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Officially, Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger is not running for president. At least not yet. The 2020 election may feel eons away, but the Des Moines International Airport will soon start crowding with candidate wannabes, and while Iger has plenty of time to make up his mind, the clock is ticking and the whispers will only grow louder.
While Iger, 66, hasn't explicitly said he's interested, he also hasn't ruled himself out, which sets him apart from Sens. Al Franken and Chris Murphy, who recently have taken themselves out of the hypothetical running.
Those who know and work...
Officially, Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger is not running for president. At least not yet. The 2020 election may feel eons away, but the Des Moines International Airport will soon start crowding with candidate wannabes, and while Iger has plenty of time to make up his mind, the clock is ticking and the whispers will only grow louder.
While Iger, 66, hasn't explicitly said he's interested, he also hasn't ruled himself out, which sets him apart from Sens. Al Franken and Chris Murphy, who recently have taken themselves out of the hypothetical running.
Those who know and work...
- 10/20/2017
- by Jeremy Barr
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
YouTube Red continues to bolster its lineup of shows, partnering with Latino-influenced digital media company mitú to create “Long Distance,” a multicultural rom-com debuting on its platform today. The series centers on La-based social media manager Gaby Márquez (Chachi Gonzales) and her Chicago-based boyfriend Chris Murphy (Cayden Boyd) as they try to, you guessed it, make their long distance relationship work. But 21st century pitfalls like social media, cross-cultural challenges and the presence of Gaby’s handsome new boss, Rafa (Josh Leyva) make it harder than expected. In a year without a single Latino Emmy nominee, Mitú’s goal of creating youth-oriented content.
- 9/28/2017
- by Sean Burch
- The Wrap
President Donald Trump‘s reported decision to end Daca — the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy that offers work permits to people who entered the country illegally as minors — has incensed the internet, with politicians, celebrities, everyday Americans and people who have benefitted from the program expressing shock and disgust over the move expected to be officially announced Tuesday.
Sen. Bernie Sanders forcefully condemned the news on Twitter Sunday night, saying that if Trump indeed ends the program “it will be one of the ugliest and cruelest decisions ever made by a president in our modern history.”
“Taking legal protections...
Sen. Bernie Sanders forcefully condemned the news on Twitter Sunday night, saying that if Trump indeed ends the program “it will be one of the ugliest and cruelest decisions ever made by a president in our modern history.”
“Taking legal protections...
- 9/4/2017
- by Kathy Ehrich Dowd and Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
The immediate backlash President Trump faced on Tuesday only intensified overnight after he doubled down on his assertion that “both sides” were to blame for deadly violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“There are two sides to a story,” Trump insisted on Tuesday, echoing the widely denounced comments he made Saturday, as the violence was unfolding in Virginia.
There were “a lot of bad people in the other group too,” he added in reference to the anti-racist protesters demonstrating against the rally, one of whom, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, was killed when a driver rammed his car into a group of the counter-protesters.
“There are two sides to a story,” Trump insisted on Tuesday, echoing the widely denounced comments he made Saturday, as the violence was unfolding in Virginia.
There were “a lot of bad people in the other group too,” he added in reference to the anti-racist protesters demonstrating against the rally, one of whom, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, was killed when a driver rammed his car into a group of the counter-protesters.
- 8/16/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to boast that the U.S. nuclear arsenal is “now far stronger and more powerful than ever before,” thanks to his administration.
“My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal,” he wrote.
“Hopefully we will never have to use this power, but there will never be a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world!” he added in a second tweet.
The tweets come amid North Korea’s escalating nuclear threats and one day after Trump issued a warning Tuesday from his golf course in Bedminster,...
“My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal,” he wrote.
“Hopefully we will never have to use this power, but there will never be a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world!” he added in a second tweet.
The tweets come amid North Korea’s escalating nuclear threats and one day after Trump issued a warning Tuesday from his golf course in Bedminster,...
- 8/9/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
President Donald Trump started his speech in front of a huge crowd of Boy Scouts at a national jamboree Monday by asking, “Who the hell wants to speak about politics when I’m in front of the Boy Scouts?”
Turns out, he did.
