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There was a moment at the end of Dead & Company’s Sunday night performance at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park when you could truly feel gratitude float through the chilly night air. Not from the 60,000 in attendance, but the two men standing with hand to heart on the stage.

Bob Weir and Mickey Hart have taken it upon themselves to continue the legacy started six decades earlier in the very same spot. The Grateful Dead, which they co-founded along with the late Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh, had gone on to tour stadiums and have hit records, but they very much remained a local band — as synonymous with the city as the fog.

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And for that, San Francisco rallied to mark the 60th anniversary in a big way. Flags bearing the Dead’s iconography flew over trolly tracks throughout downtown; “Jerry Day” was declared on...

Donald Trump lashed out at his longtime ally and prominent Maga Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) in a bizarre Truth Social post on Wednesday. The president pilloried the senator as a “second-tier” lawmaker who had been used as a “pawn” by Democrats, after Hawley broke with Republicans to vote in favor of a congressional stock-trading ban that will also apply to future presidents.

Trump reacted with unchecked rage after Hawley voted to advance the legislation out of committee. “The Democrats, because of our tremendous Achievements and Success, have been trying...

When Meghan Markle joined the royal family in 2018, many royal fans observed echoes of the late Princess Diana in her journey. Like her mother-in-law, Markle made a commitment to humanitarian work and social justice when she entered the royal life.

Markle has carved her own path from a young age, and that too with an individuality that fans praised her for. However, her public and personal experiences have drawn striking parallels to those of Diana. From their parenting methods to their turbulent relationships with the paparazzi, they had a lot in common.

Both women used their platforms to champion causes that often went overlooked. They made it their goal to bring visibility to mental health, racism, and inequality. They were more empathetic in their approach to their royal duties.

And the similarities go beyond their charity work. Their fashion sense, vulnerability in public interviews, and shared struggles within palace life also had a similar pattern.

In December of 2020, amid as Donald Trump pushed conspiracies that the 2020 election had been fraudulently stolen from him, Josh Hawley became the first Republican senator to declare that they would object to the certification of the Electoral College vote. On the morning of January 6, 2021, Hawley (R-Mo.) pumped his fist as a mob of protesters marched on the Capitol, and within hours would have Hawley running out of the building in search of safety. Hawley has been one of the fiercest and most prominent defenders of the Maga movement, and on...

With current Speaker Mike Johnson having recently gaveled the House out of session—effectively blocking any votes aimed at releasing the Epstein files and shielding Donald Trump from potential exposure—Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi now has the next month off. Over the weekend, the 85-year-old Democrat was spotted enjoiyng a night out at Lady Gaga’s “Mayhem Ball,” which she watched from the pit.

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Social media video of Pelosi attending Gaga’s show at the Chase Center in San Francisco have since gone viral. In one clip, the speaker emerita is seen bobbing her head along to Gaga as she the musician out on guitar. “It was a fabulous show in San Francisco! The most fun I’ve had in a long time,” Pelosi quote tweeted the video.

It was a fabulous show in San Francisco! The most fun I’ve had in a long time.

John Oliver made up for lost time as Last Week Tonight returned on Sunday, allowing the late-night TV host an opportunity to join his colleagues in covering the Donald Trump-Jeffrey Epstein story. And like the rest of late-night, Last Week Tonight isn't going to let this story go anytime soon.

Oliver was back on the air on July 27 after a month away. The comedian tried to catch up on all the stories he missed, including adding more commentary on Paramount's decision to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. But for Oliver, the biggest story was still President Donald Trump's history with Jeffrey Epstein.

Oliver's monologue highlighted how far Trump has gone to bury the story ... and how eager late-night TV is to keep digging it back up. Last Week Tonight responded to clips of Trump instructing Republicans to ignore any Epstein questions, with Oliver joking,...

John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” returned on Sunday, just in time to join the conversation around President Donald Trump’s switch-up regarding the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Despite Trump’s promise to reveal the convicted sex offender’s client list if he won re-election, the FBI and Department of Justice released a statement earlier this month saying the Epstein files actually do not exist. This has sparked a firestorm among Trump’s supporters and many attempts by the president to distract from the backlash.

Trump has also been facing renewed heat over his alleged connections to Epstein. Though he has claimed he was “not a fan” of the former financier, the Wall Street Journal recently published a story alleging that he wrote Epstein a lewd note for his 50th birthday, including a remark that the two have “certain things in common.” Trump asserted the story was false...

