UPDATED: Simon & Schuster can move forward with plans to publish a tell-all book by President Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump, as an appellate judge overturned a lower court ruling that had temporarily halted publication. Her book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, is…

The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law that placed restrictions on abortion clinics, delivering a victory to abortion rights supporters wary that the landmark Roe Vs. Wade decision eventually will be overturned. Chief Justice John Roberts concurred with the court’s four liberal justices in forming a…

UPDATED, with details on the event: Jeffrey and Marilyn Katzenberg hosted a small virtual fundraiser for Joe Biden on Saturday, as the candidate told the Hollywood crowd that Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus was something that “you guys would have trouble making a movie and selling it." What was not a hard…

Next week, one of the first movies to debut as theaters reopen will be The Outpost, an adaptation of Jake Tapper’s book that tells the true story of the U.S. soldiers who battled a Taliban attack on their camp in a mountainous remote area of northeastern Afghanistan. The project, directed by Rod Lurie, tells of the…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the platform will start to label posts from politicians and other public figures that may violate its policies, while removing posts that incite violence or suppress voting. “Even if a politician or government official says it, if we determine that content may lead to violence or…

Vice President Mike Pence put a rosier picture on the U.S. response to the coronavirus than that of a number of health officials, saying that states are “opening up safely and responsibly,” even as health officials reported a single-day record of 39,327 new infections on Thursday. Pence made the remarks as the White…

Les Crystal, who was president of NBC News in the late 1970s before serving for more than two decades as the executive producer of PBS’s NewsHour, died on Wednesday. He was 85. Crystal died after a two and a half year battle with brain cancer, according to the broadcast. “Rest in peace Les Crystal, a wonderful human…

Joy Reid is in talks to fill the 7 PM ET slot once held by Chris Matthews and his longtime MSNBC show Hardball, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Reid currently hosts AM Joy, a weekend program on the network, and has been a substitute host for other nighttime hosts including Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes. She…

Michael Pack, the new chief executive of the agency that oversees Voice Of America and other government-funded broadcast outlets, said Wednesday that he is implementing new policies to ensure that editorials that reflect the views of Donald Trump’s administration are given greater prominence and placement. The move…

The Democratic National Convention will still take place in Milwaukee over four nights in August, but in a smaller venue and with much of the programming coming virtually from around the country. Former Vice President Joe Biden will accept the nomination for president from The Wisconsin Center, rather than the…

The governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut said that they are imposing a joint travel advisory in which visitors from states with high community spread of COVID-19 must quarantine for 14 days. The travel advisory is effective at midnight tonight. The list of states includes Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona…

CNN and HLN unveiled a slate of programming for 2020-21, a lineup of series and non-fiction projects that include biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Marilyn Monroe and History of Sitcom. The network already has announced several projects for 2020, including The Story of Late Night and First Ladies, as well as a series…