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Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund will resign effective Jan. 16, according to a police spokesperson. His resignation comes as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are demanding answers from the Capitol Police after it failed to stop a mob of Trump supporters from taking control of large parts of the Capitol on Wednesday, an invasion that resulted in lives lost and successfully shut down Congress for several hours.

Democratic lawmakers, whose party is set to take over the White House and both chambers of Congress, are promising to investigate the...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for Donald Trump to be removed from office immediately, following the siege of the Capitol that was motivated by the president’s unfounded claims that the election was stolen from him.

“What happened at the U.S. Capitol yesterday was an insurrection against the United States, incited by President Trump,” Schumer said in a statement. “This president must not hold office one day longer. The quickest and most effective way — it can be done today — to remove this president from office would be for the vice president to immediately invoke the 25th amendment. If the vice president and the Cabinet refuse to stand up, Congress must reconvene to impeach President Trump.”

D.C. officials said that the city’s Metropolitan Police made 68 arrests related to the Capitol siege. Officials said that 56 officers of the Metropolitan Police Department suffered injuries, and one remained hospitalized.

But the Capitol Police,...

Rotten Tomatoes has introduced its new archival hub, which will house and preserve editorial content related to classic and historic film. The staff of the Rt Archives has worked to uncover lost and incomplete films from the silent and early sound era, as well as create Tomatometer scores for older films, resurface forgotten or shuttered press outlets, and give recognition to pioneering film critics. What did the critics say about your favorites when they were brand new? Take a deep dive into the Rt Archives and find out.

Assets include writings of famed film critic Pauline Kael, whose biting insights on film are often hard to find on the internet, the story of pioneering aquatic star Annette Kellerman, what critics said about the world’s first feature-length film “The Story of the Kelly Gang” from 1906, and the story of the Lon Chaney monster that inspired Jennifer Kent’s cult classic “The Babadook.

The cast and crew of the award-winning Showtime series Homeland are joining a virtual fundraiser for the Democratic Party.

Hosted by the Ohio Democratic Party and the Michigan Democratic Party, the benefit will take place on Wednesday, October 21st at 7:30 p.m. Est/4:30 p.m. Pst, and will feature former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson as well as key members of the Homeland cast and crew, including Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, and Alex Gansa.

With Homeland having concluded this past April, Johnson and the cast members will...

Amid ongoing concern by various members and sectors of the U.S. government about TikTok and its Chinese parent company Bytedance -- particularly with respect to data security, user privacy, and censorship in alignment with the aims of the Chinese government -- U.S. Congressman Tim Ryan is looking to build a following on the platform.

Ryan, a Democrat from Ohio, has served in Congress since 2003, and is one of the first members to launch a presence on the micro-video app, Roll Call reports. The 46-year-old, a self-described “karaoke guy,” launched the account after being inspired by his 16-year-old daughter -- and with substantial input and assistance from his press team, one of whom runs the account from her phone..

Ryan is taking a clever approach to TikTok, even as it has been banned by several government organizations, including the U.S. Army (which called the app a “cyber threat”) and the...

An earnest, over-stuffed infomercial for the potential and benefits of practicing mindfulness, multi-hypenate Rob Beemer’s “The Mindfulness Movement” demonstrates the practice, offers an abbreviated history of its growth in the U.S., and cites examples of the therapeutic, scientific, corporate, academic and athletic benefits of living a more conscious life.

After kicking off with celebrity endorsements, the film clunkily interweaves the traumatic stories of people who found mindfulness to be a literal life saver with testimonies from those who incorporated it into their careers, used it to help prisoners, addicts, cancer survivors and at-risk youth, or who just wanted to share the feelings of calm that it brought them. Although the film doesn’t go that deep, given these strange times, it could benefit from the curiosity of the anxious and distracted who are seeking tools to cope with stress.

The backstories of executive producer Jewel Kilcher, a noted...

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From Executive Producers Deepak Chopra and Jewel, comes The Mindfulness Movement, a feature documentary that examines the growing number of people throughout society who believe mindfulness – a peaceful quality of attention anyone can develop by simply focusing on the present moment in a non- judgmental way – is the key to creating a healthier, happier world. For them, mindfulness is the way for anyone to make more moments matter in their lives.

