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Special Counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before the two house committees about his report on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, Democrats announced today. On July 17, Mueller is scheduled to sit down before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees after both panels issued subpoenas…

An angry Jon Stewart, near tears, blasted “shameful” members of Congress for not showing up at a House Judiciary Committee hearing today to renew the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund. In an emotional reproach captured on CSPAN (see the video below), the former Daily Show host said, “What an incredible metaphor…

President Donald Trump pulled his Twitter trigger aggressively Wednesday morning, hitting a wide swath of targets. TV news outlets had a busy morning, keeping up with Trump as he: -Stomped on his just-announced official state visit to the UK, endorsing an OANN report “United Kingdom Intelligence [helped] Obama…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee September 5 regarding his company's practices. Dorsey and other social media outlets have been under fire for outright banning conservative voices from their platform, censoring comments, and instituting “shadowbanning,” in which a…

Boldly going where no man has gone before, the Trump administration has outlined its proposal for how the proposed new Space Force branch of the military will get underway. The proposal will be implemented in stages if Congress approves. An outline submitted to Congress today indicated the Pentagon will make a…

After a marathon five hours of testimony yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg returned to Congress today to address another round of questions about privacy and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Oregon, opened the hearing calling Facebook an American…

Clueless star/former Fox News commentator Stacey Dash has made it official: she’s running for Congress in California. The actress on Monday filed docs to run in California’s 44th district, which encompasses Compton, Watts, San Pedro and North Long Beach; it has been a Dem stronghold for years; these days repped by…

Jimmy Kimmel returned to his ABC late night show Monday night and showed off son Billy, after taking off the previous week following Billy’s latest heart surgery. “Look, he’s fine everybody!” Kimmel crowed. Kimmel thanked last week’s guest hosts and the doctors and nurses at Children’s Hospital in LA who treat…

Rep. Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey on Tuesday became the latest Republican Congressman to announce he will not seek re-election, which was covered by cable news outlets keeping a GOP ta-ta tally as part of their coverage of party leader, President Donald Trump. After insisting his decision is not health-related, and…

Kevin McCarthy‘s name might be familiar in Hollywood — his home state is California — and thanks to House of Cards, the job he just left is known to many more Americans than it once was. But the new No. 2 in the U.S. House of Representatives is definitely not a man of Hollywood. He’s not the strong-jawed actor who…

In this week's podcast, Deadline’s executive editor David Lieberman and host David Bloom untangle the latest twists in the giant Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger proposal, as a Senate committee grills Comcast's “Jedi Master” of a chief lobbyist and Charter prepares a challenge at the TWC annual meeting. The Davids…

The effort to craft the first major revision of the Communications Act in 18 years could be interesting but probably will end up to be a politically factious mess. House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., said today that he plans hearings and studies for “a multi-year effort to examine our…