The U.S. Congress confirmed Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election in the small hours of Thursday morning, after pro-Trump rioters were expelled from the Capitol following hours of chaos and violence on Wednesday night. The electoral college vote total passed the winning total of 270 around 3.30 a.m., confirming Biden as
After an extraordinary day of violence and political discord in the nation’s capital, at least two governors and a growing list of civic leaders are calling for Donald Trump’s immediate removal from office even though the President only has two weeks left to serve after he failed to win reelection. Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Democrat of
A number of prominent musicians spoke up on social media about the rioting by supporters of Donald J. Trump on Capitol Hill Wednesday, most either condemning the president for being responsible for the violence or comparing the tame law enforcement response to what went down during last year’s Black Lives Matter protests. Some were not
Bill Nye the Science Guy has been a recreational dancer for years, a hobby he took to “Dancing with the Stars” in 2013. On Wednesday, he was back hoofin’ it on TV — this time, on Fox’s “The Masked Dancer,” where he was revealed as the celebrity under the Ice Cube costume. “If I have
As corrosive and unsettling as the images of lawlessness from the U.S. Capitol have been today, there’s a twist of fate at their core so brutally ironic it can make your head spin. When the MAGA protesters, turning off their incendiary right-wing TV and Internet channels and getting off their couches, set out for Washington
UPDATED: Twitter on Wednesday said President Trump’s account would remain locked for 12 hours, following the removal of three tweets that represented “repeated and severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy.” Facebook subsequently said it was freezing Trump’s page on the social network for 24 hours. “We’ve assessed two policy violations against President Trump’s Page
In today’s TV news roundup, Hulu set a premiere date for “Solar Opposites” Season 2, and Animal Planet announced “Puppy Bowl XVII.” DATES Hulu’s adult animated comedy series “Solar Opposites” will return for a second season on March 26. The series follows four aliens, Korvo (Justin Roiland), Yumyulack (Sean Giambrone), Terry (Thomas Middleditch) and Jesse
In an address to the American people, President-elect Joe Biden urged the incumbent President, Donald Trump, to get on television to quell the ongoing insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. It was either a sign of Biden’s congenital optimism or of his being locked into by-now-toppled manners of doing business in Washington: Getting on TV, even
UPDATED: Facebook, in an unusual action, removed President Trump’s video post to D.C. rioters telling them to “go home” — while he also fanned the conspiracy flames that the U.S. election was fraudulent. A Facebook executive said the company deleted Trump’s video over the risk that it would increase the risk of violence. YouTube also
After President Donald Trump took to social media to address a violent mob of supporters who overtook the Capitol on Wednesday — telling them “go home, we love you, you’re very special” — Hollywood power players immediately responded to his statements. Bette Midler, for one, called Trump a “lying sack of shit.” “Trump puts out
Police cleared the Capitol on Wednesday after rioters stormed the building, smashing windows and breaching barricades in protest of the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. The House sergeant at arms reported that the building had been cleared shortly before 6 p.m., when a curfew was set to take effect across the nation’s capital. Speaker Nancy
Catherine Zeta-Jones will star as Claremont’s newest psychiatric resident doctor, Dr. Vivian Capshaw, on the forthcoming second season of Fox’s police procedural “Prodigal Son.” The Academy Award, Tony Award and three-time Screen Actors Guild Award winner will appear regularly in the latter half of the series opposite fellow Welsh native Michael Sheen. When the show’s
UPDATED: Broadcast late-night shows will continue as planned amid ongoing rioting in Washington D.C. Individuals with knowledge of the situation have told Variety that “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” and “The Late Late Show with James Corden” will air original
Stephanie O’Keefe was elected the first woman president in the 123-year history of American Federation of Musicians Local 47, which represents 6,000 musicians in the Los Angeles area. O’Keefe, a professional French horn player, has performed and recorded with such artists as Lady Gaga, Frank Sinatra, Dolly Parton, Diana Krall, Barry Manilow, Herbie Hancock and
Hollywood and much of the rest of the U.S. watched in disgust and shock as supporters of President Donald Trump breached the Capitol building in protest over Congress meeting to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. The members of the pro-Trump mob, some wearing full riot gear, broke into offices in the Capitol
After U.S. financial markets hit record highs earlier Wednesday, stocks pared their gains in the afternoon after violence instigated by pro-Trump rioters erupted in Washington, D.C. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day up 1.4%, up 437.80 points to a record 30,829.40. That was off its intraday highs, when the index reached as high
President Donald Trump released a chilling, pre-taped video telling his mob of supporters overtaking the U.S. Capitol, “Go home. We love you, you’re very special.” “I know your pain, I know you’re hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side.