The film follows the emotionally compelling stories of four main characters who reveal their personal hardships and explain how mindfulness transformed their lives. Woven between these journeys are profiles of the leaders, history and science behind the movement, as well as looks at the many places where mindfulness is already helping to improve society, including schools (from inner-cities to Harvard Business School), Fortune 500 companies, police forces, prisons, network newsrooms,...

Washington — Andrew Yang has dropped out of the Democratic presidential primary, but his signature plan to give every American adult a $1,000 a month has never been more popular.

With the novel coronavirus likely to plunge the economy into a recession and decimate the livelihoods of people who own small businesses or work in jobs without a guaranteed salary, lawmakers across the political spectrum have come out in favor of direct cash payments as a response to the pandemic. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-n.Y.) and Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hi) as well as Sen.

ABC News on Thursday confirmed that just 10 democratic presidential hopefuls qualify for its upcoming debate, which will be held in Houston, Texas this September.

According to The New York Times, candidates had until Wednesday night at 11:59 pm to meet the Democratic National Committee’s qualification requirements. In order to make it to the main stage, a candidate had to amass 130,000 individual donors and receive two-percent support in at least four qualifying polls. The 10 candidates who met those requirements are:

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Thursday night, CNN revealed which of the 20 top Democratic presidential hopefuls would be sharing the stage on which night of the second round of debates, which will be held in Detroit at the end of the month.

The 10-candidate lineup for Night 1 includes Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg. Among those hitting the stage on Night 2 are Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Julian Castro and Cory Booker. The moderators for these debates will be CNN’s Dana Bash, Don Lemon and Jake Tapper.

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Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris will have the opportunity to square off again in the second debate among Democratic hopefuls vying for their party’s nomination in the 2020 presidential election

CNN, which will broadcast the next round of debates on July 30 and 31, televised a draw Thursday night that decided the date on which each of 20 different candidates will appear – a unique and unorthodox maneuver in the world of political news coverage.

The results also determined that Senator Bernie Sanders would have a chance to debate directly with Senator Elizabeth Warren on the first night of the debates.

Harris and Biden clashed in the last debate event, televised over two nights by NBCUniversal via NBC, Telemundo and MSNBC. During the second night, Harris appeared to gain traction by criticizing Biden’s efforts to work with politicians who held segregationist views. Biden was attempting to show how he...

Updated with podium positions: Call it The Rematch. CNN picked the field for the July 30 and 31 Democratic debates tonight, and former Vice President Joe Biden will get another chance to square off against Sen. Kamala Harris of California, this time on Night 2 of Round 2. The duo, who famously clashed during the first debates last month, will stand side by side this time.

As for the two other leading candidates, Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts will face off on Night 1.

In an election cycle that features a remarkable amount of diversity among the candidate, it’s notable that the entire field of the July 30 first debate is made up of white candidates.

The 20 Dems will square off in the cycle’s second pair of 10-person debates in two weeks, and CNN’s unique on-air lottery of sorts determined who will be taking their talents where and when.

Tom Steyer, the Democratic billionaire impeach-Trump activist who not so long ago vowed to keep his own name out of the 2020 running, has changed his mind, tossing his hat and $100 million of his own money into the ring.

Hollywood doesn’t seem impressed. “No Tom, just… no,” tweeted Yvette Nicole Brown.

Granted, it’s early days – early minutes, actually – but the response on social media to Steyer’s decision doesn’t seem encouraging.

“We need to stop the practice of billionaires trying to buy elections,” Cynthia Nixon tweeted. “@TomSteyer, think of all the good your $100 million could do for the environment, rather than trying to muscle your way into an already over-crowded and very promising presidential field.”

Tweeted Brown, “No Tom, just… no. This does Not help! Why don’t they get it?! None of these rich dudes seem to get it! We have 20+ candidates! Many are great. Three or four are exemplary.

Bill Maher says there’s “overcrowding” among the Democratic presidential field and some of the candidates should “get the f–k out.”

Maher weighed in on this week’s two-night Democratic debate and said time’s up for half of the 20 candidates who qualified for the match-up.

“Look, there’s too many people in this race, right?” he said Friday night on HBO’s Real Time.

Maher then turned to his guest panel, made up of author Max Brooks, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik and MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid, and told them he was going to cull the field of presidential hopefuls, although he did give his guests veto rights.

“I’m going to get rid of ten of them right now,” Maher quipped while holding a stack of the candidates’ headshots.

It's time for some of these candidates to Gtfo. Watch @BillMaher cull the Democratic herd with @MaxBrooksAuthor,...

