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The History Channel will air a new Abraham Lincoln documentary over Presidents Day weekend from Feb. 20 starting at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Abraham Lincoln is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s best-selling book Leadership: In Turbulent Times. Across seven and a half hours, viewers will learn about the life of the 16th President…

UPDATED, 2:09 PM PT: President Joe Biden praised Sidney Poitier as a “once-in-a-generation actor and advocate whose work carried so much dignity, power, and grace that it changed the world on and off the big screen.” In a statement released by the White House, Biden said that Poitier “was more than just one of the…

President Barack Obama, LeVar Burton and Dave Chappelle are among the nominees for Best Spoken Word Album at the 64th annual Grammy Awards, which were announced this morning. Also up for the prize are 10-time Emmy nominee Don Cheadle and poet/hip hop artist J. Ivy. The nom for A Promised Land is the third in the…

Two friends sat around and talked about the usual guy stuff on CBS Sunday Morning today. The big deal was that it was former President Barack Obama and superstar rocker Bruce Springsteen. But they still came across as two guys. In one segment on Springsteen’s 1960 Corvette, Obama enthused that getting a chance to…

Veteran ESPN personality Sage Steele, a fixture of the network’s daytime lineup, is not appearing on the company’s programming this week. ESPN declined to comment on why she has stepped back when contacted by Deadline. During a recent podcast interview with former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler, Steele criticized Disney’s…

Refresh for updates: Twenty years after the horrific attacks of 9/11, America remembered the terror of planes turned into missiles, the nearly 3,000 lives lost and the courage displayed in response. From the memorial sites in New York, Shanksville, PA, at the Pentagon itself and across the land and the world, voices…

Former President Barack Obama has scaled back plans for what was to be a 60th birthday bash at Martha’s Vineyard this weekend due to the rise in coronavirus cases. "This outdoor event was planned months ago in accordance with all public health guidelines and with covid safeguards in place,” Hannah Hankins, a…

Simone Biles took to the balance beam today at the Tokyo Olympics and proved she is every inch a true champion as the Covid conflicted NBC broadcast games head into their final days. Yet, as Emmy campaigning truly ups its game and the Delta variant brings masks and vaccination mandates across the nation, there's a lot…

Higher Ground, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's media company, has made several new additions to its executive team. Joe Paulsen has been named Head of Business and Strategy. Dan Fierman will lead the company's podcast projects as Head of Audio and will be joined by Creative Director, Anna Holmes. The two…

Even before President Biden signed a bill into law making Juneteenth a federal holiday, networks and streamers were setting special programming for the holiday commemorating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. More specifically, Juneteenth marks the enforcement of the Emancipation…

On Monday’s edition of The Late Late Show with James Corden, former U.S. president Barack Obama sat down in the hot seat and fielded some tough questions, both from Corden and his co-head writer, Ian Karmel. In a clip from the episode, which airs at 12:37 a.m. on CBS, Karmel tells Obama about a dating conundrum he’s…

Damon Weaver, the youngest person to interview a sitting president thanks to his 10-minute interview with President Barack Obama at the White House at age 11, has died. His sister told media outlets that he died from “natural causes,” but wasn’t specific. The 2009 interview with Obama happened in the White House…