Politics

With midterms less than 24 hours away, celebrities are ramping up their online, and real life, campaigning. Big names such as Oprah Winfrey, Kristen Bell, Tiffany Haddish, and even Barbra Streisand have lent their voices across the nation to support the candidates of their choosing. Here’s a list of who from Hollywood is using their

French Montana appears across four covers for the November issue of GQ Middle East. The covers, shot in United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, and the rapper’s native Morocco, celebrate his heritage, multiculturalism and immigrants. The covers aimed to promote peace in the Middle East, as well as Montana’s work supporting Dreamers as the face of the

“This is family,” Beck said from the stage at Los Angeles’ Palace Theater on Thursday night (Nov. 1), explaining his surprise appearance with The Bird and the Bee and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl. The occasion: an equal part concert and rally staged by Swing Left. The all-star lineup also included Karen O and Nick Zinner

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court declined to take up a challenge to a set of robust net neutrality rules put in place by the FCC in 2015, but this is by no means the end of the legal thicket over rules of the road for the internet. A federal appeals court had upheld the rules,

November 4, 2018 6:47PM PT Rosario Dawson and Julianne Moore have partnered with We Stand United to urge voters to elect Democrats to combat the Trump administration’s immigration policies. In the video, Dawson states that the Trump administration violated international law by detaining migrants at the border who were legally seeking asylum. Moore adds that the

President Trump responded to Oprah Winfrey’s appearances last week by claiming that he was friends with her — until he ran for office. “Once I ran for office she diverged,” Trump said as he was campaigning in Macon, Ga., on Sunday with Brian Kemp, who is running for Georgia governor. Winfrey headlined two rallies last

November 4, 2018 11:33AM PT Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity will campaign with President Trump for his final midterm on a Monday night in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Both are stalwart backers of Trump, and his campaign called them “longtime friends” and “conservative media legends.” Also appearing at the rally will be entertainer Lee Greenwood. Limbaugh

WASHINGTON — Axios debuts a four-week HBO series on Sunday, starting with an interview with President Trump in which he confirmed that he was considering an immigration executive order to end birthright citizenship and defended his attacks on the media. On the latest “PopPolitics” on SiriusXM, Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei said that during the interview

Facebook and Twitter were hauled before Congress to explain how their platforms were weaponized in the 2016 U.S. election by Russia-linked trolls to try to sway the results. Since then, they’ve pledged to clean up their platforms. Leading up to the pivotal Nov. 6 midterm elections in the U.S., Facebook and Twitter have publicized their efforts

The final week before the midterms has seen a wave of celebrity-driven get-out-the vote videos: Constance Wu and Jimmy O. Yang from “Crazy Rich Asians” debuted a spot earlier this week; John Leguizamo starred in a Spanish-language ad unveiled on Thursday; and Rosario Dawson and Julianne Moore will headline an immigration-themed PSA to hit on Saturday.

November 2, 2018 1:52PM PT Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio are the latest celebrities to call for people to vote in Tuesday’s midterm elections, with DiCaprio saying, “this election may be the most consequential of our lifetime.” The spot debuted on Friday on NowThis, which has specialized in social media videos aimed at millennial audiences.

November 2, 2018 11:59AM PT WASHINGTON — HBO slammed President Donald Trump for tweeting an image that played on a “Game of Thrones” catchphrase. “We were not aware of this messaging and would prefer our trademark not be misappropriated for political purposes,” HBO said in a statement. “How do you say trademark misuse in Dothraki?”

November 2, 2018 11:24AM PT After nearly seven years at Google, Susan Molinari is stepping aside as the internet giant’s VP of public policy for the Americas and head of its Washington, D.C., office. She will remain with Google in an advisory role. The move comes after Google this summer named Karan Bhatia, formerly GE’s

November 2, 2018 9:35AM PT A political event hosted by “Broad City” star Ilana Glazer was canceled Thursday night after a Brooklyn synagogue was hit with anti-Semitic graffiti. Glazer had planned to host a forum at Union Temple in the Prospect Heights area of Brooklyn in which she was to interview candidates in two tough

With just a few days left until midterm elections, Jane Fonda is making a final push to get out the vote. “It has never been more important. Our democracy is fragile and it’s under attack. Civility is under attack,” the Oscar winner told Variety on Thursday at the Women’s Media Center Awards in New York

