiriusXM Progress team for special coverage of the 2020 elections, including presidential debates, primaries, and Election Night. Franken will make regular appearances on various shows throughout the Progress lineup.

The one-hour program will premiere in its regular 10 a.m. timeslot, with replays throughout the day, on SiriusXM Progress channel 127. The show will also be available On Demand.

SiriusXM says The Al Franken Show will feature conversations with “headliners and experts” in politics, entertainment,...

David Koch, the billionaire conservative activist who helped shape modern American politics, has died. He was 79.

“It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my brother David,” David’s brother Charles Koch wrote in a statement Friday morning. “Anyone who worked with David surely experienced his giant personality and passion for life.”

Together, Charles and David Koch, popularly known as the Koch brothers, helmed one of the world’s biggest companies, the industrial conglomerate Koch Industries. The company brings in an estimated $110 billion per year in revenue,...

David Koch, a libertarian supporter of many conservative causes who reshaped America’s political landscape and also funded many charities, has died at age 79.

His brother, Charles Koch, confirmed the news in a statement Friday. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my brother David,” he said. “Anyone who worked with David surely experienced his giant personality and passion for life.”

The family of David Koch also released a statement. “While we mourn the loss of our hero, we remember his iconic laughter, insatiable curiosity, and gentle heart,” it said.

The Koch brothers had a net worth of tens of billions of dollars. David Koch gained most of his wealth from a 42% stake in Wichita, Kan.-based Koch Industries.

The company, of which David Koch owned 42%, was the center of power for the Koch brothers for decades. They started and co-owned the Kansas-based energy and chemical company,...

Al Franken’s name once again trended on social media Monday thanks to a lengthy profile on the former Minnesota Senator by Jane Mayer in The New Yorker.

The story, which runs more than 12,000 words, features an extensive interview with Franken. The former writer and performer on Saturday Night Live reflects on having to resign from his U.S. Senate seat in December 2017, after several accusations of inappropriate physical contact with women.

Mayer’s own Twitter tease for her story sums up her feelings on the matter: “How @alfranken got railroaded,” she wrote before linking to the piece.

“I don’t think people who have been sexually assaulted, and those kinds of things, want to hear from people who have been #MeToo’d that they’re victims,” Franken, 68, tells Mayer.

Having suffered a deep clinical depression in the aftermath of the case, he recalled that his therapist compared the experience to...

Less than one week after New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer published a thoroughly reported exposé about Fox News, its former president resigned suddenly from his top White House job. Bill Shine, President Trump’s communications chief and his deputy chief of staff, will reportedly now put his energy and time into getting the network’s top viewer elected to a second term. One wonders, then, why he isn’t just going back to his old job.

They certainly could use the help. With ratings reportedly suffering since the Democrats...

Samantha Bee dug into The New Yorker‘s recent Fox News exposé, exploring the network’s massive influence over President Trump — and, reportedly, its desire to protect him from scrutiny.

“Unlike the literal spanking [Trump] got from Trump Magazine when he first met Stormy [Daniels], this time he got a figurative spanking from a much more reputable magazine,” the comedian said to open the segment, breaking down the bombshell report from Jane Mayer. The piece documents how Fox News allegedly buried the Trump-Daniels affair news prior to the 2016 presidential election — an act...

The DNC said Wednesday afternoon it will not partner with Fox News for a Democratic candidate debate in the 2020 race, citing Jane Mayer’s New Yorker piece that cast Fox News as having a too cozy relationship with President Donald Trump, describing Fnc’s primetime as a sort of Trump State TV.

Fox News’s response followed shortly.

In his statement of response, Bill Sammon, Fox News Svp/Managing Editor Washington, did not address the explosive New Yorker article, The Making of the Fox News White House.

“We hope the DNC will reconsider its decision to bar Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, all of whom embody the ultimate journalistic integrity and professionalism, from moderating a Democratic presidential debate,” he said.

“They’re the best debate team in the business and they offer candidates an important opportunity to make their case to the largest TV news audience in America,...

Washington — The Democratic National Committee will not partner with Fox News for the upcoming primary debates, citing a story in the New Yorker that reported on the close ties of the news channel to President Donald Trump.

DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement that “recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and Fox News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates. Therefore, Fox News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates.”

MSNBC, NBC News and Telemundo will partner for the first primary debate, scheduled for some time in June, while CNN has the telecast rights to the second in July.

