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Refresh for updates Cokie Roberts, the ABC News and NPR journalist whose death from breast cancer was announced by ABC News today, is being remembered as a top-rank reporter, a pioneer for women in media and one of broadcast news’ savviest Beltway analysts. “My friend, my colleague, my hero Cokie Roberts has died,&#8221…

Asian American Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said that he doesn’t believe new Saturday Night Live cast member Shane Gillis should lose his job over past racial slurs. Yang was called a “Jew ch**k on a May podcast by Gillis, whose SNL casting was announced this week. His past remarks denigrating…

President Donald Trump headed once again this morning for the links at Trump National Golf Course. But before teeing up, he offered some advice for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh – consider suing for libel. The President defended Kavanaugh after the New York Times article today that revisited the accusations of…

This being Saturday, President Donald Trump is out on the links at Trump National Golf Course. But before he engaged in his favorite hobby, he took some time off to put a hole in one of the media. MSNBC’s Joy Reid was the target this morning. Trump evidently saw her Friday night on the channel, in which she mocked his…

Social media sensation Lilly Singh has set the first week's lineup for A Little Late with Lilly Singh, marking the debut of her NBC late-night series. The premiere episode on Monday will stream on the show’s YouTube site at 10 PM ET, three hours before its normal time slot on NBC. Guests for the first week: Monday, Sep…

UPDATE: Shane Gillis has apologized to “Anyone who’s actually offended by anything I’ve said.”  The comedian is in hot water as a YouTube video from last year surfaced, featuring him uttering a racial slur against Chinese people. Gillis was just announced as a new cast member for the upcoming season. NBC has not…

The real star of the Democratic presidential debates so far hasn’t been one of the candidates. Instead, it’s been the zany tweeting by Trevor Noah and the Comedy Central online team, who have yukked it up at the politicos’ expense throughout the debate season. They’re at it again tonight, and so far, they continue in…

The Toronto Film Festival will not be holding a formal awards ceremony this year, instead announcing winners of its Grolsch People’s Choice Award and juried competitions via TIFF’s social media channels. The Grolsch has been an Oscar Best Picture bellwether in the past, with winners out of TIFF including Green Book, Th…

The organizer of a Facebook group that vowed to storm Nevada’s mysterious Area 51 military base later this month has said he’s backing out of a music festival designed to provide an alternative to the hairbrained plan. Matty Roberts, who came forward as the Facebook organizer and said the original idea was meant as a…

Chrissy Teigen addresses her recent Twitter contretemps with President Donald Trump on The Ellen DeGeneres Show today, saying with a resigned, "We all just wait for our day to come and mine happened to be on Sunday." Watch a clip below. “My heart stopped because at that moment you know you're just about to get the…

SAG-AFTRA national executive director David White has condemned a social media post that he described as a "threat" against Gabrielle Carteris, the union's recently re-elected president. "It has come to our attention that elected leaders have been threatened," he said in an email to the guild's board of directors…

President Donald Trump has moved on to two other showbiz figures in another lash out on Twitter: John Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen. Legend and Teigen are pushing back, as Legend launched a hashtag #PresidentPussyAssBitch – quoting a tweet from his Lip Sync Battle-hosting wife – in hopes that it will trend on the…