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The Daily Show and host Trevor Noah were at it again tonight on Twitter, skewering the presidential contenders facing off in the Democratic debate. As the candidates talked policy in the match-up hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register, The Daily Show team sifted through their comments, predictions and promises for…

Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo has addressed the exit of her co-star Justin Chambers from the hit ABC series. As Deadline exclusively reported Friday, Chambers said he is moving on from his role as Dr. Alex Karev, which he has played since the series debuted in 2005. A day later, Pompeo reacted to the news on Twitter…

President Donald Trump is skipping golf this Saturday, even though the Washington, DC temperatures are a warm, spring-like 64. Instead, he’s turning up the heat on some of his opponents. Starting with the FBI officers in charge of obtaining FISA warrants – “Are these “dirty cops” going to pay a big price for the fraud…

Twitter has become more than a social media platform. It has become a means of communication and discourse that brings people together — and, most recently, it divides people. During a panel at CES, Variety‘s Andrew Wallenstein moderated a conversation with Matt Derella, Global VP Customers Twitter, and did not waste…

The 77th Golden Globes may have come and gone, but its social media presence remains strong. As of press time, tonight’s telecast is still trending in the No. 1 position, according to social media juggernauts Facebook and Twitter. Let’s take a look at the most talked about social media moments of the night, according…

President Donald Trump continued to warn Iran today that any actions taken against a US person or target will bring immediate retaliation. The President, who is still at his Florida base at Mar-a-Lago, continued a tweet thread from yesterday in issuing the warnings. “These Media Posts will serve as notification to the…

Mariah Carey’s Twitter account was hacked on New Year’s Eve, with a series of offensive tweets filling the singer’s timeline. Dozens of tweets were posted to the hacked account on Tuesday afternoon, some using the N-word, others disparaged rapper Eminem, and others referred to the Chuckling Squad, a hacker group that…

Evan Rachel Wood had her claws out after seeing Cats. Wood unleashed two spitting and hissing posts on Twitter and Instagram on Christmas night on the musical, which has many critics and movie goers choking up a hairball of outrage. Wood, the star of HBO’s Westworld and the voice of Anna and Elsa’s mother in Frozen 2…

President Donald Trump ushered in Christmas Eve by bashing Democrats and complaining about the impeachment process. The Commander-in-Tweet posted a series of tweets Tuesday morning about the economy, the “radical left,” and Democratic leaders. “Everything we're seeing from Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer suggests…

UPDATED with new tweets. Donald Trump can’t criticize Nancy Pelosi without coming for someone else. He took to Twitter later this afternoon to bring one of his favorite people into the conversation: Hillary Clinton. “The Democrats and Crooked Hillary paid for & provided a Fake Dossier, with phony information gotten…

Just two weeks before he’s scheduled to return as host of the Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais has been caught up in a social media storm. The British comedian drew fire from the transgender community Saturday after he posted a series of tweets in response to J.K. Rowling's support of Maya Forstater, a researcher who was…

A day after returning from a love fest at the Army-Navy football game, President Donald Trump was back to dealing with the other side in his morning tweetstorm. Adam Schiff, Hillary Clinton, the FISA courts, Jim Comey, and even former President Barack Obama came in for whacks from Trump’s tweetstick today. Mixed in…