Bill Sammon, senior VP and managing editor of Fox News in Washington, said, “We hope the DNC will reconsider...

As the New Yorker is unspooling its lengthy report codifying the close relationship between Fox News and Donald Trump’s presidency, it was maybe not the best morning for Trump to lift so much material from Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity’s Fnc primetime shows.

On his Monday Fnc primetime program, Carlson said:

We’ve seen an awful lot of change during the two years Trump has been president. American politics has been completely reordered. But also the American media has changed forever. News organizations that seemed like a big deal just five years ago are now extinct. Some of them are totally forgotten. Those that remain have either degraded themselves beyond recognition––like the New Yorker––or they’ve been purchased like Jeff Bezos to conduct unregistered lobbying for Amazon.com, like the Washington Post. It’s hard to remember that not so long ago, America had prestige media outlets.

Fox News and the Trump White House: a seamlessly integrated human centipede. Want proof? Look no further than the fact that Bill Shine, current White House communications director and the former president of Fox News, collects checks from both shops. (Shine, who resigned from Fox after the network was rocked by a series of sexual misconduct scandals, is still being paid out the remainder of a $7 million bonus.) Hope Hicks, who preceded Shine in his government gig, now works at his old network’s parent company, 21st Century Fox.

Longtime Fox News president Roger Ailes fed Donald Trump debate questions, according to a lengthy new investigation from the New Yorker.

The piece, written by Jane Mayer and published on Monday in advance of their March issue, says that even Megyn Kelly’s famously tough question to Trump about his past remarks toward women were slipped to the billionaire in advance.

“A pair of Fox insiders and a source close to Trump believe that Ailes informed the Trump campaign about Kelly’s question,” Mayer said. “Two of those sources say that they know of the tipoff from a purported eyewitness. In addition, a former Trump campaign aide says that a Fox contact gave him advance notice of a different debate question, which asked the candidates whether they would support the Republican nominee, regardless of who won.”

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Exclusive: Tom Arnold hasn’t given up his quest to uncover incriminating evidence against Donald Trump, but his Viceland series The Hunt for the Trump Tapes With Tom Arnold is over. A source said it was only ever intended as an eight-episode series.

But Arnold isn’t done. “I am not quitting until I get all the tapes or Trump resigns, which ever happens first,” he told Deadline. “Every day both things get closer to happening.”

Over the course of the show that premiered September 18, Arnold searched high and low for elusive videotapes allegedly showing Trump in all manner of compromising positions – from the infamous “pee tape” in a Moscow hotel room to an outtake on The Apprentice in which Trump allegedly used the N-word. Arnold hasn’t found the tapes yet, if they exist, but he hasn’t stopped looking.

“His search was fascinating and I loved it,” said Peter Woronov,...

Tom Arnold’s “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes” aired an episode Tuesday dedicated to a Trump “Elevator Tape” — even though there’s no proof such a tape exists.

Arnold, who cheerfully admits he has no credibility, told us on the “Shoot This Now” podcast that he’s turned over what he’s learned about the reputed tape to a “real journalist.” You can listen to it on Apple or right here.

There’s just one problem with Arnold telling a real journalist what he knows: As you’ll hear on our podcast, he’s very cagey about what, if anything, he conclusively knows.

And “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes” ended its season Tuesday night without revealing any Trump tapes.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

Arnold’s show, which aired three episodes back-to-back Tuesday, is dedicated to tapes that have never been proven to exist,...

Tom Arnold, host of Viceland’s “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes,” says he knows exactly what’s contained on lost “Apprentice” tapes from Donald Trump’s years on the show — even though he can’t get his hands on them.

Arnold said he has friends who worked on the NBC reality show for all 15 seasons of its run — and that they recorded now-missing footage of Trump sexually harassing employees and using the N-word.

“He’s incompetent. He doesn’t know what’s going on. He’s racist, he says the N-word, he says, ‘You’re f—able’ right into camera, to the camera operators,” Arnold tells TheWrap in the video above. “They have to pull him out. The producers have a producers’ meeting [and tell him] ‘Whoa, you can’t sexually harass the women here.'”

Arnold said Mark Burnett, a Trump friend and the executive producer of the series, is well...

United States senators are taking turns reading the FBI’s updated background investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. But the report is unaccountably incomplete. The FBI interviewed only one of Kavanaugh’s three accusers. And investigators failed to interview key witnesses who could have helped corroborate allegations of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh, or exposed lies he appears to have told the Senate while under oath. Most striking, the FBI did not interview Kavanaugh, himself.