Back from holiday after a month away, John Oliver wasted no time in getting down to brass tacks, spending the beginning 10 minutes of Last Week Tonight addressing Donald Trump’s desperate attempts to redirect national conversation away from the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

“We are back! And we missed a lot — from Trump signing his Big Beautiful Bill into law, which was terrible, to Colbert getting canceled, which was terrible, to the Coldplay concert heard around the world, which was honestly kind of fun,” Oliver began as he kicked off the show.

During the segment, Oliver addressed the recent Wall Street Journal article that alleged the Potus sent Epstein a vulgar letter accompanied by a drawing of a naked woman and sentiments that they shared commonalities, along with the line: “Happy Birthday—and may every day be another wonderful secret.” As a result, Trump has filed a defamation...

Hours after announcing the approval of Skydance’s merger with Paramount, FCC chairman Brendan Carr touted the company’s commitment to “addressing bias & restoring fact-based reporting” at CBS News, among other things.

“These changes would represent an important step towards earning back Americans’ trust,” Carr wrote on X on Thursday evening.

Then Carr also added, “Will be watching.”

In the aftermath of the merger’s approval, there has been plenty of consternation, angst and even anger as to how it all went down, from Skydance’s agreement to settle a Donald Trump lawsuit, to the company’s commitments that impact the CBS news division, to the power of the FCC to use its authority over mergers to extract corporate commitments.

“Tragic,” said former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, who served in the second Obama term, adding that what Carr is doing is the “coercive use of policy to achieve political goals.

President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video depicting FBI agents arresting former President Barack Obama and dragging him out of the Oval Office during a Sunday night Truth Social posting spree. The sitting president shared or wrote multiple posts endorsing the jailing of his political enemies, largely citing far-right conspiracy theories. The torrent comes as he seeks to distract the public from the Jeffrey Epstein catastrophe that has consumed his administration for weeks.

Trump’s fascistic fantasies about making his enemies — from Democratic lawmakers to late-night hosts — suffer aren’t just a distraction,...

They say even broken clocks are right twice a day, but that’s maybe too generous of an analogy for Andrew Schulz. I don’t think Schulz has been right twice. However, in the most recent episode of his podcast Flagrant with Akaash Singh, he seems to be circling a correct assessment. Schulz is starting to regret voting for Donald Trump. His incredible powers of discernment have sussed out that maybe the president has been lying. Maybe, the racist real-estate developer with dozens of sexual assault allegations and felony convictions isn’t trying to make life better for the everyday American.

The breaking point for Schulz doesn’t seem to be for any of the obvious reasons; instead, the final straw seems to link back to Jeffrey Epstein. This week, the Department of Justice announced that there was no Epstein client list, and that the accused child rapist and trafficker...

Exclusive: When does a democracy end, and a theocracy begin? That’s the key question in Oscar-nominated filmmaker Petra Costa’s urgent new documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics, set to open in select theaters in the U.S. and UK on July 11, and in Brazil this Thursday, and premiering worldwide on Netflix on July 14.

Costa’s film doesn’t focus on, say, Iran or Afghanistan – where theocratic control of government has become a norm — but in a place where separation of church and state is enshrined in the constitution: her native Brazil. That idea, central to Brazilian democracy and American tradition as well, is coming under increasing threat from the rise of Christian nationalism. In Christian nationalist thinking – surging in Brazil and the U.S. – an avenging Jesus from out of the Book of Revelations suits up for battle with his opponents, eager to spill blood to achieve God’s will.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and her husband, Paul Pelosi, have seen their net worth skyrocket in 2024, dramatically surpassing the stock market by a long measure with a staggering 54% return.

The Pelosis have amassed investment gains that significantly outperform the top hedge funds and the S&P 500. According to The New York Post, the couple’s net worth surged to $413 million from their 2023 net worth of $370 million.

In 2022, Paul was the victim of a brutal, politically motivated attack at their San Francisco home.

This $413 million is primarily due to Pelosi and Paul’s diverse business ventures, which include a Napa Valley winery, ownership in a political data and consulting firm, as well as a stake in a high-end Italian restaurant in the Bay Area. However, the lion’s share of their wealth is attributed to a massive stock portfolio and astute trading.

It was estimated by Bloomberg’s end-of-year tally of...

Over the weekend, Huma Abedin and Alex Soros were married, a celebration complemented by a large array of A-list attendees.

