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Trump taps judge who helped gut voting rights for lifetime appeals court seat
President Donald Trump announced that he’s nominating Lee Rudofsky to the U.S. Court of Appeals despite a questionable record. On Wednesday, Trump posted on Truth Social that Rudofsky will be nominated to serve on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, despite his record as a federal judge who ruled that private citizens can’t sue under…
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Ex-Southern Poverty Law Center official charged in broader criminal case against group
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A former Southern Poverty Law Center official has been charged in the Department of Justice’s broader criminal case against the Alabama-based civil rights group, a frequent target of conservative critics who claim the nonprofit is politically biased. Heidi Beirich, a political extremism expert who left the law center about six years ago, was named…
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Trump rants about pricey ‘Watchtowers’ in push to end clock changes
President Donald Trump once again demanded on Wednesday that the Senate pass legislation to make Daylight Saving Time permanent. “People are sick and tired of having to change their clocks twice a year,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “It is foolish, inconvenient and, in some cases, very costly. For Cities and States with…
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Vanity Fair profile on Usha Vance claims she ‘built JD’ Vance
WASHINGTON – Usha Vance is the quiet force who built JD Vance into the vice president he is today, according to a new profile of the second lady. A 5,500-word profile in Vanity Fair cast Vance, 40, as a sophisticated lawyer and mother of four who has been JD’s “spirit guide to elite institutional life” since…
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Rosie O’Donnell reveals why filming intimate nun scene with Cynthia Nixon was ‘horrifying’
Rosie O’Donnell admitted she was extremely “nervous” to film an intimate scene with her longtime friend Cynthia Nixon on “And Just Like That.” The former talk show host — who played a nun who has her first sexual experience with Nixon’s character in Season 3 of the “Sex and the City” spin-off — described the…
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‘The Office’ star Lucy Davis has incurable breast cancer after finding tiny ‘hard spot’
Lucy Davis, who starred as the witty receptionist Dawn Tinsley in the British version of “The Office” and kooky Aunt Hilda in “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” revealed that she has Stage 4 breast cancer that has spread throughout her body. Davis, 53, announced the news with an Instagram video on Tuesday that showed the actor…
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‘Purveyor of fabrications’: Columnist blasts Karoline Leavitt’s legacy as she exits
A columnist excoriated President Donald Trump’s press secretary after she announced her resignation on Wednesday. Karoline Leavitt, who has been Trump’s chief communicator since the beginning of his second term, announced she would step away at the end of the month to spend time with her family after having a baby in May. The news…
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Sandra Bullock’s ‘Practical Magic 2’ Producer Perk? Picking Lee Pace’s Tattoos: ‘He’s Got a Beautiful Physique’
Sandra Bullock had some secret perks to wearing a producer hat in addition to starring in “Practical Magic 2,” and one involved choosing and placing the fake tattoos for co-star Lee Pace‘s “beautiful physique.” “For a month before we started shooting, my job was to find the tattoos with the head of our makeup department…
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Minnesota man who killed wife and daughter at daycare may have killed another family member
HOPKINS, Minn. — A man who killed his wife and their 7-year-old daughter at a daycare in Minnesota is also suspected of killing a 78-year-old female relative, police said Wednesday. The 41-year-old man fatally shot himself after stabbing his wife and child at the in-home daycare she operates in Hopkins, a suburb of Minneapolis, police said. All…
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Bomb squad shuts down D.C. street during rush hour — over an adult toy
Authorities shut down a Washington, D.C. road during rush hour on Wednesday as bomb squad investigators raced to investigate a “suspicious device” that turned out to be an X-rated item, according to reports. A witness said they saw someone place the suspicious item in a trash can at the Tenleytown fire station, The Guardian reported.…