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Forget the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Bill Maher spent the first segment of Friday’s Real Time asking about a cultural battle – the feud between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar. To explain the war of words, Maher brought in Michael Eric Dyson, a professor at Vanderbilt University and…

Donald Trump said that his campaign has agreed to participate in a vice presidential debate — but on Fox News. His statement came a day after Joe Biden’s presidential campaign said that Vice President Kamala Harris had accepted CBS News’ invitation for a debate, either on July 23 or Aug. 13. In…

The man convicted of attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, was sentenced to 20 years in prison today, per the AP. David DePape was found guilty last year on federal charges of kidnapping and assault. U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley issued separate 20-year and 30-year…

Cynthia McFadden, longtime senior legal and investigative correspondent at NBC News, said that he is leaving the network. She wrote on Instagram this morning, “It is hard to leave a job you love but this is the right time- I have a list of things I have often said I wanted to do ‘someday.’ Well…

Michael Leach, who was the first White House chief diversity and inclusion officer, has signed with Buchwald for entertainment and literary representation. Leach led efforts to create the most diverse White House staff in history. He previously was a top aide on Joe Biden’s presidential campaign…

C-SPAN coverage of Congress turned into a Jerry Springer-like spectacle of name-calling and insults on Thursday, as a verbal jab lobbed by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) triggered an extended period of outcry from several Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. The purpose of the hearing was…

UPDATE: Michael Cohen appeared to win a battle this afternoon over how reliable his memory is of eight-year-old phone calls with Donald Trump, after faltering in an earlier round of cross-examination questioning today in the former president's hush money trial in New York. Before a lunch break, Trump…

Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to participate in a vice presidential debate this summer, to be hosted by CBS News. Donald Trump’s campaign has not yet publicly accepted the invite, the network said. The Biden campaign had proposed a vice presidential debate in late July, after Trump…

Jesse Martin is joining the Motion Picture Association as senior vice president and associate general counsel, content protection and legal affairs, focused on outreach to third party intermediaries in anti-piracy efforts. Martin was senior attorney at BSA, The Software Alliance. The MPA said…

ABC News’ David Muir and Linsey Davis will moderate the second presidential debate on Sept. 10. Joe Biden and Donald Trump said that they would participate in the event, to be their second matchup this cycle. CNN is hosting the first debate, scheduled for June 27 at its Atlanta headquarters, with…

Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will moderate the June 27 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the network said. Both candidates said today that they had agreed to participate in the event, which will take place at CNN’s studios in Atlanta. Tapper and Bash were to co-moderate a…

Hours after Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s campaigns swiftly finalized plans for two presidential debates, the president’s team is already warning that his rival is “playing games.” “No more chaos, no more debate about debates,” Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement this…