In addition to the celebrities present, such as Anna Wintour and Nicky Hilton, Soros and Abedin also welcomed many political figures, including Kamala Harris, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.

Abedin served as Clinton’s aide for over 25 years.

In an interview with Vogue published on Saturday, Clinton shared, “I’m looking forward to being a witness to their marriage; to the celebration that we all are going to be part of; to seeing so many longtime friends gathered in one place to really enjoy being part of Huma and Alex’s start of their married life.”

She added, “I think we all could use some fun, so I’m looking forward to all of it.”

Soros is the third-eldest son of billionaire George Soros,...

A suspect posing as a police officer shot two Minnesota lawmakers, killing one and wounding the other.

Governor Tim Walz confirmed during a press conference on Saturday (June 14) that State Rep. Melissa Hortman, the former Democratic Speaker of the House, and her husband, Mark, were killed in the early morning hours.

Senator John Hoffman, 60, also a Democrat, and his wife Yvette both survived the shooting and are now receiving medical care at the hospital.

Governor Walz said the the killing of Rep. Hortman appeared to be a “politically motivated assassination.”

Keep reading to find out more…“We’re here today because an unspeakable tragedy has unfolded today in Minnesota,” Walz said. “My good friend and colleague, Speaker Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark, were shot and killed earlier this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination.”

Authorities said that the suspect impersonated law enforcement and wore a...

The cohosts of The View continued to talk about Donald Trump‘s decision to send military troops into California amid anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles — this time, narrowing in on key Republicans’ public responses to questions about it. Not only did the subject get a bit testy between the panelists at certain points, but Whoopi Goldberg was also incensed enough about a certain turn of phrase by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson that she delivered a stern warning to him about it. First, the group reviewed footage of the reactions to Trump’s deployment of National Guard members and Marines to the city, including California Governor Gavin Newsom calling it the move of an “authoritarian regime” and suggesting other cities will be next, and Johnson’s reaction to Newsom’s statement: “I’m not going to give you legal analysis on whether Newsom should be arrested, but he ought to be tarred and feathered.

Donald Trump reposted a baseless conspiracy theory claiming Joe Biden was “executed in 2020” and replaced with a robot clone.

The president shared a post from a user on Truth Social late Saturday that alleged: “There is no #JoeBiden – executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. #Democrats don’t know the difference.”

Similar unfounded theories about Biden have been floating around the internet for years. An eight-hour Facebook video posted in 2021 claimed that “Biden is computer generated.” Others have more recently purported that Biden was replaced with artificial intelligence.

John Morgan, a major Democratic donor and operative, revealed that Barack Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not want Kamala Harris to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee for the 2024 election.

On July 21, 2024, Biden withdrew from the presidential race and endorsed Harris.

On November 6, 2024, Harris lost to Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

Morgan made his claim on Cuomo after being asked how he believes Biden feels about the 2024 election results.

“How do you think Biden feels about the result?” Chris Cuomo asked him.

“I think he did not want to go; he did not go gently,” the attorney responded. “I said this early on, he did not want to go gently. He nominated [Harris], basically.”

“Obama did not want her,” Morgan then claimed. “Obama did not endorse for five days.”

In a short video released on July 26, 2024, by the Harris campaign, Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama,...

On Friday May 30 2025, HBO broadcasts Real Time With Bill Maher!

Season 23 Episode 17 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Real Time With Bill Maher” promises an engaging mix of humor and political discussion. Airing on HBO, this episode features a lineup that includes the iconic comedy duo Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong. Known for their unique brand of comedy centered around cannabis culture, they are sure to bring their signature wit and charm to the conversation.

In addition to the comedians, former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy will join the discussion. His insights into current political events and his experiences in leadership will provide a different perspective, making for a lively debate. The combination of comedy and politics is a hallmark of the show, and this episode seems poised to deliver that blend effectively.

Kara Swisher, a prominent technology journalist and commentator, will also be part of the lineup. Her...

Jon Stewart criticized CNN for constantly plugging Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book Original Sin, which reflects on Joe Biden’s declining health, in the midst of his diagnosis with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

On the latest episode of The Daily Show, Stewart played a series of clips of Tapper repeating promoting the book, out today, and teasing that viewers will “not believe” what he uncovered about the former president.

“Don’t news people have to tell you what they know when they find it out?...

As Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show, he took aim at the media’s recent coverage of Joe Biden‘s cancer diagnosis.

