Entertainment world reacts to Emmanuel Macron winning the French presidency7:48 am – May 8, 2017

The Centrist candidate defeated the far right's Marine Le Pen in yesterday's second round of voting Musicians, film stars and famous faces have reacted to the news that the centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron , has won the French presidency. Macron defeated far-right leader Marine Le Pen - who represented the country's National Front party - in yesterday's second vote, with the new President securing 66.06% of the popular vote over his rival.

In Trump’s America, comedians lead the resistance

Sure, Congressional Democrats are voting and speaking out against Trump's proposals on issues like health care, but few of them can garner national headlines or get a video to go viral. Comedians, on the other hand, are now the ones with a "bully pulpit" to raise issues in ways that dominate our social media feeds and impact the larger political conversation.

Streisand ponders ‘what might have been’ with Clinton

Barbra Streisand usually talks to her audience, but Saturday night she had a special message for two guests: Bill and Hillary Clinton . Streisand gave former president and former Democratic presidential candidate much more than a shout out at her concert at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, her hometown.

‘SNL’ Mocks ‘Morning Joe’ Awkward Tension, Kellyanne Conway

Kate McKinnon and Alex Moffat turned up the heat -and awkward tension- as "Morning Joe" stars Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough for this week's cold open of "Saturday Night Live." The real co-hosts of the morning show announced their engagement earlier this week.

Trump questions whether key funding source for historically black colleges is constitutional

President Trump talks with leaders of historically black universities and colleges before posing for a group photo in the Oval Office in February. In February, President Trump invited leaders from historically black colleges and universities to the White House, a move they hoped signaled his support for the institutions and showed an effort to give them more clout in his administration.

The steady decline of Americaa s death rows

Arkansas executed two inmates on April 24 in back-to-back lethal injections, which marks the country's first double execution in 17 years. When the state of Arkansas announced plans to carry out eight executions in an 11-day period in April , it drew intense international scrutiny that flared until well after the final lethal injection in the series at the end of the month .

This day in history, May 6, 2017

On May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground. In 1910, Britain's Edwardian era ended with the death of King Edward VII; he was succeeded by George V. In 1941, Josef Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership, replacing Vyacheslav M. Molotov.

Bill Maher Asks Liberals Who Didn’t Vote for Hillary Clinton…

"Real Time" hosts says winning the next election "begins with learning the difference between an imperfect friend and a deadly enemy" Bill Maher thinks enough time has passed in Donald Trump's presidency to pose an important question to a select group of Democrats: "to those liberals who couldn't bring themselves to vote for Hillary [Clinton] because she was the 'lesser of two evils' - quite a bit lesser - what do you say now?" The marking of Trump's 100th day in office was, as Maher said on his HBO show "Real Time" Friday night, made into a big deal by "the media, the White House and political junkies."

Trump Praises Australia’s Universal Healthcare – After…

Just hours after the House Republicans passed a bill to repeal Obamacare, the president praised Australia's universal health care system Thursday, telling Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull: "You have better healthcare than we do." "We have a failing health care - I shouldn't say this to our great gentleman and my friend from Australia, because you have better health care than we do," Trump said during a meeting aboard the USS Intrepid in New York City.

With book, Ivanka Trump must walk complicated ethical line

The focus of intense public interest, the first daughter and unpaid White House adviser has somewhat sought to limit her profile. But this week she came out with "Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success," a book that developed from a women-friendly marketing campaign by her lifestyle brand.

Cameos thrill ‘Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner’ team

"Full Frontal" correspondents Ashley Nicole Black, Amy Hoggart, and Mike Rubens were less than an hour removed from an event that's been in the works for months, and their joy was still palpable. Samantha Bee's "Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner" was an idea born last November, when the future of the actual White House Correspondents' Dinner was in question.

Samantha Bee’s show briefly upstages correspondents’ dinner

Comedian Samantha Bee talks to reporters ahead of her "Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner" event in Washington, Saturday, April 30, 2017, held hours before the traditional White House Correspondents' Association gala. President Donald Trump said early in his presidency he would not be attending the latter dinner, the first in decades that a president has done so.