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Leaders of the DGA, SAG-AFTRA and IATSE have sent a letter to congressional leaders urging them to work with President Joe Biden to pass the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, saying that it will provide "much-needed relief for the current crisis and address long-standing vulnerabilities in our economy." The…

UPDATED, 2:18 PM: The second impeachment of Donald Trump is constitutional, according to the U.S. Senate. Though a conviction over Trump’s role in the violent attempted coup of January 6 is looking pretty unlikely at this point. Covered live on ABC, NBC, CBS,  BBC World News, C-Span, CNN, MSNBC and more, the jurors…

"I want to say I wasn’t shocked, but I was shocked," Lee Daniels told CNN this evening of his reaction to the murderous assault on Congress by a horde of MAGA morons on January 6. Joining Don Lemon on the AT&T-owned cable newser to promote his Golden Globe nominated The United States vs. Billie Holiday, Empire…

UPDATE, 8:49 AM: Joe Biden is now the President of the United States of America. Donald Trump's reign of error and terror is over. “My fellow Americans, a moment we have all been waiting for,” said Senator Amy Klobuchar introducing the former Delaware Senator and VP as the 46th POTUS for the very first time. Watch his…

"Many of you are wondering if there are credible threats here in Los Angeles County, and the answer is no," L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Tuesday on the eve of the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States in a massively militarized Washington, D.C. "Right now there is no credible…

Seven days before he is scheduled to be sworn in as the 46th President of the intensely divided United States, Joe Biden today praised the House of Representatives for impeaching Donald Trump for a second time and pushed for the other business of government to move forward too. Essentially, as he has ever since the…

UPDATED with more details: It was just 13 months ago that the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump for abuse of power in the Ukraine phone-call scandal and the Russia investigation. He was acquitted in a Senate trial weeks later. Not that there’s been much news here or around the world…

Coming off its most watched day ever with the tragedy and murderous chaos of the Donald Trump inspired attack on Congress on January 6, CNN has now posted one of its best weeks ever overall too. Thrashing usual leader Fox News Channel, the AT&T-owned cabler newser ranked No. #1 in total day, dayside and Monday to…

Meghan McCain, the conservative voice of ABC’s The View, today called for removing President Donald Trump through the 25th Amendment, calling her fellow Republican a “mad king” and saying the rioters were “scum of the earth” who were “bastardizing all that I love and have grown up with…” “I’m calling on all…

UPDATED with latest: One day after calling the storming of the nation’s Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters “a dark day,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti called for the president to resign. “What we saw yesterday were thugs, thugs who brought an abomination to our nation’s capital, and who attacked our Capitol,” said…

UPDATED, Thursday 5:00 PM: Popular streaming platform Twitch followed Facebook and Twitter’s steps in restricting President Donald Trump’s access in light of the violent events at the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday. The Amazon-owned platform disabled the President’s Twitch channel as a “necessary step to protect…

Jimmy Fallon condemned the acts of violence in Washington D.C. on Wednesday when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. “Today was not patriotism, today was terrorism,” the Tonight Show host said during his somber opening. Fallon referred to the attacks on the U.S. Capitol Building by MAGA fanatics that interrupted the…