On Monday’s episode, the comedian expressed skepticism that President Donald Trump wrote his own Truth Social statement wishing his predecessor a “fast and successful recovery” as it didn’t sound like his usual online rhetoric.

“That’s it? No exclamation points? No all caps? No insults? Whole thing’s spelled correctly? It’s really got all the telltale signs of a post definitely written by Donald Trump,” he joked. “I look at this post, I wonder when they saw this post, if Truth Social sent him a security alert. They just sent him a quick message: ‘We noticed some suspicious humanity on your account. If this was in fact you, President Trump, please reply, “Nancy Pelosi’s husband is gay.”‘

Stewart continued, “But the fact that...

Star Trek: Voyager star Kate Mulgrew wasn’t shy about where she stood politically, and her endorsement might ruffle some Maga feathers. The actress threw her support behind a high-profile U.S. politician known for clashing with Donald Trump at every turn.

Mulgrew called herself a huge fan and made it clear she’s backing brains, not bluster. For fans hoping their favorite sci-fi captain stayed neutral, she’s steering this ship straight into real-world politics, and she’s not afraid to speak her mind.

Kate Mulgrew backed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Donald Trump fans won’t like it Kate Mulgrew in a still from Star Trek: Voyager | Credits: Paramount Network

Kate Mulgrew, best known as Captain Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager, alluded during a 2019 interview with TrekMovie that she’s backing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Well, I’m a great fan of hers, and she of me. So I went out to her...

In the weeks since Pope Leo Xiv emerged from the conclave reporters have dug up evidence that he based Republican figures in the media – but his brother has not followed his example.

Pop Leo, who hails from Chicago, is the first American to lead the Catholic religion. Since he was elected on May 8, Pope Leo has made a point to continue the late Pope Francis’ emphasis on charity, serving as a voice for minorities and an advocate for peace. In his previous role, he has openly criticized the Maga movement, as well as Donald Trump and Jd Vance.

In sharp contrast, in April, Pope Leo’s eldest brother, Louis Prevost, shared several statements on Facebook spouting anti-Democrat rhetoric in support of the Trump Administration.

One post labeled former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) a “drunk c—,” pointing to a 1996 clip in which Pelosi expressed concerns about the trade deficit between the U.

Balthazar. Pastis. Minetta Tavern. The Odeon. The more than a dozen restaurants outspoken British expat Keith McNally launched in Manhattan and D.C. over the decades exude a louche bohemian je ne sais quoi that make them seem as if they’d been transplanted tile by tile from Belle Époque Paris and tastefully modernized. You half expect to see Toulouse-Lautrec in the corner. More likely, you’ll spot Hollywood stars, literary types, media titans and not James Corden, whom McNally famously raked over the social media coals for being rude to a Balthazar waiter in 2022.

His speech impacted by a 2016 stroke, McNally found his voice on Instagram, where he dishes on his cultural likes and many dislikes and picks fights with everyone from Lauren Sánchez to fellow restaurateur and wit Graydon Carter. This month, he explores a longer, more introspective format. Upon the release of his new memoir, I Regret Almost Everything,...

The music industry was shocked this week upon the news that groundbreaking singer-songwriter Jill Sobule died in a house fire outside of Minneapolis on Thursday at age 66. Sobule, beloved among the songwriter community and known for her political activism, broke through in the ’90s with songs like “I Kissed a Girl” and “Supermodel.” The former was the first openly gay song to crack the top 20 on the Billboard charts, the latter was featured in the 1995 film Clueless.

Among the many friends of Sobule still in disbelief is Michelle Lewis, a longtime friend and the CEO of the Songwriters of North America (Sona). Lewis and Sobule wrote frequently together since the pair met in the mid-2000s. She was preparing to see Sobule soon before she heard the news of Sobule’s passing, as Sobule was supposed to stay at Lewis’s home in Los Angeles next week when she came into town.

Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois announced on Wednesday he will not be seeking reelection next year. Durbin, who is 80, has spent more than half of his life serving first in the House and then the Senate, where he was elevated to Democratic Whip, party leadership’s second-highest role. “I truly love the job of being a United States senator, but in my heart, I know it’s time to pass the torch,” Durbin said in a video message.

Meredith Shiner, a communications professional, was in a Zoom training for...

HBO has announced that its Original The Dark Money Game features two films, Ohio Confidential and Wealth of the Wicked, both directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney.