Bill Maher weighed in on both Democratic debates on HBO’s “Real Time” Friday night, and suggested the immediate exit of half the field of candidates.

“Look, there’s too many people in this race, right?” Maher asked, holding a stack of the candidates’ headshots. “I’m going to get rid of ten of them right now.”

The ten presidential hopefuls he told to “get the f–k out” were: John Hickenlooper, Michael Bennet, John Delaney, Tim Ryan, Kirsten Gillibrand, Eric Swalwell, Marianne Williamson, Andrew Yang, Beto O’Rourke and Bill de Blasio.

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Some, like Hickenlooper and Delaney, got off easy; Maher had nothing more to say other than they were “nice guys.” Addressing Gillibrand, Maher said “Al Franken says hello” (she led the charge for his resignation), and...

After two nights, four hours, and 20 candidates, the first Democratic debate of the 2020 presidential campaign is in the bag. While a handful of competitors shined onstage in Miami, many more had nights they’d rather forget.

Below is our consolidated report card from the big show in South Florida:

Kamala Harris: A

Harris dominated the Miami debates. She spoke with precision and passion, but most important, she proved she could take the fight to the frontrunner, bloody her opponent, and emerge nearly unscathed. If Democrats are looking for a...

Twenty Democratic candidates for president have now had a chance to say their piece on a debate stage. On Wednesday, Elizabeth Warren and Julian Castro turned in impressive performances from the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, while Beto O’Rourke, Tim Ryan, and John Delaney didn’t seem to resonate the way they may have hoped. The second half of the field of qualifiers — headlined by frontrunner Joe Biden and the progressive Bernie Sanders — had their chance on Thursday. Here’s who our take on who...

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NBC on Thursday night will host Night 2 of the first Democratic primary debates, live from the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Miami.

In addition to NBC, the debate will be broadcast on MSNBC and Telemundo — but you can also stream it here on TVLine, beginning at 9 pm Et/8 pm Ct/6 pm Pt.

Night 1 of the debates included notable candidates Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Julián Castro, Amy Klobuchar and Beto O’Rourke (en español). Afterwards, TVLine polled readers to see which three candidates they found most impressive. Warren was far and...

We may still be more than 16 months away from the next United States presidential election, and more than seven months until the first primary election, but the fun is already getting started as Democratic candidates kick off debate season on NBC News’ two-night debate series that will bring out a whopping 20 candidates to talk about the issues.

The first part, on Wednesday night, was perhaps surprisingly eventful, and hopefully the follow-up will match it.

The debate is broken up into two nights because there are so many candidates — each night features ten of them. And with the debates being hosted by NBC News, you can catch the broadcasts on TV on NBC and MSNBC, with a Spanish broadcast on Telemundo.

The first debate was Wednesday night and featured Elizabeth Warren, Corey Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Julian Castro, Tim Ryan, Bill de Blasio, Jay Inslee, John Delaney and Tulsi Gabbard.

The first Democratic debate for the 2020 U.S. presidential election drew 15.3 million TV viewers across NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo. Another 9 million checked out the live stream.

That’s much lower than the kickoff to the 2016 election cycle, which of course had the Donald Trump factor. However, it did fare better than the debates leading up to the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections.

The first primary debate in August 2015, featuring Trump and nine other top Republican candidates, scored 24 million total viewers on Fox News. CNN’s Democratic version in October landed 15.8 million viewers. Broadcast’s first turn, a Democratic debate in November 2015, drew 8.6 million.

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Wednesday’s debate was easily the most-watched program on television of the night. In the key news demo of adults 25-54, the debate averaged 4.3 million viewers across all three networks. Among adults under 50, the number was 3.7 million.

Updated with total viewership numbers: Most of the contenders pulling in big poll numbers take the stage in Miami later today for Night 2 of the Democratic debates on NBC, but Night 1 has set a pretty high bar for Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and the rest to reach. That bar, however, is well below what both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump drew in the early stages of the 2016 Presidential election.

When NBC, MSNBC and Telemndo are all added up, Nielsen has the showdown last night pulling in 15.3 million viewers.

As we detailed earlier today and now have further confirmed, the total viewing numbers for last night’s warm-up debate of sorts are far behind the audience of 24 million that the first Gop debate pulled in in August 2015 on Fox News. Last night is also down 4.3% from what the five-0person first Democratic debate snagged in October 2015 on CNN.

