By Jeff Mason NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton dug into an issue that has vexed economists, political strategists and the White House on Thursday – if the U.S.’s fiscal numbers are so good, why are Americans so unhappy about the economy? Speaking at a high-dollar fundraiser for President Joe … Read more
The Republican nominee for superintendent overseeing North Carolina’s public schools and its $11 billion budget has a history marked by extreme and controversial comments, including sharing baseless conspiracy theories and frequent calls for the execution of prominent Democrats. Michele Morrow, a conservative activist who last week upset the incumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction in North … Read more
Malia Obama has a budding screenwriting career and now it’s revealed she won’t be using her full name! The 25-year-old former First Daughter made her Sundance Film Festival debut in January, premiering her new short film The Heart. Now, fans are just discovering that she has a new stage name, seemingly distancing her a bit … Read more
Rick Stengel, the Obama administration’s under secretary of state for public diplomacy, weighed in Wednesday on the D.C. appeals court’s rejection of former President Donald Trump’s claim to absolute immunity, chiding the politician for confusing “the job of the president of the United States with a king.” Stengel joined MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House” in the … Read more
Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech When I first saw a video of Dean Phillips, I thought it was a deepfake of Ron DeSantis. The guy’s head has roughly the same shape and hair color as … Read more
Malia Obama is making her Sundance Film Festival debut and red carpet debut all at once! Malia, 25, directed the short film The Heart, which premiered at the Park City, Utah-based film fest as part of the U.S. short fiction films programming block. The young writer-director — who is also the eldest daughter of Barack … Read more
Former top Obama adviser David Axelrod warned Friday that a court decision removing former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot “would rip the country apart.” “I have very, very strong reservations about all of this,” Axelrod said on CNN on Friday. “I do think it would rip the country apart if he were actually … Read more
Michelle Obama made a surprise appearance at the New Orleans premiere of the documentary American Symphony to support the film she executive produced with husband Barack Obama! The former First Lady of the United States walked the red carpet with film subject Jon Batiste and his wife Suleika Jaouad on Thursday night (December 7) in … Read more
Last week, a New York fashion model was dropped by her talent agency, Elite New York, after she uploaded a social media post comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. I almost felt sorry for the model. She appears to have a limited understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and was simply regurgitating previous brain-dead iterations of the … Read more
Play video content Pod Save America Barack Obama spoke out about the conflict between Israel and Palestine — and he says two things must be acknowledged as true … on both sides of this thorny issue. The former President was recently speaking at an event, and his remarks were captured by Pod Save America — … Read more