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Trump administration tells prosecutors to stand down on Venezuela leader, sources say
MIAMI — The Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez, a longtime target of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, according to current and former U.S. law enforcement officials, in the latest sign of warming relations between the White House and the oil-rich nation. It’s…
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‘Jack Ryan: Ghost War’ Director on Why the Film Skipped Theaters and What’s Next for the Franchise
The successful “Jack Ryan” TV series concluded its run on Prime Video in 2023, but John Krasinski and crew are back in their jump to feature-length format with “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War.” While the movie comes three years after the show ended, the team has been working on it pretty much since the…
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Tegna C-Suite Loses Key Execs Amid Nexstar Merger Battle
As the Nexstar-Tegna merger continues to face legal battles amid antitrust concerns, Tegna’s C-Suite has seen the departure of several key executives. Among those leaving the company are CFO Julie Heskett, Chief Strategy Officer Ed Busby and Chief Experience Officer Dhanusha Sivajee, an individual with knowledge told TheWrap. The departures come just days after Tegna…
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White House launches ‘Aliens.gov’ website: ‘They walk among us’
Take me to your sanctuary city. The White House unveiled “Aliens.gov” Thursday, a cheeky new website focused on illegal migrant arrest data – and not UFO disclosure. The eyebrow-raising domain name sparked a firestorm of online speculation when the federal government registered it in March, about a month after President Trump pledged his administration would…
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Gayle King, 71, teases shocking fetish and what a guy can do to make her ‘panties come off’
Size matters for Gayle King. The “CBS Mornings” anchor divulged her fetish for larger men during an interview on Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy”podcast on Wednesday. “I like big, Alex, in every way,” the 71-year-old TV personality said, when asked what “people would be surprised to know” she’s “into.” King added, “You can take with…
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Like the Perfect Dark Joke, the Hacks Finale Landed Just Right
Jean Smart in the series finale of Hacks —Courtesy of HBO Max Hacks was a show about legacy. That wasn’t its only subject; comedy and power and misogyny and creativity and intergenerational conflict and work ethic and, especially in its last few seasons, the debased state of the entertainment industry were all richly explored through…
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White House’s UFO-Inspired ‘Aliens’ Site Triggers Bait-and-Switch Backlash: ‘Fascist Garbage’
The White House on Thursday launched a space and UFO-themed immigration enforcement website that initially appeared to focus on extraterrestrials and “aliens” before revealing itself as a live dashboard tracking arrests of immigrants in the United States illegally — quickly sparking backlash on social media. The website, titled Aliens.gov, opens with big, bold green lettering…
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Breaking Down the Brutal Ending of Half Man
Jamie Bell and Richard Gadd —Anne Binckebanck—HBO Warning: This piece contains spoilers for Half Man Richard Gadd, whose semi-autobiographical 2024 series Baby Reindeer earned six Emmys and countless appearances on best of lists, roared back to television this spring with HBO’s Half Man. It’s a project he started writing in 2019, before he made Baby…
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‘Unbelievably barbaric’: Internet cringes at White House’s anti-immigrant post
The White House posted an anti-immigrant video that’s making people cringe or dismiss it as a distraction from Trump’s real issues. The official X account for the White House posted a video, which seems AI-generated, that shows a UFO lifting someone over a border wall and came with a link for ALIENS.GOV, which further attacked…
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‘Hacks’ Creators Explain Series Finale’s Big Fakeout: ‘We Always Knew This Was the Ending’
Note: This story contains spoilers from “Hacks” Season 5, Episode 10. Deborah Vance was never going to die. That may be a shock to “Hacks” fans who have seen the series finale to HBO Max’s Emmys darling. The final episode of Season 5 follows Deborah (Jean Smart) taking her writing parter and best friend Ava…