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The first Democratic primary debate, which featured Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Cory Booker and Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke among others, posted solid ratings and total viewership, but was unable to match the prolific numbers of the 2016 cycle’s first round.

Last night’s feisty affair drew a total of 15.3 million viewers across NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo, a significantly lower figure than the 24 million people who tuned in to watch Donald Trump’s first debate on Fox News in August of 2015, but only slightly fewer than the 15.7 million viewers for the equivalent Democratic debate on CNN.

In terms of the breakdown by network, Thursday’s debate was watched by 8.67 million viewers on NBC, 5.87 million on MSNBC, and around 700,000 on Telemundo. Ratings-wise, the debate posted a 2.2 in the 25-54 demographic on NBC, a 1.1 by the same measurement on MSNBC, and a 0.27 on Telemundo.

According to NBC, the debate live stream garnered...

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited The Late Show on Wednesday following the first 2020 Democratic presidential debate to discuss the candidates with Stephen Colbert.

After receiving a warm welcome from the audience, Ocasio-Cortez and Colbert jumped right into discussing the debate between candidates Beto O'Rourke, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Julian Castro, Bill de Blasio, John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee, Amy Klobuchar and Tim Ryan.

The two first discussed the amount of Spanish spoken by O'Rourke and Booker during the debate. "I thought it was humorous sometimes," said Ocasio-Cortez. She added that she expected the candidates to ...

The 2020 Democratic race for president tipped off in earnest Wednesday night as the first slate of 10 candidates gathered to debate in Miami. The two-hour contest was feisty.

While the evening’s headliner, Elizabeth Warren, held center stage with a heady mix of policy and passion, the contenders to her right and left earned air time by going after each other — often on policies that haven’t gotten much oxygen so far in the 2020 conversation. On more than one occasion (looking at you Tim Ryan) the candidate playing defense got posterized.

Stephen Colbert, who has more live shows under his belt than any other late-night host, offered a low-key, sardonic monologue recapping debate night. He said the lineup on stage could be boiled down to “Beto, Corey Booker, Elisabeth Warren … and seven people angling for MSNBC shows.”

The host picked up on the flare-ups of conflict during the night, such as when Jay Inslee cut in on Elizabeth Warren.

“Nothing like interrupting a woman to tell everyone you care about the rights of women. Thank you, governor!”

He ribbed Tim Ryan and Tulsi Gabbard for feuding over Afghanistan. “Please, don’t fight,” Colbert mock-pleaded. “You’re both not going to be president.”

Ryan also took the prize for “best clip that sounds like it should have been bleeped,” Colbert jabbed after the Congressman said China is “wiping us around the world.”

Colbert then feasted on the unexpected bits of Spanish spoken...

The opening night of the first debates of the 2020 Democratic Party primaries brought — even by the standards of such way-far-out confrontations between candidates for whom the election remains a far-off dream — vastly more empty drama than new information. But then, that may have been by design.

NBC News’s organization of the debates, using a “purple” and an “orange” group of two groups, both mixed with top-tier contenders and undercard contenders, resulted in a lopsided staging at which one candidate placed in the middle also became an insurmountable center of gravity. Sen. Elizabeth Warren was effectively the only candidate onstage widely considered a major contender for the presidency, give or take former Rep. Beto O’Rourke or Sen. Cory Booker; the subsequent night would feature Warren’s main rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Sens. Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders. Early on, Warren noted that “I...

Ronald Reagan used to quip that the 11th Commandment was “thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.” But Wednesday the Democrats seeking the Great Communicator’s old job generally appropriated the notion for themselves in a debate that was mainly characterized by its policy wonk approach and being the most polite circular shooting squad ever.

Waiting to take the same stage in Miami tomorrow with nine other candidates, front-runner Joe Biden may want to take off the white gloves and go for a distinguishing Tko.

Introduced by NBC News’ Lester Holt and an all-white- attired Savannah Guthrie, with Telemundo’s José Diaz-Balart, and helmed by Rachel Maddow and Chuck Todd in the second technically challenged hour, the first round of this two-night political equivalent of limp speed-dating saw the ex-Vice-President almost unmentioned, and certainly won’t leave Donald Trump sweating about his re-election at this point.

For one thing,...

Like the final installment of a Ya novel movie adaptation, the first Democratic debate of the 2020 presidential primary was split up into two parts. The first part, which was tonight, included Bill de Blasio, Tim Ryan, Julián Castro, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee and John Delaney. Members of Hollywood took to Twitter to add some colorful commentary to the political festivities.