During his 35-minute speech, Trump attacked former president Barack Obama, mocked his former rival Hillary Clinton and threatened to fire Human Services Secretary Tom Price if he doesn’t deliver votes for the Gop’s health care bill.
“By the way, just a question. Did President Obama ever come to a jamboree?” Trump asked the crowd of...
Turns out, he did.
During his 35-minute speech, Trump attacked former president Barack Obama, mocked his former rival Hillary Clinton and threatened to fire Human Services Secretary Tom Price if he doesn’t deliver votes for the Gop’s health care bill.
“By the way, just a question. Did President Obama ever come to a jamboree?” Trump asked the crowd of...
- 7/25/2017
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
Republican senate leaders have released their new draft of Gop's Health care bill, though Senator Chris Murphy (D-ct) doesn't like what he has seen from his first look at it.
- 6/22/2017
- by Ken Meyer
- Mediaite - TV
President Donald Trump has lashed out at London Mayor Sadiq Khan just hours after the London Bridge terror attack on Saturday, twisting Khan’s response to the tragedy and criticizing “political correctness.”
“We must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people. If we don’t get smart it will only get worse,” Trump, 70, tweeted.
He added, “At least seven dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed’!”
The comment came from an interview Khan did with the BBC regarding the police action being taken after the attack.
“We must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people. If we don’t get smart it will only get worse,” Trump, 70, tweeted.
He added, “At least seven dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed’!”
The comment came from an interview Khan did with the BBC regarding the police action being taken after the attack.
- 6/4/2017
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
On the chilly Friday morning of Dec. 14, 2012, Neil Heslin walked his 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, into Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut. Heslin watched as the first grader ambled down the hallway, carrying his trusty Disney Cars backpack - and hoping his class would make gingerbread houses that afternoon. "That was the last time I saw him," Heslin, 55, told People on Friday, looking back almost four years on the day his son died. Just after 9:30 a.m. local time, in what would become one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, authorities say 19-year-old gunman Adam Lanza stormed Sandy Hook,...
- 7/30/2016
- by K.C. Baker, @kcbaker77777
- PEOPLE.com
On the chilly Friday morning of Dec. 14, 2012, Neil Heslin walked his 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, into Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut. Heslin watched as the first grader ambled down the hallway, carrying his trusty Disney Cars backpack - and hoping his class would make gingerbread houses that afternoon. "That was the last time I saw him," Heslin, 55, told People on Friday, looking back almost four years on the day his son died. Just after 9:30 a.m. local time, in what would become one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, authorities say 19-year-old gunman Adam Lanza stormed Sandy Hook,...
- 7/30/2016
- by K.C. Baker, @kcbaker77777
- PEOPLE.com
Michael Hutchence.
The man behind many of Inxs.s music videos, Richard Lowenstein, is set to direct a documentary about the life of the band.s late frontman, Michael Hutchence.
The feature-length documentary will be produced by Universal Music Group (Umg) and Oscar-winning production company Passion Pictures (Searching for Sugar Man). Inxs is signed to Universal Music Publishing Group.
This is the second Hutchence doco in the pipeline, with Aap reporting earlier this month that Sydney businessman Ron Creevey had spent two years working on a film about the singer with La record producer Danny Saber.
Hutchence was a founding member and lead singer of. Inxs from 1977 up until his death in 1997.
Lowenstein (He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, Say a Little Prayer) was a close friend of Hutchence, having worked with Inxs for many years. He was responsible for a range of the band.s videos including...
The man behind many of Inxs.s music videos, Richard Lowenstein, is set to direct a documentary about the life of the band.s late frontman, Michael Hutchence.
The feature-length documentary will be produced by Universal Music Group (Umg) and Oscar-winning production company Passion Pictures (Searching for Sugar Man). Inxs is signed to Universal Music Publishing Group.
This is the second Hutchence doco in the pipeline, with Aap reporting earlier this month that Sydney businessman Ron Creevey had spent two years working on a film about the singer with La record producer Danny Saber.
Hutchence was a founding member and lead singer of. Inxs from 1977 up until his death in 1997.
Lowenstein (He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, Say a Little Prayer) was a close friend of Hutchence, having worked with Inxs for many years. He was responsible for a range of the band.s videos including...