Nor did the FBI interview Kavanaugh’s first accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, nor any...

America has now reached the point in the story where a Supreme Court nominee goes on national TV to very solemnly explain when he lost his virginity. “We’re talking about allegations of sexual assault,” Brett Kavanaugh told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum on Monday. I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone. I did not have sexual intercourse or anything close to sexual intercourse in high school or for many years thereafter.” Just as it was disturbing when Kavanaugh equated contraceptives to “abortion-inducing drugs” during his confirmation hearing earlier this month, it...

After a second woman came forward accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, late-night hosts dedicated their Monday night shows to taking jabs at Kavanaugh and supporter Donald Trump.  

Amid allegations from Christine Blasey Ford, a second accuser spoke out against Kavanaugh in a story posted on The New Yorker's website on Sunday night, written by Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer. Deborah Ramirez alleged that while she attended Yale University with Kavanaugh, he exposed himself at a dorm party where alcohol was present, put his penis in her face, and then, as she pushed him ...

Brett Kavanaugh wants you to know who the real victim is.

In a letter sent today to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Supreme Court nominee describes allegations against him of a sexual assault in high school and of exposing himself in college as “smears, pure and simple.” He paints himself as the target of a “grotesque and obvious character assassination” and insists: “I will not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process.”

The letter, addressed to Judiciary chair Charles Grassley (R-ia) and ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-ca), directly answers both of Kavanaugh’s accusers.

Laura Ingraham reacted to New Yorker reporters Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer’s story of a second woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, with the Fox News host demanding on Monday that Farrow’s Pulitzer Prize be revoked.

“So this is Ronan Farrow, they should take his Pulitzer back for this. Go find Ronan and take his Pulitzer back, Ok?” she said on her radio show. “He actually did great reporting when it came to the [Harvey] Weinstein stuff — because that was someone who was a dirtbag his whole life, his entire life. Now you’re taking a good man and going back to college and high school to try to destroy him. That’s what it’s about.”

The clip was first flagged by the professional Fox News watchers at Media Matters for America.

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On Sunday,...

Ronan Farrow defended his Sunday night New Yorker report of a second woman alleging sexual misconduct by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Grilled on Good Morning America by ABC News Chief Correspondent George Stephanopopulos, Farrow insisted Deborah Ramirez came forward only after Senate Democrats “began looking” at the alleged incident with Kavanaugh.

“She did not flag this for those Democrats. This came to … the attention of people on the Hill independently and it’s really cornered her into an awkward position. That’s why she took the time to think about this carefully,” said Farrow, who co-bylined the report with the New Yorker‘s Jane Mayer. Ramirez alleges Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a dorm party when both were students at Yale. She claims he “thrust his penis in her face,” which caused her to have to “touch it without her consent as she pushed him away.” Ramirez said...

Christine Blasey Ford may not have been the only one. A week to the day after the professor’s allegation of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh was made public, the New Yorker published a report from Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer detailing an additional sexual misconduct claim against the Supreme Court nominee. A woman named Deborah Ramirez is alleging that while she and Kavanaugh were freshmen at Yale, he exposed himself to her and pushed his penis in her face, causing her to touch it against her will. The legitimacy...

Ronan Farrow says Deborah Ramirez, the second woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, came out publicly with her claims after being contacted by “Senate Democrats.”

“She came forward because Senate Democrats began looking at this claim. She did not flag this for those Democrats.

“This came to the attention of people on the hill independently and it’s really cornered her into an awkward position,” Farrow told “Good Morning America” on Monday.

Full Interview: @ronanfarrow on the bombshell new allegations from former Yale classmate against Brett Kavanaugh: “It is not accurate to say that those who knew him at the time dispute this.” https://t.co/BbURHAQ6EE pic.twitter.com/pUznAxDdfC

— Good Morning America (@Gma) September 24, 2018

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“She said point blank, ‘I don’t want to ruin anyone’s life,’ but she feels this is a serious claim,...

John Oliver opened Last Week Tonight with the biggest news of the week: the first sexual assault allegation against President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Oliver’s program appeared to have been taped before The New Yorker published a report Sunday night, co-bylined by Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer, detailing a second woman’s allegations against Kavanaugh, when he was in college. According to New Yorker, Yale classmate Deborah Ramirez “remembers Kavanaugh had exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party, thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away.”