Celebrities like Don Cheadle, Rosie O’Donnell, Debra Messing, Natasha Rothwell, Sarah Silverman, Dan Rather, Adam McKay, Michael Moore, Bill Maher and more live-tweeted the debate, and were actively giving their two cents and retweeting other thoughts that aligned with theirs like crazy.

The Daily Show won the evening with its jabs at the debate which probably started with a response to Donald Trump calling the debate “Boring!” after he said he wouldn’t tweet about the political event. In response...

American voters got their first official introduction to the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential hopefuls — well, at least some of ’em — in a densely populated debate Wednesday evening.

The inaugural Democratic presidential forum of the 2020 election cycle found 10 contenders for the party’s nomination facing off at Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. For two hours, the candidates — Cory Booker, Julián Castro, Bill de Blasio, John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Tim Ryan and Elizabeth Warren — fielded questions from NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt and Chuck Todd, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Telemundo’s José Diaz-Balart.

The Democratic presidential candidate debate was comedy gold for The Daily Show and Trevor Noah, as the long lineup of hopefuls provided enough memorable moments to fill a ballot. Or, in this case, a program, via Noah’s Votegasm 2020, a live show that followed the Democratic scrum.

The Daily Show kicked off the live laughs seconds after the debate with a show festooned with the graphic, “World War D: Let’s Get Ready to Ramble: Part 1.”

Host Trevor Noah got off several quality shots at more than half the field, beginning with Beto O’Rourke, who answered a question about health care in fluent Spanish. “‘To hear my answer in English, press one,'” Noah riffed. “This guy was so fluent, people probably thought they had switched to Univision by mistake.” A reaction photo of a wide-eyed Corey Booker watching the conquistador to his left accentuated the bit. The logistics...

After Donald Trump said he wouldn’t be tweeting about tonight’s Democratic debate, his thumbs couldn’t help themselves. Almost an hour into the debate, the former Celebrity Apprentice host took to Twitter to give his two cents — and Trevor Noah responded.

“Boring!” Trump tweeted. This may have come from Air Force One as he is on his way to Osaka for G20. Nonetheless, he tweeted after he said he was going to sit this one out.

It didn’t take long for Trevor Noah to send a friendly response. The Daily Show host retweeted Trump’s sentiment with the comment “Not your type?”

After technical difficulties struck the second half of the debate when Rachel Maddow and Chuck Todd took over and started asking questions about gun control. This was another opportunity for Trump to chime in. He took Twitter again saying, “@NBCNews and @MSNBC should be ashamed...

As the first Democratic debate of 2019 kicked off Wednesday in Miami, late night hosts Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Trevor Noah and Jimmy Fallon seized the opportunity to present live shows featuring political and social commentary on the event.

Prominent candidates in the political scrum included former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker. Former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro; New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio; Maryland politician John Delaney; the first Hindu member of Congress, Tulsi Gabbard; Washington Gov. Jay Inslee; Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar; and Tim Ryan, member of ...

One would think Donald Trump would have lots to tweet about tonight’s Democratic debate — and he probably does. Unfortunately, we will not be graced with his eloquent commentary. Trump sent out a tweet saying he would be absent from tonight’s debate festivities because he is off to Japan for the G20 Summit to “save the Free World!”

Instead, Trump directed his followers to the multiple accounts including his campaign manager, his Director of Communications Brad Parscale, Director of Strategic Communications Marc Lotter and National Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany.

“For tonight’s #DemDebate, be sure to follow @TeamTrump, @TrumpWarRoom, @Parscale, @KayleighMcEnany, @TimMurtaugh, and @Marc_Lotter for Rapid Response, Fact Checking, and the Truth! #Maga #Kag Sorry, I’m on Air Force One, off to save the Free World!” he tweeted.

In an almost hour-long interview, with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo he said of the debates: “It just seems very boring,...

The first Democratic debate of the 2020 presidential primary will air Wednesday and Thursday nights across NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo from the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. Each night will feature 10 candidates and be broadcast live from 9-11 Pm Et/6-8 Pm Pt, with Telemundo offering real-time Spanish-language translations.

