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This year’s A Capitol Fourth, the annual televised Independence Day concert, will feature a celebration of West Side Story‘s 65th anniversary, headlined by Chita Rivera, and a centennial salute to the Lincoln Memorial. The event, to be broadcast on PBS, will be hosted by Mickey Guyton, with performances by Darren…

UPDATED: The Los Angeles mayoral primary race that saw billionaire Grove developer Rick Caruso in the lead and Rep. Karen Bass trailing on election night has swung the other way as mail-in ballots, which make up the majority of the city’s votes, have crawled in. Caruso’s share of the tally has dropped 5 percentage…

UPDATED: The January 6th Commission hearing on Thursday will detail what panel chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson called then-president Trump’s “attempt to corrupt the country’s top law-enforcement body, the Justice Department, to support his attempt to overturn the election.” Thompson played a clip of testimony from from…

Trevor Noah and his Daily Show team are taking their show on the road. It marks the first time that the Comedy Central late-night series has gone on the move in such a big way since the Covid pandemic began. The show will cover the midterm elections from the battleground state. It will record full shows from…

UPDATED, with comment from committee member and report on footage: Footage captured for an upcoming streaming series on Donald Trump's re-election campaign push has been subpoenaed by the January 6th Committee, according to the filmmaker behind the access doc. The New York Times reported that one clip featured Trump’s…

Parents and reporters were asked to leave Uvalde City Hall this afternoon before a Texas House of Representatives committee held a hearing to gather testimony from officers involved in the response to a school shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers and wounded 17 others there last month. Video posted by CNN…

"You're my hero," Ben Stiller told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy today on a visit to Kyiv. "You gave up a great acting career for this," the Severance filmmaker joked with the former Servant of the People star. "Not so great as you," Zelenskyy responded with perfect comic timing to laughing UNHCR Goodwill…

New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Andrew Giuliani won’t get a shot. But he wants television to give him a shot at convincing voters. Giuliani, the son of former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, claims that New York's local news station, NY1, barred him from their studios for the next gubernatorial…

Hillary Clinton is adamant she’s not running for president again. But that’s not stopping her from worrying about her fellow Democrats and their choice of hills to die on. In an extensive interview with the Financial Times, the former presidential candidate said Democrats should be careful on their platforms. “We are…

Despite continued skepticism from parents and some scientific advisers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday recommended Covid-19 vaccines for children as young as 6 months. The ruling means young children could be injected as soon as Tuesday. Covid-19 has been stubbornly resistant to fading…

Mark Shields, who provided witty, informed and insightful analysis of politics on PBS NewsHour for more than three decades, has died. Shields was 85. He died of kidney failure at his home in Chevy Chase, Md., on Saturday morning, a spokesperson for NewsHour told Deadline. Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery…

Bill Maher has a beef with Millennials, specifically those who inhabit the newsroom of the Washington Post. Reviewing the recent Twitter war between WaPo reporter Felicia Sonmez and the other members of that newsroom – a flame battle that eventually saw Sonmez fired and another reporter put on a month’s leave without…