Ohio Confidential debuts on Tuesday, April 15 (9:00-11:00 p.m. Et/Pt), and Wealth of the Wicked debuts on Wednesday, April 16, at the same time. Both films will be available to stream on Max on Tuesday, April 15.

The Dark Money Game films investigate the shadowy world of political donations and fundraising 15 years after the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizen’s United case, which enabled unlimited spending by hidden sources on many political campaigns.

The project is inspired by Jane Mayer’s book Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right and features interviews with journalists, including Mayer, as well as lawmakers, judges, FBI investigators, whistleblowers, and insiders on both sides of the issue.

HBO on Monday unveiled premiere dates for a pair of Alex Gibney documentaries falling under the double-bill title The Dark Money Game. Ohio Confidential debuts Tuesday, April 15 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt, and Wealth of the Wicked premieres Wednesday, April 16 at the same time. Both films will be available to stream on April 15.

The Dark Money Game investigates the shadowy world of political donations and fundraising 15 years after the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United decision, which enabled unlimited spending by hidden sources on political campaigns. Inspired by Jane Mayer’s book Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, the project features interviews with journalists including Mayer, as well as lawmakers, judges, FBI investigators, whistleblowers and insiders on both sides of the issue. Through two separate stories, the films reveal how an untraceable web of money from wealthy individuals and corporations representing...

After Democrats lost the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives in last year’s election, Saikat Chakrabarti waited for the party’s leaders to acknowledge — if not address — their mistakes.

“I was sort of expecting the Democrats to have a big realization that, ‘Oh my Gosh. We did something wrong. We’ve got to figure out what that was,’” he tells Rolling Stone. “Especially when they’re confronted with the fact that Trump increased his vote share amongst a bunch of working-class coalitions and demographics.”

Instead, just days after the election,...

British royal family news reveals that since bagging her magic prince, Meghan Sussex of Markle has made many statements about her childhood.

Not all of her statements have gone uncorrected. After five years of listening to La Meghan, discrepancies in her childhood tales are now glaringly apparent.

Between her Netflix reality show named for herself and the recently dropped Netflix show “With Love, Meghan” plus everything in between, here are some of the Duchess of Sussex’s inconsistencies regarding her upbringing.

Meghan Markle Was a Latchkey Kid

Talking down to Mindy Kaling in “With Love, Meghan” Meghan Markle claimed she was a feral kid: “I was a latchkey kid” a notion her estranged father Thomas Markle Sr. disputes.

He told the Daily Mail “After school I would either pick her up myself and we’d go out to eat or I’d send a car to bring her to the...

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Tragic news out of Washington today, as a pioneer in the world of American politics has passed away.

Mia Love — the first Black Republican woman to serve in Congress — has died at the age of 49.

News of her passing came courtesy of a statement issued by Love’s family.

U.S. Rep. Mia Love (R-Ut) speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (Cpac) March 3, 2016 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Mia Love’s family shares news of her passing

“With grateful hearts filled to overflowing for the profound influence of Mia on our lives, we want you to know that she passed away peacefully today. She was in her home surrounded by family,” reads the announcement, which was posted on both X and Facebook.

“In the midst of a celebration of her life and an avalanche of happy memories, Mia quietly slipped the bands of mortality and,...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-n.Y.) has postponed three events on his book tour — including one in Washington, D.C. — amid widespread backlash to his capitulation to Republicans during last week’s spending negotiations.

According to multiple outlets, scheduled events in Baltimore, New York City, and Washington, D.C., surrounding the Thursday release of his book Antisemitism in America: A Warning were suddenly postponed on Monday morning. In a statement to The New York Times, a spokesperson for the minority leader said the events needed to be rescheduled due to “security concerns.

Updated, 10:59 Am: Donald Trump congratulated Chuck Schumer for his decision to advance a GOP bill to keep the government open — but it’s hardly the kind of praise that the Senate Democratic leader needs.

Fellow lawmakers and party activists are irate at what they see as a massive cave to Republicans as a time when Elon Musk is slashing the federal government and Trump is enacting retribution on political enemies. D.C.’s non-voting representative, Eleanor Holmes Norton, says that the funding bill, which would avert a government as shutdown as it would finance spending through the end of the year, is an act of “fiscal sabotage” on a city that voted more than 90% in favor of Kamala Harris. District officials point to a provision that would force them to make more than $1 billion in cuts for the rest of the fiscal year.

“Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal...

[This story contains spoilers from Severance season two, episode eight, “Sweet Vitriol.”]