- 7/26/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Hasan Minhaj, the comedian who blasted Congress for failing to act on gun control, has no regrets. Speaking to People about his experience addressing a room full congresspeople and media at the Radio and Television Correspondents Associate Dinner, the Daily Show correspondent revealed the tension in the room and why he decided to talk about Sunday's mass shooting when he was expected to perform a comedy routine. "It was a little cold in the room. The people that didn't like it filed right out and some people kind of felt like, 'Ok he was supposed to do comedy and he didn't quite do all that,...
- 6/18/2016
- by Christina Dugan and Naja Rayne
- PEOPLE.com
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy is not taking gun violence sitting down.
- 6/16/2016
- by samanthabenitz
- HollywoodLife
Nearly 15 hours after Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut began a filibuster on the Senate floor, Republican Party leaders have reportedly agreed to allow a vote on two gun control measures. In the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting that left 49 innocent people dead, Murphy and a slew of other Democrats took to the floor of the Senate for an old-fashioned filibuster - a maneuver that is often threatened, but seldom carried out in modern Washington. Murphy said the efforts won gun control advocates a Senate vote on expanding background checks for gun sales and banning people on terror watch lists from buying firearms.
- 6/16/2016
- by Stephanie Petit, @stephpetit_
- PEOPLE.com
C-span saw an audience spike on Wednesday as a filibuster about gun violence approached its 13-hour mark. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut began speaking around 11 a.m. Et, and C-span live-streamed his speech throughout the day. Murphy started the filibuster as a way to force a vote on gun control legislation on the Senate floor, days after a mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub left 49 dead and several more injured. According to Senate rules, he could keep talking and maintain control of the Senate floor as long as he remained standing there.
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- 6/16/2016
- by Jennifer Konerman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bernie Sanders' campaign momentum has hit a snag following his comments indirectly opposing the attempts of families of the Sandy Hook shooting to bring suit against a gun manufacturer. Sanders told the New York Daily News on Friday that he doesn't think the victims of gun crime should be able to sue the weapon's manufacturer. "In the same sense that if you're a gun dealer and you sell me a gun and I go out and I kill him [gestures to someone in room] … Do I think that that gun dealer should be sued for selling me a legal product that he misused?" Sanders told the Daily News,...
- 4/6/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
Bernie Sanders' campaign momentum has hit a snag following his comments indirectly opposing the attempts of families of the Sandy Hook shooting to bring suit against a gun manufacturer. Sanders told the New York Daily News on Friday that he doesn't think the victims of gun crime should be able to sue the weapon's manufacturer. "In the same sense that if you're a gun dealer and you sell me a gun and I go out and I kill him [gestures to someone in room] … Do I think that that gun dealer should be sued for selling me a legal product that he misused?" Sanders told the Daily News,...
- 4/6/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
Amal Clooney is back stateside, not for husband George Clooney's Hollywood events, but on business as a top international human rights attorney. Clooney was seen meeting with lawmakers such as Senator John McCain on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, to discuss issues of human rights in the Maldives as well as the plight of her client, the country's former president Mohamed Nasheed. The British barrister is defending Nasheed, who was charged with terrorism and sentenced to 13 years in prison after a much-debated trial. Clooney has pleaded for Nasheed's release writing in The Guardian that his detention...
- 1/14/2016
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
Amal Clooney is back stateside, not for husband George Clooney's Hollywood events, but on business as a top international human rights attorney. Clooney was seen meeting with lawmakers such as Senator John McCain on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, to discuss issues of human rights in the Maldives as well as the plight of her client, the country's former president Mohamed Nasheed. The British barrister is defending Nasheed, who was charged with terrorism and sentenced to 13 years in prison after a much-debated trial. Clooney has pleaded for Nasheed's release writing in The Guardian that his detention...
- 1/14/2016
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
Mel Gibson will not be charged for an alleged altercation with Australian photographer Kristi Miller. Mel Gibson Avoids Charges Gibson’s lawyer, Chris Murphy, has confirmed that Australian police have decided not to pursue charges for the alleged incident. Murphy said that he has been been “advised by police that no action will be taken” against Gibson, […]
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- 9/4/2015
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
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