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Jeff Bezos followed up his 11-minute flight to the edge of space Tuesday with an extended press appearance in which he announced the gift of $100 million each to CNN political contributor Van Jones and chef José Andrés. “They can give all to their own charity or they can share their wealth. It’s all up to them,” Bezos…

EXCLUSIVE: Van Jones, the progressive activist and CNN political commentator, is learning the truth of the saying, "No good deed goes unpunished." In 2018 Jones leveraged his energy and political acumen to try to win passage of much-needed criminal justice reform, a process that required him to work closely with the…

UPDATE, with full video and tweets Frequent CNN contributor and Democrat Van Jones might have thought he was entering friendly territory by visiting ABC’s The View today, given his across-the-aisle collaboration with conservative cohost Meghan McCain on the new documentary The Reunited States. But cohosts Sunny Hostin…

EXCLUSIVE: Political commentator Van Jones and The View co-host Meghan McCain have joined timely documentary The Reunited States about bridging the political and racial divides in the U.S. Jones and McCain are joining as executive producers. Dark Star has picked up the film’s domestic rights and will release from…

Two days away from one of the most important elections of our lifetime, Black and Blue director Deon Taylor rallied prominent Black men in media and beyond (as well as some allies) to help mobilize communities to get out and vote. Taylor teamed with Michael Bloomberg for for the “This Is Why I Vote” campaign which…

Virtual reality is exactly that: a virtual reality. More often than not, VR is associated with immersing viewers into a gaming experience or a hyper-reality that leaves us in awe. With The Messy Truth, producers Van Jones, Brie Larson and director Elijah Allan-Blitz bring us a different kind of VR experience that is…

A solemn Conan O’Brien stayed quiet on his thoughts about the killing of George Floyd Monday on Conan. Instead, the late-night host listened. "Today feels very different," O'Brien said. "We're rightfully sickened by the needless killing of a black man named George Floyd. But it doesn't feel right to talk about my…

The United States is “in the fact finding phase” of the investigation into the Saudi murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, First Son-In-Law Jared Kushner told CNN’s Van Jones. “We’re getting as many facts as we can from the different places; then we will determine which facts are credible and, after…

President Donald Trump and CNN host Van Jones are sparring on Twitter in the wake of an interview with Jay-Z on the Saturday night premiere of Jones’ new show on the president’s nemesis news network. Jones asked the hip-hop mogul if Trump deserves any credit for improvement in the economy, which he and his supporters…

CNN will launch a one-hour primetime bi-monthly program anchored by its political commentator Van Jones. The Van Jones Show launches in January and will focus, CNN says, on “the forces that elected Donald Trump, the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ movement and the future of both major parties.” Jones previously hosted a…

Van Jones (The Messy Truth With Van Jones) and Charles D. King's Macro are teaming to produce Indivisible (working title), an hourlong political drama set to begin production in 2018. Written by Hank Chilton (Nip/Tuck, Covert Affairs), Indivisible is described as a smart, sexy one-hour drama that takes a fresh…

CNN contributor Van Jones says he was taken out of context in conservative provocateur James O’Keefe’s second of two videos out this week attacking the cable news network. In the video, Jones is heard saying, “The whole Russia Thing is a big nothing burger. There is nothing you can do –,” before being cut off by the…