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9+ min ago (264+ words) During a Kennedy Center Honors appearance, President Donald Trump used a tribute to Sylvester Stallone to launch into an on-stage rant, calling parts of the audience "miserable, horrible people" after quoting Rocky Balboa. Trump appeared multiple times throughout the event to honor Stallone, KISS, Gloria Gaynor, Michael Crawford, and George Strait, insisting he "just wanted to be myself" and hadn't prepared remarks. Data reviewed by CNN shows Kennedy Center ticket sales have plunged since Trump shook up the board and made himself chairman earlier this year. Holiday performance "The Nutcracker" has sold only about two-thirds of its usual seats, failing to cover the production's massive costs.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag. Trump slams "miserable, horrible people' in Kennedy Honors speech after Rocky quote Trump slams "miserable, horrible people' in Kennedy Honors speech after…...

14+ min ago (312+ words) A federal judge Monday said he is pushing forward with a contempt inquiry over whether the Trump administration intentionally disregarded his order in March to stop deporting more than 100 Venezuelan men to an El Salvador prison. James Boasberg, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, has now demanded that two of the Justice Department lawyers who were part of the March 15 deportation operation appear for questioning next week, Politico reported. One of the lawyers has reportedly been fired for opposing some of the Trump administration's methods. Boasberg said it was "premature" to recommend a criminal prosecution of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who admitted she gave the order to turn the 100 Venezuelan men over to authorities in El Salvador after administration attorneys advised her to do so. "Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act on March 14, and the men…...

16+ min ago (1760+ words) President Donald Trump revealed Monday just how clueless he is about his own tariff policies, and appeared to improvise new rice tariffs on the fly after speaking with one rice farmer. During a roundtable to unveil a $12 billion bailout package for American farmers, Meryl Kennedy, CEO of Louisiana-based Kennedy Rice Mill, told Trump that she believed other countries were "dumping" rice into the United States. "Which countries?" Trump asked. "India, Thailand, even China into Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico used to be one of the largest markets for rice, we haven't shipped rice into Puerto Rico for years," Kennedy said, adding that the president needed to "double down" on his tariffs. "You want more?" Trump asked incredulously, and Kennedy replied that other countries were "cheating" by subsidizing their rice production. Trump seemed to have no idea whether other countries were "dumping…...

16+ min ago (838+ words) President Trump greets Chief Justice John Roberts before a joint session of Congress, Tuesday, March 4, 2025.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty They will do this, if this morning's arguments are any indication, without grappling with the predictable and disastrous fallout, with the endpoint of their own logic, or the historical record to the contrary. Instead, the six Republican appointees appear ready to race headlong into a Trumpian future in which no agency or decision is beyond the reach of the precedent's political cronies." "You're asking us to destroy the structure of government," Justice Sonia Sotomayor observed Monday, "and to take away from Congress its ability to protect its idea that the government is better structured with some agencies that are independent." FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, a Trump and Biden appointee whose case is now before the court, sued after Trump…...

20+ min ago (311+ words) The CEO writes that his $30-a-share hostile bid is superior to Netflix's "across every dimension" Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison shared in a memo to his employees Monday his intentions for acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery and how the deal could shape the entertainment ecosystem. "We believe the combination of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery represents a powerful opportunity to strengthen both companies and the entertainment industry as a whole," the executive said in a memo to staffers Monday. "Our motivation for pursuing Warner Bros. Discovery has been consistent from the start. We love this industry and believe deeply in its future." Since WBD accepted Netflix's bid for the company Thursday, Paramount has filed a $77.9 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Ellison said the company's $30 per share, all cash offer is superior to Netflix's offer "across every dimension" with "higher…...

20+ min ago (195+ words) Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said he has no plan or intention to try to rein in the high costs of airport food. On Monday, Duffy held a press conference with Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. The two secretaries said they want airport food courts to offer healthier options, and they even suggested that airports be equipped with exercise rooms. No word yet on airplanes" seat width or legroom, which have shrunk over the years. Duffy, who did pull-ups with Kennedy at the airport for some reason, reiterated his call for Americans to dress for class instead of comfort. "We"re just asking people to again, maybe dress a little better," Duffy said. "It"s all in the airlines" purview how they"re gonna respond to this." The secretary…...

25+ min ago (243+ words) Vice President JD Vance doubled down Monday on his past remarks about how it was "totally reasonable" for Americans to want their neighbors to speak the same language, lashing out at critics as being "so deranged." Vance sat down with New York Post's Miranda Devine in late October for a lengthy interview on the outlet's "Pod Force One" podcast, during which he defended Americans that didn't want non-English speakers as neighbors. Clips of his remarks resurfaced and went viral on Sunday, leading to many critics condemning Vance's remarks, and mocking him for unintentionally signaling he wouldn't want to live next to his own in-laws, many of whom are from Andhra Pradesh in India and likely speak Telugu. "What's reasonable is to want to share a language with your neighbor. How do you borrow a cup of sugar? Resolve disagreements? Have…...

26+ min ago (294+ words) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) became the latest Republican to break with President Donald Trump on a key issue, arguing that a recent order could not override state government authority and that it would be "unpopular with the public." DeSantis took to X to push back against Trump's recently announced plan to block state-level regulations on artificial intelligence (AI). Per a Monday report in Politico, the governor has emerged as a "fierce AI skeptic" as the technology has grown in prominence, and has been pushing for his state to pass laws that will create consumer protections related to it. DeSantis's post came in response to an X user expressing hope that his state plans "to challenge" Trump's impending AI executive order, which would call for a federal-level AI "rulebook." The governor expressed skepticism that the order would amount to anything, due…...

28+ min ago (612+ words) Tom Barrack, President Donald Trump's ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria, faced backlash Monday after arguing that US-backed Middle Eastern monarchies'most of which are ruled by prolific human rights violators'offer the best model for governing nations in the tumultuous region. Speaking at the Doha Forum in Qatar on Sunday, Barrack, who is also a billionaire real estate investor, cautioned against trying to impose democratic governance on the Middle East, noting that efforts to do so'sometimes by war or other military action'have failed. "Every time we intervene, whether it's in Libya, Iraq, or any of the other places where we've tried to create a colonized mandate, it has not been successful," he said. "We end up with paralysis." "I don't see a democracy," Barrack said of the Middle East. "Israel can claim to be a democracy, but in this…...

30+ min ago (248+ words) Have you'ever'heard of a female actor that was method?" the actress wonders Kristen Stewart thinks male actors turn to method work because acting is inherently submissive." During an interview with The New York Times, Stewart was asked about method acting after the conversation turned to Marlon Brando's work on Superman: The Movie." The legendary actor reportedly would not pronounce the word Krypton" correctly on purpose as a way to retain some of himself while working on a movie that was viewed by some as a step beneath his prior films. Performance is inherently vulnerable and therefore quite embarrassing and unmasculine," Stewart said. There's no bravado in suggesting that you're a mouthpiece for someone else's ideas. It's inherently submissive. Have you'ever'heard of a female actor that was method? Stewart had plenty to say about the movie-making process in the interview beyond…...