The debates will also be streamed on NBCNews.com; MSNBC.com; the NBC News mobile app; Ott apps on Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV; and on Telemundo’s digital platforms. NBC News will also stream the event live on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt, Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow and Telemundo’s José Diaz-Balart will be moderators for both nights. The network said both debate nights will have the same format, with Holt moderating the first hour, and Guthrie and Diaz-Balart appearing alongside him; Holt will also appear in the second hour,...

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After months of laying out their policy proposals and jockeying for media attention, 20 of the top Democratic presidential hopefuls will step onstage for the biggest moment of their campaigns this week. The first set of Democratic primary debates will be held Wednesday, June 26th and Thursday, June 27th, and though votes won’t be cast in Iowa for another seven months, how the candidates perform behind a podium will go a long way shaping the public’s perception of how they’ll fare against President Trump.

The first Democratic Party primary season debates will be held this week. Because there are two debates, it will require an unusual set of official Rolling Stone drinking game rules, listed below.

We thought 17 candidates was a lot last time. Now it’s 23. Or is it 24? By 2024 running for president will be like a game of Fortnite – a Battle Royale of 100 rifle-toting pols in banana suits. That might even work better for television than the arrangement this week, with debates on consecutive nights that will force Rolling Stone readers to...

The back-to-back Democratic debates -- which will feature candidates of Black, Hispanic, Samoan, Indian and Asian descent -- will be a major test for those trying to tackle the issue of diversity ... in the lighting department. Production sources for the upcoming primary debates -- in which 10 different candidates will share the stage on both nights -- tell TMZ ... the fact they will feature more non-white candidates than previous debates will be challenging. That company, Lighting Design Group,...

Back in 1994, then-Senator Joe Biden wrote a letter to a constituent who had contacted his office with a request. “Please don’t force me to pay for abortions against my conscience,” he said. Biden assured the man he understood, promising that any position he would take on abortion in the U.S. Senate would be guided by his conviction that those who oppose abortion should not be compelled to pay for them. That was 25 years ago, but Biden’s campaign indicated that he continues to hold the position today, confirming that...

In the face of a “nationwide assault on women’s constitutional rights by ideological extremists” Democratic presidential candidates are strengthening their calls for federal action to protect reproductive rights. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand traveled to Georgia on Thursday, where she decried the attacks on women’s rights across the country and announced a suite of policy proposals aimed at protecting abortion access and women’s health care.

Gillibrand called for codifying as federal law the abortion access protections provided by Roe v. Wade; repealing the Hyde amendment (a provision that bans...

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On Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-ma) announced she had turned down an invitation from Fox News to appear in a town hall event. She explained her reasoning in a Twitter thread, calling the network a “hate-for-profit racket,” and that she doesn’t want to “ask millions of Democratic primary voters to tune into an outlet that profits from racism and hate.”

Here’s the entirety of what she had to say:

“I love town halls. I’ve done more than 70 since January, and I’m glad...

Washington — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-ma) rolled out the most ambitious policy plan of her presidential campaign — and arguably of any 2020 candidate — when she called for breaking up of the nation’s three tech giants: Facebook, Amazon and Google.

Amazon’s e-commerce sales made up almost half of all U.S. online spending last year. A staggering 70 percent of Internet traffic flowed through websites controlled by Facebook or Google. More than 67 percent of digital advertising revenues in 2018 went to Google, Facebook and Amazon. “Today’s big tech companies have too much...

This is a big one, the restoration we long thought would never come. CineSavant tries to explain what makes Edgar G. Ulmer’s masterpiece uniquely memorable, how it works its Loser Noir magic, and why this particular restoration bodes well for a certain class of picture mired in murky rights issues. Meet Al Roberts, a hard luck case happy to bend your ear for an hour, explaining how Fate has Done Him Wrong. This Prc gem transcends Noir pessimism, because a sensible read forces us to conclude that Al is his own worst enemy, a self-made misery man. This hitch-hiking epic carries an extra added jolt: Ann Savage delivers what has to be the boldest, most caustic hell-to-pay performance of ‘forties Hollywood.

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Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, the first and only woman to serve as Speaker of the House, retook the gavel on Thursday afternoon, becoming the first speaker in 60 years to return to the position. Pelosi was re-elected to the speakership by a voice vote with 220 Democrats supporting her bid and 15 opposing it — an impressive margin when you consider that only a matter of weeks ago, 32 Democrats voted against her in a closed-door caucus election.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-ny) tried to emphasize the California Democrat’s popularity, declaring in a speech on House...

