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John Oliver came in hot on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight recapping Donald Trump’s “busy” week which included the largest single-state ICE raid, retweeting conspiracy theories about the death of Jeffrey Epstein and his visit to the sites of last week’s mass shootings where there was footage of him at an El Paso bragging…

In less than 24 hours, there were two mass shootings in the country: one in El Paso, Tex. and the other in Dayton, Ohio. The mass shootings come a week after another terrorist opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California, killing three people and injuring 13. It didn’t take long for Hollywood and…

Heading into midterm elections day, Jimmy Kimmel opened his late-night show debunking pundit talk of how “hopelessly divided America is.” Culling from polls conducted by Quinnipiac, Washington Post, Pew Research, and CNBC, among others, Kimmel showed majorities on a variety of hot button issues: 87% of Americans want…

Donald Trump sat amid a bipartisan group of lawmakers today and asked for their ideas on what to do about gun violence and school shootings in America. By the time the rambling but remarkable meeting ended, he seemed to have changed his mind — and the narrative — on the red-hot-button issues, and threw his support…

On NBC’s The Blacklist, Elizabeth Keen is an FBI profiler who teams with a former most-wanted fugitive to track down terrorists and criminals. In real life, the actress who plays her was moved by the events of Valentine’s Day at a South Florida high school and has made a personal proclamation. Megan Boone, who has…

Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper will attempt to “solve” the gun control debate in a one-hour special on Comedy Central. Jordan Klepper Solves Guns will combine elements of documentary filmmaking, comedy and investigative journalism, the network said. It premieres June 11 at 10 PM. The network recently…

In a move that is certain to stir things up as the political new year unfolds, President Obama will lead a televised town hall Thursday to address tightening restrictions on access to guns. The commander in chief will sit down with Anderson Cooper on CNN at 8 PM ET for the one-hour event titled “Guns in America,&#8221…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly Sunday column, two old friends get together and grind their axes on the movie business. BART: Every self-anointed film guru this weekend will be offering weighty analyses of all the awards choices, so here's one reasonably…

Piers Morgan, just named editor-at-large of TheMailOnline, came to Fox News Channel tonight to pal around with Sean Hannity, who welcomed him for having recently written that Obama had “committed professional suicide” because he’s so complacent about “protecting Americans.” The former CNN primetime host and the…

Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi's No One Knows About Persian Cats was the opening night film of the Cannes Un Certain Regard sidebar in 2009. A hot title at the time, it was plagued with political controversy when Ghobadi's girlfriend and co-screenwriter was arrested in Tehran a month before the festival. An…

Following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. state legislators in New York rushed the nation’s toughest gun control measure into law. Now the state is looking to tweak the law with an exemption that will allow movie and TV producers to film gun battles on New York City streets, the AP…

UPDATE, 1:13 PM: Entertainment organizations are weighing in to support Obama‘s gun initiatives. The MPAA, NAB, NCTA and Independent Film & Television Alliance just issued this joint statement: "We support the President's goal of reducing gun violence in this country. It is a complex problem, and as we have said, we…