Jane Alexander first discovered Severance because of her grandsons. “It’s very popular, I think, with young people,” she hypothesizes over Zoom.

If Alexander is right, then all those young people currently tuning in to Severance‘s season two might be too young to realize the prestige of her appearance in last week’s episode. Here’s a catch-up: Alexander is well-known for movies like 1970’s The Great White Hope (and the play, with James Earl Jones, the year before), 1976’s All the President’s Men, 1979’s Kramer vs. Kramer and 1983’s Testament. She earned Oscar nominations for all of the above, won two Emmys (Playing for Time in 1980 and Warm Springs in 2005), a Tony (for the aforementioned The Great White Hope) and, from 1993 to 1997, led the National Endowment for the Arts.

“The arts have always been for everybody,” Alexander, now 85, tells The Hollywood Reporter.

Updated with more details: Democrats may have been hushed in their response so far to Donald Trump’s second administration, but for a brief turn Tuesday night at least one Democrat was not so silent as the 47th President addressed a joint session of Congress.

Within minutes of Trump taking to the lectern in front of Vice President Jd Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-la), members of the opposition began booing and jeering the Republican. In a sight almost unseen in modern times, Trump’s partisan remarks were cut short specifically by Rep. Al Green from Texas.

As fellow Democrats heckled, Republicans chanted “USA, USA,” and a silent Trump stood there as the 11-term Congressman was warned by Johnson to “cease any further disruption.” Green wasn’t the only member on his feet, as Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-ga) and Nancy Mace (R-sc) scolded the Texan for his outburst...

Donald Trump is set to deliver the first joint address to congress of his second administration on Tuesday night, and if you ask the hosts of “The View,” Democrats should be protesting in big ways — possibly including nudity.

To kick off the day’s Hot Topics, moderator Whoopi Goldberg posed the question of how Democrats should handle the event, asking “Should they sit and listen, should they get butt naked and dance around? What should happen? Or should they all wait ’til the end, when freshman senator Elissa Slotkin gives the Democratic response?”

Joy Behar was first to chime in, bluntly saying that “they should walk out, en masse.” At that, host Alyssa Farah Griffin jokingly asked to clarify if that should happen while nude.

“Naked would be good,” Behar joked back, with Whoopi agreeing that “Naked could be interesting!”

Expounding on her actual thought though, Behar noted that having...

President Donald Trump recently claimed that former President Joe Biden told him and expressed the true culprit behind the 2024 election defeat – and Kamala Harris isn’t it.

Trump told the Spectator World that during a visit to the White House to meet with Biden, the latter expressed to Trump that he blamed former President Barack Obama for the Democrats’ loss in the 2024 election.

“I asked him, ‘So who do you blame?’ Because he was angry, you know, he was a furious guy, actually, and he said, ‘I blame Barack.'”

Obama initially encouraged Democratic allies to stick with Biden in the wake of his disastrous debate performance in June 2024, and by mid-July, Obama had reportedly turned on him in the face of mounting concerns about his mental health and fitness.

“And he said, ‘I also blame [former House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi.’ I said, ‘What about the vice president?’ He said, ‘No, I don’t blame her,...

[This story contains major spoilers from the Zero Day finale.]

Zero Day ended with a shock when Robert De Niro’s politician did the right thing.

As a former U.S. president pulled back into politics to investigate the perpetrators of a deadly cyberattack, De Niro’s George Mullen put aside pressure from both the show’s current president (played by Angela Bassett) and his own wife Sheila Mullen, played by Joan Allen, to not tell the country the full truth of what he uncovered. That truth would be informing Americans about a homegrown attack involving Big Tech, but also elected officials like Speaker of the House Richard Dreyer, played Matthew Modine, and Mullen’s own idealistic daughter, Rep. Alexandra Mullen, played by Lizzy Caplan.

But in the end, that’s exactly what he did. He told the country the truth and faced the consequences. Mullen’s daughter turns herself in, and his wife leaves him; the...

[This story contains major spoilers from the Zero Day finale.]

Former Vice President Kamala Harris came close to becoming President of the United States but fell short. Angela Bassett doesn’t in Netflix’s new series Zero Day, where she plays President Evelyn Mitchell. The drama series currently streaming is a political conspiracy thriller starring Robert De Niro as former President George Mullen who is tapped by President Mitchell to lead a Zero Day Commission to uncover the forces behind a cyberattack that downed dozens of systems for a full minute, resulting in the deaths of 3,000 people and causing other harm.

