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LeBron James Passes Leadership of ‘More Than a Vote’ to WNBA Star Nneka Ogwumike
More Than a Vote is getting new leadership, and a new focus. The non-profit voting rights initiative founded by Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James will turn its attention to women’s rights and reproductive freedom for the 2024 election, with James passing the leadership baton to WNBA Seattle Storm star Nneka Ogwumike. More Than a […]
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus to Host Panel With Democratic Women Governors During DNC (Exclusive)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is teaming up with the Democratic Governors Association during the week of the 2024 Democratic National Convention to highlight the country’s women governors. The Emmy-winning Veep and Seinfeld star, producer and activist will host a daytime panel on Aug. 21, which will be the third day of the upcoming four-day convention in Chicago. […]
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Harris Campaign Fires Back at Tech-Troubled Trump-Musk X Interview: “Self-Obsessed Rich Guys”
Vice President Kamala Harris‘ campaign team is taking aim at Donald Trump and Elon Musk after their live-streamed X interview, claiming the Republican hopeful’s agenda is for “self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class.” On Monday, Musk, who bought Twitter in 2022 and later renamed it X, had a conversation with former […]
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Elon Musk Got EU Disinformation Warning Before Rambling Donald Trump Interview on X
The European Union issued a stark warning to X owner and executive chairman Elon Musk before his live-streamed X interview with former U.S. president Donald Trump – and received an expletive-filled response. On Monday night, Trump and Musk had a conversation marred by technical issues that caused a 40-minute-plus delay and was widely described as rambling. […]
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Seth Meyers Talks Tim Walz Nomination, and Being Early on “Republicans Are Weird” Trend: “I Made a Whole Career Out of It”
Seth Meyers addressed Tim Walz being named as Kamala Harris’ running mate on Monday night, following his show’s hiatus. Late Night with Seth Meyers returned on Monday after a three-week break; The Late Show with Stephen Colbert had been off for two weeks. During his “A Closer Look” segment on Monday, Meyers reviewed a whirlwind […]
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“Never, Never Use That Song Again”: Isaac Hayes III Explains Why He’s Threatening Trump Over Copyright
After a lawsuit was threatened over the weekend against Donald Trump and his presidential campaign, the White House hopeful’s attorneys have continued to ignore the family of late soul icon Isaac Hayes, as they allegedly have for years. Meanwhile, the artist’s son and a lawyer representing the Hayes family have attempted to stop the use […]
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Isaac Hayes’ Family Sues Trump Campaign for Unauthorized Use of “Hold on, I’m Coming”
The family of Isaac Hayes is suing Donald Trump and his campaign for continued unauthorized use of the Sam & Dave hit song “Hold on, I’m Coming,” which was co-written by the late soul icon. On Sunday, Isaac Hayes III, the Grammy and Oscar-winner’s son, posted on social media that the family had filed suit […]
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In Trump vs. Harris, It’s Reality-TV Ringleading vs. the TikTok Ticket
The defining moment of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate to date — the one that birthed all the others — was a ride down an escalator in a tower he developed during a TV appearance he stage-managed to build on an empire of wish fulfillment he created. The defining moment of Kamala Harris as […]
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Shut Up and Entertain: The Long Push to Keep Politics Out of Hollywood
All together now: “If you want to send a message, use Western Union.” So goes the oft quoted maxim of producer Sam Goldwyn, speaking not in malapropism mode but properly enunciating a straightforward commandment for Hollywood filmmakers: keep your personal politics off screen and remember that the public comes to the motion picture theater for […]
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Joe Rogan Says RFK Jr. Support Was Not an Endorsement
After facing backlash from supporters of Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again movement, Joe Rogan is walking back reports that he endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. when he expressed his support for the third-party presidential candidate on his podcast Thursday. The influential podcaster explained on Thursday’s Joe Rogan Experience that he finds both the Democrat […]
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Trump and Harris Agree to Participate in Presidential Debate on ABC News, Network Says
ABC says both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have agreed to a Sept. 10 presidential debate, setting up a face-off between the Republican and Democratic nominees. The announcement Thursday came shortly after Trump told a news conference that he had proposed three presidential debates with three television networks, saying he agreed on certain dates in […]
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How Zoom and Identity Politics Are Propelling the Harris Campaign
As the American political landscape drastically shifted and the Democratic party breathed a sigh of relief when President Joe Biden ended his re-election bid, his successor’s campaign swiftly began to take shape. Many elements seemed familiar from past election cycles — the canvassing and relentless emails or text messages, or both. But a July 29 […]
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Sky Employees Issued Memo to Leave Work Early as U.K. Braces for More Far-Right Riots
Sky employees based at the company’s west London campus have been told to either stay at home or leave work early as far-right riots continue to take place across the U.K. with hundreds arrested for setting fire to buildings, looting stores, and harassing local residents. The unrest began after the stabbing of three young girls […]
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“F*** These Trump-Loving Techies”: Hollywood Takes on Silicon Valley in an Epic Presidential Brawl
If you were to stick a pin in a timeline at the exact moment Silicon Valley declared war on Hollywood, it would likely land on Aug. 29, 1997. That’s the date Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph got together in Scotts Valley, about an hour south of San Francisco, and started a little DVD delivery company […]
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Why Liberal Jews Are Right to Feel Worried About Kamala Harris Bypassing Josh Shapiro (Opinion)
Scrolling through the coverage of the Tim Walz VP announcement Tuesday morning, I received a message from a friend, a prominent Jewish American doctor who identifies as a moderate. “This makes me very sad,” she wrote. The friend had already been teetering on the cliff’s edge about Trump, believing him a better choice on antisemitism […]
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Could ‘Real Housewives’ Elect a President?
There is an almost infinite number of topics people fight about on Bravo shows — stemware choices, mortgage fraud, Kanye’s penis. But one subject that is usually considered off-limits even by the cable network’s bare-it-all stars is politics. That may be changing, at least offscreen. This presidential election, Nelini Stamp, the creator of Real Housewives of […]
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