Politics

Play video content CNN President Biden was played by Vladimir Putin … according to the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul, who says the Russian president agreed to send Paul Whelan home with Brittney Griner but changed the deal during the exchange. Despite reneging on the agreed-upon swap, McCaul says the U.S.

Play video content Don Lemon has a new job option if he wants it — and it would entail him dipping poultry into boiling hot cooking oil … under the supervision of one of Rick Ross‘s managers, no less. The rapper hopped on the ‘Gram Monday to air his thoughts on the news of DL’s

Play video content President Joe Biden is ready to do it all again and run for reelection — with VP Kamala Harris right at his side. Biden made the big announcement in a slick 3-plus minute campaign video released Tuesday morning, prominently featuring the incumbent democrats and putting to rest speculation that Harris would be

Tucker Carlson is out at FOX News — a stunning development that comes on the heels of the cable news giant’s massive nine-figure settlement of the Dominion Voting defamation case. The often controversial media personality’s been a ratings king for years now in his primetime slot, but the network says this past Friday was his

Don Lemon is out at CNN, after 17 years at the network, a move he says he was never given any heads-up was happening. In a statement Monday, Lemon said, “I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN. I am stunned. After 17 years at CNN I would

Play video content Donald Trump tried to ingratiate a crowd of supporters with pizza, but he suggested the prized piece was a slice he had half-eaten. Trump showed up at a pizzeria in Fort Myers, Florida Friday … sort of a pizza party after his speech at the Lee County Republican Party’s Lincoln Reagan Dinner.

Play video content TMZSports.com Ex-NBA player Matt Barnes is gunning for office by the time he’s 50 … and one politician is here to tell him how to make it happen — former Los Angeles mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa!! As we previously reported, the 2017 champion shared his intentions on Rachel Uchitel‘s ‘Miss Understood’ podcast last

Megyn Kelly thinks she and those outraged over the Bud Light team-up with a transgender woman scored a W … ’cause there have been some big changes spurred by the parent company. The veteran news anchor responded to some news that surfaced Friday — namely, the fact that there’s been a major reported shake-up within

Play video content Tetragrammation with Rick Rubin Phil Jackson says he hasn’t watched the NBA since 2020 — when it went into the bubble for the playoffs and publicly supported Black Lives Matter … a step too far for him, it seems. The iconic head coach — who’s got 11 championships under his belt from

Sen. John Fetterman is going all in on 4/20 … promoting the unofficial marijuana holiday as part of his broader push to legalize weed nationwide. The Pennsylvania legislator, who just returned to the Senate this week, posed with a marijuana flag Thursday … posting a tweet at 4:20 PM with a simple caption, “It’s 4:20

MyPillow’s Mike Lindell will be eating his words right now — because his company put out a challenge a couple of years back, saying he had proof that China interfered in the election and was egging people to prove him wrong. The problem? An arbitration panel found that someone did … and now he’s gotta

Pras isn’t going down without a fight in his political conspiracy case — he took the stand Tuesday to testify in his own defense. According to sources with direct knowledge, the former Fugees rapper’s attorney called him as a witness this morning. His testimony covered several topics … such as his background, upbringing, education history

Fox News is cutting a nine-figure check to avoid going to trial in one of the highest-profile defamation cases in American history — the network struck a last-minute deal with Dominion Voting Systems to settle the case. The trial was scheduled to start Tuesday in Delaware Superior Court … 12 jurors had been selected in

Play video content McCurtain Gazette-News Four white Oklahoma officials were secretly recorded talking about murdering journalists, lynching black people and joking about someone dying — and now they’re all in very hot water. Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stint called for the immediate resignations of McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy, Sheriff’s Captain Alicia Manning, Jail Administrator Larry

Ralph Yarl — the teenager who survived a close-range shooting which may have been racially motivated, is set to meet with the mother of Ahmaud Arbery … TMZ has learned. Ahmaud’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, tells us she asked attorney Lee Merritt — who reps both her and Yarl’s family — if he could broker a

Russia’s men’s basketball team will not be allowed to compete in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the International Basketball Federation ruled Tuesday … as the killing in Ukraine continues. FIBA decided to not permit the Russian squad from participating in upcoming qualifying tournaments … meaning the team will not play in the Olympics. Bulgaria,

The White House encountered a major breach, a potential threat to our national security like never before — nah, we’re kidding, and we sorta mean that literally this time. A very young boy was too little to be held back Tuesday by a North Lawn gate at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The fencing is generally an

U.S. law enforcement’s decision not to charge anyone in the death of Shanquella Robinson has her family outraged — but they’re not ruling out a lawsuit to seek justice in civil court. TMZ spoke to the late North Carolinian’s mother and sister — Sallamondra and Quella, respectively — who told us how they’re feeling in