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Updated: California Gov. Gavin Newsom, one of the spin room surrogates for Kamala Harris, told reporters that the debate will be an opportunity to “take the best of the Biden record, but also make the case that she’s not Joe Biden, and she sure as hell ain’t Donald Trump.”

“She is a new generation, a leader, and that’s her opportunity,” he said.

Newsom was a surrogate for Biden as well, and appeared at the spin room in June, a disastrous night for the president.

Newsom also said that Harris has to communicate “a vision where people feel heard and included.”

People have to “feel that she’s talking about them, and Donald Trump, in contrast, we know will be talking about himself.”

The governor said that he was not nervous about the debate, but said that if Trump “feels he’s losing, this will be very interesting,...

After members of Donald Trump’s campaign were allegedly involved in a physical altercation with staff at Arlington National Cemetery, veterans are stepping forward to condemn the former president’s use of the hallowed burial ground as a campaign backdrop.

On Tuesday, Trump attended an event at the cemetery honoring servicemembers who were killed in the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. NPR reported later that afternoon that during the visit staffers attempted to stop members of Trump’s campaign entourage from taking photographs and videos in Section 60, a section of the cemetery...

More than 26 million viewers tuned in to watch Vice President Kamala Harris accept her party’s historic nomination for President of the United States, at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night.

Night 4 of the DNC was broadcast live from Chicago from approximately 9 pm to 11:30 pm Et, and carried on 15 networks monitored by Nielsen (with “varied” coverage on each).

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Anthony Hopkins’ latest indie film “Eyes in the Trees” has found itself at the center of a FBI complaint.

Producer Daemon Hillin first told Deadline that he is being extorted over 18 minutes of unedited footage from the feature that was allegedly obtained through hacking. The footage includes all of Hopkins’ scenes that were filmed in Los Angeles in 2023; the movie received a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement waiver to remain in production. Hillin said a “Korean Zombie address” has sent him “disturbing and very detailed emails.”

The emails, obtained by IndieWire, demand $200,000 in cryptocurrency. Hillin says he’s not paying.

One email reads, in part: “We will also send clips of your project to potential major buyers in the market . we will email bomb them through filters with your content i.e. Netflix, Amazon, peacock, sony, AMC, Lionsgate, Blumhouse. We have emails to all the strategic people in charge of content acquisitions in those companies.

Democrats weren’t able to cohere around plan regarding the future of President Joe Biden’s campaign after a closed-door meeting of their House caucus on Tuesday, the first such gathering since the president’s disastrous performance on the debate stage against former President Donald Trump.

Representatives leaving the meeting were hesitant to give details about what was said in the no-cell phones, members-only discussion, but the message was still clear: Dems are divided, and there’s no consensus on the path forward.

Democrats are not on the same page,...

Hundreds of protesters have descended on Downtown Los Angeles around L.A. Live on late Saturday afternoon, attempting to block entrances and disrupt proceedings ahead of a big-ticket fundraiser for President Joe Biden at Peacock Theater.

Shortly after 5 p.m. Pt, uniformed officers were seen rushing towards one group of protesters as they attempted to block an entrance by locking arms next to the J.W. Marriott and the restaurant Yard House that was set up for ticketed guests to pass through. Some of the protesters, seen in a post shared on X (formerly Twitter) below, were wearing shirts that read “Cease Fire Now” and “Not in Our Name,” while one woman hoisted a large pink sign that read “Stop Killing Palestinians” amid the current conflict between Israel and Hamas.

The group has grown in size, though it’s unclear how many guests were being stopped from entering as The...

Scarlett Johansson called out OpenAI this week for mimicking her voice for a new chatbot, underscoring the urgency that many artists feel about regulating artificial intelligence.

But in Congress, taking on AI is starting to resemble wrestling an octopus. It’s so sprawling, it’s hard to know how to begin.

The Senate AI Working Group issued a “roadmap” last week. But that left it vague where Congress is going or when it will get there.

