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Two big Harry Potter fan sites, unhappy over author J.K. Rowling’s views on transgender people, said today they will no longer provide links to her personal website, use photos of her, or write about her outside of her role in creating the fantasy world they love. The sites, Leaky Caldron and Mugglenet, said in a…

We can save America's soul, together. The killing of George Floyd hurt millions of people very deeply and personally – some of whom finally were waking to their unique privilege, and others who had spent years screaming into deaf ears of the silent majority. One reason that video was such a catalyst this time, as…

UPDATE: The Trump tweetstorm has taken down a controversial post in which someone shouts “white power” at a pro-Trump rally in Florida. The White House claimed that President Trump didn't hear the comment before posting. "He did not hear the one statement made on the video. What he did see was tremendous enthusiasm…

The window is closing on ways to halt the rise in new COVID-19 cases that threaten to send some parts of the US into a second lockdown. That was the opinion of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, who spoke the comments Sunday on NBC’s Meet The Press. As cases surge nationwide, reopened businesses are…

Sacha Baron Cohen is at it again. On Saturday, the comedian crashed a meeting of the Washington State Three Percenters in Olympia, leading a sing-along and generally disrupting things. It is unclear if the appearance was yet another installment of his Who Is America? program, the first season of which aired on…

Taylor Swift, who once was condemned for her political silence, is making up for lost time. The singer/songwriter spoke out Friday on Pride Live’s Stonewall Day livestream event, condemning the US Census for offering only two choices for gender. The event is an annual commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall uprising…

The world is slowly getting back to normal – at least, in the places where “getting back to normal” isn’t being shut down for a second time because of a spike in coronavirus cases – and so it is that President Donald Trump is heading to the links at Trump National in Virginia for a brisk round of golf Before heading…

Joe Biden claimed today at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania that the coronavirus is responsible for 120 million deaths. And while he’s a tad off in his estimate – okay, more than a tad off – he joins the many people who are struggling to make sense of a disease that apparently has no quit in it. Trevor Noah focused on…

His credentials seemed impeccable. He was 60, a Yale graduate, a former studio chief, a gifted dealmaker and now a newly named company president. But there were a few clouds: He was also a convicted embezzler, a compulsive gambler and his Yale degree was bogus. This was 1981 and David Begelman, the new boss of MGM…

NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace said he is relieved by the FBI’s conclusion that there was no noose placed specifically in his Talladega garage. But he’s still questioning that report. Wallace appeared on several media outlets on Wednesday, including tonight’s Trevor Noah Daily Social Distancing Show. During his talk with…

Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to talk about – what else – politics. And naturally, the conversation drifted toward the 2020 presidential race. Stewart confessed that “Biden was not my guy. Wasn’t even in the top four.” But rather than totally dismissing the former…

The most striking, urgent, up-to-the-minute film I've seen this week was directed by Spike Lee. It speaks to the moment, pulses with turbulent emotional and political currents, overflows with vibrant characters and bluntly confronts society's painful unfinished business. No, I'm not talking about Da 5 Bloods but…