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The former MSNBC daytime anchor may have eaten a slice of humble pie during jury selection for his fraud case on Monday.

Donald Trump celebrated the demise of CNN+ after just three weeks calling it a empty desert and mocking low-rated Chris Wallace - a nemesis especially after the first 2020 debate.

Hollywood’s behind-the-scenes “version of blue-collar workers—camera operators, makeup artists, prop makers, set dressers,” and their ilk—reached a “tentative agreement for a new...

As the Times’ Ben Smith summarized it: “The decision has major consequences not just for American politics, but also for the way in which social media is regulated, and for the possible emergence of a new kind of transnational corporate power at a moment when almost no power seems legitimate.” If Facebook is serious about applying its rules—some of which are published, some of which aren’t—to all of its users, then the company was right to suspend Trump’s account, which had becom...

After Trump supporters staged an insurrection at the Capitol, Javanka’s remaining social capital—and the fear that accompanied it—has dried up. Says one former friend of Ivanka’s: “How do you associate yourself with the worst, most toxic people in U.S. history?”