Some have warned against stifling innovation. And while some regulation is likely to happen eventually, it appears it will be done piecemeal — one tentacle at a time.

“From the House perspective, part of the challenge is that we’re under Republican control,” Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu of California, co-chair of the House task force on AI, tells Variety. “It’s been very chaotic. We’re just trying to stop stupid stuff.”

Hollywood unions and...

Updated, with complete remarks: President Joe Biden told the crowd at a fundraiser this evening, “You’re the reason that Donald Trump is a former president, or he hates when I say it, a defeated president.”

At the Holmby Hills home of designer Michael Smith and former ambassador James Costos, Biden rallied his donors, many of whom backed him in the last campaign, while turning his focus on his likely 2024 rival. He spent a substantial part of his remarks warning of Trump as a threat to democracy, a contrast that many of the president’s steadfast backers believe will boost support as the 2024 campaign gets in full swing.

“Literally, I believe, the future of democracy is at stake,” Biden said, according to a pool report. “The greatest threat Trump poses is to our democracy, because if we lost that, we lose everything.” Read his complete remarks at the end of the story.

When Chuck Lorre and his Chuck Lorre Family Foundation gifted the Venice Family Clinic a $7 million donation in early 2022 for its modernization update at 604 Rose Ave., the super producer said when renovations were complete, the clinic would continue to be “an oasis of hope for generations to come.”

The results of the makeover were unveiled Aug. 26 during an official ribbon-cutting event attended by Lorre and the Venice Family Clinic team, and because of his support of the clinic — Lorre has donated more than $20 million over a 20-year span — the Rose Avenue flagship has been renamed the Chuck Lorre Rose Avenue Health and Wellness Center.

“I’ve been involved with the Venice Family Clinic for 25 years, and this was the crowning moment. The newly refurbished facility on Rose Avenue will be an oasis for both patients and staff for many years to come. I’m deeply grateful to have played a part in making that happen,...

Republicans hauled FBI Director Christopher Wray in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday as part of their effort to tear down federal law enforcement for investigating Donald Trump. The hearing was a circus, with Republicans pressing Wray about various conspiracy theories and generally doing whatever they could do to portray the FBI as a corrupt extension of the Biden administration.

Democrats spent their time highlighting the absurdity of the idea, considering Wray is a registered Republican appointed by Trump. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) poked several additional holes in...

San Francisco, April 29 (Ians) A group of US lawmakers have proposed a bill to stop artificial intelligence (AI)-driven autonomous systems from single-handedly launching nuclear weapons, as fears arise on the potential threat of AI taking a decision on its own.

Senator Edward Markey (D-ma) and Representatives Ted Lieu (D-ca), Don Beyer (D-va), and Ken Buck (R-Co) have introduced the ‘Block Nuclear Launch by Autonomous AI Act’ in the US, reports The Verge.

The bill would “prohibit the use of Federal funds to launch a nuclear weapon using an autonomous weapons system that is not subject to meaningful human control”.

“In all cases, the US will maintain a human ain the loop’ for all actions critical to informing and executing decisions by the President to initiate and terminate nuclear weapon employment,” read the bill.

The Senators feel that it is the sense of Congress that the use of lethal,...

Following the killing of three children and three staff members at a Tennessee elementary school, President Joe Biden renewed calls for gun control legislation, including a plea to Congress to pass a proposed assault weapons ban.

When questioned by reporters if they would support increasing regulations on firearms in the wake of yet another school shooting, Republican lawmakers are already dumping cold water on the prospect of supporting new legislation.

Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) called discussions of proposed legislation “premature.” When a reporter pointed out that...

It was just a matter of time, wasn’t it?

Already a laughingstock after six failed ballots to elect a Speaker, the chaos on Capitol Hill this week has now attracted some heavyweight satirists and mockery.

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After hours and hours of agog talking heads on cable news Wednesday, Jon Stewart and Julia Louis-Dreyfus both took to social media to rip warring Republicans and the seemingly increasing embarrassing and never-ending bid by GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy (R-ca) to seize the gavel of the House of Representatives.