Bam Margera is committed to improving his life in the New Year. On Monday, the 39-year-old pro skateboarder and Jackass star announced he is going back to rehab. "Off to alcohol rehab for the 3rd time," he captioned a shot of himself holding his 1-year-old son, whom he shares with wife Nicole Boyd. "I am hoping the term 3rd time is a charm is true." In a separate post, Margera thanked sober coach Bob Marier, interventionist Tim Ryan, skateboarder Johnny Schillereff and Jackass stars Johnny Knoxville, Brandon Novak and Steve-o "for the treatment." Novak also published a picture of himself hugging Margera, writing, "The only time we Fail is when we lose the ability to Try Again.......happy New...

Washington — Nancy Pelosi can’t be stopped.

In a private vote on Wednesday, House Democrats reelected Pelosi as speaker for the upcoming 116th Congress, which begins early next year. The vote was 203 to 32, with three blanks and one absent. She wasn’t expected to face any trouble within the confines of the Democratic caucus, especially given that no other Democrat publicly stepped up to challenge her in time for Wednesday’s vote.

“It was so inspiring to hear my colleagues place my name and nomination, once again, for speaker of the House.

General Motors announced on Monday that it will halt production at five North American plants and lay off 15 percent of its salaried and contract workforce. In total, nearly 15,000 people will lose their jobs as a result of the large-scale move to restructure operations. “The actions we are taking today continue our transformation to be highly agile, resilient and profitable, while giving us the flexibility to invest in the future,” CEO Mary Barra said as part of a statement that read like an exercise in corporate-speak Mad Libs. “We recognize the...

The killer moved in plain sight on the foggy morning of Sept. 6, 1982, in the tiny southeast Alaskan fishing village of Craig.

Hours after shooting his eight victims with what police believe was a .22-caliber pistol or rifle, he fired up the engines on the 58-foot fishing boat Investor, waving nonchalantly to a nearby skipper as he moved the vessel — with his victims’ bodies inside — to a secluded bay a mile outside of town.

He motored back to the weather-beaten docks in the Investor’s skiff, returning the next afternoon with a can of gasoline to set the craft ablaze before...

It’s not a mystery how the Coulthurst family and a group of teenage deckhands were killed on their fishing boat, Investor, on Sept. 6, 1982, in the tiny southeast Alaskan fishing village of Craig.

What remains unknown, more than 35 years later, is who did it — and why.

“You never stop thinking about them,” says Dave Freeman, who grew up with Jerome Keown and Dave Moon, two of the massacre’s eight victims.

“The shock of losing everyone really tore up our town,” Freeman tells People. “They all had their whole lives in front of them, and they were just blown away.

Thirty-five years have passed since the massacre of eight people on the fishing boat Investor first shocked the nation. For those whose lives were upended by the killings, the case remains a painful cloud that refuses to lift.

For John Peel, the former deckhand who police and prosecutors suspected of committing the grisly slayings, the mystery is something else: a question mark that still hangs over his head.

Peel was charged with the killings in 1984, but after two expensive, headline-grabbing trials, he was found not guilty. Decades later, the case is Alaska’s worst unsolved mass homicide.

“Somebody out there knows what happened,...

Season 30 of The Amazing Race is about to kick off, and judging by the cast, we're in for one heck of a ride.

From teams of former professional athletes to expert debaters to former Big Brother stars, these contestants are in it to win it!

Check out the teams below:

1. Cedric & Shawn -- #TeamSlamDunk

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Name: Cedric Ceballos

Age: 48

Connection to teammate: Retired NBA Player

Qualifications: Former NBA All-Star and Slam Dunk Champion

Name: Shawn Marion

Age: 39

Hometown: Chicago, Illinois

Connection to teammate: Retired NBA Player

Qualifications: 4-time NBA All-Star and 2011 NBA Champion

2. April & Sarah -- #TeamGoatYoga

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Name: April Gould

Age: 39

Hometown: Gilbert, Arizona

Connection to teammate: Friends

Qualifications: Goat Yoga instructor

Name: Sarah Williams

Age: 39

Hometown: Mesa, Arizona

Connection to teammate: Friends

Qualifications: Goat Yoga instructor

3. Cody & Jessica -- #TeamBigBrother

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Name: Cody Nickson

Age: 32

Hometown: Plano, Texas

Connection to teammate: Dating

Qualifications: Big Brother 19 power couple

Name: Jessica Graf

Age: 26

Hometown: Los Angeles, California

Connection...