Oliver’s commentary focused on Christine Blasey Ford, who alleged that, at a party in high school, Kavanaugh pinned her down, groped her, attempted to pull off her bathing suit and the clothes she wore over it, and put his hand over her mouth when she tried to scream.

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh now faces accusations of sexual misconduct from a second woman.

In a New Yorker report from Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer, Deborah Ramirez, a classmate of Kavanaugh at Yale, said Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a college dormitory party. The story dates to the 1983-1984 years, which would have been Kavanaugh’s freshman year at the university.

The report adds to the mounting pressure on Kavanaugh, who will be confronted at a Senate hearing on Thursday by Christine Blasey Ford, a high school classmate, with allegations that he attempted to sexually assault her at a party in the early 1980s.

This latest account claims Kavanaugh exposed himself at a college party where he and Ramirez were both drinking. Kavanaugh allegedly “thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away.”

Four Democrat Senators were...

Judge Brett Kavanaugh is now facing a new allegation from another woman who says he exposed himself without her consent during their college years at Yale. The New Yorker published a bombshell story Sunday ahead of Kavanaugh's Thursday hearing in D.C., where he's already set to face-off against Christine Blasey Ford ... who has accused him of a sexual assault when they were both in high school. In this new story, written by Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer,...

Tom Arnold swears he’s gonna get to the bottom of this whole “Trump tapes” thing, even if he has to take unusual routes. That includes hitting up Peter Cottontail to find out what he’s got on Potus, in the first look at the actor’s new Viceland series, “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes.”

“I’m going to dig as deep as I have to, to expose the ugly truth about the ugly man,” Arnold says in the minute-long trailer.

Viceland’s new series “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes with Tom Arnold,” will see Arnold doing some “citizen journalism” to find out the truth behind the rumored recordings of Donald Trump. It will begin with Arnold’s appearance on the “Howard Stern Show” and continues to follow the comedian as he meets with figures like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penn Jillette, Judd Apatow and Rosie O’Donnell. And, apparently,...

During his TCA panel for his Viceland show “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes,” Tom Arnold hammered President Trump early and often, calling out the president for consistently lying, including about his supposed germaphobia.

“How many germaphobes raw dog that many porn stars?”

Arnold asked a room of TV critics. Trump’s supposed germaphobia has come up numerous times, most notably after the infamous “Steele Dossier” was published. The hard-to-believe allegation, which has never been confirmed, posited that Trump was secretly recorded by the Russian government while watching prostitutes urinate on a hotel bed in Moscow during a trip there in 2013.

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Trump and his supporters have often referenced Trump’s massive fear of germs as proof that the “pee tape” doesn’t exist.

Arnold isn’t buying that excuse, however, and...

Tom Arnold is searching for the Donald Trump tapes — but he means more than just the infamous, alleged Trump “pee pee tapes.” For his new Viceland series “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes,” Arnold is issuing a challenge to “The Apprentice” executive producer Mark Burnett: Release the hours of tapes of Trump on set acting inappropriate.

“Mark Burnett does have a disc with every outtake of ‘The Apprentice,'” he said. “I’d like [Burnett] to stand up and say, ‘actually we had to cut out all the lies and sexual harassment, he’s not really that guy [you saw on the screen],'” Arnold said. “The real guy is this other guy.”

Arnold, who appeared on “Celebrity Apprentice” and is familiar with how the production worked, said he’d like to have just one 12-hour day worth of footage from the 18 cameras that were used on the show.

“I want to show America that,...

Viceland has slotted a September premiere date for its anticipated series The Hunt For The Trump Tapes with Tom Arnold, in which the titular comic actor takes his activism off Twitter and puts it into real life. The eight-episode series will debut with a double episode on Tuesday, September 18 at 10:30 Pm.

Described as All the President’s Men meets Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arnold tries his hand at “citizen journalism” in The Hunt, using his network of connections to search for the truth behind the many rumored, potentially damaging recordings of President Donald Trump.

The series begins with Arnold’s appearance on The Howard Stern Show where he asks Stern to release his many hours of Trump interviews and follows Arnold as he meets with his deep network of show business connections including Celebrity Apprentice vets Arnold Schwarzenegger and Penn Jillette, fellow comedian turned outspoken Twitter activist Judd Apatow, and...

Viceland’s new series “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes with Tom Arnold” will premiere on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 10:30 p.m., it was announced Thursday at the Television Critics Association’s summer 2018 press tour.