In the now adjourned Day 2 of wall-to-wall and vote-to-vote coverage on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News,...

Update: Joe Biden spoke for about a half an hour to about 100 guests at a fundraiser in Brentwood on Thursday, covering a range of topics including the state of the fractured media.

“There are no editors anymore,” Biden said, per a pool report. “The ability of newspapers to have much impact is de minimis.”

As he did last week at a fundraiser in New York at the home of James Murdoch, Biden also cited Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat to use tactical nuclear weapons. He also called Pakistan one of the most dangerous countries in the world as it had “nuclear weapons without any cohesion.”

He predicted that the work of the January 6th Committee would result “in some real change” as a consequence of their work.

Biden also participated in a photo line earlier in the evening for those writing higher-dollar checks.

Previously: Joe Biden continued his visit to Los Angeles on Thursday,...

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris jointly endorsed Rep. Karen Bass in her run for Los Angeles mayor today.

“We are endorsing Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor because we are eager to continue to partner with her on innovative strategies to reduce homelessness and increase public safety and prosperity,” Biden and Harris said in a joint statement released by the Bass campaign. “Karen Bass has our friendship, and she has earned our respect through her leadership in Congress on crime prevention strategies, effective and fair policing, and the welfare of children and families.”

Bass, a Democrat, has been the U.S. representative for California’s 37th congressional district since 2011. The district, covers several areas south and west of downtown Los Angeles. She finished first in the June primary race for mayor and will square off in November against billionaire businessman Rick Caruso, who is also a registered Democrat.

Democrats in Congress are taking aim at the pending $43 billion merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, pushing the Justice Department to scrutinize the transaction on antitrust grounds.

In a letter sent Monday to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Justice Department antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter, the legislators assert that too much consolidation in media will hurt competition in Hollywood’s labor market and result in less diversity overall in content.

“This transaction raises significant antitrust concerns. In particular, the merger threatens to enhance the market power of the combined firm and substantially lessen competition in the media and entertainment industry, harming both consumers and American workers,” the letter states. “In light of these concerns, we respectfully urge the Department to conduct a thorough review of this transaction to ensure that it does not harm American consumers and workers by illegally harming competition.”

The letter was spearheaded by U.S. House member Joaquin Castro of Texas,...

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, outgoing Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Philadelphia 76ers coach Doc Rivers and U.S. Representatives Adam Schiff and Ted Lieu were among the dignitaries that braved the L.A. heat on Wednesday for a good cause — to attend “Field Day,” a kick-off event for a campaign designed to fill the void of mentors and tutors as public school students head back to classrooms this fall.

Known as Ready Set, the initiative is a nationwide tutor, mentor and service recruitment campaigned created by the CAA Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education in ...

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, outgoing Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Philadelphia 76ers coach Doc Rivers and U.S. Representatives Adam Schiff and Ted Lieu were among the dignitaries that braved the L.A. heat on Wednesday for a good cause — to attend “Field Day,” a kick-off event for a campaign designed to fill the void of mentors and tutors as public school students head back to classrooms this fall.

Known as Ready Set, the initiative is a nationwide tutor, mentor and service recruitment campaigned created by the CAA Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education in ...

Law professor Alan Dershowitz was dragged online after saying Wednesday that former president Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Google, Facebook and Twitter is an “important First Amendment case.”

“This is the most important First Amendment case of the 21st Century,” the lawyer declared on Fox News’ “Hannity.”

He went on, “It’s important because it pits freedom of speech on the one hand against the First Amendment on the other hand. That may sound paradoxical, but remember, it’s the high-tech giants that are banning freedom of speech. They are censoring but they’re claiming the right to do so under the First Amendment so they’re using the First Amendment as a sword against freedom of speech. That’s why I call this ‘the new censorship.'”

Trump sued the companies and their respective CEOs on Wednesday after being banned from Facebook and Twitter. He has not been able...