Bassett’s President Mitchell stands by Mullen even as public opinion, stoked on by a Joe Rogan-type figure in Evan Green (Dan Stevens), wavers around his actions and mental acuity. But she does walk a tightrope to do it. What Mullen uncovers is a homegrown attack involving Big Tech billionaire and CEO Monica Kidder (Gaby Hoffman...

Jon Stewart is no stranger to displays of political passion, but tonight’s episode of The Daily Show marked a new level of enthusiasm: The comedian smashed a porcelain prop cup with the words “World’s Most Dad” printed on them to the protestation (and bleeding) of his fingers.

“I’ll be going to the hospital soon,” he said, laughing and hiding his hand under the desk. The fervent gesture was made as Stewart blasted Elon Musk’s temporary contracted organization, the Department of Government Efficiency, and its haphazard slashing of the government’s budget via premature firings of federal employees, a significant number of which have since been reinstated to their posts.

“Yeah! F— you, guy who tests water for appropriate levels of fecal matter! What are we talking about?” a baffled Stewart asked. Dubbing Musk the “Nick Cannon of white people” (in reference to both having fathered numerous...

This post contains spoilers from Netflix's Zero Day from this point forward.

One after the other, Netflix has been hitting home runs in the conspiracy thriller genre, whether it's spy series like The Night Agent and The Recruit or political drama The Diplomat. The streamer added to its recently growing list of hit series with the Robert De Niro-led limited series Zero Day, a captivating political thriller that keeps you guessing from start to finish throughout its six episodes.

Zero Day opens amid an unexpected cyberattack on the United States, which lasts for only one minute but does incredible damage and causes multiple fatalities. Because the threat's so ominous, the government launches the Zero Day Commission and requests former and beloved President Mullen (De Niro) to lead the charge in uncovering the truth.

Although the series might be small, it's definitely mighty. Before long, we're questioning Mullen's mental...

The right to truth is universal, and people go to unbelievable lengths to exercise it. At the same time, it should be remembered that the cost of truth is hefty, and more often than not, the world is just not prepared to pay the price. But does that mean people should remain content with lies if that ensures longstanding peace, or is the price of truth worth it at the end of the day? Netflix’s latest political thriller starring Robert De Niro, Zero Day, moves through the labyrinth of red tape conspiracies and corporate power grabs and familial disputes to sum up its final argument, addressing such questions, which feel more relevant than ever in the globalized yet bottled-up environment we are living in. Even though the narrative itself at times feels derivative, especially as the truth of the crisis unravels and given how the final resolution shapes up...

Spoiler Alert: This interview contains spoilers from all six episodes of “Zero Day,” now streaming on Netflix.

Lizzy Caplan always knew that her character, Congresswoman and former First Daughter Alexandra Mullen, was behind the catastrophic cyberattack that incited the existential and moral panic that runs through “Zero Day.” It’s a plot twist that comes in the early minutes of the finale of Netflix’s latest political thriller, which stars Robert De Niro (in his first major TV role) as President Robert Mullen, an aging, populist former leader who comes out of retirement to run a commission tasked with investigating the devastating nationwide outage.

As far as when she found out about her character’s villainy, she says: “I think it was probably before I read the scripts. I may not have been as aware of the magnitude of her role in it. Maybe I thought there were going to...

Note: This story contains spoilers from “Zero Day.”

The finale of Netflix’s “Zero Day” saw former U.S. president George Mullen (Robert De Niro) reveal the identity of the perpetrators behind the limited series’ massive cyberattack.

During a joint session before Congress, Mullen delivers the results of the Zero Day Commission’s investigation, identifying the perpetrators of the conspiracy as Speaker of the House Richard Dreyer (Matthew Modine), billionaires Monica Kidder (Gaby Hoffmann) and Robert Lyndon (Clark Gregg) and at least a dozen lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle, including Mullen’s own daughter Alexandra (Lizzy Caplan). He adds that there are additional conspirators both inside and outside the government that still remain unidentified, and that while the Zero Day Commission is ending its investigation, the work it started must continue.

“We had a pretty clear sense of the ending from the very beginning,” co-creator Noah Oppenheim told TheWrap.

This post contains spoilers from Netflix's Zero Day episode 1 from this point forward.

Watching a political thriller series in the year 2025 is admittedly a little scary, and there are a quite a bit of them currently on the airwaves. (Anyone else completely hooked on Hulu's Paradise and looking forward to season 2?) Well, another one has entered the chat thanks to Netflix's new limited series Zero Day starring Robert De Niro.

