Politics

Andrew Wilkow one only had the seconds between playing one alt-rock single and the next to tease listeners with his political opinions. Now the former radio DJ has hours to fill with his takes on the issues of the day. Wilkow is one of the longest-serving opinion hosts on SiriusXM, the satellite-radio broadcaster. “We are

April 8, 2019 6:19PM PT WASHINGTON — Taylor Swift has donated $113,000 to the Tennessee Equality Project as it tries to stop state lawmakers from passing a series of bills she and others characterize as a “slate of hate.” The donation was announced by Chris Sanders, who leads the project. “She sees our struggle in

April 8, 2019 5:04PM PT WASHINGTON — Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) joined the ever-expanding ranks of Democratic presidential contenders on Monday as he announced his candidacy in an appearance on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” “I see a country in quicksand, unable to solve problems and threats from abroad, unable to make life better

April 8, 2019 2:23PM PT WASHINGTON — As House Democrats prepare to vote on legislation this week to restore the FCC’s net neutrality rules, the White House is indicating that President Donald Trump would veto the bill if it reached his desk. The bill would restore regulations that prohibit internet service providers from blocking or

WASHINGTON — Greta Van Susteren will launch a syndicated weekly show for Gray Television in September that will focus on the impact of politics and policy on local communities. The show, “Full Court Press with Greta Van Susteren,” will feature Gray Television reporters from the station group’s newsrooms around the country. “Full Court Press” will

April 8, 2019 7:37AM PT WASHINGTON — Groups representing producers, filmmakers and other content creators are warning the Federal Trade Commission over the unintended consequences of adopting sweeping online privacy laws akin to those in the European Union. The FTC is reviewing privacy regulations and has been holding a series of hearings, including one scheduled

“Grace and Frankie” star Lily Tomlin joined comedian Kathy Griffin at Sunday’s block party celebration to help ring in the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s new campus. After breaking ground nearly two years ago, the Anita May Rosenstein campus is said to be the world’s first intergenerational LGBTQ facility, serving both LGBT seniors and youth. The

The Jazz Foundation of America won’t be accused of false advertising, or overpromising and underdelivering, with a hard-to-live-up-to name like “A Great Night in Harlem” — at least not for this 19th annual edition of their benefit at the Apollo Theatre, which had Tony Bennett as a lifetime achievement honoree and performers as wildly disparate and

April 5, 2019 10:08AM PT Michelle Wolf, who hosted the 2018 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, responded to the news that President Trump is skipping out on the event for a third consecutive year. Trump announced Friday at a press conference that he would not be attending the dinner, calling the event “so boring” and “too

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that he would not attend this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, and will instead hold a rally the eventing of April 27. Trump said the event was “too negative” — perhaps a reference to the scathing humor by last year’s featured comic, Michelle Wolf. Trump

WASHINGTON — Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) announced on ABC’s “The View” Thursday that he is running for president in 2020, adding to a growing list of contenders seeking the Democratic nomination. In an interview on the show, Ryan said he was a candidate who could “not only advance a progressive agenda but also win. I

Facebook chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg reiterated his call for governments to step in with new regulations governing internet platforms, saying in an ABC News interview that his company needs laws regulating political speech. “We need new rules,” Zuckerberg said. He was interviewed by ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos at Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters.

WASHINGTON — A top House Democrat and Republican introduced legislation on Wednesday designed to give local news publishers a boost in negotiating with much larger tech platforms like Google and Facebook. The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act would provide a “safe harbor” for digital news outlets and allow them to collectively negotiate terms over their

WASHINGTON — The Netflix vs. Spielberg debate over potential rules changes at the Oscars has until now been one of, “When is a movie a movie, and when is it a TV show?” The Justice Department’s warning to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, first reported in Variety, adds a twist. Is the

WASHINGTON — The second Democratic presidential primary debate will be held on July 30 and July 31 in Detroit, with the exact venue to be announced. CNN will broadcast the event across platforms, including CNN International and CNN en Espanol. The Democratic National Committee announced last week that the first Democratic debate would be held

WASHINGTON — The Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press is seeking an order to release the grand jury material in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, after Attorney General William Barr indicated that information would not be part of the public release of the report. Barr has said that he is bound by

Trump took a lot of hits at this year’s Human Rights Campaign dinner in Los Angeles. The advocacy group’s annual gala, which took place at the downtown JW Marriott on Saturday night, celebrated the triumphs of the LGBTQ community and its stand-out allies.  But much of the night’s talking points centered around the Trump administration’s

When Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) speaks on Saturday evening at the Human Rights Campaign’s Los Angeles dinner, she’ll be sandwiching it into a prolific schedule of fundraising this weekend. She has four of them. Sunday night at midnight is the first deadline of the 2020 presidential race — the end of the first quarter, and

March 28, 2019 6:16PM PT High Times, the 45-year-old magazine for marijuana connoisseurs, held its second annual High Times 100 awards ceremony last night (March 27) in Los Angeles. The event, hosted by Jim Belushi, recognizes the most influential people in the legal cannabis industry. It also introduced a new Humanitarian of the Year Award

WASHINGTON — The first Democratic presidential debate will be held in Miami on June 26 and June 27, in what may be a huge ratings draw for the networks that will telecast the event — NBC News, MSNBC, and Telemundo. The Democratic National Committee already announced a plan to split the debate into two nights

March 28, 2019 8:55AM PT Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has been added to the bill of this Saturday’s Human Rights Campaign dinner in Los Angeles, joining fellow Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.). Harris will be fundraising over the weekend, including an event on Sunday at the home of Michael Kraut and Dan

WASHINGTON — In the river of revelation and speculation that surrounded Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, no other media bombshell quite matched the disclosure of a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between top members of the Trump campaign, a Russian lawyer with ties to the Putin regime. Now that Attorney General William Barr has

March 26, 2019 9:57PM PT A court in Ningbo, Eastern China, on Tuesday sentenced Lu Wei, previously head of China’s Internet regulator, to 14 years in jail. He was found guilty of corruption charges. According to state news agency Xinhua, Lu was former deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China

March 26, 2019 4:01PM PT WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump intends to appoint actor Jon Voight, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and Broadway producer Daryl Roth to the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The list of new appointees also includes American Financial Group co-CEO Carl Lindner III,

March 26, 2019 12:43PM PT WASHINGTON — Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), in the midst of his presidential bid, will speak at the Human Rights Campaign’s Los Angeles dinner on Saturday. Among those being honored at the event will be Christina Aguilera and Yeardley Smith (the voice of Lisa Simpson on “The Simpsons”), while artists Betty

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted the decision by Cook County prosecutors to drop charges Tuesday against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett. Flanked by Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and Kevin Graham, the president of the Chicago police union, the mayor said the decision sends a message that high-profile people will not be held accountable for their

March 26, 2019 10:31AM PT WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission said it is launching an examination of the privacy practices of major internet providers including AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast to study how they use consumer information. Capitol Hill lawmakers have been giving added scrutiny to the tech industry’s use of consumer data for more

Nobody in economics lavished as much loving attention on the field of music as former White House chief economic advisor Alan Krueger, who died March 16 at age 58. For anyone who shares his fascination with the intersection of music and money, he left behind a gift in the form of a final book —

Days after special counsel Robert Mueller submitted his report on Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, two new listings on Amazon have added fire to the debate over whether or not the full report should be made public — and if so, when it will be released. Though Mueller himself has

WASHINGTON — A day after Attorney General William Barr released a memo summarizing the findings of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, the Trump campaign has sent one of their own. The memo was sent to TV producers, and singles out a list of guests the campaign says made “outlandish, false claims” of collusion between the Trump