Cross Section Of Media & Entertainment Industry Leaders To Participate In Immortal Studios Virtual Summit — Amplifying Aapi Representation In Entertainment & Media

Senator Mazie Hirono, Congressman Ted Lieu, Jon M. Chu,Christina Kim, Kelly Hu Among Those On Board for May 26 Series of Panels and Fireside Chats

Los Angeles, May 20, 2021 — Timed for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Immortal Studios together with media partners Los Angeles Times and NextShark and industry partner Cape (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) today announced Amplifying Aapi Representation in Entertainment & Media (Aarem), a summit series to elevate the dialog around Aapi representation in film, television and pop culture. An extension of the recent focus on ending Anti-Asian violence, the Summit is scheduled for May 26.

Slated to speak are a curated mix of Asian and Pacific American leaders, including Senator Mazie Hirono, Congressman Ted Lieu, Rotten Tomatoes Co-Founder Patrick Lee, Echelon Talent Management CEO Andrew Ooi, Marginal Mediaworks Founder/CEO Sanjay Sharma,...

Update, 8 Pm Pt: Caitlyn Jenner’s choice of Sean Hannity to make her national debut as a gubernatorial candidate was a bit incongruous to the state itself.

After all, California is bluer than it was than in 2003, the year of the last recall, when that year’s best known celebrity candidate, Arnold Schwarzenegger, announced on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — great for publicity, benign in its partisanship. But in doing Hannity, Jenner signaled that she wanted to reach his rightward, pro-Donald Trump audience, perhaps to shore up support against Republican rivals. Yet she also risks playing right into Gov. Gavin Newsom’s strategy, which has been to brand the recall as a product of the pro-Donald Trump far right. Earlier in the day, Jenner had unveiled a list of middle-of-the-road policy solutions on her website, including taxes, regulation and Covid-19 closures, steering clear of some of the cultural...

Updated with latest: San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced charges on Monday against a man accused of murdering a child in his care. The case gained national attention over the weekend when the San Francisco Chronicle posted a story on the case and California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner blamed current Governor Gavin Newsom. Jenner Tweeted: “Gavin’s District Attorneys across California are releasing dangerous criminals back on to our streets.” More on that in our previous post below.

Monday afternoon, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin issued the following statement on the case:

A recent opinion column in the San Francisco Chronicle has caused confusion about the District Attorney’s Office’s policy in charging domestic violence. To be clear, the Office charges cases even when a complaining witness does not cooperate, so long as the case can be proven otherwise.

“The death of Baby S is a tragedy.

Last August, in the midst of a presidential battle that would determine the future of America, an upstart liberal group called MeidasTouch sent its supporters an urgent call to action. “Tonight is a huge night,” MeidasTouch declared on Twitter. “We are giving half of our contributions directly and immediately to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. We are proud to have already chipped in 25K to their campaign. Rt and chip in here.”

For MeidasTouch, the pro-Biden blitz was part of a rapidly expanding political action committee that turned viral tweets and posts into campaign contributions.

On Thursday, CAA kicked off the month of April with the CAA Amplify Town Hall to address the surge of violence against Asians and Asian Americans. These acts of violence and harassment have been at the forefront in the past week with the Atlanta shootings and the most most recent attack in New York City, where a man brutally beat 65-year-old Vilma Kari while saying racist remarks. The graphic attack can be seen in video footage — but what’s even worse is that the footage shows people witnessing the attack and not doing anything to help her.

The CAA Amplify Town Hall presented an opportunity for the Asian community in Hollywood and allies to speak about their experiences; to voice their concerns, and to offer some semblance of hope that could help bolster action. More importantly, it offered a platform for a community that has been silent for years to speak out.

CAA has assembled a packed lineup of Asian American influencers and leaders to discuss the wave of anti-Asian violence and hate that continues to sweep the country.

The 90-minute CAA Amplify Town Hall will take place online April 1 at 10 a.m. Pt and is free to the public who register on the Amplify website.

Planning for the town hall actually began earlier this year, as graphic videos of attacks on Asian American elders began circulating throughout the community. According to Csu San Bernardino’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, anti-Asian hate crimes reported to police increased ...

Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House’s coronavirus task force under Trump, says the former president’s response to the virus caused hundreds of thousands to die.

In a new CNN documentary set to air on Sunday night, Birx said the initial wave of deaths caused by covid-19 in the US were mostly unpreventable, but the majority of deaths following the first 100,000 “could have been mitigated or decreased substantially.”

“I look at it this way: The first time, we have an excuse. There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge,...

During a House Judiciary Committee meeting on the rise of violence and discrimination against Asian Americans during the pandemic, Democratic Rep. Grace Meng strongly denounced Texas’ Republican Rep. Chip Roy’s earlier remarks where he spoke glowingly of his state’s history of “lynchings” and whined about political correctness getting in the way of using racist language.

In the wake of the horrific Atlanta shootings where a gunman killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, Roy decided to use his opening statement to explain how he takes “justice...

Eight people — including six women of Asian descent — were killed in a string of shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlors that appeared to target the Asian-American community.

The first shooting took place at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Young’s Asian Massage in the Atlanta suburb of Acworth; four people were killed — two Asian women as well as a white man and woman — and one Hispanic male was injured.

Roughly 45 minutes later, police were called to the Gold Spa in Atlanta — 30 miles from the previous shooting — where they discovered three more women shot and killed.

Republican Senator Ron Johnson, a staunch Trump sycophant, let his racist flag fly high when he said that he was unafraid of the insurrectionists on January 6 because they were not members of Black Lives Matter or antifa.

Johnson made the remarks during a Thursday interview on conservative radio host Joe Pag’s show where he addressed previous untrue assertions about the attack on the Capital not being an armed insurrection.

“Even though those thousands of people that were marching to the Capitol were trying to pressure people like me to...

It was Valentine’s Day of 2018 in Washington, D.C., and Mary Wilson was on a mission. Then 74 years old, the Supremes singer, outfitted in a glamorous red dress and very high heels, needed to convince the nation’s representatives and senators to vote yes on the Classics Act, a proposed piece of legislation to support legacy artists. She wouldn’t take no for an answer.

“We walked the back halls of the Rayburn Building, we stopped members of Congress,” Mitch Glazier, chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America,...

Expect more mocking news coverage as animated series Tooning Out The News has been renewed for a second season.

The sophomore run of the Stephen Colbert-exec produced series, which premiered on CBS All Access in April, will air on ViacomCBS’ new streamer Paramount+. A half-hour special Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out The News will launch on Thursday March 4 – the launch day for the new service.

The show, which is also exec produced by The Late Show showrunner Chris Licht and Rj Fried and Tim Luecke, who co-created Showtime’s Our Cartoon President, will then continue Monday March 8 with new segments daily and a weekly full episode.

Produced by CBS Television Studios, it features a cast of animated characters, led by anchor James Smartwood, mocking news of the day, and interviewing real world guests and newsmakers.

The first season featured interviews with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Chasten Buttigieg, Rep. Jamaal Bowman,...

“Tooning Out the News” has been renewed for Season 2 at Paramount Plus.

As part of the renewal, the show is being rebranded as “Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News.” The second season will debut on March 4 with a half-hour special to coincide with the rebrand of CBS All Access to Paramount Plus. The second season will then continue on March 8 with new segments available to stream daily, culminating in a weekly full episode, exclusively on the streamer.

“We are so excited for season two of ‘Tooning Out the News,’ which will feature even more incisive questions, unrelenting egomania, Freudian projection, shameless brand integration, tasteful nudity, unapologetic slander, and flat out lying,” said Colbert.

The show features a cast of animated characters, led by anchor James Smartwood, lampooning top news stories and interviewing real-world guests. The series is executive produced by Colbert and Chris Licht of CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert...

We’ve gone for just over two weeks now without hearing much of anything from Donald Trump: Banned from Twitter, absent from Fox & Friends call ins, the former president has been unusually low key at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

That will change on Tuesday, when he will once again be at the center of the media spotlight, even if he’s not a presence live and in person.