The eight-episode series will see Arnold doing some “citizen journalism” to find out the truth behind the rumored recordings of Donald Trump. It will begin with Arnold’s appearance on the “Howard Stern Show” and continues to follow the comedian as he meets with figures like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penn Jillette, Judd Apatow and Rosie O’Donnell.

The show also reveals the frenzy of attention surrounding Arnold’s surprise meeting with Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, which took place earlier this summer in New York.

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Arnold will also meet with veteran journalists like “The New Yorker” writer Jane Mayer,...

Ronan Farrow is working on another exposé. This one will be in the form of a book called “Catch and Kill,” which will expand on his investigation into sexual misconduct in Hollywood as well as reportedly reveal why NBC didn’t publish his bombshell investigative piece on disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein that ultimately ran in The New Yorker.

“Ronan Farrow’s wrenching investigative journalism has given voice to sexual abuse survivors and shaken the conscience of our culture,” Little, Brown publisher Reagan Arthur said in a statement. “But, despite the enormity of the conversation his reporting helped ignite, some of the most astonishing disclosures about what he uncovered are still to come. We’re very proud to be publishing this important book.”

According to CNN, one of the “astonishing disclosures” will involve the story behind Farrow’s interactions with executives at NBC News, where he was originally working on the...

If “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah is right, he can share partial credit for the lightning-quick downfall of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Well, kinda.

Ronan Farrow, who co-wrote with Jane Mayer the New Yorker story in which four women accused Schneiderman of sexual abuse, was the show’s guest on Monday. And according to Noah on Tuesday’s show, Farrow apparently filed the final draft just before taping his segment.

Noah related how in the green room before filming, Farrow finished and filed a story with his editor. Farrow didn’t say what the story was, but, well, you saw the news yesterday.

“I had no idea he was ending an attorney general’s career over our wifi,” Noah joked. “And since I pay for the wifi I’d like to think that I did my part.”

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The story came in the middle of a lengthy “The Daily Show” segment about Schneiderman, who resigned just three hours after the story was published.

Earlier, Noah noted that “the reason the story is getting so much attention is that Eric Schneiderman isn’t just the New York attorney general, but because he’s a national figure now, he’s one of the biggest opponents of President Trump’s agenda… and more than that, because Schneiderman presented himself as an advocate for women.”

Cue video of Schneiderman speaking publicly in support of women reporting sexual abuse.

“It seems this guy was trying to put Harvey Weinstein in jail while abusing women himself. This is like finding out that Robert Mueller has been taking secret vacations with Putin,” said Noah.

Later in the segment, “The Daily Show” correspondent Dulcé Sloan, who said of Schneiderman: “I think this guy is Christian Grey. Only without the looks. Without the money. Without the consent.”

Watch the whole clip above.

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The civil rights lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Company will continue despite its chief architect, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, stepping down on Tuesday after being accused of physical abuse by multiple women.

“Our office has never been stronger, and this extraordinarily talented, dedicated, and tireless team of public servants will ensure that our work continues without interruption,” said acting Attorney General Barbara Underwood in a statement to TheWrap.

Schneiderman, who in February filed a civil rights lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein, was accused of abusing four women, including two who agreed to be named by the New Yorker, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam. The women told the magazine that Schneiderman “repeatedly hit them, often after drinking, frequently in bed and never with their consent,” New Yorker writers Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow reported on Monday.

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“It’s been my great honor and privilege to serve as Attorney General for the people of the State of New York. In the last several hours, serious allegations, which I strongly contest, have been made against me,” Schneiderman said in a statement that night. “While these allegations are unrelated to my professional conduct or the operations of the office, they will effectively prevent me from leading the office’s work at this critical time. I therefore resign my office, effective at the close of business on May 8, 2018.”

The Schneiderman-led lawsuit had pushed for restitution for those claiming Weinstein abused them. The suit also aimed to stop any sales of The Weinstein Company that didn’t include a compensation fund or remove executives accused of harassment. Schneiderman had argued the company’s toxicity stretched beyond Weinstein, encompassing employees from all levels of the company to ensure silence from his accusers.

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“Any sale of The Weinstein Company must ensure that victims will be compensated, employees will be protected going forward, and that neither perpetrators nor enablers will be unjustly enriched,” said Schneiderman in February. “Every New Yorker has a right to a workplace free of sexual harassment, intimidation, and fear.”