The Oscar winner plays former United States President George Mullen, and in the opening seconds of the series, we're thrust right into chaos as Mullen searches his study through notebooks and other items on his desk. He picks up a broken frame with a picture dated in April 1975. Lights are whirring, people are pounding on the door to break in, but he frantically attempts to unlock his safe.

Before we can make sense of what's going on, the...

The recent political thriller Zero Day, starring Robert De Niro, portrays a shattering cyber attack executed right under the noses of Americans, and its scenario is so scarily plausible that it blurs the thin line between fiction and reality.

More connected than ever, the modern world is also more at risk from cyberattacks than ever before. Cyberattacks have evolved from basic database breaches to more sophisticated hazards that can even risk national security and affect millions of lives.

Robert De Niro in Zero Day | Credit: Netflix

Such a premise constitutes the backstory of Zero Day, with De Niro playing the role of a former president investigating an unfortunate cyber event. However, with such a credible story, many viewers are left with a question- could such an event actually occur?

Inside the world of Zero Day Robert De Niro, Connie Britton, Jesse Plemons, Mozhan Navabi, and McKinley Belcher III in Zero Day...

Plot: Respected former U.S. President George Mullen, who, as head of the Zero Day Commission, is charged with finding the perpetrators of a devastating cyber attack that has caused chaos, and thousands of fatalities, across the country. As disinformation runs rampant and the personal ambition of power brokers in technology, Wall Street, and government collide, Mullen’s unwavering search for the truth forces him to confront his own dark secrets while risking all he holds dear.

Review: Throughout his sixty-year career, Robert De Niro has made dramas, comedies, documentaries, period films, and virtually every genre you can think of. He has played heroes, soldiers, politicians, villains, and everything in between, but Zero Day represents two substantial firsts for the iconic actor. For the first time, Robert De Niro is starring in a television series, and for the first time, he is portraying the President of the United States. Accompanied...

Did you know Robert De Niro doesn’t like Donald Trump? If you’ve somehow missed it, don’t worry: He’ll be sure to tell you — perhaps even to your face. Just head to any event he’s attending, look for a microphone, and wait for the two-time Oscar winner to put that “jerk,” “idiot,” and “clown” on blast. Knowing De Niro’s vehement antipathy for Trump, it makes sense to see him in “Zero Day,” a starry Netflix limited series about what extreme measures may be necessary to get the United States back on track — and where to draw the line. What makes less sense are the answers provided, both for how we might heal our fractured union and, worse still, for how the conspiracy-thriller wraps up its plentiful plots.

De Niro plays George Mullen, a former president now living a peaceful life in upstate New York outside the public eye.

Zero Day’s ending was all about unmasking the people who were behind the titular cyberattack that claimed over 3400 lives. After the incident, President Evelyn Mitchell appointed ex-President George Mullen as the head of the Zero Day Commission so that he could work with Roger Carlson, Valerie Whitesell, Carl Otieno, Melissa Kornblau, Tim Pennigton, Angela Kim, and other officials from various intelligence agencies and hunt down the perpetrators by any means necessary. Speaker of the House, Richard Dreyer, and Congresswoman Alexandra Mullen (George’s daughter) headed the Oversight Committee to ensure that George and his crew didn’t take things too far in the name of ensuring that justice was served. [Spoiler Alert] After bypassing a lot of red herrings, it eventually became clear that Dreyer, Alexandra, tech genius Monica Kidder, hedge fund manager Robert Lyndon, and several members of the U.S. Congress were behind the attack. Why? What did they want to achieve?...

Minor spoilers ahead for Netflix'sZero Day. Please proceed with caution.

Netflix's latest political thriller, Zero Day, isn't exactly a comforting binge-watch in 2025. With a finger on the pulse of contemporary America, the series, created by Noah Oppenheim (producer for NBC's Today Show), Eric Newman, and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Michael S. Schmidt, aims to coax, rather than to quell, latent fears that will be familiar to anyone who watches the news. The show is a fiction, but its narrative is spun from the strands of real-world social and political unease; the government can't be trusted, the people want answers, and even the alleged speakers of truth to power are out to make a quick buck. On its surface,Zero Day'sthemes are the evergreen stuff of political thrillers everywhere, but its execution is specifically tailored to a modern, media-addled American mindset.

The story follows George Mullen...