For only the fourth time in American history, the Senate will start an impeachment trial of a president — and it will be a first for a former commander in chief.

Broadcast networks are planning special reports, while cable and streaming services networks will provide complete feeds of the proceedings.

It was just over a year ago that Trump was acquitted in the Senate for his first impeachment, and there is every expectation that will be the same verdict again.

The...

AMC’s wild week continued on Thursday morning, with the nation’s largest cinema chain dropping 61% an hour into trading. The drop comes after AMC’s share price rocketed higher a day earlier, moving from about $5 per share to nearly $20, and also after Robinhood and Td Ameritrade, the popular trading platforms, restricted users’ ability to trade the company and GameStop, another company that’s seen its share price zoom higher in the last week, on Thursday.

The Thursday morning decline for AMC pushed shares from $19.90 at the end of Wednesday trading to $7.74 per share soon after the market opened on Thursday. AMC’s rebound was likely curbed by Robinood’s and Td Ameritrade’s decisions on Thursday to block users from buying new shares of AMC, GameStop and other companies that have been pushed higher thanks in large part to the Wall Street Bets forum on Reddit, which has been...

2nd Update, 8:51 Am Pt: House Democrats introduced an article of impeachment against Donald Trump, charging him with inciting last week’s riot and siege on the U.S. Capitol.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-ca), Rep. David Cicilline (D-ri) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-md) introduced the impeachment resolution, and a vote could come as early as Wednesday. Cicilline said that they now have enough votes to pass the resolution.

The Article of Impeachment: Incitement to Insurrection, drafted by Rep @davidcicilline, @RepRaskin, me & @HouseJudiciary staff, has now been formally introduced at the House pro forma session today. https://t.co/Y6ntbSXF9G pic.twitter.com/MfB4CpqC6C

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 11, 2021

On Tuesday, the House will vote on a resolution calling on Mike Pence and the cabinet to remove Donald Trump from office via the 25th Amendment.

If Trump is impeached, it will be for the second time. The House impeached him in December,...

House Democrats plan to introduce an article of impeachment against President Trump as soon as Monday to begin the process of attempting to remove him from office following his supporters’ violence at the Capitol.

“It is the hope of Members that the President will immediately resign,” Pelosi said in a statement. “But if he does not, I have instructed the Rules Committee to be prepared to move forward with Congressman Jamie Raskin’s 25th Amendment legislation and a motion for impeachment. Accordingly, the House will preserve every option — including the 25th Amendment,...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, along with more than 100 Democrats and one Republican, called for President Donald Trump’s removal after a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, leaving four dead and injuring multiple members of the Capitol Police. “This man is deadly. To our democracy and to our people,” Pelosi said of Trump.

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— PoliticsVideo23 (@politicsvideo23) January 7, 2021

“What happened at the U.S. Capitol yesterday was an insurrection against the United States, incited by the president,” Schumer...

Following the unprecedented rioting by supporters of Donald Trump in the U.S. Capitol, a growing number of people, both Democrats and Republicans, are calling for the president to be removed from office.

According to White House correspondent April D. Ryan, the push is happening even at the leadership level, as she reported that “Congressional leaders are in the undisclosed location and focusing on the 25th Amendment to get @realDonaldTrump out of office!”

And Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel reported that Massachusetts Democrat Katherine Clark, assistant Speaker of the House and the fourth-ranking congressional Democrat, called Trump “a traitor to our country and our Constitution” who “must be removed from office and prevented from further endangering our country and our people.”

But they’re far from alone. Among notable examples from the Democratic side of the spectrum, Rep. Ilhan Omar says she is drafting new articles of impeachment. Her colleague in “the Squad,...

Two members of the House, Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Kathleen Rice (D-n.Y.), have requested the FBI open a criminal investigation into the president following his call with Georgia’s secretary of state. In the call, Trump attempted to get Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes” in order to reverse his electoral defeat there.

“As Members of Congress and former prosecutors, we believe Donald Trump engaged in solicitation of, or conspiracy to commit, a number of election crimes,” the representatives wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday.

