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Actor Anson Williams is hoping the voters in Ojai, California will tell him to “sit on it.” The mayor’s chair, that is. Williams, best known for his role as “Potsie Weber” on the classic TV sitcom Happy Days, has announced he’s running for mayor in his hometown of Ojai. Ojai is located about 80 miles northwest of Los…

Kate Bedingfield plans to depart her post as White House communications director, according to White House officials. Bedingfield, who has been with President Joe Biden since the start of his term and, before that, was a senior official on his presidential campaign, plans to leave this summer and perhaps in the next…

UPDATED, 8:50 AM: News surfaced today that Donald Trump’s former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone will testify Friday in a closed-door transcribed interview before the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. It will be videotaped but not televised. Cipollone had been…

Donald Trump is not welcome on The Joe Rogan Experience, says the host of the popular podcast — at least not yet. Still, Rogan, an avowed Ron DeSantis supporter, is no friend of Joe Biden's either. "By the way, I'm not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form," Rogan said Monday during an interview on Lex Fridman's…

UPDATED: 05:14 AM Wednesday: The number of resignations has now reached 18, including the Housing Minister, as pressure continues to build on the Prime Minister. Boris Johnson has said again this morning that he will not stand down despite multiple calls from within his own party for him to do so. UPDATED, 01:04 AM Wed…

The Czech Film Commission, the body that promotes the Czech Republic to the international world, had its website hacked last week by Russian hackers after posting an article promoting the country as a safe place to shoot in the context of the war in Ukraine. Speaking at a roundtable discussion hosted by the Odesa Film…

Continuing the war of words between Florida and California – and potentially previewing the presidential campaign for 2024 – California Governor Gavin Newsom has issued a new ad attacking Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Newsom’s July 4 weekend ad claims “Freedom is under attack” in states run by Republican governors, like…

While Ukrainian filmmakers have called out international festivals such as Cannes and Karlovy Vary for the inclusion of Russian titles in their lineups, Liev Schreiber, who has Ukrainian roots stemming from his maternal grandfather, admits he "struggles" with the idea of boycotting art of any kind. "I struggle with…

UPDATE, 9:55 AM: “With a full heart, I accept the solemn responsibility of supporting and defending the Constitution of the United States and administering justice without fear or favor, so help me God,” said Ketanji Brown Jackson today, becoming the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and the…

President Joe Biden said that he would support altering the rules of the filibuster as a way to codify abortion and privacy rights into law. “I believe we have to codify Roe Vs. Wade into law, and the way to do that is to make sure that Congress votes to do that,” Biden told reporters at a press conference in Madrid…

Hot off explosive testimony yesterday from Cassidy Hutchinson, the top aide to President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, the Congressional Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack has subpoenaed former White House Counsel Pasquale “Pat” Cipollone for deposition testimony as a part of the…

One FCC commissioner wants to ban TikTok from the Apple and Google app stores because of the China-controlled video app’s “pattern of surreptitious data practices.” Brendan Carr tweeted a letter he wrote last week to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google/Alphabet chief exec Sundar Pichai that cited “an alarming new report…