Insurgents stormed the U.S. Capitol building on January 6th in an effort to disrupt the effort to certify the results of the national election, and disrupt President-elect Joe Biden’s presidential confirmation. This was shortly after the Pro-Trump “Save America March” rally held at the National Mall in Washington D.C. The mob fought against the Capitol
Showrunner and executive producer Peter Moffat made a concerted effort to diversify his writers’ room when crafting the Showtime legal drama “Your Honor.” “I made a really, really, really clear decision early on, which was to find writers who could tell me things I don’t know, who came from backgrounds and histories that I have
UPDATE: Minutes after President-Elect Biden spoke, President Trump issued a recorded video telling the pro-Trump extremists that had breached the U.S. Capitol, “Go home. We love you, you’re very special.” The woman who was shot has since been pronounced dead, according to the New York Times, citing D.C. police officials. Calling on President Trump to
Chaos erupted at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as a pro-Trump mob stormed the seat of the country’s legislative branch in a violent scene that was reminiscent of an attempted coup or an insurrection. Lawmakers were evacuated as the rioters breached barricades, interrupting the certification of the results of the recent presidential election. Thousands of
The scenes presented on Wednesday’s TV schedule looked like something out of a Hollywood movie: insurrectionists and insurgents surrounding the U.S. Capitol building in an effort to countermand the certification of a presidential election. But the pictures weren’t showing up on networks like HBO or FX, which regularly present movies and high drama. The shocking
Paramount Pictures is getting in on the business of Monty Python. The studio has acquired “Spamalot,” the upcoming movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. The film was previously set up at Fox, but the project was sidelined when Disney acquired Rupert Murdoch’s film empire in 2019. “Spamalot,” which has been a mainstay in the
The U.S. Capitol was breached by supporters of President Donald Trump Wednesday morning as Congress met to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, which was heavily contested by Trump with false claims of voter fraud. Cable news channels turned to live coverage as protesters breached the Capitol building and congresspeople, including Vice President
Awards season has begun in earnest now that it’s January and several critics groups have weighed in, giving love to contenders such as “Nomadland,” “Mank” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” But work in other films is also deserving, and some of the most striking aspects of the contenders are in cinematography, production design,
Ricky Strauss, who led Disney Plus’ content curation and marketing efforts, is departing the Walt Disney Company at the end of the month after nine years with the company. Joe Earley will add content curation of streaming service Disney Plus to his responsibilities, per an internal memo from Disney’s chairman of international operations and direct-to-consumer
If you ever loved, liked or even hated “Rent,” there’s a fair chance that you’ve never been able to hear a set of numerals large enough to include a comma without having that musical’s signature song, “Seasons of Love,” come into your mind with its familiar chorus: “Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes…
The needlessly controversial Senate Electoral College Certification is not one of the first placed we’d expect to hear a Foo Fighters reference, but Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar more than rose to the occasion. Directly following Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s plainly misleading call for an examination of election results in several states, Klobuchar not only rebutted
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The drama “If Not Now, When?” owes more to “Waiting to Exhale” than to the women-centric films of Tyler Perry. That’s a good thing, as well as intentional on the part of its first-time feature directors, actors Meagan Good and Tamara Bass. In Perry’s lessons in female fortitude and resilience — a successful brand of