President-elect Joe Biden, in his first remarks since declared the victor in the 2020 election, pledged to bring unity to the country after a polarizing and brutally fought campaign.

“I am humbled by the trust and confidence you placed in me,” Biden said to a crowd of supporters in Wilmington, De. “I pledge to be a president who does not seek to to divide, but unify, who doesn’t see red states or blue states, who only sees the United States.”

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As he spoke, supporters in a parking lot of the Chase Center cheered and honked their horns from their cars, spaced apart in the name of social distancing.

“It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again,” Biden said.

He addressed supporters of his opponent Donald Trump.

“I understand your disappointment tonight,...

Hollywood stars, political figures and more are celebrating the varying meanings and origins of their names after a video of GOP Sen. David Perdue mocking vice president candidate Kamala Harris’ name went viral.

“Kamala or Kamala-mala-mala-mala, I don’t know. Whatever,” Perdue said during a Trump rally in Georgia.

Hours after Twitter users expressed frustration and disappointment with Perdue’s failure and lack of effort to correctly pronounce Harris’ name, #MyNameIs began trending on the social media platform.

“#MyNameIs Daniel Dae Hyun Kim, or in Korean, 김대현. It means “great and powerful one.” My name is not “Macaca” or “Kung Flu.” And @sendavidperdue, her name is not “Kamala Mala Mala I Don’t Know Whatever.” #Respect. One more reason to vote for @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris,” Daniel Dae Kim tweeted on Saturday.

Will & Grace star Debra Messing joined the conversation, celebrating her roots. She said that her name has Polish...

The WGA West’s political action committee has endorsed Joe Biden for president and Kamala Harris for vice president. The guild’s Pac joins entertainment industry unions IATSE, the American Federation of Musicians, and Actors’ Equity in endorsing the Democratic challengers to President Donald Trump and VP Mike Pence.

The WGA West Pac is also supporting the re-election of seven incumbent Democratic U.S. Senators: Cory Booker (NJ), Dick Durbin (Il), Doug Jones (Al), Ed Markey (Ma), Jeanne Shaheen (Nh), Tina Smith (Mn), and Gary Peters (Mi). The Pac is also supporting the election of nine Senate challengers — all Democrats –including Jaime Harrison (Sc), Steve Bullock (Mt), Cal Cunningham (Nc), Mike Espy (Ms), Sara Gideon (Me), Theresa Greenfield (Ia), Mj Hegar (TX), Jon Ossoff (Ga) and Raphael Warnock (Ga).

The Pac says its senatorial endorsements were made “with the goal of flipping the Senate to a pro-writer and pro-union majority.

Michael Schur, creator of The Good Place and Parks and Recreation, is urging his fellow writers to donate to the WGA West’s political action committee to help “flip the Senate and bring in bold leaders who will check the power of the Supreme Court.”

“You undoubtedly already know how far Mitch McConnell and the party of Trump will go to enshrine their far-right agenda,” he said in a message sent out today to the guild’s members. “Now is the time to counter power with power.”

He added: “Your Wgaw Pac is putting its might behind candidates like Theresa Greenfield in Iowa, Steve Bullock in Montana, Cal Cunningham in North Carolina, and Jon Ossoff in Georgia – candidates looking to unseat the same Senators intent on replacing Justice Ginsburg before the November election. These are very close races, where our Wgaw Pac contribution travels far. These candidates, like established allies Cory Booker and Pramila Jayapal,...

Rather than celebrate President Trump’s birthday on Sunday, many Twitter users used the day to honor President Obama with the hashtag “All Birthdays Matter.”

Several phrases began trending on Twitter early on Sunday, including “Obama Day June 14th,” “Obama Appreciation Day,” “Obama Day USA” and “Happy Birthday Obama,” in addition to “All Birthdays Matter.”

Some celebrities and politicians joined the trend, including George Takei, Ken Jeong, Billy Baldwin and others.

