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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told actress and activist Alyssa Milano that he was a fan of Who’s the Boss? and Commando, while she told him that his stance on gun reform “has made you almost like this caricature of a villain.” “That is why this meeting was so important to me — I wanted to look at you in the eye and know…

Actor and activist Alyssa Milano will meet with Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday to talk about gun reform, after they had a set of exchanges on Twitter over what is needed to be done in the aftermath of mass shootings in Odessa and El Paso. The details of the meeting have not been announced, but Milano will be in…

Texas Senator Ted Cruz probably wishes he had stuck to politics, after a tweet joking about a Walt Disney Co. donation to help rebuild Notre Dame fell flat. The Walt Disney Company pledged $5 million toward the rebuilding of the famed Paris cathedral, which was partially destroyed by a fire this week. Cruz saw the…

Beto O’Rourke appears to have failed in his long-shot bid to unseat incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas, a state that no Democrat has carried for president in 42 years. The Associated Press and other news outlets project Cruz will win re-election, in a victory that crushes Democratic hopes to retake the Senate…

Stephen Colbert’s Late Show sent Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to Texas, to interview incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz and the Dem candidate who wants his seat, Beto O’Rourke. First, Triumph talked to early-voting Beto fans, a “terrifying swarm of degenerate leftists with one thing in common: they all share the same Netflix…

The day after President Donald Trump went to Houston to campaign for his former political rival Sen. Ted Cruz – at which Trump mostly talked about himself, announcing: – He’s a proud “nationalist” – He intends to give a 10% tax cut to middle-class Americans before the midterm elections in two weeks, though Congress is…

UPDATED with video: There most interesting race for the upcoming midterm elections is that of Sen. Ted Cruz, Jimmy Kimmel said, noting it’s so tight “Cruz had to asked his former arch-enemy Donald Trump for a boost.” “And the President did lent a tiny hand at a rally for Cruz in Houston tonight, which had to be the…

"In just 15 days the people of Texas are going to re-elect a man who has become a really good friend of mine," President Donald Trump said as he campaigned in Houston for Sen. Ted Cruz – a man he once labeled a liar and the son of a possible presidential assassin. "You know we had our little difficulties. But…

Jimmy Kimmel described the nightmare of last weekend’s Blobfish Basketball Classic one-on-one with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. “Just like a blobfish, the game was ugly, sloppy and, within moments, we were gasping for air,” Kimmel warned JKL viewers. He described the game as “very rough and nothing but fouls.” “I have bruises…

In what could be considered one of the most medium stakes basketball showdown of the year, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz beat out late-night host Jimmy Kimmel in the first Blobfish Basketball Classic at Texas Southern University's Health and Physical Education Arena Saturday. Cruz edged out Kimmel in an 11-9 victory as an arena…

Summit, schmummit, the real showdown is on. Jimmy Kimmel said on his ABC show tonight that he is heading to Houston this weekend for “a major sporting event” that he called, “Bigger than the NBA Finals, bigger than the Stanley Cup. On Saturday, I will fly to Texas — on a plane! — to play Sen. Ted Cruz — in a game of…

The NBA season is now over. But one of the more interesting games of the year is on the horizon, and the war of words surrounding it is heating up. Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and former presidential candidate and Texas Senator Ted Cruz will be playing a charity basketball game June 16.  The one-on-one contest pits…