In money, time, and attention, Hollywood figures treat this midterm election like no other recent non-presidential year. Showbiz already has showered more money on federal candidates and committees than any previous midterm, so far giving more than $42 million to federal candidates and committees, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. On Thursday, Oprah Winfrey campaigned for

Billy Eichner has never had a problem being vocal. The animated funnyman is best known for his man-on-the-street game show “Billy on the Street,” where he ambushes unsuspecting pedestrians in New York to ask hard-hitting questions like: “For a dollar, would you have sex with Paul Rudd?” Since Donald Trump has taken office, Eichner has

Oprah Winfrey returned to the campaign trail on Thursday for Stacey Abrams, a Democrat who is running for governor of Georgia, and touched on one of the major issues of the campaign: voting rights. “I’m here today because of the men and because of the women who were lynched, who were humiliated, who were discriminated

November 1, 2018 9:25AM PT Mary Anne Carter has been nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, which has survived administration proposals to zero out its funding. Carter has been serving as acting chair since June, when Jane Chu’s term expired. Chu was appointed by former

November 1, 2018 9:24AM PT Claire Underwood is a ruthless, manipulative and sometimes murderous politician. And for the final season of “House of Cards,” she is the president of the United States. When the Netflix series premiered in 2013, the storylines seemed purely fictional. But as the country’s real-life political landscape become more divisive and

President Donald Trump tweeted a pro-GOP ad early Wednesday afternoon that’s being compared to George H.W. Bush’s racist “Willie Horton” ad from the 1988 election. “It is outrageous what the Democrats are doing to our Country. Vote Republican now!” Trump tweeted alongside the video. Beginning with the legend “illegal immigrant, Luis Bracamontes, killed our people!”

WASHINGTON — Mike Bloomberg’s political action committee debuted a Jodie Foster-directed digital spot on Tuesday that features a host of celebrities who cite health care, the environment and equal pay and other issues in urging women to vote. The ad, called “Vote. Because It Matters,” doesn’t stray too much in format from what we’ve seen

Jason Whitlock had some strong advice for attendees of the Donald Trump-supported Young Black Leadership Summit in Washington. “You want to be leaders and you’re black and I’m here to tell you how to do it,” the Fox Sports host told audience members according to The Washington Post. “Disconnect from this social media garbage; disconnect

The entertainment industry’s battleground state in the pivotal Nov. 6 midterm elections just might be Georgia. Celebrities and liberal-leaning industry figures have campaigned hard for big-name candidates like Beto O’Rourke in Texas and countless other Democratic politicians across the nation. But, one key race that could impact studios’ pocketbooks will be who moves into the

Oprah Winfrey plans to return to the trail this weekend to canvass and campaign for Stacey Abrams, who is in a tight race for governor of Georgia. Two events planned for Winfrey and Abrams in Marietta and Decatur quickly reached capacity. “On Thursday, trailblazing talk show host and global media pioneer Oprah Winfrey will join Stacey Abrams

Robert Mueller’s ongoing Russia investigation took a surprising twist on Tuesday as his spokesman, in a rare statement, said the Special Counsel’s office has referred to the FBI allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about him. At the center of this story, at least for now, is a lobbyist named Jack

Conservative Kanye, we hardly knew ye. Kanye West is distancing himself from politics, or so he tweeted on Tuesday afternoon. “My eyes are now wide open and (I) now realize I’ve been used to spread messages I don’t believe in,” he wrote. “I am distancing myself from politics and completely focusing on being creative!!!” Whether

October 30, 2018 2:44PM PT [embedded content] The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee launched its first multistate Spanish-language ad campaign aimed at turning out Latino voters, directed by the team of Chris Riess and Amy Hill. The DCCC said it was making a $500,000 ad buy through Election Day on Telemundo and Univision. The spot will be

October 29, 2018 9:02PM PT Pharrell Williams isn’t too happy with President Trump using Williams’ “Despicable Me 2” song at Trump’s rally on the same day 11 people were killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. The Los Angeles Times reported that Williams’ attorney sent a cease-and-desist letter to the president after Trump played “Happy” at

President Trump sent out a couple of tweets Monday pushing back on the idea that he’s called the media the “enemy of the people.” It’s the “fake news” media, he specified. “A very big difference.” “Check out tweets from last two days. I refer to Fake News Media when mentioning Enemy of the People –