“I’d say happy birthday to Donald on his special day, but after all, #AllBirthdaysMatter,” Takei wrote. Later, he added “Oh, how you are missed, Mr. President. What do you miss most about Barack Obama, friends? #ObamaDayJune14,” along with a video of the former president.

I’d say happy birthday to Donald on his special day, but after all, #AllBirthdaysMatter

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) June 14, 2020

The “All Birthdays Matter” hashtag is a reference to the widely criticized phrase “All Lives Matter,...

During the “New Rules” segment of Friday’s episode of “Real Time,” Bill Maher waded into some contentious waters when he argued that it should be perfectly Ok to refer to coronavirus as the “Chinese virus.”

Of course, the Trump administration has been trying since March to popularize the term “Chinese virus,” which critics say is racist and may have inspired racist attacks on Asian-Americans. But in Maher’s view, the term is useful for understanding where the infection originated and not only that, he argued that China bears some responsibility for its spread.

“Scientists, who are generally pretty liberal, have been naming diseases after the places they came from for a very long time,” Maher said in the segment, delivered like the rest of the episode from his house. “Zika is from the Zika Forest. Ebola from the Ebola River. Hantavirus, the Hantan River.There’s the West Nile...

Enrique Salanic has travelled widely in support of the film, but the Us has proved a country too far.

Us authorities have blocked the star of acclaimed Guatemalan Lgbtq drama José from entering the country in the run-up to the film’s release in New York and Los Angeles.

The latest example of president Trump’s aggressive policy on travel restrictions and in particular his stance towards people from south of the border comes as Los Angeles-based distributor Outsider Pictures says it is running out of options to bring Enrique Salanic into the county to promote the film.

The fast-rising,...

Barring any late-breaking impeachment developments, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler will join musicians at a rally for a fair film and TV contract outside NBCUniversal’s headquarters in New York City on Monday. A similar rally will be held the same day at the offices of management’s AMPTP in Sherman Oaks.

The American Federation of Musicians and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which will resume negotiations for a new agreement on Monday, haven’t met at the bargaining table since March.

The main issue is residuals from films and TV shows made for streaming services. Unlike actors, writers and directors, musicians don’t get them, though they do receive residual payments for secondary-market re-uses of theatrical and TV films.

“Musicians working on late-night, award, and other live television shows, as well as the musicians who score for television and films, are fighting to be paid industry-standard...

Prior to his arrest on Wednesday, few outside of the black Lgbtq community had likely heard of Ed Buck, the 65-year-old Democratic political donor and Lgbtq rights advocate who was arrested in West Hollywood and charged with operating a methamphetamine ring. Police arrested Buck after a 37-year-old man overdosed at his home. Prosecutors allege that the man asked Buck to help him get medical help, only for him to refuse and prevent him from leaving his home; the man somehow managed to escape and call 911 from a pay phone at a gas station,...

Start with the obvious. As political theater, the Democrats’ decision to put former Special Counsel Robert Mueller under oath was a catastrophe.

The Democrats believed a televised hearing would give the legalistic Mueller report a PR kick. It was said people weren’t “reading the book,” but they might “watch the movie.”

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said he hoped the Mueller movie “won’t end up being a dud.” House Intelligence chief Adam Schiff added, “We want to bring Robert Mueller to life.”

They didn’t. Robert Mueller was lost from the start,...

Refresh for updates, including Trump tweets Well, that was fast. Former special counsel Robert Mueller got right to the point in countering President Donald Trump’s oft-repeated mantra about “no obstruction.”

Under questioning from House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler, kicking off today’s hearing, Mueller confirmed that his report did not, in fact, exonerate Trump with regard to obstruction of justice. (The collusion aspects of the investigation will be addressed later today).

In the first round of questions this morning, Nadler, the Democratic congressman from New York, said, “Director Mueller, the President has repeatedly claimed that your report found there was no obstruction and that it completely and totally exonerated him. But that is not what your report said, is it?”

Said Mueller, “Correct, that is not what the report said.”

With that, today’s much anticipated hearing got straight to what Democrats hope will be one of the...