Barish and Selvaratnam, the two women named in the New Yorker article, said they didn’t go to the police with their claims, but said they eventually received “medical attention after having been slapped hard across the ear and face, and also choked.”

Schneiderman defended his conduct as “role playing and other consensual sexual activity” undertaken “in the privacy of intimate relationships” in a statement prior to his resignation Monday night. He denied committing assault and said he has “never engaged in nonconsensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.”

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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was accused of nonconsensual physical violence by four women on Monday, leading to his resignation.

Schneiderman, who filed a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein in the wake of multiple sexual harassment accusations, resigned from office four hours after the news broke in a story co-written by Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow for The New Yorker. Farrow won the Pulitzer Prize for his previous report on Weinstein’s sexual harassment accusations.

In a statement released on Monday, Schneiderman, 63, announced his resignation saying, “It’s been my great honor and privilege to serve as Attorney General of...

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has pursued sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein, resigned just hours after he was accused of physical violence by four women.

Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam told The New Yorker that Schneiderman allegedly hit them multiple times, frequently after drinking. Manning Barish and Selvaratnam referred to the attorney general’s actions as “assault.” Both women said they never reported the allegations to the police, but did receive medical attention for their injuries.

“In the last several hours, serious allegations, which I strongly contest, have been made against me,” Schneiderman said in a statement. “While these allegations are unrelated to my professional conduct or the operations of the office, they will effectively prevent me from leading the office’s work at this critical time.” He said his resignation will be effective at the end of the business day on Tuesday.

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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who took on Harvey Weinstein after reports of the disgraced mogul’s sexual misconduct, now faces allegations of his own: Four women have accused him of nonconsensual physical violence, the New Yorker reports.

Two of the women, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, told the magazine that Schneiderman “repeatedly hit them, often after drinking, frequently in bed and never with their consent,” New Yorker writers Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow reported on Monday. Neither woman took the accusations to police at the time, “but both say that they eventually sought medical attention after having been slapped hard across the ear and face, and also choked,” the magazine said.

Selvaratnam said Schneiderman warned that he could have her followed and her phones tapped, and both women said he threatened to kill them if they dumped him. A spokesman for Schneiderman, 63, said he “never made any of these threats.”

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“In the privacy of intimate relationships, I have engaged in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity. I have not assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in nonconsensual sex, which is a line I would not cross,” Schneiderman said in a statement.

A third ex-romantic partner of Schneiderman’s told the two women who came forward that he also repeatedly abused her, but that she was afraid to speak out, The New Yorker said. The magazine said it had independently vetted the accounts that Manning Barish and Selvaratnam provided of the third woman’s accusations.

A fourth woman said that when she rebuffed an advance by Schneiderman, he slapped her across the face, leaving a mark that remained until the next day. She screamed and began to cry, the magazine said. Though she asked not to be identified, the magazine said, she provided the reporters with a photograph documenting the injury.

On Feb. 11, four months after the New York Times and New Yorker published accounts of widespread sexual harassment and abuse by Weinstein, Schneiderman filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging “egregious violations of New York’s civil rights, human rights, and business laws.” The suit named The Weinstein Company, Harvey Weinstein and his brother and co-founder, Bob Weinstein.

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The lawsuit accused Weinstein of doing some of the things the women now say Schneiderman did to them. Among other things, Schneiderman’s complaint contended that Harvey Weinstein told employees “I will kill you” or “I will kill your family,” or words to that effect.

The New Yorker noted that women’s groups have praised Schneiderman for his activism on behalf of feminist causes. But Manning Barish said that support is a lie. “You cannot be a champion of women when you are hitting them and choking them in bed, and saying to them, ‘You’re a f—ing whore,’ ” she told the magazine.

She said of Schneiderman’s involvement in the Weinstein case, “How can you put a perpetrator in charge of the country’s most important sexual-assault case?”

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Both Manning Barish and Selvaratnam are feminist progressives who, like, Schneiderman, are Democrats. Schneiderman, a former state senator, was first elected as New York Attorney General in 2010 and re-elected in 2014 — winning both times with 56 percent of the vote.

In addition to suing Weinstein, Schneiderman has also targeted President Donald Trump. Last month, he moved to change New York state law so that prosecutors could still bring charges against any White House aides Trump may attempt to pardon. Schneiderman led the investigation of Trump University that resulted in a $25 million settlement soon after Trump was elected.

Trump has called Schneiderman “the nation’s worst Ag” and accused him of wearing “Revlon eyeliner.”

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